List_of_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees_of_Asian_descent

List of Academy Award winners and nominees of Asian descent

Add article description

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees who are of Asian descent. This list is current as of the 96th Academy Awards.

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article List_of_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees_of_Asian_descent, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] [1]
Schwary's paternal grandmother Sophia Schwary Fliofel (1865-1955) was born in Zahle, Lebanon as can be seen in her death certificate in 1955 His paternal grandfather Louis M. Schwary was from Beirut, Lebanon and his uncle was born there as well. His maternal grandfather Abraham J Ablan was from Batroun, Lebanon and his maternal grandmother Nezzera Zlaket and granduncle Kalil Zlaket were from Zahle, Lebanon. Marriage certificate of Ronald Schwary's parents in 1940. Information from the National Archives, United States. Scans of official acts of Ronald L. Schwary paternal and maternal grandparents on familysearch.org.

[Merchant-2] [2]
Claiborne, Craig (August 31, 1986). "FOOD; CURRYING FLAVOR". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016. Retrieved September 20, 2016.

[variety-3] [3]
"Producer Hank Moonjean dies". Variety. 2012-10-09. Retrieved 2012-10-29.

[4] [4]
"Official Site / A. Kitman Ho Bio / Reservation Road". Focus Features. Retrieved September 20, 2016.

[5] [5]
Spickard, Paul R. (2008). Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group. Rutgers University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0813544335.

[transnationalisms-6] [6]
Ng, Maria N.; Holden, Philip (2006). Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film. Hong Kong University Press. p. 133. ISBN 9789622097964.

[7] [7]
"Meet Bill Kong". The Star. August 16, 2015. Archived from the original on January 23, 2016. Retrieved September 21, 2016.

[8] [8]
Lee, Daw-Ming (2012). Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0810867925.

[9] [9]
Thomas Langmann, le nouveau nabab

[10] [10]
Ronald Bergan (14 January 2009). "Obituary: Claude Berri | Film". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 28 February 2012.

[11] [11]
Film – British Federation of Film Societies, Federation of Film Societies (Great Britain) – Google Books. Retrieved 28 February 2012 – via Google Books.

[12] [12]
Schley, Matt (22 March 2022). "Making 'Drive My Car': filmmakers talk production challenges, pushing for a bigger budget". The Hollywood Reporter.

[13] [13]
Harper, Dan (May 2003). "Hiroshi Teshigahara • Great Director profile". Senses of Cinema. Archived from the original on June 4, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.

[14] [14]
Harper, Dan (July 2002). "Akira Kurosawa • Great Director profile". Senses of Cinema. Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.

[:0-15] [15]
"ATOM EGOYAN'S PARTICLES OF FAITH". Washington Post. 2024-02-25. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-03-17.

[16] [16]
Terrence Malick. University of Illinois Press. 2009. ISBN 9780252075759.

[17] [17]
Tucker, Thomas Deane; Kendall, Stuart (2011). Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy. ISBN 9781441148957.

[18] [18]
Maher, Paul Jr. (2015). One Big Soul: An Oral History of Terrence Malick. ISBN 9781312887442.

[Shyamalan-19] [19]
Bamberger, Michael (2006). The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale. Gotham. p. 150. ISBN 978-1592402137.

[20] [20]
Denham, Jess (June 14, 2016). "Ben Kingsley told he would 'always play servants' by senior RSC director". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved September 21, 2016.

[21] [21]
Khan, Salma (January 1, 2009). "Merle Oberon: Hollywood's First Indian Actress". SAPNA Magazine. Archived from the original on September 20, 2016. Retrieved September 21, 2016.

[22] [22]
Thurber, Jon (November 26, 2005). "Pat Morita, 73; Actor Starred in 'Karate Kid' Movie Series". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 21, 2016.

[23] [23]
Burrows, Tim (2008-12-01). "Slumdog Millionaire: Dev Patel hits the jackpot". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-03-26.

[tilly-24] [24]
Chiu, Alexis (September 11, 2006). "Scars of Her Youth". People. Retrieved September 22, 2016.

[25] [25]
Abad, Paolo (6 April 2016). "WATCH: Hailee Steinfeld on connecting with her Filipino roots". Rappler. Retrieved 15 June 2020.

[26] [26]
"Hailee Steinfeld: Biography". IMDb. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.

[27] [27]
Isla, Micah Levin (April 9, 2016). "Hailee on what it means to have Pinoy roots". The Philippine Star. Retrieved September 22, 2016.

[28] [28]
Barlass, Tim (August 12, 2020). "Co-scriptwriter of Crocodile Dundee, which started as 'Buffalo Jones'". SMH.

[29] [29]
McCrum, Robert (January 18, 2014). "Hanif Kureishi interview: 'Every 10 years you become someone else'". The Guardian. Retrieved September 23, 2016.

[30] [30]
Wloszczyna, Susan (February 15, 2007). "Iris Yamashita: From 'Tokyo' to California". USA Today. Retrieved September 23, 2016.

[asamnews-31] [31]
Chan, Louis (January 14, 2016). "Asian Americans Snag Oscar Nominations in Animation". AsAmNews. Archived from the original on September 21, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.

[32] [32]
"Kumail Nanjiani: Extended Interview, 01/09/2012, Shereen - BBC Radio Scotland". BBC. Archived from the original on 2015-01-06. Retrieved 2018-01-23.

[33] [33]
Oscars: Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' Wins South Korea's First Oscar|Hollywood Reporter

[34] [34]
Joyce Eng (2020-02-07). "'Parasite's' Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won would be the first Asian writers to win an Oscar – GoldDerby". Goldderby.com. Retrieved 2020-02-16.

[cih-35] [35]
Cho, Jenny (2013). Chinese in Hollywood. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 121–124. ISBN 9780738599731.

[36] [36]
Hemphill, Jim (March 2012). "DVD Playback: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)". American Society of Cinematographers. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[37] [37]
Lentz, Harris M. (2015). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014. McFarland. p. 302. ISBN 978-0786476664.

[38] [38]
Hemphill, Jim (April 2010). "DVD Playback: Ran (1985)". American Society of Cinematographers. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[39] [39]
Kwong, Kevin (March 13, 2015). "Shanghai museum's Art Basel show features Gu Changwei photos and video". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[40] [40]
Zhou, Xuelin (2016). Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film. Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 9781317194101.

[41] [41]
"Filipino cinematographer wins indie film award for Black Swan". AsiaOne. February 27, 2011. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[42] [42]
"THE 24TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1952". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[43] [43]
"THE 26TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1952". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[44] [44]
"THE 27TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1955". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[45] [45]
"THE 27TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1955". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[46] [46]
"THE 28TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1956". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[47] [47]
"THE 28TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1956". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[48] [48]
"THE 28TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1957". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[49] [49]
"THE 28TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1957". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[50] [50]
"THE 32ND ACADEMY AWARDS 1960". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[51] [51]
"THE 33RD ACADEMY AWARDS 1961". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[52] [52]
"THE 34TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1962". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[53] [53]
"THE 34TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1962". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[54] [54]
"THE 36TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1964". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[55] [55]
"THE 39TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1967". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[56] [56]
"THE 40TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1968". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[57] [57]
"THE 42ND ACADEMY AWARDS 1970". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[58] [58]
"THE 50TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1978". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[59] [59]
"THE 56TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1986". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[60] [60]
"THE 65TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1993". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[61] [61]
"THE 73RD ACADEMY AWARDS 2001". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[62] [62]
"THE 79TH ACADEMY AWARDS 2007". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[63] [63]
"THE 85TH ACADEMY AWARDS 2013". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[64] [64]
"THE 86TH ACADEMY AWARDS 2014". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[65] [65]
"THE 95TH ACADEMY AWARDS 2023". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 March 2023.

[66] [66]
"Kant Pan – The film editor". No One but Me. 2012. Archived from the original on July 23, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[67] [67]
Ansari, Shabana (March 10, 2011). "Oscar-nominated film editor Tariq Anwar has Mumbai link". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[68] [68]
Guillermo, Emil (February 23, 2015). "This Oscar Winner Has the Most Supportive Wife Ever". NBC News. Retrieved September 15, 2016.

[69] [69]
"Biography — KAZUHIRO TSUJI". Kazu Studios. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[70] [70]
"A research collaboration with artist Kazu Hiro: Using art and science to find the unique, expressive beauty that matures inside every person with passing years" (Press release). Kao Corporation. May 14, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2020.

[71] [71]
Saruwatari, Yuki (January 14, 2020). カズ・ヒロ氏、またもやオスカー候補入り。国籍と名前を変えた心境を聞く. Yahoo! News. Retrieved February 6, 2020.

[72] [72]
Tangcay, Jazz (February 8, 2022). "'House of Gucci' Hair and Makeup Oscar Nomination for Frederic Aspiras Is a Milestone for Asian American Representation". Variety. Retrieved February 9, 2022.

[73] [73]
Sun, Rebecca (March 13, 2023). "Creatives of Chinese and Indian Descent Triumph at 2023 Oscars". The Hollywood Reporter.

[74] [74]
"THE 28TH ACADEMY AWARDS 1957". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[75] [75]
McLellan, Dennis (November 29, 2003). "Albert Nozaki, 91; Art Director for Movie 'War of the Worlds'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016.

[76] [76]
"The 42nd Academy Awards Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. April 7, 1970. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[77] [77]
"The 43nd Academy Awards Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. April 15, 1971. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[78] [78]
"The 53nd Academy Awards Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 31, 1981. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[79] [79]
"The 58nd Academy Awards Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 24, 1986. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[80] [80]
"The 73nd Academy Awards Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 25, 2001. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[81] [81]
"Production Design Award Nominees Named". Rafu Shimpo. January 9, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2016.

[82] [82]
"The 85nd Academy Awards Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. February 24, 2013. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[83] [83]
"Meet the Asian and Asian American Nominees for the 2018 Oscars!". Center for Asian American Media. March 1, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

[84] [84]
Kozinn, Allan (April 11, 1997). "Toshiro Mayuzumi, 68, Eclectic Composer". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[85] [85]
Macphail, Cameron (April 7, 2016). "Pandit Ravi Shankar, the Indian virtuoso who introduced The Beatles to the sitar". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[86] [86]
Carter, Spike (December 29, 2015). "The Revenant Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Explains His Process". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[87] [87]
Amaratunga, Ravi (January 16, 2015). "MIA is an incredible artist, but she is not the spokesperson that Sri Lanka needs right now". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[88] [88]
Nepales, Ruben V. (November 7, 2013). "Fun, music-filled morning with Fil-Am Tony, Grammy winner and wife". Inquirer Entertainment. Retrieved September 16, 2016.

[89] [89]
Chi, Minnie (July 18, 2003). "Half Korean, 100% Rock Star". Asia Pacific Arts. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved September 16, 2016.

[90] [90]
Hammond, Pete (April 28, 2020). "Oscars Keeping Show Date But Make Big News As Academy Lightens Eligibility Rules, Combines Sound Categories, Ends DVD Screeners and More". Deadline Hollywood.

[91] [91]
Mandell, Paul (February 1979). "The Magical Techniques of Movie & TV". Starlog Magazine. No. 19. Norman Jacobs/Kerry O'Quinn. p. 63. Retrieved September 17, 2016.

[92] [92]
"Interview with Ariel Velasco Shaw". Amped Asia. August 14, 2011.

[93] [93]
"About/People/Visual Effects: Jerome Chen". Sony Pictures Imageworks. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[94] [94]
Edwards, Matthew (2015). The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema: Critical Essays. McFarland. p. 240. ISBN 978-0786479122.

[95] [95]
Rose, Becca (June 12, 2015). "LAFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Renee Tajima-Peña – 'No Más Bebés'". IndieWire. Retrieved September 18, 2016.

[96] [96]
Chang, Momo (March 28, 2014). "Freida Mock on 'Anita'". Center for Asian American Media. Retrieved September 18, 2016.

[97] [97]
Rivas, Jorge (February 28, 2011). "The Oscars Go to...(Almost) All White People". ColorLines. Retrieved September 18, 2016.

[98] [98]
"Jews in the News: Patricia Arquette, Hans Zimmer and Andrew Lazar". Jewish Tampa. 2015.

[99] [99]
Walia, Shelly (February 29, 2016). "India and Pakistan just got their share of the Oscar pie". Quartz. Retrieved September 18, 2016.

[100] [100]
Berger, Laura (January 20, 2015). "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Chai Vasarhelyi – 'Meru'". Women and Hollywood. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[101] [101]
Bisharat, Andrew (February 2, 2018). "Photographer Jimmy Chin on Mastering the Art of Chill". National Geographic. Archived from the original on September 12, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[102] [102]
Metz, Nina (August 15, 2018). "A conversation with Bing Liu about his documentary 'Minding the Gap'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[103] [103]
"Hale County Film Official Website". Hale County Film. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[104] [104]
Chang, Momo (January 25, 2016). "Q&A with Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Director of Kung Fu Panda 3". Center for Asian American Media. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[105] [105]
Gardiner, Margaret (March 15, 2017). "Ramsey Naito: Finding Nothing to Cry About While Producing 'The Boss Baby'". Golden Globes. Archived from the original on January 25, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.

[106] [106]
"Jinko Gotoh - The BRIC Foundation". The BRIC Foundation. January 13, 2020.

[107] [107]
Lin, Paul (2011). In the Eye of the China Storm: A Life Between East and West. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 8, 275. ISBN 978-0773538573.

[108] [108]
Rea, Steven (February 18, 1989). "An Oscar For Germantown? Lise Yasui Of Philadelphia Is The Creator Of "Family Gathering" - A Documentary Nominated For An Academy Award. She's Proud, She's Happy And She Doesn't Know What To Wear". Philadelphia Media Network. Retrieved September 19, 2016.

[109] [109]
Lowenstein, Lael (2012). "Finding Her Way". Directors Guild of America. Retrieved September 19, 2016.

[110] [110]
Schleier, Curt (October 28, 1999). "Keiko Ibi's "Personal" Journey". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved September 19, 2016.

[111] [111]
Berry, Michael (2011). A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film. Columbia University Press. p. 328. ISBN 978-0231141635.

[112] [112]
"Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is Pakistan's first Oscar nominee". DAWN. January 24, 2012. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2016.

[113] [113]
"Rayka Zehtabchi's Personal Website". RaykaZehtabchi.com. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[114] [114]
"Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan's 'St. Louis Superman' Snags an Oscar Nomination for Documentary Short Subject". indiawest.com. Retrieved January 13, 2020.

[115] [115]
Osmond, Andrew (December 19, 2001). "Jimmy Murakami's Five Decades of Animation". Animation World Network. Retrieved September 20, 2016.

[116] [116]
Tan, Shaun. "Comments on The Arrival". Viewpoint Magazine. Retrieved September 20, 2016.

[117] [117]
Kim, Hyung-suk (2013). K-Animation: Befriending Children All Over the World. Korean Culture and Information Service Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. p. 77. ISBN 9788973755813.

[118] [118]
Wang, Frances Kai-Hwa (June 2, 2015). "'Sanjay's Super Team' Brings an Indian-American Story to Big Screen". NBC News. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[119] [119]
"Torino Film Lab Biography". TorinoFilmLab. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[120] [120]
Takeuchi, Michael (February 15, 2018). "Filmmaker's childhood inspires movie magic". NichiBei. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[121] [121]
Martin, Rachel (June 15, 2018). "In Pixar's First Female-Directed Short, A Dumpling Child Fills An Empty Nest". NPR. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

[122] [122]
Chavez, Yong (March 1, 2019). "Meet Filipino-Canadian animator and Oscar nominee Trevor Jimenez". Balitang America. Retrieved March 2, 2019.

[123] [123]
Lim Uy, Sasha (February 7, 2019). "Meet the Filipino Oscar Nominee Who Dedicated an Animated Film to His Mom". EsquireMag.PH. Retrieved August 1, 2019.

[124] [124]
"Public Radio of Armenia". en.armradio.am. March 16, 2021.

[125] [125]
Lang, Catherine (1996). O-Bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered. Arsenal Pulp Press. p. 201. ISBN 9781551520360.

[126] [126]
"Oscar-nominated director to speak at City film school". Vietnam Breaking News. June 6, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2016.

[127] [127]
Galati, Luke (January 30, 2015). "Hollywood Veteran Chris Tashima Looks Back on His Filmmaking Career". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved September 30, 2016.

[128] [128]
La O, Ana (August 22, 2006). "The Talented Miss Clemente". Asia Pacific Arts. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

[Palestinian_filmmaker,_Farah_Nabulsi-129] [129]
"Palestinian filmmaker, Farah Nabulsi". Kuwait Times. June 4, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2013.

[130] [130]
THE 77TH SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL AWARDS 2004. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]

[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]

[23]

[24]

[25]

[26]

[27]

[28]

[29]

[30]

[31]

[32]

[33]

[34]

[35]

[36]

[37]

[38]

[39]

[40]

[41]

[42]

[43]

[44]

[45]

[46]

[47]

[48]

[49]

[50]

[51]

[52]

[53]

[54]

[55]

[56]

[57]

[58]

[59]

[60]

[61]

[62]

[63]

[64]

[65]

[66]

[67]

[68]

[69]

[70]

[71]

[72]

[73]

[74]

[75]

[76]

[77]

[78]

[79]

[80]

[81]

[82]

[83]

[84]

[85]

[86]

[87]

[88]

[89]

[90]

[91]

[92]

[93]

[94]

[95]

[96]

[97]

[98]

[99]

[100]

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Picture
1973	William Peter Blatty	/	The Exorcist	Nominated	Lebanese descent. First American of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Picture.
1980	Ronald L. Schwary		Ordinary People	Won	Lebanese descent.^[1] First American of Asian descent to win for Best Picture.
1984	Ronald L. Schwary		A Soldier's Story	Nominated	(Shared with Norman Jewison and Patrick Palmer.)
1986	Ismail Merchant	/	A Room with a View	Nominated	Indian descent.^[2]
1988	Hank Moonjean	/	Dangerous Liaisons	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[3] (Shared with Norma Heyman.)
1989	Tony Thomas	/	Dead Poets Society	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
1989	A. Kitman Ho	/	Born on the Fourth of July	Nominated	Chinese descent. First Asian-American nominated for Best Picture^[4] (Shared with Oliver Stone.)
1991	A. Kitman Ho	/	JFK	Nominated	(Shared with Oliver Stone.)
1992	Ismail Merchant	/	Howards End	Nominated	Indian descent.^[2]
1993	Ismail Merchant	/	The Remains of the Day	Nominated	Indian descent.^[2] (Shared with Mike Nichols and John Calley.)
1996	Richard Sakai	/	Jerry Maguire	Nominated	Japanese-American.^[5] (Shared with James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, and Cameron Crowe)
2000	Ang Lee William Kong Hsu Li-kong		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated	All three are of Chinese descent.^[6]^[7]^[8]
2011	Thomas Langmann	/	The Artist	Won	Lebanese descent.^[9]^[10]^[11]
2012	Ang Lee		Life of Pi	Nominated	Taiwanese.^[6] (Shared with Gil Netter and David Womark)
2019	Kwak Sin-ae Bong Joon-Ho		Parasite	Won	Korean. First Best Picture win by Asian filmmakers.
2020	Christina Oh	/	Minari	Nominated	Korean-American.
2020	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Won	Chinese descent.
2021	Teruhisa Yamamoto		Drive My Car	Nominated	Japanese.^[12]
2021	Tanya Seghatchian	/	The Power of the Dog	Nominated	Armenian descent. (Shared with Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, and Emile Sherman)
2022	Jonathan Wang	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Won	Both are of Chinese descent. (Shared with Daniel Scheinert)
2022	Daniel Kwan	//	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Won	Both are of Chinese descent. (Shared with Daniel Scheinert)

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Director
1965	Hiroshi Teshigahara		Woman in the Dunes	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[13] First Asian nominated for Best Director.
1985	Akira Kurosawa		Ran	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[14]
1997	Atom Egoyan	//	The Sweet Hereafter	Nominated	Of Armenian descent.^[15]
1998	Terrence Malick	/	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Lebanese and Assyrian descent.^[16]^[17]^[18]
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	/	The Sixth Sense	Nominated	Indian descent.^[19] First Asian-American director to be nominated.
2000	Ang Lee		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2005	Ang Lee		Brokeback Mountain	Won	First Asian to win Best Director.
2011	Terrence Malick	/	The Tree of Life	Nominated
2012	Ang Lee		Life of Pi	Won	First Asian to win Best Director multiple times.
2019	Bong Joon-Ho		Parasite	Won	First Korean director to be nominated and win Best Director.
2020	Lee Isaac Chung	/	Minari	Nominated	Korean descent.
2020	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Won	Chinese descent. First Asian woman to win Best Director.
2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi		Drive My Car	Nominated
2022	Daniel Kwan	//	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Won	Chinese descent. (Shared with Daniel Scheinert)

Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Actor
1956	Yul Brynner		The King and I	King Mongkut	Won	Buryat (Mongol) descent as well First Asian (and first Asian-American, overall) to be nominated for Best Actor, First Asian (and first Asian-American) to win Best Actor. Brynner became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943.
1982	Ben Kingsley	/	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	Won	Half-Indian descent (father is Indian).^[20]
1984	F. Murray Abraham	/	Amadeus	Antonio Salieri	Won	Half-Syrian descent (father is Syrian).
2003	Ben Kingsley	/	House of Sand and Fog	Massoud Behrani	Nominated
2011	Demián Bichir	/	A Better Life	Carlos Galindo	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2020	Riz Ahmed	/	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone	Nominated	Pakistani descent. First Muslim actor to be nominated for Best Actor.
2020	Steven Yeun	/	Minari	Jacob Yi	Nominated	Korean descent. First East Asian actor to be nominated for Best Actor.

Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Actress
1935	Merle Oberon	/	The Dark Angel	Kitty Vane	Nominated	Part-Sri Lankan and Maori (Polynesian) descent.^[21] First Asian nominated for any Academy Award. First actress of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Actress.
1987	Cher	/	Moonstruck	Loretta Castorini	Won	Born in the United States, is of Armenian descent.
2002	Salma Hayek	/	Frida	Frida Kahlo	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2010	Natalie Portman	/	Black Swan	Nina	Won	Israeli descent.
2016	Natalie Portman	/	Jackie	Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy	Nominated
2022	Michelle Yeoh		Everything Everywhere All at Once	Evelyn Quan Wang	Won	Malaysian-Chinese descent. First Southeast Asian actress nominated for and to win Best Actress. Second person of color to win Best Actress.

Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Supporting Actor
1936	Akim Tamiroff	/	The General Died at Dawn	General Yang	Nominated	Armenian descent. First Asian to be nominated in a supporting acting category. First Asian with multiple nominations in acting categories.
1943	Akim Tamiroff	/	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Pablo	Nominated
1957	Sessue Hayakawa		The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Saito	Nominated	Japanese descent.
1962	Omar Sharif	/	Lawrence of Arabia	Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
1966	Mako Iwamatsu		The Sand Pebbles	Po-Han	Nominated	Japanese descent.
1984	Haing S. Ngor		The Killing Fields	Dith Pran	Won	Cambodian descent.
1984	Pat Morita	/	The Karate Kid	Mr. Miyagi	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[22] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
1991	Ben Kingsley	/	Bugsy	Meyer Lansky	Nominated
2001	Ben Kingsley	/	Sexy Beast	Don Logan	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations.
2003	Ken Watanabe		The Last Samurai	Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2016	Dev Patel	/	Lion	Saroo Brierley	Nominated	Indian descent.^[23]
2022	Ke Huy Quan	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang	Won	Born in Vietnam, is of Chinese descent.

List_of_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees_of_Asian_descent

List of Academy Award winners and nominees of Asian descent

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Film Editing

Best International Feature Film

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Best Production Design

Best Original Score

Best Original Song

Best Sound

Best Visual Effects

Best Documentary Feature

Best Animated Feature

Best Documentary Short Subject

Best Animated Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film

Honorary Awards

Non-Competitive Awards

See also

References

Share this article:

Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Supporting Actress
1957	Miyoshi Umeki	/	Sayonara	Katsumi Kelly	Won	She was a shin Issei, or post-1945 immigrant from Japan. The first Asian woman to win an Academy Award for acting.
1983	Cher	/	Silkwood	Dolly Pelliker	Nominated	Armenian descent.
1985	Meg Tilly	/	Agnes of God	Sister Agnes	Nominated	Half-Chinese descent.^[24] First Asian American and first Chinese American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
1994	Jennifer Tilly	/	Bullets Over Broadway	Olive Neal	Nominated	Half-Chinese descent.^[24]
1999	Catherine Keener	/	Being John Malkovich	Maxine Lund	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2003	Shohreh Aghdashloo	/	House of Sand and Fog	Nadereh "Nadi" Behrani	Nominated	Iranian descent.
2004	Natalie Portman	/	Closer	Alice Ayres / Jane Jones	Nominated	Israeli descent.
2005	Catherine Keener	/	Capote	Nelle Harper Lee	Nominated
2006	Rinko Kikuchi		Babel	Chieko Wataya	Nominated	First Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years.
2010	Hailee Steinfeld	/	True Grit	Mattie Ross	Nominated	Filipino descent (maternal grandfather was of half Filipino and half African-American descent).^[25]^[26]^[27] Youngest Asian American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress (age 14).
2020	Youn Yuh-jung		Minari	Soon-ja	Won	First South Korean actor to be nominated and win an Academy Award.
2022	Hong Chau	/	The Whale	Liz	Nominated	Vietnamese descent. First time two Asian American actresses nominated in the same year.
2022	Stephanie Hsu	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki	Nominated	Chinese descent. First time two Asian American actresses nominated in the same year.

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Original Screenplay
1986	Ken Shadie	/	Crocodile Dundee	Nominated	Lebanese descent.^[28]
1986	Hanif Kureishi	/	My Beautiful Laundrette	Nominated	Half-Pakistani descent (father is Pakistani).^[29]
1991	Callie Khouri	/	Thelma & Louise	Won	Lebanese descent First American of Asian descent to win for Best Original Screenplay.
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	/	The Sixth Sense	Nominated	Indian descent.^[19]
2002	Steven Zaillian	/	Gangs of New York	Nominated	Armenian descent.
2006	Iris Yamashita	/	Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[30] Second time a screenplay written almost entirely in an Asian language (Japanese) was nominated for a screenplay award. (Shared with Paul Haggis.)
2011	Asghar Farhadi		A Separation	Nominated	Iranian descent. First screenplay written in Persian to be nominated for a screenplay award.
2015	Alex Garland	/	Ex Machina	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2015	Ronnie del Carmen		Inside Out	Nominated	Filipino descent.^[31] (Shared with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley.)
2017	Kumail Nanjiani	/	The Big Sick	Nominated	Pakistani descent.^[32] (Shared with Emily V. Gordon.)
2019	Bong Joon-ho Han Jin-won		Parasite	Won	First Asian writers to win any screenwriting Academy Award.^[33]^[34]
2020	Lee Isaac Chung	/	Minari	Nominated	Korean descent.
2022	Daniel Kwan	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Won	Chinese descent. (Shared with Daniel Scheinert)
2023	Celine Song	/	Past Lives	Nominated	Korean descent.

