Nicole Kidman is an American–born Australian actress and producer who has been honored with numerous accolades including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, six Golden Globe Awards, and an Actor Award. She is the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2003, Kidman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry. In 2024, she received the AFI Life Achievement Award becoming the first-ever Australian to earn this honor.
Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in the Stephen Daldry directed drama The Hours (2002). She was Oscar-nominated for her roles as a courtesan Satine in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), a grieving mother in the drama Rabbit Hole (2010), an adoptive mother in the drama Lion (2016), and Lucille Ball in the biographical drama Being the Ricardos (2021). She won six Golden Globe Awards including for four wins for her film roles in To Die For (1995), Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Hours (2002), and Being the Ricardos (2021).
For her roles on television, she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the HBO series Big Little Lies (2017). The role also earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. She was Emmy-nominated for playing Martha Gellhorn in the HBO biographical film Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), and earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for playing psychologist Grace Fraser in the HBO psychological thriller series The Undoing (2021).
On the West End stage, she received Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress nominations for playing various characters in the David Hare play The Blue Room (1999), and chemist Rosalind Franklin in the Anna Ziegler play Photograph 51 (2016). The role for the later earned her wins for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress and the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actress in a Play.
In addition to her 2003 Academy Award for Best Actress, Kidman has received Best Actress awards from the following critics' associations or award–granting organisations: the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globe Award), the Australian Film Institute, London Film Critics' Circle, and Russian Guild of Film Critics. In 2003, Kidman was given the American Cinematheque Award. She also received recognition from the National Association of Theatre Owners in 1992 as the Female Star of Tomorrow, and in 2002 for a Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film Award. In 2012, she received New York Film Festival Gala Tribute.
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Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Work Result 2002 Best Actress Moulin Rouge! 2003 The Hours 2011 Rabbit Hole 2017 Best Supporting Actress Lion 2022 Best Actress Being the Ricardos
Actor Awards Year Category Work Result 2002 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture Moulin Rouge! 2003 Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role The Hours Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture 2010 Nine 2011 Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role Rabbit Hole 2013 Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role The Paperboy Outstanding Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Hemingway & Gellhorn 2016 Grace of Monaco 2017 Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role Lion 2018 Outstanding Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Big Little Lies 2020 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role Bombshell Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture 2021 Outstanding Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie The Undoing 2022 Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role Being the Ricardos
American Film Institute Year Category Work Result 2024 AFI Life Achievement Award
BAFTA Awards Year Category Work Result British Academy Film Awards 1996 Best Actress in a Leading Role To Die For 2002 The Others 2003 The Hours 2017 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Lion British Academy Television Awards 2018 Best International Programme Big Little Lies
Emmy Awards Year Category Work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2012 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Hemingway & Gellhorn 2017 Outstanding Limited Series Big Little Lies Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie 2026 Outstanding Comedy Series Margo's Got Money Troubles
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Work Result 1992 Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Billy Bathgate 1996 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical To Die For 2002 Moulin Rouge! Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama The Others 2003 The Hours 2004 Cold Mountain 2005 Birth 2011 Rabbit Hole 2013 Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie Hemingway & Gellhorn Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture The Paperboy 2017 Lion 2018 Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie Big Little Lies Best Television Limited Series or TV Movie 2019 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Destroyer 2020 Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama Big Little Lies 2021 Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie The Undoing 2022 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Being the Ricardos 2025 Babygirl
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Work Result 1999 Best Actress The Blue Room 2016 Photograph 51
Producers Guild of America Awards Year Category Work Result 2018 Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama Big Little Lies 2020 2021 Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television The Undoing
Miscellaneous awards