List of awards and nominations received by Baz Luhrmann

List of Baz Luhrmann awards

Luhrmann at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013
Award	Wins	Nominations
Academy Awards	0	2
AACTA Awards	6	12
BAFTA Awards	2	7
Golden Globe Awards	1	5
Grammy Awards	0	3
Tony Awards	1	3

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.

Major associations

Academy Awards

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]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Picture	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated	[2]
2023		Elvis	Nominated	[3]

Australian Academy Awards

Luhrmann has received six awards from twelve Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards nominations.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	Best Director	Strictly Ballroom	Won	[4]
Best Screenplay	Won		[4]
1997	Best Foreign Film	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	[5]
2001	Best Direction	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated	[6]
Best Film	Nominated		[6]
2009	Best Original Score	Australia	Nominated	[7]
News Limited Readers' Choice Award	Nominated		[7]
2014	Best Direction	The Great Gatsby	Won	[8]
Best Film	Won		[8]
2022	Best Film	Elvis	Won	[9]
Best Direction	Won		[9]
Best Screenplay	Nominated		[9]

British Academy Film Awards

Luhrmann has received two awards from eight British Academy Film Award nominations.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1993	Best Film	Strictly Ballroom	Nominated	[ citation needed ]
Best Adapted Screenplay	Nominated		[ citation needed ]
1998	David Lean Award for Direction	Romeo + Juliet	Won	[ citation needed ]
	Best Adapted Screenplay		Won
2002	Best Film	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated	[ citation needed ]
	David Lean Award for Direction		Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
2023	Best Film	Elvis	Nominated	[10]

Golden Globe Awards

Luhrmann has received one award from five Golden Globe Award nominations.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1994	Best Picture - Musical/Comedy [a]	Strictly Ballroom	Nominated	[ citation needed ]
2002		Moulin Rouge!	Won	[ citation needed ]
	Best Director, Motion Picture		Nominated
2023	Best Picture - Drama [b]	Elvis	Nominated	[11]
	Best Director, Motion Picture		Nominated

Grammy Awards

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.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media	Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film	Nominated	[ citation needed ]
2014		The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film	Nominated	[ citation needed ]
2020	Best Musical Theater Album	Moulin Rouge! The Musical	Nominated	[ citation needed ]
2023	Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media	Elvis	Nominated [12]	[13]

Tony Awards

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.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2003	Best Direction of a Musical	La bohème	Nominated	[14]
	Best Revival of a Musical		Nominated	[14]
2020	Best Musical	Moulin Rouge!	Won	[15]

Miscellaneous awards

ARIA Music Awards

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	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref.
1998	"Now Until the Break of Day"	Best Video	Won	[16]

AFI Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Movie of the Year	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Australians in Film

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Orry-Kelly Award		Won

Berlin International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Alfred Bauer Prize	Romeo + Juliet	Won	[17]
	Golden Bear		Nominated	[17]

Bodil Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Non-American Film	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Bogotá Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1994	Golden Precolumbian Circle for Best Film	Strictly Ballroom	Nominated

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	Award of the Youth	Strictly Ballroom	Won
2001	Palme d'Or	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Capri Hollywood International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2022	Best Picture	Elvis	Won	[18]
	Best Director		Won

César Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Foreign Film	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Director	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Clio Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2016	Honorary Award		Won	[19]

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Director	Moulin Rouge!	Won
2023	Best Picture	Elvis	Nominated	[20]
	Best Director		Nominated

Drama Desk Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2003	Outstanding Revival of a Musical	La Boheme	Nominated	[14]
Outstanding Director of a Musical	Nominated		[14]

Directors Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Outstanding Directing – Feature Film	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Empire Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Director	Moulin Rouge!	Won

European Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Best Non-European Film	Strictly Ballroom	Won
2001		Moulin Rouge!	Won

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Screenplay - Original	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated
Best Director	Won
2009	Best Film	Australia	Nominated

Hollywood Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2022	Best Picture	Elvis	Nominated
Best Director	Nominated

Hollywood Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Hollywood Movie of the Year	Moulin Rouge!	Won

Hollywood Music in Media Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2022	Music Themed Film, Biopic or Musical	Elvis	Nominated

Inside Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Feature Film	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated
Best Direction	Nominated

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Foreign Director	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

London Film Critics' Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1993	Newcomer of the Year	Strictly Ballroom	Won
1998	Director of the Year	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated

Love is Folly International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1993	Golden Aphrodite	Strictly Ballroom	Won

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Movie of the Year	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated

Online Film Critics Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Director	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Producers Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Theatrical Motion Picture	Moulin Rouge!	Won
2023	Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures	Elvis	Nominated	[21]

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Sonny Bono Visionary Award		Won

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Director	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Robert Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1993	Best Foreign Film	Strictly Ballroom	Won
2002	Best Non-American Film	Moulin Rouge!	Won

Satellite Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Director	Moulin Rouge!	Won
	Best Film - Musical or Comedy		Won
2008	Best Original Song	Australia	Nominated
	Best Screenplay – Original		Nominated
	Auteur Award		Won
2023	Best Film - Musical of Comedy	Elvis	Nominated
	Best Director		Nominated

Teen Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Choice Movie – Drama	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated
2009	Choice Movie – Romance	Australia	Nominated

Toronto International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	People's Choice Award	Strictly Ballroom	Won

Vancouver Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Director	Moulin Rouge!	Won

Vancouver International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	Most Popular International Film	Strictly Ballroom	Won

World Soundtrack Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a Soundtrack	Moulin Rouge!	Won

Writers Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Original Screenplay	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated

Notes

1. Shared with other producers.
2. Shared with other producers.

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