List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees who are from Asia, i.e., who are nationals of a country situated in Asia (this includes people with dual citizenship). In the category of Best Foreign Language Film, this list also includes films submitted by Asian countries and films in Asian languages, in addition to films with Asian directors. This list is current as of the 93rd Academy Awards.

Best Picture[]

Best Picture
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1974	William Peter Blatty	/	The Exorcist	Nominated	Lebanese descent. First American of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Picture.
1980	Ronald L. Schwary		Ordinary People	Won	Lebanese descent.[1][2] First American of Asian descent to win for Best Picture.
1984			A Soldier's Story	Nominated	(Shared with Norman Jewison and Patrick Palmer.)
1986	Ismail Merchant		A Room with a View	Nominated	Indian descent.[3] First Asian to be nominated for Best Picture.
1989	Tony Thomas	/	Dead Poets Society	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
1992	Ismail Merchant		Howards End	Nominated
1993			The Remains of the Day	Nominated	(Shared with Mike Nichols and John Calley.)
1998	Arnon Milchan		L.A. Confidential	Nominated	Born in Israel, has dual Israeli and U.S citizenship. (Shared with Curtis Hanson and Michael G. Nathanson.)
2000	Ang Lee William Kong Hsu Li-kong		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated	All three are of Chinese descent.[4][5][6]
2011	Thomas Langmann	/	The Artist	Won	Lebanese descent.[7][8][9]
2012	Ang Lee		Life of Pi	Nominated	(Shared with Gil Netter and David Womark.)
2015	Arnon Milchan		The Revenant	Nominated	(Shared with Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon.)
2019	Bong Joon-ho Kwak Sin-ae		Parasite	Won	Korean. First Asians to win Best Picture. First Foreign Language Film to win Best Picture.
2020	Christina Oh		Minari	Nominated	Korean-American.
	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Won	Chinese descent.

Best Actor[]

Actor in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1956	Yul Brynner		The King and I	King Mongkut of Siam	Won	Born in Vladivostok, Russia and of Buryat descent through his paternal grandmother.
1971	Topol		Fiddler on the Roof	Tevye	Nominated	First Israeli nominated in any category. First Middle Eastern person to be nominated for an acting award.
1982	Ben Kingsley		Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	Won	First actor of Indian descent to win this category.
1984	F. Murray Abraham		Amadeus	Antonio Salieri	Won	First actor of Syrian descent to win Best Actor.
2003	Ben Kingsley		House of Sand and Fog	Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani	Nominated
2011	Demián Bichir	/	A Better Life	Carlos Galindo	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2020	Riz Ahmed		Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone	Nominated	Pakistani descent. First Muslim actor to be nominated for Best Actor.
	Steven Yeun		Minari	Jacob Yi	Nominated	Korean descent. First East Asian and Asian American actor to be nominated for Best Actor.

Best Actress[]

Actress in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1935	Merle Oberon		The Dark Angel	Kitty Vane	Nominated	Part-Sri Lankan and Maori (Polynesian) descent.[10] First Asian nominated for any Academy Award. First actress of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Actress.
1939	Vivien Leigh	/	Gone With The Wind	Scarlett O'Hara	Won	Born in the British Raj; of part-Armenian descent. First actress of Asian descent to win the Best Actress award.
1951			A Streetcar Named Desire	Blanche DuBois	Won
1987	Cher		Moonstruck	Loretta Castorini	Won	Born in the United States, is of Armenian descent.
2002	Salma Hayek	/	Frida	Frida Kahlo	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2010	Natalie Portman		Black Swan	Nina Sayers	Won	Born in Israel, has dual Israeli and US citizenship. First Israeli and actress from West Asia to win.
2016			Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	Nominated

Best Supporting Actor[]

