This is a list of awards and nominations that was received by J.K. Simmons.
J. K. Simmons is an American actor. He is known for his extensive character actor roles in film, television and theater. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
For his role as an imperious and demanding jazz professor and conductor Terrence Fletcher in the Damien Chazelle psychological drama Whiplash (2014), he received widespread critical acclaim and earned him 40 accolades, including the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, the Critics' Choice Movie Award, the Golden Globe Award, Independent Spirit Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. He portrayed William Frawley from the sitcom I Love Lucy in Aaron Sorkin directed showbiz drama Being the Ricardos (2021) which earned him his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor.
On television, he received five nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series as part of the ensemble of the TNT police procedural The Closer (2005–2012). He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for the action adventure series Die Hart: Hart to Kill (2025). On stage, he acted in the Jim Luigs opera parody Das Barbecu (1995) for which he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Best Supporting Actor Whiplash 2021 Being the Ricardos
Actor Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2005 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series The Closer 2007 2008 2009 2010 2014 Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role Whiplash
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 2014 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Whiplash
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2007Best Cast Juno 2009 Up in the Air 15th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (2010) – Best Picture: The Hurt Locker 2014 Best Supporting Actor Whiplash 2021 Being the Ricardos
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2025 Outstanding Performer in a Short Form Series Die Hart: Hart To Kill
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Whiplash
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Australian Academy Film Awards 2015 Best International Supporting Actor Whiplash Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2015 Best Supporting Actor Whiplash Drama Desk Awards 1995 Outstanding Actor in a Musical Das Barbecü Independent Spirit Awards 2014 Best Supporting Male Whiplash MTV Movie Awards 2015 Best Villain Whiplash Palm Springs International Film Festival 2014 Spotlight Award Whiplash Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2015 Virtuoso Award Whiplash Satellite Awards 2015 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Whiplash 2019 Best Actor – Television Series Drama Counterpart 2022 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Being the Ricardos Saturn Awards 2015 Best Supporting Actor Whiplash Village Voice 2014 Best Supporting Actor Whiplash
Critics associations Year Association Category Nominated work Result 2009 Denver Film Critics Society Best Acting Ensemble I Love You, Man Up in the Air Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Best Ensemble 2014 African-American Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Whiplash Austin Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Boston Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor Chicago Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Detroit Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor Florida Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor Houston Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor Las Vegas Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor London Film Critics' Circle Supporting Actor of the Year Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor New York Film Critics Online Best Supporting Actor Phoenix Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor San Diego Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor San Francisco Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor Southeastern Film Critics Association St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Toronto Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Utah Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor 2015 Denver Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor Georgia Film Critics Association Iowa Film Critics National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor North Texas Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Online Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor Vancouver Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor
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