List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees who are from Asia i.e. who are nationals of a country situated in Asia (this includes people with dual citizenship). In the category of Best Foreign Language Film, this list also includes films submitted by Asian countries and films in Asian languages, in addition to films with Asian directors. This list is current as of the 92nd Academy Awards.

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1986	Ismail Merchant		A Room with a View	Nominated	Indian descent[1] First Asian nominated for Best Picture
1992			Howards End	Nominated
1993			The Remains of the Day	Nominated	(nominated with Mike Nichols & John Calley)
2000	Ang Lee William Kong Hsu Li-kong		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated	All three are of Chinese descent[2][3][4]
2012	Ang Lee		Life of Pi	Nominated	(nominated with Gil Netter & David Womarck)
2019	Bong Joon-ho Kwak Sin-ae		Parasite	Won	Korean descent First Asians to win Best Picture First foreign language film to win Best Picture

Best Actor

Actor in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1956	Yul Brynner		The King and I	King Mongkut of Siam	Won	Born in Vladivostok, Russia and of Buryat descent through his paternal grandmother.
1971	Topol		Fiddler on the Roof	Tevye	Nominated	First Israeli nominated in any category. First Middle Eastern person nominated for an acting award.
1982	Ben Kingsley		Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	Won	First actor of Indian descent to win this category.
2003			House of Sand and Fog	Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani	Nominated

Best Actress

Actress in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1935	Merle Oberon		The Dark Angel	Kitty Vane	Nominated	Part-Indian and Maori (Polynesian) descent[5] First Asian nominated for any Academy Award First Asian and only actress of Asian descent nominated for Best Actress
2010	Natalie Portman		Black Swan	Nina Sayers	Won	Born in Israel, has dual Israeli and US citizenship
2016			Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	Nominated

Best Supporting Actor

Actor in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1957	Sessue Hayakawa		The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Saito	Nominated	Japanese descent[6] First Asian nominated for Supporting Actor
1966	Mako Iwamatsu		The Sand Pebbles	Po-Han	Nominated	Japanese descent[7]
1984	Haing S. Ngor		The Killing Fields	Dith Pran	Won	Chinese/Cambodian descent (father is Chinese, mother is Khmer)[8] First Asian to win Best Supporting Actor This was Ngor's debut acting performance
1991	Ben Kingsley		Bugsy	Meyer Lansky	Nominated	Indian descent
2001			Sexy Beast	Don Logan	Nominated
2003	Ken Watanabe		The Last Samurai	Lord Katsumoto	Nominated	Japanese descent[9]
2016	Dev Patel		Lion	Saroo Brierley	Nominated	Indian descent

Best Supporting Actress

Actress in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1957	Miyoshi Umeki		Sayonara	Katsumi Kelly	Won	Japanese descent[10] First Asian nominated for Best Supporting Actress
2003	Shohreh Aghdashloo		House of Sand and Fog	Nadereh "Nadi" Behrani	Nominated	First and only Iranian to date to be nominated for an acting award. First Middle Eastern woman to be nominated for an acting award.
2004	Natalie Portman		Closer	Alice Ayres/Jane Jones	Nominated	Born in Israel, has dual Israeli and US citizenship
2006	Rinko Kikuchi		Babel	Chieko Wataya	Nominated	Japanese descent[11] First role in Japanese Sign Language to be nominated.

