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Jeff Nichols Biography

Birth Name:Jeff Nichols

Birth Place:Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Profession Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, Production manager

Fast Facts

In 2012, he received the Saturn Award for Best Writing
Served as the President of the Jury at the Rome Film Festival in 2012
Won the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize for his film "Take Shelter․"
Won the 2007 Austin Film Festival Narrative Competition for his work on "Shotgun Stories․"
Attended the University of North Carolina, where he studied filmmaking
Is the brother of the guitarist for rock band Lucero, Ben Nichols
Frequently produces films that feature actor Michael Shannon

Awards

2007Feature Film Award-Narrative Competition: winner
2007Gold Hugo-New Directors Competition: nominated
2007Lino Brocka Award-International Competition: nominated
2007Student Jury Award-: winner
2007New American Cinema Award-: winner
2007FIPRESCI Prize-: winner
2008John Cassavetes Award-: nominated
2008New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize-: nominated
2011Austin Film Award-: winner
2011FIPRESCI Prize-Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week: winner
2011Critics Week Grand Prize-: winner
2011SACD Award-: winner
2011Grand Special Prize-: winner
2011DFCS Award-Best Director: nominated
2011DFCS Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
2011Grand Prix Asturias-Best Film: nominated
2011Special Jury Award-Best Film: winner
2011Gotham Independent Film Award-Best Feature: nominated
2011Critics Award-: winner
2011Kingfisher Award-Best film of the Perspectives Section: winner
2011Grand Jury Prize-Dramatic: nominated
2011Sydney Film Prize-Best Film: nominated
2011Golden Eye Award-Best International Feature Film: winner
2012Saturn Award-Best Writing: winner
2012Top 10 Film Award-Best Film: nominated
2012Palme d'Or-: nominated
2012COFCA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
2012Prix de la Critique-Critics' Prize: winner
2012Prix du Public-Public Prize: winner
2012Independent Spirit Award-Best Director: nominated
2013Austin Film Award-: nominated
2013Bodil-Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film): nominated
2013DFCC-Best Screenplay: nominated
2013Humanitas Prize-Sundance Film Category: nominated
2013Halfway Award-Best Director: nominated
2013Halfway Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
2013PFCS Award-Breakthrough Performance Behind the Camera: nominated
2013PFCS Award-Best Screenplay - Original: nominated
2013Audience Award-Festival Favorites: nominated
2013Wyatt Award-: winner
2014ASECAN Award-Best Foreign Film: nominated
2014Grand Jury Prize-Narrative Feature Competition: winner
2014Días de Cine Award-Best Foreign Film: nominated
2014Robert Altman Award-: winner
2014Independent Spirit Award-Best Director: nominated
2014GAFCA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
2014NCFCA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
2016Austin Film Award-: nominated
2016Austin Film Award-: nominated
2016Golden Berlin Bear-: nominated
2016Palme d'Or-: nominated
2016Critics Choice Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
2016Victor Rabinowitz and Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice-: winner
2016Truly Moving Picture Award-: winner
2016Audience Award-U.S. Cinema: nominated
2016SFFCC Award-Best Director: nominated
2016Zabaltegi Section-Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award: nominated
2016Audience Award-Best Narrative Feature: winner
2016SLFCA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
2017Independent Spirit Award-Best Director: nominated
2017Image Award-Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Film): nominated
2017WGA Award (Screen)-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
2023Mill Valley Film Festival Award-Directing: winner
2025Austin Film Award-: nominated
2025Tar Heel Award-: nominated