This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Christopher Walken.
Christopher Walken is an American actor known for his performances on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Actor Award as well as nominations for two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe. Walken's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion in the United States.
Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a rural Pennsylvania steel worker who goes to fight in Vietnam in the Michael Cimino war drama The Deer Hunter (1978). He was Oscar-nominated for playing the father of con man Frank Abagnale in the Steven Spielberg directed biographical crime comedy-drama Catch Me If You Can (2002). The role for the later earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the Actor Award in the same category.
For his roles on television, he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for playing a widowed farmer in the CBS movie Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for playing an elderly worker at a biotechnology corporation in the Apple TV+ psychological thriller series Severance (2022âÂÂpresent).
On stage, he received two Tony Award nominations, his first for Best Actor in a Musical for playing the protagonist in the Broadway musical James Joyce's The Dead (2000) and for Best Actor in a Play for mysterious one handed man in Martin McDonagh's black comedy play A Behanding in Spokane (2010). For his roles off Broadway he won a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and a Theatre World Award.
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I Shared with Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, and Allison Janney.<br /> II Shared with Patricia Arquette, Michael Chernus, Zach Cherry, Michael Cumpsty, Dichen Lachman, Britt Lower, Adam Scott, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, and John Turturro.<br /> III Shared with John Travolta.<br /> IV Tied with Fan Wei for The Parking Attendant in July.<br /> V Shared with Michael Rooney and Spike Jonze.<br /> VI Shared with Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Linda Bright Clay, Kevin Corrigan, Woody Harrelson, à ½eljko Ivanek, Long Nguyen, Christine Marzano, Tom Waits, Brendan Sexton III, Olga Kurylenko, Bonny, Gabourey Sidibe, Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Harry Dean Stanton.