# List of awards and nominations received by Audra McDonald

This is a List of awards and nominations received by Audra McDonald.
McDonald is an American actress and singer who over her career has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award in addition to two Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations. She has remained active in stage productions and musicals since the 1990s, and has garnered widespread acclaim and critical support for her performances, being honoured with numerous awards, including the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (2012) and induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame (2017). Her ten Tony Award nominations ties her with Julie Harris and Chita Rivera for the performer with the most Tony nominations.
McDonald has performed in musicals, operas, and stage dramas such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, 110 in the Shade, Dreamgirls, Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, Porgy and Bess, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, becoming the most awarded actress of the Tony Awards with six awards, becoming the only person to win all four acting categories. She was also recipient of the Sarah Siddons Distinguished Achievement in the Theatre Award, six Drama Desk Award and five Outer Critics Circle Award. She was nominated for three Grammy Awards, winning two times for Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording for Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Soundtrack.
McDonald starred in televisions series and motion pictures, including Wit (2001), which gave her her first Primetime Emmy Awards nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She acted in A Raisin in the Sun, earning nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards and NAACP Image Awards, and as Dr. Naomi Bennett in television series Private Practice, being nominated three times for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the NAACP Image Awards. Since 2012, McDonald has served as host for the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program with the show's producers for Sweeney Todd, aired in 2015.
In 2016 McDonald starred as Billie Holiday in filmed stage production Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, receiving price from the critics, earning nominations at the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and an at the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. Since 2017, McDonald joined the cast of The Good Fight, being nominated two times for at the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In 2021 she starred as Barbara Siggers Franklin in Aretha Franklin's biographical musical drama film Respect, earning a nomination at the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.

## Major Association
### Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| Primetime Emmy Awards |||||
| 2001 | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | Wit | Nominated |
| 2008 | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | A Raisin in the Sun | Nominated |
| 2013 | Outstanding Special Class Program | Carousel (Live from Lincoln Center) | Nominated |
| 2015 | Outstanding Special Class Program | Sweeney Todd (Live from Lincoln Center) | Won |
| 2016 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Nominated |

### Grammy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2008 | Best Classical Album | Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | Won |
| 2008 | Best Opera Recording | Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | Won |
| 2013 | Best Musical Theater Album | Porgy and Bess | Nominated |

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2016 | Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | The Gilded Age | Nominated | |

### Tony Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1994 | Best Featured Actress in a Musical | Carousel | Won |
| 1996 | Best Featured Actress in a Play | Master Class | Won |
| 1998 | Best Featured Actress in a Musical | Ragtime | Won |
| 2000 | Best Actress in a Musical | Marie Christine | Nominated |
| 2004 | Best Featured Actress in a Play | A Raisin in the Sun | Won |
| 2007 | Best Actress in a Musical | 110 in the Shade | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Actress in a Musical | Porgy and Bess | Won |
| 2014 | Best Actress in a Play | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Won |
| 2020 | Best Actress in a Play | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | Nominated |
| 2023 | Best Actress in a Play | Ohio State Murders | Nominated |

## Other associations
### Antonyo Award

| Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
| 2020 | Best Actor in a Play on Broadway | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | Won | |

### Black Reel Awards

| Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
| 2013 | Best Supporting Actress in a Movie | The Sound of Music Live! | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Best Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Nominated | |

### Critics' Choice Television Awards

| Year | Category | Work | Result |
| 2020 | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | The Good Fight | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | The Good Fight | Nominated |
| 2023 | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | The Good Fight | Nominated |

### Drama Desk Award

| Year | Category | Work | Result |
| 1994 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Carousel | Won |
| 2000 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Marie Christine | Nominated |
| 2004 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | A Raisin in the Sun | Won |
| 2007 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | 110 in the Shade | Won |
| 2012 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Porgy and Bess | Won |
| 2014 | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Won |
| 2023 | Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play | Ohio State Murders | Nominated |

### Drama League Award

| Year | Category | Work | Result |
| 1998 | Distinguished Performance | Ragtime | Nominated |
| 2005 | Distinguished Performance | A Raisin in the Sun | Nominated |
| 2007 | Distinguished Performance | 110 in the Shade | Nominated |
| 2012 | Distinguished Performance | Porgy and Bess | Won |

### NAACP Image Award

| Year | Category | Work | Result |
| 2001 | Outstanding Variety – Series or Special | Audra McDonald in Concert | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries | A Raisin in the Sun | Nominated |
| 2008 | Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | Private Practice | Nominated |
| 2009 | Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | Private Practice | Nominated |
| 2010 | Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | Private Practice | Nominated |
| 2018 | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Beauty and the Beast | Nominated |
| 2022 | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Respect | Nominated |

### Satellite Awards

| Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
| 2017 | Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Film | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Nominated | |

### Theatre World Award

| Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
| 1994 | Honoree Award | Herself | Won | |

## Critics awards

| Association | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| Broadway.com Audience Awards | 2004 | Favorite Featured Actress in a Play | A Raisin in the Sun | Won |
| Broadway.com Audience Awards | 2007 | Favorite Actress in a Musical | 110 in the Shade | Nominated |
| Broadway.com Audience Awards | 2012 | Porgy and Bess | Favorite Actress in a Musical | Nominated |
| Broadway.com Audience Awards | 2012 | Porgy and Bess | Favorite Onstage Pair (with Norm Lewis) | Nominated |
| Broadway.com Audience Awards | 2014 | Favorite Actress in a Play | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Won |
| Broadway.com Audience Awards | 2014 | Favorite Diva Performance | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Nominated |
| Broadway.com Audience Awards | 2016 | Favorite Diva Performance | Shuffle Along, or [...] | Nominated |
| Laurence Olivier Award | 2018 | Best Actress | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Nominated |
| Ovation Awards | 1996 | Best Featured Actress in a Play | Master Class | Won |
| Online Film and Television Association Award | 2001 | Best Supporting Actress in a TV film | Wit | Nominated |
| Online Film and Television Association Award | 2008 | Best Supporting Actress in a TV film | A Raisin in the Sun | Won |
| Outer Critics Circle Award | 1994 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Carousel | Won |
| Outer Critics Circle Award | 1998 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Ragtime | Nominated |
| Outer Critics Circle Award | 2004 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | A Raisin in the Sun | Won |
| Outer Critics Circle Award | 2007 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | 110 in the Shade | Won |
| Outer Critics Circle Award | 2012 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Porgy and Bess | Won |
| Outer Critics Circle Award | 2014 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Won |
| Sarah Siddons Award | 2013 | Distinguished Achievement in the Theatre | Herself | Won |