List of Canadian Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of Canadian Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Canadian filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.

Best Actor in a Leading Role[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1936	Walter Huston	Dodsworth	Nominated	First Canadian actor to receive a nomination for Best Actor.
1940	Raymond Massey	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Nominated
1941	Walter Huston	The Devil and Daniel Webster	Nominated
1942	Walter Pidgeon	Mrs. Miniver	Nominated
1943		Madame Curie	Nominated
1944	Alexander Knox	Wilson	Nominated
2006	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson	Nominated
2016		La La Land	Nominated

Best Actress in a Leading Role[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1928/29	Mary Pickford	Coquette	Won	First Canadian to win an Oscar. First Canadian actress to win an Oscar. First Canadian to receive an Oscar nomination. First Canadian actress to receive a nomination for Best Actress.
1929/30	Norma Shearer	The Divorcee	Won	First Canadian to receive multiple nominations.
		Their Own Desire	Nominated
1930/31	Marie Dressler	Min and Bill	Won	First time multiple Canadians received Oscar nominations. First time multiple Canadians received nominations in the same category.
	Norma Shearer	A Free Soul	Nominated
1931/32	Marie Dressler	Emma	Nominated
1934	Norma Shearer	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Nominated
1936		Romeo and Juliet	Nominated
1938		Marie Antoinette	Nominated
1969	Geneviève Bujold	Anne of the Thousand Days	Nominated
2007	Elliot Page	Juno	Nominated	At age 20, it made him the fourth-youngest Best Actress nominee at the time.[1][2]

Best Actor in a Supporting Role[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1938	Gene Lockhart	Algiers	Nominated	Lockhart was a Canadian-American character actor, singer, and playwright.
1942	Walter Huston	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Nominated	First Canadian actor to be nominated in multiple categories.
1944	Hume Cronyn	The Seventh Cross	Nominated
1946	Harold Russell	The Best Years of Our Lives	Won	Russell was a Canadian born, U.S. veteran. First Canadian actor to win an Oscar. First Canadian actor to win an Oscar for Supporting Actor.
1948	Walter Huston	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Won
1949	John Ireland	All the King's Men	Nominated	Ireland was born in Canada, but raised in the United States.
1960	Jack Kruschen	The Apartment	Nominated
1970	Chief Dan George	Little Big Man	Nominated	First First Nations actor to receive a nomination.
1989	Dan Aykroyd	Driving Miss Daisy	Nominated
1990	Graham Greene	Dances With Wolves	Nominated	Second First Nations actor to receive a nomination.
2009	Christopher Plummer	The Last Station	Nominated
2011		Beginners	Won	Oldest Canadian actor to win an Oscar for Supporting Actor (age 82).
2017		All the Money in the World	Nominated	Oldest Canadian actor to receive a nomination (age 88).

Best Actress in a Supporting Role[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1943	Lucile Watson	Watch on the Rhine	Nominated	First Canadian actress to be nominated for Supporting Actress.
1985	Meg Tilly	Agnes of God	Nominated	Tilly is an American born-Canadian actress.
1991	Kate Nelligan	The Prince of Tides	Nominated
1993	Anna Paquin	The Piano	Won	Paquin is a Canadian actress with a New Zealand citizenship. Youngest Canadian to win an acting Oscar (age 11). Second-youngest winner in Oscar history.
1994	Jennifer Tilly	Bullets over Broadway	Nominated	Tilly is an American born-Canadian actress.
2015	Rachel McAdams	Spotlight	Nominated

Best Animated Feature[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
2003	Robert Walker	Brother Bear	Nominated	Shared with Aaron Blaise.
2010	Dean DeBlois	How to Train Your Dragon	Nominated	Shared with Chris Sanders.
2014		How to Train Your Dragon 2	Nominated	Shared with Bonnie Arnold.
	Graham Annable	The Boxtrolls	Nominated	Shared with Anthony Stacchi and Travis Knight.
2017	Anthony Leo	The Breadwinner	Nominated	Shared with Nora Twomey.