Year	Name	Country	Film	Adapted From	Status	Notes
Best Adapted Screenplay
1973	William Peter Blatty	/	The Exorcist	The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty	Won	Lebanese descent. First American of Asian descent to win for Best Adapted Screenplay.
1990	Steven Zaillian	/	Awakenings	Awakenings by Oliver Sacks	Nominated
1993	Steven Zaillian	/	Schindler's List	Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally	Won
1997	Hossein Amini	/	The Wings of the Dove	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James	Nominated
1997	Atom Egoyan	//	The Sweet Hereafter	The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks	Nominated	Of Armenian descent.^[15]
1998	Terrence Malick	/	The Thin Red Line	The Thin Red Line by James Jones	Nominated	Lebanese and Assyrian descent.
2000	Wang Hui-ling Kuo Jung Tsai		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Dulu	Nominated	Both are of Chinese descent.^[6] First Asian-language screenplay to be nominated in a writing category. (Shared with James Schamus.)
2011	Steven Zaillian	/	Moneyball	Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis	Nominated	(Shared with Aaron Sorkin.)
2019	Steven Zaillian	/	The Irishman	I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt	Nominated
2020	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder	Nominated
	Ramin Bahrani	/	The White Tiger	The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga	Nominated	Iranian descent.
	Nina Pedrad	/	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Borat Sagdiyev, created by Sacha Baron Cohen	Nominated	Iranian descent. (Shared with Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja and Dan Swimer.)
2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe		Drive My Car	Short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami	Nominated
2022	Kazuo Ishiguro	/	Living	Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni	Nominated

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Cinematography
1938	James Wong Howe	/	Algiers	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[35] First Asian to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
1940			Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Nominated
1942			Kings Row	Nominated
1943			Air Force	Nominated	(nominated with Elmer Dyer and Charles A. Marshall)
1943			The North Star	Nominated
1955			The Rose Tattoo	Won	First Asian to win Best Cinematography.
1958			The Old Man and the Sea	Nominated
1963			Hud	Won	First Asian to win multiple Academy Awards.
1966			Seconds	Nominated
1970	Osamu Furuya Shinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh		Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	All three are of Japanese descent.^[36] (Shared with Charles F. Wheeler.)
1975	James Wong Howe		Funny Lady	Nominated	Most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with ten nominations.
1985	Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai		Ran	Nominated	All three are of Japanese descent.^[37]^[38]
1993	Gu Changwei		Farewell My Concubine	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[39]
1995	Lü Yue		Shanghai Triad	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[40]
1996	Darius Khondji	/	Evita	Nominated	Iranian descent.
2000	Peter Pau		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent.^[6]
2004	Zhao Xiaoding		House of Flying Daggers	Nominated	Chinese descent.
2010	Matthew Libatique	/	Black Swan	Nominated	Filipino descent.^[41] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Cinematography since Howe.
2018	Matthew Libatique	/	A Star Is Born	Nominated
2022	Darius Khondji	/	Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths	Nominated	Iranian descent.
2023	Matthew Libatique	/	Maestro	Nominated	Filipino descent.

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Costume Design
1952	Irene Sharaff	/	An American in Paris	Won	Armenian descent. First designer of Asian descent to win for Best Costume Design. Award shared with Orry-Kelly & Walter Plunkett^[42]
1954	Irene Sharaff	/	Call Me Madam	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[43]
1955	Sanzo Wada		Gate of Hell	Won	Japanese descent. First designer of East Asian descent to win for Best Costume Design^[44]
	Irene Sharaff	/	Brigadoon	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[45]
	Irene Sharaff	/	A Star Is Born	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[45]
1956	Tadaoto Kainosho		Ugetsu	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[46]
1956	Irene Sharaff	/	Guys and Dolls	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[47]
1957	Irene Sharaff	/	The King and I	Won	Armenian descent.^[48]
1957	Kohei Ezaki		Seven Samurai	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[49]
1960	Irene Sharaff	/	Porgy and Bess	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[50]
1961			Can-Can	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[51]
1962			West Side Story	Won	Armenian descent.^[52]
1962	Yoshirō Muraki		Yojimbo	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[53]
1964	Irene Sharaff	/	Cleopatra	Won	Armenian descent. With Renié & Vittorio Nino Novarese^[54]
1967			Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[55]
1968			The Taming of the Shrew	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[56]
1970			Hello, Dolly!	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[57]
1978			The Other Side of Midnight	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[58]
1982	Bhanu Athaiya		Gandhi	Won	First Indian to win an academy award in costume design
1986	Emi Wada		Ran	Won	Japanese descent.^[59]
1993	Eiko Ishioka		Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	Japanese descent.^[60]
2001	Tim Yip		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated	Chinese descent from Hong Kong.^[61]
2007	Yee Chung-man		Curse of the Golden Flower	Nominated	Chinese descent from Hong Kong.^[62]
2013	Eiko Ishioka		Mirror Mirror	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[63]
2014	William Chang		The Grandmaster	Nominated	Chinese descent from Hong Kong.^[64]
2022	Shirley Kurata	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[65]

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Film Editing
1975	Richard Chew	/	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[35] First Asian nominated for Best Film Editing. First Asian American nominated for Best Film Editing. (Shared with Lynzee Klingman and Sheldon Kahn.)
1977	Richard Chew	/	Star Wars	Won	First Asian to win Best Film Editing. First Asian American to win Best Film Editing. (Shared with Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas.)
1992	Kant Pan		The Crying Game	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[66]
1999	Tariq Anwar	//	American Beauty	Nominated	Half-Indian descent (father is Indian).^[67]
2010	Tariq Anwar	//	The King's Speech	Nominated	Half-Indian descent (father is Indian).^[67]
2014	Tom Cross	/	Whiplash	Won	Half-Vietnamese descent (mother is Vietnamese).^[68]
2016	Tom Cross	/	La La Land	Nominated	Half-Vietnamese descent (mother is Vietnamese).^[68]
2019	Yang Jin-mo		Parasite	Nominated
2020	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Nominated	First Asian (and Asian woman, overall) to be nominated for Best Film Editing while serving as director, producer, writer, and editor.

