Academy Awards
Best Actor (Sean Penn)
Best Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black)
Spirit Awards
Best Supporting Male (James Franco)
Best First Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Actor (Sean Penn)
Best Supporting Actor (Josh Brolin)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
National Board of Review Award
Outfest 2008
Hollywood Awards
Composer of the Year Award (Danny Elfman)
Breakthrough Actor of the Year Award (James Franco)
Breakthrough Screenwriter of the Year Award (Dustin Lance Black)
2008 Gotham Awards
BAFTA/Los Angeles
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Producers Guild of America
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Gus Van Sant)
Best Actor (Sean Penn [in a tie])
Best Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black)
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Actor (Sean Penn)
Best Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Actor (Sean Penn [in a tie]
Best Director (Gus Van Sant [in tandem with another movie])
Best Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black)
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Sean Penn)
Best Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black)
Austin Film Critics Association Awards
Houston Film Critics Society Awards
St. Louis Film Critics Awards
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards
Named one of the Year's Top Ten Films
National Board of Review
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association [#2 on list]
Houston Film Critics Society [#4 on list]
New York Film Critics Online
Phoenix Film Critics Society
Austin Film Critics Association
Satellite Awards
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle
AFI Awards 2008
Given to AFI Movies of the Year [named one of the year’s Ten Best Films by the American Film Institute]
New York Film Critics Online
Best Actor (Sean Penn)
Best Ensemble Performance
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
One of the year’s [Five] Best Supporting Actors (Josh Brolin) [#2 on list]
One of the year’s [Five] Best Directors (Gus Van Sant) [#4 on list]
Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Critics' Poll
Cited among year’s Best Films (#7 on list)
Best Actor (Sean Penn - #1 on list)
Best Supporting Actor (Josh Brolin - #3 on list)
2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival
Sonny Bono Visionary Award (Gus Van Sant)
Desert Palm Achievement Award for Acting (Sean Penn)
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Film
Best Actor (Sean Penn)
Moonrise Kingdom
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World
ParaNorman
For A Good Time, Call…
Anna Karenina
Hyde Park on Hudson
Worried About The Boy
Loose Cannons
Extraterrestrial
Juan of the Dead
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride and Prejudice
The Pianist