Actor in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1936	Akim Tamiroff	/	The General Died at Dawn	General Yang	Nominated	Armenian descent. First Asian to be nominated in any acting category. First Asian with multiple nominations in acting categories.
1943			For Whom the Bell Tolls	Pablo	Nominated
1957	Sessue Hayakawa		The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Saito	Nominated	Japanese descent.[11] First Asian nominated for Supporting Actor.
1962	Omar Sharif	/	Lawrence of Arabia	Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
1966	Mako Iwamatsu		The Sand Pebbles	Po-Han	Nominated	Japanese descent.[12]
1984	Haing S. Ngor		The Killing Fields	Dith Pran	Won	Chinese/Cambodian descent (father is Chinese, mother is Khmer).[13] First Asian to win Best Supporting Actor. This was Ngor's debut acting performance.
	Pat Morita		The Karate Kid	Mr. Miyagi	Nominated	Japanese descent.
1991	Ben Kingsley		Bugsy	Meyer Lansky	Nominated	Indian descent. Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations.
2001			Sexy Beast	Don Logan	Nominated
2003	Ken Watanabe		The Last Samurai	Lord Katsumoto	Nominated	Japanese.[14]
2016	Dev Patel		Lion	Saroo Brierley	Nominated	Indian descent.

Best Supporting Actress[]

Actress in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1957	Miyoshi Umeki		Sayonara	Katsumi Kelly	Won	Japanese descent[15] First Asian and the first Japanese actress to be nominated and to win for Best Supporting Actress.
1983	Cher		Silkwood	Dolly Pelliker	Nominated	First actress of Armenian descent to be nominated for an acting award.
1985	Meg Tilly	/	Agnes of God	Sister Agnes	Nominated	Half-Chinese descent.[16] First Asian American and first Chinese American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
1994	Jennifer Tilly		Bullets Over Broadway	Olive Neal	Nominated	Half-Chinese descent.[16]
1999	Catherine Keener	/	Being John Malkovich	Maxine Lund	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2003	Shohreh Aghdashloo		House of Sand and Fog	Nadereh "Nadi" Behrani	Nominated	First Iranian to be nominated for an acting award.
2004	Natalie Portman		Closer	Alice Ayres / Jane Jones	Nominated	Born in Israel, has dual Israeli and US citizenship. First Israeli actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
2005	Catherine Keener	/	Capote	Nelle Harper Lee	Nominated	Lebanese descent. First actress of Asian descent to be nominated twice for Best Supporting Actress.
2006	Rinko Kikuchi		Babel	Chieko Wataya	Nominated	Japanese.[17] First role in Japanese Sign Language to be nominated.
2020	Youn Yuh-jung		Minari	Soon-ja	Won	Korean. First Korean actress to be nominated and to win for an acting award.[18]

Best Director[]

Director
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1965	Hiroshi Teshigahara		Woman in the Dunes	Nominated	Japanese.[19] First Asian nominated for Best Director. Film was nominated in previous year for Best Foreign Language Film.
1985	Akira Kurosawa		Ran	Nominated	Japanese.[20] Four previous Kurosawa films were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1998	Terrence Malick	/	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Lebanese and Assyrian descent.[21][22][23]
1999	M. Night Shyamalan		The Sixth Sense	Nominated	Indian descent.[24]
2000	Ang Lee		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated	Taiwanese.
2005			Brokeback Mountain	Won	First Asian to win Best Director. First person of color to win Best Director.
2011	Terrence Malick	/	The Tree of Life	Nominated
2012	Ang Lee		Life of Pi	Won	Tied for second most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with five nominations (not including nominations in Foreign Language Film category).
2019	Bong Joon-ho		Parasite	Won	First South Korean to be nominated and to win for Best Director.
2020	Lee Isaac Chung		Minari	Nominated	Korean descent.
	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Won	Chinese. First Asian woman and woman of color to be nominated and to win for Best Director.[25]

Best Original Screenplay[]

