What happened to Jim Jarmusch? Relationship, Ethnicity, Salary

Known for movies

Short Info

Date Of Birth	January 22, 1953
Died	February 13, 2017, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Sepang District, Malaysia
Spouse	Kanye West, Kris Humphries, Damon Thomas, 18. Heaven Opposed to Hell, 17. Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend, 16. I Hate the High Road
Mark	Salt & pepper hair
Fact	Is the older brother of Ann and Tom Jarmusch.

Jim Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He was born in Akron, Ohio, on January 22, 1953, to middle-class parents. His father was an attorney and his mother was a housewife. He has two older sisters. Jarmusch was educated at private schools in Akron and New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1975 with a degree in English.

Jarmusch began his career as a musician in the 1970s, playing in various punk and new wave bands. He also worked as a freelance writer for various music magazines. In the early 1980s, he directed several music videos for the band Talking Heads. His first feature film, Permanent Vacation (1980), was a low-budget independent film. It was followed by Stranger Than Paradise (1984), which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

In the 1990s, Jarmusch directed a series of highly acclaimed films, including Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991), and Dead Man (1995). He also wrote and directed the cult classic Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999). In the 2000s, Jarmusch directed a number of successful films, including Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), and The Limits of Control (2009).

Jarmusch has been married twice. His first wife was Sara Driver, with whom he has two children. His second wife is actress and director Joana Vicente. Jarmusch has a net worth of $10 million.

General Info

Full Name	Jim Jarmusch
Date Of Birth	January 22, 1953
Died	February 13, 2017, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Sepang District, Malaysia
Height	1.88 m, 5 feet 3 inches
Profession	Screenwriter, Film Score Composer, Film producer, Film director, Actor, Film Editor, Cinematographer
Education	Columbia University, New York University, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Tisch School of the Arts
Nationality	American, American

Family

Spouse	Kanye West, Kris Humphries, Damon Thomas, 18. Heaven Opposed to Hell, 17. Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend, 16. I Hate the High Road
Siblings	Tom Jarmusch, Ann Jarmusch
Partner	Sara Driver, Sara Driver

Accomplishments

Awards	Cannes Grand Prix, Short Film Palme d'Or, European Film Award for Best Non-European Film, Bodil Award for Best American Film, Gotham Independent Film Tribute Award
Nominations	Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature, Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay, Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, César Award for Best Foreign Film, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature Film, British Independent Film Award for Best International Independent Film, Nation...
Movies	Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson, Dead Man, Down by Law, Stranger Than Paradise, Broken Flowers, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Permanent Vacation, The Limits of Control, Gimme Danger, Coffee and Cigarettes, Year of the Horse, Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet, Blue i...
TV Shows	Fishing with John

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0000464

Marks

#	Marks / Signs
1	Japanese tourist
2	Country music on soundtrack
3	Sense of place/historical figures from movie's location
4	Offscreen distant train whistle
5	Introvert character eavesdrops on two strangers' conversations
6	The narrative structure of his films mostly lack clear plot progression and focus more on mood and character development
7	Salt & pepper hair
8	Often casts musicians as actors in his films
9	Stationary camera (deadpan). His films often involve travlers as well as life after midnight. Shows and views the American landscape from a non-commercial viewpoint (e.g. the tavern were everybody knows your name instead of franchised stripmalls)

Quotes

#	Quote
1	You see, I start with actors that I want to make a character for. Then I collect a whole lot of details and then I sit down with them and make a connect the dots drawing out of them; see what for of picture it is becoming. I don't know what the story is or where it's going, at all. I just sort of jump in and start. In fact, I think I do it backwards. Most people have a story idea and in the end they cast it, but I start with the actors first.
2	[on aging] Gee. I don't know. I don't know how to even answer that. It was funny: I was getting in the car two days ago in New York to go to the airport, and there was a lot of traffic so we couldn't go on the highway. The driver wanted to go through the back streets of Brooklyn and Queens and it was a Saturday afternoon, a very beautiful day. And I'm riding there and possibly going to be late and I didn't worry. I don't know why. And I was just watching people doing little things - a guy fixing his door, little kids chasing a ball and adults chasing children that were laughing, people that were going shopping, a couple arguing on a corner - and I just felt like, sometimes, the world is perfect just because this is what it is. Maybe I wouldn't have felt exactly that same thing some years ago.
3	...the beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported. If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.
4	[on Paterson] In the film I wanted to make this little structure to be a metaphor for life, that every day is a variation on the day before or the day coming up. They're just variations.
5	[on the the funniest criticism he's ever had] My favorite? I'll translate it from the French. It was from a right-wing newspaper in the South of France about my movie Down by Law, which said, "Jim Jarmusch is celebrated by the French intelligentsia in a way that's reminiscent of deaf and dumb parents applauding their retarded child. He is 33 years old. This is the age that Christ was crucified on the cross. We can only hope for the same for the future of his film career." Woah! I used to carry that one around in my wallet.
6	I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life.
7	Robby Müller, I learned so much from this man about filmmaking, about a lot of things, about life in general and about light and about recording things and about capturing things in-the-moment and about trusting instincts. Robby and I had a really wonderful way of working: No storyboard, a shot list only if really necessary for ourselves. I still don't like making a shot list each day when I'm working. Robby's idea is about instincts, trusting your instinct and your intuition and Robby would always say things like: 'Of course we can plan everything in advance and when we go to that location it's a different time of day, the light is different, the clouds are different, so why would we cling to the idea we had previously? We must always be on our feet. Think on your feet.' And we did a lot of interesting things while scouting for this film together which was: We find the most dramatic, incredibly beautiful landscape you could imagine and then we would turn our backs on it and film the other way. [audience laughs] That was something that Robby said: 'Look how magnificent this is, we've seen it in a fucking calender! Let's look over there, it's a small tree and a rock, very sad and emotional, you know?' [audience laughs] So we would film that instead. And this is just one example of the kind of way that Robby thinks. And I learned so much from him, thinking that way. Don't look for the obvious, always keep your eyes open , keep thinking on your feet. Shooting a film is a process and you can't control everything in the process, so be open. Another thing Robby taught me was: O.K., you're shooting a scene outside and suddenly it starts raining. And most crews would say: 'Well, the scene doesn't take place in the rain, so let's pack up and we'll have to stop for today'. And Robby would be: 'I wonder what it would be like, if the scene's in the rain. Maybe it's much better'. Or if we already shot some of it: 'O.K. think of some dialogue where they say it's about the rain, you know?' Like, keep thinking, keep thinking, don't be set in your script. It's something that came from Nicholas Ray, who said: 'If you just gonna shoot the script then why bother?' And that's something Robby also instilled in me. Robby Müller is a kind of brilliant man who's a very rebellious teenager in part of his spirit and yet an incredibly technically gifted person.[Lincoln Center, April 2014]
8	I've always been drawn to outsider types of characters, so what more perfect shadowy inhabitants of the margins there than vampires?
9	[on his approach to cinema] When you make these films they do walk on their own after a certain point. Often, when I'm writing dialogue in a script, whatever's on paper for me is a sketch until you film it. It's not like I'm making them say words. I feel like I'm just transcribing what they're saying.
10	[on working with Tilda Swinton] She's just one of the most fantastic people I know. She is full of creativity, she's open, she's incredibly knowledgeable about so many things. She's like the bohemian goddess of our lifetime.
11	I have no desire to make films for any kind of specific audience. What I want to do is make films that... tell stories, but somehow in an new way, not in a predictable form, not in the usual manipulative way that films seem to on their audiences.
12	Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."
13	The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
14	It's great that the audience have their own different takes on what they have just seen, and don't know all the answers. Often, I don't know all the answers either.