Best Director

Director
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1965	Hiroshi Teshigahara		Woman in the Dunes	Nominated	Japanese descent[12] First Asian nominated for Best Director Film was nominated in previous year for Best Foreign Language Film
1985	Akira Kurosawa		Ran	Nominated	Japanese descent[13] Four previous Kurosawa films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
2000	Ang Lee		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2005			Brokeback Mountain	Won	First Asian to win Best Director First person of color to win Best Director
2012			Life of Pi	Won	Tied for second most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with five nominations (not including nominations in Foreign Language Film category)
2019	Bong Joon-ho		Parasite	Won	First South Korean to be nominated (and to win) for Best Director

Best Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2009	Oren Moverman		The Messenger	Nominated	Israeli descent (nominated with Alessandro Camon)
2011	Asghar Farhadi		A Separation	Nominated	First screenplay written in Persian to be nominated for a screenplay award.
2015	Ronnie del Carmen		Inside Out	Nominated	Filipino descent[14] (nominated with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, & Josh Cooley)
2017	Kumail Nanjiani		The Big Sick	Nominated	Pakistani descent[15] (nominated with Emily V. Gordon)
2019	Bong Joon-ho Han Jin-won		Parasite	Won	First Asian writers to win any screenwriting Academy Award.[16][17] Both are of Korean descent.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Adapted From	Status	Notes
1997	Hossein Amini		The Wings of the Dove	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James	Nominated	Iranian descent
2000	Wang Hui-ling Kuo Jung Tsai		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Dulu	Nominated	Both are of Chinese descent[2] First Asian-language screenplay nominated in a writing category (nominated with James Schamus)

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1938	James Wong Howe		Algiers	Nominated	Chinese descent Black and White
1940			Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Nominated	Black and White
1942			Kings Row	Nominated	Black and White
1943			Air Force	Nominated	Black and White (nominated with Elmer Dyer and Charles A. Marshall)
			The North Star	Nominated	Black and White
1955			The Rose Tattoo	Won	Black and White
1958			The Old Man and the Sea	Nominated	Color
1963			Hud	Won	Color
1966			Seconds	Nominated	Black and White
1970	Osami Furuya Sinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh		Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	All three are of Japanese descent[18] (nominated with Charles F. Wheeler)
1975	James Wong Howe		Funny Lady	Nominated
1985	Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai		Ran	Nominated	All three are of Japanese.[19][20]
1993	Gu Changwei		Farewell My Concubine	Nominated	Chinese[21]
1995	Lü Yue		Shanghai Triad	Nominated	Chinese[22]
2000	Peter Pau		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese[2]
2004	Zhao Xiaoding		House of Flying Daggers	Nominated	Chinese

Best Film Editing

Film Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1992	Kant Pan	//	The Crying Game	Nominated	Chinese[23]
1998	Saar Klein		The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Nominated with Billy Weber and Leslie Jones
1999	Tariq Anwar		American Beauty	Nominated	Nominated with Christopher Greenbury
2000	Saar Klein		Almost Famous	Nominated	Nominated with Joe Hutshing
2010	Tariq Anwar		The King's Speech	Nominated
2019	Yang Jin-mo		Parasite	Nominated	South Korean

Best Production Design

Production Design
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1936	Eddie Imazu		The Great Ziegfeld	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Best Production Design (nominated with Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis)
1952	So Matsuyama H. Matsumoto		Rashomon	Nominated	Both are of Japanese descent[24]
1956	Albert Nozaki		The Ten Commandments	Nominated	Japanese descent[25] (nominated with Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, & Ray Moyer)
	So Matsuyama		Seven Samurai	Nominated
1970	Yoshirō Muraki Taizô Kawashima		Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	Both are of Japanese descent[26] (nominated with Jack Martin Smith, Richard Day, Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockette, & Carl Biddiscombe)
1980	Yoshirō Muraki		Kagemusha	Nominated
1985	Yoshirō Muraki Shinobu Muraki		Ran	Nominated	Shinobu Muraki is of Japanese descent[27]
2000	Timmy Yip		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent[2] First Asian to win Best Art Direction
2008	James J. Murakami		Changeling	Nominated	(nominated with Gary Fettis)
2019	Lee Ha-jun Cho Won-woo		Parasite	Nominated	Both are of South Korean descent

