List of awards and nominations received by Jennylyn Mercado

Jennylyn Mercado awards and nominations

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations
Totals [a]
Wins	26
Nominations	38
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.

Filipino singer-actress Jennylyn Mercado has received several awards and nominations throughout her acting career in the entertainment industry. She is dubbed as the Ultimate Star and a Rom-com Queen by several media outlet. ^{[1] [2]} Her accolades include three Metro Manila Film Festival Best Actress Awards, four Box Office Entertainment Awards, two Edukcircle Awards, one FAMAS Award, one PMPC Star Awards for Television, one Gawad Tanglaw Award and several nominations from Gawad Urian Award , Luna Awards and PMPC Star Awards for Movies.

Mercado made her acting debut as a recurring cast in the 2002 drama series Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay . ^[3] In 2003, she joined a reality talent competition known as StarStruck and won the top prize as the Ultimate Female Survivor, winning 1 million pesos and an exclusive contract with GMA Network . ^{[4] [5]}

She starred in the romantic drama movie, Blue Moon directed by Joel Lamangan in 2005. ^[6] For playing the shy, young Corazon, she won her first award for People's Choice Best Actress at the 31st Metro Manila Film Festival and Best Supporting Actress in 2005 Gawad Tanglaw Award with nominations from Gawad Urian Award, ENPRESS Golden Screen Awards and Luna Awards. ^[7]

Mercado top billed the period drama, Rosario a movie based on a true story directed by Alberto Martinez. ^[8] She played the role of Rosario, a young liberated woman. ^[9] She was nominated for Best Actress in Gawad Pasado Awards, Luna Award and FAMAS Award. ^[10]

In 2014, she was cast as the main lead, opposite Derek Ramsay in a romantic comedy movie, English Only, Please directed by Dan Villegas. For playing the role as a young, perky Filipino tutor, Mercado won her first Best Actress Awards in a competitive category at the 40th Metro Manila Film Festival and earned nominations from PMPC Star Awards for Movies and FAMAS Award. ^{[7] [11]}

The following year, she returned to romantic comedy with Jericho Rosales in the movie, Walang Forever directed by Dan Villegas. She won her second Best Actress Awards at the 41st Metro Manila Film Festival and won Best Actress award at the Box Office Entertainment Awards with nominations from Gawad Urian and Gawad Pasado. ^{[12] [11]} In 2017, she starred with John Lloyd Cruz in another romantic comedy movie, Just the 3 of Us directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana for which she won a Film Actress Award at EdukCircle Awards. ^[13]

In television, Mercado received a Best Actress nomination for her performance in drama series Rhodora X at the ENPRESS Golden Screen TV Awards. ^[14] The next year, she starred with her husband, Dennis Trillo in a drama series My Faithful Husband and won Best Drama Actress at the PMPC Star Awards for Television. ^[7] In 2019, she was chosen to star opposite Dingdong Dantes in the Philippines adaptation of the Descendants of the Sun which earned her Best Actress nomination at the PMPC Star Awards for Television. ^[15]

As television host, she won Best Reality Talent Show Host for Starstruck at EdukCircle Awards and received nominations from ENPRESS Golden Screen TV Awards and PMPC Star Awards for Television. In music, Mercado won two Awit Awards with several nominations from PMPC Star Awards for Music. ^[13]

Awards and nominations

Performance awards

Organization	Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result	Ref.
Box Office Entertainment Awards	2005	Jennylyn Mercado and Mark Herras	Most Popular Loveteam	Won	[16]
	2006			Won	[17]
	2015	The Prenup	Breakthrough Box Office Film (shared with Derek Ramsay)	Won	[18]
	2016	WalangForever	Best Actress	Won	[19]
Edukcircle Awards	2017	Just the 3 of Us	Film Actress of the Year	Won	[13]
		Superstar Duets	Best Female TV Host	Nominated
	2019	StarStruck	Best Female Reality Show Host	Won	[20]
ENPRESS Golden Screen Awards	2006	Lovestruck	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in Musical or Comedy	Nominated	[21]
		Blue Moon	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in Drama	Nominated
	2013	Showbiz Central	Outstanding Female Program Host in a Talk Show	Nominated	[22]
		Protégé: The Battle for the Big Break	Outstanding Original Reality Competition Program Host	Nominated
	2015	Rhodora X	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in Drama	Nominated	[23]
FAMAS Award	2005	Herself	German Moreno Youth Oriented Award	Won
	2011	Rosario	Best Actress	Nominated	[24]
	2015	English Only, Please	Best Actress	Nominated	[25]
Female network	2011	Protégé: The Battle for the Big Break	Best Television Show Host	Won
Gawad Pasado	2011	Rosario	Pinakapasadong Aktress	Nominated
	2016	Walang Forever	Pinakapasadong Aktres	Nominated
Gawad Tanglaw	2005	Blue Moon	Best Supporting Actress	Won	[26]
Gawad Urian Award	2006	Blue Moon	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated	[27]
	2016	Walang Forever	Best Actress	Nominated
Luna Awards (PAF)	2006	Blue Moon	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated	[28]
	2011	Rosario	Best Actress	Nominated	[29]
Metro Manila Film Festival	2006	Blue Moon	People's Choice for Best Actress	Won	[30]
	2014	English Only, Please	Best Actress	Won	[31]
	2015	Walang Forever	Best Actress	Won	[32]
	2017	All of You	Best Actress	Nominated	[33] [34]
PEP Awards	2009	Ikaw Sana	Best Drama Actress	Nominated
	2015	Rhodora X	Teleserye Actress of the Year (Editors choice)	Won	[35]
	2016	Teleserye Actress of the Year	My Faithful Husband	Nominated
PMPC Star Awards for Movies	2006	Blue Moon	Movie Actress of the Year	Nominated	[36]
	2015	English only, please	Movie Actress of the Year	Nominated	[37]
PMPC Star Awards for Television	2012	Protégé: The Battle for the Big Break	Best Talent Search Program Host	Nominated	[38]
	2013		Best Reality Competition Program Host	Nominated	[39]
		H.O.T. TV: Hindi Ordinaryong Tsismis	Best Reality Competition Program Host	Nominated
	2014	Anak ko Yan	Best Program Host in a Talent Show	Nominated	[40]
	2015	Sarap with Family	Best Educational Program Host	Nominated	[41]
	2016		Best Educational Program Host	Nominated
		My Faithful Husband	Best Drama Actress	Won	[42]
	2017	Sarap Duets	Best Game Show Host	Nominated	[43]
		Everyday Sarap with CDO	Best Educational Program Host	Nominated	[44]
	2019	Descendants of the Sun	Best Drama Actress	Nominated	[45]
VP Choice Awards	2020	Descendants of the Sun: The Philippine Adaptation	TV Actress of the Year	Won	[46]

