# List of awards and nominations received by Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali has received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
As a part of the ensemble cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) earned him a nomination for the SAG Award for Outstanding Cast, which he would later win for Hidden Figures (2016). He received Primetime Emmy and SAG Award nominations for his role in House of Cards (2013–2016).
Ali received critical acclaim and won Academy Awards and SAG Awards for Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018), as well as a BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for the latter. He's the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar, as well as the second black actor to win multiple acting Oscars and the only black actor to win twice in the same acting category.
Ali was nominated for the Primetime Emmy and SAG Award for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for playing Wayne Hays in the third season of the HBO crime anthology True Detective (2019). The next year, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for producing We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020), and received another Emmy nomination for his role in the second season of Ramy (2020). He received nominations for the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in the science fiction romance Swan Song (2021). His narration of the Netflix documentary Chimp Empire (2023) earned him his fifth Emmy nomination.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2017 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |
| 2019 | Best Supporting Actor | Green Book | Won |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2017 | Best Film Actor in a Supporting Role | Moonlight | Nominated |
| 2019 | Best Film Actor in a Supporting Role | Green Book | Won |
| 2022 | Best Film Actor in a Leading Role | Swan Song | Nominated |

### Primetime Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | House of Cards | Nominated |
| 2019 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Television Movie | True Detective | Nominated |
| 2020 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Ramy | Nominated |
| 2020 | Outstanding Children's Program | We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest | Won |
| 2023 | Outstanding Narrator | Chimp Empire | Nominated |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2017 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Moonlight | Nominated |
| 2019 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Green Book | Won |
| 2022 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Swan Song | Nominated |

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2009 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated |
| 2016 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Drama Series | House of Cards | Nominated |
| 2017 | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Moonlight | Won |
| 2017 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture | Moonlight | Nominated |
| 2017 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture | Hidden Figures | Won |
| 2019 | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Green Book | Won |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | True Detective | Nominated |

## Other awards and nominations
### African-American Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Alliance of Women Film Journalists

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Apolo Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2017 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Austin Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best International Supporting Actor – Cinema | Moonlight | Nominated |
| 2019 | Best International Supporting Actor – Cinema | Green Book | Won |

### BET Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2017 | Best Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Black Reel Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Outstanding Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Boston Society of Film Critics

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Chicago Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Critics' Choice Awards
#### Critics' Choice Movie Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Television Drama Series Guest Performer | House of Cards | Nominated |
| 2017 | Best Movie Cast | Hidden Figures | Nominated |
| 2017 | Best Movie Cast | Moonlight | Won |
| 2017 | Best Movie Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |
| 2018 | Best Movie Supporting Actor | Green Book | Won |

#### Critics' Choice Super Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2022 | Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie | Swan Song | Nominated |

### Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Detroit Film Critics Society

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Nominated |

### Film Independent Spirit Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2017 | Robert Altman Award | Moonlight | Won |

### Florida Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Nominated |

### Gotham Independent Film Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Film Ensemble | Moonlight | Won |

### IndieWire Critics Poll Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### London Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Supporting Actor of the Year | Moonlight | Won |

### Los Angeles Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Mar del Plata International Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### NAACP Image Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2010 | Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special | The Wronged Man | Nominated |
| 2016 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Moonlight | Won |
| 2022 | Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Swan Song | Nominated |

### National Society of Film Critics

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### New York Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### New York Film Critics Online

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Online Film Critics Society

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Palm Springs International Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Breakthrough Performance | Moonlight | Won |

### San Diego Film Critics Society

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### San Francisco Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Satellite Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Drama | Moonlight | Nominated |
| 2016 | Best Ensemble Cast – Motion Picture | Hidden Figures | Won |
| 2018 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Green Book | Nominated |

### St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Toronto Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Vancouver Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

### Village Voice Film Poll Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |

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

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Moonlight | Won |