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Wadjda (2012)

Awards

Wadjda

22 wins & 36 nominations

Tromsø International Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Norwegian Peace Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner BSFC Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film

BAFTA Awards

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2014 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Film not in the English Language
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
    • Gerhard Meixner
    • Roman Paul

British Independent Film Awards

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee British Independent Film Award
    • Best International Independent Film

Critics Choice Awards

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2014 Nominee Critics Choice Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film

Fribourg International Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee Grand Prix
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Audience Award
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Satellite Awards

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2014 Nominee Satellite Award
    • Best Motion Picture, International Film
    Saudi Arabia

Guild of German Art House Cinemas

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Guild Film Award - Gold
    • Foreign Film (Ausländischer Film)
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Film Independent Spirit Awards

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2014 Nominee Independent Spirit Award
    • Best First Feature
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour (director)
    • Gerhard Meixner (producer)
    • Roman Paul (Roman Paul)

London Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Nominee Sutherland Award
    • First Feature Competition
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Melbourne International Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee Most Popular Feature Film
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
    3rd Runner-up

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA

  • 2014 Nominee Golden Reel Award
    • Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Foreign Feature Film
    • Sebastian Schmidt (supervising sound editor)
    • Christoph Wieczorek (supervising foley editor)
    • Sebastian Heyser (supervising dialogue and adr editor)
    • Marc Meusinger (adr editor)

Munich Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Bernhard Wicki Film Award
    • Honorary Prize
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour (director)

National Board of Review, USA

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Freedom of Expression Award

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee OFCS Award
    • Best Film Not in the English Language
    Saudi Arabia

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Directors to Watch
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

International Film Festival Rotterdam

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Dioraphte Award
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Sydney Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee Sydney Film Prize
    • Best Film
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Vancouver International Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Most Popular International First Feature
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Venice Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Winner Interfilm Award
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Winner 'CinemAvvenire' Award
    • Best Film - Il cerchio non è rotondo Award
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Winner C.I.C.A.E. Award
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Nominee Venice Horizons Award
    • Best Film
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Seattle Film Critics Awards

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2014 Nominee Seattle Film Critics Award
    • Best Foreign-Language Film
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee SFFCC Award
    • Best Foreign Language Picture

Oslo Films from the South Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee Silver Mirror Award
    • Best Feature
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour (director)

Amanda Awards, Norway

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2014 Nominee Amanda
    • Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske kinofilm)
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour (director)
    Saudi Arabia / Germany.

Göteborg Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee International Debut Award
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Durban International Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Best First Feature Film
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

  • Waad Mohammed in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee WAFCA Award
    • Best Youth Performance
    • Waad Mohammed
  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee WAFCA Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film

Los Angeles Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Audience Award
    • Best International Feature
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

British Film Institute Awards

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Nominee Sutherland Trophy
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Nominee Grand Prize
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Winner Don Quixote Award - Special Mention
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
    The Jury is impressed by the courage of the director Haifaa Al-Mansour for formulation a desire of an Islamic society that fully accepts equal rights for men and women. Especially the young actors give the hope that Saudi Arabia will transport peacefully into a modern society.
  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Winner Netpac Award
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
    A bold movie with an uplifting spirit, narrated in a simple, touching and masterful way.

Dubai International Film Festival

  • Waad Mohammed in Wadjda (2012)
    2012 Winner Muhr Arab Award
    • Best Actress - Feature
    • Waad Mohammed
  • Gerhard Meixner
    2012 Winner Muhr Arab Award
    • Best Film - Feature
    • Roman Paul
    • Gerhard Meixner

Cinema for Peace Awards

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2014 Nominee Cinema for Peace Award
    • Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour (director)

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

  • Gerhard Meixner
    2013 Nominee Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Best Children's Feature Film
    • Roman Paul (producer)
    • Gerhard Meixner (producer)
    • Amr Alkahtani (co-producer)

St. Louis Film Critics Association, US

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee SLFCA Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    Saudi Arabia / Germany

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee EDA Award
    • Best Non-English Language Film
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
    Saudi Arabia
  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner EDA Female Focus Award
    • Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
    For challenging the limitations placed on women within her culture.

Traverse City Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner Roger Ebert Prize
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Houston Film Critics Society Awards

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best Foreign Language Film

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee Open Eyes Jury Award
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour

Online Film & Television Association

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2014 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Feature Debut
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour (Writer / Director)

Village Voice Film Poll

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee VVFP Award
    • Best First Feature
    2nd place.

Women Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Waad Mohammed in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee WFCC Award
    • Best Young Actress
    • Waad Mohammed
  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Winner WFCC Award
    • Best Foreign Film by or About Women
  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee WFCC Award
    • Best Equality of the Sexes
  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee Adrienne Shelly Award
  • Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee Karen Morley Award

Australian Film Critics Association Awards

  • Wadjda (2012)
    2015 Nominee AFCA Award
    • Best International Film (Foreign Language)

Indiewire Critics' Poll

  • Haifaa Al-Mansour in Wadjda (2012)
    2013 Nominee ICP Award
    • Best First Feature
    • Haifaa Al-Mansour
    2nd place.

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