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Celine Song

{{Short description|Canadian director and writer (born 1988)}}

{{Infobox person

| name =

| image = Celine Song at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival 5.jpg

| caption = Celine Song at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

| birth_name = Song Ha-Young

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1988|09|19}}

| birth_place = South Korea

|citizenship=Canada

| occupation = {{flatlist|

  • Filmmaker
  • playwright}}

| education = {{ubl|Queen's University (BA)|Columbia University (MFA)}}

| spouse = {{marriage|Justin Kuritzkes|June 11, 2016}}

}}

Celine Song (born Song Ha-Young; {{Langx|ko|송하영}};{{cite web|url=https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/culture/culture_general/1120040.html|title='패스트 라이브즈' 셀린 송 감독, 제2의 봉준호 될까|date=12 December 2023 |publisher=Hankyoreh|accessdate=2024-02-13|language=ko}} born September 19, 1988) is a Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter based in New York City. Among her plays are Endlings and The Seagull on The Sims 4 (both 2020). Her directorial film debut Past Lives (2023) received critical acclaim, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

Early life and education

Song was born in South Korea.{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Curtis M. |date=May 5, 2021 |title=With 'Endlings,' Celine Song Dove Deep Into Asian Identity. She Won't Be Stopping There. |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/endlings-play-celine-song-asian-identity_n_6078c9fbe4b001abc4d9e421 |website=Huffington Post}} Her parents, both artists, moved the family to Markham, Ontario, Canada when she was 12.{{Cite news |last=Hertz |first=Barry |date=2023-06-08 |title=Canada, Korea, and America walk into a bar: The international roots of Celine Song's beguiling Past Lives |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-canada-korea-and-america-walk-into-a-bar-the-international-roots-of/ |access-date=2023-06-09}} Her father, Song Neung-han, is a filmmaker.{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Ji-hye |date=2023 |title=장률·셀린 송, 베를린영화제 빛낼 반가운 이름…한국계 활약 주목 |url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=416&aid=0000291717 |language=Korean |website=SBS Entertainment News}} Her mother is an illustrator and graphic designer.{{Cite magazine |last=Ford |first=Rebecca |date=2023-12-08 |title=Celine Song's Past, Present, and Future |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/celine-songs-past-present-and-future-awards-insider |access-date=2024-08-03 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}} She has hinted at her Western name being a reference to the character in the 1974 film Celine and Julie Go Boating, directed by Jacques Rivette.{{Cite web |last=Aguilar |first=Carlos |date=2023-06-02 |title=How a first-time director's own 'Past Lives' inspired one of the year's best films |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-06-02/past-lives-a24-celine-song-greta-lee |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

Song wrote her first play, an adaptation of Prometheus, at a classics conference she attended (the Ontario Student Classics Conference) with the Markham District Classics Club.Feinberg, Scott (2024-02-24). [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/celine-song-true-story-past-inyeon-1235834741/ "'Awards Chatter' Podcast: Celine Song on True Story Behind 'Past Lives,' Final Draft's Subtitles Problem and the 'In-Yun' in Her Life"] The Hollywood Reporter (Podcast). Retrieved 2024-03-17.

Song attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario for her undergraduate degree where she studied psychology with a minor in philosophy, before receiving her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University in New York in 2014.{{Cite web |last=Rao |first=Mallika |date=2023-05-25 |title=Celine Song Is the One That Got Away |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/celine-song-past-lives-profile.html |access-date=2023-07-31 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}{{Cite web |title='Endlings' by Alumna Celine Song '14 Playing at New York Theatre Workshop {{!}} School of the Arts |url=https://arts.columbia.edu/news/endlings-alumna-celine-song-%E2%80%9914-playing-new-york-theatre-workshop |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=arts.columbia.edu}}

Career

= 2019–2020: Off-Broadway works =

Song's play Endlings premiered in 2019 at the American Repertory Theater. The show's off-Broadway run opened in March 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop, but was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show tells the story of three older Korean women haenyeos and a Korean-Canadian writer living in New York.{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Jesse |date=2020-03-10 |title=Review: In 'Endlings,' the Pain of Swimming Between Worlds |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/theater/endlings-review-celine-song.html |access-date=2023-01-22 |issn=0362-4331}} In a mixed review, Alexandra Schwartz of The New Yorker described Endlings as "two works spliced roughly together: a traditional play that seeks to depict people’s lives, and a metafictional examination of the playwright’s own motivations, which flirts with honesty before traipsing down a solipsistic path of no return."{{Cite magazine |last=Schwartz |first=Alexandra |date=2020-03-11 |title="Endlings" Questions the Legitimacy of Storytelling |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/endlings-questions-the-legitimacy-of-storytelling |access-date=2023-01-22 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}} The play was chosen for the 2018 O'Neill Playwrights Conference and was a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.{{Cite web |date=2017-01-01 |title=Celine Song |url=https://playwrightsrealm.org/all-playwrights/celine-song |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=The Playwrights Realm |language=en-US}}

