List of awards and nominations received by Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne is an American actor of the stage and screen.
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He has received various award nominations including an Academy Award for Best Actor his role of Ike Turner in the film What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). He has also received a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. For his work on television he has earned eleven Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning three times for TriBeCa (1993), Miss Evers' Boys (1997), and #FreeRayshawn (2017). For his work in film and television he has been nominated five times for Screen Actors Guild Awards for The Tuskegee Airmen (1996), Mystic River (2003), Bobby (2006), Thurgood (2011), and Black-ish (2017, 2018). For his work on stage he received two Tony Award nominations winning Best Featured Actor in a Play for August Wilson's Two Trains Running in 1992.
Major associations
Academy Award
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1994 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | What's Love Got to Do with It | Nominated | [1] |
Emmy Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1993 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | TriBeCa | Won | [2] |
1996 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | The Tuskegee Airmen | Nominated | [3] |
1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | Nominated | [4] | |
Outstanding Made for Television Movie | Won | |||
2011 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | Thurgood | Nominated | [5] |
2016 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Black-ish | Nominated | [6] |
Outstanding Narrator | Roots | Nominated | ||
2017 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Black-ish | Nominated | [7] |
2018 | Nominated | [8] | ||
Outstanding Narrator | Year Million | Nominated | ||
2020 | Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Series | #FreeRayshawn | Won | [9] |
Daytime Emmy Awards | ||||
2017 | Outstanding Pre-School Children's Animated Program | The Snowy Day | Won | |
Golden Globe Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Nominated | |
Independent Spirit Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1992 | Best Male Lead | Deep Cover | Nominated | |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Nominated | [10] |
2004 | Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture | Mystic River | Nominated | [11] |
2007 | Bobby | Nominated | [12] | |
2012 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | Thurgood | Nominated | [13] |
2017 | Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Comedy Series | Black-ish | Nominated | [14] |
2018 | Nominated | [15] | ||
Tony Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1992 | Best Featured Actor in a Play | Two Trains Running | Won | [16] |
2008 | Best Actor in a Play | Thurgood | Nominated | [17] |
Miscellaneous awards
Saturn Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | Best Supporting Actor | The Matrix | Nominated | |
2015 | Best Supporting Actor on Television | Hannibal | Won | |
Acapulco Black Film Festival
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1997 | Best Actor | Hoodlum | Nominated | |
BET Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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BET Film Awards | ||||
2004 | Best Actor | The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions Mystic River |
Nominated | |
Black Movie Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2006 | Outstanding Motion Picture (Producer) | Akeelah and the Bee | Nominated | |
2006 | Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role | Won | ||
Black Reel Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | Best Actor | The Matrix | Nominated | |
2007 | Best Supporting Actor | Akeelah and the Bee | Nominated | |
Best Motion Picture (Producer) | Nominated | |||
MTV Movie Awards
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | Best Fight (shared with Keanu Reeves) | The Matrix | Won | |
Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Keanu Reeves) | Nominated | |||
NAACP Image Award
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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NAACP Film Award | ||||
1994 | Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | What's Love Got to Do with It | Nominated | |
1995 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Higher Learning | Won | |
1996 | Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Othello | Nominated | |
1998 | Hoodlum | Nominated | ||
2000 | The Matrix | Nominated | ||
2004 | The Matrix Revolutions | Nominated | ||
2006 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Nominated | ||
2007 | Akeelah and the Bee | Nominated | ||
2012 | Contagion | Nominated | ||
NAACP Television Award | ||||
1996 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series | The Tuskegee Airmen | Won | |
1998 | Miss Evers' Boys | Won | ||
1999 | Always Outnumbered | Nominated | ||
2009 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Nominated | |
2010 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated | ||
2011 | Nominated | |||
2021 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Black-ish | Pending | |
Outstanding Performance in a Short-Form Series | #FreeRayshawn | Pending | ||
NAACP Theatre Awards | ||||
2005 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | ||
2007 | Best Male Lead – Equity | Without Walls | Won | |
San Diego Film Festival
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Gregory Peck Award | Lifetime Achievement | Awarded | |
Theatre World Award
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1992 | Theatre World Award | Two Trains Running | Won | [18] |
References
- "66th Academy Awards". Oscars.org. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "45th Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "48th Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "49th Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "63rd Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "68th Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "69th Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "70th Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "72nd Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards". sagawards.org. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "10th Screen Actors Guild Awards". sagawards.org. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "13th Screen Actors Guild Awards". sagawards.org. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "18th Screen Actors Guild Awards". sagawards.org. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards". sagawards.org. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "24th Screen Actors Guild Awards". sagawards.org. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "Tony Awards: 16 Hollywood Stars Who Have Won Theater's Biggest Honor". The Hollywood Reporter. 7 June 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "Just the Facts: List of 2008 Tony Award Winners and Nominees". Playbill. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- "Theatre World Award Recipients". Theatre World Awards. Retrieved March 13, 2018.