List of German Academy Award winners and nominees explained

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Germany.

Acting categories

Actor in a Supporting Role

Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1940		Foreign Correspondent
1996		Shine
2009		Inglourious Basterds		Waltz is an Austrian-German actor.
2012		Django Unchained

Actress in a Leading Role

Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1930/31		Morocco
1936		The Great Ziegfeld		Due to the political atmosphere, Rainer was promoted to be Austrian by this time.
1937		The Good Earth		First actor regardless of gender to win two consecutive awards.^[1]
2010	Sandra Bullock	The Blind Side		Bullock's mother is German and she holds dual German-American citizenship. She speaks some German, but is not fluent as is evident during interviews.
2014		Gravity
2024	Sandra Hüller	Anatomy of a Fall

Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Art Direction

Art Direction
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1927/28
1928/29		The Patriot		No official nominees were announced that year.
1929		The Love Parade
1930		The Vagabond King
		Morocco
1932		A Farewell to Arms		Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson.
1937		Souls at Sea
1938		The Adventures of Robin Hood
	Hans Dreier	If I Were King		Shared with the American-born John B. Goodman.
1939		Beau Geste		Shared with the American-born Robert Odell.
1940		Arise, My Love		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Robert Usher.
North West Mounted Police			Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson.
1941		Hold Back the Dawn		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Robert Usher, and Samuel M. Comer.
1942		Reap the Wild Wind		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson, and George Sawley.
		Take a Letter, Darling		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson, and Samuel M. Comer.
1943		For Whom the Bell Tolls		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Haldane Douglas, and Bertram C. Granger.
		Five Graves to Cairo		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Bertram C. Granger.
	Carl Jules Weyl	Mission to Moscow		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born George James Hopkins.
1944		Gaslight		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the Irish-American Cedric Gibbons, and American-born William Ferrari and Edwin B. Willis.
				Nominated in the black-and-white category. Holscher was a German-born American art director. Shared with the American-born Lionel Banks, and Joseph Kish.
	Ernst Fegté	The Princess and the Pirate		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Howard Bristol.
	Hans Dreier	Lady in the Dark		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Raoul Pene Du Bois, and Ray Moyer.
		No Time for Love		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Robert Usher, and Samuel M. Comer.
1945		Love Letters		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.
	Hans Dreier Ernst Fegté	Frenchman's Creek		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Samuel M. Comer.
1946	Hans Dreier	Kitty		Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.
1947		Black Narcissus		Nominated in the color category.
1948		The Red Shoes		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the British-born Arthur Lawson.
1950	Hans Dreier	Sunset Boulevard		Nominated in the black-and-white category. First person to win both art direction categories in the same year. Shared with the American-born John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.
		Samson and Delilah		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.
	Ernst Fegté	Destination Moon		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born George Sawley.
1951	Hein Heckroth	The Tales of Hoffmann		Nominated in the color category.
1953	Alfred Junge	Knights of the Round Table		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the British-born Hans Peters, and John Jarvis.
		Martin Luther		Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1954		Le Plaisir		Nominated in the black-and-white category. First person to receive nominations for writing and art direction.
1957	Walter Holscher	Pal Joey		Shared with the American-born William Kiernan, and Louis Diage.
1959		Journey to the Center of the Earth		Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Lyle R. Wheeler, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, and Joseph Kish.
1968		2001: A Space Odyssey		Lange was a German-born British. Shared with the British-born Anthony Masters, and Ernest Archer.
1972		Cabaret
1980	Harry Lange	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back		Shared with the British-born Norman Reynolds, Michael D. Ford, and Alan Tomkins, and Welsh-born Leslie Dilley.
1981		Ragtime		of German-Russian descent.
1984		Amadeus
1985		The Color Purple		The grandson of German actress Marlene Dietrich.
1987	Patrizia von Brandenstein	The Untouchables		of German-Russian descent.
1996		Romeo + Juliet		Broch is a German-born Mexican production designer. Shared with the Australian-born Catherine Martin.
2001		Moulin Rouge!
2015				Shared with the American-born Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo.

