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Awards & honours bestowed upon The Archers
Year Film Event/Body Won/
NomAward/Prize Details Winner/Nominee 1937 EotW Venice Film Festival Film Presented Michael Powell 1941 ToB Academy Awards Won Oscar Best Art Direction, Color Vincent Korda 1941 ToB Academy Awards Won Oscar Best Cinematography, Color Georges Périnal 1941 ToB Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Effects, Special Effects Lawrence W. Butler (photographic) 1941 ToB Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Effects, Special Effects Jack Whitney (sound) 1946? ToB Venice Film Festival Film Presented 1942 49P New York Film Critics Circle Won NYFCC Award Best Direction Michael Powell 1943 49P Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Picture Michael Powell 1943 49P Academy Awards Won Oscar Best Writing, Screenplay Emeric Pressburger & Rodney Ackland 1943 OOOAIM Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Effects, Special Effects C.C. Stevens (sound) 1943 OOOAIM Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Effects, Special Effects Ronald Neame (photographic) 1943 OOOAIM Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Writing, Original Screenplay Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1945 Blimp New York Film Critics Circle Won NYFCC Award Best Direction Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1945 Blimp New York Film Critics Circle Won NYFCC Award Best Film Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1946 AMOLAD New York Film Critics Circle Won NYFCC Award Best Direction Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1946 AMOLAD New York Film Critics Circle Won NYFCC Award Best Film Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1948 AMOLAD Bodil Awards Won Bodil Best European Film (Bedste europćiske film) Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1947 BN New York Film Critics Circle Won NYFCC Award Best Actress Deborah Kerr 1948 BN Academy Awards Won Oscar Best Cinematography, Color Jack Cardiff 1948 BN Academy Awards Won Oscar Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Alfred Junge 1948 BN Golden Globes, USA Won Golden Globe Best Cinematography Jack Cardiff 1948 TRS Venice Film Festival Competing Film Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1949 TRS Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Picture Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1949 TRS Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Writing, Motion Picture Story Emeric Pressburger 1949 TRS Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Film Editing Reginald Mills 1949 TRS Academy Awards Won Oscar Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Hein Heckroth &
Arthur Lawson1949 TRS Academy Awards Won Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Brian Easdale 1949 TRS BAFTA Awards Nom BAFTA Film Award Best British Film Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1949 TRS Golden Globes, USA Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Score Brian Easdale 1949 TEP Venice Film Festival Competing Film Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1950 GTE Venice Film Festival Competing Film Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1950 SBR BAFTA Awards Nom BAFTA Film Award Best British Film Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1951 ToH Berlin International Film Festival Won Silver Berlin Bear Best Musical Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1951 ToH Cannes Film Festival Won Special Prize for Originality of Lyrical Adaptation Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1952 ToH Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Hein Heckroth 1952 ToH Academy Awards Nom Oscar Best Costume Design, Color Hein Heckroth 1957 BoRP BAFTA Awards Nom BAFTA Film Award Best British Film Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1957 BoRP BAFTA Awards Nom BAFTA Film Award Best Film from any Source Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1957 BoRP BAFTA Awards Nom BAFTA Film Award Best British Screenplay Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1959 LdM Cannes Film Festival Won Technical Grand Prize Michael Powell 1970 NFT, London First retrospective at the NFT Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1978 BWTY Children's Film Foundation Won Chiffy Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1978 University of East Anglia Hon D.Litt Michael Powell 1978 University of Kent at Canterbury Hon D.Litt Michael Powell 1978 BFI BFI Special Award Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1978 NFT, London Full retrospective at the NFT Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1980 Dartmouth College Dartmouth Film Award Micky was the 2nd recipient, the first was Lilian Gish. Thelma won it in 2000 Michael Powell 1981 BAFTA BAFTA Fellowship The fellowships were presented by Deborah Kerr who said it was "about time" they were recognised Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger1982 Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion Michael Powell 1987 San Francisco International Film Festival Won Akira Kurosawa Award Michael Powell 1987 Royal College of Arts Hon Doctorate Michael Powell 2001 Academy Awards Honorary Award Jack Cardiff