The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Rachel McAdams.
Rachel McAdams is a Canadian actress. Known for both her dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen, she has received numerous accolades throughout her career including a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Independent Spirit Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for a Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Tony Award. She has also received several audience awards including three MTV Movie Awards, and six Teen Choice Awards with nominations for three People's Choice Awards.
McAdams gained acclaim for her role as Regina George in the teen comedy Mean Girls (2004) for which she won the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance. That same year she starred as the lead in the romance drama The Notebook (2004) earning several Teen Choice Awards including Choice Movie Actress in a Drama Film. In 2005 she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. During this time she acted in a string of successful films such as the raunchy romantic comedy film Wedding Crashers (2005), the family drama The Family Stone (2005), the psychological thriller Red Eye (2005), the romance drama The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), the period mystery action film Sherlock Holmes (2009), the fantasy romance comedy Midnight in Paris (2011), the romance drama The Vow (2012), and the superhero film Doctor Strange (2016).
In 2015, she portrayed journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in the Tom McCarthy directed biographical drama Spotlight for which she earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role. She won an Independent Spirit Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award along with the film's ensemble. In 2018, she acted in the comedic action film Game Night for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. She portrayed a compassionate mother in the coming-of-age film Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) for which she earned numerous critics awards and nominations including a win for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress.
On television, she portrayed a Detective Sergeant in the second season of the HBO mystery-anthology series True Detective (2015) earning a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries. She guest starred as herself in the FXX comedy series Dave (2023) earning a Hollywood Critics Association nomination. On stage, she made her Broadway debut playing a struggling single mother in the Amy Herzog play Mary Jane where she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.