List of awards and nominations received by Maggie Smith

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This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Maggie Smith. Dame Maggie Smith was an English actor known for her extensive roles on stage and screen. She has received numerous accolades as well as two Academy Awards, five BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Primetime Emmy Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. Smith is one of only 14 actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting winning the highest accolades for film, television and theatre. For her roles on film she won two Academy Awards, her first for the Best Actress for playing the title role in the British drama film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and her second for the Best Supporting Actress portraying an Oscar loser in the anthology comedy California Suite (1978). She was Oscar-nominated for her roles in Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985), and Gosford Park (2001). On stage, she gained acclaim for her roles on Broadway and the West End. For the former she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing Lettice Douffet in the Peter Shaffer play Lettice and Lovage (1990). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in the Noël Coward play Private Lives (1975) and the Tom Stoppard play Night and Day (1980). She was nominated for six Laurence Olivier Awards for her work in the West End. Smith gained renewed attention and popularity for her role as Violet Crawley, The Dowager Countess of Grantham in the PBS historical drama series Downton Abbey from 2010 to 2015. For her performance she received numerous accoaldes as well as three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for playing an eccentric novelist in the HBO film My House in Umbria (2003). She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in the Great Performances PBS presentation of Suddenly Last Summer (1990), the BBC series David Copperfield (1999), and the BBC Two film Capturing Mary (2007). Other significant awards include and a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Overall in her career she has won 58 competitive awards from 157 nominations. She has also received numerous honorary awards, including the BAFTA Special Award (1993), the BAFTA Fellowship (1996), and the Special Olivier Award (2010). She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1972. She was later made a Dame in 1990 and received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2014.

Major associations

Academy Awards

BAFTA Awards

Emmy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Olivier Awards

Tony Awards

Other theatre awards

Film critics' awards

Miscellaneous awards

Honorary awards

Honorary degrees

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