page_title: Salma Hayek
section_title: Honors and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Salma Hayek / Honors and awards
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Thierry Frémaux, Salma Hayek et François-Henri Pinault au festival de Cannes
context_page_description: Salma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican and American film actress and producer. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award. In 1991, Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in films such as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, Wild Wild West, and Dogma.
  Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 film Frida, as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, for which she was nominated for Best Actress for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, and which she also produced. This movie received widespread attention and was a critical and commercial success.
  She won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special for The Maldonado Miracle in 2004, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series after guest-starring in the ABC television comedy-drama Ugly Betty in 2007. She also guest-starred on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock from 2009 to 2013. In 2017, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her role in Beatriz at Dinner.
context_section_description: Recipient of Glamour magazine Woman of the Year Award in October 2001
  Recipient of Producers Guild of America Celebration of Diversity Award in 2003
  Recipient of Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year Award in February 2006
  Recipient of Time magazine 25 Most Influential Hispanics in 2005
  Knight (Chevalier) of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (France, December 30, 2011)
  Recipient of Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special for The Maldonado Miracle, a Showtime TV movie that Hayek produced and directed (May 15, 2004, Creative Arts Awards)
  Recipient of the Franca Sozzani Award at the Venice Film Festival in August 2018
  In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Hayek fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community. That same month, a poll found Hayek to be the "sexiest celebrity" out of a field of 3,000 celebrities (male and female); according to the poll, "65 percent of the U.S. population would use the term 'sexy' to describe her". In 2008, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television. In December of that year, Entertainment Weekly ranked Hayek number 17 in their list of the "25 Smartest People in TV."
  She was one of fifteen women selected to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue, by guest editor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
caption: Hayek at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
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