This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Elle Fanning.
Elle Fanning is an American actress known for work in film and television. She started as a child actor before transitioning to more mature roles. Over her career she has worked across genres ranging from Hollywood blockbusters to Independent dramas. She has received various accolades including nominations for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, six Critics' Choice Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Fanning made her film debut in the child custody drama I Am Sam (2001), which co-starred her older sister Dakota, she followed with supporting roles in the family comedy Daddy Day Care (2003), the family comedy-drama Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), the psychological drama Babel (2006), and the fantasy romance drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). She then transitioned into leading roles where she received critical attention as well as nominations for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer for the Sofia Coppola drama Somewhere (2010), the J. J. Abrams science-fiction thriller Super 8 (2011) and the Sally Potter the coming-of-age drama Ginger & Rosa (2012), which she was also nominated for a British Independent Film Award.
She also portrayed Princess Aurora in the Disney fantasy film Maleficent (2014) and its sequel ' (2019). For the former she was nominated for a Saturn Award, a Teen Choice Award, and a Kids' Choice Award. She then focused her career on independent films such as the historical drama Trumbo (2015), the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (2016), the coming-of-age dramedy 20th Century Women (2016), and reunited with Sofia Coppola in the Southern Gothic thriller The Beguiled (2017). She portrayed Sylvie Russo in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (2024) for which she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.
On television, she portrayed Catherine the Great in the Hulu satirical period dramedy The Great (2020âÂÂ2023) earning nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress â Television Series Musical or Comedy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. She also played Michelle Carter in the Hulu crime miniseries The Girl from Plainville (2022) earning nominations for a Hollywood Critics Association TV Award and a Satellite Award. On stage, she first appeared on Broadway playing a hippie in the Branden Jacobs-Jenkins family drama play Appropriate (2023).