List of awards and nominations received by Melissa McCarthy
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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Melissa McCarthy.
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McCarthy at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012, where she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her comic role in Bridesmaids | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nominations | 110 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Honors | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Melissa McCarthy is American actress, comedian and producer. Over her career she has received two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
For her performance in the comedy film Bridesmaids (2011), McCarthy received nominations for the BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, SAG Award, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Along with the ensemble cast of Bridesmaids, she received nominations for the SAG Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, and numerous other critics groups. For her performance in the action comedy film Spy (2015), she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. McCarthy portrayed Lee Israel in the biographical drama film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), for which she received nominations for the BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, SAG Award, Golden Globe Award, and Academy Award for Best Actress.
Among other accolades, McCarthy also received an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance, Comedy Award for Best Comedic Actress, and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Virtuoso Award and Montecito Award. In 2016, she became the first woman to ever win the Comedic Genius Award at the MTV Movie Awards. She is a recipient of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011 for her performance in the comedy series Mike & Molly and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2017 for her performance in the variety series Saturday Night Live. In 2015, she received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 2020, The New York Times ranked McCarthy as #22 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.[1]
Major associations
Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | Bridesmaids | Nominated | [2] |
| 2019 | Best Actress | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nominated | [3] |
BAFTA Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Academy Film Awards | ||||
| 2012 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Bridesmaids | Nominated | [4] |
| 2019 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nominated | [5] |
Critics' Choice Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
| 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | Bridesmaids | Nominated | [6] |
| Best Acting Ensemble | Nominated | |||
| 2014 | Best Actress in a Comedy | The Heat | Nominated | [7] |
| 2015 | St. Vincent | Nominated | [8] | |
| 2016 | Spy | Nominated | [9] | |
| 2019 | Best Actress | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nominated | [10] |
Emmy Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 2011 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Mike & Molly (episode: "First Date") | Won | [11] |
| 2012 | Mike & Molly (episode: "The Dress") | Nominated | [12] | |
| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Saturday Night Live (episode: "Melissa McCarthy / Lady Antebellum") | Nominated | ||
| 2013 | Saturday Night Live (episode: "Melissa McCarthy / Phoenix") | Nominated | [13] | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Mike & Molly (episode: "Mind Over Molly") | Nominated | [14] |
| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Saturday Night Live (episode: "Melissa McCarthy / Imagine Dragons") | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | Saturday Night Live (episode: "Melissa McCarthy / Kanye West") | Nominated | [15] | |
| 2017 | Saturday Night Live (episode: "Melissa McCarthy / Haim") | Won | [16] | |
Golden Globe Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Spy | Nominated | [17] |
| 2019 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nominated | [18] |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role | Bridesmaids | Nominated | [19] |
| Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture | Nominated | |||
| 2019 | Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nominated | [20] |
Miscellaneous awards
| Award | Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Raspberry Awards | 2015 | Worst Actress | Tammy | Nominated | [21] |
| 2019 | Worst Picture | The Happytime Murders | Nominated | [22] [23] | |
| Worst Actress | Life of the Party | Won | |||
| The Happytime Murders | Won | ||||
| Worst Screen ComboG | Nominated | ||||
| Razzie Redeemer Award | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Won | |||
| 2025 | Worst Screen ComboG | Unfrosted | Nominated | [24] | |
| Kids' Choice Awards | 2017 | Favorite Movie Actress | Ghostbusters | Won | [25] |
| 2021 | Superintelligence | Nominated | [26] | ||
| 2024 | The Little Mermaid | Nominated | [27] | ||
| Favorite Villain | Nominated | ||||
| MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2012 | Best Cast | Bridesmaids | Nominated | [28] |
| Best Comedic Performance | Won | ||||
| Best WTF Moment[A] | Won | ||||
| Breakthrough Performance | Nominated | ||||
| 2014 | Best Comedic Performance | The Heat | Nominated | [29] | |
| Best Fight[B] | Identity Thief | Nominated | |||
| Best Musical Moment | Nominated | ||||
| 2016 | Best Comedic Performance | Spy | Nominated | [30] | |
| Best Fight (with Nargis Fakhri) [C] | Nominated | ||||
| 2017 | Trending | "Sean Spicer's Press Conference" (from Saturday Night Live) |
Nominated | [31] | |
| People's Choice Award | 2014 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | The Heat / Identity Thief | Nominated | [32] |
| Favorite Movie Actress | Nominated | ||||
| Favorite Movie Duo[D] | The Heat | Nominated | |||
| Favorite Comedic TV Actress | Mike & Molly | Nominated | |||
| 2015 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Tammy | Won | [33] | |
| Favorite Movie Actress | Nominated | ||||
| Favorite Comedic TV Actress | Mike & Molly | Nominated | |||
| 2016 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Spy | Won | [34] | |
| Favorite Movie Actress | Nominated | ||||
| Favorite Comedic TV Actress | Mike & Molly | Won | |||
| 2017 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Ghostbusters / The Boss | Won | [35] | |
| Favorite Movie Actress | Nominated | ||||
| 2018 | The Comedy Movie Star of 2018 | Life of the Party | Won | [36] | |
| 2024 | The Movie Performance of the Year | The Little Mermaid | Nominated | [37] | |
| Palm Springs Film Festival | 2019 | Spotlight Award | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Won | [38] |
| Satellite Awards | 2011 | Best Actress: Television Series Musical or Comedy | Mike & Molly | Nominated | [39] |
| 2019 | Best Actress – Motion Picture | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nominated | [40] | |
| Saturn Awards | 2023 | Best Supporting Actress | The Little Mermaid | Nominated | [41] |
| Teen Choice Awards | 2011 | Choice Movie: Scene Stealer | Bridesmaids | Nominated | [42] |
| 2013 | Choice Movie: Chemistry[E] | The Heat | Won | [43] | |
| Choice Movie: Hissy Fit | Nominated | ||||
| Choice Summer Movie Star: Female | Nominated | ||||
| Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Identity Thief | Nominated | |||
| Choice Movie: Villain | Nominated | ||||
| 2014 | Choice Summer Movie Star | Tammy | Nominated | [44] | |
| 2015 | Choice Movie: Hissy Fit | Spy | Nominated | [45] | |
| Choice Summer Movie Star: Female | Nominated | ||||
| 2016 | Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | The Boss | Nominated | [46] | |
| Choice Summer Movie Star: Female | Ghostbusters | Nominated | |||
| 2018 | Choice Summer Movie Actress | Life of the Party | Nominated | [47] |
Critics awards
Honors and achievements
| Organizations | Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elle Magazine | 2013 | Woman of The Year | Honored | [81] |
| CinemaCon Award | 2014 | Female Star of the Year | Honored | [82] |
| Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2015 | Motion Picture - Star | Honored | [83] |
| MTV Movie Awards | 2016 | Comedic Genius Award | Honored | [30] |
| Time Magazine | 2016 | 100 most influential people in the world | Honored | [84] |
| Santa Barbara International Film Festival | 2019 | Montecito Award | Honored | [85] |
| The New York Times | 2020 | Ranked her #22 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century | Honored | [86] |
