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Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)

Awards

Promising Young Woman

116 wins & 195 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

  • Ashley Fox at an event for The Oscars (2021)
    2021 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Motion Picture of the Year
    • Ben Browning (producer)
    • Ashley Fox (producer)
    • Emerald Fennell (producer)
    • Josey McNamara (producer)
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Achievement in Directing
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Oscar
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell (written by)
  • 2021 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Achievement in Film Editing
    • Frédéric Thoraval

American Cinema Editors, USA

  • 2021 Nominee Eddie
    • Best Edited Feature Film - Comedy
    • Frédéric Thoraval

Bodil Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2022 Nominee Bodil
    • Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke-amerikanske film)
    • Emerald Fennell

BAFTA Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Ben Browning
    • Emerald Fennell
    • Ashley Fox
    • Josey McNamara
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Screenplay (Original)
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner BAFTA Film Award
    • Outstanding British Film of the Year
    • Emerald Fennell
    • Ben Browning
    • Ashley Fox
    • Josey McNamara
  • 2021 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Editing
    • Frédéric Thoraval
  • Anthony Willis
    2021 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Original Score
    • Anthony Willis

Critics Choice Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner Critics Choice Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee Critics Choice Award
    • Best Picture
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Critics Choice Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Critics Choice Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee Critics Choice Award
    • Best Hair and Makeup

Casting Society of America, USA

  • Mary Vernieu
    2021 Nominee Artios Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Studio or Independent Feature - Drama
    • Mary Vernieu
    • Lindsay Graham

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2020 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Best Picture
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2020 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Winner Milos Stehlik Award
    • Most Promising Filmmaker
    • Emerald Fennell

Costume Designers Guild Awards

  • Nancy Steiner
    2021 Winner CDG Award
    • Excellence in Contemporary Film
    • Nancy Steiner
    • Brian Valenzuela (illustrator) (plaque)
    • Claudia Sarbu (supervisor) (plaque)

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee DFWFCA Award
    • Best Picture
    2nd place
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner DFWFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee DFWFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
    2nd place
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner DFWFCA Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Directors Guild of America, USA

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
    • Emerald Fennell

European Film Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner European Film Award
    • European Discovery
    • Emerald Fennell

Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2020 Nominee FFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
    Tied with Viola Davis for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) in second place
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee FFCC Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2020 Winner FFCC Award
    • Best First Film

Golden Globes, USA

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Director - Motion Picture
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Motion Picture - Drama

Satellite Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Auteur Award
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee Satellite Award
    • Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee Satellite Award
    • Best Motion Picture, Drama
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Satellite Award
    • Best Screenplay, Original
    • Emerald Fennell

Goya Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2022 Nominee Goya
    • Best European Film (Mejor Película Europea)

Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards

  • Angie Wells
    2021 Nominee Artisan
    • Best Contemporary Makeup - Feature-Length Motion Picture
    • Angie Wells
    • Brigitte Hennech
    • Adam Christopher
  • Daniel Curet
    2021 Nominee Artisan
    • Best Contemporary Hair Styling - Feature-Length Motion Picture
    • Daniel Curet
    • Bryson Conley
    • Lee Ann Brittenham

Film Independent Spirit Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Independent Spirit Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Independent Spirit Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner Independent Spirit Award
    • Best Female Lead
    • Carey Mulligan

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner KCFCC Award
    • Best Film
    Tied with Nomadland (2020)
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner KCFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner KCFCC Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Sierra Award
    • Breakout Filmmaker of the Year
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee Sierra Award
    • Best Picture
    3rd place

London Critics Circle Film Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee ALFS Award
    • Film of the Year
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee ALFS Award
    • Actress of the Year
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee ALFS Award
    • British/Irish Actress of the Year
    • Carey Mulligan
    Shared with: The Dig
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee ALFS Award
    • Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year
    • Emerald Fennell

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2020 Winner LAFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Winner LAFCA Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

MTV Movie + TV Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee MTV Movie + TV Award
    • Best Movie
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee MTV Movie + TV Award
    • Best Performance in a Movie
    • Carey Mulligan

National Board of Review, USA

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner NBR Award
    • Top Ten Films

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee OFCS Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee OFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner OFCS Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner OFCS Award
    • Best Debut
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee OFCS Award
    • Best Picture
    3rd place

