List of awards and nominations received by Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin awards and nominations
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Awards and nominations
Award	Wins
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Wins	12
Nominations	44
	Note ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.;

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Nominations44

Aaron Sorkin is an American screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker known for his work in film, television and theatre. Over his career he has received several awards including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, five Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Writers Guild of America Awards, as well as a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award and two Directors Guild of America Awards.

Sorkin gained stardom and acclaim for creating and writing the ABC drama series Sports Night (1998–2000), the NBC political drama series The West Wing (1999–2006), the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), and the HBO political comedy-drama series The Newsroom (2013–2015). For The West Wing, Sorkin received four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "In Excelsis Deo" in 2000.

On film, Sorkin won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the David Fincher drama The Social Network (2010). He was Oscar-nominated for the sports drama Moneyball (2011), the thriller Molly's Game (2017), and the political drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). He is also known for writing the screenplays for the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the romantic comedy The American President (1995), the political drama Charlie Wilson's War (2007), and the biographical dramas Steve Jobs (2015), and Being the Ricardos (2021).

Sorkin made his Broadway debut in 1989 with A Few Good Men. He followed it up with his original play The Farnsworth Invention (2007) and with the stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird in 2018 starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch. The latter play ran for a year with Daniels in the lead role and received nine Tony Award nominations. The play transferred to the West End where it was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. He adapted the Broadway musical revival of the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot (2022).

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2010	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Social Network	Won	^[1]
2011		Moneyball	Nominated	^[2]
2017		Molly's Game	Nominated	^[3]
2020	Best Original Screenplay	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Nominated	^[4]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
2010	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Social Network	Won	^[5]
2011		Moneyball	Nominated	^[6]
2015		Steve Jobs	Nominated	^[7]
2017		Molly's Game	Nominated	^[8]
2020	Best Original Screenplay	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Nominated	^[9]
2021	Best Original Screenplay	Being the Ricardos	Nominated	^[10]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2008	Best Writer	Charlie Wilson's War	Nominated	^[11]
2011	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Social Network	Won	^[12]
2012		Moneyball	Won	^[13]
2016		Steve Jobs	Nominated	^[14]
2018		Molly's Game	Nominated	^[15]
2021	Best Director	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Nominated	^[16]
2021	Best Original Screenplay	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Nominated	^[16]
2022	Best Original Screenplay	Being the Ricardos	Nominated	^[17]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1999	Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series	Sports Night (episode: "The Apology")	Nominated	^[18]
2000	Outstanding Drama Series	The West Wing (season one)	Won	^[19]
	Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	The West Wing (episode: "Pilot")	Nominated
	Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	The West Wing (episode: "In Excelsis Deo")	Won
2001	Outstanding Drama Series	The West Wing (season two)	Won	^[20]
2001	Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	The West Wing (episode: "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen")	Nominated	^[20]
2002	Outstanding Drama Series	The West Wing (season three)	Won	^[21]
2002	Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	The West Wing (episode: "Posse Comitatus")	Nominated	^[21]
2003	Outstanding Drama Series	The West Wing (season four)	Won	^[22]
2003	Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	The West Wing (episode: "Twenty Five")	Nominated	^[22]
2021	Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)	A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote	Nominated	^[23]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	Best Screenplay – Motion Picture	A Few Good Men	Nominated	^[24]
1995		The American President	Nominated	^[24]
2007		Charlie Wilson's War	Nominated	^[24]
2010		The Social Network	Won	^[24]
2011		Moneyball	Nominated	^[24]
2015		Steve Jobs	Won	^[24]
2017		Molly's Game	Nominated	^[24]
2020		The Trial of the Chicago 7	Won	^[24]
2021		Being the Ricardos	Nominated	^[24]
2021

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2018	Outstanding Achievement in First-Time Feature Film	Molly's Game	Nominated	^[25]
2021	Outstanding Directional Achievement in Feature Film	The Trial of the Chicago Seven	Nominated

Year	Film	Academy Awards		BAFTAs		Golden Globes
Year	Film	Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins
2017	Molly's Game	1		1		2
2020	The Trial of the Chicago 7	6		3		5	1
2021	Being the Ricardos	3		2		3	1
Total		10		6		10	2

Year	Performer	Film	Result
Academy Award for Best Actor
2021	Javier Bardem	Being the Ricardos	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Actress
2021	Nicole Kidman	Being the Ricardos	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2020	Sacha Baron Cohen	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Nominated
2021	J. K. Simmons	Being the Ricardos	Nominated