This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees who are of Asian descent. This list is current as of the 96th Academy Awards.
| Best Picture | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | William Peter Blatty | / | The Exorcist | Lebanese descent. First American of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Picture. | |
| 1980 | Ronald L. Schwary | Ordinary People | Lebanese descent.[1] First American of Asian descent to win for Best Picture. | ||
| 1984 | A Soldier's Story | ||||
| 1986 | Ismail Merchant | / | A Room with a View | Indian descent.[2] | |
| 1988 | Hank Moonjean |  / | Dangerous Liaisons | Armenian descent.[3] | |
| 1989 | Tony Thomas | / | Dead Poets Society | Lebanese descent. | |
| 1989 | A. Kitman Ho |  / | Born on the Fourth of July | Chinese descent. First Asian-American nominated for Best Picture[4] | |
| 1991 | JFK | ||||
| 1992 | Ismail Merchant | / | Howards End | Indian descent. | |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | Indian descent. | |||
| 1996 | Richard Sakai | / | Jerry Maguire | Japanese-American.[5] | |
| 2000 | Ang Lee William Kong Hsu Li-kong |  | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | All three are of Chinese descent.[6] [7] | |
| 2011 | Thomas Langmann |  / | The Artist | Lebanese descent.[8] [9] [10] | |
| 2012 | Ang Lee | Life of Pi | Taiwanese. | ||
| 2019 | Kwak Sin-ae Bong Joon-Ho | Parasite | Korean. First Best Picture win by Asian filmmakers. | ||
| 2020 | Christina Oh | / | Minari | Korean-American. | |
| Chloé Zhao | | Nomadland | Chinese descent. | ||
| 2021 | Teruhisa Yamamoto | | Drive My Car | Japanese.[11] | |
| Tanya Seghatchian | / | The Power of the Dog | Armenian descent. | ||
| 2022 | Jonathan Wang | / | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Both are of Chinese descent. | |
| Daniel Kwan | // | ||||
| Best Director | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | | Woman in the Dunes | Japanese descent.[12] First Asian nominated for Best Director. | ||
| 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | Ran | Japanese descent.[13] | |||
| 1997 | Atom Egoyan | // | The Sweet Hereafter | Of Armenian descent.[14] | ||
| 1998 | Terrence Malick | / | The Thin Red Line | Lebanese and Assyrian descent.[15] [16] [17] | ||
| 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | / | The Sixth Sense | Indian descent.[18] First Asian-American director to be nominated. | ||
| 2000 | Ang Lee | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | ||||
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | First Asian to win Best Director. | ||||
| 2011 | Terrence Malick | / | The Tree of Life | |||
| 2012 | Ang Lee | Life of Pi | First Asian to win Best Director multiple times. | |||
| 2019 | Bong Joon-Ho | Parasite | First Korean director to be nominated and win Best Director. | |||
| 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | / | Minari | Korean descent. | ||
| Chloé Zhao | | Nomadland | Chinese descent. First Asian woman to win Best Director. | |||
| 2021 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | | Drive My Car | |||
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan | // | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Chinese descent. | ||
| Best Actor | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Role | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Yul Brynner |  | The King and I | King Mongkut | Buryat (Mongol) descent as well First Asian (and first Asian-American, overall) to be nominated for Best Actor, First Asian (and first Asian-American) to win Best Actor. Brynner became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943. | |
| 1982 | Ben Kingsley | / | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi | Half-Indian descent (father is Indian).[19] | |
| 1984 | F. Murray Abraham | / | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri | Half-Syrian descent (father is Syrian). | |
| 2003 | Ben Kingsley | / | House of Sand and Fog | Massoud Behrani | ||
| 2011 | Demián Bichir |  / | A Better Life | Carlos Galindo | Lebanese descent. | |
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | / | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone | Pakistani descent. First Muslim actor to be nominated for Best Actor. | |
| Steven Yeun | / | Minari | Jacob Yi | Korean descent. First East Asian actor to be nominated for Best Actor. | ||
| Best Actress | |||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Role | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Merle Oberon | / | The Dark Angel | Kitty Vane | Part-Sri Lankan and Maori (Polynesian) descent.[20] First Asian nominated for any Academy Award. First actress of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Actress. | ||
| 1987 | Cher | / | Moonstruck | Loretta Castorini | Born in the United States, is of Armenian descent. | ||
| 2002 | Salma Hayek | / | Frida | Frida Kahlo | Lebanese descent. | ||
| 2010 | Natalie Portman | / | Black Swan | Nina | Israeli descent. | ||
| 2016 | Jackie | Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy | |||||
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh |  | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Quan Wang | Malaysian-Chinese descent. First Southeast Asian actress nominated for and to win Best Actress. Second person of color to win Best Actress. | ||
| Best Supporting Actor | |||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Role | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Akim Tamiroff | / | The General Died at Dawn | General Yang | Armenian descent. First Asian to be nominated in a supporting acting category. First Asian with multiple nominations in acting categories. | ||
| 1943 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Pablo | |||||
| 1957 | Sessue Hayakawa | | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Colonel Saito | Japanese descent. | ||
| 1962 | Omar Sharif |  / | Lawrence of Arabia | Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish | Lebanese descent. | ||
| 1966 | Mako Iwamatsu | | The Sand Pebbles | Po-Han | Japanese descent. | ||
| 1984 | Haing S. Ngor |  | The Killing Fields | Dith Pran | Cambodian descent. | ||
| Pat Morita | / | The Karate Kid | Mr. Miyagi | Japanese descent.[21] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor. | |||
| 1991 | Ben Kingsley | / | Bugsy | Meyer Lansky | |||
| 2001 | Sexy Beast | Don Logan | Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations. | ||||
| 2003 | Ken Watanabe | | The Last Samurai | Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu | Japanese descent. | ||
| 2016 | Dev Patel | / | Lion | Saroo Brierley | Indian descent.[22] | ||
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan | / | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Waymond Wang | Born in Vietnam, is of Chinese descent. | ||
| Best Supporting Actress | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Role | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Miyoshi Umeki | / | Sayonara | Katsumi Kelly | She was a shin Issei, or post-1945 immigrant from Japan. The first Asian woman to win an Academy Award for acting. | |
| 1983 | Cher | / | Silkwood | Dolly Pelliker | Armenian descent. | |
| 1985 | Meg Tilly | / | Agnes of God | Sister Agnes | Half-Chinese descent.[23] First Asian American and first Chinese American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. | |
| 1994 | Jennifer Tilly | Bullets Over Broadway | Olive Neal | Half-Chinese descent. | ||
| 1999 | Catherine Keener | / | Being John Malkovich | Maxine Lund | Lebanese descent. | |
| 2003 | Shohreh Aghdashloo | / | House of Sand and Fog | Nadereh "Nadi" Behrani | Iranian descent. | |
| 2004 | Natalie Portman | / | Closer | Alice Ayres / Jane Jones | Israeli descent. | |
| 2005 | Catherine Keener | / | Capote | Nelle Harper Lee | ||
| 2006 | Rinko Kikuchi | | Babel | Chieko Wataya | First Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. | |
| 2010 | Hailee Steinfeld | / | True Grit | Mattie Ross | Filipino descent (maternal grandfather was of half Filipino and half African-American descent).[24] [25] [26] Youngest Asian American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress (age 14). | |
| 2020 | Youn Yuh-jung | Minari | Soon-ja | First South Korean actor to be nominated and win an Academy Award. | ||
| 2022 | Hong Chau | / | The Whale | Liz | Vietnamese descent. First time two Asian American actresses nominated in the same year. | |
| Stephanie Hsu | / | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki | Chinese descent. First time two Asian American actresses nominated in the same year. | ||
| Best Original Screenplay | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Ken Shadie |  / | Crocodile Dundee | Lebanese descent.[27] | ||
| 1986 | Hanif Kureishi | / | My Beautiful Laundrette | Half-Pakistani descent (father is Pakistani).[28] | ||
| 1991 | Callie Khouri | / | Thelma & Louise | Lebanese descent First American of Asian descent to win for Best Original Screenplay. | ||
| 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | / | The Sixth Sense | Indian descent. | ||
| 2002 | Steven Zaillian | / | Gangs of New York | Armenian descent. | ||
| 2006 | Iris Yamashita | / | Letters from Iwo Jima | Japanese descent.[29] Second time a screenplay written almost entirely in an Asian language (Japanese) was nominated for a screenplay award. | ||
| 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | A Separation | Iranian descent. First screenplay written in Persian to be nominated for a screenplay award. | |||
| 2015 | Alex Garland | / | Ex Machina | Lebanese descent. | ||
| Ronnie del Carmen | | Inside Out | Filipino descent.[30] | |||
| 2017 | Kumail Nanjiani | / | The Big Sick | Pakistani descent.[31] | ||
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho Han Jin-won | Parasite | First Asian writers to win any screenwriting Academy Award.[32] [33] | |||
| 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | / | Minari | Korean descent. | ||
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan | / | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Chinese descent. | ||
| 2023 | Celine Song | / | Past Lives | Korean descent. | ||
| Best Cinematography | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | James Wong Howe | / | Algiers | Chinese descent. First Asian to be nominated for Best Cinematography. | ||
| 1940 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | |||||
| 1942 | Kings Row | |||||
| 1943 | Air Force | |||||
| The North Star | ||||||
| 1955 | The Rose Tattoo | First Asian to win Best Cinematography. | ||||
| 1958 | The Old Man and the Sea | |||||
| 1963 | Hud | First Asian to win multiple Academy Awards. | ||||
| 1966 | Seconds | |||||
| 1970 | Osamu Furuya Shinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh | | Tora! Tora! Tora! | All three are of Japanese descent.[35] | ||
| 1975 | James Wong Howe | | Funny Lady | Most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with ten nominations. | ||
| 1985 | Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai | | Ran | All three are of Japanese descent.[36] [37] | ||
| 1993 | Gu Changwei | | Farewell My Concubine | Chinese descent.[38] | ||
| 1995 | Lü Yue | Shanghai Triad | Chinese descent.[39] | |||
| 1996 | Darius Khondji | / | Evita | Iranian descent. | ||
| 2000 | Peter Pau | | Chinese descent. | |||
| 2004 | Zhao Xiaoding | House of Flying Daggers | Chinese descent. | |||
| 2010 | Matthew Libatique | / | Black Swan | Filipino descent.[40] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Cinematography since Howe. | ||
| 2018 | A Star Is Born | |||||
| 2022 | Darius Khondji | / | Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Iranian descent. | ||
| 2023 | Matthew Libatique | / | Maestro | Filipino descent. | ||
| Best Costume Design | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Irene Sharaff | / | An American in Paris | Armenian descent. First designer of Asian descent to win for Best Costume Design. Award shared with Orry-Kelly & Walter Plunkett[41] | ||
| 1954 | Call Me Madam | Armenian descent.[42] | ||||
| 1955 | Sanzo Wada | | Gate of Hell | Japanese descent. First designer of East Asian descent to win for Best Costume Design[43] | ||
| Irene Sharaff | / | Brigadoon | Armenian descent.[44] | |||
| A Star Is Born | ||||||
| 1956 | Tadaoto Kainosho | | Ugetsu | Japanese descent.[45] | ||
| Irene Sharaff | / | Guys and Dolls | Armenian descent.[46] | |||
| 1957 | The King and I | Armenian descent.[47] | ||||
| Kohei Ezaki | | Seven Samurai | Japanese descent.[48] | |||
| 1960 | Irene Sharaff | / | Porgy and Bess | Armenian descent.[49] | ||
| 1961 | Can-Can | Armenian descent.[50] | ||||
| 1962 | West Side Story | Armenian descent.[51] | ||||
| Yoshirō Muraki | | Yojimbo | Japanese descent.[52] | |||
| 1964 | Irene Sharaff | / | Cleopatra | Armenian descent. With Renié & Vittorio Nino Novarese[53] | ||
| 1967 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Armenian descent.[54] | ||||
| 1968 | The Taming of the Shrew | Armenian descent.[55] | ||||
| 1970 | Hello, Dolly! | Armenian descent.[56] | ||||
| 1978 | The Other Side of Midnight | Armenian descent.[57] | ||||
| 1982 | Bhanu Athaiya | | Gandhi | First Indian to win an academy award in costume design | ||
| 1986 | Emi Wada | | Ran | Japanese descent.[58] | ||
| 1993 | Eiko Ishioka | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Japanese descent.[59] | |||
| 2001 | Tim Yip | | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Chinese descent from Hong Kong.[60] | ||
| 2007 | Yee Chung-man | Curse of the Golden Flower | Chinese descent from Hong Kong.[61] | |||
| 2013 | Eiko Ishioka | | Mirror Mirror | Japanese descent.[62] | ||
| 2014 | William Chang | | The Grandmaster | Chinese descent from Hong Kong.[63] | ||
| 2022 | Shirley Kurata | / | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Japanese descent.[64] | ||
| Best Film Editing | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Richard Chew | / | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Chinese descent. First Asian nominated for Best Film Editing. First Asian American nominated for Best Film Editing. | ||
| 1977 | Star Wars | First Asian to win Best Film Editing. First Asian American to win Best Film Editing. | ||||
| 1992 | Kant Pan |  | The Crying Game | Chinese descent.[65] | ||
| 1999 | Tariq Anwar | // | American Beauty | Half-Indian descent (father is Indian).[66] | ||
| 2010 | The King's Speech | |||||
| 2014 | Tom Cross | / | Whiplash | Half-Vietnamese descent (mother is Vietnamese).[67] | ||
| 2016 | La La Land | |||||
| 2019 | Yang Jin-mo | Parasite | ||||
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | First Asian (and Asian woman, overall) to be nominated for Best Film Editing while serving as director, producer, writer, and editor. | |||
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to countries, not individuals. This list contains directors of nominated films of Asian descent, who typically accept the award on behalf of their country.
| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Kazu Hiro | / | Click | Japanese descent.[68] First Asian to be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling | ||
| 2007 | Norbit | |||||
| 2017 | Darkest Hour | First Asian to win for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. | ||||
| 2019 | Bombshell | US citizen.[69] [70] | ||||
| 2021 | Frederic Aspiras | // | House of Gucci | Vietnamese-Filipino descent.[71] Second Asian to be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. | ||
| 2022 | Judy Chin | | The Whale | The first woman of Asian descent to win the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.[72] | ||
| 2023 | Kazu Hiro | / | Maestro | |||
| Best Production Design | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Eddie Imazu | / | The Great Ziegfeld | First Asian to be nominated for Best Production Design. | ||
| 1942 | Emile Kuri | // | Silver Queen | Lebanese descent. Black and White. | ||
| 1949 | // | The Heiress | Lebanese descent. Black and White. | |||
| 1952 | So Matsuyama H. Matsumoto | | Rashomon | Japanese. Black and White. | ||
| Emile Kuri | // | Carrie | Lebanese descent. Black and White. | |||
| 1954 | // | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Lebanese descent. Color | |||
| // | Executive Suite | Lebanese descent. Black and White. | ||||
| 1956 | So Matsuyama | | Seven Samurai | Japanese descent.[73] | ||
| Albert Nozaki | / | The Ten Commandments | Japanese descent.[74] Color. | |||
| 1961 | Emile Kuri | // | The Absent-Minded Professor | Black and White. | ||
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Color. | ||||
| 1969 | George B. Chan | / | Gaily, Gaily | Chinese descent.[75] | ||
| 1971 | Yoshirō Muraki and Taizô Kawashima | | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Japanese descent.[76] | ||
| 1972 | Emile Kuri | // | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | |||
| 1981 | Yoshirō Muraki | | Kagemusha | Japanese descent.[77] | ||
| 1986 | Yoshirō Muraki and Shinobu Muraki | | Ran | Japanese descent.[78] | ||
| 2001 | Tim Yip | | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Hong Kong Chinese.[79] | ||
| 2008 | James J. Murakami | / | Changeling | Japanese descent.[80] | ||
| 2013 | Ra Vincent |  | Maori descent.[81] | |||
| 2017 | Paul Denham Austerberry | // | The Shape of Water | Filipino descent.[82] | ||
| 2020 | Lee Ha-jun Cho Won-woo | Parasite | ||||
| Best Original Score | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Toshiro Mayuzumi | | The Bible | Japanese descent.[83] First Asian to be nominated for Best Original Score. | ||
| 1982 | Ravi Shankar | | Gandhi | Indian descent.[84] First Asian to be nominated for both Academy and Grammy Awards. | ||
| 1987 | Cong Su Ryuichi Sakamoto | | The Last Emperor | Su is of Chinese descent.[85] Sakamoto is of Japanese descent.[86] First Asians to win Best Original Score. | ||
| 1996 | Gabriel Yared | / | The English Patient | Lebanese descent. | ||
| 1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | |||||
| 2000 | Tan Dun | | Chinese descent. | |||
| 2003 | Gabriel Yared | / | Cold Mountain | |||
| 2008 | A. R. Rahman | | Slumdog Millionaire | First Indian to win two Oscars in one night.[87] | ||
| 2010 | 127 Hours | |||||
| 2022 | Ian Chang Rafiq Bhatia | / | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Nominated as the group Son Lux, with Ryan Lott. | ||
| Best Original Song | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Song | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Paul Jabara | / | Thank God It's Friday | "Last Dance" | Lebanese descent. | |
| 2000 | Tan Dun | | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | "A Love Before Time" | Chinese. | |
| 2008 | Gulzar A.R. Rahman | | Slumdog Millionaire | "Jai Ho" | Indian. | |
| M.I.A. A.R. Rahman | / | "O Saya" | M.I.A. is of Sri Lankan descent.[88] | |||
| 2012 | Bombay Jayashri | | Life of Pi | "Pi's Lullaby" | Indian. | |
| 2013 | Robert Lopez | / | Frozen | "Let It Go" | Part-Filipino descent (paternal grandfather is Filipino, paternal grandmother is part-Filipino).[89] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Original Song. First Asian American to win Best Original Song. | |
| Karen O | / / | Her | "The Moon Song" | Half-Korean descent (mother is Korean, father is Polish).[90] | ||
| 2015 | Belly | / | Fifty Shades of Grey | "Earned It" | Palestinian-born Canadian. | |
| 2017 | Robert Lopez | / | Coco | "Remember Me" | ||
| 2019 | Frozen II | "Into the Unknown" | ||||
| 2020 | H.E.R. | Judas and the Black Messiah | "Fight for You" | American born, of Filipino descent. | ||
| Savan Kotecha | / | "Husavik" | American born, of Indian descent. | |||
| 2022 | M. M. Keeravani Chandrabose | | RRR | "Naatu Naatu" | Indian (Telugu) descent. | |
| Mitski | / | Everything Everywhere All at Once | "This is a Life" | Japanese descent. | ||
Prior to the 93rd Academy Awards, the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.[91]
| Best Sound | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Category | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Ren Klyce | / | Fight Club | Editing | Japanese descent. First Asian to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. First Asian American to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. | |
| 2006 | Kami Asgar | / | Apocalypto | Iranian descent. First and only Middle Eastern to date to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. | ||
| 2008 | Ren Klyce | / | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Mixing | Japanese descent. First Asian to be nominated for Best Sound Mixing. First Asian American nominated for Best Sound Mixing. | |
| 2010 | The Social Network | |||||
| 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |||||
| Editing | ||||||
| 2017 | Mixing | |||||
| Editing | ||||||
| 2020 | Mank | Sound | ||||
| Soul | ||||||
| Best Visual Effects | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Greg Jein | / | Chinese descent.[92] First Asian nominated for Best Visual Effects. First Asian American nominated for Best Visual Effects. | |||
| 1979 | 1941 | |||||
| 1992 | Doug Chiang | / | Death Becomes Her | Chinese descent. First Asian to win Best Visual Effects. | ||
| 1993 | Ariel Velasco Shaw | / | The Nightmare Before Christmas | Filipino descent.[93] First person of Filipino descent to be nominated for Best Visual Effects. | ||
| 1999 | Jerome Chen | / | Stuart Little | Chinese descent.[94] | ||
| 2023 | Takashi Yamazaki Kiyoko Shibuya Masaki Takahashi Tatsuji Nojima | | Godzilla Minus One | First Japanese production to win for Best Visual Effects. | ||
