List of awards and nominations received by Audra McDonald

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Audra McDonald awards and nominations
McDonald at the 74th Tony Awards
McDonald at the 74th Tony Awards in 2021
Totals[a]
Wins26
Nominations54
Note
  1. ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize 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.

This is a List of awards and nominations received by Audra McDonald.

McDonald is an American actress and singer who over her career has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award in addition to two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has remained active in stage productions and musicals since the 1990s, and has garnered widespread acclaim and critical support for her performances, being honoured with numerous awards, including the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (2012) and induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame (2017).[1][2] Her ten Tony Award nominations ties her with Julie Harris and Chita Rivera for the performer with the most Tony nominations.[3]

McDonald has performed in musicals, operas, and stage dramas such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, 110 in the Shade, Dreamgirls, Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, Porgy and Bess, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, becoming the most awarded actress of the Tony Awards with six awards, becoming the only person to win all four acting categories.[a] She was also recipient of the Sarah Siddons Distinguished Achievement in the Theatre Award, six Drama Desk Award and five Outer Critics Circle Award. She was nominated for three Grammy Awards, winning two times for Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording for Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Soundtrack.

McDonald starred in televisions series and motion pictures, including Wit (2001), which gave her her first Primetime Emmy Awards nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She acted in A Raisin in the Sun, earning nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards and NAACP Image Awards, and as Dr. Naomi Bennett in television series Private Practice, being nominated three times for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the NAACP Image Awards. Since 2012, McDonald has served as host for the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center,[5] for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program with the show's producers for Sweeney Todd, aired in 2015.

In 2016 McDonald starred as Billie Holiday in filmed stage production Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill,[6] receiving price from the critics, earning nominations at the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and an at the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. Since 2017, McDonald joined the cast of The Good Fight, being nominated two times for at the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In 2021 she starred as Barbara Siggers Franklin in Aretha Franklin's biographical musical drama film Respect, earning a nomination at the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.

  1. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  2. ^ "Audra McDonald, Matthew Broderick, Marin Mazzie among 2017 Theater Hall of Fame inductees". Playbill. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  3. ^ https://www.tonyawards.com/history/facts-and-trivia/
  4. ^ "Tony Awards Facts & Trivia". Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  5. ^ Hetrick, Adam (14 May 2013). "Audra McDonald's Go Back Home Concert Broadcast on "Live from Lincoln Center" May 24". Playbill. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  6. ^ Billington, Michael (27 June 2017). "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill review – Audra McDonald sings the blues for Billie Holiday". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 January 2022.


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