# List of awards and nominations received by Jessica Chastain

American actress Jessica Chastain made her film debut with the 2008 independent drama Jolene, for which she won a Best Actress award at the Seattle International Film Festival. Her breakthrough came in 2011, when she starred in six films, and received critical acclaim for her performances in Take Shelter, The Tree of Life, and The Help. The supporting role of an aspiring socialite in The Help earned her nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe. The following year, Chastain played the leading role of a CIA agent in Kathryn Bigelow's thriller Zero Dark Thirty, which won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress. She also received Oscar and BAFTA nominations.
The part of an unrelenting wife in the crime film A Most Violent Year (2014) garnered Chastain the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, and another Golden Globe nomination. For playing an astrophysicist in Christopher Nolan's science fiction film Interstellar (2014), and a mysterious woman in Guillermo del Toro's gothic horror film Crimson Peak (2015), she received nominations for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning the award for the latter. Also in 2015, she received a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her role as an astronaut in the science fiction film The Martian. Further Golden Globe nominations came for her portrayals of strong-willed titular characters in the dramas Miss Sloane (2016) and Molly's Game (2017), and an unhappily married woman in the miniseries Scenes from a Marriage (2021).
In 2021, Chastain starred in the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye as the televangelist Tammy Faye, for which she won the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress. She won another Screen Actors Guild Award and earned her first nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for portraying the country singer Tammy Wynette in the miniseries George & Tammy (2022). For starring in a 2023 Broadway revival of A Doll's House, Chastain won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

