His work in music video has been recognised with a nomination for best choreography from the 2012 UK Music Video Awards for his collaboration with Jake Nava in Delilah’s Inside My Love.

In 2000, the South Bank Show dedicated a full feature to his work which was nominated at the Royal Society Television Awards for Best Arts Documentary. De Frutos also became the first recipient of The Arts Council of England Fellowship, through which he studied extensively the works of Tennessee Williams. In 2011, the BBC aired his project, The Most Incredible Thing, and its US premiere took place in Charlotte, North Carolina in March 2018. In that same year, De Frutos was invited by the McColl Center to be their Artist in Residence. He was the first director/​choreographer in their history to be given such an honor. In 2017, De Frutos directed the highly acclaimed production of Phillip Glass’ opera Les Enfants Terribles, a collaboration between the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet.

Most recently, two of his short films The Burning Building and Whoever You Are have been internationally recognised in several film festivals, gathering an impressive list of accolades including Best Indie, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He also serves as member of the jury for Dance Camera West, Dance in Focus Film Festival: Reflections and Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico.

De Frutos is currently in development on a stage adaptation of Daniel Karslake’s seminal documentaries For the Bible Tells Me So and For They Know Not What They Do.