Judy Davis is an Australian actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received eight AACTA Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards.
Davis first came to critical acclaim for her role as a young country girl in the period film My Brilliant Career (1979), for which she won BAFTA Awards for both Best Actress and Most Promising Newcomer. She earned further acclaim in 1984, when she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Adela Quested in the historical epic A Passage to India. Davis's first major American feature in Woody Allen drama Husbands and Wives (1992), saw her nominated for numerous awards for her role as woman trying to find love. She won a National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, the BAFTA for Best Actress.
Davis won three Primetime Emmy Awards, her first for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her performances as Diane Divelbess in the NBC television film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995). For her portrayal of Judy Garland in the television miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) garnered her further acclaim, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie as well as an American Film Institute Award, a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. For her performance as an alcoholic socialite in the miniseries The Starter Wife (2007) she won a third Primetime Emmy Award.
Davis is the most nominated and winning actress in AACTA Award for Leading Actress, with nine nominations, including six win.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1984 Best Actress A Passage to India 1992 Best Supporting Actress Husbands and Wives
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 1980 Most Promising Newcomer My Brilliant Career Best Actress in a Leading Role 1992 Husbands and Wives
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 1982 Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie A Woman Called Golda 1991 Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie One Against the Wind 1995 Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story 1998 Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie The Echo of Thunder 1999 Dash and Lilly 2000 A Cooler Climate 2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows 2003 The Reagans 2006 A Little Thing Called Murder 2007 Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie The Starter Wife 2012 Page Eight 2017 Outstanding Supporting Actress – Limited Series or a Movie Feud: Bette and Joan
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1991 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film One Against the Wind 1992 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Husbands and Wives 1995 Best Supporting Actress – Television Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story 1999 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Dash and Lilly 2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows 2003 The Reagans
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result1982Actress of the Year in a New PlayInsignificance
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1999 Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie A Cooler Climate 2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Ref.AACTA Awards 1979 Best Actress in a Leading Role My Brilliant Career 1981 Winter of Our Dreams Best Actress in a Supporting Role Hoodwink 1986 Best Actress in a Leading Role Kangaroo 1987 High Tide 1989 Georgia 1993 Best Actress in a Supporting Role On My Own 1996 Best Actress in a Leading Role Children of the Revolution 2002 Swimming Upstream 2008 Best International Actress The Starter Wife 2012 Best Actress in a Leading Role The Eye of the Storm 2015 Best Actress in a Supporting Role The Dressmaker 2018 Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama Mystery Road 2021 Best Actress in a Leading Role Nitram AACTA International Awards 2016 Best Supporting Actress The Dressmaker American Film Institute 2001 Actor of the Year – Female – Movie or Mini-Series Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2011 Best Actress The Eye of the Storm Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 1997 Favorite Supporting Actress – Suspense Absolute Power Gemini Awards 2009 Best Leading Actress in a Miniseries Diamonds Genie Awards 1991 Best Actress in a Supporting Role On My Own Gracie Awards 2007 Outstanding Supporting Actress – Mini-Series The Starter Wife Independent Spirit Awards1991 Best Female Lead Impromptu Inside Film Awards 2003 Best Actress Swimming Upstream 2011 The Eye of the Storm Moscow International Film Festival 1981 Best Actress Winter of Our Dreams National Board of Review 1992 Best Supporting Actress Husbands and Wives Prism Awards 2007 Best Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries The Starter Wife Satellite Awards 2001 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows 2006 A Little Thing Called Murder 2007 Best Supporting Actress – Television The Starter Wife 2009 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Diamonds 2017 Best Supporting Actress – Television Feud
Critics associations Year Association Category Nominated work Result 1984 Boston Society of Film Critics Best ActressA Passage to India 1987 National Society of Film Critics Best Actress High Tide 1991 London Film Critics' Circle Best Actress Barton Fink New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress Boston Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Where Angels Fear to Tread London Film Critics' Circle Best Actress Naked Lunch National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress New York Film Critics Circle 1992 Boston Society of Film Critics Husbands and Wives Chicago Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress London Film Critics Circle Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress New York Film Critics Circle Southeastern Film Critics Association 1996 Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Actor – Female Children of the Revolution 2001 Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actress in a Picture Made for Television Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows 2003 Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Supporting Actor – Female Swimming Upstream 2011 Best Actress – Leading Role The Eye of the Storm
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