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner International Star Award
    • Carey Mulligan

PGA Awards

  • Ashley Fox at an event for The Oscars (2021)
    2021 Nominee PGA Award
    • Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
    • Josey McNamara
    • Ben Browning
    • Ashley Fox
    • Emerald Fennell

Danish Film Awards (Robert)

  • Emerald Fennell
    2022 Nominee Robert
    • Best English Language Film (Årets engelsksprogede film)
    • Emerald Fennell (director)

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee SDFCS Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner SDFCS Award
    • Best Picture
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner SDFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner Cinema Vanguard Award
    • Carey Mulligan

Screen Actors Guild Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee Actor
    • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
    • Carey Mulligan

Art Directors Guild

  • Liz Kloczkowski
    2021 Nominee Excellence in Production Design Award
    • Contemporary Film
    • Michael Perry
    • Liz Kloczkowski (art director)
    • Cristina Colissimo (graphic artist)
    • Ashley Hankla (graphic artist)
    • Rae Deslich (set decorator)

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee SEFCA Award
    • Best Picture
    4th place
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee SEFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee SEFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee TFCA Award
    • Best First Feature

Writers Guild of America, USA

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner WGA Award (Screen)
    • Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell (written by)

Writers' Guild of Great Britain

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award
    • Best First Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

World Soundtrack Awards

  • Anthony Willis
    2020 Nominee World Soundtrack Award
    • Discovery of the Year
    • Anthony Willis

Vancouver Film Critics Circle

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee VFCC Award
    • Best Film
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee VFCC Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee VFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan

Amanda Awards, Norway

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Amanda
    • Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske spillefilm)
    • Emerald Fennell

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner PFCS Award
    • Top Ten Films
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner PFCS Award
    • Best Actress in a Leading Role
    • Carey Mulligan

Austin Film Critics Association

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee AFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner AFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee AFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner AFCA Award
    • Best First Film
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee AFCA Award
    • Best Film
    3rd place

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee WAFCA Award
    • Best Film
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee WAFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee WAFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner WAFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Set Decorators Society of America, USA

  • 2021 Winner SDSA Award
    • Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Contemporary Feature Film
    • Rae Deslich (set decoration)
    • Michael Perry (production design)

International Cinephile Society Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee ICS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan

North Texas Film Critics Association, US

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee NTFCA Award
    • Best Picture
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner NTFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee NTFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell

St. Louis Film Critics Association, US

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner SLFCA Award
    • Best Soundtrack
  • 2021 Nominee SLFCA Award
    • Best Production Design
    • Michael Perry
  • Benjamin Kracun Director of Photography
    2021 Nominee SLFCA Award
    • Best Cinematography
    • Benjamin Kracun
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner SLFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Bo Burnham
    2021 Nominee SLFCA Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Bo Burnham

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee EDA Award
    • Best Picture
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee EDA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner EDA Award
    • Best Writing, Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee EDA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner EDA Female Focus Award
    • Best Woman Director
    • Emerald Fennell

Detroit Film Critics Society Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee DFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee DFCS Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

New York Film Critics, Online

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner NYFCO Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner NYFCO Award
    • Best Debut as Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner NYFCO Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner NYFCO Award
    • Top Films of the Year

Indiana Film Journalists Association, US

  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee IFJA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee IFJA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2020 Nominee IFJA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Bo Burnham
    2020 Nominee IFJA Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Bo Burnham
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee IFJA Award
    • Breakout of the Year
    • Emerald Fennell (writer and director)

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee DFCC
    • Best Film
    6th place
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee DFCC
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
    3rd place
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee DFCC
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
    3rd place
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee DFCC
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
    2nd place

Iowa Film Critics Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee IFC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan

Denver Film Critics Society

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner DFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Bo Burnham
    2021 Nominee DFCS Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Bo Burnham
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee DFCS Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

IGN Summer Movie Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2020 Nominee IGN Award
    • Best Lead Performer in a Movie
    • Carey Mulligan

