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Awards

Mati Diop

20 wins & 62 nominations

Amiens International Film Festival

  • Magaye Niang in A Thousand Suns (2013)
    2013 Winner Prix du Moyen métrage
    • A Thousand Suns

Berlin International Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Winner Golden Berlin Bear
    • Best Film
    • Dahomey
  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee Berlinale Documentary Award
    • Dahomey

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 2nd Place BSFC Award
    • Best New Filmmaker
    • Atlantics

Camerimage

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Best Directorial Debut
    • Best Directorial Debut
    • Atlantics

Cannes Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Palme d'Or
    • Atlantics
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Winner Grand Prize of the Jury
    • Grand Prize of the Jury
    • Atlantics
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Golden Camera
    • Atlantics

César Awards, France

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Nominee César
    • Best Documentary Film (Meilleur film documentaire)
    • Dahomey
    Shared with: Eve Robin · Judith Lou Lévy
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee César
    • Best First Film (Meilleur premier film)
    • Atlantics
    Shared with: Judith Lou Lévy · Eve Robin

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Milos Stehlik Award
    • Most Promising Filmmaker
    • Atlantics

Cinéma du Réel

  • Atlantiques (2009)
    2010 Winner Louis Marcorelles Award - Mention
    • Atlantiques

Denver Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Krzysztof Kieslowski Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Atlantics

Directors Guild of America, USA

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee DGA Award
    • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
    • Atlantics

European Film Awards

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Documentary
    • Dahomey
  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Film
    • Dahomey
    Shared with: Eve Robin · Judith Lou Lévy
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Discovery
    • Atlantics

Ghent International Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Grand Prix
    • Best Film
    • Atlantics

Gotham Awards

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee Gotham Independent Film Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Dahomey
    Shared with: Judith Lou Lévy · Eve Robin

Hamptons International Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Golden Starfish Award
    • Narrative Feature
    • Atlantics

Image Awards (NAACP)

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Image Award
    • Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Film)
    • Atlantics

International Documentary Association

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee IDA Award
    • Best Feature Documentary
    • Dahomey
    Shared with: Eve Robin · Judith Lou Lévy

Montréal Festival of New Cinema

  • Magaye Niang in A Thousand Suns (2013)
    2013 Winner Loup Argenté
    • A Thousand Suns

BFI London Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Winner Sutherland Award
    • First Feature Competition
    • Atlantics

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee OFCS Award
    • Best Debut
    • Atlantics

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Nominee FIPRESCI Prize
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    • Dahomey
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Winner Directors to Watch
    • Atlantics
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee FIPRESCI Prize
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    • Atlantics

Prix Louis Delluc

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Prix Louis Delluc
    • Best First Film
    • Atlantics

International Film Festival Rotterdam

  • Big in Vietnam (2012)
    2012 Winner Tiger Award for Short Film
    • Big in Vietnam
    Raw, defiant and elliptical, Big in Vietnam is suffused with an unusual mood and disarming intimacy.
  • Atlantiques (2009)
    2010 Winner Tiger Award for Short Film
    • Atlantiques

San Sebastián International Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize
    • Best Film in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Competition
    • Dahomey
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize
    • Atlantics

Stockholm Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Impact Award
    • Atlantics

São Paulo International Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee New Directors Competition
    • Best Documentary
    • Dahomey

Tokyo International Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Winner TIFF Ethical Film Award
    • Dahomey

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee TFCA Award
    • Best First Feature
    • Atlantics

Venice Film Festival

  • Snow Canon (2011)
    2011 Nominee Queer Lion Award
    • Snow Canon

Bergen International Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee Documentaire Extraordinaire
    • Dahomey

Lumiere Awards, France

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Winner Lumiere Award
    • Best Documentary (Meilleur documentaire)
    • Dahomey
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Lumiere Award
    • Best First Film (Meilleur premier film)
    • Atlantics
  • 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
    2010 Nominee Lumiere Award
    • Most Promising New Actress (Meilleur Espoir Féminin)
    • 35 Shots of Rum

