English actress Carey Mulligan has received several awards, including a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Tony Award.
She has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances as a teenage school girl in the coming-of-age drama film An Education (2009), an assault survivor bent on revenge in Promising Young Woman (2020), and Felicia Montealegre in the biographical romantic drama in Maestro (2023). She was Golden Globe-nominated for her roles for An Education (2009), Promising Young Woman (2020), She Said (2021) and Maestro (2023). She received the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress for Promising Young Woman (2020).
She rose to prominence after being nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for An Education in 2009. The following year, Mulligan won the BIFA for Best Actress in a British Independent Film for playing in the dystopian romantic Never Let Me Go, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. In 2011, she earned further acclaim for her supporting roles in Nicolas Winding Refn's action drama Drive and Steve McQueen's erotic drama Shame. Mulligan's performance as Daisy Buchanan in the 2013 film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic drama The Great Gatsby earned her nomination for the AACTA Award for Best Actress.
On stage, Mulligan was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of David Hare's Skylight (2015). She received Drama Desk Award nominations for her roles in the Anton Chekov revival The Seagull (2008), the Ingmar Bergman adaptation Through a Glass Darkly (2011), the David Hare revival Skylight (2015), and the Dennis Kelly play Girls & Boys (2019). For the later she was also nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress.