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Frederick Wiseman
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Academy Awards, USA (1)
American Society of Cinematographers, USA (1)
Tromsø International Film Festival (1)
Berlin International Film Festival (1)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (1)
Cannes Film Festival (3)
César Awards, France (3)
Chicago International Film Festival (5)
Cork International Film Festival (1)
Denver International Film Festival (1)
DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival (1)
Primetime Emmy Awards (3)
Figueira da Foz International Film Festival (1)
Hamburg Film Festival (1)
Satellite Awards (1)
Gotham Awards (4)
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (1)
International Documentary Association (1)
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival (1)
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (1)
London Film Festival (4)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (2)
Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (FIDMarseille) (1)
Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest) (1)
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (1)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards (2)
News & Documentary Emmy Awards (1)
Online Film Critics Society Awards (1)
Peabody Awards (1)
Philadelphia Film Festival (1)
San Sebastián International Film Festival (1)
Sundance Film Festival (1)
Venice Film Festival (9)
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (11)
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (11)
International Cinephile Society Awards (1)
Prix de l'Age d'Or (1)
Online Film & Television Association (2)
Seville European Film Festival (1)
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) (4)
Indiewire Critics' Poll (1)
Glasgow Film Festival (1)
Torino Film Festival (1)
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards (1)
Oslo Pix (1)
Americana Film Fest (3)
Cahiers du Cinéma (1)
Días de Cine Awards (1)
Seattle Film Critics Society (2)
47 wins & 55 nominations
Academy Awards, USA
2017 Winner
Honorary Award
Whose masterful and distinctive documentaries examine the familiar and reveal the unexpected.
American Society of Cinematographers, USA
2006 Winner
Award of Distinction
Tromsø International Film Festival
2018 Nominee
Aurora Award
Ex Libris
Berlin International Film Festival
1990 Winner
FIPRESCI Prize
Forum of New Cinema
Near Death
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
2020 Winner
Special Commendation
To Frederick Wiseman, who at the age of 90 released City Hall, made in our own backyard, and to Zipporah Films for their dissemination of the film within a new exhibition landscape.
Cannes Film Festival
2021 Winner
Golden Coach
2016 Winner
France Culture Award
Cinéma Consécration
2010 Nominee
C.I.C.A.E. Award
Boxing Gym
César Awards, France
2015 Nominee
César
Best Documentary Film (Meilleur film documentaire)
National Gallery
Shared with:
Pierre-Olivier Bardet
2012 Nominee
César
Best Documentary Film (Meilleur film documentaire)
Crazy Horse
Shared with:
Pierre-Olivier Bardet
2010 Nominee
César
Best Documentary Film (Meilleur film documentaire)
La danse
Chicago International Film Festival
2015 Nominee
Gold Hugo
Best Documentary
In Jackson Heights
2014 Nominee
Audience Choice Award
Audience Choice Award
National Gallery
2013 Nominee
Audience Choice Award
At Berkeley
2001 Winner
Silver Hugo
Best Documentary
Domestic Violence
1999 Nominee
Gold Hugo
Best Documentary
Belfast, Maine
Cork International Film Festival
2017 Nominee
Gradam na Féile do Scannáin Faisnéise (Cinematic Documentary Award)
Ex Libris
Denver International Film Festival
2020 Winner
Lifetime Achievement Award
DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival
2002 Winner
Career Award
Primetime Emmy Awards
1970 Winner
Primetime Emmy
Outstanding Achievement in News Documentary Programming - Programs
Hospital
1970 Winner
Primetime Emmy
Outstanding Achievement in News Documentary Programming - Individuals
Hospital
1969 Winner
Primetime Emmy
Outstanding Achievement in News Documentary Programming - Programs
Law and Order
Figueira da Foz International Film Festival
1980 Winner
First Prize
Images and Documents (Imagens e Documentos)
Manoeuvre
Hamburg Film Festival
2017 Nominee
Art Cinema Award
Best Feature
Ex Libris
Satellite Awards
1999 Nominee
Golden Satellite Award
Best Motion Picture, Documentary
Public Housing
Gotham Awards
2021 Nominee
Gotham Independent Film Award
Best Documentary
City Hall
Shared with:
Karen Konicek
2021 Nominee
Audience Award
City Hall
Shared with:
Karen Konicek
2017 Nominee
Gotham Independent Film Award
Best Documentary
Ex Libris
2017 Nominee
Audience Award
Ex Libris
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
