List of awards and nominations received by Willem Dafoe

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor Willem Dafoe.

Dafoe made his film debut in Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980) before earning his first Academy Award nomination for Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986). In 1988 he starred as Jesus Christ in Martin Scorsese's religious epic The Last Temptation of Christ and as an FBI Agent Alan Parker's racial drama Mississippi Burning. He also made appearances in Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989), John Waters' Cry-Baby (1990), David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), and Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996) and Mary Harron's American Psycho (2000).

In 2002, he gained international recognition for his portrayal as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002), further reprising the role in Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). He also became known for his appearances in Wes Anderson films including, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The French Dispatch (2021). In the 21st century he has earned critical acclaim and awards nominations for his performances in Sean Baker's The Florida Project (2017), Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse (2019).

He has earned many awards and nominations for his performances including four Academy Award nominations, a British Academy Film Award nomination, three Golden Globe Award nominations, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations.