List of awards and nominations received by John Lithgow

John Lithgow is an American actor. Over his extensive career with diverse roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including four Actor Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and three Tony Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Lithgow received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances as a transsexual ex-football player in the comedy-drama The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in the family drama Terms of Endearment (1983). He portrayed Roger Ailes in the political drama Bombshell (2019) and prosecutor Peter Leaward in the westerncrime dramaKillers of the Flower Moon (2023). For both films, Lithgow along with ensemble received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awardfor Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

On television, he has received six Primetime Emmy Awards. He won his first for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series playing lonely man in Amazing Stories (1986), followed by three wins for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as Dick Solomon in the NBCsitcom3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001). He later won for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for playing a serial killer in the crime series Dexter (2010), and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series playing Winston Churchill in the Netflix historical drama series The Crown (2017).

Lithgow started his career acting in numerous productions at The Public Theater and off Broadway. He gained acclaim for his extensive work on Broadway, where he has received two Tony Awards. He won his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for playing a rugby player in The Changing Room (1973), and Best Actor in a Musical playing newspapercolumnist J.J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (2002). Lithgow was also Tony-nominated for his roles in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), and The Columnist (2012). On the West End he portrayed Roald Dahl in the Mark Rosenblatt play Giant (2024) for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor.