This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Christopher Walken.

Christopher Walken is an American actor known for his performances on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Actor Award as well as nominations for two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe. Walken's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion in the United States.

Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a rural Pennsylvania steel worker who goes to fight in Vietnam in the Michael Cimino war drama The Deer Hunter (1978). He was Oscar-nominated for playing the father of con man Frank Abagnale in the Steven Spielberg directed biographical crime comedy-drama Catch Me If You Can (2002). The role for the later earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the Actor Award in the same category.

For his roles on television, he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for playing a widowed farmer in the CBS movie Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for playing an elderly worker at a biotechnology corporation in the Apple TV+ psychological thriller series Severance (2022–present).

On stage, he received two Tony Award nominations, his first for Best Actor in a Musical for playing the protagonist in the Broadway musical James Joyce's The Dead (2000) and for Best Actor in a Play for mysterious one handed man in Martin McDonagh's black comedy play A Behanding in Spokane (2010). For his roles off Broadway he won a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and a Theatre World Award.

Major association Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1979 Best Supporting Actor The Deer Hunter 2003 Catch Me If You Can

Actor Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2003 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Catch Me If You Can 2008 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Hairspray 2023 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Severance

BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1980 Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Deer Hunter 2003 Catch Me If You Can

Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1979 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture The Deer Hunter

Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 1991 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Sarah, Plain and Tall 2022 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Severance

Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2000 Best Actor in a Musical James Joyce's The Dead 2010 Best Actor in a Play A Behanding in Spokane

Other theatre awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Drama Desk Awards 1970 Special Award Lemon Sky 2010 Outstanding Actor in a Play A Behanding in Spokane Jeff Awards 1975 Best Guest Artist Sweet Bird of Youth Obie Awards 1975 Distinguished Performance by an Actor Kid Champion 1981 The Sea Gulf Outer Critics Circle Awards 2010 Outstanding Actor in a Play A Behanding in Spokane Theatre World Awards 1967 Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut The Rose Tattoo

Critics awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Boston Society of Film Critics 2012 Best Cast Seven Psychopaths Critics' Choice Movie Awards2008 Best Acting Ensemble Hairspray Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2002 Best Supporting Actor Catch Me If You Can Houston Film Critics Society 2007 Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast Hairspray Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2002 Best Supporting Actor Catch Me If You Can National Society of Film Critics 1978 Best Supporting Actor The Deer Hunter 2002 Best Supporting Actor Catch Me If You Can New York Film Critics Circle 1978 Best Supporting Actor The Deer Hunter San Diego Film Critics Society 2012 Best Supporting Actor Seven Psychopaths Best Performance by an Ensemble Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2002 Best Supporting Actor Catch Me If You Can

Miscellaneous associations Organizations Year Category Work Result AARP Movies for Grownups Awards 2003 Best Breakaway Performance Catch Me If You Can 2008 Best Grownup Love Story Hairspray American Comedy Awards 2001 Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a Television Series Saturday Night Live Clarence Derwent Awards 1966 Most Promising Male The Lion in Winter Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 1996 Best Actor The Prophecy Fangoria Horror Hall of Fame Golden Raspberry Awards 2003 Worst Supporting Actor The Country Bears 2004 Gigli / Kangaroo Jack Hollywood Film Awards 2007 Ensemble of the Year Hairspray Montreal World Film Festival 2004 Best Actor Around the Bend MTV Movie & TV Awards 2000 Best Villain Sleepy Hollow MTV Video Music Awards 2001 Best Choreography "Weapon of Choice" Palm Springs International Film Festival 2008 Best Ensemble Cast Hairspray Satellite Awards 2005 Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Around the Bend Saturn Awards 1984 Best Actor The Dead Zone 1996 Best Supporting Actor The Prophecy 2000 Sleepy Hollow 2017 The Jungle Book Shanghai Television Festival 1988 Best Actor Witness in the War Zone Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2003 Worst Supporting Actor The Country Bears

Honorary awards + Other accolades received by Christopher Walken Year Organization Honor 1995 Gotham Awards Career Tribute 1999 Florida Film Festival Artistic Achievement Award 2001 Deauville Film Festival Special Tribute Award 2005 CineVegas Marquee Award 2008 Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year

See also Christopher Walken filmography

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Notes

I Shared with Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, and Allison Janney. II Shared with Patricia Arquette, Michael Chernus, Zach Cherry, Michael Cumpsty, Dichen Lachman, Britt Lower, Adam Scott, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, and John Turturro. III Shared with John Travolta. IV Tied with Fan Wei for The Parking Attendant in July. V Shared with Michael Rooney and Spike Jonze. VI Shared with Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Linda Bright Clay, Kevin Corrigan, Woody Harrelson, Željko Ivanek, Long Nguyen, Christine Marzano, Tom Waits, Brendan Sexton III, Olga Kurylenko, Bonny, Gabourey Sidibe, Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Harry Dean Stanton.

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