This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Robin Wright.
Robin Wright is an American actress who has received various awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight Primetime Emmy Awards, three Daytime Emmy Awards, three Critics' Choice Television Awards, and ten Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Wright started her career in a guest role in the soap opera The Yellow Rose from 1983 to 1984. She gained prominence portraying Kelly Capwell in the NBC Daytime soap opera Santa Barbara from 1984 to 1988. The role earned her three consecutive nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. The role also earned her two Soap Opera Digest Awards nominations with a win for Outstanding Heroine: Daytime in 1988. She made her feature film debut as a supporting role in the sex comedy Hollywood Vice Squad (1986).
On film, she gained her breakthrough as Princess Buttercup in the Rob Reiner fantasy romance The Princess Bride (1987), for which she was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress. She gained further stardom playing the troubled love interest Jenny Curran in the Robert Zemeckis directed comedy-drama epic Forrest Gump (1994) for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role. She took a part in the romance drama She's So Lovely (1997) for which she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role.
Wright is also known for her performances in independent film starring as a woman involved in an abusive relationship in the psychological thriller Loved (1997) for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She played a woman reunited with a former lover in the anthology drama film Nine Lives (2005), for which she won the Locarno International Film Festival Best Actress Award as well as nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and the Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Performance. For her role as an anxious network producer in the drama Sorry, Haters (2005) she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
On television, she acted in the HBO limited series Empire Falls (2005) for which she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie. She gained further acclaim for her portrayal of Claire Underwood in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards (2013–2017) for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and was nominated for three Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series and six Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. As a producer, she received nominations nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Producers Guild Award.
Major associations Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Television Awards 2014 Best Actress in a Drama Series House of Cards 2016 2018 2025 Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries The Girlfriend
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2013 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series House of Cards 2014 2015 2016 Outstanding Drama Series 2017 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series 2019 Daytime Emmy Awards 1986 Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series Santa Barbara 1987 1988
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1994 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Forrest Gump 2013Best Actress – Television Series DramaHouse of Cards 2014 2015 2025 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film The Girlfriend
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1994 Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role Forrest Gump 1997 Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role She's So Lovely 2005 Outstanding Female Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Empire Falls 2014 Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series House of Cards Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series 2015 Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series 2016 2017 2018
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Nominated work Result Blockbuster Entertainment Awards1999 Favorite Actress – Drama/Romance Message in a Bottle 2000 Favorite Supporting Actress – Suspense Unbreakable British Independent Film Awards2006 Best Actress Breaking and Entering Gold Derby Awards 2014 Best Actress in a Drama Series House of Cards 2015 2016 2017 Gotham Awards2005 Best Ensemble Performance Nine Lives Independent Spirit Awards1997 Best Female Lead Loved 2005 Best Supporting Female Nine Lives 2006 Best Female Lead Sorry, Haters Locarno International Film Festival2005 Best Actress Nine Lives Online Film & Television Association 2013 Best Actress in a Drama Series House of Cards 2014 2015 2016 2017 Producers Guild of America Awards2016 Best Episodic Drama House of Cards Satellite Awards1996Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Moll Flanders 2005 Nine Lives 2013Best Actress – Television Series DramaHouse of Cards 2014 2015 Saturn Awards1987 Best Actress The Princess Bride 1992 Best Supporting Actress Toys 1994 Forrest Gump Soap Opera Digest Awards 1986 Outstanding Young Leading Actress on a Daytime Serial Santa Barbara 1988 Outstanding Heroine: Daytime Golden Nymph Awards 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Herself
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