Best Animated Short Film[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1949	Stephen Bosustow	The Magic Fluke	Nominated	Bosustow was a Canadian-born American film producer.
1950		Trouble Indemnity	Nominated
		Gerald McBoing-Boing	Won
1951		Rooty Toot Toot	Nominated
1952		Madeline	Nominated
		Pink and Blue Blues	Nominated
	Tom Daly	The Romance of Transportation in Canada	Nominated	First Canadian film nominated in the category.
1953	Stephen Bosustow	Christopher Crumpet	Nominated
		The Tell-Tale Heart	Nominated
1954		When Magoo Flew	Won
1956		Magoo's Puddle Jumper	Won
		Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo	Nominated
		The Jaywalker	Nominated
1957		Trees and Jamaica Daddy	Nominated
1963	Gerald Potterton Tom Daly Colin Low	My Financial Career	Nominated	Potterton is a British–Canadian.
1964	National Film Board of Canada	Christmas Cracker	Nominated
1966	Robert Verrall Wolf Koenig	The Drag	Nominated	Koenig was a German-born Canadian.
1967		What on Earth	Nominated
1968	Wolf Koenig Jim Mackay	The House That Jack Built	Nominated
1969	Ryan Larkin	Walking	Nominated
1971	Michael Mills	Evolution	Nominated	Mills is a British-born Canadian producer and director of short films.
	Murray Shostak	The Selfish Giant	Nominated	Shared with Peter Sander.
1972	Richard Williams	A Christmas Carol	Won	Williams is a Canadian–British.
1974	René Jodoin	Hunger	Nominated	Shared with Peter Foldes.
1975	Bernard Longpré André Leduc	Monsieur Pointu	Nominated
1976	Caroline Leaf Guy Glover	The Street	Nominated	Leaf is a Canadian-American filmmaker and animator.
1977	Ishu Patel	Bead Game	Nominated	Patel is an Indian-born Canadian film director and animator.
	Co Hoedeman	The Sand Castle	Won	Hoedeman is a Dutch-Canadian filmmaker.
1978	John Weldon	Special Delivery	Won	Shared with Eunice Macauley.
1980	Michael Mills	History of the World in Three Minutes Flat	Nominated
	Frédéric Back	All Nothing	Nominated	Back is a French-born Canadian producer and director of short films.
1981		Crac	Won
	Janet Perlman	The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin	Nominated
1984	Jon Minnis	Charade	Won	Minnis is a Canadian animator and scriptwriter of British origin.
	Ishu Patel	Paradise	Nominated
1985	Richard Condie	The Big Snit	Nominated	Shared with Michael Scott.
1987	Frédéric Back	The Man Who Planted Trees	Won
1988	Cordell Barker	The Cat Came Back	Nominated
1991	Wendy Tilby	Strings	Nominated
	Christopher Hinton	Blackfly	Nominated
1993	Frédéric Back Hubert Tison	The Mighty River	Nominated
1994	David Fine	Bob's Birthday	Won	Shared with Alison Snowden.
1996	Richard Condie	La Salla	Nominated
1999	Wendy Tilby Amanda Forbis	When the Day Breaks	Nominated
	Torill Kove	My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts	Nominated	Kove is a Norwegian-born Canadian film director and animator.
2001	Cordell Barker	Strange Invaders	Nominated
2003	Christopher Hinton	Nibbles	Nominated
2006	Torill Kove	The Danish Poet	Won
2007	Chris Lavis Maciek Szczerbowski	Madame Tutli-Putli	Nominated
2011	Wendy Tilby Amanda Forbis	Wild Life	Nominated
	Patrick Doyon	Sunday (Dimanche)	Nominated
2014	Torill Kove	Me and My Moulton	Nominated
2015	Richard Williams Imogen Sutton	Prologue	Nominated	Both Williams and Sutton are Canadian–British.
2016	Alan Barillaro	Piper	Won	Shared with Marc Sondheimer.
	Theodore Ushev	Blind Vaysha	Nominated	[3]
	Robert Valley	Pear Cider and Cigarettes	Nominated	Shared with Cara Speller.[3]
2018	David Fine	Animal Behaviour	Nominated	[4]
	Alison Snowden		Nominated	[4]
	Trevor Jimenez	Weekends	Nominated	[4]
	Domee Shi	Bao	Won	Shi is a Chinese-born Canadian.[4]

