List of awards and nominations received by Sean Penn

Sean Penn at the New York Film Festival in 2013

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Sean Penn

Sean Penn is an American actor, director and producer. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards. In 2015 he received an Honorary César.

Penn has received two Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles as a grieving father in the Clint Eastwood drama Mystic River (2003) and Harvey Milk in the Gus Van Sant drama Milk (2008). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles as a killer on death row in Dead Man Walking (1995), a jazz guitarist in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), and a mentally challenged man in I Am Sam (2001). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Milk.

He won the Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear for Best Actor for Dead Man Walking (1995), the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his role in She's So Lovely (1997) and Venice International Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Hurlyburly (1989) and 21 Grams (2003).

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Best Actor	Dead Man Walking	Nominated	[1]
2000		Sweet and Lowdown	Nominated	[2]
2002		I Am Sam	Nominated	[3]
2004		Mystic River	Won	[4]
2009		Milk	Won	[5]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2004	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Mystic River	Nominated	[6]
		21 Grams	Nominated
2009		Milk	Nominated	[7]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1994	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Carlito's Way	Nominated	[8]
1996	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Dead Man Walking	Nominated	[8]
2000	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Sweet and Lowdown	Nominated	[8]
2004	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Mystic River	Won	[8]
2009		Milk	Nominated	[8]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role	Dead Man Walking	Nominated	[9]
2002		I Am Sam	Nominated	[10]
2004	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	Mystic River	Nominated	[11]
	Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role		Nominated
2009	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	Milk	Nominated	[12]
	Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role		Won

Industry awards

Berlin International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1995	Silver Bear for Best Actor	Dead Man Walking	Won	[13]
2022	Berlinale Documentary Award	Superpower	Nominated	[13]

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Best Actor	She's So Lovely	Won	[13]
2001	Palme d'Or	The Pledge	Nominated	[13]
2016		The Last Face	Nominated	[13]
2021		Flag Day	Nominated	[13]

César Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2003	Best European Union Film	September 11	Nominated	[13]
2009	Best Foreign Film	Into the Wild	Nominated	[13]
2015	Honorary César		Honored	[14]

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Actor	I Am Sam	Nominated	[15]
2003		Mystic River	Won	[16]
2007	Best Director	Into the Wild	Nominated	[17]
	Best Writer		Nominated
2008	Best Actor	Milk	Won	[18]
	Best Acting Ensemble		Won
2011	Joel Siegel Award		Honored	[19]

Directors Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2007	Outstanding Directing – Feature Film	Into the Wild	Nominated	[20]

Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1995	Best Male Lead	Dead Man Walking	Won	[21]
1998		Hurlyburly	Won	[22]
2003	Special Distinction Award	21 Grams	Won	[23]
2008	Best Male Lead	Milk	Nominated	[24]

Venice International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1995	Golden Lion	The Crossing Guard	Nominated	[13]
1998	Volpi Cup for Best Actor	Hurlyburly	Won	[25]
2002	UNESCO Award	September 11	Won	[13]
2003	Volpi Cup for Best Actor	21 Grams	Won	[26]

See also

• Sean Penn filmography

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