This is a list of French Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of French actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Academy Award (The Oscars). This list is current as of the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held on March 10, 2024.
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | The Big Pond | First French actor to be nominated for Best Actor. | ||
| 1930 | The Love Parade | |||
| 1937 | Maria Walewska | |||
| 1938 | Algiers | |||
| 1944 | Gaslight | |||
| 1961 | Fanny | Most Academy Award nominations – 4 nominations for Best Actor. | ||
| 1987 | Pelle the Conqueror | Von Sydow is a Swedish-French actor born in Sweden. He acquired the French citizenship in 2002.[1] | ||
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | First actor to be nominated for a French-speaking role. | ||
| 2011 | Jean Dujardin | The Artist | First French actor to win Best Actor. | |
| 2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Chalamet is a French-American actor born in the United States. At age 22, it made him the third-youngest Best Actor nominee.[2] [3] | |
| Year | Winner | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | It Happened One Night | French-born American actress. First French actress to be nominated and win Best Actress. | ||
| 1935 | Private Worlds | First French actress to receive more than one Academy Award nomination. | ||
| 1944 | Since You Went Away | Most Academy Award nominations – 3 nominations for Best Actress. | ||
| 1953 | Lili | |||
| 1959 | Room at the Top | Second French actress to win Best Actress. | ||
| 1963 | Leslie Caron | Second French actress to receive more than one nomination – 2 nominations for Best Actress. | ||
| 1965 | Simone Signoret | Ship of Fools | Third French actress to receive more than one nomination. | |
| 1966 | First actress to be nominated for a French-speaking role. | |||
| 1975 | Second actress to be nominated for a French-speaking role. | |||
| 1976 | Cousin, cousine | |||
| 1989 | Isabelle Adjani | Camille Claudel | Fourth French actress to receive more than one nomination – 2 nominations for Best Actress. The first to be nominated for two French-speaking roles. | |
| 1992 | Indochine | |||
| 2000 | Chocolat | First and only French actress to be nominated for both Leading and Supporting categories. Fifth French actress to receive more than one nomination. | ||
| 2008 | First actress to win for a French-speaking role. Third French actress to win Best Actress. | |||
| 2012 | Amour | Oldest Best Actress nominee in the history. | ||
| 2014 | Marion Cotillard | Two Days, One Night | Sixth French actress to receive more than one nomination, the second to be nominated for two French-speaking roles and the first to be nominated for a Belgian film. | |
| 2016 | Elle | |||
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Moulin Rouge | First French actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. | ||
| 1959 | Hermione Baddeley | Room at the Top | ||
| 1964 | Lila Kedrova | Zorba the Greek | Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress. | |
| 1966 | Hawaii | As a Tahitian, LaGarde was the first indigenous person to be nominated in any acting category. | ||
| 1996 | ||||
| 2011 | Bejo is a French-Argentine actress born in Argentina. | |||
This list focuses on French-born directors and producers.
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | |||||
| 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis | Satrapi was born in Iran. | |||
| 2010 | Sylvain Chomet | |||||
| 2011 | Alain Gagnol Jean-Loup Felicioli | A Cat in Paris | ||||
| 2013 | Pierre Coffin | Despicable Me 2 | Shared with Chris Renaud & Chris Meledandri | |||
| Didier Brunner Benjamin Renner | Ernest & Celestine | |||||
| 2019 | Jérémy Clapin Marc du Pontavice | I Lost My Body | ||||
| 2021 | Charlotte De La Gournerie | Flee | Shared with | Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, & Signe Byrge Sørensen. |
This list focuses on French-born art directors and set decorators.
| Year | Name | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Lazare Meerson | À Nous la Liberté | Meerson was a Russian-born French and English film art director. | |
| 1951 | Jean d'Eaubonne | La Ronde | ||
| 1952 | Marcel Vertès | Moulin Rouge | Shared with Paul Sheriff | |
| 1954 | Max Ophüls | Le Plaisir | Ophüls was a German-born French. | |
| 1960 | Alexandre Trauner | The Apartment | Nominated with Edward G. Boyle. | |
| 1962 | Léon Barsacq Gabriel Béchir | The Longest Day | Shared with Ted Haworth and Vincent Korda | |
| 1964 | Raphaël Bretton | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Shared with William Glasgow. | |
| 1966 | Marc Frédérix Pierre Guffroy | Is Paris Burning? | Nominated with Willy Holt. | |
| 1969 | Raphaël Bretton | Hello, Dolly! | Shared with John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, and George James Hopkins. | |
| 1970 | Pierre-Louis Thévenet | Patton | Shared with Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, and Antonio Mateos. | |
| 1972 | Raphaël Bretton | The Poseidon Adventure | Shared with William J. Creber. | |
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Shared with William J. Creber, and Ward Preston. | ||
| 1975 | Alexandre Trauner | The Man Who Would Be King | Nominated with Tony Inglis, and Peter James. | |
| 1980 | Pierre Guffroy | Tess | Nominated with Jack Stephens. | |
| 1988 | Gérard James | Dangerous Liaisons | Shared with Stuart Craig | |
| 1990 | Jacques Rouxel | Cyrano de Bergerac | Nominated with Ezio Frigerio. | |
| 1996 | Philippe Turlure | Evita | Nominated with Brian Morris. | |
| 2000 | Françoise Benoît-Fresco Jean Rabasse | Vatel | ||
| 2001 | Aline Bonetto Marie-Laure Valla | Amélie | ||
| 2004 | Aline Bonetto | |||
| 2011 | Anne Seibel Hélène Dubreuil | Midnight in Paris | ||
This list focuses on French-born cinematographers.
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Georges Périnal | The Four Feathers | Shared with Osmond Borradaile. | |
| 1940 | The Thief of Bagdad | First French cinematographer to win Best Cinematography. First French cinematographer to receive more than one Academy Award nomination. | ||
| 1953 | Henri Alekan | Roman Holiday | Shared with Franz Planer. | |
| Joseph C. Brun | Martin Luther | |||
| 1962 | Jean Bourgoin Walter Wottitz | The Longest Day | ||
| 1966 | Marcel Grignon | Is Paris Burning? | ||
| 1980 | Ghislain Cloquet | Tess | Cloquet was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. | |
| 1990 | Philippe Rousselot | Henry & June | ||
| 1992 | ||||
| Robert Fraisse | The Lover | |||
| 1996 | Darius Khondji | Evita | Khondji is an Iranian-French cinematographer. | |
| 2001 | Bruno Delbonnel | Amélie | ||
| 2004 | ||||
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | |||
| 2011 | Guillaume Schiffman | The Artist | ||
| 2013 | Philippe Le Sourd | The Grandmaster | ||
| Bruno Delbonnel | Inside Llewyn Davis | |||
| 2017 | Darkest Hour | |||
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Sixth nomination. | ||
| 2022 | Darius Khondji | Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | ||
This list focuses on French-born costume designers.
This list focuses on French-born makeup artist.
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Jean-Pierre Eychenne | Cyrano de Bergerac | Shared with Michèle Burke. | |
| 2007 | Didier Lavergne | La Vie en Rose | Shared with Jan Archibald. | |
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Jean Renoir | |||
| 1966 | Claude Lelouch | |||
| 1969 | Costa-Gavras | Z | Costa-Gavras is a Greek-French director born in Greece. | |
| 1974 | Roman Polanski | Chinatown | Polanski is a French-Polish director born in France. | |
| François Truffaut | Day for Night | |||
| 1979 | Edouard Molinaro | |||
| 1980 | Roman Polanski | Tess | ||
| 1981 | Louis Malle | Atlantic City | ||
| 1984 | Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields | Joffé is an English-French director born in the United Kingdom. | |
| 1986 | The Mission | |||
| 2002 | Roman Polanski | |||
| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | |||
| 2016 | Damien Chazelle | La La Land | Chazelle is a French-American director born in the United States. Youngest winner of Best Director. | |
| 2023 | Justine Triet | Anatomy of a Fall | Triet is the first French woman to be nominated for Best Director. | |
This list focuses on French-born producers/directors.
This list focuses on French-born film editors.
