The film won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival. The longest film in competition by far, "Winter Sleep"'s Palme d'Or marked the culmination of the career of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who has twice received the festival's second-place honor, the Grand Prix (for 2002's "Uzak" and for 2011's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia") and who won a directing prize for 2008's "Three Monkeys". Nuri Bilge Ceylan also won the award for Achievement in Directing for the film at the 2014 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.