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Wins | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations | 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Girls is an American comedy-drama television series created, written, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham. The series has aired for six seasons on the cable channel HBO from April 15, 2012 to April 16, 2017.
Since its debut, the series has been nominated for a variety of different awards, including nineteen Primetime Emmy Awards (two wins for the series), six Golden Globe Awards (two wins for the series), three TCA Awards, and two Writers Guild of America Awards (one win for the series). The series also won a BAFTA Award, a Directors Guild of America Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award.
Dunham has been nominated for nineteen individual awards for her role as the series lead, as writer, and as producer. Several of Dunhams collaborators have also been nominated for various awards including co-stars Allison Williams and Adam Driver as well as recurring guest stars Becky Ann Baker, Peter Scolari, Andrew Rannells, Patrick Wilson, Gaby Hoffmann, Riz Ahmed, and Matthew Rhys.
Award | Year [lower-alpha 1] | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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American Cinema Editors Awards | 2013 | Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television | Robert Frazen, Catherine Haight (for "Pilot") | Nominated | [1] |
American Comedy Awards | 2014 | Best Comedy Actress – TV | Lena Dunham | Nominated | [2] |
American Film Institute Awards | 2012 | Program of the Year | Girls | Won | [3] |
Art Directors Guild Awards | 2013 | Excellence in Production Design for a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series | Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler, Laura Ballinger, Patricia Sprott | Won | [4] |
Artios Awards | 2012 | Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Pilot – Comedy | Jennifer Euston | Won | [5] |
Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Series – Comedy | Jennifer Euston | Won | |||
2013 | Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Series – Comedy | Jennifer Euston | Won | [6] | |
2015 | Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Series – Comedy | Jennifer Euston | Nominated | [7] | |
2017 | Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Series – Comedy | Jennifer Euston, Emer O’Callaghan | Nominated | [8] | |
2018 | Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Series – Comedy | Jennifer Euston | Nominated | [9] | |
ASTRA Awards | 2013 | Favourite Program – International Drama | Girls | Nominated | [10] |
British Academy Television Awards | 2013 | Best International Programme | Girls [lower-alpha 2] | Won | [11] |
Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2013 | Excellence in Costume Design for a Contemporary Television Series | Jennifer Rogien | Nominated | [12] |
Critics' Choice Awards | 2012 | Best Comedy Series | Girls | Nominated | [13] |
Best Actress in a Comedy Series | Lena Dunham | Nominated | |||
Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series | Becky Ann Baker | Nominated | |||
Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series | Peter Scolari | Nominated | |||
2013 | Best Actress in a Comedy Series | Lena Dunham | Nominated | [14] | |
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Alex Karpovsky | Nominated | |||
Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series | Patrick Wilson | Nominated | |||
2014 | Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series | Andrew Rannells | Nominated | [15] | |
2015 | Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Adam Driver | Nominated | [16] | |
Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series | Becky Ann Baker | Nominated | |||
2016 | Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Allison Williams | Nominated | [17] | |
Directors Guild of America Awards | 2013 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series | Lena Dunham [lower-alpha 3] (for "Pilot") | Won | [18] |
Dorian Awards | 2013 | TV Comedy of the Year | Girls | Won | [19] |
TV Performance of the Year – Actress | Lena Dunham | Nominated | |||
2014 | TV Comedy of the Year | Girls | Won | ||
George Foster Peabody Awards | 2012 | Honoree [lower-alpha 4] | Honored | [20] | |
Golden Globe Awards | 2013 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Girls | Won | [21] |
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Lena Dunham | Won | |||
2014 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Girls | Nominated | ||
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Lena Dunham | Nominated | |||
2015 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Girls | Nominated | ||
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Lena Dunham | Nominated | |||
Gracie Allen Awards | 2013 | Outstanding Director – Entertainment | Lena Dunham | Won | [22] |
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards | 2013 | Best Music Supervision in a Television Musical or Comedy | Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe | Won | [23] |
2014 | Best Music Supervision in a Television Musical or Comedy | Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe | Nominated | [24] | |
