In 2003, Kidman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry.

In 2024, she received the AFI Life Achievement Award becoming the first-ever Australian to earn this honor.

She won six Golden Globe Awards including for four wins for her film roles in To Die For (1995), Moulin Rouge!

She was Emmy-nominated for playing Martha Gellhorn in the HBO biographical film Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), and earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for playing psychologist Grace Fraser in the HBO psychological thriller series The Undoing (2021).

She also received recognition from the National Association of Theatre Owners in 1992 as the Female Star of Tomorrow, and in 2002 for a Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film Award.