Best Production Design[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1930	Richard Day	Whoopee!	Nominated
1931		Arrowsmith	Nominated
1934		The Affairs of Cellini	Nominated
1935		The Dark Angel	Won
1936		Dodsworth	Won
1937		Dead End	Nominated
1938		The Goldwyn Follies	Nominated
1940		Down Argentine Way	Nominated	Shared with Joseph C. Wright.
		Lillian Russell	Nominated
1941		Blood and Sand	Nominated	Shared with Joseph C. Wright and Thomas Little.
		How Green Was My Valley	Won	Shared with Nathan Juran and Thomas Little.
	Edward G. Boyle	The Son of Monte Cristo	Nominated	Shared with John DuCasse Schulze.
1942	Richard Day	My Gal Sal	Won	Shared with Joseph C. Wright and Thomas Little.
		This Above All	Won
1946		The Razor's Edge	Nominated	Shared with Nathan Juran, Thomas Little, and Paul S. Fox.
1948		Joan of Arc	Nominated	Shared with Casey Roberts and Joseph Kish.
1951		A Streetcar Named Desire	Won	Shared with George James Hopkins.
1952		Hans Christian Andersen	Nominated	Shared with Antoni Clave and Howard Bristol.
	Charles S. Thompson	The Quiet Man	Nominated	Shared with Frank Hotaling and John McCarthy, Jr.
1954	Richard Day	On the Waterfront	Won
1959	Edward G. Boyle	Some Like It Hot	Nominated	Shared with Ted Haworth.
1960		The Apartment	Won	Shared with Alexandre Trauner.
1961		The Children's Hour	Nominated	Shared with Fernando Carrere.
1964		Seven Days in May	Nominated	Shared with Cary Odell.
1965	Charles S. Thompson	A Patch of Blue	Nominated	Shared with George Davis, Urie McCleary, and Henry Grace.
	Richard Day	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Nominated	Shared with William J. Creber, David S. Hall, Ray Moyer, Fred M. MacLean, and Norman Rockett.
1966	Edward G. Boyle	The Fortune Cookie	Nominated	Shared with Robert Luthardt
1969	Edward G. Boyle Carl Biddiscombe	Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	Shared with Robert F. Boyle and George B. Chan.
1970	Richard Day Carl Biddiscombe	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	Shared with Jack Martin Smith, Yoshirô Muraki, Taizô Kawashima, Walter M. Scott, and Norman Rockett.
1991	Dennis Gassner	Bugsy	Won	Shared with Nancy Haigh.
		Barton Fink	Nominated
1992	Janice Blackie-Goodine	Unforgiven	Nominated	Shared with Henry Bumstead.
2002	Gordon Sim	Chicago	Won	Shared with John Myhre.
	Dennis Gassner	Road to Perdition	Nominated	Shared with Nancy Haigh.
2007		The Golden Compass	Nominated	Shared with Anna Pinnock.
	Jim Erickson	There Will Be Blood	Nominated	Shared with Jack Fisk.
2008	Peter Lando	The Dark Knight	Nominated	Shared with Nathan Crowley.
2009	Anastasia Masaro	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	Nominated	Shared with Dave Warren and Caroline Smith.
	Gordon Sim	Nine	Nominated	Shared with John Myhre.
	Patrice Vermette	The Young Victoria	Nominated	Shared with Maggie Gray.
2012	Jim Erickson	Lincoln	Won	Shared with Rick Carter.
2014	Dennis Gassner	Into the Woods	Nominated	Shared with Anna Pinnock.
2015	Hamish Purdy	The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Jack Fisk.
2016	Patrice Vermette Paul Hotte	Arrival	Nominated	[5]
2017	Dennis Gassner	Blade Runner 2049	Nominated	Shared with Alessandra Querzola.
	Paul Denham Austerberry Shane Vieau Jeff Melvin	The Shape of Water	Won	Austerberry is a Canadian of English/Filipino descent.
2018	Gordon Sim	Mary Poppins Returns	Nominated	Shared with John Myhre.
2019	Dennis Gassner	1917	Nominated	Shared with Lee Sandales.