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Françoise Bonnot | Z | ||
| 1989 | Noëlle Boisson | The Bear | ||
| 2002 | Hervé de Luze | |||
| 2006 | Álex Rodríguez | Children of Men | Rodríguez is a French-born Mexican editor. Nominated with Alfonso Cuarón. | |
| 2007 | Juliette Welfling | |||
| 2011 | Anne-Sophie Bion Michel Hazanavicius | |||
| 2020 | Frédéric Thoraval | Promising Young Woman | Thoraval is a French-American film editor. | |
| Yorgos Lamprinos | The Father | Lamprimos is a Greek-French film editor. | ||
| 2023 | Laurent Sénéchal | Anatomy of a Fall | ||
This list focuses on French-born producers.
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Réalisation d'art cinématographique | Grand Illusion | ||
| 1969 | Jacques Perrin | Z | Shared with Ahmed Rachedi. | |
| 1980 | Claude Berri | Tess | Shared with Timothy Burrill. | |
| 2002 | Robert Benmussa Roman Polanski Alain Sarde | |||
| 2009 | Nicolas Chartier | The Hurt Locker | First French-produced film to win Best Picture. Shared with Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, and Greg Shapiro. | |
| 2011 | Second French-produced film to win Best Picture. | |||
| 2012 | Margaret Ménégoz | Amour | Margaret Ménégoz is a German-French film producer. Shared with Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz. | |
| 2017 | Emilie Georges | Call Me by Your Name | Shared with Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, and Marco Morabito. | |
| 2020 | Jean-Louis Livi Philippe Carcassonne | The Father | Shared with David Parfitt. | |
| Sacha Ben Harroche | Sound of Metal | Shared with Bert Hamelinick. | ||
| 2021 | Philippe Rousselet | CODA | First US remake of a French film (La Famille Bélier) to win this award. Shared with Fabrice Gianfermi, and Patrick Wachsberger. | |
| 2022 | Philippe Bober | Triangle of Sadness | ||
| Tár | Alexandra Milchan is a French-American film and television producer. Shared with Todd Field, and Scott Lamber. | |||
| 2023 | Marie-Ange Luciani David Thion | Anatomy of a Fall | ||
See main article: List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
| Year | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Monsieur Vincent | |
| 1949 | The Walls of Malapaga | |
| 1952 | Forbidden Games | |
| 1956 | Gervaise | |
| 1957 | Gates of Paris | |
| 1958 | Mon Oncle | |
| 1959 | Orfeu Negro | |
| 1960 | The Truth | |
| 1962 | Sundays and Cybele | |
| 1964 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | |
| 1966 | A Man and a Woman | |
| 1967 | Live for Life | |
| 1968 | Stolen Kisses | |
| 1969 | My Night at Maud's | |
| 1970 | Hoa-Binh | |
| 1972 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | |
| 1973 | Day for Night | |
| 1974 | Lacombe, Lucien | |
| 1976 | Cousin Cousine | |
| 1977 | Madame Rosa | |
| 1978 | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | |
| 1979 | A Simple Story | |
| 1980 | ||
| 1982 | Coup de Torchon | |
| 1983 | Entre Nous | |
| 1985 | Three Men and a Cradle | |
| 1986 | Betty Blue | |
| 1987 | Au revoir les enfants | |
| 1989 | Camille Claudel | |
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| 1992 | Indochine | |
| 1996 | Ridicule | |
| 1999 | East/West | |
| 2000 | ||
| 2001 | Amélie | |
| 2004 | The Chorus | |
| 2005 | Joyeux Noël | |
| 2008 | ||
| 2009 | ||
| 2015 | Mustang | |
| 2019 | Les Misérables | |
This list focuses on scores or songs created by French-born composers.