15	I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I'm not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me. All they did was reduce his life to the big dramatic moments you could pick out of any biography. If that's supposed to be a portrait of somebody, I just don't get it. It's so reductive. It just seems all wrong to me.
16	Aw, man, is that the only adjective they know? It's like every time I make a goddamn movie, the word "quirky" is hauled out in the American reviews. Now I see it's being applied to Wes Anderson, too. All of a sudden, his films are quirky. And Sofia Coppola is quirky. It's just so goddamn lazy.
17	I never talk to actors as a group. Only one at a time. I talk to them about being their characters. Never, ever, about the meaning of the scene. I don't want the actors overladen with research, so they grow stale.
18	I'm stubborn. I have to fight. The studios want to be your partner in the creative process. That's why I find most of my financing overseas. I don't let the Money give me notes on my scripts. I don't allow the Money on the set. I don't allow the Money in the editing room. These days, even the little independent studios, they act like Hollywood. Some kid is making a movie for $500,000, and they want the final cut. Seems like the squares are taking over everything.
19	I'm happiest when I'm shooting the movie. Filming is like sex. Writing the script is like seduction, then shooting is like sex because you're doing the movie with other people. Editing is like being pregnant, and then you give birth and they take your baby away. After this process is done, I will watch the movie one more time with a paying audience that doesn't know I'm there, and then I will never see it again. I'm so sick of it.
20	I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
21	I feel so lucky. During the late 70's in New York, anything seemed possible. You could make a movie or a record and work part time, and you could find an apartment for 160 bucks a month. And the conversations were about ideas. No one was talking about money. It was pretty amazing. But looking back is dangerous. I don't like nostalgia. But, still, damn, it was fun. I'm glad I was there.
22	I consider myself a dilettante in a positive way, and I always have. That affects my sense of filmmaking.
23	I know. It's all so . . . independent. I'm so sick of that word. I reach for my revolver when I hear the word 'quirky.' Or 'edgy.' Those words are now becoming labels that are slapped on products to sell them. Anyone who makes a film that is the film they want to make, and it is not defined by marketing analysis or a commercial enterprise, is independent. My movies are kind of made by hand. They're not polished -- they're sort of built in the garage. It's more like being an artisan in some way.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Stated that his goal was "to approximate real time for the audience.".
2	Novelist Paul Auster described the characters in Jarmusch's films as "laconic, withdrawn, sorrowful mumblers".
3	Is a member of rock band SQÜRL with film associate Carter Logan and sound engineer Shane Stoneback.
4	Always owns the negatives of his films.
5	Stopped drinking coffee in 1986, the year of the first installment of Coffee and Cigarettes, though he continues to smoke cigarettes.
6	Often described as the archetypal auteur of American independent film.
7	Is a founding member of The Sons of Lee Marvin, a humorous "semi-secret society" of artists resembling the iconic actor.
8	Likes seeing his films once, with a paying audience that doesn't know he is there, after that he doesn't want to see them ever again.
9	According to Roger Ebert, 'there is a deep embedding of comedy, nostalgia, shabby sadness and visual beauty' in his work.
10	Guest with Johnny Depp of Belgrade Film Festival FEST in 1992.
11	Founder member of "the Sons of Lee Marvin". Other members include Tom Waits, Thurston Moore, John Lurie, Nick Cave. Membership requires a plausible likeness to Lee Marvin such that you could be rumored to be his son.
12	At college one of his professors was cult director Nicholas Ray. They formed a friendship and Jarmusch became his assistant for the making of a film.
13	Has lived with his girlfriend, filmmaker Sara Driver, for 20 years. [2005]
14	Although Broken Flowers (2005) came out after Lost in Translation (2003), Jarmusch wrote the script exclusively for Bill Murray before Sofia Coppola.
15	Father worked at the Goodrich tire plant in Akron, Ohio. Mother reviewed films for the Akron Beacon Journal.
16	He owns the negatives to all his own films, except one, Year of the Horse (1997), which he made for Neil Young.
17	Doesn't allow his movies to be dubbed for foreign movie markets. They are mostly shown with subtitles in other countries.
18	Once almost died from eating wild mushrooms, which resulted in an interest in the study of mushroom.
19	Attended Columbia University.
20	Up until 2005, has never made a film under a studio's watch.
21	Good friend of Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director of The Man Without a Past (2002). Placed the final segment of his movie Night on Earth (1991) in Finland with the three characters speaking Finnish.
22	Is the older brother of Ann and Tom Jarmusch.
23	Chris Parker, who starred in Jarmusch's first film Permanent Vacation (1980) was a friend of Jarmusch's and had never acted before (according to a 2/2/94 interview with Jarmusch). When Jarmusch submitted "Permanent Vacation" to Tisch as his film thesis/project, they wouldn't accept it - apparently, they didn't think it was worth their time.
24	On Feb. 2, 1994, Jarmusch appeared for an interview before an audience on the first night of a retrospective of his films held by the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN.

