Apocalypse Now - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Wins

• Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Vittorio Storaro)
• Academy Award for Best Sound (Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nathan Boxer)
• Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or
• Golden Globe Award for Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Duvall)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola)
• National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (Frederic Forrest)
• David di Donatello Award for Best Director, Foreign Film (Migliore Regista Straniero) (Francis Ford Coppola)
• American Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Duvall)
• BAFTA Award for Best Direction (Francis Ford Coppola)
• BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Duvall)

In 2000, Apocalypse Now was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Nominations

• Academy Award for Best Picture (Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg)
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Duvall)
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction — Set Decoration (Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham and George R. Nelson)
• Academy Award for Directing (Francis Ford Coppola)
• Academy Award for Film Editing (Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman)
• Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola)
• DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Francis Ford Coppola)
• WGA Award for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen (John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama (Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg)
• Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture (Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola)
• César Award for Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) (Francis Ford Coppola)
• American Movie Award for Best Actor (Martin Sheen)
• BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola)
• BAFTA Award for Best Actor (Martin Sheen)

American Film Institute Lists

• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies - #28
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains:
  • Colonel Walter E. Kurtz - Nominated Villain
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs:
  • The End - Nominated
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes:
  • "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." - #12
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - #30
• AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Epic film

Marlon Brando was also ranked #4 of the Top 25 American male screen legends.