This is a list of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Mexican filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.
| Special Achievement Academy Award | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Flesh and Sand | First Mexican to receive this award. |
This list focuses on Mexican-born producers.
| Academy Award for Best Picture | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Babel | Shared with Steve Golin and Jon Kilik. | |||
| 2013 | Gravity | Shared with David Heyman. | |||
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman | Shared with John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole. | ||
| 2015 | The Revenant | Shared with Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon. | |||
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Shared with J. Miles Dale. | |||
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Shared with Gabriela Rodriguez. | ||
| 2021 | Guillermo del Toro | Nightmare Alley | Shared with J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper. |
This list focuses on Mexican-born directors.
| Academy Award for Best Director | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel | First Mexican to be nominated for Best Director. | ||
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director. | ||
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman[1] | First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director twice. | ||
| 2015 | The Revenant | First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director two times. Third director in history to win consecutive Best Director Academy Awards. First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director three times. | |||
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | |||
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | First person to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography. |
This list focuses on Mexican-born actors.
| Academy Award for Best Actor | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Wild Is the Wind | |||
| 1964 | Zorba the Greek | |||
| 2012 | A Better Life | |||
| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Viva Zapata! | |||
| 1956 | Lust for Life | First Mexican-born actor to win two Oscars in the same category. | ||
This list focuses on Mexican-born actresses.
| Academy Award for Best Actress | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Salma Hayek | Frida | First Mexican actress to be nominated for Best Leading Actress. | ||
| 2018 | Yalitza Aparicio | Roma | Debut performance. First Indigenous Latin American (Indigenous Mexican) to be nominated in any category. |
| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Katy Jurado | Broken Lance | First Mexican and Hispanic actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. | ||
| 2006 | Adriana Barraza | Babel | |||
| 2013 | Lupita Nyong'o | 12 Years a Slave | Mexican with Kenyan citizenship. First Mexican-born actress to win an Academy Award. | ||
| 2018 | Marina de Tavira | Roma |
| Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Carlos López Estrada[2] | Raya and the Last Dragon | Shared with Don Hall, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho. | ||
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Shared with Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley. |
This list focuses on Mexican-born cinematographers.
| Academy Award for Best Cinematography | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | The Night of the Iguana | |||
| 1975 | Chinatown | First American-born Latino to be nominated for Best Cinematography. | ||
| 1995 | A Little Princess | |||
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | |||
| 2005 | The New World | |||
| Brokeback Mountain | ||||
| 2006 | Emmanuel Lubezki | Children of Men | ||
| Pan's Labyrinth | Original title: El laberinto del fauno | |||
| 2011 | Emmanuel Lubezki | The Tree of Life | ||
| 2013 | Gravity | |||
| 2014 | Birdman | |||
| 2015 | The Revenant | First cinematographer to win three years in a row. First Mexican and Latin American to win the Oscars three times. First Mexican Jews to be nominated and to win an Academy Award in any category. | ||
| 2016 | Rodrigo Prieto | Silence | ||
| 2018 | Roma | First Mexican director to be nominated for Best Cinematography while serving as both director and cinematographer. First Mexican director to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography in the same year. | ||
| 2019 | Rodrigo Prieto | The Irishman | ||
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| Academy Award for Best Costume Design | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Jojo Rabbit | First Mexican and Latin American costume designer to be nominated for Best Costume Design.[3] |
This list focuses on documentaries features directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
| Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature | |||||
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Torero! | Manuel Barbachano Ponce | |||
| 1969 | The Olympics in Mexico | ||||
| 1985 | The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo | Lourdes Portillo | Shared with Susana Blaustein Muñoz. | ||
| 2001 | Promises | Shared with B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro. |
This list focuses on documentaries short subject directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
| Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject | ||||
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Sentinels of Silence | Manuel Arango | Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram. This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories. | |
This list focuses on Mexican-born film editors.
| Academy Award for Best Film Editing | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men | Shared with Alex Rodriguez. | |
| 2013 | Gravity | Shared with Mark Sanger. |
See main article: List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. This list focuses on Mexican films that won or were nominated for the foreign language film award.
| Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | |||||
| Year | Film | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Macario | Roberto Gavaldón | First Latin American and Mexican film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. | ||
| 1961 | The Important Man | Ismael Rodríguez | Original title: Ánimas Trujano | ||
| 1962 | The Pearl of Tlayucan | Luis Alcoriza | Original title: Tlayucan | ||
| 1975 | Letters from Marusia | Miguel Littín | Original title: Actas de Marusia | ||
| 2000 | Love's a Bitch | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Original title: Amores Perros | ||
| 2002 | The Crime of Father Amaro | Carlos Carrera | Original title: El Crimen del Padre Amaro | ||
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno The film was nominated for five other Academy Awards, and won three of them: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup. | ||
| 2010 | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. | ||
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | First Mexican film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film and to be simultaneously nominated for Best Picture. |
This list focuses on live action short-films directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
| Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film | |||||
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Sentinels of Silence | Manuel Arango | Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram. This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories. | ||
| 1996 | De tripas, corazón | Antonio Urrutia | |||
| 2022 | Le pupille | Shared with Alice Rohrwacher |
This list focuses on Mexican-born makeup artists.
| Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 |
| Academy Award for Best Original Score | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Bill Melendez | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | The category was Best Music, Original Song Score. Shared with Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter, Alan Shean, and Vince Guaraldi. |
This list focuses on Mexican-born art directors/production designers and set decorators.
| Academy Award for Best Production Design | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Silver Queen | Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese descent. | |||
| 1949 | The Heiress | ||||
| Edward Carrere | Adventures of Don Juan | Shared with Lyle Reifsnider. | |||
| 1952 | Emile Kuri | Carrie | |||
| 1954 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | ||||
| Executive Suite | |||||
| 1959 | The Big Fisherman | ||||
| 1960 | Edward Carrere | Sunrise at Campobello | Shared with George James Hopkins. | ||
| 1961 | Emile Kuri | The Absent-Minded Professor | |||
| Fernando Carrere | The Children's Hour | ||||
| 1963 | John DeCuir | Cleopatra | |||
| 1964 | Emile Kuri | Mary Poppins | |||
| 1967 | Edward Carrere | Shared with John Truscott and John W. Brown. | |||
| John DeCuir | The Taming of the Shrew | ||||
| 1969 | Hello, Dolly! | ||||
| 1971 | Emile Kuri | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | |||
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | German-born Mexican art director. Shared with Catherine Martin. | |||
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | ||||
| 2002 | Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo | Frida | |||
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | Original title: El laberinto del fauno Shared with Pilar Revuelta. | |||
| 2018 | Eugenio Caballero Bárbara Enríquez | Roma |
This list focuses on Mexican-born sound editors and mixers.
Prior to the 93rd Academy Awards, the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.[4]
| Academy Award for Best Sound | ||||||
| Year | Name | Film | Category | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Fernando Cámara[5] | Apocalypto | Mixing | |||
| 2012 | Argo | |||||
| 2014 | Birdman | Editing | Shared with Aaron Glascock. | |||
| 2015 | The Revenant | Shared with Lon Bender. | ||||
| 2018 | José Antonio García | Roma | Mixing | Shared with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan. | ||
| Sergio Díaz | Editing | Shared with Skip Lievsay. | ||||
| 2020 | Jaime Baksht Michelle Couttolenc Carlos Cortés | Sound of Metal | Sound | Shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh. |
This list focuses on Mexican-born writers.
| Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Children of Men | Shared with Hawk Otsby, Timothy J. Sexton and Mark Fergus. |
| Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | And Your Mother Too | Original title: Y Tu Mamá También | |||
| 2006 | Babel | ||||
| Pan's Labyrinth | Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno | ||||
| 2014 | Birdman | Shared with Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo. | |||
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | Shared with Vanessa Taylor. Story by Guillermo del Toro. | ||
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma |
| Academy Award for Best Visual Effects | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | Paul Lerpae | Unconquered | Mexican born-American special effects artist. |