| Year | Writer | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Alexandre Tansman | Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Paris Underground | |
| 1962 | Michel Magne | Best Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment | Gigot | |
| Lawrence of Arabia | ||||
| 1963 | Sundays and Cybele | |||
| 1964 | Leo Arnaud | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | ||
| 1965 | Michel Legrand | |||
| Jacques Demy Michel Legrand | ||||
| Maurice Jarre | Doctor Zhivago | |||
| 1968 | Michel Legrand | The Thomas Crown Affair | ||
| Jacques Demy Michel Legrand | ||||
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | |||
| 1970 | Love Story | |||
| 1971 | Michel Legrand | Summer of '42 | ||
| 1973 | Georges Delerue | The Day of the Dolphin | ||
| 1977 | Julia | |||
| Maurice Jarre | Mohammad, Messenger of God | |||
| 1979 | Georges Delerue | A Little Romance | ||
| 1980 | Tess | |||
| 1983 | Michel Legrand | Yentl | ||
| 1984 | Maurice Jarre | |||
| 1985 | Witness | |||
| Georges Delerue | Agnes of God | |||
| 1988 | Maurice Jarre | Gorillas in the Mist | ||
| 1990 | Ghost | |||
| 1996 | The English Patient | |||
| 1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | |||
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | |||
| 2006 | ||||
| 2008 | ||||
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | |||
| 2010 | ||||
| 2011 | ||||
| 2012 | Alexandre Desplat | Argo | ||
| 2013 | Philomena | |||
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | |||
| The Imitation Game | ||||
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | |||
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | |||
| 2019 | Little Women |
| Year | Winner | Song and Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | for the song: "I Will Wait for You" | |||
| 1968 | Michel Legrand | The Thomas Crown Affair for the song: "The Windmills of Your Mind" | ||
| 1969 | The Happy Ending for the song: "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" | |||
| 1970 | Pieces of Dreams for the song: "Pieces of Dream" | |||
| 1972 | for the song: "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" | |||
| 2003 | The Triplets of Belleville for the song: "Belleville Rendez-vous" | Nomination shared with Benoit Charest | ||
| 2004 | for the song: "Look to Your Path (Vois sur ton chemin)" | |||
| 2009 | Reinhardt Wagner Frank Thomas | Paris 36 for the song: "Loin de Paname" | ||
| 2012 | Les Misérables for the song: "Suddenly" | Nomination shared with Herbert Kretzmer | ||
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Gaston Diehl Robert Hessens | Van Gogh | ||
| 1951 | Les Films du Compass | Balzac | ||
| 1959 | Jacques Cousteau | The Golden Fish | ||
| 1962 | Heureux Anniversaire | |||
| 1963 | Marcel Ichac Paul de Roubaix | |||
| 1965 | ||||
| 1966 | Marin Karmitz Vladimir Florency | Turkey on the Bridge | ||
| 1974 | Paul Claudon Edmond Séchan | One-Eyed Men Are Kings | ||
| 1992 | Sam Karmann | Omnibus | ||
| 1993 | Didier Flamand | The Screw | ||
| 2002 | Philippe Orreindy Thomas Gaudin | J'attendrai le suivant | ||
| 2003 | Lionel Bailliu | Squash | ||
| 2007 | Le Mozart des Pickpockets | |||
| 2008 | Elizabeth Marre Olivier Pont | Manon on the Asphalt | ||
| 2013 | Xavier Legrand Alexandre Gavras | Just Before Losing Everything | ||
| 2014 | Julien Féret | Butter Lamp | Shared with Hu Wei | |
| 2015 | Eric Dupont | Ave Maria | Shared with Basil Khalil | |
| 2016 | Selim Azzazi | Ennemis intérieurs | ||
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Jean-Charles Meunier | Hypothese Beta | |||
| 1980 | Frédéric Back | All Nothing | Back is a French-born Canadian producer and director of short films | ||
| 1981 | Crac | ||||
| 1987 | The Man Who Planted Trees | ||||
| 1993 | The Mighty River | Shared with Hubert Tison | |||
| 1997 | The Old Lady and the Pigeons | ||||
| 2007 | Samuel Tourneux Simon Vanesse | Even Pigeons Go to Heaven | |||
| 2008 | Thierry Marchand | Oktapodi | Shared with Emud Mokhberi | ||
| 2009 | Nicolas Schmerkin | Logorama | Schmerkin is an Argentinian-born French producer. | ||
| Fabrice O. Joubert | French Roast | ||||
| 2010 | Bastien Dubois | Madagascar, a Journey Diary | |||
| 2013 | Mr Hublot | ||||
| 2017 | Garden Party | ||||
| 2023 | Stéphanie Clément Marc Rius | Pachyderme |
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Jean-Louis Ducarme | Sorcerer | Shared with Robert Knudson, Robert Glass and Richard Tyler | |
| 2001 | Amélie | |||
| 2020 | Nicolas Becker | Sound of Metal | Shared with Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortes and Philip Bladh | |
