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Jeff Nichols

Birth Name:
Jeff Nichols
Birth Place:
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Profession
Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, Production manager
Jeff Nichols

Fast Facts

  • In 2012, he received the Saturn Award for Best Writing
  • Won the 2007 Austin Film Festival Narrative Competition for his work on "Shotgun Stories․"
  • 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․"
  • 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 AwardWinner
  • 2007New American Cinema AwardWinner
  • 2007FIPRESCI PrizeWinner
  • 2008John Cassavetes AwardNominated
  • 2008New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury PrizeNominated
  • 2011Austin Film AwardWinner
  • 2011FIPRESCI Prize - Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week:Winner
  • 2011Critics Week Grand PrizeWinner
  • 2011SACD AwardWinner
  • 2011Grand Special PrizeWinner
  • 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 AwardWinner
  • 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'OrNominated
  • 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 AwardNominated
  • 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 AwardWinner
  • 2014ASECAN Award - Best Foreign Film:Nominated
  • 2014Grand Jury Prize - Narrative Feature Competition:Winner
  • 2014Días de Cine Award - Best Foreign Film:Nominated
  • 2014Robert Altman AwardWinner
  • 2014Independent Spirit Award - Best Director:Nominated
  • 2014GAFCA Award - Best Original Screenplay:Nominated
  • 2014NCFCA Award - Best Original Screenplay:Nominated
  • 2016Austin Film AwardNominated
  • 2016Austin Film AwardNominated
  • 2016Golden Berlin BearNominated
  • 2016Palme d'OrNominated
  • 2016Critics Choice Award - Best Original Screenplay:Nominated
  • 2016Victor Rabinowitz and Joanne Grant Award for Social JusticeWinner
  • 2016Truly Moving Picture AwardWinner
  • 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 AwardNominated
  • 2025Tar Heel AwardNominated
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