Editing Blue Velvet (film) (section)

===Accolades===
{{see also|List of accolades received by Blue Velvet}}

David Lynch was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Director]] and the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay]] for his work on the film.<ref name="oscars">{{Cite web |title=THE 59TH ACADEMY AWARDS {{!}} 1987 |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1987 |access-date=March 31, 2008 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref><ref name="globes">{{Cite web |title=Golden Globes Awards - Blue Velvet |url=https://goldenglobes.com/film/blue-velvet/ |access-date=July 2, 2024 |publisher=[[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]]}}</ref> Dennis Hopper was nominated for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]] for his performance, while Isabella Rossellini won the [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead]] for her performance.<ref name="globes"/><ref name="ISA 87">{{cite web |url=http://www.spiritawards.com/_landing/files/spirit_awards_26_years_of_nominees_and_winners.pdf |title=Spirit Awards 26 years of nominees and winners |page=40 |publisher=[[Independent Spirit Awards]] |accessdate=October 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929042819/http://www.spiritawards.com/_landing/files/spirit_awards_26_years_of_nominees_and_winners.pdf |archive-date=September 29, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lynch won Best Director and Hopper won Best Supporting Actor at the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]] awards in 1987. That same year, the film received four [[National Society of Film Critics]] awards: Best Film, Best Director (Lynch), Best Cinematography (Frederick Elmes), and Best Supporting Actor (Hopper).<ref name="nationalsocietyoffilmcritics">{{cite news |title=Critics vote ''Blue Velvet'' best 1986 film |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 5, 1987 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/05/movies/critics-vote-blue-velvet-best-86-film.html | access-date=May 9, 2008}}</ref>