The following is a list of awards and nominations received by the English actor, playwright and theatre director Mark Rylance.
Over his career Rylance gained acclaim for his roles on stage and screen and has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, three Tony Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Awards.
On the West End, he received two Laurence Olivier Awards for his roles in Much Ado About Nothing (1994), and Jerusalem (2010). He was Olivier-nominated for his roles in Arden of Faversham (1983), Twelfth Night (2003), Boeing-Boeing (2008), La Bête (2011), and Farinelli and the King (2016). On Broadway, he received three Tony Awards, two for Best Actor in a Play Boeing-Boeing (2008), and Jerusalem (2011), and for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Twelfth Night (2014). He was Tony-nominated for Richard III (2014) and Farinelli and the King (2018).
On film he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies (2015). He won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture for The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). For his work on television portraying Thomas Cromwell in the BBC miniseries Wolf Hall (2015) he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award.
Major associations
Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Best Supporting Actor Bridge of Spies
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 2015 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Bridge of Spies British Academy Television Awards 2005Best Actor The Government Inspector 2015 Wolf Hall
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Bridge of Spies Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Wolf Hall
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2015 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie Wolf Hall
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1983 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Arden of Faversham 1994 Best Actor Much Ado About Nothing 2003 Twelfth Night 2008 Boeing-Boeing 2010 Jerusalem 2011 La Bête 2013 Twelfth Night 2016 Farinelli and the King
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role Bridge of Spies Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie Wolf Hall 2020Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture The Trial of the Chicago 7 2021 Don't Look Up
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2008Best Leading Actor in a Play Boeing-Boeing 2011 Jerusalem 2014 Richard III Best Featured Actor in a Play Twelfth Night 2018 Best Leading Actor in a Play Farinelli and the King
Other awards and nominations
AACTA International Awards Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of SpiesBest International Supporting Actor in a Film – Cinema 2020 The Trial of the Chicago 7
BBC Radio Times Award Year Nominated work Category Result 1991 The Grass Arena Best Newcomer
Blank Check Awards Year Nominated work Category Result 2022 The Outfit / Bones and All Putters and Murmurs Award
Boston Society of Film Critics Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Chicago Film Critics Association Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Critics' Choice Awards Year Nominated work Category Result Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor 2020 The Trial of the Chicago 7 Best Acting Ensemble Critics' Choice Television Awards 2015 Wolf Hall Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries
Critics' Circle Theatre Awards Year Nominated work Category Result 2009 Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth Best Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Houston Film Critics Society Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Independent Spirit Awards Year Nominated work Category Result 2023 Bones and All Best Supporting Performance
Indiana Film Journalists Association Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
London Film Critics' Circle Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Supporting Actor of the Year
National Society of Film Critics Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
New York Film Critics Online Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Olivier Critics Award Year Nominated work Category Result 2002 Twelfth Night
Online Film Critics Society Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Satellite Awards Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Wolf Hall Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV
Toronto Film Critics Association Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Year Nominated work Category Result 2015 Bridge of Spies Best Supporting Actor
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