Saoirse Ronan is an Irish and American actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Ronan came to prominence in 2007 with her co-starring role in the Joe Wright period drama Atonement (2007), for which she received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the seventh-youngest actress to receive an Oscar nomination in this category. In 2015, Ronan starred in the romantic-drama film Brooklyn, for which she received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Aged 21 at the time, she is the eighth-youngest Best Actress nominee.
In 2017, Ronan was nominated yet again for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, while winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for her role in Greta Gerwig's coming of age comedy Lady Bird. Two years later, yet again in 2019, Ronan was nominated yet again for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, for her role as Josephine "Jo" March in Little Women. At 25 years and six months of age, Ronan is the second youngest person to accrue four Academy Award nominations, behind only American actress Jennifer Lawrence.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2008 Best Supporting Actress Atonement 2016 Best Actress Brooklyn 2018 Lady Bird 2020 Little Women
Actor Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture The Grand Budapest Hotel 2016 Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role Brooklyn 2018Lady Bird Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 2008 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Atonement 2010 Best Actress in a Leading Role The Lovely Bones 2016 Brooklyn 2018 Lady Bird 2020 Little Women 2025The Outrun Outstanding British Film British Academy Scotland Awards 2025 Best Actress in Film/TelevisionThe Outrun Best Feature Film
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2008 Best Young Actress Atonement 2010 Best Actress The Lovely Bones Best Young Actor/Actress 2012 Hanna 2015 Best Acting Ensemble The Grand Budapest Hotel 2016 Best Actress Brooklyn 2018 Lady Bird Best Acting Ensemble Best Actress in a Comedy 2020 Best ActressLittle Women Best Acting Ensemble
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2008 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Atonement 2016 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Brooklyn 2018 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Lady Bird 2020 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Little Women
Film critic awards
Year Category Nominated work Result Alliance of Women Film Journalists2007Best NewcomerAtonement 2012Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action StarHanna 2018Best Animated FemaleLoving Vincent 2019Best ActressLittle Women Austin Film Critics Association2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird 2019Best Ensemble Little Women Boston Online Film Critics Association 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn Boston Society of Film Critics 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn 2019Little WomenBest Cast Chicago Film Critics Association 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn 2017Lady Bird Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle2017Best ActressLady Bird Best Ensemble Cast Columbus Film Critics Association2015Best EnsembleThe Grand Budapest Hotel 2016Best ActressBrooklyn 2018Lady Bird Best Ensemble 2020Best ActressLittle Women Best Ensemble Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association2007Best Supporting ActressAtonement 2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird 2019Little Women Denver Film Critics Society2016Best ActressBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird Detroit Film Critics Society 2009 Best Actress The Lovely Bones 2014Best EnsembleThe Grand Budapest Hotel 2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017 Lady Bird Best Ensemble Dublin Film Critics' Circle 2007 Breakthrough Award Atonement 2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2018Lady Bird 2019Little Women 2024The OutrunFilm Critics Circle of Australia 2009Best Supporting ActressDeath Defying Acts Florida Film Critics Circle 2014 Best Cast The Grand Budapest Hotel 2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird Best Cast 2019Little Women Georgia Film Critics Association 2015 Best Ensemble The Grand Budapest Hotel 2016 Best Actress Brooklyn 2017 Lady Bird Best Ensemble 2020 Best Actress Little Women Best Ensemble Hawaii Film Critics Society2018Best ActressLady Bird Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2024 Song – Onscreen Performance (TV Show/Limited Series) "Winter Coat" Houston Film Critics Society 2009 Best Actress The Lovely Bones 2016Brooklyn 2018Lady Bird 2020 Little Women Indiana Film Journalists Association 2017 Best Actress Lady Bird IndieWire Critics Poll 2015Best Lead ActressBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird 2019Best ActressLittle Women International Cinephile Society2018Best ActressLady Bird Best Ensemble Iowa Film Critics 2016Best ActressBrooklyn 2017 Lady Bird Kansas City Film Critics Circle 2015Best ActressBrooklyn Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2007Youth in Film – FemaleAtonement 2009Youth in FilmThe Lovely Bones London Film Critics' Circle 2007 British Supporting Actress of the Year Atonement British Breakthrough – Acting 2009 Young British Performer of the Year The Lovely Bones 2010 The Way Back 2011 Hanna 2013 Byzantium 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2015 Actress of the Year Brooklyn British/Irish Actress of the Year 2017 Lady Bird 2019Little Women 2024Blitz Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society2017Best ActressLady Bird Best Actor or Actress under 23 Years Old National Society of Film Critics 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn 2017Lady Bird New York Film Critics Circle 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn 2017 Lady Bird