In November 2020, Song directed a live production of Chekhov's The Seagull using The Sims 4 on Twitch for New York Theatre Workshop, called The Seagull on The Sims 4.{{Cite web |last=Vanasco |first=Jennifer |date=2020-10-27 |title=Is It Theater? Chekhov's 'The Seagull' Adaptation For The Sims 4 To Stream On Twitch |website=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/928346844/is-it-theater-chekhovs-the-seagull-adaptation-for-the-sims-4-to-stream-on-twitch}} In a review for Vulture, Helen Shaw praised the experimental play: "I think Song’s game-play/play-game managed the trick by capturing the experience not of going to a show but of working on one. At her urging, viewers brought the quality of attention that comes with collaboration, and that felt like a churning motor under everything, trying to propel the show into being."{{Cite web |last=Shaw |first=Helen |date=2020-11-15 |title=The Best Online Staging of Chekhov's The Seagull Is in The Sims. Really. |url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/the-best-online-staging-of-chekhovs-seagull-is-in-the-sims.html |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}

Song's other plays include Tom and Eliza, which was named a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation's 2016 Relentless Award, Family, and The Feast.{{Cite web |title=Celine Song {{!}} New Play Exchange |url=https://newplayexchange.org/users/1151/celine-song#:~:text=Endlings%20by%20Celine%20Song&text=On%20the%20island%20of%20Man,to%20their%20millennium-old%20tradition. |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=newplayexchange.org |language=en}} According to her biography on The Playwright's Realm, "she has been awarded residences, fellowships, and commissions from MTC/Sloan, Sundance, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation."

= 2021–present: Breakthrough with ''Past Lives'' =

File:Celine Song at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival 2.jpg]]

Song wrote the screenplay for Past Lives, her directorial film debut, about two childhood friends who later reunite as adults (portrayed by Greta Lee and Teo Yoo).{{Cite web |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=2021-08-02 |title=Greta Lee & Teo Yoo Set To Star In A24's 'Past Lives' |url=https://deadline.com/2021/08/greta-lee-and-teo-yoo-a24-past-lives-1234807691/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}} The film is partly inspired by Song's life, specifically a dinner she had with her English-speaking husband and her Korean-speaking friend visiting New York. She said that "at one point, I realized that I wasn't just translating between their languages and cultures, but also translating between these two parts of myself as well." The film was produced by A24 and premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2023.{{Cite magazine |last=Lawson |first=Richard |date=2023-01-21 |title='Past Lives' Is a Note-Perfect Directorial Debut |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/past-lives-sundance-movie-review |access-date=2023-01-22 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}

Past Lives received critical acclaim and has been compared to the work of Richard Linklater, Woody Allen, and Noah Baumbach.{{cite web |title=Past Lives: this astonishing debut luminously captures a world-spanning, decades-long love story |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/past-lives-this-astonishing-debut-luminously-captures-world-spanning-decades-long-love-story |accessdate=May 25, 2023 |website=British Film Institute|date=March 2023 }}{{cite web |title='Past Lives': Celine Song's Sundance breakout |url=https://news.yahoo.com/past-lives-celine-song-sundance-151525477.html |accessdate=May 25, 2023 |website=Yahoo News|date=22 February 2023 }} The Guardian's Benjamin Lee wrote that "as writer, Song manages to keep her dialogue believably light-footed and spare while as director, she confidently and evocatively captures both cities with a breadth that belies her inexperience".{{Cite web |date=2023-01-22 |title=Past Lives review – delicately sad romantic drama is a real achievement |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/22/past-lives-review-delicately-sad-romantic-drama-is-a-real-achievement |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair hailed the film as "understated and yet vast in its consideration of the slow changes of life, of the past ever whispering to the present. The film is as auspicious a debut as one can hope to see at Sundance, the announcement of a filmmaker confident in her craft and generous with her heart." The film received many accolades including nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 96th Academy Awards.{{Cite web |last1=Nordyke |first1=Kimberly |last2=Lewis |first2=Hilary |date=2024-01-23 |title=Oscars: Full List of Nominations |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2024-oscars-nominees-list-1235804181/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} Song was the first Asian woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the first Asian female director to be nominated in both the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay categories of the Academy Awards.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/6565196/oscar-nominations-2024-snubs-surprises/|title=The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Oscar Nominations|first=Laura|last=Zornosa|date=January 23, 2024|magazine=TIME}}{{Cite web|url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-01-24/entertainment/movies/Celine-Songs-Past-Lives-picks-up-two-Oscar-nods-including-Best-Picture/1965795|title=Celine Song's 'Past Lives' picks up two Oscar nods, including Best Picture|date=January 24, 2024|website=koreajoongangdaily.joins.com}}