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1937		The Good Earth
1941		The Chocolate Soldier		Nominated in the black-and-white category.
Blossoms in the Dust			Nominated in the color category.
1961		The Hustler		Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1964	Walter Lassally	Zorba the Greek
1980	Ralf D. Bode	Coal Miner's Daughter		Bode was a German-born American cinematographer.
1981		Das Boot
1987		Broadcast News
1989		The Fabulous Baker Boys
2002		Gangs of New York
2022	Florian Hoffmeister	Tár

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1951		The Tales of Hoffmann		Nominated in the color category.
1994	Moidele Bickel	Queen Margot (La reine Margot)
2011		Anonymous
2020	Bina Daigeler	Mulan

Best Documentary

Documentary Feature

Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1950	Curt Oertel
1959		Serengeti darf nicht sterben
1970		Erinnerungen an die Zukunft
1971		Le chagrin et la pitié
1972	Eckehard Munck	The Silent Revolution
1973	Bengt von zur Mühlen	Schlacht um Berlin
1980		Der Gelbe Stern		Shared with the Swiss-born Arthur Cohn.
1988	Marcel Ophüls	Hôtel Terminus
1999	Wim Wenders Ulrich Felsberg	Buena Vista Social Club
2008		Encounters at the End of the World		Shared with the American-born Henry Kaiser.
2011	Gian-Piero Ringel Wim Wenders	Pina
2014	Wim Wenders	The Salt of the Earth		Shared with the Brazilian-born Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, and French-born David Rosier.
		Citizenfour		Shared with the American-born Laura Poitras, and French-born Mathilde Bonnefoy.

Short Documentary

Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1949	Edward Selzer	So Much for So Little
1972		Hundertwassers Regentag
1974	Robin Lehman	Don't
1975		The End of the Game
	Manfred Baier	Millions of Years Ahead of Man
2003		Ferry Tales

Best Director

Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1928/29		The Patriot		No official nominees were announced.
1929		The Love Parade
1937		The Life of Emile Zola
1946		The Killers
1947		The Bishop's Wife
1966	Mike Nichols	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?		Nichols is a German-born American director and producer.
1967		The Graduate
1982		Das Boot
1983	Mike Nichols	Silkwood
1988		Working Girl

Best Editing

Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1938		The Great Waltz
Test Pilot
1982		Das Boot
1985		Prizzi's Honor		Shared with his American-born daughter, Kaja Fehr.

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

International Feature Film
Year	Director	Film	Original Title	Status	Milestone / Notes
1956		The Captain from Köpenick	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick		Producers Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel were officially nominated in 1957.
1957	Robert Siodmak	The Devil Strikes at Night	Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam
1958		Arms and the Man	Helden
1959		Die Brücke	Die Brücke
1973		The Pedestrian	Der Fußgänger		First filmmaker to have two of his films nominated for different countries.
1976		Jacob the Liar	Jakob der Lügner		First and only film from East Germany to be nominated for an Academy Award.
1978		The Glass Cell	Die gläserne Zelle
1979		The Tin Drum	Die Blechtrommel
1985		Angry Harvest	Bittere Ernte		First female filmmaker to direct a German-language nominated film.
1990		The Nasty Girl	Das schreckliche Mädchen		First submission of United Germany to be nominated.
1992		Schtonk!	Schtonk!
1997		Beyond Silence	Jenseits der Stille		Some parts in English, German Sign Language & Spanish.
2002		Nowhere in Africa	Nirgendwo in Afrika		Second female filmmaker to direct a Foreign-Language-Film winner.
2004		Downfall	Der Untergang
2005		Sophie Scholl – The Final Days	Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage
2006		The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen
2008		The Baader Meinhof Complex	Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex
2009		The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band
2016		Toni Erdmann	Toni Erdmann		Some parts in English and Romanian.
2018	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Never Look Away	Werk ohne Autor
2022	Edward Berger	All Quiet on the Western Front	Im Westen nichts Neues
2023	İlker Çatak	The Teachers' Lounge	Das Lehrerzimmer

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2019		Joker		Shared with the American-born Kay Georgiou.
2020	Claudia Stolze	Emma.		Stolze is a German-born British make-up artist. Shared with British-born Marese Langan and American-born Laura Allen.

Music categories

Best Original Score

Original Music Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1934		One Night of Love
1937		Something to Sing About
		The Young in Heart
1940		Rebecca
1941		Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Suspicion
Ernst Toch	Ladies in Retirement
1942		Yankee Doodle Dandy
		The Talk of the Town
		To Be or Not to Be
1943	Ray Heindorf	This Is the Army
		Hangmen Also Die!
1944	Kurt Weill Werner R. Heymann	Knickerbocker Holiday
		Minstrel Man
Ernst Toch	Address Unknown
1945		Can't Help Singing
1946	Ray Heindorf	Night and Day		Shared with the American-born Max Steiner.
Franz Waxman	Humoresque
1947	Hugo Friedhofer	The Bishop's Wife
1948		Joan of Arc
1950		Annie Get Your Gun
	Franz Waxman	Sunset Boulevard
1951		A Place in the Sun
	Adolph Deutsch	Show Boat
1953		The Band Wagon
Friedrich Hollaender	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Hugo Friedhofer	Above and Beyond
	Kiss Me Kate		Shared with the American-born Saul Chaplin.
1954	Franz Waxman	The Silver Chalice
	Adolph Deutsch	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1955		Oklahoma!
	André Previn	It's Always Fair Weather
1956		Between Heaven and Hell
1957		Boy on a Dolphin
		An Affair to Remember
1958		The Young Lions
	André Previn	Gigi
1959		Porgy and Bess		Shared with the American-born Ken Darby.
	Franz Waxman	The Nun's Story
1962		Taras Bulba
	Ray Heindorf	The Music Man		First winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1963	André Previn	Irma la Douce		Winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1964		My Fair Lady
1973		Jesus Christ Superstar		Nominated for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Shared with the English-born Andrew Lloyd Webber and Chilean-born American Herbert W. Spencer.
1975		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1982		An Officer and a Gentleman
1988		Rain Man
1994		The Lion King
1996		The Preacher's Wife		Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category.
1997		As Good as It Gets
1998		The Thin Red Line		Nominated in the Dramatic Score category.
		The Prince of Egypt		Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category. Shared with the American-born Stephen Schwartz.
2000		Gladiator
2009		Sherlock Holmes
2010		Inception
2014		Interstellar
2016		Lion		Shared with the American-born Dustin O'Halloran.
2017	Hans Zimmer
2021		Dune
2022		All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1935		Roberta "Lovely to Look at"
1936		Swing Time "The Way You Look Tonight"
1937		Artists and Models "Whispers in the Dark"		Shared with the American-born Leo Robin.
1941	Jerome Kern	Lady Be Good "The Last Time in Paris"
1942		You Were Never Lovelier "Dearly Beloved"
1944		Cover Girl "Long Ago (and Far Away)"
1945		"Can't Help Singing" "More and More"
1946		Centennial Summer "All Through The Day"
1948	Friedrich Hollaender	That Lady in Ermine "This Is the Moment"		Shared with the American-born Leo Robin.
1987		Beverly Hills Cop II "Shakedown"		Shared with the British-born Keith Forsey and American-born Bob Seger.

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1928/29	Ernst Lubitsch	The Patriot
1929		The Love Parade
1931		The Smiling Lieutenant
1932		One Hour with You
1935	Henry Blanke	A Midsummer Night's Dream
1936		Anthony Adverse
		The Story of Louis Pasteur
1937		The Life of Emile Zola
1938		Jezebel		Shared with the American-born Hal B. Wallis.
1943	Ernst Lubitsch	Heaven Can Wait
1948	Henry Blanke	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1959		The Nun's Story
1993	Mike Nichols	The Remains of the Day		Nichols is a German-born American director and producer. Shared with the American-born John Calley and Indian-born Ismail Merchant.
2005		Capote		Shared with the American-born Caroline Baron and Canadian-born William Vince.
2012		Amour		Shared with the Austrian-born Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz.
2015	Michael Schaefer	The Martian		Shared with the British-born Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott and Mark Huffam.
2022	Malte Grunert	All Quiet on the Western Front		First German speaking film nominated in Best Picture.