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1954	Sanzo Wada		Gate of Hell	Won	Japanese[28] First Asian nominated for Best Costume Design First Asian to win Best Costume Design
1955	Tadaoto Kainosho		Ugetsu	Nominated	Japanese[29]
1956	Kohei Ezaki		Seven Samurai	Nominated	Japanese[30]
1961	Yoshirō Muraki		Yojimbo	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations
1969	Ray Aghayan		Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	First Iranian to be nominated for an Academy Award.
1972			Lady Sings the Blues	Nominated	Nominated with Norma Koch and Bob Mackie
1975			Funny Lady	Nominated	Nominated with Bob Mackie
1982	Bhanu Athaiya		Gandhi	Won	Indian First Indian to Win an Academy Award[31] (Shared with John Mollo)
1985	Emi Wada		Ran	Won	Japanese[32]
1992	Eiko Ishioka		Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	Japanese[33]
2000	Timmy Yip		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2006	Yee Chung-Man		Curse of the Golden Flower	Nominated	Chinese[34]
2012	Eiko Ishioka		Mirror Mirror	Nominated	Posthumous nomination
2013	William Chang Suk Ping		The Grandmaster	Nominated	Chinese[35]

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2006	Kazu Hiro		Click	Nominated	Japanese descent[36] First Asian nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling (nominated with Bill Corso)
2007			Norbit	Nominated	(nominated with Rick Baker)
2017			Darkest Hour	Won	First Asian to win for Best Makeup and Hairstyling (nominated with David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick)
2019			Bombshell	Won	US citizen[37][38] (nominated with Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker)

Best Original Score

Original Score
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1966	Toshiro Mayuzumi		The Bible	Nominated	Japanese[39] First Asian nominated for Best Original Score
1982	Ravi Shankar		Gandhi	Nominated	Indian[40] First Asian nominated for both Academy and Grammy Awards (nominated with George Fenton)
1987	Cong Su Ryuichi Sakamoto		The Last Emperor	Won	Su is Chinese[41] Sakamoto is Japanese[42] First Asians to win Best Original Score (won with David Byrne)
1996	Gabriel Yared		The English Patient	Won	Lebanese descent Original Dramatic Score Category
1999			The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated	First Asian to receive multiple Best Original Score nominations
2000	Tan Dun		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent[2]
2003	Gabriel Yared		Cold Mountain	Nominated
2008	A. R. Rahman		Slumdog Millionaire	Won	First Indian to win two oscars in one night[43]
2010			127 Hours	Nominated

Best Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Country	Film	Song	Status	Notes
2000	Tan Dun		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Best Original Song (nominated with Jorge Calandrelli & James Schamus)
2008	M.I.A.		Slumdog Millionaire	"O Saya"	Nominated	M.I.A. is a British woman of Sri Lankan descent[44]
	A. R. Rahman				Nominated	Rahman is the first Asian to receive three Academy Award nominations in the same year
				"Jai Ho"	Won	Rahman is the first Asian to win two Oscars in the same year First Asians to win Best Original Song
	Gulzar				Won	Gulzar is of Indian descent[45] First Asians to win Best Original Song
2010	A. R. Rahman		127 Hours	"If I Rise"	Nominated	(nominated with Rollo Armstrong & Dido)
2012	Bombay Jayashri		Life of Pi	"Pi's Lullaby"	Nominated	Indian descent[46] (nominated with Mychael Danna)
2013	Karen O		Her	"The Moon Song"	Nominated	South Korean-born American (nominated with Spike Jonze)

Best Sound Mixing

Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2008	Resul Pookutty		Slumdog Millionaire	Won	Indian descent[47] First Asian to win Best Sound Mixing (nominated with Ian Tapp & Richard Pryke)
2013	Niv Adiri		Gravity	Won	(nominated with Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, and Chris Munro)
2016	Ai-Ling Lee		La La Land	Nominated	Singaporean-Chinese descent First Asian woman to be nominated for Sound Mixing (nominated with Steve A. Morrow)
2018			First Man	Nominated	(nominated with Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Mary H. Ellis)

