List of awards and nominations received by Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton is an English actress who has received various awards and nominations, including a British Academy Film Award and five Laurence Olivier Awards. Additionally, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2016, Staunton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in honour of her services to drama.
Staunton debuted in the West End in 1982 and the same year, she earned her first nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for The Beggar's Opera. Her first Laurence Olivier Award win came in 1985, when her performances in A Chorus of Disapproval and The Corn Is Green went on to collect an Olivier Award. Following a second Laurence Olivier Award win in 1991 for her lead performance as the Baker's Wife in the original London production of Into the Woods, Staunton's breakthrough role as the titular 1950s working-class provider of illegal abortions in director Mike Leigh's critically acclaimed drama film Vera Drake (2004) won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and the BAFTA as well as the BIFA Award, the European Film Award and the NYFCC Award, and she was nominated for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Critics' Choice Award. The following year, she appeared in the television film My Family and Other Animals and was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Louisa Durrell.
In 2007, Staunton received international mainstream recognition for playing the antagonist Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth instalment of the Harry Potter film series, and her performance earned her a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. Staunton's other television credits include the 2010 Christmas special miniseries Return to Cranford and the 2012 biographical film The Girl. For her portrayal of Alma Reville Hitchcock in the latter, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award, the BAFTA TV Award and the Critics' Choice Television Award. Staunton's played human rights activist Hefina Headon in the historical comedy Pride (2014) brought her the British Independent Film Award as well as a nomination for the BAFTA Award. Alongside her work on screen, Staunton starred in many plays in the West End and went onto win the Olivier Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for the 2012 London revival of Sweeney Todd, the 2015 London revival of Gypsy, and the 2025 London revival of Hello, Dolly!, as Mrs. Lovett, Momma Rose, and Dolly Gallagher Levi respectively. In 2022, She portrayed Elizabeth II for the final two seasons of The Crown, garnering nominations for the BAFTA, the Golden Globe, and the Primetime Emmy Award.