Derek Jacobi awards and nominations
Jacobi in 2013
Award	Wins	Nominations
BAFTA Award	1	5
Laurence Olivier Award	2	3
Tony Award	1	2
Emmy Award	2	3
Screen Actors Guild Award	2	3

Derek Jacobi is an English actor of the stage and screen. Jacobi has received various awards for his work in film, television and the theatre including a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

For his work in theatre Jacobi received two Tony Award nominations winning for his performance in a Broadway revival of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in 1985. He also received three Laurence Olivier Award nominations winning twice for Best Actor for his performances for revivals of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1983, and Twelfth Night in 2009. For his work on television and film, he has been nominated for five BAFTAs, winning for Best Actor for I, Claudius in 1976. He also received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning twice for his performances in The Tenth Man (1988), and Frasier in 2001. For his work on film he received three Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nominations, winning twice with the ensemble casts of Gosford Park (2001), and The Kings Speech (2010).

Major associations

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1992	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Dead Again	Nominated
British Academy Television Awards
1977	Best Actor	I, Claudius	Won	^[1]
1978		Philby, Burgess and MacLean	Nominated
1998		Breaking the Code	Nominated
2013		Last Tango in Halifax	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1989	Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television	The Tenth Man	Nominated

Olivier Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1983	Best Actor in a Revival	Cyrano de Bergerac	Won
1986	Best Actor	Breaking the Code	Nominated
2009	Best Actor	Twelfth Night	Won

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1982	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special	Inside the Third Reich	Nominated	^[2]
1989		The Tenth Man	Won
2001	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	Frasier	Won

Screen Actors Guild Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Gladiator	Nominated	^[3]
2001		Gosford Park	Won
2010		The King's Speech	Won

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1985	Best Actor in a Play	Much Ado About Nothing	Won	^[4]
1988	Best Actor in a Play	Breaking the Code	Nominated	^[4]

Theatre Awards

Drama Desk Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1980	Outstanding Actor in a Play	The Suicide	Nominated
1985	Outstanding Actor in a Play	Much Ado About Nothing / Cyrano de Bergerac	Nominated
1988	Outstanding Actor in a Play	Breaking the Code	Nominated

Evening Standard Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1983	Best Actor	Much Ado About Nothing	Won
1987	Best Actor	Little Dorrit	Won
1999	Best Actor	Love is the Devil	Won

Critics Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1983	Critics' Circle Theatre Awards	Best Actor	Cyrano de Bergerac Much Ado About Nothing	Won
2002	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Best Acting Ensemble	Gosford Park	Won
2002	Florida Film Critics Circle Award	Best Cast		Won
2002	Online Film Critics Society Award	Best Ensemble		Won
2002	Satellite Award	Best Cast - Motion Picture		Won
2010	Santa Barbara International Film Festival	Best Acting Ensemble	The King's Speech	Won
2010	Phoenix Film Critics Society	Best Ensemble Acting	The King's Speech	Nominated

Film

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1998	Satellite Award	Best Actor - Film Drama	Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon	Nominated
1998	Edinburgh International Film Festival	Best Actor		Won

Audio

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2019	BBC Audio Drama Awards	Best Actor	The War Master: Beneath the Viscoid	Shortlisted

Honorary

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
2008	Lifetime Achievement	Helen Hayes Award	Won