| Best Documentary Feature | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Steven Okazaki | / | Unfinished Business | Japanese descent.[95] First Asian nominated for Best Documentary Feature. First Asian American nominated for Best Documentary Feature. | ||
| 1988 | Renee Tajima-Peña | Who Killed Vincent Chin? | Tajima-Peña is of Japanese descent.[96] | |||
| 1994 | Freida Lee Mock | / | Chinese descent.[97] First Asian to win Best Documentary Feature. First Asian American to win Best Documentary Feature. | |||
| 2010 | Audrey Marrs | / | Inside Job | Half-Japanese descent (mother is Japanese)[98] | ||
| 2011 | Jehane Noujaim | / | The Square | Lebanese descent | ||
| 2014 | Joanna Natasegara | // | Virunga | Malaysian and Japanese descent. | ||
| John Maloof | / | Finding Vivian Maier | Lebanese descent.[99] | |||
| 2015 | Asif Kapadia | / | Amy | Indian descent[100] | ||
| 2018 | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Jimmy Chin |   | Free Solo | Vasarhelyi is of Chinese, Hong Kong, Hungarian, and Brazilian descent.[101] Chin is of Chinese and Taiwanese descent.[102] They are the first married couple of Asian descent to share a nomination. | ||
| // | ||||||
| Bing Liu Diane Moy Quon | / | Minding the Gap | Liu and Moy Quon are of Chinese descent.[103] | |||
| Su Kim | / | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | Korean descent.[104] | |||
| 2019 | Joanna Natasegara | // | The Edge of Democracy | |||
| 2019 | Waad Al-Kateab | For Sama | ||||
| 2021 | Joseph Patel | / | Summer of Soul | |||
| Jessica Kingdon | / | Ascension | ||||
| 2022 | Aman Mann | / | All That Breathes | Canadian of Indian descent. | ||
| 2023 | Nisha Pahuja | / | To Kill a Tiger | Canadian of Indian descent. | ||
| Best Animated Feature | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Hayao Miyazaki | | Spirited Away | Japanese descent. | |
| 2005 | Howl's Moving Castle | ||||
| 2007 | Marjane Satrapi | | Persepolis | Iranian descent. | |
| 2011 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | / | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Korean descent.[105] First woman to direct a Hollywood animated feature film. | |
| 2013 | Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki | | The Wind Rises | Japanese descent. | |
| 2014 | Isao Takahata Yoshiaki Nishimura | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | |||
| 2015 | Rosa Tran | / | Anomalisa | Vietnamese descent. | |
| Hiromasa Yonebayashi Yoshiaki Nishimura | | When Marnie Was There | Japanese descent. | ||
| 2016 | Toshio Suzuki | The Red Turtle | Japanese descent. | ||
| 2017 | Ramsey Naito | / | The Boss Baby | Japanese descent.[106] | |
| 2018 | Mamoru Hosoda Yuichiro Saito | | Mirai | Japanese descent. | |
| 2019 | Jinko Gotoh | / | Klaus | Born in Japan and raised in California.[107] | |
| 2020 | Gennie Rim | / | Over the Moon | Chinese descent. | |
| Peilin Chou | |||||
| 2022 | Domee Shi | / | Turning Red | Chinese descent. | |
| 2023 | Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki | | The Boy and the Heron | ||
| Peter Sohn | / | Elemental | Korean descent | ||
| Best Documentary Short Subject | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Freida Lee Mock | / | To Live or Let Die | First Asian American nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject. | |
| 1983 | Arthur Dong | Sewing Woman | Chinese descent. | ||
| 1984 | Paul T.K. Lin | / | The Children of Soong Ching Ling | Chinese descent.[108] | |
| 1988 | Lise Yasui | / | Family Gathering | Japanese descent.[109] | |
| 1990 | Freida Lee Mock | / | |||
| Steven Okazaki | / | First Asian to win Best Documentary Short Subject. First Asian American to win Best Documentary Short Subject. | |||
| 1995 | Freida Lee Mock | / | |||
| 1996 | Jessica Yu | Chinese descent.[110] | |||
| 1998 | Keiko Ibi | / | Japanese descent.[111] | ||
| Shui-Bo Wang | / | Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square | Chinese descent.[112] | ||
| 2001 | Freida Lee Mock | / | Sing! | Tied for second most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with five nominations. | |
| 2005 | Steven Okazaki | / | The Mushroom Club | ||
| 2008 | The Conscience of Nhem En | Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations. | |||
