List of accolades received by Loving (2016 film)

List of accolades received by Loving

Nichols, Negga and Edgerton at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Accolades Award Won Nominated AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards 1 2 Academy Awards 0 1 African-American Film Critics Association 2 2 Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2 4 Austin Film Critics Association 0 3 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards 0 2 Black Reel Awards 1 2 Boston Society of Film Critics 1 2 British Academy Film Awards 0 1 Cannes Film Festival 0 1 Casting Society of America 0 1 Chicago Film Critics Association 0 1 Critics' Choice Movie Awards 0 3 Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 3 3 Detroit Film Critics Society 0 2 Florida Film Critics Circle 1 2 Golden Globe Awards 0 2 Golden Tomato Awards 0 2 Gotham Awards 2 2 Hamptons International Film Festival 1 1 Heartland Film Festival 1 1 Independent Spirit Awards 0 2 IndieWire Critics Poll 5 5 London Film Critics' Circle 0 1 Mill Valley Film Festival 1 1 NAACP Image Awards 0 5 New York Film Critics Online 2 2 Online Film Critics Society 1 1 Palm Springs International Film Festival 1 1 Producers Guild of America Awards 1 1 San Diego Film Critics Society 1 3 San Francisco Film Critics Circle 0 3 Santa Barbara International Film Festival 1 1 Satellite Awards 1 3 St. Louis Film Critics Association 3 7 Texas Film Hall of Fame 1 1 Village Voice Film Poll 5 5 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 0 3 Women Film Critics Circle 3 8 Writers Guild of America Awards 0 1
Total number of awards and nominations[a]
Totals	46	87
References

Loving is a 2016 historical drama film written and directed by Jeff Nichols. The film tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage.^[1][2][3] The film stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga co-starring as the Lovings.^[4] Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, and Michael Shannon are all featured in supporting roles.^[5] The film takes inspiration from documentary The Loving Story (2011) by Nancy Buirski^[6][7][8]

Prior to Loving's successful screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival^[9][10][11] and Hamptons International Film Festival,^[12][13] the film had premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, on May 16, 2016, in Cannes, France, where it had been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or.^[14][15][16] Focus Features initially gave the film a limited release in the United States on November 4, 2016, in four locations in New York City and Los Angeles,^[17] including ArcLight Hollywood and The Landmark.^[18] The film was later given a wide release at 46 theaters in the United States on November 11.^[19][20][21] Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports a rating of 89%, based on 178 reviews with an average score of 7.7/10.^[22] Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 79 (out of 100) based on 45 reviews from mainstream critics.^[23]

Loving garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its acting (for Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), Jeff Nichols' direction, the elegance of Nichols' screenplay, and its faithfulness to the Loving's account.^[24][25][26]