Chloé Zhao

Awards

Academy Awards, USA

Oscar [Winner] (2021)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Frances McDormand becomes first actress nominated... More

Frances McDormand becomes first actress nominated for acting and producing for the same film.

Oscar [Winner] (2021)

Best Achievement in Directing

First Asian Woman nominated for Best Director

Oscar [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Oscar [Nominee] (2021)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

BAFTA Awards

BAFTA Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Film

BAFTA Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

BAFTA Film Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay (Adapted)

BAFTA Film Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Editing

AACTA International Awards

AACTA International Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Direction

AACTA International Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay

AFI Fest

Audience Award [Nominee] (2015)

American Independents

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

EDA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

EDA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

EDA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Film Editing

EDA Female Focus Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Woman Director

EDA Female Focus Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Woman Screenwriter

EDA Female Focus Award [Nominee] (2019)

Best Woman Director

EDA Female Focus Award [Nominee] (2019)

Best Woman Screenwriter

Allywood Film Critics Association Awards

Golden Elm Award [Winner] (2021)

Top Ten Foreign Language Film

American Cinema Editors, USA

Eddie [Nominee] (2021)

Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic

American Indian Film Festival

American Indian Movie Award [Winner] (2015)

Best Director

Americana Film Fest

Audience Award [Nominee] (2018)

Tops

Association of Polish Filmmakers Critics Awards

Honorable Mention [Winner] (2021)

Best Foreign Film

Athens International Film Festival

Golden Athena [Winner] (2017)

Best Picture

Golden Athena [Nominee] (2015)

Best Picture

Atlanta Film Critics Circle

AFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Austin Film Critics Association

AFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

AFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Film Editing

AFCA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Director

Black Film Critics Circle Awards

BFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Tied with Regina King for One Night in Miami... (... More

Tied with Regina King for One Night in Miami... (2020)

Bodil Awards

Bodil [Winner] (2022)

Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film)

Boston Online Film Critics Association

BOFCA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

BOFCA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Editing

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

BSFC Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

BSFC Award [Nominee] (2020)

Best Film Editing

British Independent Film Awards

British Independent Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Best International Independent Film

British Independent Film Award [Nominee] (2018)

Best International Independent Film

Bruin Film Society Awards

BFS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

Best Feature Film - Avant-Garde and Genre [Nominee] (2018)

Camerimage

Jury Award [Nominee] (2015)

Best Directorial Debut

Cannes Film Festival

C.I.C.A.E. Award [Winner] (2017)

Golden Camera [Nominee] (2015)

Capri, Hollywood

Capri Director Award [Winner] (2020)

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

CFCA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

CFCA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Adapted Screenplay

CFCA Award [Nominee] (2020)

Best Editing

Chicago Indie Critics Awards (CIC)

CIC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Independent Film

CIC Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Editing

CIC Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Trailblazer Award [Nominee] (2021)

Impact Award [Nominee] (2021)

CIC Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Director

Chicago International Film Festival

Audience Choice Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Feature

Chlotrudis Awards

Chlotrudis Award [Winner] (2019)

Best Director

Chlotrudis Award [Nominee] (2019)

Best Original Screenplay

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize [Winner] (2022)

Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro)

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

Heterodox Award [Nominee] (2021)

Heterodox Award [Nominee] (2018)

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

CEC Award [Nominee] (2022)

Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)

CinEuphoria Awards

CinEuphoria [Winner] (2022)

Top Ten of the Year - International Competition

CinEuphoria [Nominee] (2022)

Best Film - International Competition

CinEuphoria [Nominee] (2022)

Best Director - International Competition

CinEuphoria [Winner] (2021)

Best Film - International Competition

CinEuphoria [Winner] (2021)

Best Director - International Competition

CinEuphoria [Winner] (2021)

Top Ten of the Year - International Competition

CinEuphoria [Nominee] (2021)

Best Editing - International Competition

Columbus Film Critics Association

COFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

COFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Coronado Island Film Festival

The Leonard Maltin Tribute Award [Winner] (2020)

Critics Choice Awards

Critics Choice Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Critics Choice Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Critics Choice Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Editing

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards

DFWFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Danish Film Awards (Robert)

Robert [Winner] (2022)

Best English Language Film (Årets engelsksprogede film)

Deauville Film Festival

Grand Special Prize [Winner] (2017)

Grand Special Prize [Nominee] (2015)

Denver Film Critics Society

DFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

DFCS Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Denver International Film Festival

Rare Pearl Award [Winner] (2020)

American Independent Award [Nominee] (2015)

Best Feature Film

Detroit Film Critics Society Awards

DFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

DFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Directors Guild of America, USA

DGA Award [Winner] (2021)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures

DiscussingFilm Critics Awards

Jury Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Jury Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards

DFCC [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay

7th place

Dublin International Film Festival

Dublin Film Critics Award [Winner] (2018)

Best Director

Días de Cine Awards

Días de Cine Award [Nominee] (2022)