Best Sound Editing

Sound Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2006	Kami Asgar		Apocalypto	Nominated	First and only Middle Eastern to date to be nominated for Best Sound Editing
2016	Ai-Ling Lee		La La Land	Nominated	Singaporean-Chinese descent First Asian woman nominated for Best Sound Editing (nominated with Mildred Iatrou Morgan)
2018			First Man	Nominated	(nominated with Mildred Iatrou Morgan)

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1992	Doug Chiang		Death Becomes Her	Won	(Nominated with Ken Ralston, Doug Smythe, and Tom Woodruff Jr.)
1996	Habib Zargarpour		Twister	Nominated	(Nominated with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier, and Henry LaBounta)
2000			The Perfect Storm	Nominated	(Nominated with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier, and Walt Conti)

Best Animated Feature

Animated Feature
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2002	Hayao Miyazaki		Spirited Away	Won	Japanese descent[48] First Asian nominated for Best Animated Feature First Asian to win Best Animated Feature
2005			Howl's Moving Castle	Nominated
2007	Marjane Satrapi		Persepolis	Nominated	Only Middle Eastern person ever nominated in this category (Nominated with Vincent Paronnaud)
2013	Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki		The Wind Rises	Nominated	Suzuki is of Japanese descent[48]
2014	Isao Takahata Yoshiaki Nishimura		The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Nominated	Both are of Japanese descent[49][50]
2015	Hiromasa Yonebayashi Yoshiaki Nishimura		When Marnie Was There	Nominated	Yonebayashi is of Japanese descent[50]
2016	Toshio Suzuki		The Red Turtle	Nominated	(nominated with Michael Dudok de Wit)
2017	Ramsey Naito		The Boss Baby	Nominated	Japanese father[51] (nominated with Tom McGrath)
2018	Mamoru Hosoda Yuichiro Saito		Mirai	Nominated
2019	Jinko Gotoh		Klaus	Nominated

Best Documentary Feature

Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1974	Haim Gouri		The 81st Blow	Nominated	(nominated with Jacquot Ehrlich and David Bergman)
1988	Christine Choy		Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Nominated	(nominated with Renee Tajima-Peña)
2004	Byambasuren Davaa		The Story of the Weeping Camel	Nominated	Mongolian descent[52] (nominated with Luigi Falorni)
2008	Thavisouk Phrasavath		The Betrayal – Nerakhoon	Nominated	Laotian descent[53] (nominated with Ellen Kuras)
2012	Emad Burnat		5 Broken Cameras	Nominated
	Guy Davidi			Nominated
	Estelle Fialon Philippa Kowarsky Dror Moreh		The Gatekeepers	Nominated
2017	Feras Fayyad		Last Men in Aleppo	Nominated	(nominated with Søren Steen Jespersen)
	Kareem Abeed			Nominated
2018	Bing Liu	/	Minding the Gap	Nominated	Chinese descent[54]
	Su Kim	/	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	Nominated	(nominated with RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes)
	Talal Derki		Of Fathers and Sons	Nominated	(nominated with Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert)
2019	Waad Al-Kateab		For Sama	Nominated	Syrian descent (nominated with Edward Watts)
	Feras Fayyad		The Cave	Nominated	(nominated with Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær)

Best Documentary Short Subject

Documentary Short Subject
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1968	Fali Bilimoria		The House That Ananda Built	Nominated	First Asian nominee for Best Documentary Short
1978	K.K. Kapil		An Encounter with Faces	Nominated	Indian descent[55][56]
1987	Izak Ben-Meir		In the Wee Wee Hours...	Nominated	(nominated with Frank Daniel)
1998	Keiko Ibi		The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years	Won
2006	Ruby Yang		The Blood of Yingzhou District	Won	Chinese descent[57] (nominated with Thomas Lennon)
2010			The Warriors of Qiugang	Nominated	(nominated with Thomas Lennon)
2011	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy		Saving Face	Won	Pakistani descent[58] (nominated with Daniel Junge)
2013	Sara Ishaq	/	Karama Has No Walls	Nominated
2015	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy		A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness	Won
2018	Rayka Zehtabchi		Period. End of Sentence.	Won	(nominated with Melissa Berton)
2019	Yi Seung-Jun Gary Byung-Seok Kam		In the Absence	Nominated
	Smriti Mundhra Sami Khan		St. Louis Superman	Nominated

