List of Latin American Academy Award winners and nominees

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A list of Latin American Academy Award winners and nominees appears below.

Best Picture[]

Best Picture
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Babel	Nominated	[1]
2013	Alfonso Cuarón		Gravity	Nominated	[2]
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Birdman	Won	[3]
2015			The Revenant	Nominated	[4]
2017	Guillermo del Toro		The Shape of Water	Won	[5]
2018	Alfonso Cuarón		Roma	Nominated	[6]
	Gabriela Rodríguez			Nominated
2020	Shaka King		Judas and the Black Messiah	Nominated	[7]

Best Director[]

Best Director
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1985	Héctor Babenco		Kiss of the Spider Woman	Nominated	[8]
2003	Fernando Meirelles		City of God	Nominated	[9]
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Babel	Nominated	[10]
2013	Alfonso Cuarón		Gravity	Won	[11]
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Birdman	Won	[12]
2015			The Revenant	Won	[13]
2017	Guillermo del Toro		The Shape of Water	Won	[14]
2018	Alfonso Cuarón		Roma	Won	[15]

Acting[]

Best Actor[]

Best Actor
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1950	José Ferrer		Cyrano de Bergerac	Won	[16]
1952			Moulin Rouge	Nominated	[17]
1957	Anthony Quinn		Wild Is the Wind	Nominated	[18]
1964			Zorba the Greek	Nominated	[19]
2011	Demián Bichir		A Better Life	Nominated	[20]

Best Actress[]

Best Actress
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1998	Fernanda Montenegro		Central Station	Nominated	[21]
2002	Salma Hayek		Frida	Nominated	[22]
2004	Catalina Sandino Moreno		Maria Full of Grace	Nominated	[23]
2018	Yalitza Aparicio		Roma	Nominated	[24]

Best Supporting Actor[]

Best Supporting Actor
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1948	José Ferrer		Joan of Arc	Nominated	[25]
1952	Anthony Quinn		Viva Zapata!	Won	[17]
1956			Lust for Life	Won	[26]
1990	Andy García		The Godfather Part III	Nominated	[27]
2000	Benicio del Toro		Traffic	Won	[28]
2003			21 Grams	Nominated	[29]

Best Supporting Actress[]

Best Supporting Actress
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1954	Katy Jurado		Broken Lance	Nominated
1961	Rita Moreno		West Side Story	Won	[30]
1987	Norma Aleandro		Gaby: A True Story	Nominated
2006	Adriana Barraza		Babel	Nominated	[1]
2011	Bérénice Bejo		The Artist	Nominated	[20]
2013	Lupita Nyong'o		12 Years a Slave	Won	[11]
2018	Marina de Tavira		Roma	Nominated	[24]

Best Cinematography[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born cinematographers.

Best Cinematography
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1964	Gabriel Figueroa		The Night of the Iguana	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Cinematography – Black-and-White".
1995	Emmanuel Lubezki		A Little Princess	Nominated
1999			Sleepy Hollow	Nominated
2003	César Charlone		City of God	Nominated	Charlone is Uruguayan, but is based in Brazil.
2005	Emmanuel Lubezki		The New World	Nominated
	Rodrigo Prieto		Brokeback Mountain	Nominated
2006	Emmanuel Lubezki		Children of Men	Nominated
	Guillermo Navarro		Pan's Labyrinth	Won	(original title: El laberinto del fauno) First Latin American and Mexican cinematographer to win an Academy Award.
2008	Claudio Miranda		The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated
2011	Emmanuel Lubezki		The Tree of Life	Nominated
2012	Claudio Miranda		Life of Pi	Won
2013	Emmanuel Lubezki		Gravity	Won
2014			Birdman	Won	First Latin American cinematographer to win consecutive Academy Awards.
2015			The Revenant	Won	First person to win this award in three consecutive years. First Latin American cinematographer to win three Academy Awards.
2016	Rodrigo Prieto		Silence	Nominated
2018	Alfonso Cuarón		Roma	Won	First Latin American and Mexican director to be nominated for Best Cinematography while serving as both director and cinematographer. First Latin American and Mexican director to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography in the same year.
2019	Rodrigo Prieto		The Irishman	Nominated

Best Costume Design[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born costume designers.