Best Foreign Film

2nd place

Eastern Oregon Film Festival

Best Feature [Nominee] (2018)

Narrative

Faro Island Film Festival

Golden Carp Film Award - International [Winner] (2021)

Best Film Editing

Golden Carp Film Award - International [Nominee] (2021)

Best Achievement in Directing

Golden Carp Film Award - International [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Golden Carp Film Award - International [Nominee] (2021)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Film Fest 919

Festival Award [Winner] (2020)

Audience Favorite

Festival Award [Winner] (2020)

Distinguished Screenwriter

Film Independent Spirit Awards

Independent Spirit Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Feature

Independent Spirit Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Independent Spirit Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Editing

Bonnie Award [Winner] (2018)

Independent Spirit Award [Nominee] (2018)

Best Director

Independent Spirit Award [Nominee] (2018)

Best Feature

Independent Spirit Award [Nominee] (2016)

Best First Feature

Someone to Watch Award [Nominee] (2016)

Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

FFCC Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

FFCC Award [Nominee] (2020)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Tied with Ruben Santiago-Hudson for Ma Rainey's ... More

Tied with Ruben Santiago-Hudson for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) in second place

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics

Dorian Award [Winner] (2021)

Director of the Year

Dorian Award [Nominee] (2021)

Screenplay of the Year

Dorian Award [Nominee] (2021)

Wilde Artist of the Year

Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA)

GAFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

GAFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Ghent International Film Festival

Grand Prix [Nominee] (2020)

Best Film

Gimli Film Festival

Grand Jury Prize [Nominee] (2018)

Gold Derby Awards

Gold Derby Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Director

Gold Derby Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Adapted Screenplay

Gold Derby Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Motion Picture

Gold Derby Film Award [Nominee] (2021)

Film Editing

Gold List

Honorable Mention [Winner] (2022)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Gold List Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Gold List Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Golden Globes, USA

Golden Globe [Winner] (2021)

Best Director - Motion Picture

Golden Globe [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

Gotham Awards

Gotham Independent Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Feature

Audience Award [Winner] (2021)

Gotham Independent Film Award [Winner] (2018)

Best Feature

Audience Award [Nominee] (2018)

Spotlight on Women Filmmakers 'Live the Dream' Grant [Winner] (2014)

Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Awards

GWNYFCA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

GWNYFCA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Adapted Screenplay

GWNYFCA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Editing

Guldbagge Awards

Guldbagge [Nominee] (2022)

Best Foreign Film (Bästa utländska film)

Hamburg Film Festival

Art Cinema Award [Winner] (2017)

Best Feature

Sichtwechsel Film Award [Nominee] (2017)

Hawaii Film Critics Society

HFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

HFCS Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Director

Hollywood Critics Association

HCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Female Director

HCA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

HCA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Editing

Houston Film Critics Society Awards

HFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

HFCS Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay

Huading Award

Huading Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Global Director for a Motion Picture

Huading Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Global Motion Picture

Humanitas Prize

Humanitas Prize [Nominee] (2019)

Independent Feature Film

Indiana Film Journalists Association, US

IFJA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Adapted Screenplay

IFJA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

IFJA Award [Winner] (2018)

Breakout of the Year

Indiewire Critics' Poll

ICP Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

International Cinephile Society Awards

ICS Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Director

Tied with Isabel Sandoval for Lingua Franca (2019)... More

Tied with Isabel Sandoval for Lingua Franca (2019) in 2nd place

ICS Award [Nominee] (2019)

Best Director

ICS Award [Nominee] (2019)

Best Director

International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)

INOCA [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

INOCA [Nominee] (2021)

Best Film Editing

INOCA [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

INOCA [Nominee] (2019)

Best Director

Halfway Award [Winner] (2018)

Best Director

Iowa Film Critics Awards

IFC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Istanbul International Film Festival

FIPRESCI Prize [Winner] (2018)

International Competition

"For its touching portrayal of the fragility of ... More

"For its touching portrayal of the fragility of masculinity within an aesthetic style which combines realistic storytelling with subtle visual poetry..."

Golden Tulip [Nominee] (2018)

International Competition

Jerusalem Film Festival

FIPRESCI Prize [Winner] (2015)

International First Film

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

KCFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

KCFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

Sierra Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Awards

LEJA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Picture

LEJA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

LEJA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Editing

LEJA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Ljubljana International Film Festival

Youth Jury Award [Winner] (2018)

Best Feature

Kingfisher Award [Nominee] (2018)

Best Film

London Critics Circle Film Awards

ALFS Award [Winner] (2021)

Screenwriter of the Year

ALFS Award [Nominee] (2021)

Director of the Year

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

LAFCA Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

New Generation Award [Winner] (2018)

Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards

LAOFCS Award [Nominee] (2018)

Best Female Director

Melbourne International Film Festival

People's Choice Award [Nominee] (2018)