References

External links

Awards for Derek Jacobi

v t e BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor
1955–1975	Paul Rogers (1955) Peter Cushing (1956) Michael Gough (1957) Michael Hordern (1958) Donald Pleasence (1959) Patrick McGoohan (1960) Lee Montague (1961) Rupert Davies (1962) Harry H. Corbett (1963) Alan Badel (1964) Patrick Wymark (1965) Alan Badel (1966) Warren Mitchell (1967) Eric Porter (1968) Roy Dotrice (1969) Edward Woodward (1970) Keith Michell (1971) John Le Mesurier (1972) Anthony Hopkins (1973) Frank Finlay (1974) Peter Barkworth (1975)
1976–2000	John Hurt (1976) Derek Jacobi (1977) Peter Barkworth (1978) Edward Fox (1979) Alec Guinness (1980) Denholm Elliott (1981) Anthony Andrews (1982) Alec Guinness (1983) Alan Bates (1984) Tim Pigott-Smith (1985) Bob Peck (1986) Michael Gambon (1987) David Jason (1988) Ray McAnally (1989) John Thaw (1990) Ian Richardson (1991) Robert Lindsay (1992) John Thaw (1993) Robbie Coltrane (1994) Robbie Coltrane (1995) Robbie Coltrane (1996) Nigel Hawthorne (1997) Simon Russell Beale (1998) Tom Courtenay (1999) Michael Gambon (2000)
2001–present	Michael Gambon (2001) Michael Gambon (2002) Albert Finney (2003) Bill Nighy (2004) Rhys Ifans (2005) Mark Rylance (2006) Jim Broadbent (2007) Andrew Garfield (2008) Stephen Dillane (2009) Kenneth Branagh (2010) Daniel Rigby (2011) Dominic West (2012) Ben Whishaw (2013) Sean Harris (2014) Jason Watkins (2015) Mark Rylance (2016) Adeel Akhtar (2017) Sean Bean (2018) Benedict Cumberbatch (2019) Jared Harris (2020) Paul Mescal (2021) Sean Bean (2022) Ben Whishaw (2023)

Drama League's Distinguished Performance Award

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

1975–2000

Anthony Quayle (1975)
Ed Flanders (1976)
Burgess Meredith (1977)
Howard da Silva (1978)
Marlon Brando (1979)
George Grizzard (1980)
David Warner (1981)
Laurence Olivier (1982)
Richard Kiley (1983)
Art Carney (1984)
Karl Malden (1985)
John Malkovich (1986)
Dabney Coleman (1987)
John Shea (1988)
Derek Jacobi (1989)
Vincent Gardenia (1990)
James Earl Jones (1991)
Hume Cronyn (1992)
Beau Bridges (1993)
Michael A. Goorjian (1994)
Donald Sutherland (1995)
Tom Hulce (1996)
Beau Bridges (1997)
George C. Scott (1998)
Peter O'Toole (1999)
Hank Azaria (2000)

2001–present

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

1986–2000

Roscoe Lee Browne (1986)
John Cleese (1987)
Cleavon Little (1989)
Jay Thomas (1990)
Jay Thomas (1991)
No Award (1992)
David Clennon (1993)
Martin Sheen (1994)
Carl Reiner (1995)
Tim Conway (1996)
Mel Brooks (1997)
Mel Brooks (1998)
Mel Brooks (1999)
Bruce Willis (2000)

2001–present

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor

Richard Burton (1955)
Paul Scofield (1956)
Laurence Olivier (1957)
Michael Redgrave (1958)
Eric Porter (1959)
Alec Guinness (1960)
Christopher Plummer (1961)
Paul Scofield (1962)
Michael Redgrave (1963)
Nicol Williamson (1964)
Ian Holm (1965)
Albert Finney (1966)
Laurence Olivier (1967)
Alec McCowen (1968)
Nicol Williamson (1969)
John Gielgud (1970)
Alan Bates (1971)
Laurence Olivier (1972)
Alec McCowen (1973)
John Wood (1974)
John Gielgud (1975)
Albert Finney (1976)
Donald Sinden (1977)
Alan Howard (1978)
Warren Mitchell (1979)
Tom Courtenay (1980)
Alan Howard (1981)
Alec McCowen (1982)
Derek Jacobi (1983)
Ian McKellen (1984)
Antony Sher (1985)
Albert Finney (1986)
Michael Gambon (1987)
Eric Porter (1988)
Ian McKellen (1989)
Richard Harris (1990)
John Wood (1991)
Nigel Hawthorne (1992)
Ian Holm (1993)
Tom Courtenay (1994)
Michael Gambon (1995)
Paul Scofield (1996)
Ian Holm (1997)
Kevin Spacey (1998)
Stephen Dillane (1999)
Simon Russell Beale (2000)
Alex Jennings (2001)
Simon Russell Beale (2002)
Michael Sheen (2003)
Richard Griffiths (2004)
Simon Russell Beale (2005)
Rufus Sewell (2006)
Patrick Stewart (2007)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2008)
Mark Rylance (2009)
Rory Kinnear (2010)
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller (2011)
Simon Russell Beale (2012)
Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear (2013)
Tom Hiddleston (2014)
James McAvoy (2015)
Ralph Fiennes (2016)
Andrew Garfield (2017)
Ralph Fiennes (2018)
Andrew Scott (2019)
James McAvoy (2022)

