This is a list of African Academy Award winners and nominees, which includes both ethnic African people born and/or raised in Africa and non-ethnic Africans born and raised in Africa.
| Best Actor in a Leading Role | |||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Laurence Harvey |   | Room at the Top | Joe Lampton | First Lithuanian nominated for an Oscar. Born in Lithuania, but educated and raised in South Africa, where he joined the army. |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | |||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Janet Suzman | | Nicholas and Alexandra | Alexandra Feodorovna | |||
| 2003 | Charlize Theron |  | Monster | Aileen Wuornos | First African to win in an acting category. | ||
| 2005 | North Country | Josey Aimes | |||||
| 2016 | Ruth Negga |   | Loving | Mildred Loving | |||
| 2019 | Charlize Theron | | Bombshell | Megyn Kelly | |||
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Basil Rathbone | | Romeo and Juliet | Tybalt | Rathbone was a South African-born British actor. | |
| 1938 | If I Were King | King Louis XI | ||||
| 1948 | Cecil Kellaway | The Luck of the Irish | Horace | |||
| 1962 | Omar Sharif |  | Lawrence of Arabia | Sherif Ali | First African to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category. | |
| 1967 | Cecil Kellaway | | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Monsignor Mike Ryan | ||
| 2003 | Djimon Hounsou |  | In America | Mateo | First Black African to be nominated for an acting award. | |
| 2006 | Blood Diamond | Solomon Vandy | ||||
| 2013 | Barkhad Abdi |  | Captain Phillips | Abduwali Muse | ||
| 2018 | Richard E. Grant | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock | Grant is from a white British family; he was born and raised in Swaziland. | ||
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | |||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Lupita Nyong'o |   | 12 Years a Slave | Patsey | First black African woman to be nominated and win in any category. |
| Best Cinematography | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Ted Moore | | A Man for All Seasons | Moore is a South African-born British. Won for Best Color Cinematography. | |
| 1991 | Stephen Goldblatt | | The Prince of Tides | Goldblatt is a South African-born British. | |
| 1995 | Batman Forever | ||||
| 2002 | Dion Beebe |  | Chicago | Beebe is a South African-born Australian. | |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Best Director | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Scott Hicks |  | Shine | Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian. | ||
| 1997 | Atom Egoyan |  | The Sweet Hereafter | Egoyan is an Egyptian-born Canadian filmmaker. |
| Best Documentary Feature | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Michele Ohayon (director) |  | Colors Straight Up | ||
| 2012 | Malik Bendjelloul | Searching for Sugar Man | |||
| 2013 | Jehane Noujaim (director) Karim Amer (producer) | | The Square | ||
| 2020 | Pippa Ehrlich (director) James Reed (director) Craig Foster (producer) | | My Octopus Teacher | ||
| 2023 | Moses Bwayo Christopher Sharp[1] | | Shared with John Battsek | ||
| Kaouther Ben Hania |  | Four Daughters | Shared with Nadim Cheikhrouha |
| Best Film Editing | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Thelma Schoonmaker |  | Woodstock | Schoonmaker is from a white American family; she was born in Algeria. | |
| 1980 | Raging Bull | ||||
| 1990 | Goodfellas | ||||
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | ||||
| 2004 | The Aviator | ||||
| 2006 | The Departed | ||||
| 2011 | Hugo | ||||
| 2015 | Margaret Sixel | | Sixel is a South African-born Australian. | ||
| 2019 | Thelma Schoonmaker | | The Irishman | ||
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon |
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to a country, not to an individual, and the submitting country is the officially designated nominee in this category.
| Best International Feature Film | ||||||
| Year | Country | Film | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | | Z | Costa-Gavras | First African film to win an Academy Award. | ||
| 1976 | Black and White in Color | Jean-Jacques Annaud | ||||
| 1983 | | Le Bal | Ettore Scola | |||
| 1995 | Dust of Life | Rachid Bouchareb | ||||
| 2004 | | Yesterday | Darrell Roodt | |||
| 2005 | Tsotsi | Gavin Hood | First African film in a language other than French to win in this category. | |||
| 2006 | | Days of Glory | Rachid Bouchareb | |||
| 2010 | Outside the Law | |||||
| 2014 |  | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | |||
| 2020 | | The Man Who Sold His Skin | Kaouther Ben Hania |
| Best Live Action Short Film | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Meryam Joobeur | | Brotherhood | Joobeur is Tunisian-born Canadian. Shared with Maria Gracia Turgeon. | ||
| 2023 | Misan Harriman |  | The After | Harriman is Nigerian-born British. Shared with Nicky Bentham. |
| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Trefor Proud |  | Topsy-Turvy | Proud is the first Zimbabwean to win an Academy Award in this category. Shared with Christine Blundell. | ||
| 2019 | Tristan Versluis | | 1917 | Versluis is a Zimbabwean-born English. Shared with Naomi Donne and Rebecca Cole. |
| Best Original Score | |||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Caiphus Semenya | | The Color Purple | ||
| 1987 | Jonas Gwangwa | Cry Freedom |
| Best Original Song | |||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Song | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Jonas Gwangwa | | Cry Freedom | "Cry Freedom" | Shared with George Fenton. | ||
| 2012 | Herbert Kretzmer | | Les Misérables | "Suddenly" | Kretzmer is from a Jewish family. Shared with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. | ||
| 2022 | Tems | | "Lift Me Up" | Shared with Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, and Ryan Coogler. |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | |||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Adapted From | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Ronald Harwood |  | The Dresser | The Dresser by Ronald Harwood | |||
| 1987 | Mark Peploe | | The Last Emperor | From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi | Peploe is a Kenyan-born English writer. Shared with Bernardo Bertolucci. | ||
| 1997 | Atom Egoyan | | The Sweet Hereafter | The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks | |||
| 2002 | Ronald Harwood | | The Pianist | The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman | |||
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby | |||||
| 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | | District 9 | Alive in Joburg by Neill Blomkamp | Shared with Terri Tatchell. |
| Best Original Screenplay | ||||||
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Scott Hicks | | Shine | Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian. Shared with Jan Sardi. |