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Nuri Bilge Ceylan at an event for Winter Sleep (2014)

Awards

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

97 wins & 81 nominations

Angers European First Film Festival

  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2001 Winner European Jury Award
    • Feature Film
    • Clouds of May
  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2001 Winner Laser Vidéo Titres Award
    • Clouds of May
  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1999 Winner Laser Vidéo Titres Award
    • The Small Town

Ankara International Film Festival

  • Distant (2002)
    2002 Winner Best Director
    • Distant
  • Distant (2002)
    2002 Winner Best Cinematography
    • Distant
  • Distant (2002)
    2002 Winner Best Editing
    • Distant
  • Distant (2002)
    2002 Winner Best Film
    • National Competition
    • Distant
  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2000 Winner Best Film
    • Clouds of May

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2008 Nominee Golden Orange
    • Best Film
    • Three Monkeys
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2006 Winner Golden Orange
    • Best Director
    • Climates
  • Distant (2002)
    2002 Winner Golden Orange
    • Best Film
    • Distant
  • Distant (2002)
    2002 Winner Golden Orange
    • Best Director
    • Distant
  • Distant (2002)
    2002 Winner Golden Orange
    • Best Screenplay
    • Distant

Bergamo Film Meeting

  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2001 Winner Silver Rosa Camuna
    • Clouds of May

Berlin International Film Festival

  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2000 Nominee Golden Berlin Bear
    • Clouds of May
  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1998 Winner Caligari Film Award
    • The Small Town

Bodil Awards

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Nominee Bodil
    • Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke-amerikanske film)
    • Winter Sleep

International Cinematographers' Film Festival Manaki Brothers

  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner Special Mention
    • Distant

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2001 Winner Best Director
    • Clouds of May
  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2001 Nominee Best Film
    • Clouds of May

Cannes Film Festival

  • Merve Dizdar in About Dry Grasses (2023)
    2023 Nominee Palme d'Or
    • About Dry Grasses
  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2018 Nominee Palme d'Or
    • The Wild Pear Tree
  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Winner Palme d'Or
    • Winter Sleep
  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Winner FIPRESCI Prize
    • Competition
    • Winter Sleep
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan at an event for Winter Sleep (2014)
    2012 Winner Golden Coach

César Awards, France

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Nominee César
    • Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
    • Winter Sleep

Chicago International Film Festival

  • Merve Dizdar in About Dry Grasses (2023)
    2023 Nominee Gold Hugo
    • Best Feature
    • About Dry Grasses
  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Nominee Audience Choice Award
    • Audience Choice Award
    • Winter Sleep
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2006 Nominee Gold Hugo
    • Best Feature
    • Climates
  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner Silver Hugo
    • Special Jury Prize
    • Distant
  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2000 Nominee Gold Hugo
    • Best Feature
    • Clouds of May

Cinemanila International Film Festival

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Nominee Lino Brocka Award
    • International Competition
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2006 Nominee Lino Brocka Award
    • International Competition
    • Climates
  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner Lino Brocka Award
    • Distant

European Film Awards

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Director
    • Winter Sleep
  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Screenwriter
    • Winter Sleep
    Shared with: Ebru Ceylan
  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Film
    • Winter Sleep
    Shared with: Zeynep Özbatur Atakan
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2012 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Director
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Director
    • Distant

Hamburg Film Festival

  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2008 Nominee Art Cinema Award
    • Three Monkeys

Ghent International Film Festival

  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2018 Nominee Grand Prix
    • Best Film
    • The Wild Pear Tree

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Winner Critics Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    • Winter Sleep

Gijón International Film Festival

  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2008 Nominee Grand Prix Asturias
    • Best Film
    • Three Monkeys

Haifa International Film Festival

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Winner Golden Anchor Award
    • Winter Sleep
  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2008 Winner Golden Anchor Award
    • Three Monkeys

Film Independent Spirit Awards

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2013 Nominee Independent Spirit Award
    • Best International Film
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Turkey

Istanbul Film Festival

  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2007 Nominee Golden Tulip
    • Best Film
    • Climates
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2007 Winner Best Turkish Film of the Year
    • Climates
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2007 Winner People's Choice Award
    • National Competition
    • Climates
  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner Best Turkish Film of the Year
    • Distant
  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner Best Turkish Director of the Year
    • Distant

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2009 Nominee Silver Ribbon
    • Best European Director (Regista del Miglior Film Europeo)
    • Three Monkeys

Jerusalem Film Festival

  • Merve Dizdar in About Dry Grasses (2023)
    2023 Nominee Award for International Cinema
    • The Nechama Rivilin Award for Best International Film
    • About Dry Grasses
  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2018 Nominee Gabriel Sherover Foundation Award
    • Best International Film
    • The Wild Pear Tree

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Winner Netpac Award
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    For its visual mastery in exploring doubt and the darkness of the human soul.