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1986	Ken Shadie	/	Crocodile Dundee	Nominated	Lebanese descent.[26]
1986	Hanif Kureishi	/	My Beautiful Laundrette	Nominated	Half-Pakistani descent (father is Pakistani).[27]
1991	Callie Khouri	/	Thelma & Louise	Won	Lebanese descent First American of Asian descent to win for Best Original Screenplay.
1999	M. Night Shyamalan		The Sixth Sense	Nominated	Indian descent.[24]
2002	Steven Zaillian	/	Gangs of New York	Nominated	Armenian descent.
2006	Iris Yamashita	/	Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated	Japanese descent.[28] Second time a screenplay written almost entirely in an Asian language (Japanese) was nominated for a screenplay award. (Shared with Paul Haggis.)
2011	Asghar Farhadi		A Separation	Nominated	First screenplay written in Persian to be nominated for a screenplay award.
2015	Alex Garland	/	Ex Machina	Nominated	Lebanese descent
2015	Ronnie del Carmen		Inside Out	Nominated	Filipino.[29] (Shared with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley.)
2017	Kumail Nanjiani		The Big Sick	Nominated	Pakistani descent.[30] (Shared with Emily V. Gordon.)
2019	Bong Joon-ho Han Jin-won		Parasite	Won	Both are Korean. First Asian writers to win any screenwriting Academy Award.[31][32]
2020	Lee Isaac Chung		Minari	Nominated	Korean descent.

Best Adapted Screenplay[]

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Adapted From	Status	Notes
1974	William Peter Blatty	/	The Exorcist	The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty	Won	Lebanese descent. First American of Asian descent to win for Best Adapted Screenplay
1990	Steven Zaillian	/	Awakenings	Awakenings by Oliver Sacks	Nominated	Armenian descent.
1993			Schindler's List	Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally	Won
1997	Hossein Amini		The Wings of the Dove	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James	Nominated	Iranian descent.
1998	Terrence Malick	/	The Thin Red Line	The Thin Red Line by James Jones	Nominated	Lebanese and Assyrian descent.
2000	Wang Hui-ling Kuo Jung Tsai		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Dulu	Nominated	Both are of Chinese descent.[4] First Asian-language screenplay to be nominated in a writing category (Shared with James Schamus.)
2011	Steven Zaillian	/	Moneyball	Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis	Nominated	(Shared with Aaron Sorkin.)
2019			The Irishman	I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt	Nominated
2020	Ramin Bahrani		The White Tiger	The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga	Nominated	Iranian descent.
	Nina Pedrad		Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Borat Sagdiyev, created by Sacha Baron Cohen	Nominated	Iranian descent. (Shared with Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja & Dan Swimer.)
	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Nomadland by Jessica Bruder	Nominated

Best Cinematography[]

Cinematography
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1938	James Wong Howe		Algiers	Nominated	Chinese descent. Black and White.
1940			Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Nominated	Black and White.
1942			Kings Row	Nominated
1943			Air Force	Nominated	Black and White. (Shared with Elmer Dyer and Charles A. Marshall.)
			The North Star	Nominated	Black and White.
1955			The Rose Tattoo	Won
1958			The Old Man and the Sea	Nominated	Color.
1963			Hud	Won
1966			Seconds	Nominated	Black and White.
1970	Osami Furuya Sinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh		Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	All three are of Japanese descent.[33] (Shared with Charles F. Wheeler.)
1975	James Wong Howe		Funny Lady	Nominated
1985	Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai		Ran	Nominated	All three are of Japanese.[34][35]
1993	Gu Changwei		Farewell My Concubine	Nominated	Chinese.[36]
1995	Lü Yue		Shanghai Triad	Nominated	Chinese.[37]
1996	Darius Khondji		Evita	Nominated	Iranian descent.
2000	Peter Pau		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese.[4]
2004	Zhao Xiaoding		House of Flying Daggers	Nominated	Chinese.[citation needed]
2010	Matthew Libatique		Black Swan	Nominated	Filipino descent.[38]
2018			A Star Is Born	Nominated

Best Film Editing[]

Film Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1992	Kant Pan		The Crying Game	Nominated	Chinese.[39]
1998	Saar Klein		The Thin Red Line	Nominated	(Shared with Billy Weber and Leslie Jones.)
1999	Tariq Anwar		American Beauty	Nominated	Indian-born British with an American citizenship. (Shared with Christopher Greenbury.)
2000	Saar Klein		Almost Famous	Nominated	(Shared with Joe Hutshing.)
2010	Tariq Anwar		The King's Speech	Nominated
2014	Tom Cross		Whiplash	Won	Vietnamese American.[40] First and only Asian American to win an Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
2019	Yang Jin-mo		Parasite	Nominated	Korean.
2020	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Nominated	Chinese. First Asian (and Asian woman, overall) to be nominated for Best Film Editing while serving as director, producer, writer, and editor.

