Joan Allen is an American actress who has received various awards and nominations, including a Canadian Screen Award and a Tony Award. Additionally, she has been nominated for three Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
Allen's off-Broadway debut in And a Nightingale Sang (1983) earned her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. Her first Broadway role came in 1987 with playwright Lanford Wilson's Burn This, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Following further Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominations in 1989 for her performance in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, Allen played First Lady Pat Nixon in director Oliver Stone's 1995 biographical film Nixon and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The following year, she appeared in the historical drama The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor, a woman accused of witchcraft, and went on to receive nominations for her work in supporting actress categories at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. Allen's portrayal of Eve Archer, the wife of an FBI agent cheated on by a man who has usurped her husband's identity, in the commercially successful action thriller Face/Off (1997) garnered her international mainstream recognition as well as a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1998, her performance in the fantasy film Pleasantville brought her the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Comedy or Musical.
Allen starred in the political drama The Contender (2000) as Senator Laine Hanson, a vice presidential nominee who becomes the object of a scandal, and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. In 2001, Allen played Morgause in the miniseries The Mists of Avalon and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. For her lead performance as an alcoholic housewife in the 2005 comedy The Upside of Anger, Allen earned a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress nomination. She returned to television in 2009 with the biographical film Georgia O'Keeffe, serving as its executive producer and also portraying the eponymous American modernist painter, a role for which she was bestowed with Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Allen's appearance as Nancy Newsome in the 2015 drama Room won her the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Awards and nominations
+ Award Year Work Category Result Academy Awards 1996NixonBest Supporting Actress19972001Best ActressBlockbuster Entertainment Awards 1998Face/OffFavorite Supporting Actress – Action or Adventure2001Favorite Actress – DramaBoston Society of Film Critics1995NixonBest Supporting Actress19961998PleasantvilleBritish Academy Film Awards1996NixonBest Actress in a Supporting RoleBritish Independent Film Awards2005YesBest ActressCanadian Screen Awards 2016RoomBest Supporting ActressChicago Film Critics Association1996NixonBest Supporting Actress199719981999Pleasantville2001Best Actress2006Chlotrudis Awards1999PleasantvilleBest Supporting ActressClarence Derwent Awards1984And a Nightingale SangMost Promising Female Performer – USCritics' Choice Movie Awards1997Best Supporting Actress1999Pleasantville2001Alan J. Pakula Award2006Best ActressDallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2001Best Actress2005Drama Desk Awards1984And a Nightingale SangOutstanding Actress in a Play19861989Drama-Logue Awards1987Burn ThisOutstanding PerformanceEmpire Awards 1998Best ActressFlorida Film Critics Circle 1997Best Supporting ActressGolden Apple Awards 2000—Female Star of the YearGolden Globe Awards1997Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture2001Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama2010Georgia O'KeeffeBest Actress – Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TelevisionIndependent Spirit Awards 2001Best Female LeadJeff Awards (Equity) 1983And a Nightingale SangOutstanding Actress in a Principal Role – Play19861990RecklessKansas City Film Critics Circle 1995NixonBest Supporting ActressLondon Film Critics' Circle 1999Actress of the Year2007Los Angeles Film Critics Association1995NixonBest Supporting Actress1998PleasantvilleMovies for Grownups Awards 2006Best Grownup Love Story2016RoomBest Supporting ActressNational Society of Film Critics 1995NixonBest Supporting ActressNew York Film Critics Circle1995NixonBest Supporting ActressObie Awards 1985Distinguished Ensemble PerformanceOnline Film Critics Society1999PleasantvilleBest Supporting Actress2001Best Actress2006Outer Critics Circle Awards1984And a Nightingale SangOutstanding Debut Performance – Female2019Outstanding Featured Actress in a PlayPrimetime Emmy Awards 2002Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2010Georgia O'KeeffeOutstanding Made for Television MovieOutstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a MovieProducers Guild of America Awards2010Georgia O'KeeffeOutstanding Producer of Long-Form TelevisionSan Diego Film Critics Society 2005Best ActressSatellite Awards1997Best Supporting Actress – Drama1998Best Actress – Drama1999PleasantvilleBest Supporting Actress – Comedy or Musical2001Best Actress – Drama2005Best Actress – Comedy or MusicalSaturn Awards1998Face/OffBest Supporting Actress1999Pleasantville2009Death RaceScreen Actors Guild Awards1996NixonOutstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading RoleOutstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2001Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role2010Georgia O'KeeffeOutstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television MovieSeattle International Film Festival2005YesBest ActressShoWest1998Supporting Actress of the YearSociety of Texas Film Critics1995NixonBest Supporting ActressTeen Choice Awards 1999PleasantvilleFunniest SceneTheatre World Awards1984And a Nightingale SangBest Debut PerformanceTony Awards1988Burn ThisBest Actress in a Play1989Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2016RoomBest Supporting Actress in a Canadian FilmWashington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 2005Best Actress
Honors + Awarding institution Year Honor Chicago International Film Festival2012Silver Hugo Career Achievement AwardCostume Designers Guild2006Distinguished Actor AwardHamptons International Film Festival2003Golden Starfish Award for Career AchievementHigh Falls Film Festival2004Susan B. Anthony "Failure is Impossible" AwardJackson Wild2005Nellie Tayloe Ross AwardPalm Springs International Film Festival2001Spotlight AwardSan Francisco International Film Festival2005Peter J. Owens Award
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