List of awards and nominations received by Damien Chazelle
Chazelle at the 2014 Deauville American Film Festival | ||
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This is a list of awards and nominations received by American director and screenwriter Damien Chazelle.
Chazelle made his directorial debut with the musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009). He wrote and directed his second feature film, Whiplash (2014), based on his award-winning 2013 short film of the same name. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival as the opening film where it won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic and went on to receive five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning three with Chazelle himself nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
He is also known for co-writing 10 Cloverfield Lane, and writing and directing La La Land, both released in 2016. For La La Land, he was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, two BAFTA Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director and won two Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay and Best Director and also two Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with the film itself receiving a record-breaking seven Golden Globes at the 74th Golden Globe Awards.
At 32, Chazelle is the youngest person to win the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.[1][2]
Major associations[edit]
Academy Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2015 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Whiplash | Nominated | |
2017 | Best Director | La La Land | Won | [3] |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Direction | Whiplash | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
2017 | Best Direction | La La Land | Won | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
Directors Guild of America Award[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | La La Land | Won |
Golden Globe Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | Best Director – Motion Picture | La La Land | Won | |
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Won |
Other awards and nominations[edit]
AACTA International Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Direction | Whiplash | Nominated | |
Best Screenplay | Nominated | |||
2017 | Best Direction | La La Land | Nominated | |
Best Screenplay | Nominated |
Alliance of Women Film Journalists[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
Aspen Shortsfest[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Short Film Prize | Whiplash (Short) | Won |
Austin Film Critics Association[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
Boston Society of Film Critics[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Won |
Bram Stoker Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Best Screenplay | 10 Cloverfield Lane | Nominated |
Calgary International Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Maverick Award | Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench | Nominated | |
2014 | Best Narrative Feature | Whiplash | Won |
Camerimage Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Directorial Debut | Whiplash | Nominated |
Cannes Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Queer Palm Award | Whiplash | Nominated |
Chicago Film Critics Association[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Original Screenplay | Whiplash | Nominated | |
Most Promising Filmmaker | Won | |||
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated |
Critics' Choice Movie Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Original Screenplay | Whiplash | Nominated | |
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Won | |
Best Screenplay | Won | |||
2018 | Best Director | First Man | Nominated | |
2022 | Babylon | Nominated |
Denver Film Critics Society[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Original Screenplay | Whiplash | Nominated | |
2017 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
Denver International Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Emerging Filmmaker Award | Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench | Won |
Detroit Film Critics Society[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Breakthrough Artist | Whiplash | Won | |
Best Director | Won | |||
Best Screenplay | Won | |||
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Won |
Florida Film Critics Circle[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Pauline Kael Breakout Award | Whiplash | Won | |
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Won | |
Best Screenplay | Nominated |
Gaudí Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Non-Catalan Language Film | Grand Piano | Nominated |
Gotham Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You | Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench | Nominated |
Hamptons International Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Audience Award: Best Narrative Feature | La La Land | Won |
Houston Film Critics Society[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Director | Whiplash | Nominated | |
Best Screenplay | Nominated | |||
2017 | Best Director | La La Land | Won | |
Best Screenplay | Nominated |
Independent Spirit Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Director | Whiplash | Nominated |
London Film Critics' Circle[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Screenwriter of the Year | Whiplash | Won | |
2017 | Director of the Year | La La Land | Nominated | |
Screenwriter of the Year | Nominated |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated |
Mill Valley Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Audience Award (Best U.S. Feature Film) | Whiplash | Won |
MTV Movie Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Movie | Whiplash | Nominated |
National Society of Film Critics[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated |
Online Film Critics Society[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Original Screenplay | Whiplash | Nominated | |
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
San Diego Film Critics Society[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
San Francisco Film Critics Circle[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Original Screenplay | Whiplash | Nominated | |
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
Satellite Awards[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Director | Whiplash | Nominated | |
2017 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
Saturn Award[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Best Writing | Whiplash | Nominated | |
Best Independent Film | Won | |||
2017 | Best Independent Film | La La Land | Won |
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Screenplay | Whiplash | Nominated | |
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Won | |
Best Screenplay | Nominated |
Sundance Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction | Whiplash (Short) | Won | |
Short Film Grand Jury Prize | Nominated | |||
2014 | Audience Award (Dramatic) | Whiplash | Won | |
Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) | Won |
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best North American Independent Film | Whiplash | Nominated |
Torino Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Feature Film (Special Jury Prize) | Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench | Won | |
Best Feature Film (Prize of the City of Torino) | Nominated |
Toronto Film Critics Association[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated |
Toronto International Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | People's Choice Award | La La Land | Won |
Valladolid International Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Golden Spike (Best Film) | Whiplash | Nominated | |
Pilar Miró Award (Best New Director) | Won |
Vancouver Film Critics Circle[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Nominated |
Venice Film Festival[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Golden Lion | La La Land | Nominated | |
2018 | First Man | Nominated |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Director | Whiplash | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
2016 | Best Director | La La Land | Won | |
Best Original Screenplay | Won |
Writers Guild of America Award[edit]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Best Original Screenplay | Whiplash | Nominated | |
2016 | La La Land | Nominated |
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ F. Brinley Bruton (27 February 2017). "Oscars 2017: Damien Chazelle Is Youngest to Win Best Director". NBC News.
- ^ Roberts, Amy (4 January 2017). "Who's The Youngest Best Director Winner In Golden Globes History? 'La La Land' Director Damien Chazelle Could Break The Record". Bustle. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Glamour at the Oscars 2017 – Prestige Magazine". Prestige Magazine. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017.