List of awards and nominations received by Jean Smart

Jean Smart is an American actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received seven Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award.

Smart has received 14 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her diverse work on television. She won two consecutive awards for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her recurring role as Lana Gardner a former classmate and love interest of Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcom Frasier in 2000 and 2001. She won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series playing a dysfunctional mother in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2008).

She has won four Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy awards for her role as stand-up comedienne Deborah Vance in the HBO Max comedy series Hacks (2021, 2022, 2024, 2025). The role also earned her two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and three Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series.

Smart was also Emmy-nominated for her diverse roles as Detective Sherry Regan in the CBS crime drama The District in 2001, Martha Logan in the Fox action drama series 24 in 2006–2007, Roseanna Remmick, a ruthless District Attorney in the NBC legal comedy-drama series Harry's Law in 2012, Floyd Gerhardt in the FX anthology crime series Fargo in 2016, Laurie Blake in the HBO superhero limited series Watchmen in 2020, and Helen Fahey, the mother of a police detective in the HBO crime drama miniseries Mare of Easttown in 2021.

On film, she earned an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female nomination for her performance as a concerned mother in the drama film Guinevere (2000). She played a gossip columnist in Damien Chazelle's Hollywood epic Babylon (2022) and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

On stage, she was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Lorraine Sheldon in the Broadway revival of the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart play The Man Who Came to Dinner (2001).