 Cromwell in 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wins | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by James Cromwell.
Contents
- Major associations
- Academy Awards
- Critics Choice Awards
- Emmy Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Awards
- Miscellaneous awards
- Honorary awards
- References
- External links
James Cromwell is an American actor. He is known for his diverse and distinctive character actor roles on stage and screen. He made his acting debut in 1974 he has amassed nearly 200 film and television credits to his name. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Cromwell gained acclaimed for his role as a humble country farmer in the family comedy-drama Babe (1995) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played a police captain in the neo-noir L.A. Confidential (1997), a compassionate warden in the fantasy drama epic The Green Mile , Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the docu drama The Queen (2006), a chauffeur to a silent film star in the comedy-drama The Artist (2011), three of which earned him nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture. He took a rare leading performance in the Canadian romantic drama Still Mine (2012) earning the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor.
On television, he portrayed newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst in the HBO historical drama film RKO 281 (1999) for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He had guest roles as kindly Episcopal Bishop in the NBC medical drama series ER (2001) and an emotionally complicated geology professor in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2003–05), both of which earned him nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
Cromwell earned acclaim for playing the sinister and complex Dr. Arthur Arden in the FX anthology horror series American Horror Story: Asylum (2012) for which he earned won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie as well as a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. He portrayed a recurring guest role of Ewan Roy, a stern, principled brother of a media executive in the HBO drama series Succession (2019–2023), a role which earned him three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series and a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Television.