awards for The Straight Story on AllMovie

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Nominated

Best Actor Richard Farnsworth

1999

European Film Academy

Won

Five Continents Award

1999

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Nominated	Best Original Score Angelo Badalamenti	1999
Nominated	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Richard Farnsworth	1999

Independent Spirit Awards

Won	Best Actor Richard Farnsworth	1999
Nominated	Best Director David Lynch	1999
Nominated	Best First Screenplay John F. Roach, Mary Sweeney	1999
Nominated	Best Picture	1999

National Board of Review

Nominated

Best Picture

1999

New York Film Critics Circle

Won	Best Actor Richard Farnsworth	1999
Won	Best Cinematography Freddie Francis	1999

Telluride Film Festival

Presented

Film Presented

1999