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John Carpenter
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Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA (7)
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards (3)
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival (8)
Bram Stoker Awards (2)
CableACE Awards (1)
Cannes Film Festival (1)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival (5)
Chicago International Film Festival (2)
CINE Competition (1)
Edgar Allan Poe Awards (1)
Fantasporto (5)
Hugo Awards (1)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (1)
Online Film Critics Society Awards (1)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (1)
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (4)
Louisville Fright Night Film Fest (1)
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US (1)
Fright Meter Awards (1)
Jupiter Award (2)
CinEuphoria Awards (1)
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) (1)
Online Film & Television Association (2)
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards (1)
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards (1)
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (1)
New Mexico Film Critics (1)
Cahiers du Cinéma (1)
The Guardian's Best Films (1)
30 wins & 29 nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1999 Winner
Saturn Award
Best Music
Vampires
1996 Winner
George Pal Memorial Award
1990 Nominee
Saturn Award
Best Music
They Live
Shared with:
Alan Howarth
1988 Nominee
Saturn Award
Best Music
Prince of Darkness
1987 Nominee
Saturn Award
Best Music
Big Trouble in Little China
2 more
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ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
2023 Winner
ASCAP Award
Top Box Office Films
Halloween Ends
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
2022 Winner
ASCAP Award
Top Box Office Films
Halloween Kills
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
2019 Winner
ASCAP Award
Top Box Office Films
Halloween
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
1989 Nominee
Grand Prize
They Live
1988 Winner
Critics Award
Prince of Darkness
1988 Nominee
Grand Prize
Prince of Darkness
1984 Nominee
Grand Prize
Christine
1980 Winner
Critics Award
The Fog
3 more
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Bram Stoker Awards
2008 Winner
Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 Nominee
Bram Stoker Award
Other Media
Vampires
For the soundtrack.
CableACE Awards
1991 Winner
ACE
Writing a Movie or Miniseries
El Diablo
Shared with:
Tommy Lee Wallace
·
Bill Phillips
Cannes Film Festival
2019 Winner
Golden Coach
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
2008 Winner
Time-Machine Honorary Award
2006 Nominee
Best Film
Masters of Horror
For episode "John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns".
2006 Winner
Carnet Jove - Special Mention
Masters of Horror
For episode "John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns".
2001 Nominee
Best Film
Ghosts of Mars
1995 Nominee
Best Film
Village of the Damned
Chicago International Film Festival
1978 Nominee
Gold Hugo
Best Feature
Halloween
1978 Nominee
Gold Hugo
Best Feature
Assault on Precinct 13
CINE Competition
1971 Winner
CINE Golden Eagle
Student Film
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
Shared with:
James R. Rokos
·
Nick Castle
·
John Longenecker
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
1979 Nominee
Edgar
Best Television Feature or Miniseries
Someone's Watching Me!
Fantasporto
1995 Winner
Critics' Award
In the Mouth of Madness
1995 Nominee
International Fantasy Film Award
Best Film
In the Mouth of Madness
1994 Nominee
International Fantasy Film Award
Best Film
Body Bags
1993 Nominee
International Fantasy Film Award
Best Film
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1989 Nominee
International Fantasy Film Award
Best Film
They Live
Hugo Awards
1976 Nominee
Hugo
Best Dramatic Presentation
Dark Star
Shared with:
Dan O'Bannon
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1979 Winner
New Generation Award
Halloween
Online Film Critics Society Awards
2022 Winner
Lifetime Achievement Award
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
1976 Nominee
Nebula Award
Best Dramatic Writing
Dark Star
Shared with:
Dan O'Bannon
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2023 Winner
Chainsaw Award
Best Score
Halloween Ends
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
·
Daniel A. Davies
2022 Winner
Chainsaw Award
Best Score
Halloween Kills
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
·
Daniel A. Davies
1999 Winner
Chainsaw Award
Best Score
Vampires
1996 Nominee
Chainsaw Award
Best Soundtrack
Village of the Damned
Shared with:
Dave Davies
Louisville Fright Night Film Fest
2011 Winner
Festival Prize
Lifetime Achievement Award
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
2021 Nominee
IFJA Award
Best Musical Score
Halloween Kills
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
·
Daniel A. Davies
Fright Meter Awards
2018 Winner
Fright Meter Award
Best Score
Halloween
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
·
Daniel A. Davies
Jupiter Award
1983 Nominee
Jupiter Award
Best International Film
The Thing
1982 Nominee
Jupiter Award
Best International Film
Escape from New York
CinEuphoria Awards
2017 Winner
CinEuphoria
Career - Honorary Award
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
2022 Nominee
HMMA Award
Best Original Score - Horror Film
Halloween Ends
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
·
Daniel A. Davies
Online Film & Television Association
2021 Winner
OFTA Film Hall of Fame
Score
Halloween
2020 Winner
OFTA Film Hall of Fame
Creative
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
2001 Nominee
Stinker Award
Most Intrusive Musical Score
Ghosts of Mars
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
2018 Winner
Rondo Statuette
Best CD
Halloween
Shared with:
Cody Carpenter
·
Daniel A. Davies
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
2016 Winner
Festival Prize
Best Score - Short Film
The Puppet Man
New Mexico Film Critics
2017 Winner
Glenn Strange Honorary Award
Cahiers du Cinéma
1995 Nominee
Top 10 Film Award
Best Film
In the Mouth of Madness
Tenth Place
The Guardian's Best Films
2010 Winner
The Greatest Films of All Time
Horror
Halloween
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