List of awards and nominations received by Michelle Williams (actress)

Michelle Williams is an American actress. She has received various accolades including three Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Critics' Choice Awards as well as nominations for five Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and a Tony Award.

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Michelle Williams awards and nominations

Williams at the UK premiere of Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 0 5 Actor Awards 2 9 BAFTA Awards 0 4 Critics' Choice 2 8 Emmy Awards 1 4 Golden Globes 3 7 Tony Awards 0 1
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Wins	53
Nominations	161
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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For her roles on film, she has received five Academy Award nominations, three for Best Actress for playing a woman in an emotional romantic relationship in the drama Blue Valentine (2010), Marilyn Monroe in the comedy-drama My Week with Marilyn (2011), and emotionally unwell mother in semi-biographical drama The Fabelmans (2022) and two for Best Supporting Actress for playing a woman married to a gay man in the western romantic drama Brokeback Mountain (2005) and an emotional ex-wife in the drama Manchester by the Sea (2016).

For television, she earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, and the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for playing Gwen Verdon in the FX on Hulu biographical limited series Fosse/Verdon (2019). She returned to television for the miniseries Dying for Sex (2025), for which she once again received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie, as well as another nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

On stage, she starred as a woman confronting her abuser in the Broadway revival of David Harrower's Blackbird (2016) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.