This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Ellen Burstyn.
Ellen Burstyn is an American actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for five Critics' Choice Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Burstyn has won the Triple Crown of Acting: an Emmy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award. She has received six Oscar nominations, winning Best Actress for Martin Scorsese's drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Her other nominations were Peter Bogdanovich's coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show (1971), William Friedkin's horror film The Exorcist (1973), Same Time, Next Year (1978), Resurrection (1980), and Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama Requiem for a Dream (2000). She also received the British Academy Film Award for Best Actress for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. She has been nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Same Time, Next Year.
For her work in television she has received eight Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, winning twice for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2009 and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Political Animals in 2013. For her work on the Broadway stage she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Same Time, Next Year in 1975. She also received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 1996.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1972 Best Supporting Actress The Last Picture Show 1974Best Actress The Exorcist 1975 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1979 Same Time, Next Year 1981Resurrection 2001 Requiem for a Dream
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 1976 Best Actress in a Leading Role Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Television Awards 2012Best Movie/Mini-Series Supporting Actress Political Animals 2014 Flowers in the Attic 2016 Best Guest Performer - Drama Series House of Cards Best Guest Performer - Comedy Series Mom Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2020 Best Supporting Actress Pieces of a Woman
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards1981Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie The People vs. Jean Harris 1988 Pack of Lies 2006 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Mrs. Harris 2008Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Big Love (for "Take Me as I Am") 2009 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (for "Swing") 2013Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Political Animals 2014 Flowers in the Attic 2016 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series House of Cards (Season 4) Daytime Emmy Awards 2001 Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming Mermaid
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1972 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture The Last Picture Show 1974Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama The Exorcist 1975 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1979 Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Same Time, Next Year 1981 Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Resurrection 1982 Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film The People vs. Jean Harris 2001 Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Requiem for a Dream
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Best Spoken Word Album Grow Old Along With Me The Best Is Yet To Be
Screen Actors Guild Award Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture How to Make an American Quilt 2001 Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role Requiem for a Dream 2008Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie Mitch Albom's For One More Day 2014 Flowers in the Attic
Tony Award Year Category Nominated work Result 1975 Best Actress in a Play Same Time, Next Year
Critics Awards Association Year Category Nominated work Result Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2021 Best Supporting Actress Pieces of a Woman Actress Defying Age and Ageism Boston Society of Film Critics 2000 Best Actress Requiem for a Dream Chicago Film Critics Association 2000 Best Actress Requiem for a Dream Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film 2001 Best Actress Requiem For A Dream Drama Desk Awards 1975 Outstanding Actress in a Play Same Time, Next Year Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2001 Best Actress Requiem For A Dream Denver Film Critics Society 2021 Best Supporting Actress Pieces Of A Woman DiscussingFilm Critics Awards 2021 Best Supporting Actress Pieces Of A Woman Florida Film Critics Circle 2000 Best Actress Requiem for a Dream Greater Western New York Film Critics 2020 Best Supporting Actress Pieces of a Woman Houston Film Critics Society2020 Best Supporting Actress Pieces of a Woman London Film Critics Circle 2020 Supporting Actress of the Year Pieces of a Woman National Society of Film Critics 1971 Best Supporting Actress The Last Picture Show New York Film Critics Circle 1971Best Supporting Actress The Last Picture Show 2000 Requiem for a Dream New York Film Critics Online 2020 Best Supporting Actress Pieces of a Woman Online Film Critics Society2000 Best Actress Requiem for a Dream San Diego Film Critics Society 2020 Best Supporting Actress Pieces of a Woman St. Louis Film Critics Association2020 Best Supporting Actress Pieces of a Woman Toronto Film Critics Association 2000 Best Supporting Actress Requiem for a Dream Vancouver Film Critics Circle2008 Best Actress in a Canadian Film The Stone Angel
Miscellaneous Awards Association Year Category Nominated work Result AARP Movies for Grownups Awards 2003 Best Grownup Love Story Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2008 Best Actress Lovely, Still 2011 Best Supporting Actress Another Happy Day Awards Circuit Community Awards 2000 Best Actress Requiem for a Dream 2012 Best Supporting Actress (TV Movie or Mini-Series) Coma Behind the Voice Actors Awards 2014Best Vocal Ensemble in an Anime Feature Film/Special Omoide no Mânî Berlin International Film Festival 1988 Berlinale Camera Boston Film Festival 2000 Film Excellence Award CinEuphoria Awards 2020 Career - Honorary Award Canadian Screen Awards 1982 Best Foreign Actress Silence of the North 2008 Best Actress The Stone Angel Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2001 Best Actress Requiem For A Dream Independent Spirit Awards2001 Best Female Lead Requiem For A Dream Saturn Awards 1981Best Actress Resurrection 2001 Requiem for a Dream 2021 Best Supporting Actress in a Film Lucy in the Sky Satellite Award 2000 Best Actress - Motion Picture Requiem for a Dream 2008 Best Actress – Mini-Series or Television Film For One More Day Venice Film Festival 2026 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
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