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor

1976–1984
and 1988

Revival	Alan Howard (1976) Ian McKellen (1977) Alan Howard (1978) Warren Mitchell (1979) Jonathan Pryce (1980) Daniel Massey (1981) Stephen Moore (1982) Derek Jacobi (1983) Ian McKellen (1984) Brian Cox (1988)
New Play	Paul Copley (1976) Michael Bryant (1977) Tom Conti (1978) Ian McKellen (1979) Roger Rees (1980) Trevor Eve (1981) Ian McDiarmid (1982) Jack Shepherd (1983) Brian Cox (1984) David Haig (1988)

1985 onwards
(except 1988)

Antony Sher (1985)
Albert Finney (1986)
Michael Gambon (1987)
Oliver Ford Davies (1989/1990)
Ian McKellen (1991)
Nigel Hawthorne (1992)
Robert Stephens (1993)
Mark Rylance (1994)
David Bamber (1995)
Alex Jennings (1996)
Antony Sher (1997)
Ian Holm (1998)
Kevin Spacey (1999)
Henry Goodman (2000)
Conleth Hill (2001)
Roger Allam (2002)
Simon Russell Beale (2003)
Matthew Kelly (2004)
Richard Griffiths (2005)
Brian Dennehy (2006)
Rufus Sewell (2007)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2008)
Derek Jacobi (2009)
Mark Rylance (2010)
Roger Allam (2011)
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller (2012)
Luke Treadaway (2013)
Rory Kinnear (2014)
Mark Strong (2015)
Kenneth Cranham (2016)
Jamie Parker (2017)
Bryan Cranston (2018)
Kyle Soller (2019)
Andrew Scott (2020)
No Ceremony (2021)
Hiran Abeysekera (2022)
Paul Mescal (2023)

v t e Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play
1947–1975	José Ferrer / Fredric March (1947) Henry Fonda / Paul Kelly / Basil Rathbone (1948) Rex Harrison (1949) Sidney Blackmer (1950) Claude Rains (1951) José Ferrer (1952) Tom Ewell (1953) David Wayne (1954) Alfred Lunt (1955) Paul Muni (1956) Fredric March (1957) Ralph Bellamy (1958) Jason Robards Jr. (1959) Melvyn Douglas (1960) Zero Mostel (1961) Paul Scofield (1962) Arthur Hill (1963) Alec Guinness (1964) Walter Matthau (1965) Hal Holbrook (1966) Paul Rogers (1967) Martin Balsam (1968) James Earl Jones (1969) Fritz Weaver (1970) Brian Bedford (1971) Cliff Gorman (1972) Alan Bates (1973) Michael Moriarty (1974) John Kani and Winston Ntshona (1975)
1976–2000	John Wood (1976) Al Pacino (1977) Barnard Hughes (1978) Tom Conti (1979) John Rubinstein (1980) Ian McKellen (1981) Roger Rees (1982) Harvey Fierstein (1983) Jeremy Irons (1984) Derek Jacobi (1985) Judd Hirsch (1986) James Earl Jones (1987) Ron Silver (1988) Philip Bosco (1989) Robert Morse (1990) Nigel Hawthorne (1991) Judd Hirsch (1992) Ron Leibman (1993) Stephen Spinella (1994) Ralph Fiennes (1995) George Grizzard (1996) Christopher Plummer (1997) Anthony LaPaglia (1998) Brian Dennehy (1999) Stephen Dillane (2000)
2001–present	Richard Easton (2001) Alan Bates (2002) Brian Dennehy (2003) Jefferson Mays (2004) Bill Irwin (2005) Richard Griffiths (2006) Frank Langella (2007) Mark Rylance (2008) Geoffrey Rush (2009) Denzel Washington (2010) Mark Rylance (2011) James Corden (2012) Tracy Letts (2013) Bryan Cranston (2014) Alex Sharp (2015) Frank Langella (2016) Kevin Kline (2017) Andrew Garfield (2018) Bryan Cranston (2019) No Ceremony (2020) Andrew Burnap (2021) Simon Russell Beale (2022) Sean Hayes (2023)