Best Animated Short Film

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1977	Ishu Patel		Bead Game	Nominated	Indian descent[59]
1984			Paradise	Nominated
2002	Kōji Yamamura		Mt. Head	Nominated	Japanese descent[50]
2004	Sejong Park		Birthday Boy	Nominated	Korean descent[60] (nominated with Andrew Gregory)
2008	Kunio Katō		La Maison En Petits Cubes	Won	Japanese descent[61] First Asian to win Best Animated Short Film
2012	Minkyu Lee		Adam and Dog	Nominated	Korean descent[50]
2013	Shuhei Morita		Possessions	Nominated	Japanese descent[62]
2014	Daisuke Tsutsumi		The Dam Keeper	Nominated	Japanese descent Shared nomination with Robert Kondo.
2018	Ru Kuwahata		Negative Space	Nominated	Shared nomination with Max Porter.
2018	Domee Shi	/	Bao	Won	Chinese descent Shared nomination with Becky Neiman-Cobb.
2019	Siqi Song		Sister	Nominated	Chinese descent

Best Live Action Short Film

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1960	Ismail Merchant		The Creation of Woman	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Best Live Action Short Film Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations (nominated with Charles F. Schwep)
1997	Chris Tashima		Visas & Virtue	Won	(win with Chris Donahue)
1997	Chris Donahue		Visas & Virtue	Won	(win with Chris Tashima)
1999	Mehdi Norozwian	/	Killing Joe	Nominated	(nominated with Steve Wax)
2004	Ashvin Kumar		Little Terrorist	Nominated	Indian descent[63]
2012	Ariel Nasr	/	Buzkashi Boys	Nominated	(nominated with Sam French)
2014	Hu Wei		Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)	Nominated	(nominated with Julien Ferét)
	Talkhon Hamzavi	/	Parvaneh	Nominated	(nominated with Stefan Eichenberger)
	Oded Binnun Mihal Brezis		Aya	Nominated
2015	Basil Khalil	/	Ave Maria	Nominated	(shared with Eric Dupont)
2018	Guy Nattiv		Skin	Won	(nominated with his wife, Jaime Ray Newman)

