This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Tom Wilkinson.
Tom Wilkinson was a British actor known for his roles in on stage and screen. Over his career he received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards.
Wilkinson has received nominations for two Academy Awards: his first for Best Actor for his portrayal of a grieving father in the Todd Field drama In the Bedroom (2001) and his second for Best Supporting Actor for playing an unstable attorney in the Tony Gilroy thriller Michael Clayton (2007). He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as a foreman turned dancer in the comedy The Full Monty (1997). He was BAFTA-nominated for his performances in Shakespeare in Love (1998), In the Bedroom (2001), and Michael Clayton (2007).
On television, Wilkinson portrayed Benjamin Franklin in the HBO historical miniseries John Adams (2008) for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor â Series, Miniseries or Television Film as well as a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. He was Emmy-nominated for his portrayals as a transsexual factory worker in the HBO television movie Normal (2003), James Baker in the HBO political drama Recount (2008), and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in the historical miniseries The Kennedys (2011).
On the West End stage, he was nominated for two Laurence Olivier Awards, his first for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Horatio in a revival of the William Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet (1981), and his second for Actor of the Year in a Revival playing a Dr. Thomas Stockman, the conscientious doctor in a small town, in the revival of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People (1988).