## Awards and nominations

| Award/Organization | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| AACTA Awards | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | The Help | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | 2022 | Best Actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Won |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | The Help | Nominated |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2012 | Best Ensemble Cast | The Help | Nominated |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2012 | Best Breakthrough Performance | The Tree of Life | Nominated |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2012 | Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | — | Won |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2013 | Humanitarian Activism – Female Icon Award | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2013 | Unforgettable Moment Award | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2016 | Bravest Performance Award | Miss Sloane | Nominated |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2022 | Best Actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Nominated |
| American Cinematheque | 2024 | American Cinematheque Award | — | Won |
| Astra TV Awards | 2023 | Best Actress in a Broadcast Network or Cable Limited or Anthology Series | George & Tammy | Won |
| Austin Film Critics Association | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | Take Shelter | Won |
| Austin Film Critics Association | 2011 | Breakthrough Artist Award | Coriolanus The Debt The Help Take Shelter Texas Killing Fields The Tree of Life | Won |
| Black Reel Awards | 2012 | Outstanding Ensemble | The Help | Won |
| British Academy Film Awards | 2012 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | The Help | Nominated |
| British Academy Film Awards | 2013 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Chicago Film Critics Association | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | The Tree of Life | Won |
| Chicago Film Critics Association | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Chicago Film Critics Association | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Chicago Film Critics Association | 2022 | Best Actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | The Help | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2012 | Best Acting Ensemble | The Help | Won |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2015 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2015 | MVP Award | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Interstellar Miss Julie A Most Violent Year | Won |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2018 | Best Actress | Molly's Game | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2022 | Best Actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Won |
| Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | 4th place |
| Deauville American Film Festival | 2011 | New Hollywood Award | — | Won |
| Deauville American Film Festival | 2014 | Career Tribute | — | Won |
| Detroit Film Critics Society | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | Take Shelter | Nominated |
| Detroit Film Critics Society | 2011 | Best Ensemble | The Help | Nominated |
| Detroit Film Critics Society | 2011 | Breakthrough Performance | The Help Take Shelter The Tree of Life | Won |
| Detroit Film Critics Society | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Detroit Film Critics Society | 2017 | Best Actress | Molly's Game | Nominated |
| Detroit Film Critics Society | 2021 | Best Actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Won |
| Dorian Awards | 2012 | We're Wilde About You Rising Star Award | — | Nominated |
| Dorian Awards | 2013 | Film Performance of the Year – Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Drama Desk Award | 2023 | Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play | A Doll's House | Won |
| Drama League Award | 2023 | Distinguished Performance | A Doll's House | Nominated |
| Drama League Award | 2023 | Best Revival of a Play | A Doll's House (as a producer) | Won |
| Dublin Film Critics Circle | 2011 | Best Actress | The Tree of Life | Won |
| Dublin Film Critics Circle | 2011 | International Breakthrough | The Help Take Shelter The Tree of Life | Won |
| Empire Awards | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Fangoria Chainsaw Awards | 2016 | Best Supporting Actress | Crimson Peak | Won |
| Florida Film Critics Circle | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Florida Film Critics Circle | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2012 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | The Help | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2013 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2015 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2017 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Miss Sloane | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2018 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Molly's Game | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2022 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2022 | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Scenes from a Marriage | Nominated |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2023 | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | George & Tammy | Nominated |
| Georgia Film Critics Association | 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | The Tree of Life | Won |
| Georgia Film Critics Association | 2012 | Breakthrough Awards | — | Won |
| Georgia Film Critics Association | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Georgia Film Critics Association | 2015 | Best Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Georgia Film Critics Association | 2018 | Best Actress | Molly's Game | Nominated |
| Golden Raspberry Awards | 2020 | Worst Supporting Actress | Dark Phoenix | Nominated |
| Gotham Awards | 2011 | Best Ensemble Performance | Take Shelter | Nominated |
| Hollywood Film Awards | 2011 | Ensemble of the Year | The Help | Won |
| Houston Film Critics Society | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | The Help | Nominated |
| Houston Film Critics Society | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Houston Film Critics Society | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Houston Film Critics Society | 2021 | Best Actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Won |
| Independent Spirit Awards | 2012 | Best Supporting Female | Take Shelter | Nominated |
| Independent Spirit Awards | 2015 | Best Supporting Female | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Independent Spirit Awards | 2024 | Best Lead Performance | Memory | Nominated |
| Irish Film & Television Academy Awards | 2015 | Best International Actress | Miss Julie | Nominated |
| London Film Critics Circle | 2011 | Supporting Actress of the Year | The Help | Nominated |
| London Film Critics Circle | 2012 | Actress of the Year | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| London Film Critics Circle | 2014 | Supporting Actress of the Year | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | Coriolanus The Debt The Help Take Shelter Texas Killing Fields The Tree of Life | Won |
| MTV Movie Awards | 2012 | Best Cast | The Help | Nominated |
| MTV Movie Awards | 2013 | Best Scared-As-S**t Performance | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| MTV Movie Awards | 2014 | Best Scared-As-S**t Performance | Mama | Nominated |
| National Board of Review | 2011 | Best Cast | The Help | Won |
| National Board of Review | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| National Board of Review | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Won |
| National Society of Film Critics | 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | The Help Take Shelter The Tree of Life | Won |
| National Society of Film Critics | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Runner-up |
| New York Film Critics Circle | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | The Help Take Shelter The Tree of Life | Won |
| New York Film Critics Online | 2011 | Breakthrough Performer | The Debt The Help Take Shelter The Tree of Life | Won |
| Online Film Critics Society | 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | The Tree of Life | Won |
| Online Film Critics Society | 2012 | Best Breakthrough Performance | — | Won |
| Online Film Critics Society | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Online Film Critics Society | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2011 | Spotlight Award | Coriolanus The Debt The Help Take Shelter The Tree of Life | Won |
| Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2018 | Chairman's Award | Molly's Game | Won |
| Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2021 | Desert Palm Achievement Award - Actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Won |
| Primetime Emmy Awards | 2023 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | George & Tammy | Nominated |
| Outer Critics Circle Award | 2023 | Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | A Doll's House | Nominated |
| San Diego Film Critics Society | 2011 | Body of Work | — | Won |
| San Diego Film Critics Society | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | The Help | Nominated |
| San Diego Film Critics Society | 2011 | Best Ensemble | The Help | Nominated |
| San Diego Film Critics Society | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| San Francisco Film Critics Circle | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2021 | Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Won |
| Satellite Awards | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | The Tree of Life | Won |
| Satellite Awards | 2011 | Best Ensemble – Motion Picture | The Help | Won |
| Satellite Awards | 2012 | Best Actress – Motion Picture - Drama | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2018 | Best Actress – Motion Picture - Drama | Molly's Game | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2022 | Best Actress – Motion Picture - Drama | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2023 | Best Actress – Motion Picture - Drama | The Good Nurse | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2012 | Best Actress | Take Shelter | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2015 | Best Supporting Actress | Interstellar | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2016 | Best Actress | The Martian | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2016 | Best Supporting Actress | Crimson Peak | Won |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2012 | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role | The Help | Nominated |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2012 | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | The Help | Won |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2013 | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2022 | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Won |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2023 | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series | George & Tammy | Won |
| Seattle International Film Festival | 2008 | Best Actress | Jolene | Won |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | The Tree of Life | Nominated |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Teen Choice Awards | 2016 | Choice Movie Actress: Drama | The Martian | Nominated |
| Teen Choice Awards | 2016 | Choice Movie: Liplock | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Nominated |
| Tony Awards | 2023 | Best Actress in a Play | A Doll's House | Nominated |
| Tony Awards | 2023 | Best Revival of a Play | A Doll's House (as a producer) | Nominated |
| Toronto Film Critics Association | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | Take Shelter | Won |
| Toronto Film Critics Association | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | The Tree of Life | Runner-up |
| Toronto Film Critics Association | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Runner-up |
| Toronto International Film Festival | 2021 | TIFF Tribute Award | — | Won |
| Vancouver Film Critics Circle | 2012 | Best Supporting Actress | The Help Take Shelter The Tree of Life | Won |
| Vancouver Film Critics Circle | 2013 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Vancouver Film Critics Circle | 2015 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Vancouver Film Critics Circle | 2022 | Best Actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Nominated |
| Venice Film Festival | 2011 | Gucci Award for Women in Cinema | The Tree of Life | Won |
| Village Voice Film Poll | 2011 | Best Supporting Actress | Take Shelter | 3rd place |
| Village Voice Film Poll | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | 3rd place |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | 2011 | Best Ensemble | The Help | Nominated |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | 2012 | Best Ensemble | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | 2012 | Best Actress | Zero Dark Thirty | Won |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | 2014 | Best Supporting Actress | A Most Violent Year | Nominated |
| Women Film Critics Circle | 2011 | Best Female Ensemble | The Help | Won |
| Women Film Critics Circle | 2011 | Best Actress | The Debt The Help | Nominated |
| Women Film Critics Circle | 2014 | Woman's Right to Male Roles in Movies | Interstellar | Won |
| Women Film Critics Circle | 2017 | The Invisible Woman Award | The Zookeeper's Wife | Nominated |
| Zurich Film Festival | 2023 | Golden Icon Award | — | Won |