Song's first television screenwriting job was as a staff writer for the first season of Amazon's The Wheel of Time in 2021.{{Cite web |title=Celine Song and Julia Cho on Asian American Storytelling |url=https://culturela.org/event/celine-song-and-julia-cho-on-asian-american-storytelling/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Department of Cultural Affairs |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122023008/https://culturela.org/event/celine-song-and-julia-cho-on-asian-american-storytelling/ |url-status=dead }} In April 2024, the music video for pop artist Laufey's song "Goddess" was released, directed by Song.{{Cite web |last=Willman |first=Chris |date=2024-04-11 |title=Laufey as Screen 'Goddess': How Working With 'Past Lives' Director Celine Song and Co-Star Will Gao on Music Video Gave the Singer Her First Real Acting Gig |url=https://variety.com/2024/music/news/laufey-goddess-video-celine-song-will-gao-1235967722/ |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} Her next film project with A24, Materialists, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans,{{Cite web |last=Ang |first=Raymond |date=2023-12-04 |title=The Awesome Arrival of 'Past Lives' Director Celine Song |url=https://www.gq.com/story/men-of-the-year-2023-celine-song-profile |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=GQ |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/dakota-johnson-pedro-pascal-chris-evans-celine-song-materalists-a24-past-lives-1235900703/|title=Past Lives' Director Celine Song's Rom-Com 'Materialists' Set at A24 With Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans in Talks to Star|date=7 February 2024 |publisher=variety}}{{cite web|title=Celine Song's 'Past Lives' Follow-Up 'Materialists' Sells To Sony For International In Another Big EFM Deal; Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal & Chris Evans In Talks To Star|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Andreas|last=Wiseman|date=18 February 2024|access-date=18 February 2024|url=https://deadline.com/2024/02/dakota-johnson-pedro-pascal-chris-evans-materialists-celine-song-a24-sony-deal-1235829519/}} will be released in theatres on June 13, 2025.{{Cite web |title=Dakota Johnson Must Choose Between Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal in Dramatic 'Materialists' Trailer |url=https://people.com/materialists-trailer-dakota-johnson-chris-evans-pedro-pascal-11690971 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=People.com |language=en}}

Personal life

Song resides in New York City with her husband, writer Justin Kuritzkes, whom she met at an artist residency hosted by the Edward F. Albee Foundation.{{Cite web |last=Dalton |first=Ben |date=February 19, 2023 |title=Celine Song talks debut feature 'Past Lives': "It's the script that convinced people I can do this"|url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/celine-song-talks-debut-feature-past-lives-its-the-script-that-convinced-people-i-can-do-this/5179378.article |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=Screen |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Rao|first=Mallika|date=May 25, 2023 |title=Celine Song on Past Lives, Her Debut Movie |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/celine-song-past-lives-profile.html|access-date=June 20, 2023|website=Vulture |language=en}} Song says that he is always the first person to read her scripts.{{Cite magazine |date=2023-05-30 |title=Celine Song's New Love |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/awards-insider-celine-song-past-lives |access-date=2024-03-18 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}

Filmography

Television

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Note

! Ref.

2021

| The Wheel of Time

| Staff writer; Wrote episode "Blood Calls Blood"

|

Film

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Director

! Writer

! Producer

! Ref.

