American–born Australian actress and producer Nicole Kidman has been honored with numerous accolades throughout her career. Among them, she has won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award and a BAFTA Award. She is the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2003, Kidman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry. In 2024, she received the AFI Life Achievement Award becoming the first-ever Australian to earn this honor. Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in the Stephen Daldry directed drama The Hours (2002). She was Oscar-nominated for her roles as a courtesan Satine in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001), a grieving mother in the drama Rabbit Hole (2010), an adoptive mother in the drama Lion (2016), and Lucille Ball in the biographical drama Being the Ricardos (2021). She won six Golden Globe Awards including for four wins for her film roles in To Die For (1995), Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Hours (2002), and Being the Ricardos (2021). For her roles on television, she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the HBO series Big Little Lies (2017). The role also earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. She was Emmy-nominated for playing Martha Gellhorn in the HBO biographical film Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), and earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for playing psychologist Grace Fraser in the HBO psychological thriller series The Undoing (2021). On the West End stage, she received Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress nominations for playing various characters in the David Hare play The Blue Room (1999), and chemist Rosalind Franklin in the Anna Ziegler play Photograph 51 (2016). The role for the later earned her wins for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress and the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actress in a Play. In addition to her 2003 Academy Award for Best Actress, Kidman has received Best Actress awards from the following critics' associations or award–granting organisations: the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globe Award), the Australian Film Institute, London Film Critics' Circle, and Russian Guild of Film Critics. In 2003, Kidman was given the American Cinematheque Award. She also received recognition from the National Association of Theatre Owners in 1992 as the Female Star of Tomorrow, and in 2002 for a Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film Award. In 2012, she received New York Film Festival Gala Tribute.

Major associations

Academy Awards

1 win of 5 nominations

BAFTA Awards

1 win of 6 nominations

Critics' Choice Awards

3 wins of 16 nominations

Emmy Awards

2 wins of 3 nominations

Golden Globe Awards

6 wins of 17 nominations

Producers Guild of America Award

0 wins of 3 nominations

Screen Actors Guild Awards

1 win of 15 nominations

Audience awards

Critic association awards

Film festival awards

International awards

Miscellaneous awards

Theatre awards