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Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1975 Nominated Oscar Best Director
for: Day for Night (1973).

Best Writing, Original Screenplay
for: Day for Night (1973).
Shared with:
Jean-Louis Richard
Suzanne Schiffman

 
1960 Nominated Oscar Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
for: The 400 Blows (1959).
Shared with:
Marcel Moussy

 
BAFTA Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1984 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Foreign Language Film
for: Confidentially Yours (1983).
Shared with:
Armand Barbault
France.
 
1979 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actor
for: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

 
1974 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Direction
for: Day for Night (1973).

 
1961 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Film from any Source
for: The 400 Blows (1959).
France.
 
Berlin International Film Festival
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1979 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: Love on the Run (1979).

 
1977 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: The Man Who Loved Women (1977).

 
1976 Won OCIC Award - Recommendation Competition
for: Small Change (1976).

Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost" for: Small Change (1976).

Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: Small Change (1976).

 
1962 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear for: Love at Twenty (1962).
Shared with:
Andrzej Wajda
Renzo Rossellini
Shintarô Ishihara
Marcel Ophüls

 
Bodil Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1965 Won Bodil Best European Film (Bedste europæiske film)
for: The Soft Skin (1964).

 
1963 Won Bodil Best European Film (Bedste europæiske film)
for: Jules and Jim (1962).

 
1960 Won Bodil Best European Film (Bedste europæiske film)
for: The 400 Blows (1959).

 
Cannes Film Festival
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1964 Nominated Palme d'Or for: The Soft Skin (1964).

 
1959 Won Best Director for: The 400 Blows (1959).

OCIC Award for: The 400 Blows (1959).

Nominated Palme d'Or for: The 400 Blows (1959).

 
Cartagena Film Festival
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1976 Won Special Critics Award for: The Story of Adele H (1975).

Nominated Golden India Catalina Best Film (Mejor Película)
for: The Story of Adele H (1975).

 
César Awards, France
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1989 Nominated César Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation)
for: The Little Thief (1988).
Shared with:
Claude de Givray
Annie Miller
Claude Miller
Luc Béraud

 
1984 Nominated César Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur)
for: Confidentially Yours (1983).

 
1981 Won César Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur)
for: The Last Metro (1980).

Best Film (Meilleur film)
for: The Last Metro (1980).

Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, dialogue ou adaptation)
for: The Last Metro (1980).
Shared with:
Suzanne Schiffman

 
1976 Nominated César Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur)
for: The Story of Adele H (1975).

 
David di Donatello Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1981 Won Luchino Visconti Award For his whole works as a director and movie critic.
 
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1969 Nominated Edgar Best Motion Picture
for: The Bride Wore Black (1968).
Shared with:
Jean-Louis Richard

 
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1977 Won Critics Award Best Film
for: The Story of Adele H (1975).

 
1974 Won Critics Award Best Film
for: Day for Night (1973).

 
1971 Won Critics Award Best Film
for: The Wild Child (1970).

 
1969 Won Critics Award Best Film
for: Stolen Kisses (1968).

 
1960 Won Critics Award Best Film
for: The 400 Blows (1959).
Tied with Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959).
 
Guild of German Art House Cinemas
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1984 Won Guild Film Award - Gold Foreign Film (Ausländischer Film)
for: The Woman Next Door (1981).

 
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1981 Nominated Silver Ribbon Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
for: The Last Metro (1980).

 
1963 Won Silver Ribbon Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
for: Jules and Jim (1962).

 
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1984 Won Special Award
 
Mar del Plata Film Festival
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1962 Won Best Director for: Jules and Jim (1962).

 
National Board of Review, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1971 Won NBR Award Best Director
for: The Wild Child (1970).

 
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1974 Won NSFC Award Best Director
for: Day for Night (1973).

 
1970 Won NSFC Award Best Director
for: Stolen Kisses (1968).

 
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1975 Won NYFCC Award Best Screenplay
for: The Story of Adele H (1975).
Shared with:
Jean Gruault
Suzanne Schiffman

 
1974 Won NYFCC Award Best Director
for: Day for Night (1973).

 
Prix Louis Delluc
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1968 Won Prix Louis Delluc for: Stolen Kisses (1968).

 
Sant Jordi Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1961 Won Sant Jordi Best Foreign Director (Mejor Director Extranjero)
for: The 400 Blows (1959).

 
Venice Film Festival
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1966 Nominated Golden Lion for: Fahrenheit 451 (1966).

 

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