This is a list of awards and nominations that was received by J.K. Simmons.
J. K. Simmons is an American actor. He is known for his extensive character actor roles in film, television and theater. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
For his role as an imperious and demanding jazz professor and conductor Terrence Fletcher in the Damien Chazelle psychological drama Whiplash (2014), he received widespread critical acclaim and earned him 40 accolades, including the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, the Critics' Choice Movie Award, the Golden Globe Award, Independent Spirit Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. He portrayed William Frawley from the sitcom I Love Lucy in Aaron Sorkin directed showbiz drama Being the Ricardos (2021) which earned him his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor.
On television, he received five nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series as part of the ensemble of the TNT police procedural The Closer (2005âÂÂ2012). He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for the action adventure series Die Hart: Hart to Kill (2025). On stage, he acted in the Jim Luigs opera parody Das Barbecu (1995) for which he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.