Best Production Design[]

Production Design
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1936	Eddie Imazu		The Great Ziegfeld	Nominated	First Asian to be nominated for Best Production Design. (Shared with Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis.)
1942	Emile Kuri		Silver Queen	Nominated	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1949			The Heiress	Won
1952			Carrie	Nominated
	So Matsuyama H. Matsumoto		Rashomon	Nominated	Both are Japanese.[41]
1954	Emile Kuri		20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won	Color.
			Executive Suite	Nominated	Black and White.
1956	Albert Nozaki		The Ten Commandments	Nominated	Japanese descent.[42] Color. (Shared with Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.)
	So Matsuyama		Seven Samurai	Nominated	Black and White.
1961	Emile Kuri		The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated
1964			Mary Poppins	Nominated	Color.
1969	George B. Chan		Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	Chinese descent.[43] (Shared with Robert F. Boyle, Edward G. Boyle, and Carl Biddiscombe.)
1970	Yoshirō Muraki Taizô Kawashima		Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	Both are Japanese.[44] (Shared with Jack Martin Smith, Richard Day, Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockett, and Carl Biddiscombe.)
1971	Emile Kuri		Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated
1980	Yoshirō Muraki		Kagemusha	Nominated
1985	Yoshirō Muraki Shinobu Muraki		Ran	Nominated	Japanese.[45]
2000	Timmy Yip		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent[4] First Asian to win Best Production Design.
2008	James J. Murakami		Changeling	Nominated	(Shared with Gary Fettis.)
2017	Paul Denham Austerberry		The Shape of Water	Won	Filipino descent.[46] (Shared with Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin)
2019	Lee Ha-jun Cho Won-woo		Parasite	Nominated	Both are Korean.

Best Costume Design[]

Costume Design
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1954	Sanzo Wada		Gate of Hell	Won	Japanese.[47] First Asian to be nominated for Best Costume Design. First Asian to win Best Costume Design.
1955	Tadaoto Kainosho		Ugetsu	Nominated	Japanese.[48]
1956	Kohei Ezaki		Seven Samurai	Nominated	Japanese.[49]
1961	Yoshirō Muraki		Yojimbo	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations.
1969	Ray Aghayan		Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	First Iranian to be nominated for an Academy Award.
1972			Lady Sings the Blues	Nominated	(Shared with Norma Koch and Bob Mackie.)
1975			Funny Lady	Nominated	(Shared with Bob Mackie.)
1982	Bhanu Athaiya		Gandhi	Won	Indian. First Indian to win an Academy Award.[50] (Shared with John Mollo.)
1985	Emi Wada		Ran	Won	Japanese.[51]
1992	Eiko Ishioka		Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	Japanese.[52]
2000	Timmy Yip		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2006	Yee Chung-Man		Curse of the Golden Flower	Nominated	Chinese.[53]
2012	Eiko Ishioka		Mirror Mirror	Nominated	Posthumous nomination.
2013	William Chang Suk Ping		The Grandmaster	Nominated	Chinese.[54]

Best Makeup and Hairstyling[]

Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2006	Kazu Hiro		Click	Nominated	Japanese descent[55] First Asian to be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. (Shared with Bill Corso.)
2007			Norbit	Nominated	(Shared with Rick Baker.)
2017			Darkest Hour	Won	First Asian to win for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. (Shared with David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick.)
2019			Bombshell	Won	US citizen.[56][57] (Shared with Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker.)

