+ List of accolades received by An EducationCarey Mulligan received numerous awards and nominations for her performance in An Education Awards and nominations Award Won NominatedAcademy AwardAlliance of Women Film JournalistsBritish Academy Film AwardsBritish Independent Film AwardsBritish Society of CinematographersBroadcast Film CriticsChicago Film Critics AssociationDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics AssociationDetroit Film Critics SocietyEmpire AwardsEvening Standard British Film AwardsFilm Critics Circle of AustraliaGolden Globe AwardsHollywood Film FestivalHouston Film Critics SocietyIndependent Spirit AwardsLondon Film Critics' CircleLos Angeles Film Critics AssociationMill Valley Film FestivalMotion Picture Sound EditorsNational Board of ReviewOnline Film Critics SocietyProducers Guild of America Awards Richard Attenborough Film AwardsSan Diego Film Critics SocietySanta Barbara International Film FestivalSatellite AwardsScreen Actors GuildSt. Louis Gateway Film Critics AssociationSundance Film FestivalToronto Film Critics AssociationUSC Scripter AwardVancouver Film Critics CircleWashington DC Area Film Critics AssociationWomen Film Critics CircleWomen in Film and TV AwardsTotal number of wins and nominations References An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film directed by Lone Scherfig and written by Nick Hornby. It is based on the memoirs of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film premiered on 18 January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2009. The film then showed at the Mill Valley Film Festival before being released in the United Kingdom by Sony Pictures Classics on 30 October 2009, and going into wide release in the United States on 5 February 2010. An Education earned over $26 million in its combined total gross at the box office.

The film garnered various awards and nominations, ranging from recognition of the film itself to Hornby's screenplay and the cast's acting performances, particularly those of Carey Mulligan and Alfred Molina. The film received three Academy Award nominations, but failed to win any. At the 63rd British Academy Film Awards An Education came away with one award from nine nominations. Mulligan was named Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards, where the film was nominated for a further six awards. An Education received one nomination, Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture, from the 67th Golden Globe Awards.

Mulligan earned two awards for her performance at the Hollywood Film Festival and Houston Film Critics Society—Breakthrough Actress and Best Actress respectively. An Education won Best Film from both the Sundance Film and Mill Valley Film Festivals, it would later go on to win Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Four members of the cast were nominated for awards at the London Film Critics' Circle, along with the film and screenplay. Hornby subsequently received eleven more nominations for his work on the screenplay. Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard both received awards from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, where they were the recipients of the Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction award. The 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards saw the film's cast earn a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film's music, costume, and hair and make-up also earned four nominations among them. __TOC__

Awards and nominations Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients Result Academy Award 7 March 2010 Best Picture Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Adapted Screenplay Nick Hornby Alliance of Women Film Journalists 15 December 2009 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Breakthrough Performance Carey Mulligan Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard British Academy Film Awards 21 February 2010 Best Film An Education Outstanding British Film An Education Best Director Lone Scherfig Best Adapted Screenplay Nick Hornby Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Supporting Actor Alfred Molina Best Costume Design Odile Dicks-Mireaux Best Make-Up and Hair Lizzie Yianni Georgiou Orange Rising Star Award Carey Mulligan British Independent Film Awards 6 December 2010 Best British Independent Film An Education Best Director Lone Scherfig Best Screenplay Nick Hornby Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Supporting Actor Alfred Molina Best Supporting Actress Rosamund Pike British Society of Cinematographers 18 July 2010 Best Cinematography John de Borman Broadcast Film Critics Association 15 January 2010 Best Picture An Education Best Adapted Screenplay Nick Hornby Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Supporting Actor Alfred Molina Chicago Film Critics Association 21 December 2009 Best Adapted Screenplay Nick Hornby Best Actress Carey Mulligan Most Promising Performer Carey Mulligan Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 16 December 2009 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Supporting Actor Alfred Molina Detroit Film Critics Society 11 December 2009 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Breakthrough Performance Carey Mulligan Empire Awards 28 March 2010 Best British Film An Education Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Newcomer Carey Mulligan Evening Standard British Film Awards 8 February 2010 Best Screenplay Nick Hornby Best Actress Carey Mulligan Film Critics Circle of Australia 31 May 2010 Best Foreign Film in the English Language An Education Golden Globe Awards 17 January 2010 Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture Carey Mulligan Hollywood Film Festival 26 October 2009 Breakthrough Actress Carey Mulligan Houston Film Critics Society 19 December 2010 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Independent Spirit Awards 5 March 2010 Best Foreign Film An Education London Film Critics' Circle 18 February 2010 British Film of the Year An Education Screenwriter of the Year Nick Hornby Actress of the Year Carey Mulligan British Actress of the Year Carey Mulligan British Supporting Actor of the Year Alfred Molina British Supporting Actress of the Year Rosamund Pike Olivia Williams Los Angeles Film Critics 14 December 2009 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Mill Valley Film Festival 8 October 2009 Favourite World Feature An Education Motion Picture Sound Editors 20 February 2010 Best Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Foreign Feature Film An Education Best Music in a Feature Film An Education National Board of Review 12 January 2010 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Online Film Critics Society 6 January 2010 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Producers Guild of America Award24 January 2010 Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey Richard Attenborough Film Awards 28 January 2010 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Rising Star Carey Mulligan San Diego Film Critics Society 15 December 2009 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Santa Barbara International Film Festival 4 February 2010 Virtuoso Award Carey Mulligan Cinema Vanguard Award Peter Sarsgaard Satellite Awards 20 December 2009 Best Drama Film An Education Best Director Lone Scherfig Best Adapted Screenplay Nick Hornby Best Drama Actress Carey Mulligan Best Supporting Actor Alfred Molina Screen Actors Guild 23 January 2010 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Carey Mulligan Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture An Education St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association 21 December 2009 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Sundance Film Festival 15 January 2009 Grand Jury Prize An Education World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic An Education World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic John De Borman Toronto Film Critics Association 16 December 2009 Best Actress Carey Mulligan USC Scripter Award 6 February 2010 Best Screenplay Nick Hornby and Lynn Barber Vancouver Film Critics Circle13 January 2010 Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Supporting Actor Alfred Molina Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association7 December 2009 Best Adapted Screenplay Nick Hornby Best Actress Carey Mulligan Best Supporting Actor Alfred Molina Best Breakthrough Performance Carey Mulligan Women Film Critics Circle 9 December 2009 Karen Morley Award An Education The Invisible Woman Award Olivia Williams Women in Film and TV Awards 3 December 2010 Best Performance Carey Mulligan

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