| Year | Award | Result | Category/Recipient(s) |
| 2008 | FCCA Award | Nominated | Best Foreign Language Film for: Zwartboek (2006) |
| 2008 | Rembrandt Award | Won | Beste Dutch Film for: Zwartboek (2006) Shared with: San Fu Maltha |
| 2007 | Rembrandt Award | Won | Beste DVD release for: Zwartboek (2006) |
| 2007 | BAFTA Awards BAFTA Film Award |
Nominated | Best Film not in the English Language for: Zwartboek (2006) Shared with: Teun Hilte San Fu Maltha Jens Meurer |
| 2006 | Nederlands
Film Festival Golden Calf |
Won | Best Director (Beste Regie) for: Zwartboek (2006) |
| 2006 | Venice Film Festival Young Cinema Award |
Won | Best International Film for: Zwartboek (2006) |
| 2006 | Venice Film Festival Golden Lion |
Nominated | for: Zwartboek (2006) |
| 2004 | Bert Haanstra Oeuvre award | Won | (prestigious Dutch film-award) |
| 2002 | Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award |
Won | Lifetime Achievement Award watch the video or see a photo |
| 2001 | Video
Premiere Awards Video Premiere Award |
Nominated | Best Audio Commentary for: Total Recall (1990) Nomination shared with: Arnold Schwarzenegger - (Artisan). |
| 2001 | Dutch
American Heritage Association The Dutch American Heritage Award |
Won | |
| 2000 | Locarno
International Film Festival Audience Award Leopard of Honor |
Won | for: Hollow Man (2000) |
| 1999 | Nederlands
Film Festival Golden Calf |
Won | Best Dutch Film of the Century (Beste Nederlandse Film
van de Eeuw) for: Turks fruit (1973) Award shared with: Rob Houwer (producer) - A trophy for each the director and the producer of the film. |
| 1996 | Razzie
Awards Razzie Award |
Won | Worst Director for: Showgirls (1995) - Director Paul Verhoeven came to the Razzie Awards ceremony and accepted his award in person, the first winner of this prize ever to do so. |
| 1992 | Nederlands
Film Festival Golden Calf |
Won | Dutch Culture Award (Cultuurprijs) |
| 1992 | Acadamy Award (Oscar) | Nominated | Oscar nomination for film editing to Frank J. Urioste for: Basic Instinct (1992) |
| 1990 | Acadamy Award (Oscar) | Won | Oscar for Special Achievements awarded to Rob Bottin,
Eric Brevig and Alex Funke for: Total Recall (1990) |
| 1988 | Academy
of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Saturn Award |
Won | Best Director for: RoboCop (1987) |
| 1987 | Acadamy Award (Oscar) | Nominated | for: RoboCop
(1987) Film Editing to Frank J. Urioste |
| 1987 | Catalonian
International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain Best Director |
Won | for: RoboCop (1987) |
| 1986 | Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Award |
Nominated | Best Film for: Flesh & Blood (1985) |
| 1985 | Nederlands
Film Festival (Dutch Film Days Festival) Golden Calf |
Won | Best Director of a Feature Film and Best Film. for: Flesh & Blood (1985) |
| 1984 | Avoriaz
Fantastic Film Festival Special Jury Award |
Won | for: Vierde man, De (1983) |
| 1984 | Avoriaz
Fantastic Film Festival Grand Prize |
Nominated | for: Vierde man, De (1983) |
| 1984 | Los
Angeles Film Critics Association Best Foreign Film |
Won | for: Vierde man, De (1983) |
| 1984 | Knokke Film Festival Special Jury Prize |
Won | for: Vierde man, De (1983) |
| 1984 | Critics' Prize, Madrid | Won | for: Vierde man, De (1983) |
| 1984 | Sao Paulo Festival | Won | for: Vierde man, De (1983) |
| 1984 | Houston Film Festival | Won | for: Vierde man, De (1983) |
| 1983 | Toronto
International Film Festival International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI) |
Won | for: Vierde man, De (1983) |
| 1980 | Golden Globe | Nominated | for: Soldaat van Oranje (1977) |
| 1979 | New York
Film Critics Circle Best Foreign Film |
Nominated | for: Soldaat van Oranje (1977) |
| 1973 | Acadamy
Award (Oscar) Best Foreign Language Film |
Nominated | for: Turks fruit (1973) |
| 1965 | Silver Sun for military films in France | Won | for: Het Korps Mariniers (1983) |
| 1963 | Cork Film Festival, Ireland (commended at the Oberhousen, Locarno, Melbourne and Paris film festivals) |
Won | for: Feest (1963) |
| 1960 | Cinestud Student Film Festival | Won | for: Een Hagedis teveel (1960) |
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