Awards & Winners

Eric Valli

Date of Birth 1952
Place of Birth Dijon
(France, Côte-d'Or)
Nationality France
Also know as Éric Valli
Profession Photographer, Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Producer
Éric Valli is a French photographer and film director. Valli spent most of his career as a geographical photographer working for the National Geographic Magazine and The Sunday Times capturing more inaccessible locations in the world on camera. He specializes in mountain scenery and is an expert on the Himalaya Mountains, and in 1999 directed the adventure film Caravan about survival in the Himalayas starring Thinle Lhondup which became the first Nepalese film to be nominated for a Best Foreign Film Award at the Oscars. Valli has also shot a documentary with Diane Summers on the Honey hunters of Nepal documenting honey hunting by the Gurung tribesmen of west-central Nepal. In it, they enter the jungle in search of wild honey where they use indigenous tools under precarious conditions to collect honey. Valli has received 3 World Press Awards for his work Chasseurs de Miel, Chasseurs des Ténèbres and Les enfants de la poussière.

Awards by Eric Valli

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eric Valli.

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Himalaya
Country: Nepal; in Dolpo, German

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Birdnesters of Thailand

1990


World Press Photo Award for Nature
Honored for : Shadow Hunters
(Stories)

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Award for Nature Shadow Hunters
Stories

1988


World Press Photo Award for Daily Life
Honored for : Children of the Dust
(Stories)

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Award for Daily Life Children of the Dust
Stories

1987


World Press Photo Award for Nature
Honored for : 1987 World Press Photo Award Nature winning portfolio
(Stories)

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Award for Nature 1987 World Press Photo Award Nature winning portfolio
Stories