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Known for her roles on stage and screen, she is one of the few performers to have won the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT), having won an Academy Award, a Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards.
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Academy Awards, USA. 2021 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. 2017 Winner Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Fences. 2012 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.
Welcome to the.::Awards & Nominations::.ofSimply Viola Davis, a complete and detailed list of all wins and nominations she received during the years of her career as an actress and director. Awards from 2003 to 2010.
She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in the biopic Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for reprising her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Fences.
Feb 23, 2021 · Davis currently shares the record for the most nominated Black actress in the history of the Academy Awards, tied with close friend Octavia Spencer with three nods apiece.
In 2015, Davis won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her work in ABC's How To Get Away With Murder, making her the first black woman in history to take home the award.