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Anderson at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival
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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Gillian Anderson.
Anderson, who achieved critical acclaim for starring as Dana Scully in The X-Files , is a Primetime Emmy Award winning actress. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award in 1997. She was nominated another three times for this role. In 2006, She was nominated Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Lady Dedlock in Bleak House and most recently, won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her turn as Margaret Thatcher on The Crown. Anderson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1997 for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files and again in 2021 for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or TV Movie (The Crown). She was nominated another three times for the role and once more in the Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Bleak House. She won three Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (in 1996, 1997 and 2021), one for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (in 2021) and was nominated total of eleven times.
Anderson was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award twice: in 2006, as Best Actress on Television for Bleak House and in 2011, for Best Supporting Actress on Television for her portrayal of Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart . For her portrayal of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth (2000) Anderson won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress.
Anderson has also received accolades for her stage performances. She won the Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer for Absent Friends (1991). She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in Ibsen's A Doll's House (2009). For her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014, 2016) she won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress and earned her second Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2019, she received her third Laurence Olivier Award nomination for portraying Margo Channing in the stage production of All About Eve .
In 2016, Anderson was appointed an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to drama. [1] In 2018, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [2]
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result [3] |
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1999 | The X-Files: Fight the Future | Favorite Actress – Sci-Fi Film | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2000 | The House of Mirth | Best Actress | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2002 | The House of Mirth | Best Actress | Nominated |
Audience Best Actress Award | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2005 | The Mighty Celt | Best International Actress | Won [4] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2000 | The House of Mirth | Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1998 | The X-Files: Fight the Future | Best Actress | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result [5] |
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1996 | The X-Files | Best Foreign TV Personality - Female (Bästa utländska kvinna) | Won |
1997 | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2006 | Bleak House | Best Actress on Television | Nominated |
2011 | Any Human Heart | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1996 | The X-Files | Best Female TV Star | Won |
1997 | Won | ||
1998 | Won | ||
1999 | Runner-up | ||
2000 | Third place |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2006 | Bleak House | Best Actress | Won [6] |
2012 | The Crimson Petal and the White | Nominated [7] | |
Great Expectations | Nominated [7] | ||
2014 | The Fall | Nominated [8] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2015 | The Fall | Best Female Performance | Nominated [9] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2013 | The Fall | Best Actress Dagger | Nominated [10] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2015 | Hannibal | Favorite Supporting Actress on Television | Won [11] |
2016 | Won [12] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result [13] |
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1996 | The X-Files | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Nominated |
1997 | Won | ||
1998 | Nominated | ||
1999 | Nominated | ||
2007 | Bleak House | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Nominated |
2021 | The Crown | Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or TV Movie | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2015 | The Fall | Outstanding Actress | Nominated [14] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2000 | The X-Files | Favorite Television Friends (shared with David Duchovny) | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1996 | The X-Files | Most Popular Actress | Nominated |
1997 | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2012 | Great Expectations | Best Supporting actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie | Nominated [15] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1995 | The X-Files | Favorite Female Television Performer | Nominated |
1996 | Nominated | ||
1997 | Nominated | ||
1998 | Nominated | ||
1999 | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result [16] |
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1996 | The X-Files | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
1997 | Won | ||
1998 | Nominated | ||
1999 | Nominated | ||
2006 | Bleak House | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
2021 | The Crown | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2012 | Great Expectations | Artistic Excellence Award | Won [17] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1997 | The X-Files | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Nominated |
1998 | Nominated | ||
1999 | Nominated | ||
2001 | Nominated | ||
2006 | Bleak House | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Nominated |
2012 | Great Expectations | Nominated | |
2015 | The Fall | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Nominated |
2020 | The Crown | Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1996 | The X-Files | Best Actress on Television | Won |
1997 | Nominated | ||
1998 | Nominated | ||
1999 | Nominated | ||
2000 | Nominated | ||
2001 | Nominated | ||
2015 | Nominated [18] | ||
Hannibal | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Nominated [18] | |
2018 | The X-Files | Best Actress on Television | Nominated [19] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result [20] |
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1995 | The X-Files | Universe Reader's Choice Award - Best Actress in a Genre TV Series | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1996 | The X-Files | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series | Won |
1997 | Won | ||
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Nominated | ||
1998 | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated | ||
1999 | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Nominated | ||
2000 | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated | |
2001 | Nominated | ||
2021 | The Crown | Won | |
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1997 | The X-Files | Best SF/Fantasy Actress | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2015 | The Fall | Best Actress | Nominated [21] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1999 | The X-Files | Favorite Actress in a Drama | Nominated |
2000 | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1994 | The X-Files | Best Actress in a Quality Drama Series | Nominated |
1995 | Nominated | ||
1996 | Nominated | ||
1997 | Nominated | ||
1998 | Won | ||
1999 | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2012 | Great Expectations | Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries | Nominated |
2018 | American Gods | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
2021 | The Crown | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2000 | The House of Mirth | Actress of the Year | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2000 | The House of Mirth | Best Actress | Runner-up |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2000 | The House of Mirth | Best Actress | Runner-up |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1997 | The X-Files | Individual Achievement in Drama | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2001 | The House of Mirth | Best Actress | Runner-up |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2000 | The House of Mirth | Best Lead Performance | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2014 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Best Leading Actress in a New Production of a Play (Tied with Anna Madeley) | Won [22] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2014 | A Streetcar Named Desire | The Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Won [23] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2010 | A Doll's House | Best Actress | Nominated [24] |
2015 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Nominated [25] | |
2019 | All About Eve | Nominated [26] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1990-1991 | Absent Friends | Newcomer | Won [27] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2003 | What the Night is For | Best Actress in a Play | Won [28] |
2015 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Runner-up [29] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2010 | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Audiobook of the Year | Won [30] |
Multi-Voiced Performance | Won [31] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2013 | The Fall | Television Icon | Won [32] |
2016 | Won [33] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2015 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Theatre Actress of the Year | Won [34] |
2016 | The X-Files | International TV Actress | Nominated [35] |
2017 | The Fall | International TV Actress | Nominated [36] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2017 | The Fall | Best Actress | Won [37] |
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