North Carolina Film Critics Association 2016Best ActressBrooklyn 2018Lady Bird North Dakota Film Society 2019 Best ActressLittle Women 2020Ammonite North Texas Film Critics Association 2018Best ActressLady Bird Oklahoma Film Critics Association 2018Best ActressLady Bird Online Film Critics Society 2008 Best Supporting Actress Atonement 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn 2017 Lady Bird Best Ensemble Phoenix Critics Circle2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017 Lady Bird Phoenix Film Critics Society2007Best Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role – FemaleAtonement 2009Best Youth – FemaleThe Lovely Bones 2011Best Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role – FemaleHanna 2014Best Ensemble ActingThe Grand Budapest Hotel 2015Best Actress in a Leading RoleBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird San Diego Film Critics Society 2014 Best Performance by an Ensemble The Grand Budapest Hotel 2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017 Lady Bird Best Performance by an Ensemble 2019Best ActressLittle Women San Francisco Film Critics Circle 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn 2017Lady Bird Seattle Film Critics Society 2016Best ActressBrooklyn 2017 Lady Bird Best Ensemble Cast 2019Best ActressLittle Women Best Ensemble CastSoutheastern Film Critics Association 2014Best EnsembleThe Grand Budapest Hotel 2015Best ActressBrooklyn St. Louis Film Critics Association 2007 Best Supporting Actress Atonement 2009 Best Actress The Lovely Bones 2011 Hanna Special Merit 2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird 2019Little Women 2024The Outrun Toronto Film Critics Association2017Best ActressLady Bird Utah Film Critics Association2015Best ActressBrooklyn Vancouver Film Critics Circle2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017 Lady Bird 2019Little Women Village Voice Film Poll2015Best ActressBrooklyn 2017Best Lead PerformanceLady Bird Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 2014Best Acting EnsembleThe Grand Budapest Hotel 2015 Best Actress Brooklyn 2017 Lady Bird 2019 Little Women Women Film Critics Circle 2007 Best Young Actress Atonement 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel 2015Brooklyn 2017 Best Comedic Actress Lady Bird 2019 Best Screen Couple Little Women 2021 Ammonite
Other awards and nominations
Year Category Nominated work Result AACTA International Awards 2016 Best Actress Brooklyn 2018 Lady Bird 2020 Little Women 2021 Best Supporting Actress Ammonite Australian Film Institute 2008 Young Actor's AwardDeath Defying Acts Awards Circuit Community Awards 2007 Best Actress in a Supporting RoleAtonement 2015Best Actress in a Leading RoleBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird Best Cast Ensemble B-Movie Film Festival 2012 Best ActressHanna British Independent Film Awards 2013 Best Actress How I Live Now 2015 Brooklyn 2024 Best Lead PerformanceThe Outrun Best British Independent Film Chlotrudis Awards 2016 Best ActressBrooklyn CinEuphoria Awards 2017 Best Actress – International CompetitionBrooklyn 2019 Best Ensemble – International CompetitionLady Bird Dorian Awards 2016 Film Performance of the Year – ActressBrooklyn 2018Lady Bird Empire Awards 2007 Best Newcomer Atonement Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008 Most Promising NewcomerAtonement 2016 Best Actress Brooklyn 2018Lady Bird Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2014Best ActressByzantium Golden Schmoes Awards 2017 Best Actress of the YearLady Bird Gotham Independent Film Awards 2017 Best Actress Lady Bird 2024 Outstanding Lead Performance The Outrun Hollywood Film Awards 2015 New Hollywood Award Brooklyn IGN Summer Movie Awards 2011 Best Movie ActressHanna Independent Spirit Awards 2018 Best Female Lead Lady Bird International Online Cinema Awards 2008 Best Supporting ActressAtonement 2016Best ActressBrooklyn 2018Lady Bird Best Ensemble Irish Film & Television Awards 2008 Actress in a Supporting Role – Film Atonement Rising Star 2009 Actress in a Supporting Role – Film Death Defying Acts Actress in a Lead Role – Film City of Ember 2010 The Lovely Bones 2011 Actress in a Supporting Role – Film The Way Back 2012 Actress in a Lead Role – Film Hanna 2014 Byzantium 2016 Brooklyn 2018 Lady Bird 2020 Little Women 2021Actress in a Supporting Role – FilmAmmonite 2024 Actress in a Lead Role – Film Foe 2025The Outrun Best International Film Actress in a Supporting Role – Film Blitz Italian Online Movie Awards 2008 Best Supporting ActressAtonement Kerry Film Festival 2012Maureen O'Hara Award MTV Movie & TV Awards 2018 Best Actress in a Movie Lady Bird Online Film & Television Association 2008 Best Supporting ActressAtonement Best Breakthrough Performance: Female Best Youth Performance 2010The Lovely Bones 2016Best ActressBrooklyn 2017Lady Bird Best Ensemble Palm Springs International Film Festival 2016 International Star Award Brooklyn 2018 Desert Palm Achievement Award Lady Bird Satellite Awards 2007 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Atonement 2016 Best Actress – Motion Picture Brooklyn 2018 Lady Bird Saturn Award 2010 Best Performance by a Younger Actor The Lovely Bones 2012 Hanna 2014 How I Live Now Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2010 Virtuoso Award The Lovely Bones 2016 Outstanding Performer of the Year Brooklyn 2018 Santa Barbara Award Lady Bird Montecito Award Scream Awards 2010 Best Fantasy Actress The Lovely Bones Teen Choice Awards 2013 Choice Movie Actress: Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Host 2018 Choice Movie Actress: Drama Lady Bird Women's Image Network Awards 2015 Outstanding Actress Feature FilmBrooklyn 2018Mary Queen of Scots World Soundtrack Awards 2015 Best Original Song Written Directly For a FilmLost River Young Artist Award 2008 Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film Atonement 2010 The Lovely Bones 2012 Hanna