List of accolades received by Avatar
Introduction ''Avatar'' is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, and Ingenious Film Partners, and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. ''Avatar'' premiered in London on December 10, and was released in the United States on December 18.Made on a production budget of $237 million, ''Avatar'' grossed $2.923 billion, breaking numerous box office records, including becoming the highest-grossing film of all time and the first film to gross $2 billion. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of  based on  reviews. ''Avatar'' won the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects, and was nominated for a total of nine, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film garnered four nominations at the 67th Golden Globe Awards ceremony, and received two awards for Best Film – Drama and Best Director. ''Avatar'' was nominated for eight British Academy Film Awards, winning Best Production Design and Best Special Visual Effects. The film's achievement in visual effects were praised by the Visual Effects Society, who honored it with six accolades during their annual awards ceremony. ''Avatar'' was also nominated for the Directors Guild of America Awards, the Producers Guild of America Awards, and the Writers Guild of America Awards. The film was nominated for ten Saturn Awards and it went on to win all ten at the 36th Saturn Awards ceremony. Zoe Saldana's win for the Saturn Award for Best Actress marked a rare occurrence for an all-CG character. ''Avatar'' received recognition from numerous North American critics' associations. The film garnered nine nominations for the Critics' Choice Awards of the Broadcast Film Critics Association where it won Best Action Film and several technical categories. The Austin Film Critics Association and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association placed the film on their lists of the year's top ten films. Phoenix Film Critics Society honored the film with Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design and Best Visual Effect awards and also included it on its top ten films of the year list. It won two of the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association awards for Best Visual Effects and Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film, and the New York Film Critics Online honored the film with its Best Picture award.In December 2009, the American Film Institute recognized the film and Cameron's advances in CGI effects with their yearly "AFI Moments of Significance" award claiming it "will have profound effects on the future of the art form". In January 2010, it was announced that the ''Southern Sky Column'', a  quartz-sandstone mountain in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, had been renamed "Avatar Hallelujah Mountain" (阿凡达-哈利路亚山) by the city government in honor of the film.
Accolades +  Award / Film festival Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result  3D Creative Arts Awards February 23, 2010 Live Action 3D Feature   ''Avatar''  Best 3D Character  Neytiri  Best 3D Scene  Jake Sully's first flight  Best 3D Stereography / Live Action  ''Avatar''  Outstanding Achievement in 3D Visual Effects  ''Avatar''  Outstanding Achievement for Marketing 3D Content / Live Action  ''Avatar''  Academy Awards March 7, 2010 Best Picture James Cameron and Jon Landau   Best Director James Cameron     Best Art Direction '''Art Direction:''' Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg  '''Set Decoration:''' Kim Sinclair  Best Cinematography Mauro Fiore  Best Film Editing Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, and James Cameron   Best Original Score James Horner   Best Sound Editing Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle   Best Sound Mixing Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, and Tony Johnson    Best Visual Effects Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones   American Society of Cinematographers February 27, 2010  Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Releases  Mauro Fiore    Art Directors Guild Awards  February 13, 2010 Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg   Artios Awards November 1, 2010 Big Budget Feature – Drama Margery Simkin and Mali Finn  Austin Film Critics Association December 15, 2009  Top 10 Films  James Cameron and Jon Landau    British Academy Film Awards February 21, 2010 Best Film James Cameron and Jon Landau    Best Director James Cameron   Best Music James Horner   Best Cinematography Mauro Fiore   Best Editing Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, and James Cameron   Best Production Design Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, and Kim Sinclair   