This includes an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture as a producer of Moulin Rouge!

He has also received nine Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nominations winning four times for Strictly Ballroom (1992), and The Great Gatsby (2013).

He also received seven British Academy Film Award nominations winning Best Director and Best Screenplay for Romeo + Juliet (1996).

He has also earned three Grammy Award nominations, two for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for Moulin Rouge!

Luhrmann was not nominated for Best Director, prompting host Whoopi Goldberg to remark, "I guess [it] just directed itself.