2022 Academy Awards (United States)
Best Director: for The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Motion Picture of the Year: for The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Adapted Screenplay: for The Power of the Dog
2022 BAFTA Awards (British Academy of Film and Television Awards)
Best Film: The Power of the Dog
Best Director: for The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted): for The Power of the Dog
2022 Golden Globe Awards
Best Motion Picture - Drama: The Power of the Dog
Best Director - Motion Picture: for The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture: for The Power of the Dog
2022 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA Awards)
Nominated for Best Film: The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Best Director: for The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Best Screenplay: for The Power of the Dog
2022 National Society of Film Critics Awards (United States)
Nominated for Best Film: The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Best Director: for The Power of the Dog
2021 San Sebastián International Film Festival (Spain)
Sebastiáne LGBTI Award: The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Audience Award: The Power of the Dog
2021 Venice Film Festival (Italy)
Silver Lion for Best Director: for The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Golden Lion (Grand Prize): The Power of the Dog
2021 Toronto International Film Festival (Canada)
Nominated for People's Choice Award: The Power of the Dog
2016 Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
For services to film
2014 Australian Film Institute Awards
Best Telefeature or Mini Series: Top of the Lake
2014 Logie Awards (Australia)
Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie: Top of the Lake
2014 Golden Globe Awards
Nominated for Best TV Movie or Miniseries: Top of the Lake
2014 BAFTA Awards (United Kingdom)
Nominated for Best Drama Series: Top of the Lake
Nominated for Best Director - Television, Fiction: Top of the Lake
2013 Arts Foundation Laureate Award (New Zealand)
2013 Cannes Film Festival
Carrosse d'Or (Golden Coach): for a Filmmaker Displaying Innovative Qualities, Courage and Independent Mindedness
2013 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Best Television Feature or Drama Series (shared with Emile Sherman and Iain Canning): Top of the Lake
2013 Emmy Awards (United States)
Nominated for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie (with Philippa Campbell, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning): Top of the Lake
Nominated for Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special (with Garth Davis): for Top of the Lake
Nominated for Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special (with Gerard Lee): for Top of the Lake
2009 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated for the Palme d'Or (Grand Prize): Bright Star
2009 British Independent Film Awards
Nominated for Director: for Bright Star
1999 Venice Film Festival
Elvira Notari prize: for Holy Smoke
Nominated for Golden Lion (Grand Prize)
1994 Academy Awards
Original Screenplay: for The Piano
Nominated for Best Director: for The Piano
1994 New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Rudall Hayward Award
1994 Independent Spirit Awards (United States)
Foreign Film: for The Piano
1994 National Society of Film Critics Awards (United States)
Screenplay: for The Piano
1994 Writers Guild of America
Original Screenplay: for The Piano
1994 Golden Globe Awards
Nominated for Director and Screenplay: for The Piano
1994 Bafta Awards
Nominated for Best Film, Director And Original Screenplay: The Piano
1994 Director's Guild of America Awards
Nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures: for The Piano
1993 Cannes Film Festival
Winner of Palme d'Or (Grand Prize) for The Piano
(Shared with Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine)
1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Director and Screenplay: for The Piano
1993 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Director and Screenplay: for The Piano
New Generation Award
1993 Australian Film Institute Awards
Director: for The Piano
Original Screenplay: for The Piano
1992 Independent Spirit Awards
Foreign Film: for An Angel at my Table
1991 Independent Spirit Awards
Foreign Film: for Sweetie
1990 Venice Film Festival
Grand Special Jury Prize (the festival's second prize), the Elvira Notari Prize, Agis Scuola Prize, and the OCIC Catholic award: for An Angel at my Table
1990 Toronto International Film Festival
International Critics' Award: for An Angel at my Table
1990 New Zealand Film Awards
Best Director: for An Angel at my Table
Best Film: An Angel at my Table
1989 Australian Film Institute Awards
Original Screenplay: for Sweetie (shared with Gerard Lee)
Byron Kennedy Award (given to an individual early in their career whose work embodies qualities of "innovation, vision and the relentless pursuit of excellence")
1989 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated for the Palme d'Or for Sweetie
1986 Cannes Film Festival
Winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film: for Peel
1984 Australian Film Institute Awards
Best Experimental Film (shared with Gerard Lee): for Passionless Moments
Best Short Film Screenplay: for A Girl's Own Story
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