CinEuphoria Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2022 Nominee CinEuphoria
    • Best Film - International Competition
    • Emerald Fennell (director)
    • Tom Ackerley (producer)
    • Ben Browning (producer)
    • Ashley Fox (producer)
    • Josey McNamara (producer)
    • Margot Robbie (producer)
  • Emerald Fennell
    2022 Winner CinEuphoria
    • Top Ten of the Year - International Competition
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2022 Nominee CinEuphoria
    • Best Actress - International Competition
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2022 Nominee CinEuphoria
    • Best Screenplay - International Competition
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2022 Nominee CinEuphoria
    • Best Poster - International Competition

Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA)

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee GAFCA Award
    • Best Picture
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee GAFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner GAFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner GAFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Liz Kloczkowski
    2021 Nominee GAFCA Award
    • Best Production Design
    • Michael Perry
    • Liz Kloczkowski

Boston Online Film Critics Association

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2020 Nominee BOFCA Award
    • Best Film
    8th place

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee Dorian Award
    • Film of the Year
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Dorian Award
    • Director of the Year
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Dorian Award
    • Screenplay of the Year
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner Dorian Award
    • Film Performance of the Year - Actress
    • Carey Mulligan

Utah Film Critics Association Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee UFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee UFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner OFCC Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner OFCC Award
    • Top Ten Films

Houston Film Critics Society Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best Picture
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner HFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner HFCS Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Online Film & Television Association

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner OFTA Film Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Bo Burnham
    2021 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Breakthrough Performance: Male
    • Bo Burnham
  • Mary Vernieu
    2021 Winner OFTA Film Award
    • Best Casting
    • Lindsay Graham
    • Mary Vernieu
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner OFTA Film Award
    • Best Feature Debut
    • Emerald Fennell

Huading Award

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee Huading Award
    • Best Global Actress in a Motion Picture
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Huading Award
    • Best Global Writing for a Motion Picture
    • Emerald Fennell

Women Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner WFCC Award
    • Best Movie About Women
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee WFCC Award
    • Best Movie by a Woman
    • Emerald Fennell
    2nd place
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee WFCC Award
    • Best Woman Storyteller
    • Emerald Fennell
    2nd place
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner WFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner Adrienne Shelly Award

Indiewire Critics' Poll

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2020 Winner ICP Award
    • Best First Feature
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee ICP Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
    4th place

North Carolina Film Critics Association

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee NCFCA Award
    • Best Narrative Film
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee NCFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee NCFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee NCFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Phoenix Critics Circle

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee PCC Award
    • Best Picture
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner PCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee PCC Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee PCC Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Gold Derby Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner Gold Derby Film Award
    • Lead Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Nancy Steiner
    2021 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Costume Design
    • Nancy Steiner
  • 2021 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Film Editing
    • Frédéric Thoraval
  • Ashley Fox at an event for The Oscars (2021)
    2021 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Motion Picture
    • Josey McNamara
    • Ben Browning
    • Ashley Fox
    • Emerald Fennell

Nevada Film Critics Society

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner NFCS Award
    • Best Film
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner NFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner NFCS Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner NFCS Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee Movies for Grownups Award
    • Best Ensemble

AACTA International Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner AACTA International Award
    • Best Film
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee AACTA International Award
    • Best Direction
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner AACTA International Award
    • Best Lead Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee AACTA International Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Guild of Music Supervisors Awards

  • Susan Jacobs at an event for 2017 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (2017)
    2021 Winner GMS Award
    • Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under 10 Million Dollars
    • Susan Jacobs

The Queerties

  • Laverne Cox
    2021 Winner Queerty
    • Film Performance
    • Laverne Cox

Hawaii Film Critics Society

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best Film
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best New Filmmaker
    • Emerald Fennell

Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee PFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
    Tied with Aubrey Plaza for Black Bear (2020) in 2nd place

Atlanta Film Critics Circle

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee AFCC Award
    • Best Film
    2nd place
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner AFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner AFCC Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner AFCC Special Award
    • Best First Film
    • Emerald Fennell

Music City Film Critics' Association Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee MCFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner MCFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee MCFCA Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner MCFCA Award
    • Best Film
    • Emerald Fennell
    • Tom Ackerley
    • Ben Browning
    • Ashley Fox
    • Josey McNamara
    • Margot Robbie

Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee LEJA Award
    • Best Picture
    • Ben Browning
    • Emerald Fennell
    • Margot Robbie
    • Tom Ackerley
    • Josey McNamara
    • Ashley Fox
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee LEJA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner LEJA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee LEJA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • 2021 Nominee LEJA Award
    • Best Production Design and Set Design
    • Michael Perry
    • Rae Deslich

Online Association of Female Film Critics

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner OAFFC Award
    • Best Film
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee OAFFC Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner OAFFC Award
    • Best Female Lead
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner OAFFC Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
    Tied with Eliza Hittman for Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner OAFFC Award
    • Breakthrough Filmmaker
    • Emerald Fennell

Hollywood Critics Association

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner Filmmaker on the Rise Award
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee HCA Award
    • Best Cast Ensemble
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner HCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner HCA Award
    • Best Picture
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee HCA Award
    • Best Female Director
    • Emerald Fennell

Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2020 Nominee GWNYFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee GWNYFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee GWNYFCA Award
    • Breakthrough Director
    • Emerald Fennell

DiscussingFilm Critic Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee DFCA Award
    • Best Motion Picture
    2nd place
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner DFCA Award
    • Best Film Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner DFCA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee DFCA Award
    • Best Use of Music
    2nd place for music: "Angel of the Morning"

Días de Cine Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2022 Nominee Días de Cine Award
    • Best Foreign Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
    4th place

North Dakota Film Society

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee NDFS Award
    • Best Picture
    • Emerald Fennell
    • Ben Browning
    • Margot Robbie
    • Tom Ackerley
    • Josey McNamara
    • Ashley Fox
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee NDFS Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee NDFS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Bo Burnham
    2021 Nominee NDFS Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Bo Burnham
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner NDFS Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

ReFrame

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner ReFrame Stamp
    • Top 100 Most Popular Narrative & Animated Feature
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner ReFrame Stamp
    • Narrative & Animated Feature

Sunset Film Circle Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee SFC Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
    2nd place
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Winner SFC Award
    • Directors to Watch
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Carey Mulligan
    2020 Winner SFC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2020 Winner SFC Award
    • Best Film

Chicago Indie Critics Awards (CIC)

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee CIC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Bo Burnham
    2021 Nominee CIC Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Bo Burnham
  • Margot Robbie
    2021 Nominee CIC Award
    • Best Independent Film
    • Margot Robbie
    • Josey McNamara
    • Ben Browning
    • Ashley Fox
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee CIC Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner CIC Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
    Tied with Aaron Sorkin for The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Columbus Film Critics Association

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner COFCA Award
    • Breakthrough Film Artist
    • Emerald Fennell (for producing, directing, and screenwriting)
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee COFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
    2nd place
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner COFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Winner COFCA Award
    • Best Film
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee COFCA Award
    • Best Ensemble
    2nd place

San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee SFBAFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee SFBAFCC Award
    • Best Picture
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee SFBAFCC Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee SFBAFCC Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Seattle Film Critics Society

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee SFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2021 Nominee SFCS Award
    • Best Picture
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee SFCS Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner SFCS Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell

Odyssey Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2022 Nominee Odyssey Award
    • Best Lead Actress
    • Carey Mulligan

Digital Spy Reader Awards

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee Movie Award
    • Best Actor (Female)
    • Carey Mulligan
    3rd place.

Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Awards

  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee MNFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
    2nd place
  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Winner MNFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Bo Burnham
    2021 Nominee MNFCA Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Bo Burnham
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Winner MNFCA Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee MNFCA Award
    • Best Picture
    • Ben Browning
    • Emerald Fennell
    • Margot Robbie
    • Josey McNamara
    • Tom Ackerley
    • Ashley Fox
    2nd place

Society of Filipino Film Reviewers

  • Emerald Fennell
    2022 Winner Pinoy Rebyu Award
    • Best International Film
    • Emerald Fennell
    UK/US

VHS Awards

  • Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman (2020)
    2020 Winner VHS Award
    • Best Film
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee VHS Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell
  • Emerald Fennell
    2020 Nominee VHS Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Emerald Fennell
  • 2020 Nominee VHS Award
    • Best Editing
    • Frédéric Thoraval

International Catholic Film Critics Association

  • Carey Mulligan
    2021 Nominee ICFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Carey Mulligan
  • Emerald Fennell
    2021 Nominee ICFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Emerald Fennell

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