List of awards and nominations received by Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick awards and nominations
	Malick at the 1993 Viennale
Award
Awards and nominations
Award	Wins
Totals
Wins	8
Nominations	20
	Note ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.;

Last updated April 30, 2025

Terrence Malick is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Throughout his career, which has spanned over four decades, he has received prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and Venice International Film Festival as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Cesar Award, and a Directors Guild of America Award.

Malick was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the epic war film The Thin Red Line (1998) and the experimental coming-of-age film The Tree of Life (2011). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the former. He received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for the romantic period drama Days of Heaven (1978).

At the Berlin International Film Festival he won the Golden Bear for The Thin Red Line (1998). At the Cannes Film Festival he won the Palme d'Or for The Tree of Life (2011) and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director for Days of Heaven in 1979. He was nominated for the César Award for Best Foreign Film for Days of Heaven and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film for The Thin Red Line. He won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director twice for Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	^[1]
1998	Best Director	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	^[1]
2011	Best Director	The Tree of Life	Nominated	^[2]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1979	Best Director	Days of Heaven	Nominated

Film festival awards

Berlin Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1999	Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost"	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	^[3]
1999	Golden Bear	The Thin Red Line	Won	^[3]
2016	Golden Bear	Knight of Cups	Nominated	^[4]

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1979	Best Director	Days of Heaven	Won	^[5]
1979	Palme d'Or	Days of Heaven	Nominated	^[6]
2011		The Tree of Life	Won	^[7]
2019		A Hidden Life	Nominated	^[8]
	François Chalais Prize		Won	^[9]
	Prize of the Ecumenical Jury		Won	^[10]

Venice Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2012	SIGNIS Award	To the Wonder	Won	^[11]
2012	Golden Lion	To the Wonder	Nominated	^[11]
2016	Golden Lion	Voyage of Time	Nominated	^[12]
	Green Drop Award		Won
	Future Film Festival Digital Award - Special Mention		Won

Miscellaneous awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
César Awards
1999	Best Foreign Film	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	^[13]
Chicago Film Critics Association
1998	Best Director	The Thin Red Line	Won	^[14]
2011	Best Director	The Tree of Life	Won	^[15]
2011	Best Original Screenplay	The Tree of Life	Nominated	^[15]
Directors Guild of America Awards
1999	Outstanding Directing – Feature Film	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	^[16]
National Society of Film Critics
1979	Best Director	Days of Heaven	Won
1999		The Thin Red Line	2nd Place
2012		The Tree of Life	Won
New York Film Critics Circle
1978	Best Director	Days of Heaven	Won
1998		The Thin Red Line	Won
2005		The New World	4th Place
Writers Guild of America Awards
1979	Best Original Screenplay	Days of Heaven	Nominated	^[17]

Awards received by Malick movies

Year	Film	Academy Awards		BAFTA Awards		Golden Globe Awards
Year	Film	Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins
1973	Badlands			1
1978	Days of Heaven	4	1	1	1	2
1998	The Thin Red Line	7
2005	The New World	1
2011	The Tree of Life	3
Total		15	1	2	1	2	0

References

↑ "1999". Oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ "2012". Oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ "1999". Berlinale. Kulturverstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ "Berlinale 2015: Competition Complete". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
↑ "Awards 1979 : Competition". Festival de Cannes. Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ "Official Selection 1979 : In Competition". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ "Awards 2011 : Competition". Festival de Cannes. Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ Tartaglione, Nancy; Wiseman, Andreas (April 18, 2019). "Cannes Film Festival 2019 Lineup: Malick, Almodovar, Dardennes; Four Women Directors In Competition – Full List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved April 18, 2019.
↑ "72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival Held In Cannes, France From 14 To 25 May 2019". May 29, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
↑ Oubrayrie, Edward. "Le Prix du Jury œcuménique 2019 décerné à 'A Hidden Life'". Jury oecumenique au Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
↑ "Venezia 69". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
↑ "73rd Venice International Film Festival, Line-up". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
↑ "Awards". Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ "Chicago Film Critics Awards - 1998-2007". Chicago Film Critics Association. Chicago Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ "2011 Chicago Film Critics Awards". Chicago Film Critics Association. Chicago Film Critics Association. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
↑ "51st Annual DGA Awards: Winners and Nominees". Directors Guild of America . Retrieved 16 September 2016.
↑ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1979)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-17.

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[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

[academy1999-2] "1999". Oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[academy2012-3] "2012". Oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[berlinfilmfest1-4] "1999". Berlinale. Kulturverstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[5] "Berlinale 2015: Competition Complete". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

[cannes1-6] "Awards 1979 : Competition". Festival de Cannes. Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[cannes2-7] "Official Selection 1979 : In Competition". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[cannes3-8] "Awards 2011 : Competition". Festival de Cannes. Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[9] Tartaglione, Nancy; Wiseman, Andreas (April 18, 2019). "Cannes Film Festival 2019 Lineup: Malick, Almodovar, Dardennes; Four Women Directors In Competition – Full List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved April 18, 2019.

[10] "72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival Held In Cannes, France From 14 To 25 May 2019". May 29, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.

[11] Oubrayrie, Edward. "Le Prix du Jury œcuménique 2019 décerné à 'A Hidden Life'". Jury oecumenique au Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 7 June 2019.

[12] "Venezia 69". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012.

[13] "73rd Venice International Film Festival, Line-up". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.

[cesar-14] "Awards". Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[cfca1-15] "Chicago Film Critics Awards - 1998-2007". Chicago Film Critics Association. Chicago Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[cfca2-16] "2011 Chicago Film Critics Awards". Chicago Film Critics Association. Chicago Film Critics Association. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

[17] "51st Annual DGA Awards: Winners and Nominees". Directors Guild of America . Retrieved 16 September 2016.

[18] "Writers Guild of America, USA (1979)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-17.

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Filmography Bibliography Awards and nominations
Feature films	Badlands (1973) Days of Heaven (1978) The Thin Red Line (1998) The New World (2005) The Tree of Life (2011) To the Wonder (2012) Knight of Cups (2015) Song to Song (2017) A Hidden Life (2019) The Way of the Wind (TBA)
Short films	Lanton Mills (1969)
Documentaries	Voyage of Time (2016)