Best Sound Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, and Addison Teague   Best Special Visual Effects Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew Jones   Black Reel Awards February 12, 2010  Best Supporting Actress  Zoe Saldana     Brazilian Film Academy June 8, 2010 Best Foreign Film ''Avatar''   César Awards  February 27, 2010  Best Foreign Film  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Chicago Film Critics Association December 21, 2009 Best Cinematography  Mauro Fiore   Best Original Score  James Horner   Cinema Audio Society Awards February 27, 2010  Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing  Tony Johnson, Chris Boyes, Gary Summers, and Andy Nelson    Costume Designers Guild Awards February 25, 2010   Excellence in Fantasy Costume Design – Fantasy Film Mayes Rubeo and Deborah Lynn Scott   Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 15, 2010 Best Action Movie  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Best Art Direction  Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg   Best Cinematography  Mauro Fiore   Best Directing  James Cameron   Best Editing  James Cameron, John Refoua, and Stephen Rivkin   Best Picture  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Best Makeup  ''Avatar''   Best Sound  Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, and Addison Teague   Best Visual Effects  Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andy Jones   Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 16, 2009  Top 10 Films  James Cameron and Jon Landau    Directors Guild of America Awards January 30, 2010 Outstanding Directing – Feature Film  James Cameron   Eddie Awards  February 14, 2010Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic  James Cameron, John Refua, and Stephen Rivkin   Empire Awards March 28, 2010 Best Film  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Best Actor  Sam Worthington   Best Actress  Zoe Saldana   Best Director  James Cameron    Environmental Media Awards October 17, 2010  Feature Film  ''Avatar''    Florida Film Critics Circle  December 21, 2009  Best Cinematography  Mauro Fiore   Golden Eagle Award January 21, 2011  Best Foreign Language Film ''Avatar''  Golden Globe Awards January 17, 2010 Best Director  James Cameron   Best Film – Drama  ''Avatar''   Best Original Score  James Horner   Best Original Song  James Horner, Simon Franglen, and Kuk Harrell for "I See You (Theme from Avatar)"    Golden Reel Awards February 20, 2010 Best Sound Editing – Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature Film  Jim Henrikson, Dick Bernstein, and Michael Bauer   Best Sound Editing – Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Kim Foscato, Cheryl Nardi, Marshall Winn, Petra Bach, Richard Hymns, Stuart McCowan, and Steve Slanec   Best Sound Editing – Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film Addison Teague, Chris Boyes, Luke Dunn Glelmuda, Jim Likowski, Ken Fischer, Shannon Mills, Tim Nielsen, Chris Scarabosio, Dennie Thorpe, and Jana Vance   Grammy Awards February 13, 2011 Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media  James Horner   Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media  "I See You" by Leona Lewis   Hollywood Post Alliance Awards November 11, 2010  Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film Erik Winquist, Robin Hollander, Erich Eder and Giuseppe Tagliavini - Weta Digital    Houston Film Critics Society December 19, 2009 Best Picture  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Best Director of a Motion Picture  James Cameron   Best Cinematography  Mauro Fiore and Vince Pace   Best Original Score  James Horner   Hugo Awards September 2, 2010  Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form  James Cameron    International Film Music Critics Association Awards February 26, 2010  Film Score of the Year  James Horner    Film Composer of the Year  James Horner   Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction Film  James Horner   Film Music Composition of the Year, for "War"  James Horner    Irish Film and Television Awards February 20, 2010  Best International Film  James Cameron and Jon Landau    Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists June 19, 2010 Best 3D Film Director James Cameron   Japan Academy Prize February 18, 2011 Outstanding Foreign Language Film  James Cameron and Jon Landau   London Film Critics' Circle February 18, 2010 Director of the Year  James Cameron   Film of the Year  James Cameron and Jon Landau   MTV Movie Awards June 6, 2010 Best Movie ''Avatar''  Best Female Performance Zoe Saldana  Best Villain Stephen Lang  Best Fight Sam Worthington vs. Stephen Lang   Best Kiss Zoe Saldana  and Sam Worthington   NAACP