Terrence Howard

Awards & Honours

Awards Won

Honours

Rankings

Covers

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Howard's performance in Hustle & Flow remains a career-defining achievement, earning him a SAG Award and an Oscar nomination. His role as Lucious Lyon on Empire made him one of the highest-paid actors on network television and earned him a Golden Globe nomination. He has been honored with multiple NAACP Image Awards, reflecting his impact on Black cinema and television.

AwardsHoward won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Hustle & Flow. He has received multiple NAACP Image Awards, including for Lackawanna Blues and Empire, and a BET Award for Best Actor. He also won a Black Reel Award and an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance.

Honours & Distinctions

Broadway Debut

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof·2008

Made his Broadway debut in a revival of Tennessee Williams' play.

Rankings & Lists

50 Most Beautiful People

People Magazine·2006

Magazine Covers

Vanity Fair

October 2005

The New Black Cinema

Essence

2015

Empire Cast

Ebony

2015

Empire

Records & Feats

First African American to win SAG Award for Best Actor

Awards·2006

Howard won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Hustle & Flow in 2006, becoming the first African American to win that category.