Best International Feature Film

International Feature Film
Year	Country	Film	Director	Status	Notes
1951		Rashômon 羅生門	Akira Kurosawa	Won	Special Honorary Award
1954		Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) 地獄門	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Won
1955		Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto 宮本武蔵	Hiroshi Inagaki	Won
1956		Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) ビルマの竪琴	Masayuki Takagi	Nominated	First Asian country nominated for competitive award in category
1957		Mother India (Bharat Mata) भारत माता	Mehboob Khan	Nominated	First Asian musical film nominated in category First South Asian country nominated in category
1961		Immortal Love (Eien no hito) 永遠の人	Keisuke Kinoshita	Nominated
1963		Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Koto) 古都	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
1964		Sallah סאלח שבת	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated
		Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) 砂の女	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Nominated
1965		Kwaidan 怪談	Masaki Kobayashi	Nominated
1967		Portrait of Chieko (Chieko-sho) 智恵子抄	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
1971		Dodes'ka-Den どですかでん	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
		The Policeman (Hashoter Azulai) השוטר אזולאי	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated
1972		I Love You Rosa (Ani Ohev Otakh Rozah) אני אוהב אותך רוזה	Moshé Mizrahi	Nominated
1973		The House on Chelouche Street (Habayit Birkhov Chelouche) הבית ברחוב שלוש		Nominated
1975		Sandakan No. 8 (Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo) サンダカン八番娼館 望郷	Kei Kumai	Nominated
1977		Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtza Yonatan) מבצע יונתן	Menahem Golan	Nominated
1980		Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) 影武者	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
1981		Muddy River (film) (Doro no kawa) 泥の河	Kohei Oguri	Nominated
1984		Beyond the Walls (Me'akhorei Hasoragim) מאחורי הסורגים	Uri Barbash	Nominated
1988		Salaam Bombay! सलाम बॉम्बे	Mira Nair	Nominated
1990		Jú Dòu 菊豆	Zhang Yimou Yang Fengliang	Nominated
1991		Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà) 大紅燈籠高高掛	Zhang Yimou	Nominated
1993		Farewell My Concubine (Bàwáng Bié Jī) 霸王別姬	Chen Kaige	Nominated
		The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi đu đủ xanh)	Anh Hung Tran	Nominated
		The Wedding Banquet (Xǐyàn) 喜宴	Ang Lee	Nominated
1994		Eat Drink Man Woman (yǐn shí nán nǚ) 飲食男女		Nominated
1999		Himalaya हिमालय	Eric Valli	Nominated	First Nepalese film nominated in Best Foreign Language Film category.
2000	[64]	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wòhǔ Cánglóng) 臥虎藏龍	Ang Lee	Won	First Asian country to win competitive award in category
2001		Lagaan लगान	Ashutosh Gowariker	Nominated
2002		Hero (Yīngxióng) 英雄	Zhang Yimou	Nominated
2003		The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) たそがれ清兵衛	Yoji Yamada	Nominated
2005		Paradise Now الجنّة الآن	Hany Abu-Assad	Nominated
2007	[note 1]	Mongol Монгол	Sergei Bodrov	Nominated	Mongolian-language film
		Beaufort (Beaufort) בופור	Joseph Cedar	Nominated
2008		Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) ואלס עם באשיר	Ari Folman	Nominated
		Departures (Okuribito) おくりびと	Yōjirō Takita	Won	4th most winning country of all time with 4 awards. 5th most Oscar-nominated country with 12 competitive nominations. Most winning and nominated Asian country.
2009		Ajami (Agami) عجمي / עג'מי	Copti and Yaron Shani	Nominated
2011		Footnote (He'arat Shulayyim) הערת שוליים	Joseph Cedar	Nominated
2012		A Separation (Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín) جدایی نادر از سیمین	Asghar Farhadi	Won	First Iranian film to win for Best Foreign Language Film. First Iranian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
2013		The Missing Picture (L'Image manquant)	Rithy Panh	Nominated
		Omar عمر	Hany Abu-Assad	Nominated
2017		The Salesman (Forušande) فروشنده	Asghar Farhadi	Won	Farhadi did not attend the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in protest of the U.S. Executive Order 13769.
		The Insult قضية رقم ٢٣	Ziad Doueiri	Nominated
2018		Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) 万引き家族	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Nominated
		Capernaum کفرناحوم	Nadine Labaki	Nominated
2019		Parasite 기생충	Bong Joon-ho	Won	First South Korean film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. First South Korean film to win for Best Foreign Language Film.

Non-Competitive Awards

Non-Competitive Awards
Year	Name	Country	Award
1989	Akira Kurosawa		Honorary Academy Award[65] To Akira Kurosawa for accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.
1991	Satyajit Ray		Honorary Academy Award[66] To Satyajit Ray, in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.
2014	Hayao Miyazaki		Honorary Academy Award[67] To Hayao Miyazaki, a master storyteller whose animated artistry has inspired filmmakers and audiences around the world.
2016	Jackie Chan		Honorary Academy Award[68] To Jackie Chan, an international film star who has captivated millions with his wit, boundless energy and unparalleled athletic artistry.

See also

• List of African Academy Award winners and nominees

Notes

1. The film was shot in Mongolian and Mandarin.

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