Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress who has received various accolades throughout her career, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and a Satellite Award, as well as earning nominations for three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and an AACTA Award.
Vikander began her acting career in 2002 and made her feature film debut in the 2010 drama Pure, starring as a high school dropout determined to create a new identity to escape her troubled upbringing. For her performance in the film she received the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and in 2011 she received the Shooting Stars Award from the Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, she played Caroline Matilda of Great Britain in Danish historical drama A Royal Affair with Mads Mikkelsen, for which she was nominated in the Best Actress category at both the Bodil Awards and Robert Award, and she made her English-language debut playing Kitty in the 2012 film adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina—the role brought her international recognition.
Vikander starred as wartime nurse Vera Brittain in the 2014 drama Testament of Youth, for which she was nominated at the British Independent Film Awards. In 2015 she received awards in the Best Supporting Actress category from the Chicago Film Critics Association, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Toronto Film Critics Association, and Vancouver Film Critics Circle for her portrayal of an android in psychological thriller Ex Machina. In the same year, she portrayed Danish painter Gerda Wegener, the wife of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, in The Danish Girl, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Awards and nominations Award Year Film(s) Category Result AACTA Awards 2016 Best Supporting Actress – International Academy Awards 2016 Best Supporting Actress Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2013 Best Breakthrough Performance 2016 Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Ex MachinaTestament of YouthThe Danish Girl Best Breakthrough Performance Austin Film Critics Association 2015 Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Best Breakthrough Artist Berlin International Film Festival 2011— Shooting Stars Bodil Awards 2013 Best Actress Boston Society of Film Critics 2015 Unspecified Best Supporting Actress British Academy Film Awards 2013— Rising Star 2016 Best Actress Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress British Independent Film Awards 2014 Testament of Youth Best Actress 2015 2024 The Assessment Best Lead Performance Chicago Film Critics Association 2015 Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Critics' Choice Documentary Awards 2019 Anthropocene: The Human EpochBest Narration Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2016 Best Supporting Actress Critics' Choice Super Awards 2022 Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2015 Ex MachinaBest Supporting Actress Detroit Film Critics Society 2015Best Supporting Actress Ex Machina Ex Machina Best Breakthrough Dorian Awards 2016— Rising Star Empire Awards 2013 Anna Karenina Best Female Newcomer 2015 Ex Machina Best Actress 2016 European Film Awards 2015 Ex Machina Best Actress Florida Film Critics Circle 2015 Best Supporting Actress Ex MachinaThe Danish Girl Pauline Kael Breakout Award Golden Globe Awards 2016 Best Actress – Drama Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Guldbagge Awards 2010 Pure Best Actress Hamptons International Film Festival 2012— Varietys Ten Actors to Watch Hollywood Film Awards 2015 Breakout Actress Houston Film Critics Society 2016Best Supporting Actress Ex Machina International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2010 Pure Special Mention Ischia Global Film & Music Festival 2015— Breakout Actress of the Year Jupiter Award 2017 Best International Actress London Film Critics' Circle 2016 Ex Machina Supporting Actress of the Year Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2015 Best Supporting Actress Marrakech International Film Festival 2013 Hotell Best Actress Molodist 2011 Pure Best Young Actress MTV Movie Awards 2016 Ex Machina Best Female Performance National Society of Film Critics 2016 Best Supporting Actress New York Film Critics Online 2015 Ex MachinaThe Danish Girl Best Breakthrough Performance Online Film Critics Society 2015 Best Supporting Actress Palm Springs International Film Festival 2016 Rising Star Robert Award 2013 Best Actress San Diego Film Critics Society 2015 Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Ex MachinaThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.Burnt Best Body of Work Ex Machina Breakthrough Artist San Francisco Film Critics Circle 2015 Best Supporting Actress Ex Machina Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2016— Virtuoso Award Satellite Awards 2016 Best Supporting Actress Saturn Awards 2016 Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Screen Actors Guild Awards 2016 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role St. Louis Film Critics Association 2015 Best Actress Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Stockholm International Film Festival 2010— Rising Star Teen Choice Awards 2016 Choice Actress: Drama 2016 Jason Bourne Choice AnTEENcipated Movie Actress 2018 Tomb Raider Choice Action Movie Actress Toronto Film Critics Association 2015 Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2015 Best Supporting Actress Best Supporting Actress Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Ex Machina Best Supporting Actress Women Film Critics Circle
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