Joan Allen is an American actress who has received various awards and nominations, including a Canadian Screen Award and a Tony Award. Additionally, she has been nominated for three Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
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| Wins | 33 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Allen's off-Broadway debut in And a Nightingale Sang (1983)[1] earned her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. Her first Broadway role came in 1987 with playwright Lanford Wilson's Burn This,[1] for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Following further Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominations in 1989 for her performance in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, Allen played First Lady Pat Nixon in director Oliver Stone's 1995 biographical film Nixon and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The following year, she appeared in the historical drama The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor, a woman accused of witchcraft, and went on to receive nominations for her work in supporting actress categories at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. Allen's portrayal of Eve Archer, the wife of an FBI agent cheated on by a man who has usurped her husband's identity, in the commercially successful action thriller Face/Off (1997) garnered her international mainstream recognition[2] as well as a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1998, her performance in the fantasy film Pleasantville brought her the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Comedy or Musical.
Allen starred in the political drama The Contender (2000) as Senator Laine Hanson, a vice presidential nominee who becomes the object of a scandal, and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. In 2001, Allen played Morgause in the miniseries The Mists of Avalon and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. For her lead performance as an alcoholic housewife in the 2005 comedy The Upside of Anger, Allen earned a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress nomination. She returned to television in 2009 with the biographical film Georgia O'Keeffe, serving as its executive producer and also portraying the eponymous American modernist painter, a role for which she was bestowed with Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Allen's appearance as Nancy Newsome in the 2015 drama Room won her the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Awards and nominations
Honors
| Awarding institution | Year | Honor | Ref. |
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| Chicago International Film Festival | 2012 | Silver Hugo Career Achievement Award | [93] |
| Costume Designers Guild | 2006 | Distinguished Actor Award | [94] |
| Hamptons International Film Festival | 2003 | Golden Starfish Award for Career Achievement | [95] |
| High Falls Film Festival | 2004 | Susan B. Anthony "Failure is Impossible" Award | [96] |
| Jackson Wild | 2005 | Nellie Tayloe Ross Award | [97] |
| Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2001 | Spotlight Award | [98] |
| San Francisco International Film Festival | 2005 | Peter J. Owens Award | [99] |