Best Costume Design[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
2009	Monique Prudhomme	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	Nominated
2017	Luis Sequeira	The Shape of Water	Nominated	Sequeira is a Canadian of Portuguese descent.

Best Director[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1947	Edward Dmytryk	Crossfire	Nominated	First Canadian to be nominated for Best Director.
1957	Mark Robson	Peyton Place	Nominated
1958		The Inn of the Sixth Happiness	Nominated	First Canadian director to receive multiple nominations.
1967	Norman Jewison	In the Heat of the Night	Nominated
1970	Arthur Hiller	Love Story	Nominated
1971	Norman Jewison	Fiddler on the Roof	Nominated
1987		Moonstruck	Nominated
1997	James Cameron	Titanic	Won	First Canadian to win Best Director.
	Atom Egoyan	The Sweet Hereafter	Nominated	Egoyan is an Egyptian-born Canadian filmmaker.
2005	Paul Haggis	Crash	Nominated
2007	Jason Reitman	Juno	Nominated
2009		Up in the Air	Nominated
	James Cameron	Avatar	Nominated
2016	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival	Nominated

Best Documentary Feature[]

Year	Film	Name	Status	Notes
1954	The Stratford Adventure	Guy Glover	Nominated
1966	Helicopter Canada	Tom Daly	Nominated	Shared with Peter Jones.
1975	The Man Who Skied Down Everest	F. R. Crawley	Won	Shared with James Hager and Dale Hartleben.
1976	Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry	Donald Brittain	Nominated	Shared with Robert A. Duncan.
1977	High Grass Circus	Tony Ianzelo	Nominated	Shared with Bill Brind and Torben Schioler.
	Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love	Harry Rasky	Nominated
1979	Going the Distance	Paul Cowan	Nominated	Shared with Jacques Bobet.
1987	Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got	Brigitte Berman	Won
1992	Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann	Roma Baran	Nominated	Shared with Margaret Smilow.
2002	Bowling for Columbine	Michael Donovan	Won	Shared with Michael Moore.
2016	13th	Howard Barish[3]	Nominated	Shared with Ava DuVernay and Spencer Averick.

Best Documentary (Short Subject)[]

Year	Film	Name	Status	Notes
1941	Churchill's Island	National Film Board of Canada	Won	First Canadian film to win an Oscar. First film to win Best Documentary (Short Subject).
	Warclouds in the Pacific		Nominated
1942	Inside Fighting China		Nominated	Received a nomination in the Best Documentary category.
	High over the Borders		Nominated
1949	The Rising Tide		Nominated
1950	The Fight: Science Against Cancer		Nominated
1952	Man Alive!	Stephen Bosustow	Nominated
	Neighbours	Norman McLaren	Won
1958	The Living Stone	Tom Daly	Nominated
1960	Universe	Colin Low	Nominated
1976	Blackwood	Tony Ianzelo	Nominated	Shared with Andy Thomson.
1982	If You Love This Planet	Terre Nash	Won	Shared with Edward Le Lorrain.
1983	Flamenco at 5:15	Cynthia Scott	Won	Shared with Adam Symansky.
2020	St. Louis Superman	Sami Khan	Nominated	Shared with Smriti Mundhra.
2021	A Concerto Is a Conversation	Ben Proudfoot	Nominated	Shared with Kris Bowers.

Best Film Editing[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1947	Harmon Jones	Gentleman's Agreement	Nominated
1950	Ralph E. Winters	King Solomon's Mines	Won	Shared with Conrad A. Nervig.
1951		Quo Vadis	Nominated
1954		Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Nominated
1959		Ben-Hur	Won	Shared with John Dunning.
1960	Robert Lawrence	Spartacus	Nominated
1965	Ralph E. Winters	The Great Race	Nominated
1971		Kotch	Nominated
1983	Douglas Stewart	The Right Stuff	Won	Shared with Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, and Tom Rolf.
1997	James Cameron	Titanic	Won	Shared with Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris.
2009		Avatar	Nominated	Shared with John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin.
	Julian Clarke	District 9	Nominated
2013	Jean-Marc Vallée Martin Pensa	Dallas Buyers Club	Nominated
2017	Sidney Wolinsky	The Shape of Water	Nominated

