List of awards and nominations received by Ben Kingsley

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley is an English actor who has received and been nominated for numerous accolades through his career, which include an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2002 he was made a Knight by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the British film industry. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and the Britannia Award in 2013.

Kingsley received the Academy Award for Best Actor for the title role in the biographical epic drama Gandhi (1982). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Bugsy (1991), Sexy Beast (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Gandhi (1982). Kingsley received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993).

For his television roles he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for playing Simon Wiesenthal in the HBO film Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989), Potiphar in the TNT miniseries Joseph (1995), Otto Frank in the ABC miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), and Herman Tarnower in the HBO film Mrs. Harris (2005). He won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for his role as Otto Frank in Anne Frank: The Whole Story and received nominations for playing Sweeney Todd in the television film The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1997), and Ay, the Grand Vizier in the Spike miniseries Tut (2015).

For his work in the theatre, Kingsley received Laurence Olivier Award nominations for the Best Comedy Performance for his role in the revival of William Shakespeare's comedic play The Merry Wives of Windsor (1980) and the Actor of the Year in a New Play for his role as Edmund Kean in the Raymund Fitzsimons one character play Kean (1983) on the West End. Kingsley reprised the role on Broadway.