| Award | Wins | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| ||
Mahershala Ali has received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
As a part of the ensemble cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) earned him a nomination for the SAG Award for Outstanding Cast, which he would later win for Hidden Figures (2016). He received Primetime Emmy and SAG Award nominations for his role in House of Cards (20132016).
Ali received critical acclaim and won Academy Awards and SAG Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as a drug dealer in the drama Moonlight (2016) and as Don Shirley in the biographical comedy-drama Green Book (2018), as well as a BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for the latter. He is the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar, as well as the second black actor to win multiple acting Oscars and the only black actor to win twice in the same acting category.
Ali was nominated for the Primetime Emmy and SAG Award for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for playing Wayne Hays in the third season of the HBO crime anthology True Detective (2019). The next year, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for producing (2020), and received another Emmy nomination for his role in the second season of Ramy (2020). He received nominations for the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in the science fiction romance Swan Song (2021). His narration of the Netflix documentary Chimp Empire (2023) earned him his fifth Emmy nomination.
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | |
| 2019 | Green Book |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Best Film Actor in a Supporting Role | Moonlight | ||
| 2019 | Green Book | |||
| 2022 | Best Film Actor in a Leading Role | Swan Song |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Moonlight | ||
| 2019 | Green Book | |||
| 2022 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Swan Song |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Best International Supporting Actor – Cinema | Moonlight | |
| Green Book | |||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Best Television Drama Series Guest Performer | House of Cards | |
| 2017 | Best Movie Cast | Hidden Figures | |
| Moonlight | |||
| Best Movie Supporting Actor | |||
| 2018 | Green Book |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special | The Wronged Man | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Moonlight | |
| 2022 | Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Swan Song | |