Editing Whale Rider (section)

===Awards===
The film won a number of international film-festival awards, including:
* the [[Toronto International Film Festival]]'s AGF Peoples Choice award in September 2002
* the World Cinema Audience award at the January 2003 [[Sundance Film Festival]] in the United States<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Zealand Film "Whale Rider" is Surprise Winner of the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Audience Award |url=https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/549232 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Reuters Archive Licensing |language=en |archive-date=9 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009022113/https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/549232 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* the Canal Plus Award at the January 2003 [[Rotterdam Film Festival]].

At the age of 13, [[Keisha Castle-Hughes]] was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance, becoming the youngest actress ever nominated for the award at that time (breaking [[Isabelle Adjani]]'s record at the age of 20). She held the record until 2012 when [[Quvenzhané Wallis]] (at the age of 9) was nominated for that category for the film ''[[Beasts of the Southern Wild]]''.

[[76th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]:
* Best Actress (Keisha Castle-Hughes, lost to [[Charlize Theron]] for ''[[Monster (2003 film)|Monster]]'') 
[[Chicago Film Critics Association]]:
* Best Actress (Keisha Castle-Hughes, lost to [[Charlize Theron]] for ''[[Monster (2003 film)|Monster]]'') 
* Most Promising Filmmaker (Niki Caro, lost to [[Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini]] for ''[[American Splendor (film)|American Splendor]]'')
* Most Promising Performer (Keisha Castle-Hughes, '''winner''')
[[Image Awards]]:
* Best Actress (Keisha Castle-Hughes, lost to [[Queen Latifah]] for ''[[Bringing Down the House (film)|Bringing Down the House]]'')
* Best Film (lost to ''[[The Fighting Temptations]]'')
[[Independent Spirit Awards]]:
* Best Foreign Film ('''winner''')<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 29, 2004 |title='Lost' finds fans at indie awards |url=https://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/29/spirit.awards.reut/index.html |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=CNN.com |archive-date=9 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009022111/https://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/29/spirit.awards.reut/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[2003 New Zealand Film Awards|New Zealand Film Awards]]:
* Best Film
* Best Director (Niki Caro)
* Best Actress (Keisha Castle-Hughes)
* Best Supporting Actor (Cliff Curtis)
* Best Supporting Actress (Vicky Haughton)
* Best Juvenile Performer (Mana Taumanu)
* Best Screenplay (Niki Caro)
* Best Original Score (Lisa Gerrard)
* Best Costume Design (Kirsty Cameron)
[[Satellite Awards]] 
* Best Art Direction (lost to ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'')
* Best Director (Niki Caro, lost to [[Jim Sheridan]] for ''[[In America (film)|In America]]'')
* Best Film – Drama (lost to ''[[In America (film)|In America]]'')
* Best Screenplay – Adapted (Niki Caro, lost to [[Brian Helgeland]] for ''[[Mystic River (film)|Mystic River]]'')
[[Screen Actors Guild]]:
* Best Supporting Actress (Keisha Castle-Hughes, lost to [[Renée Zellweger]] for ''[[Cold Mountain (film)|Cold Mountain]]'')
[[Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association]]:
* Best Actress (Keisha Castle-Hughes, lost to [[Naomi Watts]] for ''[[21 Grams]]'')