Disclosed are a display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The display apparatus includes: a video processor which processes an input video signal including a left-eye image and a right-eye image; a display unit which displays an image based on the video signal processed by the video processor; a backlight unit which emits light to the display unit; and a controller which controls at least one of the display unit and the backlight unit so that a margin period between a scan of the left-eye image and a scan of the right-eye image corresponds to a period during which the left shutter and the right shutter are shifted between opened and closed states.