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Joe Berlinger

Awards

Joe Berlinger

91 wins & 39 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Documentary, Features
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Atlanta Film Festival

  • John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Zac Efron, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Kaya Scodelario, and Lily Collins in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
    2019 Winner Originator Award
    • Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Banff Television Festival

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee Banff Rockie Award
    • Investigative & Current Affairs Programs
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Chicago International Film Festival

  • Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016)
    2017 Winner 53rd Chicago International TV Award
    • Non-Fiction Program
    • Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Winner Silver Hugo
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Sheila Nevins · Bruce Sinofsky
  • Outrageous Taxi Stories (1989)
    1989 Nominee Gold Hugo
    • Best Short Film
    • Outrageous Taxi Stories

Christopher Awards

  • Under African Skies (2012)
    2013 Winner Christopher Award
    • Television & Cable
    • Under African Skies
    Shared with: Jon Kamen · Justin Wilkes · Sara Enright · Molly Thompson · Robert DeBitetto · David McKillop · Robert Friedman · Frank Scherma · Eddie Simon · Richard Story · Adam Block · Gil Aronow

Cinéma du Réel

  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Winner Joris Ivens Award
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Cleveland International Film Festival

  • John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Zac Efron, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Kaya Scodelario, and Lily Collins in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
    2019 Nominee Best American Independent Feature Film
    • Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
  • Joe Berlinger
    2012 Winner Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award
    • Best Film
    Shared with: Paul Simon

Directors Guild of America, USA

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1993 Winner DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary/Actuality
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Primetime Emmy Awards

  • Under African Skies (2012)
    2012 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Nonfiction Special
    • Under African Skies
    Shared with: Molly Thompson · David McKillop · Robert DeBitetto · Eddie Simon · Jon Kamen · Justin Wilkes
  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Sheila Nevins · Jonathan Silberberg · Nancy Abraham
  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006)
    2006 Winner Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Nonfiction Series
    • Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
    Shared with: Susan Werbe · Sidney Beaumont · Greg Schultz
  • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
    2000 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Non-Fiction Special
    • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
    Shared with: Sheila Nevins · Nancy Abraham · Bruce Sinofsky

Ghent International Film Festival

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2004 Winner Audience Award for Best Documentary
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Florida Film Festival

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 Winner Special Jury Award
    • Directorial Achievement
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Image Awards (NAACP)

  • Oprah's Master Class (2011)
    2012 Winner Image Award
    • Outstanding Variety Series or Special
    • Oprah's Master Class

Film Independent Spirit Awards

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2005 Winner Independent Spirit Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Nominee Truer Than Fiction Award
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

International Documentary Association

  • Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (2024)
    2024 Nominee IDA Award
    • Best Limited Series
    • Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
    Shared with: Yoshi Stone · Axel Gerdau · Patrick Milling Smith · Matt Renner · Rachael Profiloski · Tim Pastore
  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2017 Winner Pare Lorentz Award - Honorable Mention
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
  • Iconoclasts (2005)
    2009 Nominee IDA Award
    • Continuing Series
    • Iconoclasts
    For episodes "Desmond Tutu & Richard Branson", "Stella McCartney & Ed Ruscha", "Tony Hawk & John Favreau", "Bill Maher & Clive Davis", "Venus Williams & Wyclef Jean", and "Cameron Diaz & Cameron Sinclair"
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2004 Nominee IDA Award
    • Feature Documentaries
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Outrageous Taxi Stories (1989)
    1990 Nominee IDA Award
    • Outrageous Taxi Stories

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 Nominee LAFCA Award
    • Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Miami Film Festival

  • Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)
    2014 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Knight Documentary Competition
    • Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
  • Under African Skies (2012)
    2012 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Knight Documentary Competition
    • Under African Skies

Nashville Film Festival

  • Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016)
    2016 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
  • Under African Skies (2012)
    2012 Winner Impact of Music Award
    • Under African Skies
    Shared with: Paul Simon
  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner Human Spirit Award
    • Crude

National Board of Review, USA

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2011 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner NBR Award
    • Top Five Documentaries
    • Crude
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

New York Festivals

  • Under African Skies (2012)
    2013 Winner Grand Award
    • The Arts - Television - Documentary/Information Program
    • Under African Skies
    Shared with: David McKillop · Molly Thompson · Robert DeBitetto · Robert Friedman · Frank Scherma · Jon Kamen · Justin Wilkes · Adam Block · Gil Aronow

Newport Beach Film Festival

  • Under African Skies (2012)
    2011 Winner Achievement Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Music
    • Under African Skies
    Shared with: Paul Simon

News & Documentary Emmy Awards

  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2019 Nominee Emmy
    • Outstanding Historical Documentary
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
    Shared with: Patricia L. Glaser · Jon Kamen · Anthony Mandekic · Sheri Sani · Dan Taylor · Eric Esrailian · Chip Rosenbloom

Peabody Awards

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Winner Peabody Award
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Razzie Awards

  • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
    2001 Nominee Razzie Award
    • Worst Director
    • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
  • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
    2001 Nominee Razzie Award
    • Worst Screenplay
    • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Shared with: Daniel Myrick · Eduardo Sánchez · Dick Beebe

St. Louis International Film Festival

  • Joe Berlinger
    2009 Winner Maysles Brothers Lifetime Achievement Award in Documentary

Sundance Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Crude
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Winner Audience Award
    • Documentary
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

SXSW Film Festival

  • Under African Skies (2012)
    2012 Winner Audience Award
    • 24 Beats Per Second
    • Under African Skies

