| Year
|
Award
|
Category
|
Title
|
Result
|
| 1974
|
Chicago International Film Festival
|
Best Feature
|
The Cars That Ate Paris
|
Nominated
|
| 1976
|
Taormina Arte Award
|
Golden Charybdis
|
Picnic at Hanging Rock
|
Won
|
| 1978
|
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
|
Special Jury Award
|
The Last Wave
|
Won
|
| 1981
|
Australian Film Institute
|
Best Director
|
Gallipoli
|
Won
|
| Venice Film Festival
|
Golden Lion
|
Nominated
|
| 1983
|
Australian Film Institute
|
Best Director
|
The Year of Living Dangerously
|
Nominated
|
| Best Adapted Screenplay
|
Nominated
|
| Jury Award
|
Nominated
|
| Cannes Film Festival
|
Palme d'Or
|
Nominated
|
| 1984
|
Writers Guild of America
|
Best Drama
|
Nominated
|
| 1985
|
Hochi Film Festival
|
Best Foreign Film
|
Witness
|
Won
|
| 1986
|
Blue Ribbon Awards
|
Won
|
| Directors Guild of America
|
Best Director
|
Nominated
|
| Kinema Junpo Awards
|
Best Foreign Film
|
Won
|
| 1990
|
Australian Film Institute
|
Raymond Longford Award
|
Dead Poets Society
|
Won
|
| David di Donatello Awards
|
Best Foreign Film
|
Won
|
| Best Foreign Director
|
Nominated
|
| Directors Guild of America
|
Best Director
|
Nominated
|
| Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
|
Won
|
| Warsaw International Film Festival
|
Audience Award
|
Won
|
| 1991
|
Writers Guild of America
|
Best Screenplay
|
Green Card
|
Nominated
|
| Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
|
Best Foreign Film
|
Dead Poets Society
|
Nominated
|
| César Awards
|
Won
|
| Guild of German Art House Cinemas
|
Won
|
| 1994
|
Berlin International Film Festival
|
Gold Berlin Bear
|
Fearless
|
Nominated
|
| 1998
|
European Film Awards
|
Screen International Award
|
The Truman Show
|
Won
|
| Hamburg Film Festival
|
Guild Film Award
|
|
Won
|
| Valladolid International Film Festival
|
Golden Spike
|
The Truman Show
|
Nominated
|
| 1999
|
Australian Film Institute
|
Best Foreign Film
|
Nominated
|
| Chicago Film Critics Association
|
Best Director
|
Nominated
|
| Directors Guild of America
|
Nominated
|
| Florida Film Critics Circle
|
Won
|
| Fotogramas de Plata
|
Best Foreign Film
|
Won
|
| Hugo Awards
|
Best Dramatic Presentation
|
Won
|
| Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
|
Best Foreign Director
|
Nominated
|
| London Film Critics' Circle
|
Director of the Year
|
Won
|
| Online Film Critics Society Awards
|
Best Director
|
Nominated
|
| Robert Festival
|
Best American Film
|
Won
|
| Southeastern Film Critics Association
|
Best Director
|
Nominated
|
| 2000
|
Taormina International Film Festival
|
Taormina Arte Award
|
|
Won
|
| 2001
|
Australian Directors Guild
|
Outstanding Achievement Award
|
|
Won
|
| Australian Screen Directors' Association
|
|
Won
|
| 2003
|
Britannia Awards
|
Artistic Excellence
|
|
Won
|
| Camerimage
|
Best Director
|
|
Won
|
| Washington DC Area Film Critics Association
|
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
|
Nominated
|
| Best Screenplay
|
Nominated
|
| 2004
|
Broadcast Film Critics Association
|
Passion in Film
|
Won
|
| Chicago Film Critics Association
|
Best Director
|
Won
|
| David di Donatello Awards
|
Best Foreign Film
|
Nominated
|
| Directors Guild of America
|
Best Director
|
Nominated
|
| Empire Awards
|
Nominated
|
| London Film Critics' Circle
|
Screenwriter of the Year
|
Won
|
| Director of the Year
|
Nominated
|
| PGA Awards
|
Outstanding Producer
|
Nominated
|
| Phoenix Film Critics Society
|
Best Director
|
Nominated
|
| Best Screenplay
|
Nominated
|
| USC Scripter Award
|
USC Scripter Award
|
Nominated
|
| 2024
|
Venice Film Festival
|
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
|
Honoured
|
