List of awards and nominations received by Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman awards and nominations

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 5 Emmy Awards 0 6 Golden Globe Awards 2 6 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 5 Tony Awards 0 1
Totals [a]
Wins	30
Nominations	80
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.

Morgan Freeman is an American actor who has received several awards throughout his nearly seven-decade-long career, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for six Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award and a Tony Award.

He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a gym assistant and former boxer in the Clint Eastwood sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004). He was Oscar-nominated for his performances as a pimp in Street Smart (1987), a chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), a prison inmate in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Nelson Mandela in Invictus (2009). He also has earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Driving Miss Daisy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby (2004).

For his work on television, he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for playing a fictionalized version of himself in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2021). He also was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Informational Series or Special for the National Geographic series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016) and three nominations for Outstanding Narrator for the documentary series March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step (2018), Our Universe (2023), and Life on Our Planet (2024).

Freeman earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Zeke in the Broadway play The Mighty Gents (1978). For his lifetime achievement in acting he received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. His other honorary awards include the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018.

Major awards

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1988	Best Supporting Actor	Street Smart	Nominated	[1]
1990	Best Actor	Driving Miss Daisy	Nominated	[2]
1995		The Shawshank Redemption	Nominated	[3]
2005	Best Supporting Actor	Million Dollar Baby	Won	[4]
2010	Best Actor	Invictus	Nominated	[5]

Critics' Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2004	Best Supporting Actor	Million Dollar Baby	Nominated
2007	Best Cast	Gone Baby Gone	Nominated
2008		The Dark Knight	Nominated
2009	Best Actor	Invictus	Nominated

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
2016	Outstanding Informational Series or Special	The Story of God with Morgan Freeman	Nominated	[6]
2018	Outstanding Narrator	March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step	Nominated	[7]
2021	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	The Kominsky Method (episode: "The Round Toes, of the High Shoes")	Nominated	[8]
2023	Outstanding Narrator	Our Universe (episode: "Chasing Starlight")	Nominated	[9]
2024		Life on Our Planet (episode: "The Rules of Life")	Nominated	[10]
News and Documentary Emmy Awards
2012	Outstanding Science and Technology Programming	Through the Wormhole	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1988	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Street Smart	Nominated	[11]
1990	Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Driving Miss Daisy	Won	[12]
1995	Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama	The Shawshank Redemption	Nominated	[13]
2005	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Million Dollar Baby	Nominated	[14]
2010	Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama	Invictus	Nominated	[15]
Non-competitive awards
2012	Cecil B. DeMille Award		Recipient	[16]

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Best Spoken Word Album for Children	Follow the Drinkin' Gourd	Nominated	[17]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1995	Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role	The Shawshank Redemption	Nominated	[18]
2005	Outstanding Male Actor in a Supporting Role	Million Dollar Baby	Won	[19]
	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture		Nominated
2010	Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role	Invictus	Nominated	[20]
Non-competitive awards
2017	Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award		Recipient	[21]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1978	Best Featured Actor in a Play	The Mighty Gents	Nominated	[22]

Critics awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Project	Result	Ref.
Chicago Film Critics Association	1989	Best Supporting Actor	Glory	Nominated
	1994	Best Supporting Actor	The Shawshank Redemption	Nominated
	1995	Best Actor	Se7en	Nominated
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association	1994	Best Actor	The Shawshank Redemption	Won
	2004	Best Supporting Actor	Million Dollar Baby	Nominated
	2009	Best Actor	Invictus	Nominated
Drama Desk Awards	1978	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play	The Mighty Gents	Won	[23]
Kansas City Film Critics Circle	1989	Best Actor	Driving Miss Daisy	Won
London Film Critics Circle	1995	Actor of the Year	Se7en	Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association	1987	Best Supporting Actor	Street Smart	Won
	1989	Best Actor	Driving Miss Daisy	Nominated
			Glory	Nominated
			Lean on Me	Nominated
			Johnny Handsome	Nominated
	2004	Best Supporting Actor	Million Dollar Baby	Nominated
National Society of Film Critics	1987	Best Supporting Actor	Street Smart	Won
	1989	Best Actor	Driving Miss Daisy	Nominated
	1995	Best Actor	Se7en	Won
	2004	Best Supporting Actor	Million Dollar Baby	Nominated
New York Film Critics Circle	1987	Best Supporting Actor	Street Smart	Won
	1989	Best Actor	Driving Miss Daisy	Nominated
Vancouver Film Critics Circle	2004	Best Supporting Actor	Million Dollar Baby	Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association	2004	Best Supporting Actor	Million Dollar Baby	Nominated
	2009	Best Actor	Invictus	Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Project	Result	Ref.
Berlin International Film Festival	1989	Silver Bear for Best Acting Team (shared with Jessica Tandy)	Driving Miss Daisy	Won
Black Reel Awards	2000	Best Actor	Nurse Betty	Nominated
	2002	Best Supporting Actor	The Sum of All Fears	Nominated
	2003		Bruce Almighty	Nominated
	2004		Million Dollar Baby	Nominated
	2009	Best Actor	Invictus	Won
	2015	Best Voice Performance	The Lego Movie	Won
Empire Award	1995	Best Actor	Seven	Won
Independent Spirit Award	1987	Best Supporting Male	Street Smart	Won
MTV Movie Awards	1991	Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Kevin Costner)	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Nominated
	1995	Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Brad Pitt)	Seven	Nominated
NAACP Image Awards	1989	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	Driving Miss Daisy	Won
			Lean on Me	Won
	1995		Seven	Nominated
	1997	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Amistad	Won
	1998		Deep Impact	Won
	2000		Nurse Betty	Nominated
	2001		Along Came a Spider	Nominated
	2002	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	High Crimes	Nominated
	2003	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Bruce Almighty	Won
	2004		Million Dollar Baby	Won
	2009	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	Invictus	Won
	2010		Red	Nominated
	2012		The Magic of Belle Isle	Nominated
National Board of Review	1989	Best Actor	Driving Miss Daisy	Won
	2009	Best Actor (tied with George Clooney for Up in the Air )	Invictus	Won
People's Choice Award	2008	The Dark Knight	Favorite Cast	Won
Saturn Award	1995	Best Actor	Seven	Nominated
Satellite Award	2000	Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Nurse Betty	Nominated
Teen Choice Awards	2003	Choice Movie Chemistry	Bruce Almighty	Nominated

Honorary awards

Organizations	Year	Notes	Result	Ref.
American Academy of Achievement	1998	Golden Plate Award	Honored	[24]
Hollywood Walk of Fame	2003	Star on the Walk of Fame	Honored	[25]
Cairo International Film Festival	2006	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honored	[26]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	2008	Kennedy Center Honors	Honored	[27]
Zurich Film Festival	2009	Golden Icon Award	Honored	[28]
Sarajevo Film Festival	2010	Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award	Honored	[29]
Living Legends of Aviation	2011	Aviation Inspiration and Patriotism Award	Honored	[30]
American Film Institute	2011	AFI Life Achievement Award	Honored	[31]
Golden Globe Awards	2012	Cecil B. DeMille Award	Honored	[32]
City of London	2014	Freedom of the City	Honored	[33]
Screen Actors Guild Award	2017	Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award	Honored	[34]

Honorary degrees

Organizations	Year	Notes	Ref.
Rhodes College	1997	Honorary degree	[35]
Brown University	2010	Honorary degree	[36]
Boston University	2013	Honorary degree (Doctor of Humane Letters)	[37]

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