# List of awards and nominations received by Vera Farmiga

Vera Farmiga is an American actress, director, and producer. She garnered worldwide acclaim for her role in the 2009 film Up in the Air. This role earned Farmiga nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, as well as many other nominations. In 2011, she made her directing debut with the acclaimed drama film Higher Ground, for which she received multiple award nominations, including the Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough Director and the Satellite Award for Best Actress.
From 2013 to 2017, she starred in the A&E television series Bates Motel as Norma Louise Bates. Her performance in the role has earned her a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television (2013) and a People's Choice Award (2016), and nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (2013), the Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama (2013), the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama (2013), and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series (2013–2015). In 2019, Farmiga portrayed prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer in the acclaimed Netflix miniseries When They See Us. For her performance, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

## Major awards
### Academy Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2010 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2010 | Up in the Air | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2010 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Nominated | |

### Primetime Emmy Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2013 | Bates Motel | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated | |
| 2019 | When They See Us | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie | Nominated | |

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2007 | The Departed | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Up in the Air | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated | |

## Critics' awards
### African American Film Critics Association Television Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2019 | When They See Us | Best Ensemble Cast | Won | |

### Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2006 | The Departed | Best Ensemble Cast | Runner-up | |

### Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### Critics' Choice Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2006 | The Departed | Best Acting Ensemble | Nominated |
| 2008 | Nothing But the Truth | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Acting Ensemble | Nominated |
| 2013 | Bates Motel | Best Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2014 | Bates Motel | Best Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2015 | Bates Motel | Best Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |

### Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | 3rd Place | |

### Denver Film Critics Society Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Acting Ensemble | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### Detroit Film Critics Society Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### Dublin Film Critics' Circle Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2006 | Breaking and Entering | Best Supporting Actress | Runner-up | |
| 2006 | The Departed | Best Supporting Actress | Runner-up | |

### Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2023 | Five Days at Memorial | Best Actress in a Streaming Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | Nominated | |

### Houston Film Critics Society Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### London Film Critics' Circle Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Actress of the Year | Nominated | |

### Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2005 | Down to the Bone | Best Actress | Won | |

### National Board of Review Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2006 | The Departed | Best Acting by an Ensemble | Won | |

### National Society of Film Critics Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2005 | Down to the Bone | Best Actress | 3rd Place | |

### New York Film Critics Circle Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Runner-up | |

### Online Film Critics Society Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### Television Critics Association Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2013 | Bates Motel | Individual Achievement in Drama | Nominated | |

### Toronto Film Critics Association Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

### Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |

### Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Ensemble | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |

## Other awards
### Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | EDA Award – Best Actress in Supporting Role | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Higher Ground | EDA Female Focus Award – Best Woman Director | Nominated | |

### BendFilm Festival Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2004 | Down to the Bone | Jury Prize – Best Actress | Won | |

### Boston Film Festival Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2013 | At Middleton | Festival Prize – Best Actress | Won | |

### British Independent Film Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2008 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Best Performance by an Actress | Won | |

### Dorian Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2013 | Bates Motel | TV Performance of the Year – Actress | Nominated | |

### Empire Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2006 | The Departed | Best Female Newcomer | Nominated | |

### Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2015 | Bates Motel | Best TV Actress | Runner-up | |
| 2016 | Bates Motel | Best TV Actress | Nominated | |

### Gopo Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2014 | Closer to the Moon | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated | |

### Gotham Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2011 | Higher Ground | Breakthrough Director | Nominated | |

### Gracie Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2015 | Bates Motel | Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama | Won | |

### Independent Spirit Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2004 | Down to the Bone | Best Female Lead | Nominated | |

### Marrakech International Film Festival Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2004 | Down to the Bone | Best Actress | Won | |

### MTV Movie Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2014 | The Conjuring | Best Scared-As-Shit Performance | Nominated | |

### People's Choice Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2017 | Bates Motel | Favorite Cable TV Actress | Won | |

### Provincetown International Film Festival Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2011 | Herself | Excellence in Acting Award | Won | |

### Qantas Film and Television Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2010 | The Vintner's Luck | Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film | Won | |

### Santa Barbara International Film Festival Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2010 | Herself | Cinema Vanguard Award | Won | |

### Satellite Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2006 | The Departed | Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture | Won |
| 2011 | Higher Ground | Best Actress in a Motion Picture | Nominated |
| 2013 | Bates Motel | Best Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |

### Saturn Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2013 | Bates Motel | Best Actress on Television | Won |
| 2014 | Bates Motel | Best Actress on Television | Nominated |
| 2016 | Bates Motel | Best Actress on Television | Nominated |

### Sundance Film Festival Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2004 | Down to the Bone | Special Jury Prize for Acting | Won | |
| 2011 | Higher Ground | Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic (Director) | Nominated | |

### Village Voice Film Poll Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Best Supporting Actress | Runner-up | |

### Women's Image Network Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2011 | Higher Ground | Outstanding Film Directed by a Woman | Nominated |
| 2011 | Higher Ground | Outstanding Actress – Feature Film | Won |
| 2013 | Bates Motel | Outstanding Actress – Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2014 | Bates Motel | Outstanding Actress – Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2015 | Bates Motel | Outstanding Actress – Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2015 | Bates Motel | Outstanding Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2016 | Bates Motel | Outstanding Actress – Drama Series | Nominated |