Keira Knightley is an English actress who has received numerous awards including nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and one Laurence Olivier Award.
Knightley made her breakthrough with the 2002 sports comedy-drama film Bend It Like Beckham, for which she won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Newcomer. She would go on to received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for playing Elizabeth Bennet in the period romance Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Joan Clarke in the historical drama The Imitation Game (2014). At age 20-year-old Knightley became the third-youngest Best Actress nominee at the time for the former. She starred alongside James McAvoy in the romantic war drama Atonement (2007) and gained her first nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
On stage, Knightley starred as a flirtatious young woman Célimène who is being courted by several men in Martin Crimp's comedic West End production of The Misanthrope (2009), which earned her a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play in 2010. On television, Knightley starred in the Netflix British spy thriller Black Doves (2024) earning nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2005 Best Actress Pride and Prejudice 2014 Best Supporting Actress The Imitation Game
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 2007 Best Actress in a Leading Role Atonement 2014 Best Actress in a Supporting Role The Imitation Game
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Awards 2005 Best Actress Pride and Prejudice 2014 Best Acting EnsembleThe Imitation Game Best Supporting Actress Best Song "Lost Stars" (from Begin Again) Critics' Choice Television Awards 2025 Best Actress in a Drama Series Black Doves
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2005 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Pride and Prejudice 2007 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Atonement 2014 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture The Imitation Game 2024 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Black Doves
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture The Imitation Game Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2010 Best Actress in a Supporting Role The Misanthrope
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result AACTA International Awards 2014 Best Supporting ActressThe Imitation Game Australian Film Institute 2014 Best Supporting Actress British Independent Film Awards 2005 Variety Award Herself 2008 Best Actress The Duchess 2010 Best Supporting Actress Never Let Me Go 2014 Best Actress The Imitation Game Empire Awards 2002 Best Newcomer The Hole 2003 Best British Actress Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2004 Best British Actress King Arthur 2005 Best Actress Pride and Prejudice 2006 Best Actress Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2007 Best Actress Atonement 2011 Empire Hero Award Herself 2014 Best Actress The Imitation Game Evening Standard Theatre Awards2010 Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play The Misanthrope European Film Awards 2012 European Actress Anna Karenina Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year 2016 Theater Icon Award Herself 2018 British Actress of the Year Colette Hollywood Film Awards 2014 Best Supporting Actress The Imitation Game Irish Film & Television Academy 2003 Best International Actress Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Jupiter Award 2014 Best International Actress Begin Again Kids' Choice Awards 2007 Favorite Female Movie Star Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2008 Favorite Movie Actress Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End MTV Movie Awards 2003 Best Breakthrough Performance – Female Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2006 Best Performance Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Palm Springs International Film Festival 2014 Ensemble Cast The Imitation Game People's Choice Awards 2006 Favorite On-Screen Match-Up Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2007 Favorite Female Action Star Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2008 Favorite Female Movie Star The Duchess 2014 Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress The Imitation Game Satellite Awards 2005 Best Actress – Drama Pride and Prejudice 2012 Best Actress – Motion Picture Anna Karenina 2014 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture The Imitation Game Saturn Awards 2003 Best Supporting Actress Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2010 Best Supporting Actress Never Let Me Go A Dangerous Method Teen Choice Awards 2004 Choice Movie: ChemistryPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Choice Movie: Liplock 2005 Choice Movie Actress: Action King Arthur 2006 Choice Movie Actress: Action/Drama Pride and Prejudice 2006 Choice Movie: Hissy Fit Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Choice Movie: Liplock Choice Movie: Scream Choice Movie Actress: Action/Drama 2007 Choice Movie Actress: Action Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2008 Choice Movie Actress: Drama Atonement 2017 Choice: Lip Lock Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 2019 Choice Movie: Actress Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Visual Effects Society Awards 2003 Outstanding Actor in an Effects Film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Critics awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2012 Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction Anna Karenina Most Egregious Age Difference Between the Leading Man and the Love Interest Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Central Ohio Film Critics Association 2014 Best Supporting Actress The Imitation Game Chicago Film Critics Association 2005 Best Actress Pride and Prejudice Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2005 Best Actress Pride & Prejudice 2014 Best Supporting Actress The Imitation Game Houston Film Critics Society 2014 Best Supporting Actress London Film Critics' Circle Awards 2003 Best Newcomer Bend It Like Beckham 2005 British Actress of the Year Pride and Prejudice 2014 Begin Again / The Imitation Game / Laggies National Society of Film Critics 2005 Best Actress Pride and Prejudice North Carolina Film Critics Association 2014 Best Supporting Actress The Imitation Game Online Film Critics Society 2003 Best Breakthrough Performance Bend It Like Beckham 2006 Best Actress Pride and Prejudice Phoenix Film Critics Society 2014 Best Supporting Actress The Imitation Game San Diego Film Critics Society 2014 Best Ensemble Best Supporting Actress St. Louis Film Critics Association 2014 Best Supporting Actress Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 2003 Best Ensemble Love Actually 2006 Best Actress Pride and Prejudice Women Film Critics Circle 2019 Best Actress Official Secrets Best Female Action Hero Best Screen Couple
Honorary awards Organizations Year Award Result Harper's Bazaar 2016 Theater Icon Award Elle Magazine 2018 Woman of the Year Award Queen Elizabeth II 2018 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
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See also List of British actors List of British Academy Award nominees and winners List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees – Youngest nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role List of actors with Academy Award nominations List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories List of Keira Knightley performances