Year	Director(s)	Film	Status	Notes
Best International Feature Film
1951	Akira Kurosawa	Rashomon	Won	Honorary Oscar
1954	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Gate of Hell	Won	Honorary Oscar
1955	Hiroshi Inagaki	Samurai, The Legend of Musashi	Won	Honorary Oscar
1956	Kon Ichikawa	Harp of Burma	Nominated
1957	Mehboob Khan	Mother India	Nominated
1961	Keisuke Kinoshita	Immortal Love	Nominated
1963	Noburu Nakamura	Twin Sisters of Kyoto	Nominated
1964	Ephraim Kishon	Sallah Shabati	Nominated
1964	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Woman in the Dunes	Nominated
1965	Masaki Kobayashi	Kwaidan	Nominated
1967	Noboru Nakamura	Portrait of Chieko	Nominated
1971	Akira Kurosawa	Dodes'ka-den	Nominated
1971	Ephraim Kishon	The Policeman	Nominated
1972	Moshé Mizrahi	I Love You Rosa	Nominated
1973	Moshé Mizrahi	The House on Chelouche Street	Nominated
1975	Kei Kumai	Sandakan No. 8	Nominated
1977	Menahem Golan	Operation Thunderbolt	Nominated
1980	Akira Kurosawa	Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)	Nominated
1981	Kôhei Oguri	Muddy River	Nominated
1984	Uri Barbash	Beyond the Walls	Nominated
1988	Mira Nair	Salaam Bombay!	Nominated
1990	Zhang Yimou Yang Fengliang	Ju Dou	Nominated
1991	Zhang Yimou	Raise the Red Lantern	Nominated
1993	Chen Kaige	Farewell My Concubine	Nominated
	Trần Anh Hùng	The Scent of Green Papaya	Nominated
	Ang Lee	The Wedding Banquet	Nominated
1994	Ang Lee	Eat Drink Man Woman	Nominated
1996	Nana Jorjadze	A Chef in Love	Nominated
1998	Majid Majidi	Children of Heaven	Nominated
2000	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	First Asian film to be nominated for Best International Feature and Best Picture.
2001	Ashutosh Gowariker	Lagaan	Nominated
2002	Zhang Yimou	Hero	Nominated
2003	Yoji Yamada	The Twilight Samurai	Nominated
2005	Hany Abu-Assad	Paradise Now	Nominated
2007	Joseph Cedar	Beaufort	Nominated
2007	Sergei Bodrov	Mongol	Nominated
2008	Yōjirō Takita	Departures	Won
2008	Ari Folman	Waltz with Bashir	Nominated
2009	Scandar Copti Yaron Shani	Ajami	Nominated
2011	Asghar Farhadi	A Separation	Won
2011	Joseph Cedar	Footnote	Nominated
2013	Rithy Panh	The Missing Picture	Nominated
2013	Hany Abu-Assad	Omar	Nominated
2015	Naji Abu Nowar	Theeb	Nominated
2016	Asghar Farhadi	The Salesman	Won
2017	Ziad Doueiri	The Insult	Nominated
2018	Nadine Labaki	Capernaum	Nominated
2018	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Shoplifters	Nominated
2019	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite	Won	First Asian film to win (and second to be nominated for) Best Picture and Best International Feature.
2020	Derek Tsang	Better Days	Nominated
2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Drive My Car	Won	Third Asian film to be nominated for Best International Feature and Best Picture.
2021	Pawo Choyning Dorji	Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom	Nominated
2023	Wim Wenders	Perfect Days	Nominated

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
2006	Kazu Hiro	/	Click	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[69] First Asian to be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Shared with Bill Corso.)
2007			Norbit	Nominated	(Shared with Rick Baker.)
2017			Darkest Hour	Won	First Asian to win for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. (Shared with David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick.)
2019			Bombshell	Won	US citizen.^[70]^[71] (Shared with Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker.)
2021	Frederic Aspiras	//	House of Gucci	Nominated	Vietnamese-Filipino descent.^[72] Second Asian to be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. (Shared with Göran Lundström and Anna Carin Lock.)
2022	Judy Chin		The Whale	Won	The first woman of Asian descent to win the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.^[73] (Shared with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley.)
2023	Kazu Hiro	/	Maestro	Nominated	(Shared with Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell.)

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Production Design
1936	Eddie Imazu	/	The Great Ziegfeld	Nominated	First Asian to be nominated for Best Production Design. (Shared with Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis.)
1942	Emile Kuri	//	Silver Queen	Nominated	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1949	Emile Kuri	//	The Heiress	Won	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1952	So Matsuyama H. Matsumoto		Rashomon	Nominated	Japanese. Black and White.
1952	Emile Kuri	//	Carrie	Nominated	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1954		//	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won	Lebanese descent. Color
1954		//	Executive Suite	Nominated	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1956	So Matsuyama		Seven Samurai	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[74]
1956	Albert Nozaki	/	The Ten Commandments	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[75] Color. (Shared with Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.)
1961	Emile Kuri	//	The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated	Black and White.
1964	Emile Kuri	//	Mary Poppins	Nominated	Color.
1969	George B. Chan	/	Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[76] (Shared with Robert F. Boyle, Edward G. Boyle, and Carl Biddiscombe.)
1971	Yoshirō Muraki and Taizô Kawashima		Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[77] (Shared with Jack Martin Smith and Richard Day.)
1972	Emile Kuri	//	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated
1981	Yoshirō Muraki		Kagemusha	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[78]
1986	Yoshirō Muraki and Shinobu Muraki		Ran	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[79]
2001	Tim Yip		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Hong Kong Chinese.^[80]
2008	James J. Murakami	/	Changeling	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[81] (Shared with Gary Fettis.)
2013	Ra Vincent		The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	Maori descent.^[82] (Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright.)
2017	Paul Denham Austerberry	//	The Shape of Water	Won	Filipino descent.^[83] (Shared with Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin.)
2020	Lee Ha-jun Cho Won-woo		Parasite	Nominated

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Original Score
1966	Toshiro Mayuzumi		The Bible	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[84] First Asian to be nominated for Best Original Score.
1982	Ravi Shankar		Gandhi	Nominated	Indian descent.^[85] First Asian to be nominated for both Academy and Grammy Awards. (Shared with George Fenton)
1987	Cong Su Ryuichi Sakamoto		The Last Emperor	Won	Su is of Chinese descent.^[35] Sakamoto is of Japanese descent.^[86] First Asians to win Best Original Score. (Shared with David Byrne.)
1996	Gabriel Yared	/	The English Patient	Won	Lebanese descent.
1999	Gabriel Yared	/	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2000	Tan Dun		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent.^[6]
2003	Gabriel Yared	/	Cold Mountain	Nominated
2008	A. R. Rahman		Slumdog Millionaire	Won	First Indian to win two Oscars in one night.^{[citation needed]}
2010	A. R. Rahman		127 Hours	Nominated
2022	Ian Chang Rafiq Bhatia	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Nominated	Nominated as the group Son Lux, with Ryan Lott.

Year	Name	Award
Academy Honorary Awards
1989	Akira Kurosawa	Academy Honorary Award for cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.
1991	Satyajit Ray	Academy Honorary Award 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	Academy Honorary Award has deeply influenced animation forever, inspiring generations of artists to work in our medium and illuminate its limitless potential.
2016	Jackie Chan	Academy Honorary Award Chan starred in – and sometimes wrote, directed and produced – more than 30 martial arts features in his native Hong Kong, charming audiences with his dazzling athleticism, inventive stunt work and boundless charisma.

