Eastern Promises
Awards
Nominations
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
Nominated for 5 Vancouver Film Critics Awards
- Best Canadian Film
- Best Director of a Canadian Film (David Cronenberg)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Canadian Film (Viggo Mortensen)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role (Viggo Mortensen)
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Canadian Film (Naomi Watts)
Nominated for a César Award (France's Oscars) for Best Foreign Film
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
- Best British Film
- Best Leading Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
Nominated for 12 Genie Awards [Canada's equivalent of the Academy Awards]
- Best Picture
- Best Director (David Cronenberg)
- Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
- Best Supporting Actor (Armin Mueller-Stahl)
- Best Original Screenplay (Steve Knight)
- Best Cinematography (Peter Suschitzky)
- Best Costume Design (Denise Cronenberg)
- Best Art Direction/Production Design (Carol Spier)
- Best Editing (Ronald Sanders)
- Best Original Score (Howard Shore)
- Best Sound (Stuart Wilson, Christian Cooke, Orest Sushko, Mark Zsifkovits)
- Best Sound Editing (Wayne Griffin, Robert Bertola, Tony Currie, Andy Malcolm, Michael O'Farrell)
Nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards
- Best Picture [Drama]
- Best Actor [Drama] (Viggo Mortensen)
- Best Original Score (Howard Shore)
Nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (Viggo Mortensen)
Nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
Nominated for the London Film Critics Circle's [Attenborough] Award for British Film of the Year
Nominated for the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association award for Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
Nominated for the Chicago Film Critics Association award for Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
Nominated for 2 Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association awards
- Best Original Score (Howard Shore)
- Best Film Editing (Ronald Sanders)
Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen) and Best Original Screenplay (Steve Knight)
Nominated for 5 additional Golden Satellite Awards
- Best Picture [Drama]
- Best Director (David Cronenberg)
- Best Original Screenplay (Steve Knight)
- Best Original Score (Howard Shore)
- Best Film Editing (Ronald Sanders))
Nominated for 3 Online Film Critics Society awards
- Best Director (David Cronenberg)
- Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
- Best Original Screenplay (Steve Knight)
British Independent Film Awards [BIFAs]
- Best Film
- Best Director - David Cronenberg
- Best Screenplay - Steve Knight
- Best Actor - Viggo Mortensen
- Best Supporting performance - Armin Mueller-Stahl
Awards
Winner of 7 Genie Awards [Canada's equivalent of the Academy Awards]
- Best Supporting Actor (Armin Mueller-Stahl)
- Best Original Screenplay (Steve Knight)
- Best Cinematography (Peter Suschitzky)
- Best Editing (Ronald Sanders)
- Best Original Score (Howard Shore)
- Best Sound (Stuart Wilson, Christian Cooke, Orest Sushko, Mark Zsifkovits)
- Best Sound Editing (Wayne Griffin, Robert Bertola, Tony Currie, Andy Malcolm, Michael O'Farrell)
Winner of 3 Vancouver Film Critics Awards:
- Best Canadian Film
- Best Director of a Canadian Film (David Cronenberg)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Canadian Film (Viggo Mortensen)
Chosen (by readers) as Best Foreign Film by Spain's Fotogramas de Plata
Winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association award for Best Performance, Male (Viggo Mortensen)
Winner of the Golden Satellite Award for Best Actor [Drama] (Viggo Mortensen)
Winner of the top prize [the Best Picture equivalent], the [Cadillac] People's Choice Award, at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Winner of the British Independent Film Award [BIFA] for Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
Winner of the Golden Satellite Award for Best Actor [Drama] (Viggo Mortensen)
Named one of the year's [7] Best Films by the San Diego Film Critics Society
Published on: November 26, 2007