Baz Luhrmann - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

Luhrmann received Directors Guild of America and Golden Globe nominations for Best Director – Motion Picture for his work on Moulin Rouge!, but did not receive an Oscar nomination for directing (Academy Award host Whoopi Goldberg joked "I guess it just directed itself"). However it did receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.

• AFI Awards, USA – 2002 – Nominated, AFI Film Award; AFI Movie of the Year for Moulin Rouge!
• Academy Awards, USA – 2002 – Nominated, Oscar; Best Picture for Moulin Rouge!
• Australian Film Institute –
  • 2001 – Nominated, Best Direction for Moulin Rouge!. Nominated, Best Film for Moulin Rouge!
  • 1999 – Won – Byron Kennedy Award
  • 1997 – Nominated, Best Foreign Film Award for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
  • 1992 – Won, Best Director for Strictly Ballroom, Won, Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted for Strictly Ballroom
• BAFTA Awards –
  • 2002 – Nominated, Best Film for Moulin Rouge!; Nominated, David Lean Award for Direction for Moulin Rouge!; Nominated, Best Screenplay, Original for Moulin Rouge!;
  • 1998 – Won, David Lean Award for Direction for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet; Won, Best Screenplay, Adapted for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet;
  • 1993 – Nominated, Best Screenplay Adapted for Strictly Ballroom; Nominated – Best Film for Strictly Ballroom
• Berlin International Film Festival – 1997 – Won, Alfred Bauer Award for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet; Nominated, Golden Berlin Bear for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
• Bodil Awards – 2002 – Nominated, Bodil, Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke amerikanske film) for Moulin Rouge!
• Bogota Film Festival – 1994 – Nominated, Golden Precolumbian Circle. Best Film for Strictly Ballroom
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards – 2002 – Won, Critics Choice Award, Best Director for Moulin Rouge!
• Cannes Film Festival –
  • 2001 – Nominated, Palme d'Or for Moulin Rouge!;
  • 1992 – Won, Award of the Youth, Foreign Film for Strictly Ballroom
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards – 2002 – Nominated, CFCA Award, Best Director for Moulin Rouge!
• César Awards, France – 2002 – Nominated, César, Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) for Moulin Rouge!
• Directors Guild of America, USA – 2002 – Nominated, DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Moulin Rouge!
• Empire Awards, UK – 2002 – Won, Empire Award, Best Director for Moulin Rouge!
• European Film Awards –
  • 2001 – Won, Screen International Award for Moulin Rouge!;
  • 1997 – Nominated, Screen International Award for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
• Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards –
  • 2009 – Nominated, FCCA Award, Best Film for Australia;
  • 2002 – Won, FCCA Award, Best Director for Moulin Rouge!; Nominated, FCCA Award, Best Screenplay – Original for Moulin Rouge!
• Golden Globes, USA – 2002 – Nominated, Golden Globe, Best Director – Motion Picture for Moulin Rouge!
• Hollywood Film Festival – 2001 – Won, Hollywood Movie of the Year for Moulin Rouge!
• IF Awards – 2001 – Nominated, IF Award, Best Feature Film for Moulin Rouge!; Nominated, IF Award, Best Direction for Moulin Rouge!
• Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists – 2002 – Nominated, Silver Ribbon, Best Director – Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) for Moulin Rouge!
• London Critics Circle Film Awards –
  • 1998 – Nominated, ALFS Award, Director of the Year for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet;
  • 1993 – Won, ALFS Award, Newcomer of the Year for Strictly Ballroom
• Love is Folly International Film Festival, Bulgaria – 1993 – Won, Golden Aphrodite for Strictly Ballroom
• Online Film Critics Society Awards – 2002 – Nominated, OFCS Award, Best Director for Moulin Rouge!
• PGA Awards – 2002 – Won, Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award for Moulin Rouge!
• Palm Springs International Film Festival – 2002 – Won, Sonny Bono Visionary Award
• Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards – 2002 – Nominated, PFCS Award, Best Director for Moulin Rouge!
• Robert Festival –
  • 2002 – Won, Robert, Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film) for Moulin Rouge!
  • 1993 – Won, Robert, Best Foreign Film (Årets udenlandske spillefilm) for Strictly Ballroom
• Satellite Awards –
  • 2008 – Won, Auteur Award, Nominated, Satellite Award, Best Screenplay, Original for Australia; Nominated, Satellite Award, Best Original Song for Australia for the song "By the Boab Tree";
  • 2002 – Won, Golden Satellite Award, Best Director for Moulin Rouge!. Nominated, Golden Satellite Award, Best Screenplay, Original for Moulin Rouge!
• Toronto International Film Festival – 1992 – Won, People's Choice Award for Strictly Ballroom
• Vancouver Film Critics Circle – 2002 – Won, VFCC Award, Best Director for Moulin Rouge!
• Vancouver International Film Festival – 1992 – Won, Most Popular Film for Strictly Ballroom
• World Soundtrack Awards – 2001 – Won, World Soundtrack Award, Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a Soundtrack for Moulin Rouge!
• Writers Guild of America Awards, USA – 2002 – Nominated, WGA Award (Screen), Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Moulin Rouge!