Mariah Carey videography

American singer Mariah Carey has had an extensive career in film and television throughout her career including multiple music videos, starring in feature films, and several television appearances. After filming and directing multiple music videos for well-acclaimed songs throughout the 1990s, such as "Fantasy", Carey made her big-screen debut in the rom-com, The Bachelor (1999). In 2001, Carey starred in Glitter which followed the story of Billie Frank, a young woman rising to fame as a pop-star, and was released on September 21, 2001. It was a major commercial failure and critical flop being ranked number 21 on IMDb's Bottom 100 Movies of All Time. Despite her initial start, she went on to appear in films WiseGirls (2002), State Property 2 (2005) and Tennessee (2008) with supporting roles. The latter film received higher praise with Carey's role as Krystal, an aspiring young singer, being called "surprisingly effective". Despite the film's mixed reviews, Carey's performance as Raychel in WiseGirls was also given favourable reviews in comparison to her role as Billie Frank in Glitter.

In 2009, Carey starred in Lee Daniels' film Precious as Ms. Weiss, a social worker, which earned her multiple awards and nominations including a win for the Palm Springs International Film Festival Breakthrough Performance Award. Precious was deemed by some to be Carey's comeback and "return to acting". Daniels enlisted her again for his historicaldrama film, The Butler (2013) which earned her a second nomination for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. That same year, she appeared as a judge on the twelfth season of the singing competition television series American Idol alongside Nicki Minaj, Randy Jackson and Keith Urban. In 2018, she also appeared as a key advisor on fifteenth season of The Voice.

In December 2016, Carey starred in her first docu-series, Mariah's World which premiered on the E! cable network. The show followed Carey's Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour around Europe and her then-plans to get married. The series struggled with ratings and was cancelled after one season. Since 2015, Carey has gone on to reinvent her image as the "de facto Christmas-time hostess" with multiple Christmas specials including Hallmark Channel's A Christmas Melody (2015) which marked her directorial debut, and Apple TV's Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special (2020).

Carey has also lent her voice to many animated films, most notably The Star (2017) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). She has also made cameo appearances in numerous films, her first being in Death of a Dynasty (2003) and later on in Girls Trip (2017) among several others. Carey has also recorded theme music for different films and shows such as "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt (1998) soundtrack with Whitney Houston, "Almost Home" from Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), "In the Mix" from Mixed-ish (2019), and "The Star from the 2017 film of the same name which was nominated for the Best Original Song at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.

Having worked with numerous artists throughout her career such as Ol' Dirty Bastard, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Boyz II Men and Ariana Grande, Carey has accumulated over one billion views on her Vevo account. Her music videos have been given high praise with Vogue stating that "since bursting onto the scene in the 1990s, [Carey] has evolved from the American girl next door (jeans and a T-shirt were her staples) to a sultrier, more glamorous aesthetic, complete with a wind machine blowing at all times". Carey has been nominated three times for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video, for the videos "Honey (Bad Boy Remix)", "We Belong Together" and "Touch My Body". In 2021, Carey was honoured at the African American Film Critics Association with a Special Achievement Innovator Award for her "visual storytelling in her music videos and specials".