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Alexandria Bombach

Awards

Alexandria Bombach

35 wins & 43 nominations

Atlanta Film Festival

  • It's Only Life After All (2023)
    2023 Nominee Jury Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • It's Only Life After All
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Jury Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Sidewalk Film Festival

  • It's Only Life After All (2023)
    2023 Winner Audience Choice Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • It's Only Life After All
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Special Jury Award
    • Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Brooklyn Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Festival Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Spirit Award
    • Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Audience Award
    • Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Cleveland International Film Festival

  • It's Only Life After All (2023)
    2023 Nominee Nesnady and Schwartz Documentary Competition
    • Best Documentary
    • It's Only Life After All
  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Award
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner ReelWomenDirect Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman
    • Direction
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Award
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Hamburg Film Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Winner Political Film Award
    • On Her Shoulders

Hawaii International Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Heartland Film Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Winner Grand Prize
    • Documentary Feature
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Best Documentary Feature
    • Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Film Independent Spirit Awards

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2019 Nominee Independent Spirit Award
    • Best Documentary
    • On Her Shoulders
    Shared with: Hayley Pappas · Brock Williams
  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2019 Nominee Truer Than Fiction Award
    • On Her Shoulders

Jerusalem Film Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee In Spirit for Freedom Award
    • Best Documentary
    • On Her Shoulders

BFI London Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Grierson Award
    • Documentary Film
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Nashville Film Festival

  • It's Only Life After All (2023)
    2023 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Best Music Documentary Feature
    • It's Only Life After All
  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee Best Documentary Feature
    • Documentary Competition
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary Competition
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

New Orleans Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Documentary Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

News & Documentary Emmy Awards

  • Wildcat (2022)
    2023 Winner Emmy
    • Outstanding Nature Documentary
    • Wildcat
    Shared with: Adriana Banta · Dan Friedkin · Micah Green · Trevor Groth · Stephen G. Hall · Sarah Hong · Alison Saifer · Daniel Steinman · Dax Dasilva · Trevor Frost · Melissa Lesh · Alysa Nahmias · Mallory Bracken · Mariah Wilson · Joshua Altman · Ben Gold · David Zieff · Harry Turner · Samantha Zwicker

Seattle International Film Festival

  • It's Only Life After All (2023)
    2023 3rd Place Golden Space Needle Award
    • Best Documentary
    • It's Only Life After All
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Golden Space Needle Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    4th runner-up
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Women in Cinema Lena Sharpe Award
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Sundance Film Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Winner Directing Award
    • Documentary
    • On Her Shoulders

SXSW Film Festival

  • It's Only Life After All (2023)
    2023 Nominee Audience Award
    • Festival Favorites
    • It's Only Life After All
  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Winner SXSW Chicken & Egg Award
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee SXSW Grand Jury Award
    • Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee SXSW Gamechanger Award
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Ashland Independent Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Rogue Creamery Audience Award
    • Feature Length Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Savannah Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Brooklyn International Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Spirit Award
    • Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Moab Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee Audience Award
    • Top 20 Audience Favorites
    • On Her Shoulders
    -Fifth Place
  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Winner Docs for Schools Award
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Audience Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    10th Place
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Woods Hole Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 2nd Place Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

San Diego Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Festival Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

San Francisco Indiefest

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Jury Award
    • Best Feature Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

BendFilm Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Sheffield International Documentary Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee Tim Hetherington Award
    • On Her Shoulders

Dallas International Film Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Documentary Feature
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Best Feature Documentary Award
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Silver Heart Award
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Cinema for Peace Awards

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2016 Nominee Cinema for Peace Award
    • Cinema for Peace Award for Justice
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

The Hague Movies that Matter Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2016 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Film
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Reykjavik International Film Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee A Different Tomorrow
    • Best Documentary
    • On Her Shoulders

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2019 Winner duPont-Columbia Award
    • Documentary Feature
    • On Her Shoulders
    Shared with: Hayley Pappas · Bryn Mooser · Marie Therese Guirgis · Alison Klayman · Adam Bardach · Brock Williams · Matt Ippolito · Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown

Santa Fe International Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Special Jury Prize
    • Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Documentary Edge Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2019 Winner DocEdge Award
    • Best International Feature - Honourable Mention
    • On Her Shoulders

Camden International Film Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Winner Harrell Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • On Her Shoulders
    "For using an intimate but respectful gaze to convey suffering through subtle gestures and the use of silence. The film captures the weight of bearing witness by allowing the protagonist to speak for herself. On Her Shoulders transforms a traumatic personal experience into a realization of horrifying and memorable collective responsibility."
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Harrell Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Port Townsend Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Best Documentary Film
    • Best Feature Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

New Hampshire Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Grand Jury Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2019 Nominee Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2016 Nominee Spotlight Award
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Maryland International Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Best Documentary Film
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Film Club's The Lost Weekend

  • It's Only Life After All (2023)
    2023 Winner Lost Weekend Award
    • Best Documentary
    • It's Only Life After All

Social Impact Media Awards, US

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2016 Nominee Social Impact Media Award
    • Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Winner Human Rights Award
    • Special Mention
    • On Her Shoulders
    "We present a special mention to Alexandria Bombach's On Her Shoulders which chronicles, with great craft and overwhelming emotion, the struggle fought by Nadia Murad for the people of her own Yezidi community. It powerfully sheds light on this young woman's identity as both a resistant victim and a reluctant activist, and reveals also the enormous weight of the responsibility she bears."
  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee Human Rights Award
    • Human Rights Dox
    • On Her Shoulders

Hollywood Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Biografilm Festival

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2018 Nominee Best Film Unipol Award
    • International Competition
    • On Her Shoulders

Washington West Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Festival Prize
    • Best Directorial Debut
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF)

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Jury Award
    • Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Flyway Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

TheWIFTS Foundation International Visionary Awards

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2016 Winner The Documentary Award
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Calgary Underground Film Festival

  • It's Only Life After All (2023)
    2023 Winner Audience Award
    • CUFF.Docs Best Documentary Feature
    • It's Only Life After All

AFI Docs Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Nominee Audience Award
    • Feature Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

Weyauwega International Film Festival

  • Frame by Frame (2015)
    2015 Winner Festival Award
    • Best Feature Documentary
    • Frame by Frame
    Shared with: Mo Scarpelli

ZagrebDox

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2019 Winner Movies That Matter Award - Special Mention
    • On Her Shoulders
  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2019 Nominee Big Stamp
    • International Competition
    • On Her Shoulders

International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights

  • Nadia Murad in On Her Shoulders (2018)
    2019 Winner Gilda Vieira de Mello Award
    • Creative Documentaries Competition
    • On Her Shoulders

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