Awards and Nominations
- Career Achievement
- Provincetown International Film Festival Filmmaker on the Edge Award (2002)
- Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay (with Daniel Yost)
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (with Daniel Yost)
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay (with Daniel Yost)
- My Own Private Idaho (1991)
- Venice Film Festival Official Selection
- Toronto Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize
- Good Will Hunting (1997)
- Berlin Film Festival Official Selection
- Academy Award nomination for Best Director
- Directors Guild of America (DGA) nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Motion Pictures
- Satellite Award nomination for Best Director
- Psycho (1998)
- Razzie Award for Worst Director
- Finding Forrester (2000)
- Berlin Film Festival Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
- Elephant (2003)
- Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or
- Cannes Film Festival Prix de la mise en scène
- Last Days (2005)
- Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
- Paranoid Park (2007)
- Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
- Cannes Film Festival "Prix du 60ème anniversaire" (also acknowledging his body of works)
- Milk (2008)
- Academy Award nomination for Best Director
- Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nomination for Best Director
- Directors Guild of America (DGA) nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Motion Pictures
- Satellite Award nomination for Best Director
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