Year	Name	Country	Award
Non-Competitive Awards
2004	Takuo Miyagishima	/	Gordon E. Sawyer Award^[130] Takuo Miyagishima, one of the most notable design engineers in the motion picture industry, has been voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Year	Name	Country	Film	Song	Status	Notes
Best Original Song
1978	Paul Jabara	/	Thank God It's Friday	"Last Dance"	Won	Lebanese descent.
2000	Tan Dun		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	Chinese. (Shared with Jorge Calandrelli and James Schamus.)
2008	Gulzar A.R. Rahman		Slumdog Millionaire	"Jai Ho"	Won	Indian.
2008	M.I.A. A.R. Rahman	/	Slumdog Millionaire	"O Saya"	Nominated	M.I.A. is of Sri Lankan descent.^[87]
2012	Bombay Jayashri		Life of Pi	"Pi's Lullaby"	Nominated	Indian. (Shared with Mychael Danna.)
2013	Robert Lopez	/	Frozen	"Let It Go"	Won	Part-Filipino descent (paternal grandfather is Filipino, paternal grandmother is part-Filipino).^[88] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Original Song. First Asian American to win Best Original Song. (Shared with Kristen Anderson-Lopez.)
2013	Karen O	//	Her	"The Moon Song"	Nominated	Half-Korean descent (mother is Korean, father is Polish).^[89] (Shared with Spike Jonze.)
2015	Belly	/	Fifty Shades of Grey	"Earned It"	Nominated	Palestinian-born Canadian. (nominated with DaHeala, Stephan Moccio and The Weeknd)
2017	Robert Lopez	/	Coco	"Remember Me"	Won	(Shared with Kristen Anderson-Lopez.)
2019	Robert Lopez		Frozen II	"Into the Unknown"	Nominated	(Shared with Kristen Anderson-Lopez.)
2020	H.E.R.		Judas and the Black Messiah	"Fight for You"	Won	American born, of Filipino descent. (Shared with D'Mile & Tiara Thomas.)
2020	Savan Kotecha	/	Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga	"Husavik"	Nominated	American born, of Indian descent. (Shared with Rickard Göransson & Fat Max Gsus.)
2022	M. M. Keeravani Chandrabose		RRR	"Naatu Naatu"	Won	Indian (Telugu) descent.
2022	Mitski	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	"This is a Life"	Nominated	Japanese descent. (Shared with Ryan Lott & David Byrne.)

Year	Name	Country	Film	Category	Status	Notes
Best Sound
1999	Ren Klyce	/	Fight Club	Editing	Nominated	Japanese descent. First Asian to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. First Asian American to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. (Shared with Richard Hymns.)
2006	Kami Asgar	/	Apocalypto	Editing	Nominated	Iranian descent. First and only Middle Eastern to date to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. (Shared with Sean McCormack.)
2008	Ren Klyce	/	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Mixing	Nominated	Japanese descent. First Asian to be nominated for Best Sound Mixing. First Asian American nominated for Best Sound Mixing. (Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick & Mark Weingarten.)
2010			The Social Network		Nominated	(Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick & Mark Weingarten.)
2011			The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo		Nominated	(Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick & Bo Persson.)
2011			The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Editing	Nominated
2017			Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Mixing	Nominated	(Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick & Stuart Wilson.)
2017			Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Editing	Nominated	(Shared with Matthew Wood.)
2020			Mank	Sound	Nominated	(Shared with Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance & Drew Kunin.)
2020			Soul	Sound	Nominated	(Shared with Coya Elliot & David Parker.)

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Visual Effects
1977	Greg Jein	/	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[91] First Asian nominated for Best Visual Effects. First Asian American nominated for Best Visual Effects. (Shared with Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, and Richard Yuricich.)
1979	Greg Jein	/	1941	Nominated	(Shared with William A. Fraker and A. D. Flowers.)
1992	Doug Chiang	/	Death Becomes Her	Won	Chinese descent.^[35] First Asian to win Best Visual Effects. (Shared with Ken Ralston, Douglas Smythe, and Tom Woodruff Jr.)
1993	Ariel Velasco Shaw	/	The Nightmare Before Christmas	Nominated	Filipino descent.^[92] First person of Filipino descent to be nominated for Best Visual Effects. (Shared with Pete Kozachik, Eric Leighton, and Gordon Baker.)
1999	Jerome Chen	/	Stuart Little	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[93] (Shared with John Dykstra, Henry F. Anderson III, & Eric Allard.)
2023	Takashi Yamazaki Kiyoko Shibuya Masaki Takahashi Tatsuji Nojima		Godzilla Minus One	Won	First Japanese production to win for Best Visual Effects.

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Documentary Feature
1985	Steven Okazaki	/	Unfinished Business	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[94] First Asian nominated for Best Documentary Feature. First Asian American nominated for Best Documentary Feature.
1988	Renee Tajima-Peña	/	Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Nominated	Tajima-Peña is of Japanese descent.^[95] (Shared with Christine Choy.)
1994	Freida Lee Mock	/	Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision	Won	Chinese descent.^[96] First Asian to win Best Documentary Feature. First Asian American to win Best Documentary Feature. (Shared with Terry Sanders.)
2010	Audrey Marrs	/	Inside Job	Won	Half-Japanese descent (mother is Japanese)^[97]
2011	Jehane Noujaim	/	The Square	Nominated	Lebanese descent
2014	Joanna Natasegara	//	Virunga	Nominated	Malaysian and Japanese descent. (Shared with Orlando von Einsiedel.)
2014	John Maloof	/	Finding Vivian Maier	Nominated	Lebanese descent.^[98]
2015	Asif Kapadia	/	Amy	Won	Indian descent^[99] (Shared with James Gay-Rees.)
2018	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Jimmy Chin		Free Solo	Won	Vasarhelyi is of Chinese, Hong Kong, Hungarian, and Brazilian descent.^[100] Chin is of Chinese and Taiwanese descent.^[101] They are the first married couple of Asian descent to share a nomination. (Shared with Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill.)
	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Jimmy Chin	//	Free Solo	Won
	Bing Liu Diane Moy Quon	/	Minding the Gap	Nominated	Liu and Moy Quon are of Chinese descent.^[102]
	Su Kim	/	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	Nominated	Korean descent.^[103] (nominated with RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes.)
2019	Joanna Natasegara	//	The Edge of Democracy	Nominated	(Shared with Petra Costa, Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan.)
2019	Waad Al-Kateab		For Sama	Nominated	(Shared with Edward Watts.)
2021	Joseph Patel	/	Summer of Soul	Won	(Shared with Questlove, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein)
2021	Jessica Kingdon	/	Ascension	Nominated	(Shared with Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell)
2022	Aman Mann	/	All That Breathes	Nominated	Canadian of Indian descent.
2023	Nisha Pahuja	/	To Kill a Tiger	Nominated	Canadian of Indian descent. (Shared with Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim)

