List of awards and nominations received by Emma Thompson

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Emma Thompson.

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Dame Emma Thompson awards and nominations

Thompson at 2009 film premiere
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 2 5 BAFTA Awards 3 8 Emmy Awards 1 7 Golden Globes 2 11 Grammy Awards 0 2 SAG Awards 0 6
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Wins	38
Nominations	121
Note [a] 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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Dame Emma Thompson is a British actress and screenwriter known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received several awards throughout her career including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and one Primetime Emmy Award. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2018 for her services to drama.

She is the only person in Academy Award history to win for both acting and writing, she won the Best Actress for playing Margaret Schlegel in the Merchant Ivory period drama Howards End (1992) and Best Adapted Screenplay for the Ang Lee directed Sense and Sensibility (1995). She is also one of 12 actors to have received two acting nominations in the same year. She was Oscar-nominated for playing a housemaid in The Remains of the Day (1993), Gareth Peirce in In the Name of the Father (1993), and Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995).

For her work on television, she has received seven Emmy Award nominations, winning Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her guest spot on Ellen (1998). She was Emmy-nominated for playing professor with cancer in the HBO film Wit (2001), various roles in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003), a former lover in the BBC film The Song of Lunch (2010), Mrs. Lovett in a taping of Sweeney Todd: Live from Lincoln Center (2014), and as a host of Saturday Night Live (2019). She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for Fortunes of War / Tutti Frutti (1987).