Best Costume Design
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2019	Mayes C. Rubeo		Jojo Rabbit	Nominated

Best Documentary Feature[]

This list focuses on documentary features directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Documentary Feature
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1957	Manuel Barbachano Ponce		Torero!	Nominated
1981	Tetê Vasconcellos		El Salvador: Another Vietnam	Nominated	Shared with Glenn Silber.
1985	Susana Blaustein Muñoz Lourdes Portillo		The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	Nominated
2014	Juliano Ribeiro Salgado		The Salt of the Earth	Nominated	Shared with Wim Wenders and producer David Rosier.
2019	Petra Costa Tiago Pavan		The Edge of Democracy	Nominated	Shared with Joanna Natasegara and Shane Boris.
2020	Maite Alberdi Marcela Santibañez		The Mole Agent	Nominated

Best Documentary Short Subject[]

This list focuses on documentary short subject directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Documentary Short Subject
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1971	Manuel Arango		Sentinels of Silence	Won	This was the only time that a short film won the Academy Award in two categories, having also won for Best Short Subject.
1977	Moctesuma Esparza		Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country	Nominated
1980	Jorge Preloran		Luther Metke at 94	Nominated	Shared with producer Richard Hawkins.
2007	Amanda Micheli Isabel Vega		The Crown	Nominated
2014	Gabriel Serra Argüello		The Reaper	Nominated

Best Film Editing[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born film editors.

Best Film Editing
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2003 (76th)	Daniel Rezende		City of God	Nominated	First Brazilian-born and Latino editor to be nominated for Best Film Editing.
2006 (79th)	Alfonso Cuarón Álex Rodríguez		Children of Men	Nominated	First Mexican editors to be nominated. French-born Mexican editor (Rodríguez).
2013 (86th)	Alfonso Cuarón		Gravity	Won	First Mexican-born editor to win Best Film Editing. Shared with Mark Sanger.

Best International Feature Film[]

Best Foreign Language Film
Year	Film	Country	Director	Status	Milestone / Notes
1960	Macario		Roberto Gavaldón	Nominated	First Latin American film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1961	The Important Man		Ismael Rodríguez	Nominated	(original title: Ánimas Trujano)
1962	Keeper of Promises		Anselmo Duarte	Nominated	(original title: O Pagador de Promessas)
	The Pearl of Tlayucan		Luis Alcoriza	Nominated	(original title: Tlayucan)
1974	The Truce		Sergio Renán	Nominated	(original title: La tregua)
1975	Letters from Marusia		Miguel Littín	Nominated	(original title: Actas de Marusia)
1982	Alsino and the Condor		Miguel Littín	Nominated	(original title: Alsino y el Cóndor) Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Miguel Littín. Only Latin American Director to receive nominations for films directed in two different countries.
1984	Camila		María Luisa Bemberg	Nominated	First nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by a Latin American woman director.
1985	The Official Story		Luis Puenzo	Won	(original title: La historia oficial) First Latin American film to win for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
1989	Santiago, the Story of his New Life		Jacobo Morales	Nominated	(original title: Lo que le pasó a Santiago)
1992	A Place in the World		Adolfo Aristarain	Nominated (Disqualified)	(original title: Un lugar en el mundo) After nominations were announced, information came to light that showed that the film was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.
1994	Strawberry and Chocolate		Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío	Nominated	(original title: Fresa y chocolate) First and only Cuban film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1995	O Quatrilho		Fábio Barreto	Nominated	Second Brazilian film nominated to the award in over 30 years.
1997	Four Days in September		Bruno Barreto	Nominated	(original title: O Que É Isso Companheiro?)
1998	Central Station		Walter Salles	Nominated	(original title: Central do Brasil) The film was also nominated for Best Actress.
	Tango		Carlos Saura	Nominated	(original title: Tango, no me dejes nunca)
2000	Love's a Bitch		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	(original title: Amores perros)
2001	Son of the Bride		Juan José Campanella	Nominated	(original title: El hijo de la novia)
2002	The Crime of Father Amaro		Carlos Carrera	Nominated	(original title: El crimen del Padre Amaro)
2006	Pan's Labyrinth		Guillermo del Toro	Nominated	(original title: El laberinto del fauno) The film was nominated for other five Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup, and won the last three of them.
2009	The Milk of Sorrow		Claudia Llosa	Nominated	(original title: La teta asustada) First, and only, Peruvian Film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
	The Secret in Their Eyes		Juan José Campanella	Won	(original title: El secreto de sus ojos) Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Juan José Campanella, and first to win. Second Argentine, and Latin American, film to win for Best Foreign Language Film.
2010	Biutiful		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film was also nominated for Best Actor.
2012	No		Pablo Larraín	Nominated	First Chilean Film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
2014	Wild Tales		Damián Szifrón	Nominated	(original title: Relatos Salvajes)
2015	Embrace of the Serpent		Ciro Guerra	Nominated	(original title: El abrazo de la serpiente) First Colombian film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
2017	A Fantastic Woman		Sebastián Lelio	Won	(original title: Una Mujer Fantástica) First Chilean film to win the Best Foreign Language Film award.
2018	Roma		Alfonso Cuarón	Won	First Latin American film to be simultaneously nominated for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film.

