Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor, producer and singer known for his diverse leading man roles onstage and screen. Jackman has received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He was inducted in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012, received a Special Tony Award in 2012, and earned the Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019.
Jackman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the musical epic Les Misérables (2012) and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role. He was Globe-nominated for his roles as a time traveler in the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), P. T. Barnum in the musical drama The Greatest Showman (2017), and an emotional father in the drama The Son (2022). For his role as Wolverine in the X-Men franchise he won four MTV Movie Awards, four People's Choice Awards, and a Saturn Award.
On stage, Jackman won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in the Broadway musical The Boy from Oz (2004). He Tony-nominated for playing Prof. Harold Hill in the Meredith Willson musical revival The Music Man (2022). On the West End stage he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Curly McLain in the revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1999). He also won a Drama Desk Award, two Drama League Awards, a Theater World Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and five Mo Awards.
For his roles on television, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for playing a corrupt superintendent in the HBO film Bad Education (2019). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for hosting the 2005 Tony Awards. Jackman hosted the Tony Awards 4 times: in 2003, 2004, 2005, & 2014, plus hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2008
Major Associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2013 Best Actor Les Misérables
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 2013 Best Actor in a Leading Role Les Misérables
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards2005 Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program 58th Tony Awards 2006 59th Tony Awards 2009 Outstanding Special Class Program 81st Academy Awards 2015 68th Tony Awards 2020 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Bad Education
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2002 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Kate & Leopold 2013 Les Misérables 2018 The Greatest Showman 2023 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama The Son
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2019Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Visual MediaThe Greatest Showman
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2013 Outstanding Actor in a Motion PictureLes Misérables 2013 Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
Laurence Olivier Award Year Category Nominated work Result 1999Best Actor in a MusicalOklahoma!
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2004 Best Actor in a MusicalThe Boy from Oz 2012 Special Tony Award 2022 Best Actor in a MusicalThe Music Man
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Audie Awards2010 Audiobook of the YearNelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales Multi-Voiced Performance AACTA Awards1999 Best Lead ActorErskineville Kings2007International Award for Best ActorThe PrestigeBambi Award 2017Entertainment Award Critics' Choice Awards 2013 Best Movie Actor Les Misérables Best Movie Cast Critics' Choice Super Awards 2025 Best Actor in a Superhero Movie Deadpool & Wolverine Empire Awards 2004Best ActorX2 2014 Empire Icon Award 2018Best ActorLogan https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/star-wars-last-jedi-wins-big-rakuten-tv-empire-awards-2018/asp MTV Movie Awards2001Best Movie On-Screen Team X-MenBest Movie Breakthrough Male Performance2004Best Movie Fight X-Men 22010Best Movie Fight X-Men Origins: Wolverine2017 Best Movie Performance Logan Best Movie Duo Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award2014Favorite Male Butt KickerThe Wolverine2015Favorite Movie ActorX-Men: Days of Future PastFavorite Male Action StarPeople's Choice Awards2010 Favorite Action StarX-Men Origins: Wolverine Favorite Movie Actor Favorite On-Screen Team2012 Favorite Action Movie ActorReal Steel Favorite Movie Actor2014Prisoners / The Wolverine Favorite Dramatic Movie ActorPrisoners Favorite Action Movie ActorThe Wolverine2015 Favorite Movie ActorX-Men: Days of Future Past People's Choice Awards 2015: The winner's list , Entertainment Weekly, Retrieved January 8, 2015 Favorite Action Movie Actor Razzie Award 2014 Worst Screen Combo Movie 43 Saturn Award 2001 Best Actor in a Film X-Men 2007 The Fountain 2013 Les Misérables 2018 Logan 2025 Best Supporting Actor in a Film Deadpool & Wolverine Slammy Awards 2014 Raw Guest Star of the Year Hugh Jackman Spike Video Game Awards 2009 Best Performance by a Human Male X-Men: Origins – Wolverine
Theatre awards
Organizations Year Category Work Result Astaire Awards 2012 Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway Chita Rivera Awards 2022 Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show The Music Man Drama Desk Award2004Outstanding Actor in a MusicalThe Boy from OzDrama League Award 2004Distinguished Performance The Boy from Oz 2022Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Hugh Jackman 2026Distinguished PerformanceSexual Misconduct of the Middle ClassesRubino, Sophia 2026 Drama League Awards Nominations Announced Broadway.com, April, 20, 2026Helpmann Awards2007Best Male Actor in a MusicalThe Boy from OzTheatre World Award2004 Theatre World Award The Boy from OzOuter Critics Circle Award 2004 Best Actor in a Musical The Boy from OzMo Awards 1996 Male Musical Theatre Performer of the Year Beauty and the Beast 1997 Male Musical Theatre Performer of the Year Sunset Boulevard 2003 Australian Showbusiness Ambassador Hugh Jackman 2004 Australian Showbusiness Ambassador Hugh Jackman 2006 Australian Performer of the Year Hugh Jackman
Honorary awards and citations
Organizations Year Award Result People magazine 2008 "Sexiest Man Alive" title Grauman's Chinese Theatre 2009 Hand and Footprint ceremony Hollywood Walk of Fame 2012 Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Guinness World Record 2019 "Longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero" portraying Wolverine for 17 years Companion of the Order of Australia 2019 Medal, the highest of the four levels of the Order of Australia
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