List of awards and nominations received by Lynne Ramsay

List of Lynne Ramsay awards

Award	Wins	Nominations
British Academy Film Award	2	7
British Independent Film Award	1	7
Independent Spirit Awards	0	2

Lynne Ramsay is a Scottish filmmaker. She is known for her short films, such as Gasman (1997), and her feature films Ratcatcher (1999), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), and You Were Never Really Here (2017). She has received seven British Academy Film Award nominations winning twice for Ratcatcher (1999) and Swimmer (2012). She has also received seven British Independent Film Award nominations and two Independent Spirit Award nominations. She has received four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and her films We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), You Were Never Really Here (2017) and Die, My Love (2025) competed for the prestigious Palme d'Or.

Major associations

British Academy Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Best Short Film	Gasman	Nominated
1999	Outstanding British, Writer, Director or Producer	Ratcatcher	Won	[1]
	Outstanding British Film		Nominated
2011		We Need to Talk About Kevin	Nominated	[2]
	Best Direction		Nominated
2012	Best Short Film	Swimmer	Won	[3]
2017	Outstanding British Film	You Were Never Really Here	Nominated	[4]

British Independent Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1999	Best Debut Director	Ratcatcher	Won
	Best Screenplay		Nominated
2002	Best Director	Morvern Callar	Nominated
	Best Screenplay		Nominated
2011		We Need to Talk About Kevin	Nominated
2017	Best British Independent Film	You Were Never Really Here	Nominated
	Best Director		Nominated

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Jury Prize Short film	Small Deaths	Won
1997		Gasman	Won
2002	Award of the Youth	Morvern Callar	Won
2011	Palme d'Or	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Nominated
2017		You Were Never Really Here	Nominated
	Best Screenplay		Won
2025	Palme d'Or	Die, My Love	Nominated	[5]

Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Best Film	You Were Never Really Here	Nominated	[6]
	Best Director		Nominated

Critics awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1997	Atlantic Film Festival Best Short film	Gasman	Won
	Chicago International Film Festival Best Short film		Won
	Locarno International Film Festival Best Short film		Won
1999	Chicago International Film Festival Silver Hugo Directing Award	Ratcatcher	Won
	Edinburgh International Film Festival New Director's Award		Won
	London Critics Circle Film Award for British Director of the Year		Won
2002	Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award	Morvern Callar	Won
2011	BFI London Film Festival Best Film Award	We Need To Talk About Kevin	Won
	BIFA for Best Director		Won
	Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Film		Won
	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Russell Smith Award		Won
	Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Film Screenplay		Won
	AACTA International Award for Best Direction		Nominated
	AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Bodil Award for Best American Film		Nominated
	London Film Critics' Circle Award for Director of the Year		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
2017	Noir Film Festival Special Jury Award	You Were Never Really Here	Won

References

1. "Film in 2000". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 24, 2022.
2. "Film in 2011". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 24, 2022.
3. "Film in 2012". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 24, 2022.
4. "Film in 2017". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 24, 2022.
5. "Additions to the selection of the 78th Festival de Cannes". Cannes Film Festival . 23 April 2025. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
6. "Independent Spirit Awards 2019: See the full winners list". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 24, 2022.