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Morgan Freeman awards and nominations

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 5 Emmy Awards 0 5 Golden Globe Awards 2 6 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 5 Tony Awards 0 1
Totals
Wins	29
Nominations	79
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Morgan Freeman.

Morgan Freeman is an American actor. He is considered one of the greatest actors of his generation and an acting icon. He is known for his distinctive deep voice, and his roles on the stage and screen across of a variety film genres. He has received several awards including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for a five Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.

Throughout his nearly seven-decade-long career he has earned a multitude awards and nominations for his performances. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a gym assistant and former boxer in the Clint Eastwood sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004). He was Oscar-nominated for his performances as a pimp in Street Smart (1987), a chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), a prison inmate in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Nelson Mandela in Invictus (2009). He also has earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Driving Miss Daisy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby (2004).

For his work on television, he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for playing a fictionalized version of himself in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2021). He also was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Informational Series or Special for the National Geographic series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016) and three nominations for Outstanding Narrator for the documentary series March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step (2018), Our Universe (2023), and Life on Our Planet (2024).

Freeman earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Zeke in the Broadway play The Mighty Gents (1978). For his lifetime achievement in acting he received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. His other honorary awards include the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018.

Major awards

Academy Awards

Emmy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Tony Awards

Film critics awards

Miscellaneous awards

Honorary awards

Honorary degrees

References

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