| + Laurence Fishburne awards and nominations | ||
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Laurence Fishburne is an American actor of the stage and screen.
He has received various accolades throughout is career, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor thanks to his portrayal of Ike Turner in the film What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). He has also received a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
For his work on television, he has earned eleven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning three times for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for TriBeCa (1993), Outstanding Made for Television Movie as a producer of Miss Evers' Boys (1997), and Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for
(2017). He has also been nominated five times at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, thanks to The Tuskegee Airmen (1996), Mystic River (2003), Bobby (2006), Thurgood (2011), and Black-ish (2017, 2018).
For his work on stage, he has received two Tony Award nominations, winning once for Best Featured Actor in a Play for August Wilson's Two Trains Running in 1992.
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 1993 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | TriBeCa The Box | [2] | |
| 1996 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | The Tuskegee Airmen | [3] | |
| 1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | [4] | ||
| Outstanding Made for Television Movie | ||||
| 2011 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | Thurgood | [5] | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Black-ish | [6] | |
| Outstanding Narrator | Roots | |||
| 2017 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Black-ish | [7] | |
| 2018 | [8] | |||
| Outstanding Narrator | Year Million: Homo Sapien 2.0 | |||
| 2020 | Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Series |
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| The Snowy Day | ||||
| 2023 | Outstanding Children's or Young Teen Animated Series | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | [10] | |
| Outstanding Animated Special | ||||
| Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program | ||||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| The Tuskegee Airmen | [11] | |||
| Mystic River | [12] | |||
| Bobby | [13] | |||
| Thurgood | [14] | |||
| Black-ish | [15] | |||
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| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| Best Featured Actor in a Play | Two Trains Running | [17] | ||
| 2008 | Best Actor in a Play | Thurgood | [18] | |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 2000 | Best Supporting Actor | The Matrix | ||
| 2015 | Best Supporting Actor on Television | Hannibal | ||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 2006 | Outstanding Motion Picture (Producer) | Akeelah and the Bee | ||
| 2006 | Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role | |||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 2000 | Best Actor | The Matrix | ||
| 2007 | Best Supporting Actor | Akeelah and the Bee | ||
| Best Motion Picture (Producer) | ||||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 1994 | Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | What's Love Got to Do with It | ||
| 1995 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Higher Learning | ||
| 1996 | Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Othello | ||
| 1998 | Hoodlum | |||
| 2000 | The Matrix | |||
| 2004 | The Matrix Revolutions | |||
| 2006 | Assault on Precinct 13 | |||
| 2007 | Akeelah and the Bee | |||
| 2012 | Contagion | |||
| NAACP Television Award | ||||
| 1996 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series | The Tuskegee Airmen | ||
| 1998 | Miss Evers' Boys | |||
| 1999 | Always Outnumbered | |||
| 2009 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | |||
| 2010 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | |||
| 2011 | ||||
| 2021 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Black-ish | ||
| Outstanding Performance in a Short-Form Series |
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| NAACP Theatre Awards | ||||
| 2005 | Lifetime Achievement Award | |||
| 2007 | Best Male Lead – Equity | Without Walls | ||