The following is a list of awards and nominations received by director Baz Luhrmann .
Luhrmann has received various awards for his film projects. This includes an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture as a producer of Moulin Rouge! (2001). He has also received nine Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nominations winning four times for Strictly Ballroom (1992), and The Great Gatsby (2013). He also received seven British Academy Film Award nominations winning Best Director and Best Screenplay for Romeo + Juliet (1996). He has also received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
He has also earned three Grammy Award nominations, two for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film in 2002, and The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film in 2014, and a nomination for Best Musical Theater Album for Moulin Rouge! in 2020. For his work on the Broadway stage he has received two Tony Award nominations for La bohème in 2003, and another nomination for Best Musical for Moulin Rouge! in 2020.
Moulin Rouge! was nominated for Best Picture at the 74th Academy Awards . Luhrmann was not nominated for Best Director, prompting host Whoopi Goldberg to remark, "I guess [it] just directed itself."[ 1]
Australian Academy Awards [ edit ]
Luhrmann has received six awards from twelve Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards nominations.
British Academy Film Awards [ edit ]
Luhrmann has received two awards from eight British Academy Film Award nominations.
Golden Globe Awards [ edit ]
Luhrmann has received one award from five Golden Globe Award nominations.
Luhrmann has been specifically been nominated four times for Grammy Awards , with additional accolades for songs on the albums he has produced for his films, including wins for Lady Marmalade at 2002's Grammy's (Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ), as well as nominations for Young and Beautiful for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media the 2014 Grammy's .
Luhrmann has specifically been nominated for three Tony Awards , winning once. In addition, his production of La Boheme also won awards for Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design at the 57th Tony Awards .
Miscellaneous awards [ edit ]
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music . They commenced in 1987.
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
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2001
Movie of the Year
Moulin Rouge!
Nominated
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2013
Orry-Kelly Award
Won
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
1994
Golden Precolumbian Circle for Best Film
Strictly Ballroom
Nominated
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2022
Best Picture
Elvis
Won
[ 17]
Best Director
Won
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2016
Honorary Award
Won
[ 18]
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2002
Best Screenplay - Original
Moulin Rouge!
Nominated
Best Director
Won
2009
Best Film
Australia
Nominated
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2022
Best Picture
Elvis
Nominated
Best Director
Nominated
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2001
Hollywood Movie of the Year
Moulin Rouge!
Won
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2022
Music Themed Film, Biopic or Musical
Elvis
Nominated
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2001
Best Feature Film
Moulin Rouge!
Nominated
Best Direction
Nominated
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2002
Best Foreign Director
Moulin Rouge!
Nominated
Love is Folly International Film Festival [ edit ]
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2002
Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards [ edit ]
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2002
Best Director
Moulin Rouge!
Nominated
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
1992
Most Popular International Film
Strictly Ballroom
Won
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2001
Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a Soundtrack
Moulin Rouge!
Won
^ Shared with other producers.
^ Shared with other producers.
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^ "Oscars 2023: List of winners and nominees" . CBS News . 2023-03-13. Retrieved 2023-11-01 .
^ a b "Winners & Nominees: 1992 Feature Film" . AACTA Awards . Retrieved 29 July 2024 .
^ "Winners & Nominees: 1997 Additional Awards" . AACTA Awards . Retrieved 29 July 2024 .
^ a b "Winners & Nominees: 2001 Feature Film" . AACTA Awards . Retrieved 29 July 2024 .
^ a b "Winners & Nominations: 2009 Feature Film / Additional Awards" . AACTA Awards . Retrieved 29 July 2024 .
^ a b "Winners & Nominees: 3rd AACTA Awards" . AACTA Awards . Retrieved 29 July 2024 .
^ a b c Cain, Sian (October 24, 2022). "Baz Luhrmann's Elvis leads 2022 AACTA award nominations" . The Guardian . Retrieved November 13, 2022 .
^ "Baftas 2023: The winners and nominees in full" . BBC News . 2023-01-19. Retrieved 2023-11-01 .
^ "Winners & Nominees 2023" . Golden Globe Awards . Retrieved 2022-12-14 .
^ Jones, Damian (November 15, 2022). "Grammys nominations 2023: Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Adele and Harry Styles score the most nods" . NME . Retrieved January 12, 2022 .
^ "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See the Complete Winners & Nominees List" . Grammy Awards . Retrieved 2023-11-01 .
^ a b c d La Bohème at the Internet Broadway Database
^ "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" . tonyawards.com . Retrieved October 21, 2020 . as part of his Baz & Co. company.
^ ARIA Award previous winners. "Winners by Award – Artisan Awards – Best Video" . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 December 2019 .
^ a b "Berlinale: 1997 Prize Winners" . berlinale.de . Retrieved 12 January 2012 .
^ Vlessing, Etan (2023-01-04). " 'Elvis' Wins Best Picture and Director at Capri, Hollywood Film Fest" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 2024-07-11 .
^ "2016 Honorary Award Recipient: Baz Luhrmann" . Clio Awards . 2016-09-26. Retrieved 2018-01-31 .
^ Davis, Clayton (December 14, 2022). "Critics Choice Nominations: Everything Everywhere All at Once Leads With 14, Followed by The Fabelmans and Babylon " . Variety . Retrieved January 12, 2023 .
^ Verhoeven, Beatrice (January 12, 2023). "Producers Guild Awards 2023 Film and TV Nominations Revealed" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 12, 2023 .
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