Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsPrimetime EmmysToronto Int'l Film FestivalFall TV GuideMost Anticipated This MonthSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayTrending peopleCelebrity news
    IMDb LabsHelp centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
    Some content may be auto-translated
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
    Some content may be auto-translated
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Biography
  • Awards
  • Trivia
IMDbPro
Bruce Sinofsky

Awards

Bruce Sinofsky

20 wins & 16 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Documentary, Features
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Banff Television Festival

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee Banff Rockie Award
    • Investigative & Current Affairs Programs
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Chicago International Film Festival

  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Winner Silver Hugo
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger · Sheila Nevins

Cinéma du Réel

  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Winner Joris Ivens Award
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Directors Guild of America, USA

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1993 Winner DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary/Actuality
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Primetime Emmy Awards

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
    2000 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Non-Fiction Special
    • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
    Shared with: Sheila Nevins · Nancy Abraham · Joe Berlinger
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Informational Special
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Sheila Nevins · Joe Berlinger · Jonathan Moss
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Winner Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Informational Programming
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger · M. Watanabe Milmore

Ghent International Film Festival

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2004 Winner Audience Award for Best Documentary
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Florida Film Festival

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Film Independent Spirit Awards

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2005 Winner Independent Spirit Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Nominee Truer Than Fiction Award
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

International Documentary Association

  • Iconoclasts (2005)
    2009 Nominee IDA Award
    • Continuing Series
    • Iconoclasts
    For episodes "Desmond Tutu & Richard Branson", "Stella McCartney & Ed Ruscha", "Tony Hawk & John Favreau", "Bill Maher & Clive Davis", "Venus Williams & Wyclef Jean", and "Cameron Diaz & Cameron Sinclair"
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2004 Nominee IDA Award
    • Feature Documentaries
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 2nd Place LAFCA Award
    • Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

National Board of Review, USA

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2011 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

News & Documentary Emmy Awards

  • Very Semi-Serious (2015)
    2016 Winner Emmy
    • Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming
    • Very Semi-Serious
    Shared with: Sheila Nevins · Regina K. Scully · Deborah Shaffer · Sara Bernstein · Davina Pardo · Joanna Sokolowski · Leah Wolchok

Peabody Awards

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Winner Peabody Award
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Sundance Film Festival

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1996 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Winner Audience Award
    • Documentary
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1992 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Video Software Dealers Association

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2005 Winner Home Entertainment Award
    • Best Music DVD, Non-concert Release
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

NatFilm Festival

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2004 Winner Audience Award
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    1993 Nominee Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Silverdocs Documentary Festival

  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    2012 Winner Honorable Mention
    • Charles Guggenheim Symposium
    • Brother's Keeper
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    • Gray Matter
    • Under African Skies
    • Iconoclasts
    • Crude
    • Oprah's Master Class
    The Symposium celebrates the legacy of filmmaker Charles Guggenheim.
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

True/False Film Fest

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
    2004 Winner True Vision Award
    • Documentary
    • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
    2014 Winner Cinema Eye Honors Award
    • The Influentials
    • Brother's Keeper
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    2012 Winner Hell Yeah Prize
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Telly Awards

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2012 Winner Silver Telly
    • TV Programs, Segments, or Promotional Pieces - Documentary
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
    2013 Nominee Open Eyes Jury Award
    • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Online Film & Television Association

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
    1997 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Documentary Picture
    • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Shared with: Joe Berlinger

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
  • Please see our guide to updating awards
  • Learn more about contributing

More from this person

More to explore

Recently viewed

You have no recently viewed pages
Get the IMDb app
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb app
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb app
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2026 by IMDb.com, Inc.