Film Critics Circle Awards, 3rd place NYFCC Award – Best Film for Light Sleeper 1994 – National Film Preservation Board, USA, National Film Registry for Taxi Driver 1997 – Valladolid International Film Festival, Youth Jury Award – Special Mention for Affliction 1998 – Taos Talking Picture Festival, Storyteller Award 1998 – New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 2nd Place, NYFCC Award – Best Film for Affliction 1999 – National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA, 2nd Place, NSFC Award – Best Film for Affliction 1999 – Golden Trailer Awards, Golden Trailer – Best in Show for Bringing Out the Dead 1999 – Writers Guild of America, USA, Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement 2005 – American Film Institute, USA, Franklin J. Schaffner Award 2007 – Stockholm International Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 – St. Louis International Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 – Cinemanila International Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 – Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Best Foreign Director for The Canyons 2013 – Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Best Foreign Film for The Canyons 2013 – Ghent International Film Festival, Joseph Plateau Honorary Award 2013 – Valladolid International Film Festival, Honorary Spike for The Canyons 2018 – Gotham Independent Film Award, Best Screenplay for First Reformed 2018 – National Board of Review, Best Original Screenplay for First Reformed 2018 – New York Film Critics Circle, Best Screenplay for First Reformed 2021 – Zurich Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 – Venice Film Festival, Golden Lion Honorary Award Nominated 1977 – Golden Globes, USA, Golden Globe – Best Screenplay – Motion Picture for Taxi Driver 1977 – Writers Guild of America, USA, WGA Award (Screen) for Taxi Driver 1977 – Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, Golden Scroll – Best Horror Film for Obsession 1979 – Berlin International Film Festival, Golden Berlin Bear for Hardcore 1981 – Golden Globes, USA, Golden Globe – Best Screenplay – Motion Picture for Raging Bull (shared with Mardik Martin) 1985 – Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or for Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1988 – Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or for Patty Hearst 1988 – National Board of Review, USA, NBR Award – Top 10 Films of the Year for The Last Temptation of Christ 1989 – Political Film Society, USA, PFS Award – Exposé for Patty Hearst 1992 – Berlin International Film Festival, Golden Berlin Bear for Light Sleeper 1992