Best Original Score[]

Original Score
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1966	Toshiro Mayuzumi		The Bible	Nominated	Japanese.[58] First Asian to be nominated for Best Original Score.
1982	Ravi Shankar		Gandhi	Nominated	Indian.[59] First Asian to be nominated for both Academy and Grammy Awards. (Shared with George Fenton)
1987	Cong Su Ryuichi Sakamoto		The Last Emperor	Won	Su is Chinese.[60] Sakamoto is Japanese.[61] First Asians to win Best Original Score. (Shared with David Byrne.)
1996	Gabriel Yared		The English Patient	Won	Lebanese descent. Original Dramatic Score Category.
1999			The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated	First Asian to receive multiple Best Original Score nominations.
2000	Tan Dun		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese.[4]
2003	Gabriel Yared		Cold Mountain	Nominated
2008	A. R. Rahman		Slumdog Millionaire	Won	First Indian to win two Oscars in one night.[62]
2010			127 Hours	Nominated

Best Original Song[]

Original Song
Year	Name	Country	Film	Song	Status	Notes
1978	Paul Jabara	/	Thank God It's Friday	"Last Dance"	Won	Lebanese descent. First person of Asian descent to win for Best Original Song.
2000	Tan Dun		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	First Asian to be nominated for Best Original Song. (Shared with Jorge Calandrelli and James Schamus.)
2008	M.I.A.		Slumdog Millionaire	"O Saya"	Nominated	M.I.A. is a British of Sri Lankan descent.[63]
	A. R. Rahman				Nominated	Rahman is the first Asian to receive three Academy Award nominations in the same year.
				"Jai Ho"	Won	Rahman is the first Asian to win two Oscars in the same year. First Asians to win Best Original Song.
	Gulzar				Won	Gulzar is Indian.[64] First Asians to win Best Original Song.
2010	A. R. Rahman		127 Hours	"If I Rise"	Nominated	(nominated with Rollo Armstrong and Dido.)
2012	Bombay Jayashri		Life of Pi	"Pi's Lullaby"	Nominated	Indian.[65] (nominated with Mychael Danna.)
2013	Robert Lopez		Frozen	"Let It Go"	Won	Part-Filipino descent (paternal grandfather is Filipino, paternal grandmother is part-Filipino).[66] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Original Song. First Asian American to win Best Original Song. (Shared with Kristen Anderson-Lopez.)
	Karen O		Her	"The Moon Song"	Nominated	O is an American of Polish and South Korean descent. (Shared with Spike Jonze.)
2017	Robert Lopez		Coco	"Remember Me"	Won	(Shared with Kristen Anderson-Lopez.)
2019			Frozen II	"Into the Unknown"	Nominated
2020	H.E.R.		Judas and the Black Messiah	"Fight for You"	Won	American-born of Filipino descent. (Shared with D'Mile and Tiara Thomas.)
	Savan Kotecha		Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga	"Husavik"	Nominated	American-born of Indian descent. (Shared with Rickard Göransson and Fat Max Gsus.)

Best Sound[]

Prior to the 93rd Academy Awards, the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.^[67]

Best Sound
Year	Name	Country	Film	Category	Status	Notes
2006	Kami Asgar		Apocalypto	Editing	Nominated	First and only Middle Eastern to date to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. (Shared with Sean McCormack.)
2008	Resul Pookutty		Apocalypto	Mixing	Won	Indian descent.[68] First Asian to win Best Sound Mixing. (Shared with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke.)
2013	Niv Adiri		Gravity		Won	(Shared with Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, and Chris Munro.)
2016	Ai-Ling Lee		La La Land		Nominated	Singaporean-Chinese descent. First Asian woman to be nominated for Best Sound Mixing. (Shared with Andy Nelson and Steven A. Morrow.)
				Editing	Nominated	Singaporean-Chinese descent. First Asian woman to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. (Shared with Mildred Iatrou Morgan.)
2018			First Man	Mixing	Nominated	(Shared with Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Mary H. Ellis.)
				Editing	Nominated	(Shared with Mildred Iatrou Morgan.)

Best Visual Effects[]

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1992	Doug Chiang		Death Becomes Her	Won	(Shared with Ken Ralston, Doug Smythe, and Tom Woodruff Jr..)
1996	Habib Zargarpour		Twister	Nominated	(Shared with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier, and Henry LaBounta.)
2000			The Perfect Storm	Nominated	(Shared with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier, and Walt Conti.)

Best Animated Feature[]

Animated Feature
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2002	Hayao Miyazaki		Spirited Away	Won	Japanese.[69] First Asian to be nominated for Best Animated Feature. First Asian to win Best Animated Feature.
2005			Howl's Moving Castle	Nominated
2007	Marjane Satrapi		Persepolis	Nominated	Only Middle Eastern person ever nominated in this category. (Shared with Vincent Paronnaud.)
2013	Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki		The Wind Rises	Nominated	Suzuki is Japanese.[69]
2014	Isao Takahata Yoshiaki Nishimura		The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Nominated	Both are Japanese.[70][71]
2015	Hiromasa Yonebayashi Yoshiaki Nishimura		When Marnie Was There	Nominated	Yonebayashi is Japanese.[71]
2016	Toshio Suzuki		The Red Turtle	Nominated	(Shared with Michaël Dudok de Wit.)
2017	Ramsey Naito		The Boss Baby	Nominated	Japanese father.[72] (Shared with Tom McGrath.)
2018	Mamoru Hosoda Yuichiro Saito		Mirai	Nominated
2019	Jinko Gotoh		Klaus	Nominated	Japanese descent. (Shared with Sergio Pablos and Marisa Román.)
2020	Peilin Chou		Over the Moon	Nominated
	Gennie Rin			Nominated

Best Documentary Feature[]

Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1974	Haim Gouri		The 81st Blow	Nominated	(Shared with Jacquot Ehrlich and David Bergman.)
1988	Christine Choy		Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Nominated	(Shared with Renee Tajima-Peña.)
2004	Byambasuren Davaa		The Story of the Weeping Camel	Nominated	Mongolian.[73] (Shared with Luigi Falorni.)
2008	Thavisouk Phrasavath		The Betrayal – Nerakhoon	Nominated	Laotian.[74] (Shared with Ellen Kuras.)
2012	Emad Burnat		5 Broken Cameras	Nominated
	Guy Davidi			Nominated
	Estelle Fialon Philippa Kowarsky Dror Moreh		The Gatekeepers	Nominated
2013	Jehane Noujaim	/	The Square	Nominated	Lebanese descent
2014	John Maloof	/	Finding Vivian Maier	Nominated	Lebanese descent.[75]
2017	Feras Fayyad		Last Men in Aleppo	Nominated	(Shared with Søren Steen Jespersen.)
	Kareem Abeed			Nominated
2018	Bing Liu	/	Minding the Gap	Nominated	Chinese descent.[76]
	Su Kim	/	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	Nominated	(Shared with RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes.)
	Talal Derki		Of Fathers and Sons	Nominated	(Shared with Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert.)
2019	Waad Al-Kateab		For Sama	Nominated	Syrian descent. (Shared with Edward Watts.)
	Feras Fayyad		The Cave	Nominated	(nominated with Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær)

Best Documentary Short Subject[]

Documentary Short Subject
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1968	Fali Bilimoria		The House That Ananda Built	Nominated	First Asian nominee for Best Documentary Short.
1978	K.K. Kapil		An Encounter with Faces	Nominated	Indian descent.[77][78]
1987	Izak Ben-Meir		In the Wee Wee Hours...	Nominated	(Shared with Frank Daniel.)
1996	Jessica Yu	/	Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien	Won	Chinese descent.[79]
1998	Keiko Ibi		The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years	Won
2006	Ruby Yang		The Blood of Yingzhou District	Won	Chinese descent.[80] (Shared with Thomas Lennon.)
2010			The Warriors of Qiugang	Nominated	(Shared with Thomas Lennon.)
2011	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	/	Saving Face	Won	Pakistani descent.[81] (nominated with Daniel Junge.)
2013	Sara Ishaq	/	Karama Has No Walls	Nominated	Yemeni descent.
2015	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	/	A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness	Won
2018	Rayka Zehtabchi		Period. End of Sentence.	Won	(Shared with Melissa Berton.)
2019	Yi Seung-Jun		In the Absence	Nominated
	Gary Byung-Seok Kam
	Smriti Mundhra		St. Louis Superman	Nominated
	Sami Khan

Best Animated Short Film[]

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1977	Ishu Patel	/	Bead Game	Nominated	Indian descent.[82]
1984			Paradise	Nominated
2002	Kōji Yamamura		Mt. Head	Nominated	Japanese descent.[71]
2004	Sejong Park	/	Birthday Boy	Nominated	Korean descent.[83] (Shared with Andrew Gregory.)
2008	Kunio Katō		La Maison En Petits Cubes	Won	Japanese descent.[84] First Asian to win Best Animated Short Film.
2012	Minkyu Lee		Adam and Dog	Nominated	Korean descent.[71]
2013	Shuhei Morita		Possessions	Nominated	Japanese descent.[85]
2014	Daisuke Tsutsumi		The Dam Keeper	Nominated	Japanese descent. (Shared with Robert Kondo.)
2018	Ru Kuwahata		Negative Space	Nominated	(Shared with Max Porter.)
2018	Domee Shi	/	Bao	Won	Chinese descent. (Shared with Becky Neiman-Cobb.)
2019	Siqi Song		Sister	Nominated	Chinese descent.
2020	Erick Oh	/	Opera	Nominated	Korean descent.

Best Live Action Short Film[]

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1960	Ismail Merchant		The Creation of Woman	Nominated	First Asian to be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations. (Shared with Charles F. Schwep.)
1988	Matia Karrell	/	Cadillac Dreams	Nominated	Lebanese descent
1997	Chris Tashima	/	Visas and Virtue	Won	(Shared with Chris Donahue.)
1999	Mehdi Norozwian	/	Killing Joe	Nominated	(Shared with Steve Wax.)
2004	Ashvin Kumar		Little Terrorist	Nominated	Indian descent.[86]
2012	Ariel Nasr	/	Buzkashi Boys	Nominated	(nominated with Sam French.)
2014	Hu Wei		Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)	Nominated	(nominated with Julien Ferét.)
	Talkhon Hamzavi	/	Parvaneh	Nominated	(Shared with Stefan Eichenberger.)
	Oded Binnun		Aya	Nominated
	Mihal Brezis
2015	Basil Khalil	/	Ave Maria	Nominated	(Shared with Eric Dupont.)
2018	Guy Nattiv		Skin	Won	(Shared with his wife, Jaime Ray Newman.)
2020	Farah Nabulsi	/	The Present	Nominated	Palestinian descent (mother is Palestinian, father is Palestinian-Egyptian).[87]

Best International Feature Film[]

