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| Wins | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Ben Stiller.
Contents
- Major associations
- BAFTA Awards
- Directors Guild of America
- Emmy Award
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Miscellaneous awards
- References
- External links
Ben Stiller is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He has receivied a Directors Guild of America Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, three MTV Movie Awards, a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, and a Teen Choice Award as well as nominations for an Independent Spirit Award, two People's Choice Awards, and a Saturn Award. In 2011, he won the Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence in Comedy.
Stiller, the son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, started his career an actor on the NBC sketch series Saturday Night Live in 1989 before he created his own MTV variety series The Ben Stiller Show (1990–1993), where he earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. He then established himself as a comedy film star alongside the Frat Pack where he acted in films such as There's Something About Mary (1998), the Meet the Parents trilogy (2000–2010), Zoolander (2001), Along Came Polly (2004), Dodgeball (2004), and Tropic Thunder (2008), the later of which he also directed. He also acted in the Night at the Museum trilogy (2006–2014) and Madagascar film franchise (2005–2012).
Also known for his work in independent films, he made his directorial debut with the romance Reality Bites (1994). He then took roles in the David O. Russell black comedy film Flirting with Disaster (1996), the Wes Anderson family dramedy The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and three Noah Baumbach independent dramedies starting with Greenberg (2010) which earned him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead followed by While We're Young (2014), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017). He directed his fifth film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013).
He then established himself as a television director and show runner. In 2018 he directed the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora, earning a Directors Guild of America Award and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. Since 2022, he has directed and executive produced the Apple TV+ psychological thriller series Severance, earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.