List of awards and nominations received by Judy Davis
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Judy Davis is an Australian actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received eight AACTA Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards.
Davis first came to critical acclaim for her role as a young country girl in the period film My Brilliant Career (1979), for which she won BAFTA Awards for both Best Actress and Most Promising Newcomer. She earned further acclaim in 1984, when she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Adela Quested in the historical epic A Passage to India. Davis's first major American feature in Woody Allen drama Husbands and Wives (1992), saw her nominated for numerous awards for her role as woman trying to find love. She won a National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, the BAFTA for Best Actress.
Davis won three Primetime Emmy Awards, her first for Outstanding Supporting Actress|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her performances as Diane Divelbess in the NBC television film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995). For her portrayal of Judy Garland in the television miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) garnered her further acclaim, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie as well as an American Film Institute Award, a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. For her performance as an alcoholic socialite in the miniseries The Starter Wife (2007) she won a third Primetime Emmy Award.