List of accolades received by An Education

An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film directed by Lone Scherfig and written by Nick Hornby.^[1] It is based on the memoirs of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber.^[2] The film premiered on 18 January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2009.^[3][4] The film then showed at the Mill Valley Film Festival before being released in the United Kingdom by Sony Pictures Classics on 30 October 2009,^[5] and going into wide release in the United States on 5 February 2010.^[6] An Education earned over $26 million in its combined total gross at the box office.^[6]

List of accolades received by An Education

Carey Mulligan received numerous awards and nominations for her performance in An Education
Awards and nominations Award Won Nominated Academy Award 0 3 Alliance of Women Film Journalists 3 3 British Academy Film Awards 1 9 British Independent Film Awards 1 6 British Society of Cinematographers 0 1 Broadcast Film Critics 0 4 Chicago Film Critics Association 2 3 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 1 2 Detroit Film Critics Society 0 2 Empire Awards 0 3 Evening Standard British Film Awards 0 2 Film Critics Circle of Australia 0 1 Golden Globe Awards 0 1 Hollywood Film Festival 1 1 Houston Film Critics Society 1 1 Independent Spirit Awards 1 1 London Film Critics' Circle 1 7 Los Angeles Film Critics Association 0 1 Mill Valley Film Festival 1 1 Motion Picture Sound Editors 0 2 National Board of Review 1 1 Online Film Critics Society 0 1 Producers Guild of America Awards 0 1 Richard Attenborough Film Awards 2 2 San Diego Film Critics Society 0 1 Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2 2 Satellite Awards 0 5 Screen Actors Guild 0 2 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association 1 1 Sundance Film Festival 2 3 Toronto Film Critics Association 1 1 USC Scripter Award 0 1 Vancouver Film Critics Circle 0 2 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association 1 4 Women Film Critics Circle 2 2 Women in Film and TV Awards 1 1
Total number of wins and nominations
Totals	26	84
References

The film garnered various awards and nominations, ranging from recognition of the film itself to Hornby's screenplay and the cast's acting performances, particularly those of Carey Mulligan and Alfred Molina. The film received three Academy Award nominations, but failed to win any. At the 63rd British Academy Film Awards An Education came away with one award from nine nominations.^[7] Mulligan was named Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards, where the film was nominated for a further six awards. An Education received one nomination, Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture, from the 67th Golden Globe Awards.

Mulligan earned two awards for her performance at the Hollywood Film Festival and Houston Film Critics Society—Breakthrough Actress and Best Actress respectively. An Education won Best Film from both the Sundance Film and Mill Valley Film Festivals, it would later go on to win Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Four members of the cast were nominated for awards at the London Film Critics' Circle, along with the film and screenplay. Hornby subsequently received eleven more nominations for his work on the screenplay. Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard both received awards from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, where they were the recipients of the Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction award. The 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards saw the film's cast earn a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film's music, costume, and hair and make-up also earned four nominations among them.

Awards and nominations

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipients	Result
Academy Award[8][9]	7 March 2010	Best Picture	Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey	Nominated
		Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Nick Hornby	Nominated
Alliance of Women Film Journalists[10]	15 December 2009	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Best Breakthrough Performance	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction	Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard	Won
British Academy Film Awards[11]	21 February 2010	Best Film	An Education	Nominated
		Outstanding British Film	An Education	Nominated
		Best Director	Lone Scherfig	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Nick Hornby	Nominated
		Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Alfred Molina	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Odile Dicks-Mireaux	Nominated
		Best Make-Up and Hair	Lizzie Yianni Georgiou	Nominated
		Orange Rising Star Award	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
British Independent Film Awards[12][13]	6 December 2010	Best British Independent Film	An Education	Nominated
		Best Director	Lone Scherfig	Nominated
		Best Screenplay	Nick Hornby	Nominated
		Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Alfred Molina	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	Rosamund Pike	Nominated
British Society of Cinematographers[14]	18 July 2010	Best Cinematography	John de Borman	Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association[15]	15 January 2010	Best Picture	An Education	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Nick Hornby	Nominated
		Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Alfred Molina	Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association[16]	21 December 2009	Best Adapted Screenplay	Nick Hornby	Nominated
		Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Most Promising Performer	Carey Mulligan	Won
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association[17]	16 December 2009	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Alfred Molina	Nominated
Detroit Film Critics Society[18]	11 December 2009	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
		Breakthrough Performance	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
Empire Awards[19][20]	28 March 2010	Best British Film	An Education	Nominated
		Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
		Best Newcomer	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
Evening Standard British Film Awards[21][22]	8 February 2010	Best Screenplay	Nick Hornby	Nominated
		Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
Film Critics Circle of Australia[23]	31 May 2010	Best Foreign Film in the English Language	An Education	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards[24]	17 January 2010	Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
Hollywood Film Festival[25]	26 October 2009	Breakthrough Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
Houston Film Critics Society[26]	19 December 2010	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
Independent Spirit Awards[27]	5 March 2010	Best Foreign Film	An Education	Won
London Film Critics' Circle[28][29]	18 February 2010	British Film of the Year	An Education	Nominated
		Screenwriter of the Year	Nick Hornby	Nominated
		Actress of the Year	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
		British Actress of the Year	Carey Mulligan	Won
		British Supporting Actor of the Year	Alfred Molina	Nominated
		British Supporting Actress of the Year	Rosamund Pike	Nominated
			Olivia Williams	Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics[30]	14 December 2009	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
Mill Valley Film Festival[31]	8 October 2009	Favourite World Feature	An Education	Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors[32]	20 February 2010	Best Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Foreign Feature Film	An Education	Nominated
		Best Music in a Feature Film	An Education	Nominated
National Board of Review[33]	12 January 2010	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
Online Film Critics Society[34]	6 January 2010	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
Producers Guild of America Award[35]	24 January 2010	Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year	Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey	Nominated
Richard Attenborough Film Awards[36]	28 January 2010	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Rising Star	Carey Mulligan	Won
San Diego Film Critics Society[37]	15 December 2009	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
Santa Barbara International Film Festival[38]	4 February 2010	Virtuoso Award	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Cinema Vanguard Award	Peter Sarsgaard	Won
Satellite Awards[39]	20 December 2009	Best Drama Film	An Education	Nominated
		Best Director	Lone Scherfig	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Nick Hornby	Nominated
		Best Drama Actress	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Alfred Molina	Nominated
Screen Actors Guild[40]	23 January 2010	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
		Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	An Education	Nominated
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association[41]	21 December 2009	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
Sundance Film Festival[42]	15 January 2009	Grand Jury Prize	An Education	Nominated
		World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic	An Education	Won
		World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic	John De Borman	Won
Toronto Film Critics Association[43]	16 December 2009	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
USC Scripter Award[44]	6 February 2010	Best Screenplay	Nick Hornby and Lynn Barber	Nominated
Vancouver Film Critics Circle[45]	13 January 2010	Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Alfred Molina	Nominated
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association[46]	7 December 2009	Best Adapted Screenplay	Nick Hornby	Nominated
		Best Actress	Carey Mulligan	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Alfred Molina	Nominated
		Best Breakthrough Performance	Carey Mulligan	Nominated
Women Film Critics Circle[47]	9 December 2009	Karen Morley Award	An Education	Won
		The Invisible Woman Award	Olivia Williams	Won
Women in Film and TV Awards[48]	3 December 2010	Best Performance	Carey Mulligan	Won