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Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1928/29	Emil Jannings	The Way of All Flesh & The Last Command	Won	Jannings was a Swiss-born German actor.

Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1940	Albert Bassermann	Foreign Correspondent	Nominated
1996	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Shine	Nominated
2009	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Won	Waltz is an Austrian-German actor.
2012	Christoph Waltz	Django Unchained	Won	Waltz is an Austrian-German actor.

Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1930/31	Marlene Dietrich	Morocco	Nominated
1936	Luise Rainer	The Great Ziegfeld	Won	Due to the political atmosphere, Rainer was promoted to be Austrian by this time.
1937	Luise Rainer	The Good Earth	Won	First actor regardless of gender to win two consecutive awards.^[1]
2010	Sandra Bullock	The Blind Side	Won	Bullock's mother is German and she holds dual German-American citizenship. She's fluent in German.
2014	Sandra Bullock	Gravity	Nominated
2024	Sandra Hüller	Anatomy of a Fall	Nominated

Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2021	Kirsten Dunst	The Power of the Dog	Nominated	Born in the USA, Dunst has a German father. She obtained German citizenship in 2011.^[2]

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

List_of_German-speaking_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees

List of German Academy Award winners and nominees

Acting categories

Actor in a Leading Role

Actor in a Supporting Role

Actress in a Leading Role

Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Art Direction

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Documentary

Documentary Feature

Short Documentary

Best Director

Best Editing

Best International Feature Film

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Music categories

Best Original Score

Best Original Song

Best Picture

Best Short Film

Live Action

Animated

Best Sound Mixing

Best Visual Effects

Writing categories

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Original Screenplay

Best Story (1928–1958)

Honorary Awards

Nominations and Winners

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

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

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

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

Original Music Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1934	Victor Schertzinger	One Night of Love	Won
1937	Victor Schertzinger	Something to Sing About	Nominated
1937	Franz Waxman	The Young in Heart	Nominated
1940		Rebecca	Nominated
1941		Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Nominated
		Suspicion	Nominated
	Ernst Toch	Ladies in Retirement	Nominated
1942	Ray Heindorf Heinz Roemheld	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Won
	Friedrich Hollaender	The Talk of the Town	Nominated
	Werner Heymann	To Be or Not to Be	Nominated
1943	Ray Heindorf	This Is the Army	Won
1943	Hanns Eisler	Hangmen Also Die!	Nominated
1944	Kurt Weill Werner R. Heymann	Knickerbocker Holiday	Nominated

	Ferde Grofe	Minstrel Man	Nominated
Ernst Toch	Address Unknown	Nominated
1945	Jerome Kern	Can't Help Singing	Nominated
1946	Ray Heindorf	Night and Day	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Max Steiner.
1946	Franz Waxman	Humoresque	Nominated
1947	Hugo Friedhofer	The Bishop's Wife	Nominated
1948	Hugo Friedhofer	Joan of Arc	Nominated
1950	Adolph Deutsch	Annie Get Your Gun	Won
1950	Franz Waxman	Sunset Boulevard	Won
1951	Franz Waxman	A Place in the Sun	Won
1951	Adolph Deutsch	Show Boat	Nominated
1953	Adolph Deutsch	The Band Wagon	Nominated
	Friedrich Hollaender	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T	Nominated
	Hugo Friedhofer	Above and Beyond	Nominated
	André Previn	Kiss Me Kate	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Saul Chaplin.
1954	Franz Waxman	The Silver Chalice	Nominated
1954	Adolph Deutsch	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Won
1955	Adolph Deutsch	Oklahoma!	Won
1955	André Previn	It's Always Fair Weather	Nominated
1956	Hugo Friedhofer	Between Heaven and Hell	Nominated
1957		Boy on a Dolphin	Nominated
1957		An Affair to Remember	Nominated
1958		The Young Lions	Nominated
1958	André Previn	Gigi	Won
1959	André Previn	Porgy and Bess	Won	Shared with the American-born Ken Darby.

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