Filipino actor Dingdong Dantes has received several awards and nominations throughout his career in the entertainment industry. He is known for his acting versatility and played dramatic and fantasy-action roles in movies and television. His accolades include 11 times Box Office Entertainment Awards, 5 times PMPC Star Awards for Television, 3 times EdukCircle Awards, 2 times FAMAS Award, 2 times EDDYS Awards, 2 times Metro Manila Film Festival for Best Actor, 1 time Manila International Film Festival for Best Actor, a Seoul International Drama Awards Asian Star Prize, an Asian Academy Creative Awards for Best Entertainment Host, a Nickeledon Kids Choice Awards, a Gawad Pasado Award and a Gawad Tanglaw Award and a PMPC Star Awards for Movie including nominations from Gawad Urian Award, Golden Screen Awards for Movie, Luna Award and an Asian Television Awards nomination.
Dantes first acting debut in television was in the youth oriented show T.G.I.S. playing one of the main characters as Iñaki Torres in 1997. He acted opposite Tanya Garcia in drama series Sana ay Ikaw na Nga (2001) and Twin Hearts (2003). He gained further recognition in the fantasy-action series Encantadia (2005) and Atlantika (2006).
He solidified his place as the "Kapuso Primetime King" when he was paired with his wife Marian Rivera in Marimar (2007), and they continued to work in Dyesebel (2008), Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang (2009), Endless Love (2010) and My Beloved (2012) which gave them a Box Office Entertainment Awards for popular loveteam in 2009 and 2010 and two nominations for Dantes in Best Drama Actor category at PMPC Star Awards for Television in 2010 and 2012. The couple worked in two romantic comedy movies One True Love (2008) and You to Me Are Everything (2010).
Dantes received his first Best Actor award in the Korean TV adaptation series Stairway to Heaven (2009) at the 24th PMPC Star Awards for Television and a nomination from Asian Television Awards. In 2015, Dantes won a Best Actor award at the Golden Screen TV Awards in the series Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real (2015) opposite Maricel Soriano and Lovi Poe. The following year, he returned with an action-series Alyas Robin Hood (2016) and won his second Best Drama Actor at the 31st PMPC Star Awards for Television.
In movies, Dantes co-starred with Kris Aquino and Angelica Panganiban in horror movie Segunda Mano (2011) and won a Best Actor award at 37th Metro Manila Film Festival and nominations from FAMAS Award, Luna Award, Golden Screen Movie Award and PMPC Star Awards for Movie. The next year, he returned in the movie One More Try co-starred Angel Locsin, Angelica Panganiban and Zanjoe Marudo; Dantes won his second Best Actor award at the 38th Metro Manila Film Festival and a Gawad Tanglaw Award for Best Actor with nominations from FAMAS Award, Luna Award and PMPC Star Awards for Movie. He starred with Anne Curtis-Smith in ' (2019) and won The EDDYS Best Actor Award and received nominations from Gawad Urian Award, Luna Award and PMPC Star Awards for Movies.
In 2023, Dantes and Marian Rivera returned to mainstream and starred in the movie Rewind, a Star Cinema's movie entry to 49th Metro Manila Film Festival. Rewind was a box office success with a movie gross of â±924 million, becoming the highest grossing film of all time and the highest grossing movie in history of Metro Manila Film Festival. He received a Phenomenal Box Office Star and Most Popular Loveteam award with his wife Marian Rivera and Film Actor award at the Box Office Entertainment Awards in 2024. He also received a Best Actor award at the 1st Manila International Film Festival.
As a television host, he received 4 awards from PMPC Star Awards for Television, a Golden Screen TV Awards, an EdukCircle Award and an Asian Academy Creative Awards.