This is a list of New Zealand Academy Award winners and nominees.
Best Leading Actor | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1999 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Crowe was born in New Zealand, but has lived in Australia since his childhood. | |
2000 | Gladiator | |||
2001 | A Beautiful Mind |
Best Leading Actress | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2003 | Keisha Castle-Hughes | Whale Rider | Debut performance. First indigenous person (Māori) ever nominated in this category. Second youngest nominee (age 13) ever in this category. |
Best Supporting Actress | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1993 | Anna Paquin | The Piano | Dual New Zealand-Canadian citizen. Debut performance. Second youngest winner (age 11) in Academy Award history. |
Best Animated Short Film | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1986 | Bob Stenhouse | The Frog, the Dog and the Devil | This is NZ made animated short film made by NZ National Film Unit. | ||
1994 | Erica Russell | Triangle |
Best Animated Feature | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2004 | Andrew Adamson | Shrek 2 | ||
Best Costume Design | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2001 | Ngila Dickson Richard Taylor | |||
2003 | First time that featured two New Zealanders costume designers in the Best Costume Design category (in different nominations) within the same year. | |||
Ngila Dickson | The Last Samurai | |||
Best Director | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | Second woman ever to be nominated in this category. | ||
2001 | Peter Jackson | ||||
2003 | |||||
2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | First woman ever to be nominated twice in this category. |
Documentary (Feature) | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1977 | Michael Firth | Off the Edge |
Best Film Editing | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2001 | John Gilbert | ||||
2002 | Michael Horton | ||||
2003 | Jamie Selkirk | ||||
2016 | John Gilbert | Hacksaw Ridge | |||
2019 | Tom Eagles | Jojo Rabbit |
Best Makeup and Hairstyling | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2001 | Richard Taylor | Shared with Peter Owen. | |||
2003 | Shared with Peter King. | ||||
2015 | Lesley Vanderwalt | New Zealand-born Australian citizen. Shared with Elka Wardega and Damian Martin. |
Best Original Song | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Song | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2003 | Fran Walsh | The Return of the King | "Into the West" | Shared with Annie Lennox and Howard Shore. | ||
2011 | Bret McKenzie | The Muppets | "Man or Muppet" |
Best Picture | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1998 | Tim Bevan | Elizabeth | New Zealand-born British producer. Shared with Alison Owen and Eric Fellner. | ||
2001 | Peter Jackson Fran Walsh | Shared with Barrie M. Osborne. | |||
2002 | |||||
2003 | |||||
2007 | Tim Bevan | Atonement | Shared with Eric Fellner and Paul Webster. | ||
2009 | Peter Jackson | District 9 | Shared with Carolynne Cunningham. | ||
2012 | Tim Bevan | Les Misérables | Shared with Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh. | ||
2014 | Tim Bevan Anthony McCarten | The Theory of Everything | Shared with Lisa Bruce and Eric Fellner. | ||
2017 | Darkest Hour | Shared with Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, and Douglas Urbanski. | |||
2019 | Carthew Neal Taika Waititi Chelsea Winstanley | Jojo Rabbit | |||
2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | Shared with Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Roger Frappier |
Best Production Design | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2001 | Grant Major Dan Hennah | ||||
2002 | Shared with Alan Lee. | ||||
2003 | |||||
2005 | Grant Major Dan Hennah Simon Bright | King Kong | |||
2009 | Kim Sinclair | Avatar | Shared with Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg. | ||
2012 | Dan Hennah Ra Vincent Simon Bright | ||||
2019 | Ra Vincent | Jojo Rabbit | Shared with Nora Sopková. | ||
2021 | Grant Major Amber Richards | The Power of the Dog |
Live Action Short Film | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1958 | Brian Brake | Snows of Aorangi | First New Zealand film nominated in any category. | ||
1980 | Lloyd Phillips | The Dollar Bottom | First New Zealander to win in any category. | ||
2004 | Taika Waititi Ainsley Gardiner | Two Cars, One Night | |||
2014 | James Lucas | The Phone Call | Dual British-New Zealand citizen. Shared with Mat Kirkby. |
Sound Editing | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2002 | Mike Hopkins | Shared with Ethan Van der Ryn. | |||
2005 | King Kong | ||||
2007 | Transformers | ||||
2013 | Brent Burge Chris Ward | ||||
2014 | Brent Burge | Shared with Jason Canovas. |
Best Sound Mixing | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2001 | Gethin Creagh Hammond Peek | Shared with Christopher Boyes, and Michael Semanick. | |||
2002 | Michael Hedges Hammond Peek | ||||
2003 | |||||
2005 | King Kong | ||||
Tony Johnson[1] | Shared with Terry Porter, and Dean A. Zupancic. | ||||
2009 | Avatar | Shared with Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, and Andy Nelson. | |||
2013 | Michael Hedges Tony Johnson | Shared with Christopher Boyes, and Michael Semanick. |
Best Visual Effects | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2001 | Richard Taylor | Shared with Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, and Mark Stetson. | |||
2005 | Christian Rivers Richard Taylor | King Kong | Shared with Joe Letteri, and Brian Van't Hul. | ||
2009 | Matt Aitken | District 9 | Shared with Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers and Robert Habros | ||
2011 | Dan Lemmon | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Shared with Joe Letteri, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett. | ||
2014 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Shared with Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, and Erik Winquist. | |||
2016 | The Jungle Book | Shared with Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, and Andrew R. Jones. | |||
2017 | War for the Planet of the Apes | Shared with Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, and Joel Whist. | |||
2019 | Matt Aitken | Shared with Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, and Dan Sudick. | |||
2021 | Sean Noel Walker | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Shared with Joe Farrell, Dan Oliver, and Christopher Townsend. |
Best Adapted Screenplay | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Source Material | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1980 | Jonathan Hardy | Breaker Morant | The play Breaker Morant by Kenneth G. Ross | Shared with David Stevens and Bruce Beresford. | ||
2001 | Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson Fran Walsh | The Fellowship of the Ring | The novel The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien | |||
2003 | The Return of the King | The novel The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien | ||||
2014 | Anthony McCarten | The Theory of Everything | The book Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen Hawking by Jane Hawking | |||
2019 | Taika Waititi | Jojo Rabbit | The novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens | First indigenous person (Māori) ever to win this category. Second time that two different nominations in the same year and category were for New Zealanders. | ||
Anthony McCarten | The Two Popes | The play by Anthony McCarten | Second time that two different nominations in the same year and category were for New Zealanders. | |||
2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | The novel The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage |
Best Original Screenplay | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | |||
1994 | Peter Jackson Fran Walsh | Heavenly Creatures |