# List of awards and nominations received by Jeff Daniels

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Jeff Daniels.
Jeff Daniels is an American actor known for his leading roles on stage and screen. He has received several awards including a two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for six Golden Globe Awards, six Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards.
Daniels portrayed news anchor Will McAvoy in the Aaron Sorkin created HBO political drama series The Newsroom from 2012 to 2014 for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role as a menacing outlaw in the Netflix western series Godless (2017). For his role as John P. O'Neill in the Hulu series The Looming Tower (2018) he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
For his film roles he was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his roles as a movie star who jumps off the screen into real life in the Woody Allen comedy-drama The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), a yuppie investment banker who finds love in Jonathan Demme's romantic comedy thriller Something Wild (1986), and as a selfish father in Noah Baumbach's independent family comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale (2005). The role in later also earned him the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast as well as nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards, the National Society of Film Critics and the London Film Critics Circle.
On stage, Daniels received three Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nominations for his roles as a father and businessman Alan in Yasmina Reza's play God of Carnage (2009), an older man who had a relationship with a younger woman in the David Harrower play Blackbird and Atticus Finch in the Aaron Sorkin adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird (2018).

## Major associations
### Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| Primetime Emmy Award |||||
| 2013 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | The Newsroom | Won |
| 2014 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | The Newsroom | Nominated |
| 2015 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | The Newsroom | Nominated |
| 2018 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | The Looming Tower | Nominated |
| 2018 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Godless | Won |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1986 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Nominated |
| 1987 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical | Something Wild | Nominated |
| 2006 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical | The Squid and the Whale | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama | The Newsroom | Nominated |
| 2021 | Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film | The Comey Rule | Nominated |

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2002 | Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture | The Hours | Nominated |
| 2005 | Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2012 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | The Newsroom | Nominated |
| 2013 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | The Newsroom | Nominated |
| 2017 | Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | Godless | Nominated |

### Tony Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2009 | Best Actor in a Play | God of Carnage | Nominated |
| 2016 | Best Actor in a Play | Blackbird | Nominated |
| 2019 | Best Actor in a Play | To Kill a Mockingbird | Nominated |

## Miscellaneous awards
### AARP Movie Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2005 | Best Actor | The Squid and the Whale | Won | |
| 2015 | Best Supporting Actor | Steve Jobs | Nominated | |

### Chicago Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1993 | Best Supporting Actor | Gettysburg | Nominated | |

### Critics' Choice Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| Critics' Choice Television Awards |||||
| 2018 | Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Godless | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Documentary Awards |||||
| 2021 | Best Narration | 9/11: Inside the President's War Room | Nominated |

### Drama Desk Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1981 | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Fifth of July | Nominated |
| 1983 | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Johnny Got His Gun | Nominated |
| 1986 | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Lemon Sky | Nominated |

### Drama League Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2019 | Distinguished Performance | To Kill a Mockingbird | Nominated | |

### Gotham Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2005 | Best Ensemble Performance | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Best Ensemble Performance | The Squid and the Whale | Won | |

### Independent Spirit Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2005 | Best Male Lead | The Squid and the Whale | Nominated | |

### National Society of Film Critics

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2005 | Best Actor | The Squid and the Whale | Nominated | |

### London Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2006 | Actor of the Year | The Squid and the Whale | Nominated | |

### Satellite Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1998 | Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture | Pleasantville | Nominated |
| 2007 | Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture | Lookout | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Actor, Drama Series | The Newsroom (season 1) | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Actor, Drama Series | The Newsroom (season 2) | Nominated |
| 2018 | Best Actor, Miniseries or Movie | The Looming Tower | Nominated |

### Saturn Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1990 | Best Actor | Arachnophobia | Won | |

### Teen Choice Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2015 | Choice Movie: Chemistry | Dumb and Dumber To | Nominated | |

### Phoenix Film Critics Society

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2002 | Best Acting Ensemble | The Hours | Nominated | |