Video Software Dealers Association

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2005 Winner Home Entertainment Award
    • Best Music DVD, Non-concert Release
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

NatFilm Festival

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2004 Winner Audience Award
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Santa Cruz Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner Environmental Film Award
    • Audience Award
    • Crude

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1993 Nominee Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Encounters South African International Documentary Festival

  • Under African Skies (2012)
    2012 Winner Audience Award
    • Best International Film
    • Under African Skies
    Shared with: Paul Simon

Boston Independent Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Crude

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner WWF Award
    • Best Documentary Film
    • Crude

Arpa International Film Festival

  • Joe Berlinger
    2019 Winner Career Achievement Award in Directing
    JOE BERLINGER 2019 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN DIRECTING Recipient at 22nd Annual Arpa International Film Festival 2019
  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2017 Winner Best Documentary Film Award
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival

  • Joe Berlinger
    2017 Winner Special Prize Master

Silverdocs Documentary Festival

  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    2012 Winner Honorable Mention
    • Charles Guggenheim Symposium
    • Brother's Keeper
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    • Gray Matter
    • Under African Skies
    • Iconoclasts
    • Crude
    • Oprah's Master Class
    The Symposium celebrates the legacy of filmmaker Charles Guggenheim.
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Dallas International Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner Current Energy Filmmaker Award
    • Crude

Cinema for Peace Awards

  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2018 Nominee Cinema for Peace Award
    • Cinema for Peace Award for Justice
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Winner Cinema for Peace Award
    • Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
  • Crude (2009)
    2010 Winner Cinema for Peace Award
    • International Green Film Award
    • Crude

Honolulu International Festival (II)

  • Crude (2009)
    2010 Winner Golden Kahuna Award
    • Documentary - Feature-Length
    • Crude

Mexico International Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner Jury Award
    • Best Documentary Film
    • Crude

Jacksonville Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner Jury Award
    • Shining Light Award
    • Crude

CINE Golden Eagle Film and Video Competition

  • Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)
    2015 Nominee Golden Eagle
    • NONFICTION CONTENT / FEATURE - HISTORICAL EVENTS AND BIOGRAPHIES
    • Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
  • Outrageous Taxi Stories (1989)
    1989 Winner Golden Eagle
    • Televised News Division - Informational/Current Issue
    • Outrageous Taxi Stories

American Documentary Film Festival and Film Fund

  • Joe Berlinger
    2016 Winner Jury Prize
    • Seeing the Bigger Picture Award
  • Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016)
    2016 Winner Jury Prize
    • Audience Choice Award
    • Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

True/False Film Fest

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2004 Winner True Vision Award
    • Documentary
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2017 Winner Freedom of Expression
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

  • Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)
    2016 Nominee Cinema Eye Honors Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking for Television
    • Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
    Shared with: Caroline Suh · Courtney Sexton · Vinnie Malhotra · Amy Entelis
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    2014 Winner Cinema Eye Honors Award
    • The Influentials
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    2012 Winner Hell Yeah Prize
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Pomegranate Film Festival

  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2017 Winner Audience Choice Award
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2017 Winner Best Documentary
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

Telly Awards

  • Shadowland (2022)
    2023 Winner Gold Telly
    • Best Documentary Series
    • Shadowland
    Shared with: Jon Kamen · Jon Doran · Jen Isaacson · Craig D'Entrone
  • Jeffrey Dahmer in Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes (2022)
    2023 Winner Gold Telly
    • Best Documentary Series
    • Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
    Shared with: Jon Kamen · Jon Doran · Jen Isaacson
  • Robby Naish in The Longest Wave (2019)
    2021 Winner Gold Telly
    • Non-Broadcast: Sports
    • The Longest Wave
  • Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021)
    2021 Winner Gold Telly
    • Television: Series: Documentary
    • Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
  • Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020)
    2021 Winner Gold Telly
    • Television: Series: Documentary
    • Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

Amazonas Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Crude

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2013 Nominee Open Eyes Jury Award
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

Online Film & Television Association

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Documentary Picture
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Bruce Sinofsky

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

  • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
    2000 Nominee Stinker Award
    • Worst Sense of Direction (Stop them before they direct again!)
    • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Red Nation Film Festival

  • Crude (2009)
    2009 Winner Red Nation Film Award of Excellence
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Crude

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

  • Joe Berlinger
    2018 Winner Critics' Choice Documentary Award
    • Impact Award

DOC LA

  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2017 Winner DOC LA Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

Realscreen Awards

  • Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021)
    2022 Nominee Realscreen Award
    • Non-Fiction - Crime & Investigation Program
    • Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
  • Ted Bundy in Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (2019)
    2020 Winner Realscreen Award
    • Non-Fiction - Archive-Based Program
    • Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

National Film and Television Awards, USA

  • John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Zac Efron, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Kaya Scodelario, and Lily Collins in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
    2019 Nominee National Film and Television Award
    • Best Horror/Thriller Film
    • Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Critics' Choice Real TV Awards

  • Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer (2021)
    2022 Nominee Real TV Award
    • Best Limited Series
    • Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
  • John Wayne Gacy in Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022)
    2022 Nominee Real TV Award
    • Best Limited Series
    • Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
  • Murder Among the Mormons (2021)
    2021 Nominee Real TV Award
    • Crime/Justice Show
    • Murder Among the Mormons
  • Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020)
    2020 Winner Real TV Award
    • Crime/Justice Show
    • Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
  • Ted Bundy in Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (2019)
    2019 Winner Real TV Award
    • Crime/Justice Show
    • Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

RusDocFilmFest

  • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
    2021 Winner Humanism in the Modern World
    • Documentary
    • Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

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