Best Animated Feature[]

This list focuses on animated features directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Animated Feature
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2015 (88th)	Alê Abreu		Boy and the World	Nominated	First Latin American film to be nominated for Best Animated Feature.
2017 (90th)	Carlos Saldanha		Ferdinand	Nominated

Best Live Action Short Film[]

This list focuses on live action short films directed/produced by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1971 (44th)	Manuel Arango		Sentinels of Silence	Won	First and only time a short film won Academy Awards in two different categories.
1976 (49th)	André Gutffreund		In the Region of Ice	Won	Shared with director Peter Werner.
1996 (69th)	Antonio Urrutia		De tripas, corazón	Nominated
2000 (73rd)	Paulo Machline		Uma História de Futebol	Nominated

Best Animated Short Film[]

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

Best Animated Short Film
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2003 (76th)	Carlos Saldanha		Gone Nutty	Nominated	First Animated Short Film directed by a Latin American director to receive an Academy Award nomination.
2009 (82nd)	Nicolas Schmerkin		Logorama	Won	First Latin American Animated Short to be nominated for and win an Academy Award.
2015 (88th)	Pato Escala Pierart Gabriel Osorio Vargas		Bear Story	Won

Best Makeup[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born makeup artists.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2002 (75th)	Beatrice De Alba		Frida	Won	First Mexican-born makeup artist to be nominated for and win Best Makeup. Shared with John E. Jackson.
2008 (81st)	Mike Elizalde		Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Nominated

Best Music – Original Score[]

This list focuses on scores by Latin American-born composers.

Best Original Score
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1966	Luis Bacalov		The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Nominated	(original title: Il Vangelo secondo Matteo)
1967	Lalo Schifrin		Cool Hand Luke	Nominated
1968			The Fox	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)".
1970	Bill Melendez		A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score." Shared nomination with Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter, Al Shean, and Vince Guaraldi.
	Herbert W. Spencer		Scrooge	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score". Shared nomination with English-born Leslie Bricusse and Ian Fraser.
1973			Jesus Christ Superstar	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation". Shared nomination with English-born Andrew Lloyd Webber and German-American André Previn.
1976	Lalo Schifrin		Voyage of the Damned	Nominated
1979			The Amityville Horror	Nominated
1983			The Sting II	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score".
1985	Jorge Calandrelli		The Color Purple	Nominated	Nominated with eleven other composers.
1995	Luis Bacalov		The Postman	Won	(original title: Il Postino). The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Dramatic Score".
2005	Gustavo Santaolalla		Brokeback Mountain	Won	Fourth composer to win two years in a row.
2006			Babel	Won

Best Music – Original Song[]

This list focuses on songs by Latin American-born composers and/or lyricists.

Best Original Song
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1942	Ernesto Lecuona		Always in My Heart	"Always in My Heart"	Nominated	First Hispanic person (along with Emile Kuri) to be nominated in any category. First person from a Caribbean country to be nominated in any category. Nominated with American Kim Gannon.
1944	Ary Barroso		Brazil	"Rio de Janeiro"	Nominated	First Brazilian and Latin-American songwriter to be nominated. Nominated with American Ned Washington.
1981	Lalo Schifrin		The Competition	"People Alone"	Nominated	First Argentinean to be nominated. Nominated with American Will Jennings.
2000	Jorge Calandrelli		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	(original title: Wo hu cang long) Nominated with Chinese Tan Dun and American James Schamus.
2004	Jorge Drexler		The Motorcycle Diaries	"Al otro lado del río"	Won	(original title: Diarios de motocicleta) First Uruguayan to be nominated and win an Academy Award.
2011	Sergio Mendes Carlinhos Brown		Rio	"Real in Rio"	Nominated	First two Brazilian songwriters to be nominated together. Brown is the first black Latin songwriter to be nominated. Nominated with American Siedah Garrett.

Best Production Design[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born production designers and set decorators.

Best Production Design
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1942	Emile Kuri		Silver Queen	Nominated	First Hispanic person (along with Ernesto Lecuona) to be nominated in any category. Nominated with Ralph Berger.
1949			The Heiress	Won	Nominated with Harry Horner and John Meehan.
	Edward Carrere		Adventures of Don Juan	Nominated	Nominated with Lyle Reifsnider.
1952	Emile Kuri		Carrie	Nominated	Nominated with Roland Anderson and Hal Pereira.
1954			20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won	Nominated with John Meehan.
			Executive Suite	Nominated	Nominated with Edward Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis.
1960	Edward Carrere		Sunrise at Campobello	Nominated	Nominated with George James Hopkins.
1961	Emile Kuri		The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated	Nominated with Carroll Clark and Hal Gausman.
1964			Mary Poppins	Nominated	Nominated with Carroll Clark, Hal Gausman and William H. Tuntke.
1967	Edward Carrere		Camelot	Won	Nominated with John Truscott and John W. Brown.
1971	Emile Kuri		Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated	Nominated with Peter Ellenshaw, Hal Gausman and John B. Mansbridge.
1995	Eugenio Zanetti		Restoration	Won
1996	Brigitte Broch		Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	Broch is a German-born Mexican art director. Nominated with Catherine Martin.
1998	Eugenio Zanetti		What Dreams May Come	Nominated	Nominated with Cindy Carr.
2001	Brigitte Broch		Moulin Rouge!	Won	Nominated with Catherine Martin.
2002	Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo		Frida	Nominated
2006	Eugenio Caballero		Pan's Labyrinth	Won	Nominated with Pilar Revuelta.
2018	Eugenio Caballero Bárbara Enríquez		Roma	Nominated

