List of awards and nominations received by Barry Jenkins

Barry Jenkins awards and nominations
	Barry Jenkins in 2009
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Wins	92
Nominations	142
	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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This is a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Barry Jenkins.

Jenkins is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his feature films, Moonlight (2016), an adaptation of the Tarell Alvin McCraney play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) an adaptation of James Baldwin's acclaimed novel of the same name. He is also known for the direction "Episode V" of the Netflix series Dear White People and for direction the Amazon Prime Video limited series The Underground Railroad (2021) based on the Colson Whitehead novel of the same name, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and won the BAFTA TV Award for Best International Programme.

He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight (2016). He also received nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Directors Guild of America.

For his work of Moonlight, Jenkins became the first black filmmaker to ever sweep "The Big Four" critics awards for directing category (LA, NBR, NY, NSFC).

[1] 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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Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Best Director	Moonlight	Nominated	^[1]
2017	Best Adapted Screenplay	Moonlight	Won	^[1]
2019	Best Adapted Screenplay	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nominated	^[2]

Year	Performer	Film	Result
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2016	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	Won
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
2016	Naomie Harris	Moonlight	Nominated
2018	Regina King	If Beale Street Could Talk	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Best Film Original Screenplay Writing	Moonlight	Nominated	^[3]
2019	Best Film Screenplay Adaptation Writing	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nominated	^[4]
2022	Best Television International Programme	The Underground Railroad	Won	^[5]
2023	Outstanding British Film	Aftersun	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Outstanding Directing – Feature Film	Moonlight	Nominated	^[6]
2022	Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film	The Underground Railroad	Won	^[7]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Best Director	Moonlight	Nominated	^[8]
2017	Best Screenplay	Moonlight	Nominated
2019	Best Screenplay	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nominated

List of awards and nominations received by Barry Jenkins

Academy Awards

BAFTA Awards

Directors Guild Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

Writers Guild of America Awards

Other awards and nominations

Black Reel Awards

British Independent Film Awards

Critics' Choice Awards

Critics' Choice Television Awards

Gotham Awards

Independent Spirit Award

NAACP Image Awards

Satellite Awards

Critics awards

References

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Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2021	Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie	The Underground Railroad	Nominated	^[9]
2021	Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series	The Underground Railroad	Nominated	^[9]
2024	Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series	True Detective: Night Country	Nominated
2024

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Best Original Screenplay	Moonlight	Won	^[10]
2019	Best Adapted Screenplay	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nominated	^[11]
2022	Best Television Long Form – Adapted	The Underground Railroad	Nominated	^[12]

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2017	Outstanding Director	Moonlight	Won	^[13]
2017	Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted or Original	Moonlight	Won	^[13]
2019	Outstanding Director	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nominated	^[14]
2019	Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted or Original	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nominated	^[14]
2021	Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series	The Underground Railroad	Nominated	^[15]
	Outstanding Directing, TV Movie/Limited Series		Nominated
	Outstanding Writing, TV Movie/Limited Series		Nominated

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2025	Best International Independent Film	Sorry, Baby	Nominated	^[16]

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2021	Breakthrough Series – Long Format	The Underground Railroad	Nominated	^[20]
2025	Best Feature	Sorry, Baby	Pending	^[21]

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2008	Best First Feature	Medicine for Melancholy	Nominated	^[22]
2008	Someone to Watch Award	Medicine for Melancholy	Nominated	^[22]
2016	Best Director	Moonlight	Won	^[23]
	Best Screenplay		Won
	Robert Altman Award		Won
2019	Best Feature	If Beale Street Could Talk	Won	^[24]
2019	Best Director	If Beale Street Could Talk	Won	^[24]
2022	Best New Scripted Series	The Underground Railroad	Nominated	^[25]

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2016	Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture	Moonlight	Won	^[26]
2016	Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture	Moonlight	Won	^[26]
2017	Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series	Dear White People – "Chapter 5"	Nominated	^[27]
2019	Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nominated	^[28]
2019	Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nominated	^[28]
2022	Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special	The Underground Railroad	Nominated	^[29]
2022	Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series	The Underground Railroad	Won	^[29]

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