Image Awards February 26, 2010 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture  Zoe Saldana    National Movie Awards May 26, 2010  Fantasy Film  ''Avatar''   National Society of Film Critics  January 3, 2010  Best Production Design  Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg   New York Online Film Critics December 13, 2009 Best Film  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Top 11 Films  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards March 27, 2010 Cutest Couple  Neytiri and Jake (Zoe Saldana & Sam Worthington)   Favorite Movie Actress  Zoe Saldana   Online Film Critics Society January 5, 2010 Best Cinematography  Mauro Fiore   Best Director  James Cameron   People's Choice Awards January 6, 2010 Favorite 3D Live Action Movie ''Avatar''   Favorite 3D Animated Movie  ''Avatar''   Producers Guild of America Awards January 24, 2010  Theatrical Motion Picture – Producer of the Year  James Cameron and Jon Landau    PETA's Proggy award January 20, 2010 Outstanding Feature Film James Cameron   San Diego Film Critics Society December 15, 2009 Best Director  James Cameron   Best Production Design  Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg   Santa Barbara International Film Festival February 6, 2010  Lucky Brand Modern Master Award  James Cameron    Saturn Awards June 24, 2010 Visionary Award for ''Avatar'' James Cameron     Best Science Fiction Film James Cameron and Jon Landau     Best Actor Sam Worthington  Best Actress Zoe Saldana    Best Supporting Actor Stephen Lang   Best Supporting Actress Sigourney Weaver    Best Director James Cameron    Best Writing James Cameron    Best Music James Horner     Best Production Design Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg  Best Special Effects Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew Jones    Scream Awards October 16, 2010 Best Director  James Cameron   Best F/X  ''Avatar''   The Ultimate Scream ''Avatar''   Best Science Fiction Movie ''Avatar''   Best Science Fiction Actress Zoe Saldana   Best Villain  Stephen Lang   Best Supporting Actress Sigourney Weaver   Fight Scene of the Year "Final Battle: Na'vi vs Military"   3-D Top Three Award  ''Avatar''   St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards December 21, 2009 Best Visual/Special Effects Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andy Jones   Most Original/Innovative or Creative Film  James Cameron and Jon Landau   Teen Choice Awards August 8, 2010 Sci-Fi Movie ''Avatar''  Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress Zoe Saldana  Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor Sam Worthington  Choice Movie Villain Stephen Lang  Choice Movie Fight Sam Worthington vs. Stephen Lang  Choice Movie Hissy Fit Giovanni Ribisi  Visual Effects Society Awards February 28, 2010 Lifetime Achievement, for Making of James Cameron   Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture Richard Baneham, Joyce Cox, Joe Letteri, and Eileen Moran     Best Single Visual Effect of the Year, for Quarich's Escape Jill Brooks, John Knoll, Frank Losasso Petterson, and Tory Mercer   Best Single Visual Effect of the Year, for Neytiri Drinking Thelvin Cabezas, Joyce Cox, Joe Letteri, and Eileen Moran    Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture, for Neytiri Andrew Jones, Joe Letteri, Zoe Saldana, and Jeff Unay  Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture, for Pandora Jean-Luc Azzis, Peter Baustaedter, Brenton Cottman, and Yvonne Muinde      Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture, for Samson, Home Tree, Floating Mountains, & Ampsuit Simon Cheung, Paul Jenness, John Stevenson-Galvin, and Rainer Zoettl     Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture, for Floating Mountains Dan Lemmon, Keith F. Miller, Jessica Cowley, and Cameron Smith           Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture, for Jungle / Biolume Shadi Almassizadeh, Dan Cox, Ula Rademeyer, and Eric Saindon      Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture, for Willow Glade Thelvin Cabezas, Miae Kang, Daniel Macarin, and Guy Williams        Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture Erich Eder, Robin Hollander, Giuseppe Tagliavini, and Erik Winquist      Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture, for End Battle Jay Cooper, Beth D'Amato, Eddie Pasquarello, and Todd Vaziri   World Soundtrack Awards October 23, 2010 Best Original Song  "I See You" by Leona Lewis   Best Original Soundtrack James Horner   Writers Guild of America Awards February 20, 2010  Best Original Screenplay  James Cameron
See also * List of accolades received by ''Avatar: The Way of Water''
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