Best International Feature Film[]

Year	Film	Director	Status	Notes
1986	The Decline of the American Empire	Denys Arcand	Nominated	(original title: Le Déclin de l'empire américain). First Canadian film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1989	Jesus of Montreal		Nominated	(original title: Jésus de Montréal).
2003	The Barbarian Invasions		Won	(original title: Les Invasions barbares). First Canadian film to win Best Foreign Language Film.
2006	Water	Deepa Mehta	Nominated	(original title: Water वाटर). First Canadian film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film that is not spoken in French.
2010	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve	Nominated	[3]
2011	Monsieur Lazhar	Philippe Falardeau	Nominated
2012	War Witch	Kim Nguyen	Nominated	(original title: Rebelle).

Best Live Action Short Film[]

Year	Film	Name	Status	Notes
1952	Neighbours	Norman McLaren	Nominated	Nominated for Best Short Subject, One-reel.
1953	Herring Hunt	National Film Board of Canada	Nominated
1957	City of Gold	Tom Daly	Nominated
	A Chairy Tale	Norman McLaren	Nominated
1961	Very Nice, Very Nice	National Film Board of Canada	Nominated
1967	Paddle to the Sea	Julian Biggs	Nominated
1968	A Place to Stand	Christopher Chapman	Won	Commissioned by the Ontario Department of Economics and Development for Expo 67.
	Pas de deux	National Film Board of Canada	Nominated
1969	Blake	Douglas Jackson	Nominated
1977	I'll Find a Way	Beverly Shaffer Yuki Yoshida	Won	Yoshida was a Japanese-born Canadian.
1979	Bravery in the Field	Roman Kroitor	Nominated
		Stefan Wodoslawsky	Nominated
1984	The Painted Door	Michael MacMillan Janice L. Platt	Nominated
1989	The Childeater	Jonathan Tammuz	Nominated	Tammuz is a British-Canadian film director.
2012	Buzkashi Boys	Ariel Nasr	Nominated	Shared with Sam French.
	Henry	Yan England	Nominated
2018	Fauve	Jérémy Comte	Nominated
	Marguerite	Marianne Farley	Nominated
2019	Brotherhood	Meryam Joobeur Maria Gracia Turgeon	Nominated	Joobeur is a Tunisian-born Canadian.

Best Picture[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1929/30	Jack L. Warner	Disraeli	Nominated	Warner was a Canadian-American film executive. Shared with Darryl F. Zanuck.
1934		Flirtation Walk	Nominated	Shared with Hal B. Wallis and Robert Lord.
1940		All This, and Heaven Too	Nominated	Shared with Hal B. Wallis and David Lewis.
1942		Yankee Doodle Dandy	Nominated	Shared with Hal B. Wallis and William Cagney.
1958		Auntie Mame	Nominated
1964		My Fair Lady	Won
1966	Norman Jewison	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	Nominated
1971		Fiddler on the Roof	Nominated
1972	Albert S. Ruddy	The Godfather	Won
1981	Denis Héroux John Kemeny	Atlantic City	Nominated	Kemeny a Hungarian-born Canadian film producer.
1984	Norman Jewison	A Soldier's Story	Nominated	Shared with Ronald L. Schwary and Patrick J. Palmer.
1987		Moonstruck	Nominated	Shared with Patrick J. Palmer.
1997	James Cameron	Titanic	Won	Shared with Jon Landau.
2004	Albert S. Ruddy	Million Dollar Baby	Won	Shared with Clint Eastwood and Tom Rosenberg.
2005	Paul Haggis	Crash	Won	Shared with Cathy Schulman.
	William Vince	Capote	Nominated	Shared with Caroline Baron and Michael Ohoven.
2009	James Cameron	Avatar	Nominated	Shared with Jon Landau.
	Ivan Reitman Jason Reitman	Up in the Air	Nominated	Shared with Daniel Dubiecki.
2013	Vincent Landay	Her	Nominated	Shared with Megan Ellison and Spike Jonze.
2016	Shawn Levy[3]	Arrival	Nominated	Shared with Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, and David Linde.
2017	J. Miles Dale	The Shape of Water	Won	Shared with Guillermo del Toro.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1982	Michèle Burke	Quest for Fire	Won	Burke is an Irish naturalized Canadian. Shared with Sarah Monzani.
1984	Paul LeBlanc	Amadeus	Won	Shared with Dick Smith.
1986	Stephan Dupuis	The Fly	Won	Shared with Chris Walas.
	Michèle Burke	The Clan of the Cave Bear	Nominated	Shared with Michael Westmore.
1990		Cyrano de Bergerac	Nominated	Shared with Jean-Pierre Eychenne.
1992		Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	Shared with Greg Cannom and Matthew W. Mungle.
1999		Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	Nominated	Shared with Mike Smithson.
2000		The Cell	Nominated	Shared with Edouard F. Henriques.
2010	Adrien Morot	Barney's Version	Nominated
2015	Robert Pandini	The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Siân Grigg and Duncan Jarman.