| 2011 | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | / | Saving Face | Pakistani descent.[113] | |
| 2015 | |||||
| 2016 | Joanna Natasegara | // | The White Helmets | Malaysian and Japanese descent. | |
| 2018 | Rayka Zehtabchi | / | Period. End of Sentence. | Iranian descent.[114] | |
| 2019 | Smriti Mundhra Sami Khan | / | St. Louis Superman | Indian descent.[115] | |
| 2022 | Kartiki Gonsalves Guneet Monga | | The Elephant Whisperers | ||
| 2023 | S. Leo Chiang Jean Tsien | | Island in Between | ||
| Sean Wang | | Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó | Shared with Sam Davis. | ||
| Best Animated Short Film | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Jimmy T. Murakami | / | The Magic Pear Tree | Japanese descent.[116] First Asian nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First Asian American nominated for Best Animated Short Film. | |
| 2008 | Kunio Kato | La maison en petits cubes | Won | Japanese descent first Asian to win for Best Animated short film | |
| 2010 | Shaun Tan | / | The Lost Thing | Half-Chinese descent (father is Chinese)[117] | |
| 2011 | Minkyu Lee | / | Adam and Dog | Korean descent.[118] | |
| 2014 | Robert Kondo | / | The Dam Keeper | Japanese descent. | |
| 2015 | Sanjay Patel | / | Sanjay's Super Team | Indian descent.[119] | |
| 2017 | Ru Kuwahata | / | Negative Space | Japanese descent.[120] [121] | |
| 2018 | Domee Shi | / | Bao | Chinese descent.[122] | |
| Trevor Jimenez | / | Weekends | Filipino descent.[123] | ||
| Bobby Pontillas | / | One Small Step | Filipino descent.[124] | ||
| 2019 | Siqi Song | | Sister | Chinese descent. | |
| 2020 | Madeline Sharafian | / | Burrow | Armenian descent.[125] | |
| 2023 | Tal KantorAmit R. Gicelter | | Letter to a Pig | ||
| Yegane Moghaddam | Our Uniform | ||||
| Best Live Action Short Film | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Yuki Yoshida | / | I'll Find a Way | Japanese descent.[126] | ||
| 1982 | Michael Toshiyuki Uno | / | The Silence | Japanese descent.[127] First Asian American nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. | ||
| 1988 | Matia Karrell | / | Cadillac Dreams | Lebanese descent. | ||
| 1997 | Chris Tashima | / | Visas and Virtue | Japanese descent (father is Japanese).[128] First Asian American to win Best Live Action Short Film. | ||
| 1999 | Mehdi Norowzian | / | Killing Joe | Iranian descent. | ||
| 2002 | Lexi Alexander |  / | Johnny Flynton | Half-Palestinian descent (mother is German, father is Palestinian). | ||
| 2005 | Pia Clemente | / | Our Time is Up | Filipino descent.[129] | ||
| 2013 | Baldwin Li | / | The Voorman Problem | |||
| 2020 | Farah Nabulsi | / | The Present | Palestinian descent (mother is Palestinian, father is Palestinian-Egyptian).[130] | ||
| 2021 | Riz Ahmed Aneil Karia | / / | The Long Goodbye | |||
| 2023 | Nazrin Choudhury |  / | Red, White, and Blue | Bangladeshi descent | ||
| Academy Honorary Awards | |||
| Year | Name | Country | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Akira Kurosawa | | Academy Honorary Award for cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world. |
| 1991 | Satyajit Ray | | Academy Honorary Award 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 | | Academy Honorary Award has deeply influenced animation forever, inspiring generations of artists to work in our medium and illuminate its limitless potential. |
| 2016 | Jackie Chan | | Academy Honorary Award Chan starred in – and sometimes wrote, directed and produced – more than 30 martial arts features in his native Hong Kong, charming audiences with his dazzling athleticism, inventive stunt work and boundless charisma. |
| Non-Competitive Awards | ||||
| Year | Name | Country | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Takuo Miyagishima | / | Gordon E. Sawyer Award[131] Takuo Miyagishima, one of the most notable design engineers in the motion picture industry, has been voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. | |
His maternal grandfather Abraham J Ablan was from Batroun, Lebanon and his maternal grandmother Nezzera Zlaket and granduncle Kalil Zlaket were from Zahle, Lebanon. Marriage certificate of Ronald Schwary's parents in 1940. Information from the National Archives, United States. Scans of official acts of Ronald L. Schwary paternal and maternal grandparents on familysearch.org.