2023

| Past Lives

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{partial|Executive}}

|

2025

| Materialists

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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Playwright

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Notes

!Ref.

rowspan=2|2020EndlingsNYTW; February–March, 2020{{cite web|url= https://www.nytw.org/show/endlings/|title= NYTW / ENDLINGS|website= NYTW|accessdate= May 25, 2023}}
The Seagull on The Sims 4.NYTW; October 27–28, 2020{{cite web|url= https://www.nytw.org/show/the-seagull-on-the-sims-4/|title= NYTW / THE SEAGULL ON THE SIMS 4|website= NYTW|accessdate= May 25, 2023}}

Accolades

class="wikitable sortable"
Association

! Year

! Category

! Work

! Result

! class="unsortable" | {{Refh}}

rowspan="4" | Alliance of Women Film Journalists

| rowspan="4" | 2023

| Best Director

| rowspan="60" | Past Lives

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="4" | {{Cite web |last=Merin |first=Jennifer |date=December 22, 2023 |title=2023 EDA Awards Nominees |url=https://awfj.org/2023-eda-awards-nominees/ |access-date=December 23, 2023 |website=Alliance of Women Film Journalists |language=en-US}}

Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

Best Woman Director

| {{nom}}

Best Woman Screenwriter

| {{won}}

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

| 2023

| Best Director

| {{won}}

|

Berlin International Film Festival

| 2023

| Golden Bear

| {{nom}}

|

Boston Society of Film Critics

| 2023

| Best New Filmmaker

| {{won}}

|

British Independent Film Awards

| 2023

| Best International Independent Film

| {{nom}}

|

rowspan="2" | Chicago Film Critics Association

| rowspan="2" | 2023

| Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="2" |

Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker

| {{won}}

Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association

| 2023

| Best Director

| {{draw|5th place}}

| {{cite web |url=https://dfwcritics.com/dfw-film-critics-name-the-holdovers-best-film-of-2023/ |title=DFW Film Critics Name 'The Holdovers' Best Picture of 2023 |first=Todd |last=Jorgenson |publisher=Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association |date=December 18, 2023 |access-date=December 18, 2023}}

Dublin Film Critics' Circle

| 2023

| Best Director

| {{won}}

|

rowspan="4" | Florida Film Critics Circle

| rowspan="4" | 2023

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="4" |

Best First Film

| {{won}}

Best Original Screenplay

| {{won}}

Pauline Kael Breakout Award

| {{draw|Runner-up}}

rowspan="2" | Gotham Awards

| rowspan="2" | 2023

| Best Feature

| {{won}}

| rowspan="2" | {{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/10/2023-gotham-awards-nominations-list-1235581456/|title=Gotham Awards Nominations: 'All of Us Strangers' Tops Movie List; Ryan Gosling Gets 'Barbie' Nom With Budget Caps Removed|last=Goldsmith |first=Jill|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=October 24, 2023|access-date=October 25, 2023}}

Breakthrough Director

| {{nom}}

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

| 2023

| New Generation Award

| {{won}}

|

National Board of Review

| 2023

| Best Directorial Debut

| {{won}}

|

New York Film Critics Online

| 2023

| Best Debut Director

| {{won}}

|

rowspan="2" | San Diego Film Critics Society

| rowspan="2" | 2023

| Best First Feature

| {{draw|Runner-up}}

| rowspan="2" |

Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2" | St. Louis Film Critics Association

| rowspan="2" | 2023

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="2" | {{Cite web |date=December 10, 2023 |title=The 2023 St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Nominations |url=https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2023-st-louis-film-critics-association-stlfca-nominations/ |access-date=December 10, 2023|website=Next Best Picture |language=en-US}}

Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

Sydney Film Festival

| 2023

| Best Film

| {{nom}}

|

Toronto Film Critics Association

| 2023

| Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

|

rowspan="2" | Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

| rowspan="2" | 2023

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="2" |

Best Original Screenplay

| {{won}}

Academy Awards

| 2024

| Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

|

rowspan="3" | Astra Film Awards

| rowspan="3" | 2024

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="3" | {{cite web |url=https://awardswatch.com/barbie-and-oppenheimer-lead-hollywood-creative-alliance-hca-astra-awards-nominations/ |title='Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' Lead Hollywood Creative Alliance (HCA) Astra Awards Nominations |first=Erik |last=Anderson |publisher=AwardsWatch |date=December 7, 2023 |access-date=December 8, 2023}}

Best First Feature

| {{won}}

Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

rowspan="4" | Austin Film Critics Association

| rowspan="4" | 2024

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="4" | {{Cite web |last=Whittaker |first=Richard |date=2024-01-03 |title=Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2023 Award Nominees |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2024-01-03/austin-film-critics-association-announces-2023-award-nominees/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=The Austin Chronicle |language=en-US}}
{{Cite web |last=Partridge |first=Jon |date=2024-01-10 |title=2023 Austin Film Critics Association Award Winners |url=https://medium.com/austin-film-critics-association/2023-austin-film-critics-association-award-winners-1bfbad27f9a7 |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=Austin Film Critics Association |language=en}}

