Awards & Winners

Eddie Muller

Eddie Muller is a writer based in San Francisco and is a second-generation San Franciscan per his website. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir. Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, and co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City film festival, Muller is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's film noir series of DVDs. Novelist James Ellroy has dubbed him "The Czar of Noir". Muller studied with filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s. Muller is the son of a famed San Francisco boxing writer of the same name, whom he used as the basis for the character of Billy Nichols in his period crime novel The Distance, which was named the Best First Novel of 2002 by the Private Eye Writers of America. Billy Nichols returned in the 2003 novel Shadow Boxer.

Awards by Eddie Muller

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eddie Muller.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Belles Lettres Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

2003


Gumshoe Award for Best First Novel
Honored for : The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
Shamus Award for Best First P. I. Novel
Honored for : The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best First P. I. Novel The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
Anthony Award for Best First Novel The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
Macavity Awards for Best First Mystery Novel The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
Barry Award for Best First Novel The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical Mystery Work Art of Noir: The Posters And Graphics From The Classic Era Of Film Noir
Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Art of Noir: The Posters And Graphics From The Classic Era Of Film Noir

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical Mystery Work Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir