Sunshine was nominated for an Australian Cinematographers Society Award in 2008 in the "Best Music Video" category.

Best of CES 2006 - Portable Video category (Laptop, January 2006)

The single earned him a nomination in the VIMA 2013 Music Awards for the Best Music Video category.

In the last six years, every winner in MTV's Best Video category was initially rejected by the channel's standards and practices committee.

The video was nominated at the Brit Award in the British Video category in 1993.

It was shown at the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in the "Music Video Asia 2008" category.

The video was nominated in the Best Animation in a Video category at the UK Music Video Awards 2009.

The video was subsequently nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the "Best Rock Video" category.

The same video was also a nominee for the Best French Video category at the MuchMusic Video Awards in 2007.

On May 6, 2008, the show was announced as the winner of a Webby Award for "Best Variety Show" in the Online Film and Video category.