Best Original Song[]

Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Notes
1982	Buffy Sainte-Marie	An Officer and a Gentleman	"Up Where We Belong"	Won	American of First Nations descent. First Indigenous person to win an Academy Award. Shared with Jack Nitzsche and Will Jennings.
1986	David Foster	The Karate Kid, Part II	"Glory of Love"	Nominated	Shared with Peter Cetera.
1991	Bryan Adams	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"	Nominated	Shared with Michael Kamen and Mutt Lange.
1992	David Foster	The Bodyguard	"I Have Nothing"	Nominated	Shared with Linda Thompson.
1993	Neil Young	Philadelphia	"Philadelphia"	Nominated
1995	Bryan Adams	Don Juan DeMarco	"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"	Nominated	Shared with Michael Kamen and Mutt Lange.
1996		The Mirror Has Two Faces	"I Finally Found Someone"	Nominated	Shared with Barbra Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, and Mutt Lange.
1998	David Foster	Quest for Camelot	"The Prayer"	Nominated	Shared with Carole Bayer Sager, Tony Renis, and Alberto Testa.
2003	Benoît Charest	The Triplets of Belleville	"Belleville Rendez-Vous"	Nominated	Shared with Sylvain Chomet.
	Howard Shore	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	"Into the West"	Won	Shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox.
2012	Mychael Danna	Life of Pi	"Pi's Lullaby"	Nominated	Shared with Bombay Jayashri.
2015	Belly DaHeala Stephan Moccio The Weeknd	Fifty Shades of Grey	"Earned It"	Nominated	First Black Canadians to be nominated in any category. The Weeknd is the first person of Ethiopian descent to be nominated in any category.

Best Original Score[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1945	Louis Applebaum	The Story of G.I. Joe	Nominated
1955	Percy Faith	Love Me or Leave Me	Nominated
2001	Howard Shore	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won	First Canadian to win two Oscars in this category.
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won
2011		Hugo	Nominated
2012	Mychael Danna	Life of Pi	Won
2013	Owen Pallett	Her	Nominated	Shared with Will Butler.

Best Cinematography[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1939	Osmond Borradaile	The Four Feathers	Nominated	Shared with Georges Périnal.

Best Sound Editing[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
2010	Craig Berkey	True Grit	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay.
2016	Sylvain Bellemare	Arrival	Won	[3]
2017	Nathan Robitaille Nelson Ferreira	The Shape of Water	Nominated

