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Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)

Awards

The Babadook

56 wins & 64 nominations

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Nominee Saturn Award
    • Best Horror Film
  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee Saturn Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Nominee Saturn Award
    • Best Performance by a Younger Actor
    • Noah Wiseman

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards

  • Kristina Ceyton
    2015 Nominee FCCA Award
    • Best Film
    • Kristina Ceyton
    • Kristian Moliere
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Nominee FCCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee FCCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Winner FCCA Award
    • Best Performance by a Young Actor
    • Noah Wiseman
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner FCCA Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Jennifer Kent

Australian Screen Sound Guild

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Nominee ASSG Award
    • Feature Film Soundtrack of the Year

Bram Stoker Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Bram Stoker Award
    • Screenplay
    • Jennifer Kent (writer)

British Independent Film Awards

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Nominee British Independent Film Award
    • Best International Independent Film

Critics Choice Awards

  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Nominee Critics Choice Award
    • Best Young Actor/Actress
    • Noah Wiseman
  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Nominee Critics Choice Award
    • Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

  • Essie Davis
    2014 Winner Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Special Prize of the Jury
    • Jennifer Kent

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee CFCA Award
    • Most Promising Filmmaker
    • Jennifer Kent

Chicago International Film Festival

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee Audience Choice Award
    • Audience Choice Award
    • Jennifer Kent

Gérardmer Film Festival

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Special Jury Prize
    • Jury Prize
    • Jennifer Kent (Ex- Aequo)
    • Juno Mak (Ex- Aequo)
    Shared with: Rigor Mortis
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Audience Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner International Critics Award
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Youth Jury Grand Prize
    • Jennifer Kent

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Vincent Koehler Award for Outstanding Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Sierra Award
    • Best Horror/Sci-Fi Film

London Critics Circle Film Awards

  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee ALFS Award
    • Actress of the Year
    • Essie Davis

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner NYFCC Award
    • Best First Film
    • Jennifer Kent

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • Essie Davis
    2014 Nominee OFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee Best of Puchon
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Essie Davis
    2014 Winner Best Actress
    • Essie Davis

Empire Awards, UK

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Winner Empire Award
    • Best Horror
  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee Empire Award
    • Best Female Newcomer
    • Essie Davis

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

  • Essie Davis
    2014 Nominee SFFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis

Golden Trailer Awards

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Winner Golden Trailer
    • Best Foreign Graphics in a Trailer
  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Nominee Golden Trailer
    • Best Foreign Horror Trailer
  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Golden Trailer
    • Best Foreign Horror/Thriller Trailer

Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner Chainsaw Award
    • Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Essie Davis
    2015 Winner Chainsaw Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Winner Chainsaw Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Noah Wiseman
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner Chainsaw Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Jennifer Kent

Central Ohio Film Critics Association

  • Essie Davis
    2015 Winner COFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Winner COFCA Award
    • Best Overlooked Film
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Nominee COFCA Award
    • Breakthrough Film Artist
    • Jennifer Kent
    For directing and screenwriting.

Austin Film Critics Association

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Breakthrough Artist Award
    • Jennifer Kent

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Nominee WAFCA Award
    • Best Youth Performance
    • Noah Wiseman

Austin Fantastic Fest

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Best Picture
    • Horror Features
    • Jennifer Kent (director)
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Best Screenplay
    • Horror Features
    • Jennifer Kent (writer)
  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Best Actor
    • Horror Features
    • Noah Wiseman (actor)
  • Essie Davis
    2014 Winner Best Actress
    • Horror Features
    • Essie Davis (actress)

Australian Directors Guild

  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner ADG Award
    • Best Direction in a Feature Film
    • Jennifer Kent

Toronto After Dark Film Festival

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Special Award
    • Best Director
    • Jennifer Kent (director)
  • Essie Davis
    2014 Winner Special Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis (actress)
  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Special Award
    • Scariest Film (Fans Choice Award)
  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Special Award
    • Best Trailer
  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Special Award
    • Best Monster/Creature

CPH PIX

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee New Talent Grand PIX
    • Jennifer Kent

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Nominee EDA Female Focus Award
    • Best Woman Director
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Nominee EDA Female Focus Award
    • Best Woman Screenwriter
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee EDA Female Focus Award
    • Best Breakthrough Performance
    • Essie Davis

Detroit Film Critics Society Awards

  • Essie Davis
    2014 Nominee DFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee DFCS Award
    • Breakthrough Artist
    • Jennifer Kent (director, screenplay)

