List of awards and nominations received by Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali has received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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List of Mahershala Ali awards

Award	Wins	Nominations
Academy Awards	2	2
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards	1	3
Emmy Awards (Primetime)	1	5
Golden Globe Awards	1	3
Screen Actors Guild Awards	3	7

As a part of the ensemble cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) earned him a nomination for the SAG Award for Outstanding Cast, which he would later win for Hidden Figures (2016). He received Primetime Emmy and SAG Award nominations for his role in House of Cards (2013–2016).

Ali received critical acclaim and won Academy Awards and SAG Awards for Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018), as well as a BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for the latter. He's the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar, as well as the second black actor to win multiple acting Oscars and the only black actor to win twice in the same acting category.

Ali was nominated for the Primetime Emmy and SAG Award for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for playing Wayne Hays in the third season of the HBO crime anthology True Detective (2019). The next year, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for producing We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020), and received another Emmy nomination for his role in the second season of Ramy (2020). He received nominations for the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in the science fiction romance Swan Song (2021). His narration of the Netflix documentary Chimp Empire (2023) earned him his fifth Emmy nomination.

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2017	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won
2019		Green Book	Won

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2017	Best Film Actor in a Supporting Role	Moonlight	Nominated
2019		Green Book	Won
2022	Best Film Actor in a Leading Role	Swan Song	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series	House of Cards	Nominated
2019	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Television Movie	True Detective	Nominated
2020	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	Ramy	Nominated
	Outstanding Children's Program	We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest	Won[a]
2023	Outstanding Narrator	Chimp Empire	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2017	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Moonlight	Nominated
2019		Green Book	Won
2022	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Swan Song	Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2009	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated[b]
2016	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Drama Series	House of Cards	Nominated[b]
2017	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Moonlight	Won
	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture		Nominated[b]
		Hidden Figures	Won[b]
2019	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Green Book	Won
2020	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie	True Detective	Nominated

Other awards and nominations

African-American Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Apolo Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2017	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won[1]

Austin Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best International Supporting Actor – Cinema	Moonlight	Nominated
2019		Green Book	Won

BET Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2017	Best Actor	Moonlight	Won

Black Reel Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Outstanding Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Boston Society of Film Critics

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Chicago Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Critics' Choice Awards

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Television Drama Series Guest Performer	House of Cards	Nominated
2017	Best Movie Cast	Hidden Figures	Nominated[b]
		Moonlight	Won[b]
	Best Movie Supporting Actor		Won
2018		Green Book	Won

Critics' Choice Super Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2022	Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie	Swan Song	Nominated

Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Detroit Film Critics Society

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Nominated

Film Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2017	Robert Altman Award	Moonlight	Won

Florida Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Nominated

Gotham Independent Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Film Ensemble	Moonlight	Won[b]

IndieWire Critics Poll Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

London Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Supporting Actor of the Year	Moonlight	Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Mar del Plata International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Actor	Moonlight	Won

NAACP Image Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2010	Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special	The Wronged Man	Nominated
2016	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Moonlight	Won
2022	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	Swan Song	Nominated

National Society of Film Critics

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

New York Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

New York Film Critics Online

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Online Film Critics Society

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Breakthrough Performance	Moonlight	Won

San Diego Film Critics Society

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Satellite Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Drama	Moonlight	Nominated
	Best Ensemble Cast – Motion Picture	Hidden Figures	Won[b]
2018	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical	Green Book	Nominated

St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Toronto Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Vancouver Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Village Voice Film Poll Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	Best Supporting Actor	Moonlight	Won