London Critics Circle Film Awards

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2013 Nominee ALFS Award
    • Director of the Year
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Nominee LAFCA Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    • Winter Sleep

Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival

  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1998 Nominee Best Film Award
    • Best Full-Length Fiction Film
    • The Small Town

Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival

  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner Golden Antigone
    • Distant
  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner Critics Award
    • Features
    • Distant

Nantes Three Continents Festival

  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1998 Nominee Golden Montgolfiere
    • The Small Town
  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1998 Winner Best Cinematography
    • The Small Town

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • Merve Dizdar in About Dry Grasses (2023)
    2024 Nominee FIPRESCI Prize
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    • About Dry Grasses
  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Nominee FIPRESCI Prize
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    • Winter Sleep

Philadelphia Film Festival

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Winner Audience Award - Honorable Mention
    • Masters
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

RiverRun International Film Festival

  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2009 Winner Jury Prize
    • Best Feature Film
    • Three Monkeys

Danish Film Awards (Robert)

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Nominee Robert
    • Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film)
    • Winter Sleep

San Sebastián International Film Festival

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Nominee FIPRESCI Film of the Year
    • Winter Sleep
  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner FIPRESCI Film of the Year
    • Distant

Singapore International Film Festival

  • Distant (2002)
    2004 Winner Silver Screen Award
    • Best Asian Feature Film
    • Distant
  • Distant (2002)
    2004 Winner Silver Screen Award
    • Best Director - Asian Feature Film
    • Distant
  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2001 Nominee Silver Screen Award
    • Best Asian Feature Film
    • Clouds of May
  • Clouds of May (1999)
    2001 Winner Special Jury Prize
    • Asian Feature Film
    • Clouds of May

Stockholm Film Festival

  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1998 Nominee Bronze Horse
    • The Small Town

Sydney Film Festival

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Narrative Feature
    • Winter Sleep

São Paulo International Film Festival

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Winner Critics Award
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Tokyo International Film Festival

  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1998 Winner Silver Award
    • The Small Town
  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1998 Nominee Tokyo Grand Prix
    • The Small Town

Trieste Film Festival

  • Distant (2002)
    2004 Winner Prize Trieste
    • Distant

Lumiere Awards, France

  • Merve Dizdar in About Dry Grasses (2023)
    2024 Winner Lumiere Award
    • Best International Coproduction (Meilleure coproduction internationale)
    • About Dry Grasses

Kerala International Film Festival

  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1999 Nominee Golden Crow Pheasant
    • The Small Town

Oslo Films from the South Festival

  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2018 Nominee Silver Mirror Award
    • Best Feature
    • The Wild Pear Tree
  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2018 Nominee Audience Award
    • The Wild Pear Tree
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Nominee Silver Mirror Award
    • Best Feature
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2006 Winner FIPRESCI Prize
    • Climates

Sarajevo Film Festival

  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan at an event for Winter Sleep (2014)
    2018 Winner Honorary Heart of Sarajevo

Amanda Awards, Norway

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Nominee Amanda
    • Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske spillefilm)
    • Winter Sleep
    TURKEY

Sofia International Film Festival

  • Distant (2002)
    2004 Winner Best Balkan Film
    • Distant

Film by the Sea International Film Festival

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Nominee Film and Literature Award
    • Winter Sleep

Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany"

  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2007 Nominee Best Film
    • Climates

Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival

  • Distant (2002)
    2004 Winner Festival Award
    • Best Director
    • Distant

Skip City International D-Cinema Festival

  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2007 Winner Grand Prize
    • Climates

Turia Awards

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Winner Turia Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    • Winter Sleep
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2014 Winner Turia Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Association of Polish Filmmakers Critics Awards

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2012 Winner Honorable Mention
    • Best Foreign Film
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Dublin International Film Festival

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2012 Winner Dublin Film Critics Award
    • Best Director
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2006 Nominee Grand Prize
    • Climates
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2006 Winner Jury Prize
    • Best Director
    • Climates
    For the manner in which he reflects despair and emptiness with such poetic intensity.
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan in Climates (2006)
    2006 Winner Don Quixote Award - Special Mention
    • Climates
    For observing the break-down of marriage and impossibility of love; very slow images and different "climates" - from west to east Anatolia, from summer heat to snow storms - intensify the feeling of this failure.
  • Distant (2002)
    2003 Winner Estonian Film Critics Award
    • Distant