Fright Meter Awards

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Fright Meter Award
    • Best Horror Movie
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner Fright Meter Award
    • Best Director
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Essie Davis
    2014 Winner Fright Meter Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee Fright Meter Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Jennifer Kent
  • 2014 Nominee Fright Meter Award
    • Best Editing
    • Simon Njoo

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee DFCC
    • Best Director
    • Jennifer Kent
    10th place
  • Essie Davis
    2014 Nominee DFCC
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
    3rd place

Denver Film Critics Society

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Nominee DFCS Award
    • Best Science-Fiction/Horror Film

Boston Online Film Critics Association

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Nominee BOFCA Award
    • Best Film
    5th place

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics

  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee Dorian Award
    • Film Performance of the Year - Actress
    • Essie Davis

Houston Film Critics Society Awards

  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee HFCS Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis

Críticos de Cinema Online Portugueses Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Nominee CCOP
    • Best First Feature (Melhor Primeira Longa-Metragem)
    • Jennifer Kent

BloodGuts UK Horror Awards

  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Nominee BloodGuts UK Horror Award
    • Best Actor
    • Noah Wiseman (actor)
  • Essie Davis
    2015 Winner BloodGuts UK Horror Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis (actor)
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee BloodGuts UK Horror Award
    • Best Director
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Essie Davis
    2014 Winner BloodGuts UK Horror Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner BloodGuts UK Horror Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • Jennifer Kent

Online Film & Television Association

  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Youth Performance
    • Noah Wiseman
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Feature Debut
    • Jennifer Kent (writer/director)
  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee OFTA Film Award
    • Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
    • Essie Davis

Village Voice Film Poll

  • Essie Davis
    2014 Nominee VVFP Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
    3rd place.
  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner VVFP Award
    • Best First Feature
  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Nominee VVFP Award
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Noah Wiseman
    10th place. Tied with Jeff Goldblum for Le Week-End (2013) and Patrick d'Assumçao for Stranger by the Lake (2013).

Golden Schmoes Awards

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2014 Winner Golden Schmoes
    • Best Horror Movie of the Year
  • Essie Davis
    2014 Nominee Golden Schmoes
    • Best Actress of the Year
    • Essie Davis

Women Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee WFCC Award
    • Best Movie by a Woman
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee WFCC Award
    • Best Woman Storyteller
    • Jennifer Kent

International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)

  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee INOCA
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
    5th place.

Australian Film Critics Association Awards

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Winner AFCA Award
    • Best Film
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner AFCA Award
    • Best Director
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Essie Davis
    2015 Winner AFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis
  • Radek Ladczuk
    2015 Nominee AFCA Award
    • Best Cinematography
    • Radek Ladczuk
  • Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2015 Winner AFCA Award
    • Best Actor in a Supporting Role
    • Noah Wiseman

Indiewire Critics' Poll

  • Essie Davis
    2014 Nominee ICP Award
    • Best Lead Actress
    • Essie Davis
    4th place.
  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Winner ICP Award
    • Best First Feature
    • Jennifer Kent

Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee Rondo Statuette
    • Best Film
    • Jennifer Kent

North Carolina Film Critics Association

  • Essie Davis
    2015 Winner NCFCA Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis

Torino Film Festival

  • Jennifer Kent
    2014 Nominee Prize of the City of Torino
    • Best Feature Film
    • Jennifer Kent

Horror Society Awards

  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner Horror Society Award
    • Best Horror Film
    • Jennifer Kent

Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards

  • Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook (2014)
    2020 Winner Byron Kennedy Award
  • Kristina Ceyton
    2015 Winner AACTA Award
    • Best Film
    • Kristina Ceyton
    • Kristian Moliere
    Tied with The Water Diviner (2014).
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner AACTA Award
    • Best Direction
    • Jennifer Kent
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner AACTA Award
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Jennifer Kent
  • 2015 Nominee AACTA Award
    • Best Editing
    • Simon Njoo

AACTA International Awards

  • Essie Davis
    2015 Nominee AACTA International Award
    • Best Lead Actress
    • Essie Davis

iHorror Awards

  • Essie Davis
    2015 Winner iHorror Award
    • Best Final Girl Performance
    • Essie Davis
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Winner iHorror Award
    • Best Foreign Horror Film
    • Jennifer Kent (Director)
  • Jennifer Kent
    2015 Nominee iHorror Award
    • Best Horror Director
    • Jennifer Kent
  • 2015 Nominee iHorror Award
    • Best Horror Character
    • Tim Purcell

Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

  • Essie Davis
    2014 Winner Bucheon Choice Award
    • Best Actress
    • Essie Davis

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