Academy Awards - Best Original Screenplay, 1992

Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actor (Liam Neeson) | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Cinematography | Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion, Best Actor (Liam Neeson)

Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Berlin Bear, Best Director, 1998 | European Film Awards - European Cinematographer (Adrian Biddle), 1998 | Los Angeles Film Critics Awards - Best Picture Nominee - Best Music (Elliot Goldenthal), 1998

Academy Awards - Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominee (Julianne Moore), Best Cinematography Nominee (Roger Pratt), 2000 | BAFTA Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay, 2000

Academy Awards - Best Music Original Score Nominee (Elliot Goldenthal), 1995 | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Saturn Award, Best Horror Film, 1995, Best Director Nominee, 1995

Berlin International Film Festival - Best Feature Film Nominee, 2006 | Golden Globes - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Nominee (Cillian Murphy), 2006| IFTA Awards - Best Director, 2007

Academy Awards - Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominee (Bob Hoskins), 1987 | Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or nominee 1986 | Golden Globes - Best Motion Picture Drama Nominee, 1987, Best Screenplay Nominee 1987

Gemini Awards - Best Dramatic Series, 2011 | IFTA Awards - Best Director of a Television Drama Nominee, 2012 | Canadian Screen Awards - Best International Drama, 2013 and 2014

Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1981 | UCD Alumni Award in Arts & Humanities 2021

Guardian Fiction Prize, 1979

Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2005)

Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2011) | Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year (2011)