# List of awards and nominations received by Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
Gilliam has directed 14 feature films, including Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).
He has received nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Gilliam received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in 2009. In 2009, Gilliam received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1985 | Best Original Screenplay | Brazil | Nominated | |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 1983 | Best Short Film | The Crimson Permanent Assurance | Nominated |
| 1988 | Outstanding Contribution to Cinema | Monty Python's Flying Circus | Won |
| 2009 | BAFTA Fellowship | BAFTA Fellowship | Received |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1991 | Best Director | The Fisher King | Nominated | |

## Festival awards
### Cannes Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1998 | Palme d'Or | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Nominated | |

### Venice Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1991 | Silver Lion | The Fisher King | Won | |

## Miscellaneous awards

| Year | Award | Category | Film | Result |
| 1981 | Saturn Awards | Best International Film | Time Bandits | Nominated |
| 1981 | Saturn Awards | Best Director | Time Bandits | Nominated |
| 1981 | Saturn Awards | Best Writing | Time Bandits | Nominated |
| 1985 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Film | Brazil | Won |
| 1985 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Director | Brazil | Won |
| 1985 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Screenplay | Brazil | Won |
| 1991 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Picture | The Fisher King | Nominated |
| 1991 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Director | The Fisher King | Nominated |
| 1991 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Screenplay | The Fisher King | Nominated |
| 1991 | Toronto International Film Festival | People's Choice Award | The Fisher King | Won |
| 1991 | Saturn Awards | Best Director | The Fisher King | Nominated |
| 1995 | Saturn Awards | Best Director | 12 Monkeys | Nominated |
| 1995 | Empire Award | Best Director | 12 Monkeys | Won |
| 2005 | San Sebastian Festival | FIPRESCI Prize | Tideland | Won |
| 2009 | British Independent Film Awards | Best Achievement in Production | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Nominated |
| 2018 | Magritte Award | Best Foreign Film | The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Nominated |
| 2024 | The Aardman Slapstick Award for Visual Comedy. | Comedy | | Won |

## Honours and special recognition

* An asteroid, 9619 Terrygilliam, is named in his honour.
* Terry Gilliam was awarded the Fellowship of the Kermodes, by film critic Mark Kermode.
* Gilliam was honoured with the Director with Unique Visual Sensitivity Award at the Camerimage film festival in Łódź, Poland in 2009.
* He was awarded the Career Achievement Award at the 2007 Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
* Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
** Knight (2013)
* Raindance Film Festival announced on 13 August 2018, that he would be the next recipient of its Auteur Award for his contribution to UK film.
* Inkpot Award (2009)