2000 Winner
Lifetime Achievement Award
International Documentary Association
1990 Winner
Career Achievement Award
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
1967 Winner
Mannheim Film Ducat
Titicut Follies
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
2008 Winner
Contribution to World Cinema
London Film Festival
2017 Nominee
Grierson Award
Documentary Film
Ex Libris
2015 Nominee
Grierson Award
Documentary Film
In Jackson Heights
2014 Nominee
Grierson Award
Documentary Film
National Gallery
2013 Nominee
Grierson Award
At Berkeley
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2012 Winner
Career Achievement Award
1998 Nominee
LAFCA Award
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
Public Housing
Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (FIDMarseille)
1998 Winner
Grand Prix
Public Housing
Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest)
2000 Winner
Documentary Film Award of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation
Belfast, Maine
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
2018 Nominee
NSFC Award
Best Non-Fiction Film
Ex Libris
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2023 Winner
NYFCC Award
Best Non-Fiction Film
Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
2013 Winner
Special Award
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
2010 Winner
Lifetime Achievement Award
Online Film Critics Society Awards
2021 Winner
Lifetime Achievement Award
Peabody Awards
1991 Winner
Personal Award
Philadelphia Film Festival
2018 Nominee
Jury Award
Best Documentary Feature
Monrovia, Indiana
San Sebastián International Film Festival
2017 Nominee
Zabaltegi Section
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize
Ex Libris
Sundance Film Festival
1988 Nominee
Grand Jury Prize
Documentary
Missile
Venice Film Festival
2022 Nominee
Golden Lion
Best Film
A Couple
2020 Winner
Fair Play Cinema Award - Special Mention
City Hall
2017 Nominee
Golden Lion
Best Film
Ex Libris
2017 Winner
Fair Play Cinema Award
Ex Libris
2017 Winner
FIPRESCI Prize
Competition
Ex Libris
4 more
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Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
2021 Nominee
Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize
Best Documentary
City Hall
2021 Winner
Award of Excellence
City Hall
2019 Winner
Special Prize
Monrovia, Indiana
2019 Nominee
Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize
Best Documentary
Monrovia, Indiana
2017 Nominee
Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize
Best Documentary
Ex Libris
6 more
All
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
2021 Nominee
Cinema Eye Honors Award
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
City Hall
2018 Nominee
Cinema Eye Honors Award
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Ex Libris
2018 Nominee
Cinema Eye Honors Award
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Ex Libris
2016 Winner
Cinema Eye Honors Award
The Influentials
Titicut Follies
2016 Winner
Cinema Eye Honors Award
The Influentials
Welfare
6 more
All
International Cinephile Society Awards
2021 Nominee
ICS Award
Best Documentary
City Hall
Prix de l'Age d'Or
1989 Winner
Prix de l'Age d'Or
Near Death
Online Film & Television Association
2018 Nominee
OFTA Film Award
Best Documentary Picture
Ex Libris
1998 Nominee
OFTA Film Award
Best Documentary Picture
Public Housing
Seville European Film Festival
2022 Nominee
Golden Giraldillo
Best Film
A Couple
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
2021 Nominee
INOCA
Best Documentary
City Hall
2018 Nominee
INOCA
Best Documentary
Ex Libris
Runner-up
2016 Nominee
INOCA
Best Documentary
In Jackson Heights
3rd place.
2015 Nominee
INOCA
Best Documentary
National Gallery
3rd place.
Indiewire Critics' Poll
2014 Nominee
ICP Award
Best Documentary
National Gallery
6th place.
Glasgow Film Festival
2021 Nominee
Audience Award
Official Competition
City Hall
Torino Film Festival
2003 Winner
Career Cipputi Award
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
2017 Winner
Critics' Choice Documentary Award
Best Director
Ex Libris
Oslo Pix
2021 Winner
Oslo Grand Pix
Best International Film
City Hall
Americana Film Fest
2019 Nominee
Audience Award
Docs
Monrovia, Indiana
2018 Nominee
Audience Award
Docs
Ex Libris
2016 Nominee
Docs
In Jackson Heights
Cahiers du Cinéma
2020 Winner
Top 10 Film Award
Best Film
City Hall
Días de Cine Awards
2016 Winner
Días de Cine Award
Best Documentary
National Gallery
Seattle Film Critics Society
2024 Nominee
SFCS Award
Best Documentary Film
Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
2017 Nominee
SFCS Award
Best Documentary Feature
Ex Libris
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