Awards & Winners

Jeff Daniels

Date of Birth 19-February-1955
Place of Birth Athens
(Clarke County, Georgia, United States of America, Area codes 706 and 762, Area code 706, Area code 762)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Jeffrey Warren Daniels, Jeffry Warren "Jeff" Daniels, Daniels, Jeff
Profession Actor, Musician, Playwright, Film director, Screenwriter, Songwriter
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician, and playwright. He founded a nonprofit theater company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway, and has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage, along with his other three castmates. His film debut was in 1981's Ragtime, and his most recent film is Looper in 2012. For his work, he has received four Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture—Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo. He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several others for his work in The Squid and the Whale. He played Debra Winger’s husband in the 1983 Oscar-winning film Terms of Endearment. Currently, he stars as Will McAvoy in Aaron Sorkin's HBO television series The Newsroom, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2013.

Awards by Jeff Daniels

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jeff Daniels.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series The Newsroom
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series The Newsroom
Role: Will McAvoy

2013


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series
Honored for : The Newsroom
(We Just Decided To, as Will McAvoy)

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series The Newsroom
We Just Decided To","as Will McAvoy
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series The Newsroom
Role: Will McAvoy
Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama The Newsroom

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama The Newsroom

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play God of Carnage

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture The Lookout
Role: Lewis

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The Squid and the Whale
role: Bernard Berkman
Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead The Squid and the Whale
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Good Night, and Good Luck

2005


Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance
Honored for : The Squid and the Whale

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor The Squid and the Whale
Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance The Squid and the Whale
Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance Good Night, and Good Luck

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The Hours

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Comedy or Musical Pleasantville

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo Dumb & Dumber

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Something Wild

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The Purple Rose of Cairo
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play Lemon Sky

1983


Obie Award for Performance
Honored for : Johnny Got His Gun

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play Johnny Got His Gun

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Fifth of July