Best Short Film

Live Action

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1956		Crashing the Water Barrier
1965		Fortress of Peace
1976	Andre R. Guttfreund	In the Region of Ice
1993	Pepe Danquardt	Schwarzfahrer
1998	Alexander Jovy	Holiday Romance		Shared with the British-born JJ Keith.
1999	Marc-Andreas Bochert Gabriele Lins	Kleingeld
2000		Quiero ser (I want to be...)
2001	Johannes Kiefer	Gregors größte Erfindung
2002	Lexi Alexander	Johnny Flynton		Shared with the American-born Alexander Buono.
2003	Florian Baxmeyer	Die Rote Jacke
2006	Ulrike Grote	Ausreißer
2008		Spielzeugland
2011		Raju
2015	Patrick Vollrath	Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)

Animated

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1931-32		It's Got Me Again!
1935		The Calico Dragon
1936		The Old Mill Pond
1939	Leon Schlesinger	Detouring America
1940		A Wild Hare
Rudolf Ising	The Milky Way
1941	Leon Schlesinger	Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunts
Rhapsody in Rivets
	Superman
Rudolf Ising	The Calico Dragon
1942	Leon Schlesinger	Pigs in a Polka
1943		Greetings Bait
1944	Leon Schlesinger	Swooner Crooner
1945		Life with Feathers
1946		Walky Talky Hawky
1948		Mouse Wreckers
1949		For Cent-imental Reasons
Canary Row
1953	Edward Selzer	From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
1954		Sandy Claws
1957		Birds Anonymous
Tabasco Road
1966		The Drag
		What on Earth!
1967		The House That Jack Built
1974		Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
1989	Christoph Lauenstein Wolfgang Lauenstein	Balance
1996	Thomas Stellmach Tyron Montgomery	Quest		Montgomery is an Irish-born German.
2000	Steffen Schäffler Anette Schäffler	Periwig Maker
2002	Chris Stenner Heidi Wittlinger	Das Rad		Arvid Uibel directed the film alongside Stenner and Wittlinger, but died in 2000 and was not nominated.
2010	Max Lang Jakob Schuh	Der Grüffelo
2013		Room on the Broom
2017	Jakob Schuh Jan Lachauer	Revolting Rhymes

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1996		Independence Day		Shared with the American-born Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joseph Viskocil.
2010	Stephan Trojansky			Shared with the American-born Michael Owens and Bryan Grill, and Australian-born Joe Farrell.
2017		Blade Runner 2049		Shared with the American-born John Nelson and Richard R. Hoover, and British-born Paul Lambert.
2021		Dune		Shared with the British-born Paul Lambert, and American-born Tristan Myles and Brian Connor.

Writing categories

Best Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1928/29		The Patriot		No official nominees have been announced that year.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1948		Johnny Belinda		First German woman to be nominated for a writing award. Shared with the American-born Allen Vincent.
1951		La Ronde		Shared with the French-born Jacques Natanson.
1958	Don Mankiewicz	I Want to Live!		Mankiewicz is a German-born American screenwriter. Shared with the American-born Nelson Gidding.
1982	Wolfgang Petersen	Das Boot
1986	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	A Room with a View		Jhabvala is a German-born British screenwriter, with an Indian citizenship before moving to the US.
1992		Howards End
1993		The Remains of the Day
2022	Edward Berger	All Quiet on the Western Front		Shared with the British Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell.

Best Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1940	Heinz Herald	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1962		Freud

Best Story (1928–1958)

Best Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1937	Heinz Herald	The Life of Emile Zola		Shared with the Hungarian-American Geza Herczeg.
	One Hundred Men and a Girl		Shared with the American-born Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser.
1938		Mad About Music		Shared with the American-born Marcella Burke.
1940		Comrade X
1944		None Shall Escape		Shared with the Austrian-born Joseph Than.

Honorary Awards

This list focuses on German-born recipients of the Honorary Award

See also

• Cinema of Germany
• List of German films

Notes and References

1. Web site: And the Oscar goes to: Luise Rainer | Boulevard der Stars . Boulevard-der-stars-berlin.de . 2010-12-13 . 2015-03-10.
2. Kirsten Dunst Becomes German Citizen, Moving To Berlin? . . October 10, 2011 . May 4, 2012 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20120118095830/http://www.contactmusic.com/news/kirsten-dunst-becomes-german-citizen-moving-to-berlin_1249615 . January 18, 2012 .