List of accolades received by Nightcrawler (film)

List of accolades received by Nightcrawler

Dan Gilroy (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal (right) received several awards and nominations for their script and performance, respectively.
Accolades Award Won Nominated AACTA Awards 0 1 Academy Awards 0 1 Alliance of Women Film Journalists 0 1 American Cinema Editors 0 1 American Film Institute 1 1 Art Directors Guild 0 1 Austin Film Critics Association 3 4 Australian Film Critics Association 0 1 Boston Society of Film Critics 1 1 British Academy Film Awards 0 4 Chicago Film Critics Association 0 2 Critics' Choice Movie Awards 0 3 Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 0 2 Detroit Film Critics Society 0 2 Dublin Film Critics' Circle 0 1 Dorian Awards 0 1 Florida Film Critics Circle 0 1 Golden Globe Awards 0 1 Gotham Awards 0 3 Houston Film Critics Society 1 3 Independent Spirit Awards 2 5 Irish Film & Television Academy 0 1 Location Managers Guild Awards 0 1 London Film Critics' Circle 0 4 Los Angeles Film Critics Association 0 1 National Board of Review 1 1 National Society of Film Critics 0 1 New York Film Critics Online 1 1 Online Film Critics Society 0 2 Palm Springs International Film Festival 1 1 Producers Guild of America Awards 0 1 San Diego Film Critics Society 7 9 San Francisco Film Critics Circle 0 1 Satellite Awards 1 2 Saturn Awards 1 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards 0 1 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association 0 4 Toronto Film Critics Association 0 2 Vancouver Film Critics Circle 1 1 Writers Guild of America Awards 0 1
Total number of awards and nominations
Totals	22	76
Footnotes

Nightcrawler is 2014 American thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a stringer who records violent events late at night in Los Angeles, and sells the footage to a local television news station. Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, and Bill Paxton feature in supporting roles. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, before receiving a theatrical release on October 31, distributed by Open Road Films.Nightcrawler earned a worldwide total of $50.3 million on a production budget of $8.5 million.Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 232 reviews and judged 95 percent to be positive.

Nightcrawler received awards and nominations in a variety of categories, with particular praise for Gilroy's screenplay and Gyllenhaal's performance. At the 87th Academy Awards, Gilroy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film received an additional four nominations at the 68th British Academy Film Awards, three nominations at the 20th Critics' Choice Awards, one nomination at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, and one nomination at 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards, but did not win any of them. Nightcrawler did fare better at award ceremonies held by critics' organizations, particularly the 19th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, where it won seven out of its nine nominations. These included Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Film. The American Film Institute and the National Board of Review included Nightcrawler in their lists of top ten films of the year.