Payal Kapadia Biography

Awards

• 2021Asia Pacific Screen Award-Best Film: nominated
• 2021Golden Athena-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2021Emerging Cinematic Vision Award-: winner
• 2021Golden Camera-: nominated
• 2021Golden Eye-: winner
• 2021SACD Prize-Directors' Fortnight: nominated
• 2021Grand Prize of the Jury-Best Film: nominated
• 2021Best Film Award-: winner
• 2021Altered States Competition-: winner
• 2021Amplify Voices Award-Special Mention: winner
• 2022Doc Alliance Award-Best Documentary Film: winner
• 2022Depth of Field Competition-: nominated
• 2022Film Comment's Year-End Critics' Poll-Best Film: nominated
• 2022Mirage-Directing: winner
• 2022First Appearance Award-: nominated
• 2022Grand Prix Bank Millenium Award-: nominated
• 2022Asian Vision Competition-Grand Prize: nominated
• 2022Asian Vision Competition-Merit Prize: winner
• 2022Big Stamp-International Competition: nominated
• 2023Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking: nominated
• 2023Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film: nominated
• 2023Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Direction: nominated
• 2023Jury Prize-Best Feature Film: nominated
• 2023Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize-International Competition: winner
• 2024Abraccine Award-Best International Feature Film (Melhor Longa Estrangeiro): nominated
• 2024Jury Grand Prize-: winner
• 2024Asia Pacific Screen Award-Best Film: nominated
• 2024Asia Pacific Screen Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
• 2024Asia Pacific Screen Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2024British Independent Film Award-Best International Independent Film, Sponsored by Champagne Taittinger: nominated
• 2024Top 10 Film Award-Best Film: nominated
• 2024Grand Prize of the Festival-: winner
• 2024Palme d'Or-: nominated
• 2024Milos Stehlik Award-Breakthrough Filmmaker: nominated
• 2024Gold Hugo-Best Feature: nominated
• 2024Silver Hugo-Jury Prize: winner
• 2024Krzysztof Kieslowski Award-Best Feature Film: nominated
• 2024Special Mention-Best Feature Film: winner
• 2024Film Comment's Year-End Critics' Poll-Best Film: winner
• 2024FFCC Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2024Gotham Independent Film Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2024Gotham Independent Film Award-Best International Feature: winner
• 2024ICP Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2024ICP Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
• 2024Award for International Cinema-The Nechama Rivilin Award for Best International Film: nominated
• 2024Kingfisher Award-Best Film of the Perspectives Section: nominated
• 2024Mind the Gap Award-Best Film: winner
• 2024Scythian Deer-International Competition: Full-Length Films: winner
• 2024Fiction Feature Competition-: winner
• 2024ARRI/OSRAM Award-Best International Film: nominated
• 2024RTVE-Otra Mirada Award-: winner
• 2024Sydney Film Prize-Best Film: nominated
• 2024New Directors Competition-Best Fiction: nominated
• 2024Jury Award-Best Feature Narrative: winner
• 2024TFCA Award-Best Original Screenplay: winner
• 2024TFCA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2024VHS Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2024VHS Award-Best Original Screenplay: winner
• 2025EDA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2025EDA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2025EDA Female Focus Award-Best Woman Screenwriter: winner
• 2025EDA Female Focus Award-Best Woman Director: winner
• 2025Asian Film Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2025Asian Film Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
• 2025BAFTA Film Award-Best Film Not in the English Language: nominated
• 2025Cinema for Peace Award-Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year: nominated
• 2025Feature Film Award-Best Writing: nominated
• 2025Feature Film Award-Best Director: winner
• 2025DGA Award-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film: nominated
• 2025Independent Spirit Award-Best International Film: nominated
• 2025Gold Derby Film Award-Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2025Gold Derby Film Award-International Feature: nominated
• 2025Golden Globe-Best Director - Motion Picture: nominated
• 2025Dragon Award-International Competition: nominated
• 2025ICS Award-Best Director: winner
• 2025ICS Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2025Lumiere Award-Best Film (Meilleur Film): nominated
• 2025Luxembourg Film Award-Best Co-Production (Beschte Co-Produktioun): winner
• 2025NSFC Award-Best Director: winner
• 2025Pinoy Rebyu Award-Best International Film: winner
• 2025SIIMA - Malayalam-Best Debutant Director: nominated
• 2025NETPAC Aruna Vasudev Award-Best Asia-Pacific Film 2024: winner
• 2025WFCC Award-Best Movie by a Woman: nominated
• 2025WFCC Award-Best Woman Storyteller: nominated