List of awards and nominations received by Holly Hunter

American actress Holly Hunter has received numerous accolades throughout her career.

Hunter achieved her breakthrough in 1987, taking on the lead role of Jane Craig in the film Broadcast News, earning her first nominations at the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards, while also winning the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival. For her performance as Ada McGrath, a mute Scottish woman, in the 1993 period drama film The Piano directed by Jane Campion, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress as well as the corresponding prizes at the AACTA Awards, BAFTA Awards, Cannes Film Festival, and Golden Globe Awards. During the same year she had a supporting role in the legal thriller The Firm, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. The 2003 teen drama film Thirteen garnered her further nominations at the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards, while her work in the 2017 romantic comedy The Big Sick earned her two nominations at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has also been recognized for her voice acting as Helen Parr / Elastigirl in the Pixar animated film The Incredibles (2004) and its sequel Incredibles 2 (2018), achieving an Annie Award nomination for the latter.

For her work on television, Hunter has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the television films Roe vs. Wade (1989) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993). She received additional Emmy nominations for Harlan County War, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (both 2000), When Billie Beat Bobby (2001), and Saving Grace (2007–2010).