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| align=”center” | <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1997-awards/|title=Nominees and Recipients: 1997 Awards|publisher=[[Drama Desk Awards]]|access-date=January 3, 2026|archive-date=June 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615183452/https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1997-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| align=”center” | <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1997-awards/|title=Nominees and Recipients: 1997 Awards|publisher=[[Drama Desk Awards]]|access-date=January 3, 2026|archive-date=June 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615183452/https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1997-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope=”row” | [[Obie Award]]s
| align=”center” | 1993
| [[Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress|Distinguished Performance by an Actress]]
| {{sort|Last Yankee|”[[The Last Yankee]]”}}
| {{won}}
| align=”center” | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.obieawards.com/events/1990s/year-93/ |title=93 |publisher=[[Obie Award]]s |access-date=January 3, 2026 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250619024044/https://www.obieawards.com/events/1990s/year-93/ |archive-date=June 19, 2025}}</ref>
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! scope=”row” | [[Outer Critics Circle Awards]]
| align=”center” | 1980
| [[Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play]]
| {{sort|Ride Down Mt. Morgan|”[[The Ride Down Mt. Morgan]]”}}
| {{won}}
| align=”center” | <ref>{{cite web|url=https://outercritics.org/awards/1999-2000/|title=1999-2000 Awards|publisher=[[Outer Critics Circle Awards]]|access-date=January 3, 2026|archive-date=November 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129212235/https://outercritics.org/awards/1999-2000/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope=”row” | [[Saturn Awards]]
| align=”center” | [[38th Saturn Awards|2012]]
| [[Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television|Best Supporting Actress on Television]]
| ”[[American Horror Story: Murder House]]”
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| align=”center” | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saturnawards.org/nominations.html |title=Nominations for the 38th Annual Saturn Awards |publisher=[[Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films]] |access-date=December 22, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717002800/http://www.saturnawards.org/nominations.html |archive-date=July 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| Wins | 29 |
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| Nominations | 108 |
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Ryan Murphy is an American writer, director and producer, mainly working in television. He has been the recipient of numerous accolades including six Primetime Emmy Awards (out of 39 nominations), two British Academy Film Awards (out of four nominations), a Tony Award (out of two nominations) and four Producers Guild of America Awards (out of 14 nominations), along with nominations for two Grammy Awards, four Directors Guild of America Awards and ten Writers Guild of America Awards.
Murphy started his career with the teen television series Popular (1999–2001). Then he created the drama series Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), for which he received his first nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award and the Producers Guild of America Awards. He wrote and directed the film Running with Scissors (2006), for which he won the Hollywood Film Award for Hollywood Breakthrough Director. He received the critical acclaim for the musical comedy-drama series Glee (2009–2015), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series. In 2011, he created the anthology horror series American Horror Story. In 2014, he directed the television film The Normal Heart, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. In 2016, he created the critically acclaimed anthology crime drama series American Crime Story. For its first season, The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film, the British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme and the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Long-Form Television. For its second season, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018), he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Limited Series Television. In the following years, he received the critical acclaim for the anthology television series Feud (2017–2024), the drama television series Pose (2018–2021) and the anthology crime drama series Monster (2022–present). Apart from the film and television, he produced the Broadway revivals of Long Day’s Journey into Night (2016) and The Boys in the Band (2018), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, winning for the latter one.
He has received multiple numerous honorary accolades including the International Emmy Founders Award (2012), the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television (2018), the GLAAD Vito Russo Award (2020) and the Golden Globe Carol Burnett Award (2023). In 2025, he was inducted to the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
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Miscellaneous awards
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- ^ “Frances Conroy”. Golden Globe Awards. Archived from the original on August 10, 2025. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ^ “The 8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards”. Screen Actors Guild Awards. Archived from the original on August 10, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ “The 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards”. Screen Actors Guild Awards. Archived from the original on November 11, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ “The 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards”. Screen Actors Guild Awards. Archived from the original on July 20, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ “The 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards”. Screen Actors Guild Awards. Archived from the original on January 26, 2024. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ “The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards”. Screen Actors Guild Awards. Archived from the original on December 9, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ “The Tony Award Nominations: Frances Conroy”. American Theatre Wing. Archived from the original on January 12, 2023. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ^ “Nominees and Recipients: 1980 Awards”. Drama Desk Awards. Archived from the original on December 29, 2022. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ^ “Nominees and Recipients: 1990 Awards”. Drama Desk Awards. Archived from the original on July 3, 2022. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ^ “Nominees and Recipients: 1994 Awards”. Drama Desk Awards. Archived from the original on September 7, 2023. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ^ “Nominees and Recipients: 1997 Awards”. Drama Desk Awards. Archived from the original on June 15, 2023. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ^ “93”. Obie Awards. Archived from the original on June 19, 2025. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ^ “1999-2000 Awards”. Outer Critics Circle Awards. Archived from the original on November 29, 2022. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ^ “Nominations for the 38th Annual Saturn Awards”. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2025.
- ^ Birnbaum, Debra (December 4, 2018). “How Pushing Small-Screen Boundaries Led Ryan Murphy to Walk of Fame Stardom”. Variety. Archived from the original on April 4, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
- ^ Pedersen, Erik (June 10, 2025). “TV Academy Hall Of Fame Class Of 2025: Viola Davis, Don Mischer, Ryan Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Mike Post & Henry Winkler”. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on June 10, 2025. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
