List of awards and nominations received by Vanessa Redgrave

Dame Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has won several accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Actor Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Tony Award as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award. Redgrave is one of the few actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting having won a competitive Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award.^[1] She has been honored with the BFI Fellowship in 1988, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2010 and the Honorary Golden Lion in 2018. In 2022 she made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.^[a]

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Dame Vanessa Redgrave awards and nominations

Redgrave at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 6 BAFTA Awards 1 4 Critics' Choice 0 1 Emmy Awards 2 6 Golden Globes 2 13 Grammy Awards 0 1 Actor Awards 1 4 Olivier Awards 1 3 Tony Awards 1 3
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Wins	42
Nominations	97
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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On film, Regrave earned early acclaim and rose to prominence for playing an upper class wife in the British comedy Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) for which she received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She played Guinevere in the musical fantasy romance Camelot (1967) earning a nomination a Golden Globe Award. She portrayed Isadora Duncan in the biographical drama Isadora (1968) for which she won her second Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She played the title role in the historical drama Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) earning nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

She gained acclaim for her portrayed of a wealthy American who becomes involved in anti-Nazi resistance efforts in Europe during the 1930s in the political drama Julia (1977) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. She played a spinster during the suffrage movement in the Merchant-Ivory costume drama The Bostonians (1984) earning the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. For her portrayal of Peggy Ramsay in the Stephen Frears directed British film Prick Up Your Ears (1987) she was nominated for a BAFTA Award. She played a quiet and wealthy owner of the titular estate in the Merchant-Ivory film Howards End (1992) earning a nomination for an Academy Award. For playing a terminally ill wife in Little Odessa (1994) she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She played the older Briony in the romantic war drama Atonement (2007) for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award.

On television, she gained acclaim for her portrayal of Fania Fénelon in the CBS film Playing for Time (1980) for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. She played part of a elderly lesbian couple in the HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, and the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. She portrayed Clementine Churchill, the wife of Winston Churchill in the HBO film The Gathering Storm (2002) for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award, British Academy Television Award, Golden Globe Award, and Actor Award.

On stage, she started her career on the West End earning the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival for playing Miss Tina, a naive niece in the Henry James play The Aspern Papers (1984). She was Olivier-nominated for her roles in A Touch of the Poet (1988), John Gabriel Borkman (1997), and The Inheritance (2019). On Broadway she earned the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play playing Mary Tyrone in the revival of the Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey into Night (2003). She was Tony-nominated for playing Joan Didion in her memoir play The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) and playing a snooty elderly southern woman in the Alfred Uhry play Driving Miss Daisy (2011).