Best Sound or Sound Mixing[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born sound engineers.

Best Sound Mixing
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2006 (79th)	Fernando Cámara		Apocalypto	Nominated	First Mexican-born and Latino / Hispanic to be nominated for Best Sound Mixing.
2012 (85th)	José Antonio Garcia		Argo	Nominated	Shared with John T. Reitz and Gregg Rudloff.
2018 (91st)			Roma	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan.
2020 (93rd)	Jaime Baksht Michelle Couttolenc Carlos Cortés		Sound of Metal	Won	Shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh.

Best Sound Editing[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born sond editors.

Best Sound Editing
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2014 (87th)	Martin Hernández		Birdman	Nominated	Shared with Aaron Glascock.
2015 (88th)			The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Lon Bender.
2018 (91st)	Sergio Díaz		Roma	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay.

Best Visual Effects[]

Best Visual Effects
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1947	Paul Lerpae		Unconquered	Nominated	Nomination shared with Farciot Edouart, Devereaux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and George Dutton.
2002	Pablo Helman		Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	Nominated	Nomination shared with Rob Coleman, John Knoll and Ben Snow.
2005			War of the Worlds	Nominated	Nomination shared with Randal M. Dutra, Dennis Muren and Dan Sudick.
2019			The Irishman	Nominated	Nomination shared with Stephane Grabli.
	Leandro Estebecorena			Nominated
	Nelson Sepulveda			Nominated

Best Adapted Screenplay[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2003 (76th)	Bráulio Mantovani		City of God	Nominated	First Brazilian-born screenwriter to be nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
2004 (77th)	José Rivera		The Motorcycle Diaries	Nominated	First Puerto Rican-born screenwriter to be nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
2006 (79th)	Alfonso Cuarón		Children of Men	Nominated	First Mexican-born screenwriter to be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Best Original Screenplay[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Best Original Screenplay
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1985 (58th)	Aída Bortnik Luis Puenzo		The Official Story	Nominated	First Argentine-born and Latino / Hispanic screenwriters to be nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
2002 (75th)	Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón		Y Tu Mamá También	Nominated	First Mexican-born screenwriters to be nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
2006 (79th)	Guillermo Arriaga		Babel	Nominated
	Guillermo del Toro		Pan's Labyrinth	Nominated
2014 (87th)	Alejandro González Iñárritu Nicolás Giacobone Armando Bó		Birdman	Won	First Mexican-born screenwriter to win for Best Original Screenplay (Iñárritu). First Argentine-born screenwriters to win Best Original Screenplay (Giacobone and Bó). Shared with Alexander Dinelaris Jr.
2017 (90th)	Guillermo del Toro		The Shape of Water	Nominated	Shared with Vanessa Taylor.
2018 (91st)	Alfonso Cuarón		Roma	Nominated
2020 (93rd)	Shaka King		Judas and the Black Messiah	Nominated	King is an American screenwriter of Barbadian and Panamanian descent. Shared with Will Berson, Kenny Lucas, and Keith Lucas.

Best Story[]

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Best Story
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1930/1931 (4th)	Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast		Laughter	Nominated	Argentine-born French screenwriter. Nomination shared with Douglas Z. Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart.

Note: Defunct category.

Special Awards[]

Honorary Award
Year	Nominee	Country	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2018 (91st)	Lalo Schifrin		Recipient	First Latino and Argentine to receive this award.

Special Achievement Academy Award
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2017 (90th)	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Flesh and Sand	Recipient	First Latino and Mexican to receive this award.

By Country[]

Rank	Country	No. of wins	No. of nominations
1	Mexico	28	91
2	Argentina	10	34
3	Chile	3	9
4	Puerto Rico	3	8
5	Uruguay	1	3
=	Nicaragua	1	3
7	Brazil	0	18
8	Colombia	0	3
=	Cuba	0	3
10	Barbados	0	2
=	Panama	0	2
12	Peru	0	1

See also[]

• Lists of Hispanic Academy Award winners and nominees by country

References[]