Best First Film

| {{won}}

Best Original Screenplay

| {{won}}

The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2" | British Academy Film Awards

| rowspan="2" | 2024

| Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="2" |

Best Film Not in the English Language

| {{nom}}

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

| 2024

| Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

| {{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/critics-choice-nominations-2024-full-list-barbie-1235835620/|title= Critics Choice 2024 Nominations: 'Barbie' Breaks All-Time Record With 18 Noms|website=Variety|first=Clayton|last=Davis|date=December 13, 2023|accessdate=December 13, 2023}}

Directors Guild of America Awards

|2024

| Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film

| {{won}}

|

rowspan="2" | Independent Spirit Awards

| rowspan="2" | 2024

| Best Director

| {{won}}

| rowspan="2" | {{cite magazine |url=https://people.com/2024-film-independent-spirit-awards-nominees-may-december-anne-hathaway-teyana-taylor-among-honorees-8409994 |title='May December', Anne Hathaway, Teyana Taylor, and More Score 2024 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations |last=McArdle |first=Tommy |magazine=People |date=December 5, 2023 |access-date=December 5, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207071134/https://people.com/2024-film-independent-spirit-awards-nominees-may-december-anne-hathaway-teyana-taylor-among-honorees-8409994 |url-status=live}}

Best Screenplay

| {{nom}}

rowspan="3" | Georgia Film Critics Association

| rowspan="3" | 2024

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="3" | {{cite news|url=https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2023-georgia-film-critics-association-gafca-winners/|title=The 2023 Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) Winners|work=Next Best Picture|first=Matt|last=Neglia|date=January 5, 2024|access-date=January 5, 2024}}

Best Original Screenplay

| {{draw|Runner-up}}

Breakthrough Award

| {{nom}}

rowspan="3" | Golden Globe Awards

| rowspan="3" | 2024

| Best Motion Picture - Drama

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="3" | {{Cite web|url=https://goldenglobes.com/nominations/2024|website=goldenglobes.com|title=The 2024 Nominations|language=en|access-date=11 December 2023}}

Best Director

| {{nom}}

Best Screenplay

| {{nom}}

International Cinephile Society

| 2024

| Best Debut Film

| {{nom}}

|

London Film Critics' Circle

| 2024

| Screenwriter of the Year

| {{nom}}

| {{cite web |url=https://criticscircle.org.uk/all-of-us-strangers-and-oppenheimer-lead-cc-film-awards-nominations/ |title='All of Us Strangers' and 'Oppenheimer' lead CC Film Awards Nominations |first=Rich |last=Cline |publisher=London Film Critics' Circle |date=20 December 2023 |access-date=20 December 2023}}

National Society of Film Critics

| 2024

| Best Picture

| {{Won}}

|

rowspan="3" | Online Film Critics Society

| rowspan="3" | 2024

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="3" |

Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

Best Feature Debut

| {{win}}

rowspan="2" | San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle

| rowspan="2" | 2024

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="2" | {{cite news|url=https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2023-san-francisco-bay-area-film-critics-circle-sfbafcc-winners/|title=The 2023 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners|work=Next Best Picture|first=Matt|last=Neglia|date=January 9, 2024|access-date=January 10, 2024}}

Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

Satellite Awards

| 2024

| Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

| {{cite news|url=https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2023-satellite-award-ipa-nominations/|title=The 2023 Satellite Award (IPA) Nominations|work=Next Best Picture|first=Matt|last=Neglia|date=18 December 2023|access-date=18 December 2023}}

rowspan="2" | Seattle Film Critics Society

| rowspan="2" | 2024

| Best Director

| {{nom}}

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Best Screenplay

| {{nom}}

Sundance Film Festival

| 2024

| Vanguard Award

| {{n/a}}

| {{won}}

| {{Cite web |last=Welk |first=Brian |date=2023-12-14 |title=Sundance to Honor Kristen Stewart, Christopher Nolan, and Celine Song at Opening Night Gala |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/sundance-2024-opening-night-gala-honorees-christopher-nolan-celine-song-maite-alberdi-1234921725/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}

Writers Guild of America Awards

| 2024

|Best Original Screenplay

| rowspan="3" | Past Lives

|{{nom}}

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rowspan="2" | Blue Dragon Film Awards

| rowspan="2" | 2024

| Best New Director

| {{nom}}

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Best Screenplay

| {{nom}}

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