List of awards and nominations received by Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones awards and nominations

Rockwell at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Critics' Choice Awards 1 2 Emmy Awards 3 6 SAG Awards 0 1 Olivier Awards 0 1 Tony Awards 2 5
Totals [a]
Wins	42
Nominations	112
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

Cherry Jones is an American actress of the stage and screen. She has received various accolades including a Critics' Choice Movie Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.

Jones is known for her dynamic and intense roles on Broadway and earned two Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, two Drama Critics Circle Awards, two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. She won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for playing Catherine Sloper, a lonely woman looking for love in the revival of the Ruth and Augustus Goetz play The Heiress (1995) and for originating the role of Sister Aloysius, a suspecting nun in the John Patrick Shanley play Doubt (2005). She was Tony–nominated for the Timberlake Wertenbaker play Our Country's Good (1991), the Eugene O'Neill revival A Moon for the Misbegotten (2000), and the Tennessee Williams revival The Glass Menagerie (2013). For the later, she reprised her role on the West End earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress nomination.

On television, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for playing Allison Taylor in the Fox action series 24 (2009–2010). She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayals of Holly Maddox, the mother of the central character and outspoken feminist in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025) and Nan Pierce, the head of a news conglomerate in the HBO drama series Succession (2019–2023). She played Leslie Mackinaw, an academic in the Amazon Prime Video dramedy series Transparent (2015–2019), earning nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Major associations

Critics' Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Critics' Choice Television Awards
2016	Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series	Transparent	Nominated

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
2009	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	24 (episode: "Day 7: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.")	Won	[1]
2018	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	The Handmaid's Tale (episode: "Baggage")	Nominated	[2]
2019		The Handmaid's Tale (episode: "Holly")	Won	[3]
2020		Succession (episode: "Tern Haven")	Won	[4]
2023		Succession (episode: "The Munsters")	Nominated	[5]
2025		The Handmaid's Tale (episode: "Exile")	Pending	[6]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2015	Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Transparent	Nominated	[7]

Laurence Olivier Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Best Actress	The Glass Menagerie	Nominated	[8]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1991	Best Actress in a Play	Our Country's Good	Nominated	[9]
1995		The Heiress	Won	[10]
2000		A Moon for the Misbegotten	Nominated	[11]
2005		Doubt	Won	[12]
2014		The Glass Menagerie	Nominated	[13]

Theatre awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Drama Desk Awards	1995	Outstanding Actress in a Play	The Heiress	Won
	1998		Pride's Crossing	Won
	2005		Doubt	Won
	2006		Faith Healer	Nominated
Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle	1996	Lead Performance	The Heiress	Won
	2006		Doubt	Won
Obie Award	1992	Outstanding Performance	The Baltimore Waltz	Won
	2005		Doubt	Won
Outer Critics Circle Awards	2014	Outstanding Actress in a Play	The Glass Menagerie	Won'

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
GLAAD Media Awards	2004	Vito Russo Award	Herself	Won
Satellite Awards	2009	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	24	Nominated

References

1. "2009 Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards . Retrieved April 23, 2022.
2. "2018 Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards . Retrieved April 23, 2022.
3. "2019 Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards . Retrieved April 23, 2022.
4. "2020 Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards . Retrieved April 23, 2022.
5. Lewis, Hilary (July 12, 2023). "Emmys 2023: List of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
6. "2025 Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards . Retrieved July 17, 2025.
7. "22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards". sagawards.org . Retrieved April 23, 2022.
8. "Olivier Awards 2017: Winners in full". BBC News. March 6, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
9. "45th Tony Awards (1991) hosted by Julie Andrews and Jeremy Irons". Youtube. February 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
10. "Heiress Tony Winner Cherry Jones 'Can't Wait' to Pass the Torch to The Help's Jessica Chastain". Broadway.com. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
11. "2000 Tony Awards ~ COMPLETE". Youtube. January 14, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
12. "Cherry Jones wins 2005 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play". Youtube. November 5, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
13. "Tony Awards 2014 Winners: The Complete List". The Hollywood Reporter . June 8, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2022.