Susan Sarandon

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Susan Sarandon. Susan Sarandon is American actress. Known for her portrayals of headstrong leading women in film and television, she has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, ten Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award. Sarandon took an early role where she played young waitress in the Louis Malle romantic crime drama Atlantic City (1980) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She took the role of the romantic lead in the Ron Shelton directed sports drama Bull Durham (1988) for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. She played a sharp tongued waitress in the Ridley Scott directed crime drama Thelma & Louise (1991) for which she earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She portrayed Michaela Odone in the George Miller directed drama Lorenzo's Oil (1992), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She played a recovering alcoholic and lawyer in the Joel Schumacher directed legal drama The Client earning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role as well as nominations for the Academy Award, the and the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. She won widespread acclaim for her role as a concerned nun Sister Helen Prejean in the Tim Robbins directed crime drama Dead Man Walking (1995) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role. She received further Golden Globe-nominations for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for the comedy-drama Stepmom (1998) and the Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for the comedy-drama Igby Goes Down (2002). On television, she earned six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her performances as a soap opera diva in the NBC sitcom Friends (2001), Meg Burbank in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2002), a wealthy woman in the HBO television film Bernard and Doris (2008), a right-to-die advocate and patient in the HBO television film You Don't Knock Jack (2010), and Bette Davis in the FX limited series Feud: Bette and Joan (2017). She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Dinosongs: Poems to Celebrate a T. Rex Named Sue (2001).