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Animated Feature
2002	Hayao Miyazaki		Spirited Away	Won	Japanese descent.
2005	Hayao Miyazaki		Howl's Moving Castle	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2007	Marjane Satrapi		Persepolis	Nominated	Iranian descent. (Shared with Vincent Paronnaud.)
2011	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	/	Kung Fu Panda 2	Nominated	Korean descent.^[104] First woman to direct a Hollywood animated feature film.
2013	Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki		The Wind Rises	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2014	Isao Takahata Yoshiaki Nishimura		The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2015	Rosa Tran	/	Anomalisa	Nominated	Vietnamese descent.^[31] (Shared with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson.)
2015	Hiromasa Yonebayashi Yoshiaki Nishimura		When Marnie Was There	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2016	Toshio Suzuki		The Red Turtle	Nominated	Japanese descent. (Shared with Michaël Dudok de Wit.)
2017	Ramsey Naito	/	The Boss Baby	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[105] (Shared with Tom McGrath.)
2018	Mamoru Hosoda Yuichiro Saito		Mirai	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2019	Jinko Gotoh	/	Klaus	Nominated	Born in Japan and raised in California.^[106] (Shared with Sergio Pablos and Marisa Román.)
2020	Gennie Rim	/	Over the Moon	Nominated	Chinese descent.
2020	Peilin Chou	/	Over the Moon	Nominated	Chinese descent.
2022	Domee Shi	/	Turning Red	Nominated	Chinese descent. (Shared with Lindsey Collins)
2023	Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki		The Boy and the Heron	Won
2023	Peter Sohn	/	Elemental	Nominated	Korean descent (Shared with Denise Ream)

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Documentary Short Subject
1982	Freida Lee Mock	/	To Live or Let Die	Nominated	First Asian American nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject.
1983	Arthur Dong	/	Sewing Woman	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[35]
1984	Paul T.K. Lin	/	The Children of Soong Ching Ling	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[107] (Shared with Gary Bush.)
1988	Lise Yasui	/	Family Gathering	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[108] (Shared with Ann Tegnell.)
1990	Freida Lee Mock	/	Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember	Nominated	(Shared with Terry Sanders.)
1990	Steven Okazaki	/	Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo	Won	First Asian to win Best Documentary Short Subject. First Asian American to win Best Documentary Short Subject.
1995	Freida Lee Mock	/	Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper	Nominated	(Shared with Terry Sanders.)
1996	Jessica Yu	/	Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien	Won	Chinese descent.^[109]
1998	Keiko Ibi	/	The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years	Won	Japanese descent.^[110]
1998	Shui-Bo Wang	/	Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square	Nominated	Chinese descent.^[111] (Shared with Donald McWilliams.)
2001	Freida Lee Mock	/	Sing!	Nominated	Tied for second most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with five nominations. (Shared with Jessica Sanders.)
2005	Steven Okazaki	/	The Mushroom Club	Nominated
2008	Steven Okazaki	/	The Conscience of Nhem En	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations.
2011	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	/	Saving Face	Won	Pakistani descent.^[112] (Shared with Daniel Junge.)
2015	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	/	A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness	Won
2016	Joanna Natasegara	//	The White Helmets	Won	Malaysian and Japanese descent. (Shared with Orlando von Einsiedel.)
2018	Rayka Zehtabchi	/	Period. End of Sentence.	Won	Iranian descent.^[113] (Shared with Melissa Berton.)
2019	Smriti Mundhra Sami Khan	/	St. Louis Superman	Nominated	Indian descent.^[114]
2022	Kartiki Gonsalves Guneet Monga		The Elephant Whisperers	Won
2023	S. Leo Chiang Jean Tsien		Island in Between	Nominated
2023	Sean Wang		Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó	Nominated	Shared with Sam Davis.

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Animated Short Film
1968	Jimmy T. Murakami	/	The Magic Pear Tree	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[115] First Asian nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First Asian American nominated for Best Animated Short Film.
2008	Kunio Kato	🇯🇵	La maison en petits cubes	Won	Japanese descent first Asian to win for Best Animated short film
2010	Shaun Tan	/	The Lost Thing	Won	Half-Chinese descent (father is Chinese)^[116] (Shared with Andrew Ruhemann.)
2011	Minkyu Lee	/	Adam and Dog	Nominated	Korean descent.^[117]
2014	Robert Kondo	/	The Dam Keeper	Nominated	Japanese descent. (Shared with Daisuke Tsutsumi.)
2015	Sanjay Patel	/	Sanjay's Super Team	Nominated	Indian descent.^[118] (Shared with Nicole Paradis Grindle.)
2017	Ru Kuwahata	/	Negative Space	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[119] (Shared with her husband, Max Porter.)^[120]
2018	Domee Shi	/	Bao	Won	Chinese descent.^[121] (Shared with Becky Neiman-Cobb.)
	Trevor Jimenez	/	Weekends	Nominated	Filipino descent.^[122]
	Bobby Pontillas	/	One Small Step	Nominated	Filipino descent.^[123] (Shared with Andrew Chesworth.)
2019	Siqi Song		Sister	Nominated	Chinese descent.
2020	Madeline Sharafian	/	Burrow	Nominated	Armenian descent.^[124] (Shared with Michael Capbarat.)
2023	Tal Kantor Amit R. Gicelter		Letter to a Pig	Nominated
2023	Yegane Moghaddam		Our Uniform	Nominated

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
Best Live Action Short Film
1977	Yuki Yoshida	/	I'll Find a Way	Won	Japanese descent.^[125] (Shared with Beverly Shaffer.)
1982	Michael Toshiyuki Uno	/	The Silence	Nominated	Japanese descent.^[126] First Asian American nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. (Shared with Joseph Benson.)
1988	Matia Karrell	/	Cadillac Dreams	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
1997	Chris Tashima	/	Visas and Virtue	Won	Japanese descent (father is Japanese).^[127] First Asian American to win Best Live Action Short Film. (Shared with Chris Donahue.)
1999	Mehdi Norowzian	/	Killing Joe	Won	Iranian descent. (Shared with Steve Wax.)
2002	Lexi Alexander	/	Johnny Flynton	Nominated	Half-Palestinian descent (mother is German, father is Palestinian). (Shared with Alexander Buono.)
2005	Pia Clemente	/	Our Time is Up	Nominated	Filipino descent.^[128] (Shared with Rob Pearlstein.)
2013	Baldwin Li	/	The Voorman Problem	Nominated	(Shared with Mark Gill.)
2020	Farah Nabulsi	/	The Present	Nominated	Palestinian descent (mother is Palestinian, father is Palestinian-Egyptian).^[129]
2021	Riz Ahmed Aneil Karia	/ /	The Long Goodbye	Won
2023	Nazrin Choudhury	/	Red, White, and Blue	Nominated	Bangladeshi descent (Shared with Sara McFarlane.)