List of awards and nominations received by Viola Davis
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The following article is a List of awards and nominations received by Viola Davis. Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she is one of the few performers to have won the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT), having won an Academy Award, a Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards. She is only the third to achieve both EGOT and Triple Crown of Acting, after Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno. She has also received a British Academy Film Award, five Critics' Choice Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and six Screen Actors Guild Awards. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film role as suffering mother and wife in the period drama Fences (2016). She was Oscar-nominated for her portrayals as Mrs. Miller in the religious drama Doubt (2008), a maid in the Deep South in the drama The Help (2011), and the title role in drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She was also BAFTA-nominated for her roles in the heist thriller Widows (2018) and in the historical action film The Woman King. Her role in Fences also earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress. For her work on television, she made history becoming the first African-American woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Annalise Keating in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2015. The series ran from 2014 to 2020, where she won several awards including the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series consecutively in 2014 and 2015. Davis reprised the role and was Emmy-nominated for her guest spot in a crossover appearance on another ABC show, the political thriller series Scandal in 2018. On Broadway, Davis has won two Tony Awards, her performances in revivals of August Wilson plays. She won her first Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play for playing Tonya in King Hedley II (2001), and her second for Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing Rose Maxson in Fences (2010). She was Tony-nominated for her role as Vera in the revival Seven Guitars (1996). She has also received several other awards for her work on stage including, three Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and a Theatre World Award. Davis is the recipient of several honors including having a Motion Picture Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017, the Cannes Film Festival's Women In Motion Award in 2022, the Gotham Awards Actress Tribute in 2020, and the Film at Lincoln Center's Chaplin Gala Award in 2023. In 2025, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.