Music awards

Year	Organization	Category	Result	Ref (s)
2004	Candy Mag Awards	Breakthrough Artist	Won
	SOP Music Awards	Breakthrough Artist	Won
2005	iFM Pinoy Music Awards	Most Popular Adaptation of a Foreign Song	Won
	Awit Awards	Best Performance by a Duet for the song	Won
2006	ASAP POP Viewers Choice Awards	Female Pop Artist of the Year	Nominated
2010	2nd PMPC Star Awards for Music	Female Pop Artist of the Year – Love Is...	Nominated	[47]
2013	5th PMPC Star Awards for Music	Female Pop Artist of the Year – Forever by Your Side	Nominated	[48]
	ASAP 18 24K Gold Award – Forever by Your Side	Gold Awardee	Won
2015	7th PMPC Star Awards for Music	Female Pop Artist of the Year – Never Alone	Nominated	[49]
	7th PMPC Star Awards for Music	Pop Album of the Year – Never Alone	Nominated
	7th PMPC Star Awards for Music	Album of the Year – Never Alone	Nominated
2017	30th Awit Awards	Best Inspirational Recording – "Hagdan"	Nominated	[50]
	30th Awit Awards	Best Cover Art – Ultimate	Nominated
	30th Awit Awards	Best Music Video of the Year – "Hagdan"	Won
	30th Awit Awards	Best Christmas Recording – "Hagdan"	Nominated
	30th Awit Awards	Best Performance by a Female Recording Artist – "Hagdan"	Nominated

Box-office awards

Year	Organization	Category	Result
2007	Kapuso Box-Office People's Choice Awards	Kapuso Box Office Princess	Won
		Kapuso Movie Box Office Queen	Won
		Kapuso Television Box Office Queen	Won
		Kapuso Box Office Actress	Won
		Kapuso Box Office Sexiest Female	Won

Special awards and recognitions

Year	Organization	Category	Result
2004	Yes Magazine Reader's Choice Awards	Most Popular Female Young Star	Won
	PMPC Star Awards for Television	Female Star of the Night	Won
	Star Struck Season 1	Ultimate Female Survivor	Won
2008	Yes Magazine Reader's Choice Awards	Young Female Superstar	Won
2012	Metro Manila Film Festival	Best Dressed Female Celebrity Award	Won
2015	PEP List Choice Awards	Teleserye Actress of the Year	Won
	FHM Sexiest Women in the Philippines	Philippines Finest – Rank No. 1	Won
2016	EDUKCIRCLE	Drama Actress of the Year	Nominated
	PUSH Awards	Female Celebrity for 2016	Nominated
	PEP List Editor's Choice Year 3	Female TV Star of The Year	Nominated

Entertainment awards

Year	Organization	Category/Result
2004	Yes Magazine Reader's Choice Awards	Most Popular Loveteam with Mark Herras
2006	Franz Entertainment's Top 50 Sexiest Women in the Philippines	Rank #40
	Inside Showbiz Magazine Reader's Choice	Most Popular Loveteam with Mark Herras
	MOD's Magazine 32 Most Beautiful Filipinas	Rank #12
2007	Starmometer 100 Most Beautiful Pinays	Rank #11
2008	Yes Magazine Reader's Choice Awards	Celebrity Home of the Year
	Friendster Most Popular	Rank #6
2009	Yes Magazine 100 Most Beautiful Stars	Mamma Mia
	Starmometer.com	Cover Girl of the Year: Rank #6
2011	Yahoo! OMG Awards	Hottest Actress of the Year
2012	PEP Top List	Reality-Show Talents on a Roll: Rank #4
	Yes Mag 100 Most Beautiful Stars	Hot Mama
2013	Inside Pinoy Showbiz	Sexiest Hot Mama
2014	Yahoo! OMG Awards	Female Kontrabida of the Year

FHM rankings

Year	Award	Category	Result	Won by
2004	FHM Philippines	100 Sexiest Woman	Ranked # 9	Cindy Kurleto
2005			Ranked # 10	Angel Locsin
2006			Ranked # 6	Katrina Halili
2007			Ranked # 8	Katrina Halili (2)
2008			Ranked # 14	Marian Rivera
2009			Ranked # 17	Cristine Reyes
2010			Ranked # 10	Angel Locsin (2)
2011			Ranked # 7	Sam Pinto
2012			Ranked # 9	Sam Pinto (2)
2013			Ranked # 4	Marian Rivera (2)
2014			Ranked # 4	Marian Rivera (3)
2015			Ranked # 1 PH Finest	Herself
2016			Ranked # 2	Jessy Mendiola
2017			Ranked #	Nadine Lustre

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