Actor Edward Norton has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Emmy Awards.
Norton has been nominated for four Academy Awards for his performances as a murder suspect in Primal Fear (1996), a neo-Nazi leader in American History X (1998), an egotistical actor in Birdman (2014), and singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown (2024). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in Primal Fear (1996) and was Globe-nominated for Birdman (2014) and A Complete Unknown (2024). He won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture with the ensemble of the Wes Anderson comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
For his work on television, he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special nomination for the HBO documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009). He was also nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming for the Netflix animated children's program Ask the StoryBots (2019).
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1997 Best Supporting Actor Primal Fear 1999 Best Actor American History X 2015 Best Supporting Actor Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2025 A Complete Unknown
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1997 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Primal Fear 2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2025 A Complete Unknown
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2013Best Acting EnsembleMoonrise Kingdom 2015 The Grand Budapest Hotel Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Supporting Actor 2023 Best Acting Ensemble Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2025 Best Supporting Actor A Complete Unknown
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2010 Outstanding Nonfiction Special By the People: The Election of Barack Obama Daytime Emmy Award 2019 Outstanding Performer in a Children's ProgramAsk the StoryBots (episode: "What Is Electricity?")
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1997 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Primal Fear 2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2025 A Complete Unknown
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture The Grand Budapest Hotel 2025 A Complete Unknown Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role
Miscellaneous awards AACTA International Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Best Supporting Actor Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boston Society of Film Critics Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Best Supporting Actor Primal Fear rowspan="3" Everyone Says I Love You The People vs. Larry Flynt 2024 A Complete Unknown
Chicago Film Critics Association Year Category Nominated work Result 1997 Most Promising Actor Everyone Says I Love You Primal Fear Best Supporting Actor 2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Detroit Film Critics Society Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Best Ensemble Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Supporting Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Best Supporting Actor Everyone Says I Love You Primal Fear The People vs. Larry Flynt
Gotham Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2012 Best Ensemble Cast Moonrise Kingdom
Houston Film Critics Society Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Best Supporting Actor Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Independent Spirit Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2007 Best Lead Male The Painted Veil 2015 Best Supporting Male Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
London Film Critics' Circle Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Supporting Actor of the Year Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Best Supporting Actor Primal Fear Everyone Says I Love You The People vs. Larry Flynt
MTV Movie & TV Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1997 Best Villain Primal Fear 2000 Best Fight Fight Club
National Board of Review Year Category Nominated work Result 1997 Best Supporting Actor Everyone Says I Love You 2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Online Film Critics Society Year Category Nominated work Result 1999 Best Actor American History X 2000 Fight Club 2014 Best Supporting Actor Birdman
San Diego Film Critics Society Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Best Performance by an Ensemble The Grand Budapest Hotel Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Supporting Actor
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Best Supporting Actor Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Satellite Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1999 Best Actor – Drama American History X 2001 Best Actor – Comedy or Musical Keeping the Faith 2003 Best Actor – Drama 25th Hour 2005 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Kingdom of Heaven 2015 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2020 Auteur Award Motherless Brooklyn Best Adapted Screenplay
Saturn Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1997 Best Supporting Actor Primal Fear 1999 Best Actor American History X
Society of Texas Film Critics Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Best Supporting Actor Primal Fear The People vs. Larry Flynt
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Year Category Nominated work Result 2007 Best Actor The Painted Veil 2014 Best Supporting Actor Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Best Supporting Actor Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Best Ensemble Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Supporting Actor
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