I won the Television Critics Association 2025 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Reality.
Honorary Degree from St. Andrews University
On the 3rd July 2025, St. Andrews University made me a Doctor of Laws (LLD). I sat on the stage of the Younger Hall and watched hundreds of students as they stepped up to receive their degrees and saw pride and achievement and fear flicker across their faces. It made think of my graduation from drama school forty (!) years ago and so I decided to say something to those students that I wish I'd heard all those years ago.
I told them to always keep learning, that their formal education may now be over but to try to always stay open to the possibilities and experiences that life is going to fling at them. I told them to always be curious. I see people in life stop being curious and they just stop in general, they atrophy before your eyes. And I told them to always protest! Protesting is a part of your education too! It's taking what you have learned and analysed and combining it with your passion and then sharing it with the world. Always be curious! Always keep learning! Always be open to new people and new things.
And always protest!
Dorian TV Awards
I was two-time Dorian Award nominee as producer of The Traitors for Best Reality Show and Campiest TV Show. I also received nominations for Wilde Wit, GALECA TV Icon.
Critics Choice Real TV awards
I won the Critics Choice Real TV Award for Best Show Host for The Traitors!
As a producer of the show I also won the Critics Choice Real TV Award for Best Competition Series
Skin In The Game award
On April 30, 2025, Intact America honoured me with their inaugural Skin in the Game Award in New York City, for my ‘bold advocacy in celebrating the natural male body and defending children’s right to genital autonomy.’
astra award
The Traitors won Best Reality Competition Series at The Hollywood Creative Alliance's 2025 Astra TV Awards.
Stella della Mole Award
On April 12, 2025, I received the Stella della Mole award which the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy awards to personalities who have left a lasting mark on the world of cinema and beyond.
“Well-rounded artist and tireless activist, Alan Cumming went through his career without ever relinquishing his identity and carrying the conversation on visibility and recognition for the LGBT community even in times that were not particularly accepting. – comments Vladimir Luxuria, artistic director of the Lovers Film Festival – A stellar and deep actor, attentive to independent and expose cinema and at ease in the mainstream of the majors, a shrewd writer and a prince of the British and American stage, it is an obligation almost as well as an honor for Lovers to celebrate such a personality who in the world of entertainment and culture has been able to remain truthful to himself and support his community at all times and no matter what”.
Kraken Film festival Best supporting actor award
I won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Kraken Film festival for V13, in which I play Sigmund Freud.
Producers Guild of America Award
As a producer of The Traitors, I won the Producers Guild of America award in the Game and Competition Television category.