Pictures

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Movies

Director

Title	Year	Status
Gimme Danger	2016	Documentary
Paterson	2016	directed by
Only Lovers Left Alive	2013
The Limits of Control	2009
Broken Flowers	2005
Coffee and Cigarettes	2003
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet	2002	segment "Int. Trailer Night"
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	1999
Year of the Horse	1997	Documentary
Dead Man	1995
Coffee and Cigarettes III	1993	Short
Night on Earth	1991
Red Hot and Blue	1990	TV Movie segment "It's All Right With Me"
Mystery Train	1989
Coffee and Cigarettes II	1989	Short
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant	1988	Video
Coffee and Cigarettes	1986	Short
Down by Law	1986
Stranger Than Paradise	1984
Stranger Than Paradise	1983	Short
Permanent Vacation	1980

Writer

Title	Year	Status
The Limits of Control	2009	written by
Broken Flowers	2005	written by
Coffee and Cigarettes	2003	written by
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet	2002	segment "Int. Trailer Night"
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	1999	written by
Dead Man	1995	written by
Night on Earth	1991	written by
Mystery Train	1989	written by
Coffee and Cigarettes II	1989	Short writer
Coffee and Cigarettes	1986	Short
Down by Law	1986	written by
Stranger Than Paradise	1984	written by
You Are Not I	1981
Permanent Vacation	1980	written by
Gimme Danger	2016	Documentary writer
Paterson	2016	written by
Only Lovers Left Alive	2013	written by

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Bored to Death	2009	TV Series	Jim Jarmusch
The Simpsons	2008	TV Series	Jim Jarmusch
V.I.P.	2001	TV Series	Jim Jarmusch
SpongeBob SquarePants	2000	TV Series	Jim Jarmusch
Cannes Man	1997		Jim Jarmusch
Sling Blade	1996		Frostee Cream Boy
Blue in the Face	1995		Bob
Iron Horsemen	1994		Silver Rider
In the Soup	1992		Monty
The Golden Boat	1990		Stranger
Leningrad Cowboys Go America	1989		Car Dealer / New York
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long	1987		Barkeeper #2
Candy Mountain	1987	uncredited
Straight to Hell	1986		Amos Dade
American Autobahn	1984		Movie Producer
Fräulein Berlin	1984		Jim Jarmusch

Producer

Title	Year	Status
Porto	2016	executive producer
Uncle Howard	2016/I	Documentary executive producer
Explicit Ills	2008	executive producer
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	1999	producer
When Pigs Fly	1993	executive producer
Night on Earth	1991	producer
You Are Not I	1981	producer
Permanent Vacation	1980	producer

Composer

Title	Year	Status
Paterson	2016	original music written and performed by
Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem: The Sun of the Natural World Is Pure Fire	2012	Short
The State of Things	1982
Permanent Vacation	1980

Editor

Title	Year	Status
Coffee and Cigarettes	2003	segment "Somewhere in California"
Coffee and Cigarettes III	1993	Short
Stranger Than Paradise	1984
Permanent Vacation	1980

Cinematographer

Title	Year	Status
Year of the Horse	1997	Documentary
Sleepwalk	1986
You Are Not I	1981

Sound Department

Title	Year	Status
Burroughs: The Movie	1983	Documentary sound recordist
Arena	1983	TV Series documentary sound recordist - 1 episode
Underground U.S.A.	1980	sound recordist

Camera Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Sleepwalk	1986	camera operator

Music Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Only Lovers Left Alive	2013	musician - as SQÜRL

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Gimme Danger	2016	Documentary writer: "Wind Across The Everglades", "MassExtinction#6", "Broken Contract"

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
Lightning Over Water	1980	Documentary observer

