Judy Davis is an Australian actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received eight AACTA Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards.
Davis first came to critical acclaim for her role as a young country girl in the period film My Brilliant Career (1979), for which she won BAFTA Awards for both Best Actress and Most Promising Newcomer. She earned further acclaim in 1984, when she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Adela Quested in the historical epic A Passage to India . Davis's first major American feature in Woody Allen drama Husbands and Wives (1992), saw her nominated for numerous awards for her role as woman trying to find love. She won a National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, the BAFTA for Best Actress.
Davis won three Primetime Emmy Awards, her first for Outstanding Supporting Actress|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her performances as Diane Divelbess in the NBC television film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995). For her portrayal of Judy Garland in the television miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) garnered her further acclaim, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie as well as an American Film Institute Award, a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. For her performance as an alcoholic socialite in the miniseries The Starter Wife (2007) she won a third Primetime Emmy Award.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1984 | Best Actress | A Passage to India | Nominated | [1] |
1992 | Best Supporting Actress | Husbands and Wives | Nominated | [2] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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British Academy Film Awards | ||||
1980 | Most Promising Newcomer | My Brilliant Career | Won | [3] |
Best Actress | Won | |||
1992 | Best Actress | Husbands and Wives | Nominated | [4] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1982 | Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | A Woman Called Golda | Nominated | [5] |
1991 | Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | One Against the Wind | Nominated | [6] |
1995 | Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story | Won | [7] |
1998 | Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | The Echo of Thunder | Nominated | [8] |
1999 | Dash and Lilly | Nominated | [9] | |
2000 | A Cooler Climate | Nominated | [10] | |
2001 | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Won | [11] | |
2003 | The Reagans | Nominated | [12] | |
2006 | A Little Thing Called Murder | Nominated | [13] | |
2007 | Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie | The Starter Wife | Won | [14] |
2012 | Page Eight | Nominated | [15] | |
2017 | Outstanding Supporting Actress – Limited Series or a Movie | Feud: Bette and Joan | Nominated | [16] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1991 | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | One Against the Wind | Won | [17] |
1992 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Husbands and Wives | Nominated | [17] |
1995 | Best Supporting Actress – Television | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story | Nominated | [17] |
1999 | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Dash and Lilly | Nominated | [17] |
2001 | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Won | [17] | |
2003 | The Reagans | Nominated | [17] | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1999 | Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie | A Cooler Climate | Nominated | [18] |
2001 | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Won | [19] | |
Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1984 | Boston Society of Film Critics | Best Actress | A Passage to India | Won | [25] |
1987 | National Society of Film Critics | Best Actress | High Tide | Won | |
1991 | London Film Critics' Circle | Best Actress | Barton Fink | Won | |
New York Film Critics Circle | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
Boston Society of Film Critics | Best Supporting Actress | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Won | ||
London Film Critics' Circle | Best Actress | Naked Lunch | Won | ||
National Society of Film Critics | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |||
New York Film Critics Circle | Won | ||||
1992 | Boston Society of Film Critics | Husbands and Wives | Won | ||
Chicago Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
Kansas City Film Critics Circle | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
London Film Critics Circle | Best Actress | Won | |||
Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
National Society of Film Critics | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |||
New York Film Critics Circle | Nominated | ||||
Southeastern Film Critics Association | Won | ||||
1996 | Film Critics Circle of Australia | Best Actor – Female | Children of the Revolution | Won | |
2001 | Broadcast Film Critics Association | Best Actress in a Picture Made for Television | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Won | |
2003 | Film Critics Circle of Australia | Best Supporting Actor – Female | Swimming Upstream | Won | |
2011 | Best Actress – Leading Role | The Eye of the Storm | Nominated | ||
Judith Davis is an Australian actress. In a career spanning over four decades of both screen and stage, she has been commended for her versatility and regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Frequent collaborator Woody Allen described her as "one of the most exciting actresses in the world". Davis has received numerous accolades, including nine AACTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.