International Feature Film
Year	Country	Film	Director	Status	Notes
1951		Rashomon (Rashōmon) 羅生門	Akira Kurosawa	Won	Special Honorary Award.
1954		Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) 地獄門	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Won
1955		Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto 宮本武蔵	Hiroshi Inagaki	Won
1956		Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) ビルマの竪琴	Masayuki Takagi	Nominated	First Asian country to be nominated for competitive award in any category.
1957		Mother India (Bharat Mata) भारत माता	Mehboob Khan	Nominated	First Asian musical film to be nominated in any category. First South Asian country to be nominated in any category.
1961		Immortal Love (Eien no hito) 永遠の人	Keisuke Kinoshita	Nominated
1963		Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Koto) 古都	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
1964		Sallah סאלח שבת	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated
		Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) 砂の女	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Nominated
1965		Kwaidan 怪談	Masaki Kobayashi	Nominated
1967		Portrait of Chieko (Chieko-sho) 智恵子抄	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
1971		Dodes'ka-Den どですかでん	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
		The Policeman (Hashoter Azulai) השוטר אזולאי	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated
1972		I Love You Rosa (Ani Ohev Otakh Rozah) אני אוהב אותך רוזה	Moshé Mizrahi	Nominated
1973		The House on Chelouche Street (Habayit Birkhov Chelouche) הבית ברחוב שלוש		Nominated
1975		Sandakan No. 8 (Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo) サンダカン八番娼館 望郷	Kei Kumai	Nominated
1977		Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtza Yonatan) מבצע יונתן	Menahem Golan	Nominated
1980		Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) 影武者	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
1981		Muddy River (film) (Doro no kawa) 泥の河	Kohei Oguri	Nominated
1984		Beyond the Walls (Me'akhorei Hasoragim) מאחורי הסורגים	Uri Barbash	Nominated
1988		Salaam Bombay! सलाम बॉम्बे	Mira Nair	Nominated
1990		Jú Dòu 菊豆	Zhang Yimou Yang Fengliang	Nominated
1991		Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà) 大紅燈籠高高掛	Zhang Yimou	Nominated
1993		Farewell My Concubine (Bàwáng Bié Jī) 霸王別姬	Chen Kaige	Nominated
		The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi đu đủ xanh)	Anh Hung Tran	Nominated
		The Wedding Banquet (Xǐyàn) 喜宴	Ang Lee	Nominated
1994		Eat Drink Man Woman (yǐn shí nán nǚ) 飲食男女		Nominated
1999		Himalaya हिमालय	Eric Valli	Nominated	First Nepalese film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
2000	[88]	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wòhǔ Cánglóng) 臥虎藏龍	Ang Lee	Won	First Asian country to win competitive award in category.
2001		Lagaan लगान	Ashutosh Gowariker	Nominated
2002		Hero (Yīngxióng) 英雄	Zhang Yimou	Nominated
2003		The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) たそがれ清兵衛	Yoji Yamada	Nominated
2005		Paradise Now الجنّة الآن	Hany Abu-Assad	Nominated
2007	[note 1]	Mongol Монгол	Sergei Bodrov	Nominated	Mongolian-language film
		Beaufort (Beaufort) בופור	Joseph Cedar	Nominated
2008		Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) ואלס עם באשיר	Ari Folman	Nominated
		Departures (Okuribito) おくりびと	Yōjirō Takita	Won	4th most winning country of all time with 4 awards. 5th most Oscar-nominated country with 12 competitive nominations. Most winning and nominated Asian country.
2009		Ajami (Agami) عجمي / עג'מי	Scandar Copti Yaron Shani	Nominated
2011		Footnote (He'arat Shulayyim) הערת שוליים	Joseph Cedar	Nominated
2012		A Separation (Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín) جدایی نادر از سیمین	Asghar Farhadi	Won	First Iranian film to win for Best Foreign Language Film. First Iranian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
2013		The Missing Picture (L'Image manquant)	Rithy Panh	Nominated
		Omar عمر	Hany Abu-Assad	Nominated
2017		The Salesman (Forušande) فروشنده	Asghar Farhadi	Won	Farhadi did not attend the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in protest of the U.S. Executive Order 13769.
		The Insult (Qadiyya raqm) قضية رقم ٢٣	Ziad Doueiri	Nominated
2018		Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) 万引き家族	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Nominated
		Capernaum کفرناحوم	Nadine Labaki	Nominated
2019		Parasite (Gisaengchung) 기생충	Bong Joon-ho	Won	First South Korean film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and to be simultaneously nominated for Best Picture. First South Korean film to win for Best Foreign Language Film and the first non-English language film to win Best Picture.
2020		Better Days 少年的你	Derek Tsang	Nominated

Non-Competitive Awards[]

Non-Competitive Awards
Year	Name	Country	Award
1989	Akira Kurosawa		Honorary Academy Award[89] To Akira Kurosawa for accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.
1991	Satyajit Ray		Honorary Academy Award[90] To Satyajit Ray, in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.
2014	Hayao Miyazaki		Honorary Academy Award[91] To Hayao Miyazaki, a master storyteller whose animated artistry has inspired filmmakers and audiences around the world.
2016	Jackie Chan		Honorary Academy Award[92] To Jackie Chan, an international film star who has captivated millions with his wit, boundless energy and unparalleled athletic artistry.

See also[]

• List of African Academy Award winners and nominees

Notes[]

References[]