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
Parched	2014	Short special thanks
Prevertere	2013	special thanks
A Fuller Life	2013	Documentary special thanks
Cove Road	2012	very special thanks
For Ellen	2012	thank you
Noch' Naprolyot	2011	Short acknowledgment
Genau	2011	thanks
If I Needed Someone	2010	Short special thanks
Window on Your Present	2010	grateful acknowledgment
Prime of Your Life	2010	special thanks
Idiots and Angels	2008	special thanks
Explicit Ills	2008	special thanks
The Elevator Storeys	2006	Short special thanks
La tigre e la neve	2005	thanks
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room	2005	Documentary special thanks
Independent Lens	2005	TV Series documentary special thanks - 1 episode
Clerks	1994	special thanks: for leading the way
Love Four	1994	Video acknowledgment: super duper extra special thanks to
American Dream	1990	Documentary grateful thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Uncle Howard	2016/I	Documentary	Himself
Park Bench with Steve Buscemi	2015	TV Series	Himself
Hot Sugar's Cold World	2015	Documentary	Himself
Citizen Kat	2014	Documentary short	Himself
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch	2014	Documentary
Cinema 3	1987-2014	TV Series	Himself
Red Carpet	2014/I		Himself (uncredited)
NYFF51	2013	Short	Himself
Song from the Forest	2013	Documentary	Himself
Backstage Baby	2013	Documentary short	Himself
Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film	2013	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Filmmaker
Don't Expect Too Much	2011	Documentary	Himself
Behind Jim Jarmusch	2010	Documentary	Himself
Sodankylä ikuisesti	2010	TV Series documentary	Himself
Blank City	2010	Documentary
Zigag diario	2010	TV Series	Himself
Días de cine	2009	TV Series	Himself
Reel Injun	2009	Documentary	Himself
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York	2009	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB	2009	Documentary	Himself
40 x 15	2008	Documentary	Himself
Farmhouse: Jim Jarmusch at Work	2008	Documentary short	Himself
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten	2007	Documentary	Himself
In Bed with Carrie	2007	TV Series	Himself
Ceremonia de clausura - 54º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián	2006	TV Movie	Himself
Die Invasion der Ideen	2006	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The 15th Annual Gotham Awards	2005	TV Special	Himself - Recipient
El Magacine	2005	TV Series	Himself
Punk: Attitude	2005	Documentary	Himself
Excavating Taylor Mead	2005	Documentary	Himself
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession	2004	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Rockets Redglare!	2003	Documentary	Himself
Hollywood High	2003	TV Special documentary	Himself
Chaplin Today: A King in New York	2003	TV Short documentary	Himself
¿Quién es Alejandro Chomski?	2002	Documentary	Himself
Focus on Jim Jarmusch	2002	TV Movie	Himself
The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards	2001	TV Special	Himself
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me	2001	Documentary	Himself
Film-Fest DVD: Issue 3 - Toronto	2000	Video documentary	Himself
Pop Odyssee 2 - House of the Rising Punk	1998	TV Special documentary	Himself
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman	1998	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Space Ghost Coast to Coast	1998	TV Series	Himself
Divine Trash	1998	Documentary	Himself
We're Outta Here!	1997	Video documentary	Himself
Year of the Horse	1997	Documentary	Himself
R.I.P., Rest in Pieces	1997	Documentary	Himself
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera	1996	Documentary	Himself
American Cinema	1995	TV Series documentary	Himself
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made	1994	Documentary	Himself
Cinefile: Made in the USA	1993	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Fishing with John	1991	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
The Media Show	1988	TV Series documentary	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Sassi nello stagno	2016	Documentary
Cinema mil	2005	TV Series	Himself
Sendung ohne Namen	2003	TV Series documentary	Himself

