Honors
- 1985 Black American Cinema Society Award for Illusions
- 1989, Black Filmmaker Foundation Jury Prize for Illusions as best film of the decade
- 1991, Sundance Film Festival - Cinematography Award for Daughters of the Dust; also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
- 2004, Daughters of the Dust, selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
- 2005, Daughters of the Dust, Excellence in Cinematography Award of the 15th Cascade Festival of African Films, Portland, Oregon.
- Dash was elected as an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
- The Rosa Parks Story (2002) was named the Best Television Movie in the NAACP Image Awards.
- 2003, Black Reel Awards went to Bassett as Best Actress, Cicely Tyson as Best Supporting Actress, Paris Qualles for his teleplay, and the film as Best Network/Cable Film.
- The Rosa Parks Story won the Family Television Award and the New York Christopher Award.
- For the 55th Annual Directors Guild Awards, Julie Dash was nominated for her Outstanding Directorial Achievement on The Rosa Parks Story. She was the first African-American woman nominated in the category of "Primetime Movies Made for Television".
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