Awards & Winners

Lucy Walker

Profession Film director, Film Producer, Disc jockey, Screenwriter, Cinematographer
Director Lucy Walker has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, and is best known for directing five feature documentary films: Devil's Playground, Blindsight, Waste Land, Countdown to Zero, and The Crash Reel, as well as short films notably The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom and The Lion's Mouth Opens and over a dozen episodes of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, for which she was nominated for two Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Directing. On 25 January 2011 she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for Waste Land, and on 24 January 2012 she received her second Academy Award nomination, this time in the Best Documentary Short category for The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom. In 2006 her film Blindsight, and in 2013 her film The Crash Reel were among the fifteen films shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for that year.

Awards by Lucy Walker

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lucy Walker.

2014


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form
Honored for : The Crash Reel
(HBO Documentary Films)

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form The Crash Reel
HBO Documentary Films

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary The Crash Reel
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form HBO Documentary Film Series
The Tsunami and The Cherry Blossom
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries The Crash Reel
HBO Documentary Films","KP Rides Again, LLC","Impact Partners","Tree Tree Tree Production
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary HBO Documentary Film Series
The Tsunami and The Cherry Blossom

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Satellite Award for Best Documentary DVD Countdown to Zero

2010


Sundance Film Festival Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary
Honored for : Waste Land

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Independent Film Award for Best British Documentary Waste Land
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Waste Land

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature Devil's Playground

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing In A Children's Series Blue's Clues

2001


Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing In A Children's Series Blue's Clues