2015 | Best Music Supervision in a Television Musical or Comedy | Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe | Nominated | [25] | |
2016 | Best Music Supervision in a Television Musical or Comedy | Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Leahy | Nominated | [26] | |
Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television | Michael Penn, Allison Williams, Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Leahy (for "Riverside") | Nominated | |||
2017 | Best Music Supervision in a Television Musical or Comedy | Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Leahy | Nominated | [27] | |
Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television | David Bowie, AURORA, Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Leahy (for "Life on Mars") | Nominated | |||
2018 | Best Music Supervision in a Television Musical or Comedy | Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Leahy | Nominated | [28] | |
Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television | Julia Michaels, Jack Antonoff, Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Leahy (for "How Do We Get Back to Love") | Nominated | |||
New Media Film Festival | 2015 | Festival Award | Girls | Nominated | [29] |
People's Choice Awards | 2014 | Favorite Premium Cable TV Show | Girls | Nominated | [30] |
Primetime Emmy Awards | 2012 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Girls [lower-alpha 5] | Nominated | [31] |
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Lena Dunham (for "She Did") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | Lena Dunham (for "She Did") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Lena Dunham (for "Pilot") | Nominated | |||
2013 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Girls [lower-alpha 5] | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Lena Dunham (for "Bad Friend") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Adam Driver (for "It's Back") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | Lena Dunham (for "On All Fours") | Nominated | |||
2014 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Lena Dunham (for "Beach House") | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Adam Driver (for "Two Plane Rides") | Nominated | |||
2015 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Adam Driver (for "Close-Up") | Nominated | ||
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | 2012 | Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series | Jennifer Euston | Won | |
2013 | Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series | Jennifer Euston | Nominated | ||
2015 | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Gaby Hoffmann (for "Home Birth") | Nominated | ||
2016 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | Peter Scolari (for "Good Man") | Won | ||
2017 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | Riz Ahmed (for "All I Ever Wanted") | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | Matthew Rhys (for "American Bitch") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Becky Ann Baker (for "Gummies") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Music Supervision | Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Leahy (for "Goodbye Tour") | Nominated | |||
Robert Awards | 2013 | Best Foreign TV Series | Girls | Nominated | [32] |
Satellite Awards | 2012 | Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy | Girls | Nominated | [33] |
Best Actress in a Series, Musical or Comedy | Lena Dunham | Nominated | [34] | ||
2013 | Best Actress in a Series, Musical or Comedy | Lena Dunham | Nominated | [35] | |
TCA Awards | 2012 | Outstanding New Program | Girls | Nominated | [36] |
Individual Achievement in Comedy | Lena Dunham | Nominated | |||
2013 | Individual Achievement in Comedy | Lena Dunham | Nominated | [37] | |
TV Guide Awards | 2013 | Favorite Comedy Series | Girls | Nominated | [38] |
Favorite Actress | Lena Dunham | Nominated | |||
Favorite Ensemble | Girls | Nominated | |||
Writers Guild of America Awards | 2013 | New Series | Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, Lena Dunham, Sarah Heyward, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Jenni Konner, Deborah Schoeneman, Dan Sterling | Won | [39] |
Comedy Series | Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, Lena Dunham, Sarah Heyward, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Jenni Konner, Deborah Schoeneman, Dan Sterling | Nominated | |||
Young Hollywood Awards | 2014 | Best Cast Chemistry – TV | Girls | Nominated | [40] |
Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy.
Jennifer A. Konner is an American television writer, producer and director. She is best known as co-showrunner and writer with Lena Dunham of the HBO series Girls. In 2016, she directed the season finale of the fifth season of Girls entitled "I Love You Baby" and in 2017, she directed the episode "Latching," which served as the series finale; both episodes were co-written by Judd Apatow, Dunham and Konner.
The first season of the American comedy-drama television series Girls premiered on HBO on April 15, 2012, and consisted on 10 episodes, concluding on June 17, 2012. The series was created by Lena Dunham, who portrays the lead character, who based the premise and central aspects of the show on her personal life. It was produced by Apatow Productions, I Am Jenni Konnor Productions and HBO productions.