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The First Grader
2011 Durban International Film Festival Audience Award - Feature Film
Emden International Film Festival The DGB Trade Union Award - Audience Choice
The Bernhard Wicki Award - Best Film
Sedona International Film Festival Audience Award: Best Feature Film
Director's Choice Award: Best Feature Film
Palm Beach Film Festival Best Film
Pan African Film Festival Audience Award
2010 Doha Tribeca Film Festival Grand Prize: Audience Award
Toronto International Film Festival Runner Up, People's Choice Award

More Than Just A Game
2008 Mention D'Honneur : 26th Milano International Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs (FICTS) Festival

2006
South African Film & Television Awards (SAFTA) - Outstanding Contributor Award conferred on Anant Singh
Black Business Quarterly: Black Businessman of the Year Nomination - Anant Singh
Best Established Black Business Award - Videovision

Yesterday
2006 Emmy Nomination
Peabody Award
2005 Academy Award Nomination - Best Foreign Language Film
Independent Spirit Award Nomination - Best Foreign Language Film
Best Film - Pune International Film Festival
2004 Cape Town World Cinema Festival - Signis Jury Award For Ethical Contribution to Cinema
Human Rights Film Award - Venice Film Festival

Red Dust
2006 South African Film & Television Awards - Best Editing
BAFTA Television Award Nomination - Best Single Drama
2005 Audience Prize - Miami International Film Festival
Silver Peacock Award - International Film Festival Of India
Golden Kinnaree Award Nomination - Best Film: Bangkok International Film Festival

Dollars And White Pipes
2006 South African Film & Television Awards - Best Director
South African Film & Television Awards - Best Screenplay
Best Director Award (First Feature) - Pan African Film Festival

Place of Weeping
1987 Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles declares January 23 1987 Place of Weeping Day

Quest For Love
1988 Best Picture in the AA Life/M-Net Vita Awards

The Stick
1989 Opens The Montreal World Film Festival. Quoted by the Canadian media as "the best opening film in several years"
Nominated for Best Picture AA Life/M-Net Vita Awards
Special screening at the Moscow International Film Festival

Sarafina
2006 Wins Main Audience Prize at the Durban Film Festival
1993 Christopher Award for affirming the highest values of the human spirit
1992 Wins Best Picture in the M-Net Film Awards

Mangler
1994 Wins Best Picture M-Net Film Awards

Cry The Beloved Country
1995 Best Actor (Vusi Kunene) in the M-Net Film Awards
Christopher Award for affirming the highest values of the human spirit
First film ever to receive a special award from the Academy of Religious Broadcasting in Seattle

Legendary Award
1997 Anant Singh receives the Legendary Award in the Annual Crystal Awards of the Women in Film organisation for his contribution to South African Film

Paljas
1997 Paljas wins five awards in the M-Net All Africa Film Awards, having picked up awards in the category of Best Film (Anglophone Region), Best leading Actor (Marius Weyers) and three awards in the category of Best Supporting Performance (Liezel van der Merwe, Jan and Ellis Pearson

1998

The University of Port Elizabeth confers an Honorary Doctorate to Anant Singh for his wide-ranging contributions to the South African film industry, which has seen him making South African stories and talent known to the world, and raising awareness internationally of the injustices of apartheid through the medium of film.

The Wine Country Film Festival of the Sonoma Valley in Northern California awards its inaugural Distinguished Producer Award to Anant Singh for his commitment to cinema and social justice.