Best Sound or Sound Mixing[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1929	Douglas Shearer	The Big House	Won
1934		Viva Villa	Nominated
1935		Naughty Marietta	Won
1936		San Francisco	Won
1937		Maytime	Nominated
1938		Sweethearts	Nominated
1939		Balalaika	Nominated
1940		Strike Up the Band	Won
1941		The Chocolate Soldier	Nominated
1942		Mrs. Miniver	Nominated
1943		Madame Curie	Nominated
1944		Kismet	Nominated
1945		They Were Expendable	Nominated
1947		Green Dolphin Street	Nominated
1951		The Great Caruso	Won
1992	Rob Young	Unforgiven	Nominated	Shared with Les Fresholtz, Vern Poore, and Rick Alexander.
2007	Craig Berkey	No Country for Old Men	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, and Peter Kurland.
2010		True Grit	Nominated
2013	Andy Koyama	Lone Survivor	Nominated	Shared with Beau Borders and David Brownlow.
2014	Craig Mann	Whiplash	Won	Shared with Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley.
2015	Chris Duesterdiek	The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, and Randy Thom.
2016	Bernard Gariépy Strobl Claude La Haye	Arrival	Nominated	[3]
2017	Christian Cooke Brad Zoern Glen Gauthier	The Shape of Water	Nominated
2018	Paul Massey	Bohemian Rhapsody	Won	Massey is an English-Canadian. Shared with Tim Cavagin and John Casali.[4]
	Craig Henighan	Roma	Nominated	Shared with Skip Livesay and Jose Antonio Garcia.

Best Visual Effects[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1939	Douglas Shearer	The Wizard of Oz	Nominated	Shared with A. Arnold Gillespie.
1940		Boom Town	Nominated
1941		Flight Command	Nominated
1942		Mrs. Miniver	Nominated	Shared with A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe.
1944		Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Won	Shared with A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, and Warren Newcombe.
1947		Green Dolphin Street	Won	Shared with A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe, and Michael Steinore.
1978	Les Bowie	Superman	Won	Special Achievement Award for visual effects. Shared with Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, and Zoran Perisic.
1984	Lorne Peterson	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Won	Shared with Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, and George Gibbs.
1988	Richard Williams	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Won	Williams is a Canadian–British animator, voice artist, and writer. Shared with Ken Ralston, Edward Jones, and George Gibbs.
1994	Steve Williams	The Mask	Nominated	Shared with Scott Squires, Tom Bertino, and Jon Farhat.
1999	Rob Coleman	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	Nominated	Shared with John Knoll, Dennis Muren, and Scott Squires.
2002		Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	Nominated	Shared with Pablo Helman, John Knoll, and Ben Snow.
2014	Cameron Waldbauer	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Nominated	Shared with Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, and Tim Crosbie.
2015		The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Richard McBride, Matt Shumway, and Jason Smith.
2017	Joel Whist	War for the Planet of the Apes	Nominated	Shared with Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, and Dan Lemmon.

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1930	John Meehan	The Divorcee	Nominated
1965	Stanley Mann	The Collector	Nominated
1974	Lionel Chetwynd Mordecai Richler	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Nominated
1978	Bernard Slade	Same Time, Next Year	Nominated
1997	Atom Egoyan	The Sweet Hereafter	Nominated
1999	John Irving	The Cider House Rules	Won
2004	Paul Haggis	Million Dollar Baby	Nominated
2007	Sarah Polley	Away from Her	Nominated
2009	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air	Nominated	Shared with Sheldon Turner.
	Neill Blomkamp Terri Tatchell	District 9	Nominated	Blomkamp is a South African-Canadian.
2015	Emma Donoghue	Room	Nominated	Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian.

Best Writing – Original Screenplay[]

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1975	Ted Allan	Lies My Father Told Me	Nominated
1984	Daniel Petrie Jr.	Beverly Hills Cop	Nominated	Shared with Danilo Bach.
1994	Roger Avary	Pulp Fiction	Won	Shared with Quentin Tarantino.
2003	Denys Arcand	The Barbarian Invasions	Nominated
2005	Paul Haggis	Crash	Won	Shared with Robert Moresco.
2006		Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated	Shared with Iris Yamashita.

Special Awards[]

Special Awards

Year	Name	Award
1937	Mack Sennett	Honorary Academy Award.
1946	Harold Russell	Honorary Academy Award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives".
1958	Jack L. Warner	The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
1968	Onna White	Honorary Academy Award "for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!".
1975	Mary Pickford	Honorary Academy Award.
1988	National Film Board of Canada
1997	Norman Jewison	The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
2017	Donald Sutherland	Honorary Academy Award.

Nominations and Winners[]

No. of wins	No. of nominations
84	352

See also[]

• Cinema of Canada
• List of Canadian films
• Genie Awards

References[]

External links[]

• A brief history of Canadian actors at the Oscars, Peter Knegt, CBC Arts

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