The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Susan Sarandon.
Susan Sarandon is American actress. Known for her portrayals of headstrong leading women in film and television, she has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, ten Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award.
Sarandon took an early role where she played young waitress in the Louis Malle romantic crime drama Atlantic City (1980) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She took the role of the romantic lead in the Ron Shelton directed sports drama Bull Durham (1988) for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. She played a sharp tongued waitress in the Ridley Scott directed crime drama Thelma & Louise (1991) for which she earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She portrayed Michaela Odone in the George Miller directed drama Lorenzo's Oil (1992), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
She played a recovering alcoholic and lawyer in the Joel Schumacher directed legal drama The Client earning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role as well as nominations for the Academy Award, the and the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. She won widespread acclaim for her role as a concerned nun Sister Helen Prejean in the Tim Robbins directed crime drama Dead Man Walking (1995) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role. She received further Golden Globe-nominations for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for the comedy-drama Stepmom (1998) and the Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for the comedy-drama Igby Goes Down (2002).
On television, she earned six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her performances as a soap opera diva in the NBC sitcom Friends (2001), Meg Burbank in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2002), a wealthy woman in the HBO television film Bernard and Doris (2008), a right-to-die advocate and patient in the HBO television film You Don't Knock Jack (2010), and Bette Davis in the FX limited series Feud: Bette and Joan (2017). She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Dinosongs: Poems to Celebrate a T. Rex Named Sue (2001).
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1982Best Actress Atlantic City 1992 Thelma & Louise 1993 Lorenzo's Oil 1995 The Client 1996 Dead Man Walking
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 1992Best Actress in a Leading Role Thelma & Louise 1995 The Client
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2001Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Friends 2002 Malcolm in the Middle 2008 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Bernard and Doris 2010 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie You Don't Know Jack 2017 Outstanding Limited Series (as a producer) Feud: Bette and Joan Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Daytime Emmy Awards 2002 Outstanding Special Class Series (as a producer) Cool Women in History
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1989 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Bull Durham 1991Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama White Palace 1992 Thelma & Louise 1993 Lorenzo's Oil 1996 Dead Man Walking 1999 Stepmom 2003 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Igby Goes Down 2009Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture – Television Bernard and Doris 2018Feud: Bette and Joan Best Miniseries or Television Film
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2001 Best Spoken Word Album for Children Dinosongs: Poems to Celebrate a T. Rex Named Sue
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1995Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role The Client 1996 Dead Man Walking 2009Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie Bernard and Doris 2011You Don't Know Jack 2016 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe 2018 Feud: Bette and Joan
Miscellaneous awards
Organizations Year Category Nominated work Result Alice nella città 2026 Womenlands Excellence Award Cairo International Film Festival 2008 Career Achievement Award Goya Awards 2026 International Goya Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2012 Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Razzie Awards 2012Worst Screen Couple That's My Boy 2014Worst Supporting Actress Tammy 2017 A Bad Moms Christmas Satellite Awards 1998 Best Actress – Motion Picture Stepmom 2008Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Bernard and Doris 2017 Feud: Bette and Joan Saturn Awards 1987 Best Actress The Witches of Eastwick 2009 Best Supporting Actress The Lovely Bones Sitges Film Festival 2017
Critics awards
Year Award Category Work Result 1981 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Actress Atlantic City 1991 London Film Critics Circle Actress of the Year White Palace rowspan="2" Thelma & Louise 1991 National Board of Review Best Actress 1991 New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress 1992 Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Actress 1992 National Society of Film Critics Best Actress 1992 Chicago Film Critics Association Best Actress 1993 Lorenzo's Oil 1992 New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress 1993 National Society of Film Critics rowspan="2" Light Sleeper 1995 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Actress Dead Man Walking 1998 San Diego Film Critics Society Best Actress Stepmom 2002 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actress Moonlight Mile rowspan="2" Igby Goes Down 2002 Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress 2004 Women Film Critics Circle Acting & Activism Award 2007 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Humanitarian Activism Award 2016 Indiana Film Journalists Association Best Actress The Meddler 2017 Television Critics Association Awards Individual Achievement in Drama Feud: Bette and Joan
See also Susan Sarandon filmography
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