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Shared with Robert MacDonald. Last to win before the name changed. | ||
| 1963 | Cleopatra | First person to win Visual effects after the name change | ||
| 1969 | Eugène Lourié | Krakatoa, East of Java | Shared with Alex Weldon | |
| 1994 | True Lies | Nomination shared with John Bruno, Thomas L. Fisher and Patrick McClung | ||
| 2010 | Nicolas Aithadi | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | Shared with Tim Burke, John Richardson and Christian Manz. | |
| 2012 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Nomination shared with Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson | ||
| Life of Pi | Nomination shared with Bill Westenhofer, Erik De Boer, and Donald Elliot | |||
| 2014 | Stephane Ceretti Nicolas Aithadi | Guardians of the Galaxy | Nomination shared with Paul Corbould and Jonathan Fawkner | |
| 2016 | Stephane Ceretti | Doctor Strange | Shared with Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould | |
| 2019 | Stephane Grabli | The Irishman | Shared with Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena and Nelson Sepulveda | |
| Guillaume Rocheron | 1917 | Shared with Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy | ||
| 2023 | Stéphane Ceretti Alexis Wajsbrot | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Shared with Guy Williams and Theo Bialek. | |
| Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenoillet | Napoleon | Shared with Charley Henley, Simone Coco, and Neil Corbould |
This list focuses on French-born writers.
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Jacques Natanson Max Ophüls | La Ronde | |||
| 1957 | Pierre Boulle | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Pierre Boulle was credited as the screenwriter of The Bridge on the River Kwai and ultimately won the award. Blacklisted writers Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, who actually wrote the screenplay, were awarded posthumous Oscars by the Academy's Board of Governors in 1984. | ||
| 1963 | Serge Bourguignon Antoine Tudal | Sundays and Cybele | |||
| 1968 | Roman Polanski | Rosemary's Baby | |||
| 1969 | Costa-Gavras | Z | Nominated with Jorge Semprún | ||
| 1977 | That Obscure Object of Desire | Nominated with Luis Buñuel | |||
| 1979 | Nominated with Marcello Danon | ||||
| 1982 | Costa-Gavras | Missing | Shared with Donald E. Stewart | ||
| 1988 | Christine Edzard | Little Dorrit | |||
| Jean-Claude Carrière | |||||
| 2004 | Before Sunset | Nominated with Americans Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Kim Krizan | |||
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Nominated with Americans Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke | |||
| 2020 | Florian Zeller | The Father | Nominated with Christopher Hampton |
| Year | Winner | Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Laughter | d'Arrast was an Argentinean born, French screenwriter and director. Shared with Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart | |
| 1946 | Vladimir Pozner | The Dark Mirror | Pozner is a Russian-born French writer and translator | |
| 1947 | Georges Chaperot René Wheeler | A Cage of Nightingales | ||
| 1954 | François Boyer | Forbidden Games | ||
| 1955 | Jean Marsan Henri Troyat Jacques Perret Henri Verneuil Raoul Ploquin | The Sheep Has Five Legs | Troyat was a Russian-born French author, biographer, historian and novelist. Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker. | |
| 1956 | Jean-Paul Sartre | The Proud and the Beautiful | ||
This list focuses on French-born recipients of the Honorary Award
| Year | Recipient | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Charles Boyer | "for his progressive cultural achievement in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference for the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry" | |
| 1958 | Maurice Chevalier | "for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century." | |
| 1973 | Henri Langlois | "for his devotion to the art of film, his massive contributions in preserving its past and his unswerving faith in its future." | |
| 1974 | Jean Renoir | "a genius who, with grace, responsibility and enviable devotion through silent film, sound film, feature, documentary and television, has won the world's admiration." | |
| 2010 | Jean-Luc Godard | "For passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema." | |
| 2014 | Jean-Claude Carrière | "Whose elegantly crafted screenplays elevate the art of screenwriting to the level of literature." | |
| 2017 | Agnès Varda | "Her compassion and curiosity inform a uniquely personal cinema." |