List of Chilean Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of Chilean Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details Chilean films and Chilean people who have either been nominated for or won an Academy Award.

Best Animated Short[]

This list focuses on animated short films directed by Chilean-born filmmakers.

Best Animated Short
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1994 Vanessa Schwartz The Janitor Nominated Canadian-produced film.
2015 Pato Escala Pierart
Gabriel Osorio Vargas 		Bear Story Won First Latin American-produced animated short film to be nominated for and win an Academy Award.

Best Cinematography[]

This list focuses on Chilean-born cinematographers.

Best Cinematography
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2008 Claudio Miranda The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Nominated
2012 Life of Pi Won

Best Documentary Feature[]

This list focuses on Chilean films that won or were nominated for the Documentary Feature award.

Best Documentary Feature
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2021 Maite Alberdi (director) & Marcela Santibáñez (producer) The Mole Agent Nominated

Best International Feature Film[]

Main article: List of Chilean submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

This list focuses on Chilean films that won or were nominated for the Best International Feature Film award.

Best International Feature Film
Year Film Director Status Milestone / Notes
2012 No Pablo Larraín Nominated
2017 A Fantastic Woman Sebastián Lelio Won Lelio was born in Argentina to a Chilean mother, but was raised in Chile.

This list focuses on Chilean-born directors that won or were nominated for the Best International Feature Film award for a film submitted by a different country.

Best International Feature Film
Year Film Director Status Milestone / Notes
1975 Letters from Marusia Miguel Littin Nominated Submitted by Mexico.
1982 Alsino and the Condor Nominated Submitted by Nicaragua.
2004 The Sea Inside Alejandro Amenábar Won Submitted by Spain. Amenábar was born in Chile to a Chilean father, but was raised in Spain.

Best Original Score[]

This list focuses on scores by Chilean-born composers.

Best Original Score
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1970 Herbert W. Spencer Scrooge Nominated Spencer was a Chilean-born American composer and orchestrator. Nominated for Best Music, Original Song Score. Shared nomination with English-born Leslie Bricusse and Ian Fraser.
1973 Jesus Christ Superstar Nominated Nominated for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Shared nomination with English-born Andrew Lloyd Webber and German-American André Previn.

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