Côté Court Festival

  • Snow Canon (2011)
    2012 Nominee Grand Prix
    • Fiction
    • Snow Canon

Carthage Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 2nd Place Tanit d'Or
    • Narrative Feature Film
    • Atlantics
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Winner Tanit d'Argent
    • Official Competition
    • Atlantics

Black Reel Awards

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Nominee Black Reel
    • Outstanding Documentary
    • Dahomey
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Black Reel
    • Outstanding Director, Motion Picture
    • Atlantics
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Black Reel
    • Outstanding Emerging Director
    • Atlantics
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Black Reel
    • Outstanding First Screenplay
    • Atlantics
    Shared with: Olivier Demangel

CPH:DOX

  • Magaye Niang in A Thousand Suns (2013)
    2013 Nominee New Vision Award
    • A Thousand Suns

Brive Mid-Length Film Meeting

  • Snow Canon (2011)
    2012 Nominee Grand Prix
    • European Competition
    • Snow Canon

Austin Film Critics Association

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee AFCA Award
    • Best First Film
    • Atlantics

Calgary International Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee Best International Documentary
    • Best International Documentary
    • Dahomey

Key West Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Winner Critics' Choice Award
    • Atlantics

Mumbai Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee International Competition
    • Golden Gateway Award
    • Atlantics

Camden International Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee Emerging Cinematic Vision Award
    • Dahomey

Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Winner Honorable Mention
    • International Documentary Feature
    • Dahomey

Magritte Awards, Belgium

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Magritte Award
    • Best Foreign Film in Co-Production (Meilleur film étranger en coproduction)
    • Atlantics

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Nominee Cinema Eye Honors Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
    • Dahomey
    Shared with: Eve Robin · Judith Lou Lévy · Gabriel Gonzalez · Joséphine Drouin-Viallard · Nicolas Becker
  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Winner Cinema Eye Honors Award
    • Outstanding Achievement in Direction
    • Dahomey
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Heterodox Award
    • Atlantics

International Cinephile Society Awards

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Nominee ICS Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Dahomey
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee ICS Award
    • Best Debut Feature
    • Atlantics

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Winner EDA Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Dahomey

Online Film & Television Association

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Feature Debut
    • Atlantics

IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival

  • Magaye Niang in A Thousand Suns (2013)
    2014 Winner Short Film Grand Prize
    • A Thousand Suns

Women Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee WFCC Award
    • Best Woman Storyteller
    • Atlantics

Indiewire Critics' Poll

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Winner ICP Award
    • Best First Feature
    • Atlantics

Black Movie Film Festival

  • Magaye Niang in A Thousand Suns (2013)
    2014 Winner Critics Prize
    • A Thousand Suns

Montclair Film Festival (MFF)

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature
    • Dahomey

Gold Derby Awards

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Documentary Feature
    • Dahomey
    Shared with: Judith Lou Lévy · Eve Robin
  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Foreign Language Film
    • Atlantics

ZagrebDox

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Winner Movies That Matter Award
    • Dahomey
  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee Big Stamp
    • International Competition
    • Dahomey

Pingyao International Film Festival

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee People's Choice Award
    • Best of Fest - Best Film
    • Atlantics

Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Awards

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee GWNYFCA Award
    • Breakthrough Director
    • Atlantics

North Dakota Film Society

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Nominee NDFS Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Dahomey
    Shared with: Judith Lou Lévy · Eve Robin

Seattle Film Critics Society

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 Nominee SFCS Award
    • Best Documentary Film
    • Dahomey

Odyssey Awards

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2019 Nominee Odyssey Award
    • Breakthrough Director
    • Atlantics

Film Comment Magazine, USA

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2024 3rd Place Film Comment's Year-End Critics' Poll
    • Best Film
    • Dahomey
    3rd place

Prix Alice Guy

  • Mame Bineta Sane and Ibrahima Traoré in Atlantics (2019)
    2020 Nominee Prix Alice Guy
    • Best Female-Directed French or Francophone Film (Meilleur film français ou francophone réalisé par une femme)
    • Atlantics

Golden Panda Awards

  • Dahomey (2024)
    2025 Nominee Golden Panda Award
    • Best Directing for a Documentary
    • Dahomey

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