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Tommy Lee Jones and Dennis Gansel in Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Awards

Dennis Gansel

13 wins & 10 nominations

Grimme Award

  • Das Phantom (2000)
    2001 Winner Adolf Grimme Award
    • Fiction/Entertainment
    • Das Phantom
    Shared with: Jürgen Vogel

Baden-Baden TV Film Festival

  • Das Phantom (2000)
    2000 Winner 3Sat Audience Award
    • Das Phantom

Bavarian Film Awards

  • Before the Fall (2004)
    2005 Winner Bavarian Film Award
    • Best Direction (Regiepreis)
    • Before the Fall

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

  • We Are the Night (2010)
    2010 Winner Special Prize of the Jury
    • Feature Film
    • We Are the Night

Day of the German Short Film

  • 1996 Winner Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Award
    • The Wrong Trip
    Shared with: Christian Becker

European Film Awards

  • The Wave (2008)
    2008 Nominee EFA People's Choice Award
    • The Wave

Ghent International Film Festival

  • Before the Fall (2004)
    2004 Nominee Grand Prix
    • Before the Fall

German Film Awards

  • Before the Fall (2004)
    2003 Winner Film Award in Gold
    • Best Screenplay - Unproduced (Bestes Drehbuch - unverfilmt)
    • Before the Fall
    The film was realized after the screenplay won the Award.
    Shared with: Maggie Peren

Hamptons International Film Festival

  • Before the Fall (2004)
    2004 Winner Audience Award
    • Best International Film
    • Before the Fall

Istanbul Film Festival

  • The Wave (2008)
    2008 Winner Special Prize of the Jury
    • The Wave

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

  • Before the Fall (2004)
    2004 Nominee Crystal Globe
    • Before the Fall

Max Ophüls Festival

  • 1998 Nominee Best Short Film
    • Im Auftrag des Herrn

Sundance Film Festival

  • The Wave (2008)
    2008 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • World Cinema - Dramatic
    • The Wave

Fajr Film Festival

  • Before the Fall (2004)
    2005 Winner Crystal Simorgh
    • International Competition - Best Script
    • Before the Fall
    Shared with: Maggie Peren

German Film Critics Association Awards

  • We Are the Night (2010)
    2011 Nominee German Film Critics Award
    • Best Film (Bester Spielfilm)
    • We Are the Night

Viareggio EuropaCinema

  • Before the Fall (2004)
    2004 Winner EuropaCinema Platinum Award
    • Best Film
    • Before the Fall

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

  • The Wave (2008)
    2008 Nominee Grand Prize
    • The Wave

German Television Academy Awards

  • Lizzy Caplan, Tom Wlaschiha, Rick Okon, Vicky Krieps, and August Wittgenstein in Das Boot (2018)
    2022 Nominee German Television Academy Award
    • Best Director (Beste Regie)
    • Das Boot
    Season 3.
    Shared with: Hans Steinbichler

Jupiter Award

  • The Wave (2008)
    2009 Winner Jupiter Award
    • Best German Director
    • The Wave

Torino Film Festival

  • The Wave (2008)
    2008 Nominee Prize of the City of Torino
    • Best Feature Film
    • The Wave
  • The Wave (2008)
    2008 Winner Holden Award for Best Script
    • The Wave
    The film describes with lucidity a juvenile scholastic microcosm that is very (perhaps too) organized and rationalized, revealing as the replica of an empty and cruel society.
    Shared with: Peter Thorwarth

Culture and Diversity Film Festival

  • 2020 Winner Judges Award
    • Best Director
    • Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver

Festival de cine Fantástico de Canarias Isla Calavera

  • Henning Baum, Annette Frier, Christoph Maria Herbst, Rick Kavanian, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Milan Peschel, and Solomon Gordon in Jim Button and the Wild 13 (2020)
    2021 Nominee Isla Calavera Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Jim Button and the Wild 13

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