# List of awards and nominations received by Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He received several awards including an Academy Honorary Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for nine British Academy Film Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Lumet's most known films include the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men (1957), the holocaust drama The Pawnbroker (1964), the Cold War thriller Fail Safe (1964), the crime dramas Serpico (1973), and Dog Day Afternoon (1975) as well as the satirical news drama Network (1976), the psychological drama Equus (1977), the legal drama The Verdict (1982), and the crime thriller Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007).
Lumet received five Academy Award nominations winning the Honorary Oscar in 2004. He also received nine British Academy Film Award nominations as well as six Golden Globe Award for Best Director nominations winning for Network (1975). In 1961 he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series nomination for his work on NBC Sunday Showcase.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1957 | Best Director | 12 Angry Men | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Director | Dog Day Afternoon | Nominated |
| 1976 | Best Director | Network | Nominated |
| 1981 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Prince of the City | Nominated |
| 1982 | Best Director | The Verdict | Nominated |
| 2004 | Honorary Oscar | Honorary Oscar | Honored |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 1966 | Best Film | The Hill | Nominated |
| 1966 | Outstanding British Film | The Hill | Nominated |
| 1966 | United Nations Award | Fail Safe | Nominated |
| 1967 | United Nations Award | The Pawnbroker | Nominated |
| 1968 | Outstanding British Film | The Deadly Affair | Nominated |
| 1974 | Best Direction | Murder on the Orient Express / Serpico | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Film | Dog Day Afternoon | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Direction | Dog Day Afternoon | Nominated |
| 1977 | Best Film | Network | Nominated |

### Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| Primetime Emmy Awards |||||
| 1961 | Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series | NBC Sunday Showcase | Nominated | |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1957 | Best Director | 12 Angry Men | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Director | Dog Day Afternoon | Nominated |
| 1976 | Best Director | Network | Won |
| 1981 | Best Director | Prince of the City | Nominated |
| 1982 | Best Director | The Verdict | Nominated |
| 1989 | Best Director | Running on Empty | Nominated |

## Festival awards
### Cannes Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1962 | Palme d'Or | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated |
| 1965 | Palme d'Or | The Hill | Nominated |
| 1969 | Palme d'Or | The Appointment | Nominated |
| 1992 | Palme d'Or | A Stranger Among Us | Nominated |

### Berlin International Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1957 | Golden Bear | 12 Angry Men | Won |
| 1959 | Golden Bear | That Kind of Woman | Nominated |
| 1964 | Golden Bear | Pawnbroker | Nominated |
| 1966 | Golden Bear | The Group | Nominated |
| 2006 | Golden Bear | Find Me Guilty | Nominated |

### Venice Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1981 | Golden Lion | Prince of the City | Nominated | |