Dubai International Film Festival

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Winner Muhr AsiaAfrica Special Jury Prize
    • Feature
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Nominee Muhr AsiaAfrica Award
    • Best Film - Feature
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Cinefan - Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema

  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2008 Winner Asian and Arab Competition Award
    • Best Director
    • Three Monkeys

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2014 Winner Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Achievement in Directing
    • Winter Sleep
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Nominee Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Shared with: Ercan Kesal · Ebru Ceylan
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Winner Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Achievement in Directing
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Nominee Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Best Film
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Shared with: Zeynep Özbatur Atakan · Mirsad Purivatra · Eda Arikan · Ibrahim Sahin · Müge Kolat · Murat Akdilek
  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2008 Winner Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Achievement in Directing
    • Three Monkeys

International Cinephile Society Awards

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Winner ICS Award
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • Winter Sleep
    Tied with Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice (2014)
    Shared with: Ebru Ceylan
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2013 Nominee ICS Award
    • Best Director
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2012 Nominee DFCC
    • Best Director
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    5th place

Lisbon Film Festival (LEFFEST)

  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan at an event for Winter Sleep (2014)
    2023 Winner Tribute Award

Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards

  • Merve Dizdar in About Dry Grasses (2023)
    2023 Winner SIYAD Award
    • Best Director
    • About Dry Grasses
  • Merve Dizdar in About Dry Grasses (2023)
    2023 Winner SIYAD Award
    • Best Editing
    • About Dry Grasses
    Shared with: Oguz Atabas
  • Merve Dizdar in About Dry Grasses (2023)
    2023 Winner SIYAD Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • About Dry Grasses
    Shared with: Ebru Ceylan · Akin Aksu
  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2018 Nominee SIYAD Award
    • Best Editing
    • The Wild Pear Tree
  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2018 Winner SIYAD Award
    • Best Director
    • The Wild Pear Tree

Hellenic Film Academy Awards

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2016 Nominee Hellenic Film Academy Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    • Winter Sleep

Village Voice Film Poll

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2012 Nominee VVFP Award
    • Best Director
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    5th place. Tied with David Cronenberg for Cosmopolis (2012) and Ben Affleck for Argo (2012).

Seville European Film Festival

  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2018 Nominee Golden Giraldillo
    • Best Film
    • The Wild Pear Tree

Beijing International Film Festival

  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2019 Nominee Tiantan Award
    • Best Film
    • The Wild Pear Tree

Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA)

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Winner IOMA
    • Best Adapted Screenplay (Miglior sceneggiatura non originale)
    • Winter Sleep
    Shared with: Ebru Ceylan
  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Nominee IOMA
    • Best European Film (Miglior film europeo)
    • Winter Sleep
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2013 Nominee IOMA
    • Special Prize for the Best European Film (Premio speciale al miglior film europeo)
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Turkey

World Cinema Amsterdam

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2011 Nominee World Cinema Amsterdam Jury Award
    • Best Film
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Adana Film Festival

  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1997 Winner Golden Boll in National Feature Film
    • Yilmaz Guney Award
    • The Small Town
  • Mehmet Emin Toprak in The Small Town (1997)
    1997 Nominee Golden Boll in National Feature Film
    • Best Film
    • The Small Town

Yesilcam Awards

  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2008 Winner Yesilçam Award
    • Best Director
    • Three Monkeys
  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2008 Winner Yesilçam Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Three Monkeys
    Shared with: Ebru Ceylan · Ercan Kesal

Kemal Sunal Culture and Art Award

  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2009 Winner Culture and Art Award
    • Best Director
    • Three Monkeys
  • Three Monkeys (2008)
    2009 Winner Culture and Art Award
    • Best Movie
    • Three Monkeys
    Shared with: Zeynep Özbatur Atakan

Días de Cine Awards

  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2020 Nominee Días de Cine Award
    • Best Foreign Film
    • The Wild Pear Tree
    3rd place

José Ignacio International Film Festival

  • Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sözen in Winter Sleep (2014)
    2015 Nominee Audience Award
    • Best Film
    • Winter Sleep

East-West: Golden Arch International Film Awards

  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2019 Nominee East-West: Golden Arch
    • Best Feature Film
    • The Wild Pear Tree
  • Dogu Demirkol in The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
    2019 Nominee East-West: Golden Arch
    • Best Director
    • The Wild Pear Tree

Abraccine Prize (Brazilian Association of Film Critic Annual Prize)

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
    2013 Nominee Abraccine Award
    • Best International Feature Film (Melhor Longa Estrangeiro)
    • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

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