List of awards and nominations received by Sterling K. Brown

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Sterling K. Brown awards and nominations

Sterling K. Brown
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 0 1 Black Reel Awards 5 13 Critics' Choice Movie Awards 0 1 Critics' Choice Television Awards 2 6 Emmy Awards 3 9 Golden Globe Awards 1 2 NAACP Image Awards 2 13 Spirit Awards 0 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 4 11
Totals [lower-alpha 1]
Wins	24
Nominations	91
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize 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.

American actor Sterling K. Brown has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a nomination for an Academy Award.

Brown's breakthrough performance as attorney Christopher Darden in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016) won him the Critics' Choice and Primetime Emmy and earned him nominations for the Golden Globe and SAG Award for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. His portrayal of Randall Pearson in NBC's This Is Us (2016–2022) won him the Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy and SAG Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, as well as another two SAG Awards as part of the series' ensemble cast. ^[1] His win of the Emmy made him the first actor in a broadcast television series to win the award in a decade and the first African-American winner in 19 years. ^{[2] [3] [4]} He was also the first African-American to win the Golden Globe ^[5] and SAG Award. ^[6]

Brown received additional Emmy nominations for This Is Us, as well as for guest starring in Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2018) and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2020), and won Outstanding Narrator in 2021 for narrating Lincoln: Divided We Stand. With his nine Emmy nominations, Brown is one of few actors to be nominated across all three performance (lead, supporting, guest) and genre (comedy, drama, limited series or movie) categories, as well as for narrating. For his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther (2018), Brown won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Brown's portrayal of a middle aged gay man in Cord Jefferson's comedy-drama film American Fiction (2023) earned him nominations for the Academy Award, Critics' Choice, Independent Spirit and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2023	Best Supporting Actor	American Fiction	Nominated	[7]

Emmy Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
2016	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie	American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson	Won	[8]
2017	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (episode: "Memphis")	Won	[9]
2018	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (episode: "Number Three")	Nominated	[10]
	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	Brooklyn Nine-Nine (episode: "The Box")	Nominated	[11]
2019	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (episode: "R & B")	Nominated	[12]
2020	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (episode: "After the Fire")	Nominated	[13]
	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (episode: "Panty Pose")	Nominated
2021	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (episode: "Forty: Part 2")	Nominated	[14]
	Outstanding Narrator	Lincoln: Divided We Stand	Won

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2016	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson	Nominated	[15]
2017	Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama	This Is Us (season 1)	Won	[16]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2016	Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie	American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson	Nominated	[17]
	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (season 1)	Nominated
2017	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (season 2)	Won	[18]
	Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series		Won
2018	Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series	This Is Us (season 3)	Won	[19]
	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	Black Panther	Won
2019	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (season 4)	Nominated	[20]
2020	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us (season 5)	Nominated	[21]
2023	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	American Fiction	Nominated	[22]
Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role	Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

BET Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2018	Best Actor	Himself	Nominated	[23]
2022			Nominated	[24]

Black Reel Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2017	Outstanding Supporting Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Won	[25]
	Outstanding Actor, Drama Series	This Is Us	Won	[26]
2018	Best Breakthrough Performance, Male	Marshall	Nominated	[27]
	Outstanding Actor, Drama Series	This Is Us	Won
	Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series	Insecure	Nominated
		Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2019	Outstanding Actor, Drama Series	This Is Us	Nominated
2020	Outstanding Supporting Actor	Waves	Nominated
	Outstanding Actor, Drama Series	This Is Us	Won
	Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Nominated
2022	Outstanding Actor, Drama Series	This Is Us	Won
2023	Outstanding Actor	Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.	Nominated
2024	Outstanding Supporting Performance	American Fiction	Nominated

Critics' Choice Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2024	Best Supporting Actor	American Fiction	Nominated	[28]
Critics' Choice Television Awards
2016	Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Won	[29]
2018	Best Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us	Won	[30]
2020			Nominated	[31]
2021			Nominated	[32]
2022			Nominated	[33]
2023			Nominated	[34]

Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2024	Best Supporting Performance	American Fiction	Nominated	[35]

NAACP Image Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2017	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us	Won	[36]
	Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Nominated	[37]
2018	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us	Nominated	[38]
	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Marshall	Nominated
2019	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us	Nominated	[39]
2020	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Waves	Nominated	[40]
	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This is Us	Nominated
2021			Nominated	[41]
2022			Won	[42]
2023	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.	Nominated	[43]
	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us	Nominated
2024	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	American Fiction	Nominated	[44]
	Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture		Nominated

People's Choice Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2019	The Male TV Star of 2019	This Is Us	Nominated	[45]
	The Drama TV Star of 2019		Nominated
2020	The Male TV Star of 2020		Nominated	[46]
	The Drama TV Star of 2020		Nominated
2021	The Male TV Star of 2021		Nominated	[47]
	The Drama TV Star of 2021		Nominated
2022	The Male TV Star of 2022		Nominated	[48]
	The Drama TV Star of 2022		Nominated

Teen Choice Awards

Year	Award/Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2017	Choice TV Actor Drama	This Is Us	Nominated	[49]
2018			Nominated	[50]
2019			Nominated	[51]

Critics Awards

Year	Association	Category	Project	Result	Ref.
2024	African-American Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor	American Fiction	Won
2024	Alliance of Women Film Journalists	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	American Fiction	Nominated	[52]
2013	American Black Film Festival	Best Performance by an Actor (shared with Mekhi Phifer)	The Suspect	Nominated
2024	Denver Film Festival	Excellence in Acting Award	American Fiction	Won	[53]
2017	Dorian Awards	TV Performance of the Year — Actor	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Nominated	[54]
2018			This Is Us	Nominated	[55]
2021	Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards	Best Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us	Nominated	[56]
2022				Nominated	[57]
2016	OFTA Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Won	[58]
2017		Best Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us	Nominated	[59]
2018		Best Actor in a Drama Series	This Is Us	Nominated	[60]
		Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Won
2023	San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Supporting Actor	American Fiction	Nominated	[61]
2023	San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Supporting Actor	American Fiction	Nominated	[62]
2023	Seattle Film Critics Society Awards	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	American Fiction	Nominated	[63]
2023	St. Louis Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor	American Fiction	Nominated	[64]
2017	Television Critics Association Awards	Individual Achievement in Drama	This Is Us	Nominated	[65]

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