Mira Nair at an event for IMDb First Credit (2016)

Awards

Mira Nair

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35 wins & 26 nominations

Asian American International Film Festival

1992 Winner Asian Media Award

Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming

2000 Winner Special Mention
- Documentary and Essay
- The Laughing Club of India

BAFTA Awards

2002 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
- Best Film not in the English Language
- Le mariage des moussons
Shared with: Caroline Baron
1990 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
- Best Film not in the English Language
- Salaam Bombay!

Canberra Short Film Festival

2001 Winner Audience Award
- Le mariage des moussons
Tied with Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001).

Cannes Film Festival

César Awards, France

2003 Nominee César
- Best European Union Film (Meilleur film de l'Union Européenne)
- 11'09''01: Onze minutes, neuf secondes, un cadre
Shared with: Youssef Chahine · Amos Gitai · Alejandro G. Iñárritu · Shôhei Imamura · Claude Lelouch · Ken Loach · Samira Makhmalbaf · Idrissa Ouedraogo · Sean Penn · Danis Tanovic
1989 Nominee César
- Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
- Salaam Bombay!

Chicago International Film Festival

2014 Nominee Audience Choice Award
- Audience Choice Award
- Words with Gods
Shared with: Guillermo Arriaga · Hector Babenco · Álex de la Iglesia · Bahman Ghobadi · Amos Gitai · Emir Kusturica · Hideo Nakata · Warwick Thornton

Christopher Awards

2017 Winner Christopher Award
- Feature Films
- La Dame de Katwe
Shared with: William Wheeler · John B. Carls · Lydia Dean Pilcher

CINE Competition

1982 Winner CINE Golden Eagle
- Documentary
- So Far from India

Cinemanila International Film Festival

2007 Nominee Lino Brocka Award
- International Competition
- Un nom pour un autre

European Film Awards

2001 Nominee Screen International Award
- Le mariage des moussons
India

Filmfare Awards

1990 Nominee Filmfare Award
- Best Film
- Salaam Bombay!
1990 Nominee Filmfare Award
- Best Director
- Salaam Bombay!

Gotham Awards

2007 Winner Tribute Award
2007 Nominee Gotham Independent Film Award
- Best Feature
- Un nom pour un autre
Shared with: Lydia Dean Pilcher

Image Awards (NAACP)

2017 Nominee Image Award
- Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Film)
- La Dame de Katwe

Film Independent Spirit Awards

1993 Nominee Independent Spirit Award
- Best Feature
- Mississippi Masala
Shared with: Michael Nozik

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

1992 Winner Silver Ribbon
- Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
- Mississippi Masala

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1988 Winner New Generation Award
- Salaam Bombay!
1988 Nominee LAFCA Award
- Best Foreign Film
- Salaam Bombay!

Zee Cine Awards

2002 Winner Popular Award
- Special Award for International Cinema
- Le mariage des moussons

Montréal World Film Festival

Munich Film Festival

2013 Winner Bernhard Wicki Film Award
- Best Film
- L'intégriste malgré lui

National Film Awards, India

1989 Winner Silver Lotus Award
- Best Regional Film (Hindi)
- Salaam Bombay!
1989 Winner Regional Award
- Best Feature Film in Hindi
- Salaam Bombay!

Palm Springs International Film Festival

2002 Winner Career Achievement Award

San Francisco International Film Festival

2016 Winner Irving M. Levin Directing Award

San Sebastián International Film Festival

1996 Nominee Golden Seashell
- Kama Sutra, une histoire d'amour

São Paulo International Film Festival

1991 Winner Critics Special Award
- Mississippi Masala

Toronto International Film Festival

2020 Winner Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media
2016 Nominee People's Choice Award
- Gala or Special Presentations
- La Dame de Katwe

Verzaubert - International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

1999 Nominee Rosebud
- Best Film
- My Own Country

Marrakech International Film Festival

2003 Nominee Golden Star
- Hysterical Blindness

Los Angeles Women in Film Festival

1988 Winner Lilian Gish Award
- Excellence in Feature Film
- Salaam Bombay!
Tied with Elysium (1987).

Chlotrudis Awards

2003 Nominee Chlotrudis Award
- Best Director
- Le mariage des moussons

High Falls Film Festival

2004 Winner Faith Hubley 'Web of Life' Award

Love is Folly International Film Festival, Bulgaria

2006 Winner Golden Aphrodite
- Un nom pour un autre

VC FilmFest - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2022 Winner Legacy Award

Mill Valley Film Festival

2012 Winner Audience Award
- Favorite World Feature
- L'intégriste malgré lui

New York Women in Film & Television

1997 Winner Muse Award

Cinema for Peace Awards

2017 Nominee Cinema for Peace Award
- Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year
- La Dame de Katwe

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

2017 Nominee EDA Female Focus Award
- Best Woman Director
- La Dame de Katwe
2007 Nominee EDA Female Focus Award
- Best Woman Director
- Un nom pour un autre

African Movie Academy Awards

2017 Nominee AMAA
- Best Director
- La Dame de Katwe

Online Film & Television Association

2003 Nominee OFTA Television Award
- Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Miniseries
- Hysterical Blindness

Women Film Critics Circle Awards

2016 Nominee WFCC Award
- Best Movie by a Woman
- La Dame de Katwe

Annonay International Festival of First Films

1989 Winner Audience Award
- Salaam Bombay!

CAAMFest

2013 Winner Audience Award
- Best Narrative
- L'intégriste malgré lui

Athena Film Festival

2016 Winner Athena List Winner
- Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award

The Guardian's Best Films

2009 Winner Top Film
- Top 10 Key Films of the Noughties
- 11'09''01: Onze minutes, neuf secondes, un cadre
Shared with: Samira Makhmalbaf · Youssef Chahine · Shôhei Imamura · Alejandro G. Iñárritu · Claude Lelouch · Idrissa Ouedraogo · Sean Penn · Danis Tanovic · Amos Gitai · Ken Loach

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