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Nanfu Wang Biography

Profession Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer, Writer, Editorial department, Sound department, Camera department

Awards

  • 2016Les Blank Award-Feature Length Documentary: winner
  • 2016Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Award-: nominated
  • 2016Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best First Documentary (Theatrical Feature): nominated
  • 2016Silver Heart Award-: winner
  • 2016DOCU/RIGHTS-Best Film: nominated
  • 2016Nestor Almendros Award-: winner
  • 2016WATCH DOCS Award-Best Feature-length Documentary: nominated
  • 2016Gilda Vieira de Mello Award-Creative Documentaries Competition: winner
  • 2016In Spirit for Freedom Award-Best Documentary: winner
  • 2016Special Jury Prize-Badass Filmmaking: winner
  • 2016Grand Jury Prize-Best Documentary Feature: nominated
  • 2016Tim Hetherington Award - Special Mention-: winner
  • 2016Bronze Horse-Best Documentary: winner
  • 2016Grand Jury Prize-World Cinema - Documentary: nominated
  • 2017Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film: winner
  • 2017Global Health Competition-Best Film: nominated
  • 2017Truer Than Fiction Award-: winner
  • 2017Best International Documentary-Best Documentary: nominated
  • 2017Emmy-Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary: nominated
  • 2017Emmy-Outstanding Editing: Documentary: nominated
  • 2017SXSW Grand Jury Award-Documentary Feature: nominated
  • 2017SXSW Chicken & Egg Award-: winner
  • 2017Special Jury Award-Documentary Feature: winner
  • 2017Big Stamp-International Competition: nominated
  • 2018Festival Prize-Best International Documentary: winner
  • 2018Best Feature-EEFF's Best Film Award: nominated
  • 2019Asia Pacific Screen Award-Best Documentary Feature Film: nominated
  • 2019Golden Athena-Best Documentary: nominated
  • 2019Checkpoints Award-: nominated
  • 2019Politiken's Audience Award-: nominated
  • 2019John Marshall Award-John Marshall Award: nominated
  • 2019Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2019Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best Narration: nominated
  • 2019Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best Editing: nominated
  • 2019Jury Award-ConScience Award: winner
  • 2019Human Rights Award-Human Rights Dox: nominated
  • 2019Golden Star-Feature Documentary Competition: nominated
  • 2019Phoenix Award-: winner
  • 2019Reva and David Logan Grand Jury Award-: winner
  • 2019Gotham Independent Film Award-Best Documentary: nominated
  • 2019Audience Award-: nominated
  • 2019Political Film Award-: nominated
  • 2019IDA Award-Best Feature: nominated
  • 2019Gabriel Sherover Foundation Award-Best International Film: nominated
  • 2019Golden Key-Best International Documentary: winner
  • 2019A Different Tomorrow-Best Documentary: nominated
  • 2019Tim Hetherington Award-: winner
  • 2019Bronze Horse-Best Documentary: winner
  • 2019Grand Jury Prize-Documentary: winner
  • 2019Audience Award-Best Foreign Nonfiction Film: winner
  • 2019Golden Eye Award-Best International Documentary Film: nominated
  • 2020CIC Award-Best Documentary Film: nominated
  • 2020Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking: nominated
  • 2020Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Direction: nominated
  • 2020DGA Award-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: nominated
  • 2020Gold Derby Film Award-Documentary Feature: nominated
  • 2020NDFS Award-Best Documentary Feature: nominated
  • 2020OFTA Film Award-Best Documentary Picture: nominated
  • 2020PGA Award-Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures: nominated
  • 2020Primetime Emmy-Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking: nominated
  • 2021CPH:DOX Award-DOX:AWARD: nominated
  • 2021Global Health Competition-Best Film: nominated
  • 2021Best International Film-The International Competition: nominated
  • 2021Audience Award-Festival Favorites: winner
  • 2021Golden Gate Award-Best Documentary Feature: nominated
  • 2022duPont-Columbia Award-Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award: winner
  • 2022Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Production: nominated
  • 2022Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Broadcast Film: winner
  • 2022Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Direction: nominated
  • 2022Cinema for Peace Award-Cinema for Peace Dove on Global Health: nominated
  • 2022Independent Spirit Award-Best Documentary: nominated
  • 2022Gotham Independent Film Award-Breakthrough Nonfiction Series: nominated
  • 2022Humanitas Prize-Documentary: winner
  • 2022IDA Award-Best Feature: nominated
  • 2022PGA Award-Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures: nominated
  • 2022Peabody Award-Documentary: winner
  • 2023Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Series: nominated
  • 2023Independent Spirit Award-Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series: nominated
  • 2024IDA Award-Best TV Feature Documentary: nominated
  • 2024Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature-: nominated
  • 2025Vaclav Havel Special Award-: nominated
  • 2025Grand Jury Documentary Award-Best Documentary: nominated