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2014	Halfway Award	International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)	Best Original Screenplay	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2013	ICS Cannes Award	International Cinephile Society Awards	Best Director	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2013	Special Prize of the Jury	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival		Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2011	Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters	Order of Arts and Letters, France		On June 23, 2011.
2008	Golden Coach	Cannes Film Festival
2006	Czech Lion	Czech Lions	Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film)	Broken Flowers (2005)
2005	Audience Award	Cambridge Film Festival	Best Film	Broken Flowers (2005)
2005	Grand Prize of the Jury	Cannes Film Festival		Broken Flowers (2005)
2005	Tribute Award	Gotham Awards
2004	Audience Award	Jeonju Film Festival		Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
2004	Filmmaker on the Edge Award	Provincetown International Film Festival
1999	Douglas Sirk Award	Hamburg Film Festival
1999	Audience Award	Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival		Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
1998	Special Award	Camerimage	Best Independent Duo: Director - Cinematographer
1996	Screen International Award	European Film Awards		Dead Man (1995)
1996	Storyteller Award	Taos Talking Picture Festival
1993	Palme d'Or - Best Short Film	Cannes Film Festival		Coffee and Cigarettes III (1993)
1993	Audience Award	Warsaw International Film Festival		Coffee and Cigarettes III (1993)
1989	Best Artistic Contribution	Cannes Film Festival		Mystery Train (1989)
1988	Robert	Robert Festival	Best Foreign Film (Årets udenlandske spillefilm)	Down by Law (1986)
1988	Bodil	Bodil Awards	Best Non-European Film (Bedste ikke-europæiske film)	Down by Law (1986)
1987	Kinema Junpo Award	Kinema Junpo Awards	Best Foreign Language Film	Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
1987	Amanda	Amanda Awards, Norway	Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske spillefilm)	Down by Law (1986)
1985	Special Jury Recognition	Sundance Film Festival	Dramatic	Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
1984	Golden Camera	Cannes Film Festival		Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
1984	Golden Leopard	Locarno International Film Festival		Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
1984	Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention	Locarno International Film Festival		Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
1980	Josef von Sternberg Award	Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival		Permanent Vacation (1980)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2017	CEC Award	Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain	Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)	Paterson (2016)
2016	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Paterson (2016)
2016	Golden Eye	Cannes Film Festival		Gimme Danger (2016)
2016	Gotham Independent Film Award	Gotham Awards	Best Screenplay	Paterson (2016)
2016	Audience Award	Gotham Awards		Paterson (2016)
2016	Gotham Independent Film Award	Gotham Awards	Best Feature	Paterson (2016)
2016	Art Cinema Award	Hamburg Film Festival	Best Feature	Gimme Danger (2016)
2016	ICP Award	Indiewire Critics' Poll	Best Screenplay	Paterson (2016)
2015	Chlotrudis Award	Chlotrudis Awards	Best Use of Music in a Film	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2015	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Screenplay	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2015	ICS Award	International Cinephile Society Awards	Best Original Score	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2015	EDA Award	Alliance of Women Film Journalists	Best Director	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2014	Fright Meter Award	Fright Meter Awards	Best Director	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2014	ICP Award	Indiewire Critics' Poll	Best Original Score or Soundtrack	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2014	Halfway Award	International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)	Best Director	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2014	Audience Award	SXSW Film Festival	Festival Favorites	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2013	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2013	Grand Marnier Fellowship Award	New York Film Festival	Best Film	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2013	Maria	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival	Best Motion Picture	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2013	Foxtel Movies International Award	Adelaide Film Festival	Best Feature	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
2010	Yoga Award	Yoga Awards	Worst Foreign Director	The Limits of Control (2009)
2006	Silver Ribbon	Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists	Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)	Broken Flowers (2005)
2006	OFCS Award	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Original Screenplay	Broken Flowers (2005)
2006	Robert	Robert Festival	Best American Film (Årets amerikanske film)	Broken Flowers (2005)
2006	Bodil	Bodil Awards	Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film)	Broken Flowers (2005)
2005	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Broken Flowers (2005)
2005	Screen International Award	European Film Awards		Broken Flowers (2005)
2002	Un Certain Regard Award	Cannes Film Festival		Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
2001	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Feature	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
2000	César	César Awards, France	Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
1999	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
1997	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Screenplay	Dead Man (1995)
1995	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Dead Man (1995)
1990	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Director	Mystery Train (1989)
1990	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Screenplay	Mystery Train (1989)
1989	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Mystery Train (1989)
1987	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Director	Down by Law (1986)
1986	Palme d'Or	Cannes Film Festival		Down by Law (1986)
1985	Grand Jury Prize	Sundance Film Festival	Dramatic	Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

2^nd Place Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2016	BSFC Award	Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Screenplay	Paterson (2016)
2015	INOCA	International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)	Best Original Screenplay	Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)