Best Narrative Feature

-Ninth Place

Middleburg Film Festival

Agnès Varda Trailblazing Filmmaker Award [Winner] (2020)

Mill Valley Film Festival

Audience Award [Winner] (2020)

Drive-In

Audience Award [Winner] (2020)

Mind the Gap

Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Awards

MNFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Picture

MNFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

MNFCA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay

3rd place

Montclair Film Festival (MFF)

Audience Award [Winner] (2020)

Narrative Feature

Mumbai Film Festival

International Competition - Special Jury Mention [Winner] (2015)

Achievement in Screenwriting

International Competition [Nominee] (2015)

Music City Film Critics' Association Awards

MCFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

MCFCA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Editing

MCFCA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Film

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

NSFC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

NSFC Award [Nominee] (2019)

Best Director

New Mexico Film Critics

NMFC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

NMFC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Editing

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

NYFCC Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Director

New York Film Critics, Online

NYFCO Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Newcastle International Film Festival

Victorem [Winner] (2018)

Best Director

North Carolina Film Critics Association

NCFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

NCFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

North Dakota Film Society

NDFS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Picture

NDFS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

NDFS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Editing

North Texas Film Critics Association, US

NTFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards

OFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

OFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Online Association of Female Film Critics

OAFFC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

OAFFC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Online Film & Television Association

OFTA Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

OFTA Film Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

OFTA Film Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Film Editing

Online Film Critics Society Awards

OFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

OFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

OFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Editing

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Director of the Year Award [Winner] (2021)

Directors to Watch [Winner] (2018)

PGA Awards

PGA Award [Winner] (2021)

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards

PFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Phoenix Critics Circle

PCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

PCC Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

PFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Pingyao International Film Festival

Roberto Rossini Award [Winner] (2017)

Best Director

People's Choice Award [Nominee] (2017)

Crouching Tigers - Best Film

Portland International Film Festival

Audience Award [Nominee] (2018)

Best New Director

-Third Place

Reykjavik International Film Festival

Golden Puffin [Winner] (2017)

Best Film

"After seeing this year's winner, RIFF honoree ... More

"After seeing this year's winner, RIFF honoree Werner Herzog said 'Just when you think cinema is entering a phase of stagnation, out of nowhere, comes a film like that. It's very encouraging.' And so... for its uncommon sensitivity, exceptional camerawork, heartbreaking performances from non-actors and it's remarkable ability to re-examine the concept of American masculinity, the jury has chosen to award The Golden Puffin to THE RIDER by Chloé Zhao."

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

SDFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

SDFCS Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

San Diego International Film Festival

Audience Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Gala Film

San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle

SFBAFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Film Editing

SFBAFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

SFBAFCC Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

San Francisco Film Awards

Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction [Winner] (2020)

San Sebastián International Film Festival

FIPRESCI Film of the Year [Winner] (2021)

Audience Award [Nominee] (2020)

Best Film

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Outstanding Director of the Year Award [Winner] (2021)

Sarasota Film Festival

Terry Porter Visionary Award [Winner] (2018)

Satellite Awards

Satellite Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Satellite Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay, Adapted

Satellite Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Film Editing

Seattle Film Critics Society

SFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Film Editing

SFCS Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

SFCS Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards

SEFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

SEFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

St. Louis Film Critics Association, US

SLFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Editing

SLFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

SLFCA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Based on the nonfiction book "Nomadland: ... More

Based on the nonfiction book "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" by Jessica Bruder.

Stockholm Film Festival

Bronze Horse [Nominee] (2017)

Best Film

Sundance Film Festival

Grand Jury Prize [Nominee] (2015)

Dramatic

Sunset Film Circle Awards

SFC Award [Nominee] (2020)

Best Director

2nd place

SXSW Film Festival

SXSW Gamechanger Award [Nominee] (2018)

Audience Award [Nominee] (2018)

Festival Favorites

Telluride Film Festival, US

Silver Medallion Award [Nominee] (2020)

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards

TFCA Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

TFCA Award [Nominee] (2021)

Best Screenplay

Toronto International Film Festival

TIFF Ebert Director Award [Winner] (2020)

People's Choice Award [Winner] (2020)

USC Scripter Award

USC Scripter Award [Winner] (2021)

Film

Based on the nonfiction book "Nomadland: ... More

Based on the nonfiction book "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" by Jessica Bruder

Valladolid International Film Festival

Silver Spike [Winner] (2017)

Best Film

Pilar Miró Award [Winner] (2017)

Best New Director

Golden Spike [Nominee] (2017)

Best Film

Vancouver Film Critics Circle

VFCC Award [Winner] (2021)

Best Director

Venice Film Festival

Golden Lion [Winner] (2020)

Best Film

SIGNIS Award - Honorable Mention [Winner] (2020)

Fair Play Cinema Award [Winner] (2020)

Virginia Film Festival

Audience Award [Winner] (2020)

Best Narrative Feature