List of awards and nominations received by Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne awards and nominations

Award	Wins	Nominations
Academy Awards	0	1
Emmy Awards	6	16
Golden Globe Awards	0	1
Screen Actors Guild Awards	0	5
Tony Awards	1	2

Laurence Fishburne is an American actor of the stage and screen.

He has received various accolades throughout is career, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Ike Turner in the film What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). He has also received a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

For his work on television, he has earned eleven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning three times for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for TriBeCa (1993), Outstanding Made for Television Movie as a producer of Miss Evers' Boys (1997), and Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for #FreeRayshawn (2017). He has also been nominated five times at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, thanks to The Tuskegee Airmen (1996), Mystic River (2003), Bobby (2006), Thurgood (2011), and Black-ish (2017, 2018).

For his work on stage, he has received two Tony Award nominations, winning once for Best Featured Actor in a Play for August Wilson's Two Trains Running in 1992.

Major associations

Academy Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1994	Best Actor in a Leading Role	What's Love Got to Do with It	Nominated	[1]

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1993	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series	TriBeCa: The Box	Won	[2]
1996	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special	The Tuskegee Airmen	Nominated	[3]
1997		Miss Evers' Boys	Nominated	[4]
	Outstanding Made for Television Movie		Won
2011	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie	Thurgood	Nominated	[5]
2016	Outstanding Comedy Series	Black-ish	Nominated	[6]
	Outstanding Narrator	Roots	Nominated
2017	Outstanding Comedy Series	Black-ish	Nominated	[7]
2018			Nominated	[8]
	Outstanding Narrator	Year Million: Homo Sapien 2.0	Nominated
2020	Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Series	#FreeRayshawn	Won	[9]
Daytime Emmy Awards
2017	Outstanding Pre-School Children's Animated Program	The Snowy Day	Won
Children's and Family Emmy Awards
2023	Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program	Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur	Nominated	[10]
	Outstanding Animated Special		Won
	Outstanding Children's or Young Teen Animated Series		Nominated
2024			Won	[11]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie	The Tuskegee Airmen	Nominated

Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	Best Male Lead	Deep Cover	Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie	The Tuskegee Airmen	Nominated	[12]
2004	Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture	Mystic River	Nominated	[13]
2007		Bobby	Nominated	[14]
2012	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie	Thurgood	Nominated	[15]
2017	Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Comedy Series	Black-ish	Nominated	[16]
2018			Nominated	[17]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	Best Featured Actor in a Play	Two Trains Running	Won	[18]
2008	Best Actor in a Play	Thurgood	Nominated	[19]

Miscellaneous awards

Saturn Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Best Supporting Actor	The Matrix	Nominated
2015	Best Supporting Actor on Television	Hannibal	Won

Acapulco Black Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Best Actor	Hoodlum	Nominated

BET Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
BET Film Awards
2004	Best Actor	The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions Mystic River	Nominated

Black Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2006	Outstanding Motion Picture (Producer)	Akeelah and the Bee	Nominated
2006	Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role		Won

Black Reel Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Best Actor	The Matrix	Nominated
2007	Best Supporting Actor	Akeelah and the Bee	Nominated
	Best Motion Picture (Producer)		Nominated

MTV Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Best Fight (shared with Keanu Reeves)	The Matrix	Won
	Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Keanu Reeves)		Nominated

NAACP Image Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
NAACP Film Award
1994	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	What's Love Got to Do with It	Nominated
1995	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Higher Learning	Won
1996	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	Othello	Nominated
1998		Hoodlum	Nominated
2000		The Matrix	Nominated
2004		The Matrix Revolutions	Nominated
2006		Assault on Precinct 13	Nominated
2007		Akeelah and the Bee	Nominated
2012		Contagion	Nominated
NAACP Television Award
1996	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series	The Tuskegee Airmen	Won
1998		Miss Evers' Boys	Won
1999		Always Outnumbered	Nominated
2009	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Nominated
2010	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
2011			Nominated
2021	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	Black-ish	Nominated
	Outstanding Performance in a Short-Form Series	#FreeRayshawn	Won
NAACP Theatre Awards
2005	Lifetime Achievement Award		Won
2007	Best Male Lead – Equity	Without Walls	Won

San Diego Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2019	Gregory Peck Award	Lifetime Achievement	Awarded

Theatre World Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	Theatre World Award	Two Trains Running	Won	[20]

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