List of French Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of French Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of French actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Academy Award (The Oscars) This list is current as of the 87th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 22, 2015.

Best Actor

This list focuses on French-born actors.

Leading

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1929	Maurice Chevalier	The Big Pond	Nominated	First French actor to be nominated for Best Actor
1930		The Love Parade	Nominated
1938	Charles Boyer	Maria Walewska	Nominated
1939		Algiers	Nominated
1945		Gaslight	Nominated
1961		Fanny	Nominated	Most Academy Award nominations - 4 nominations for Best Actor
1990	Gérard Depardieu	Cyrano de Bergerac	Nominated	First actor to be nominated for a French-speaking role.
2011	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	Won	First and only French actor to win Best Actor

Best Actress

This list focuses on French-born actresses.

Leading

Year	Winner	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1934	Claudette Colbert	It Happened One Night	Won	French-born American actress. First French actress to win Best Actress and to be nominated.
1935		Private Worlds	Nominated	First French actress to receive more than one Academy Award nomination.
1944		Since You Went Away	Nominated	Most Academy Award nominations - 3 nominations for Best Actress.
1953	Leslie Caron	Lili	Nominated
1959	Simone Signoret	Room at the Top	Won	Second French actress to win Best Actress.
1963	Leslie Caron	The L-Shaped Room	Nominated	Second French actress to receive more than one nomination - 2 nominations for Best Actress.
1965	Simone Signoret	Ship of Fools	Nominated
1966	Anouk Aimée	A Man and a Woman	Nominated	First actress to be nominated for a French-speaking role.
1975	Isabelle Adjani	The Story of Adele H.	Nominated	Second actress to be nominated for a French-speaking role.
1976	Marie-Christine Barrault	Cousin, cousine	Nominated
1989	Isabelle Adjani	Camille Claudel	Nominated	Third French actress to receive more than one nomination - 2 nominations for Best Actress. The first to be nominated for two French-speaking roles.
1992	Catherine Deneuve	Indochine	Nominated
2000	Juliette Binoche	Chocolat	Nominated	First and only French actress to be nominated for both Leading and Supporting categories. Fourth French actress to receive more than one nomination.
2007	Marion Cotillard	La Vie en Rose	Won	First and only actress to win for a French-speaking role. Fourth French actress to win Best Actress.
2012	Emmanuelle Riva	Amour	Nominated	Oldest Best Actress nominee in the history.
2014	Marion Cotillard	Two Days, One Night	Nominated	Fifth French actress to receive more than one nomination, the second to be nominated for two French-speaking roles and the first to be nominated for a Belgian film.

Supporting

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1952	Colette Marchand	Moulin Rouge	Nominated	First French actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress
1996	Juliette Binoche	The English Patient	Won	First French actress to win Best Supporting Actress
2011	Bérénice Bejo	The Artist	Nominated	Bejo was born in Argentina

Best Animated Feature

This list focuses on French-born film directors.

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
2003	Sylvain Chomet	The Triplets of Belleville	Nominated
2007	Vincent Paronnaud Marjane Satrapi	Persepolis	Nominated	Satrapi was born in Iran
2010	Sylvain Chomet	The Illusionist	Nominated
2011	Alain Gagnol Jean-Loup Felicioli	A Cat in Paris	Nominated
2013	Pierre Coffin	Despicable Me 2	Nominated	Shared with Chris Renaud & Chris Meledandri
	Didier Brunner	Ernest & Celestine	Nominated	Shared with Benjamin Renner

Best Art Direction

This list focuses on French-born art directors and set decorators.

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1960	Alexandre Trauner	The Apartment	Won	Nominated with Edward G. Boyle.
1966	Marc Frédérix Jacques Rouxel	Is Paris Burning?	Nominated	Nominated with Willy Holt.
1975	Alexandre Trauner	The Man Who Would Be King	Nominated	Nominated with Tony Inglis et Peter James
1980	Jacques Rouxel	Tess	Won	Nominated with Jack Stephens.
1990		Cyrano de Bergerac	Nominated	Nominated with Ezio Frigerio.
1996	Philippe Turlure	Evita	Nominated	Nominated with Brian Morris.
2000	Françoise Benoît-Fresco Jean Rabasse	Vatel	Nominated
2001	Aline Bonetto Marie-Laure Valla	Amélie	Nominated
2004		A Very Long Engagement	Nominated
2011	Anne Seibel Hélène Dubreuil	Midnight in Paris	Nominated

Best Cinematography

This list focuses on French-born cinematographers.

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1953	Joseph C. Brun	Martin Luther	Nominated
1966	Marcel Grignon	Is Paris Burning?	Nominated
1990	Philippe Rousselot	Henry & June	Nominated
1992		A River Runs Through It	Won	First and only French cinematographer to win Best Cinematography - First french cinematographer to receive more than one Academy Award nomination
2001	Bruno Delbonnel	Amélie	Nominated
2004		A Very Long Engagement	Nominated
2009		Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Nominated
2011	Guillaume Schiffman	The Artist	Nominated
2013	Bruno Delbonnel	Inside Llewyn Davis	Nominated	Most Academy Award nominations - 4 nominations for Best Cinematography
	Philippe Le Sourd	The Grandmaster	Nominated

Best Costume Design

This list focuses on French-born costume designers.

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1950	Jean Louis	Born Yesterday	Nominated
1957	Hubert de Givenchy	Funny Face	Nominated
1979	Albert Wolsky	All That Jazz	Won	Wolsky is a French-born American designer.
1980	Jean-Pierre Dorléac	Somewhere in Time	Nominated
1982	Albert Wolsky	Sophie's Choice	Nominated
1983	Anne-Marie Marchand	The Return of Martin Guerre	Nominated
1985	Albert Wolsky	The Journey of Natty Gann	Nominated
1991		Bugsy	Won
1992		Toys	Nominated
2007		Across the Universe	Nominated
2008		Revolutionary Road	Nominated
2009	Catherine Leterrier	Coco Before Chanel	Nominated

Best Director

This list focuses on French-born directors.

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1945	Jean Renoir	The Southerner	Nominated
1966	Claude Lelouch	A Man and a Woman	Nominated
1974	Roman Polanski	Chinatown	Nominated	Polanski is a French-born Polish director.
	François Truffaut	Day for Night	Nominated
1979	Edouard Molinaro	La Cage aux Folles	Nominated
1980	Roman Polanski	Tess	Nominated
1981	Louis Malle	Atlantic City	Nominated
1990	Barbet Schroeder	Reversal of Fortune	Nominated	Schroeder is an Iranian-born French director.
2002	Roman Polanski	The Pianist	Won
2011	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist	Won

Best Documentary Film

This list focuses on French-born producers/directors.

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
2001	Jean-Xavier de Lestrade Denis Poncet	Murder on a Sunday Morning	Won
2002	Jacques Perrin	Winged Migration	Nominated
2005	Yves Darondeau Luc Jacquet	March of the Penguins	Won

Best Editing

This list focuses on French-born film editors.

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1969	Françoise Bonnot	Z	Won
2002	Hervé de Luze	The Pianist	Nominated
2006	Alex Rodríguez	Children of Men	Nominated	Rodríguez is a French-born Mexican editor Nominated with Alfonso Cuarón
2007	Juliette Welfling	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Nominated
2011	Anne-Sophie Bion Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist	Nominated

Best Film

This list focuses on French-born producers.

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
2002	Robert Benmussa Roman Polanski Alain Sarde	The Pianist	Nominated
2011	Thomas Langmann	The Artist	Won	First French-produced film to win Best Picture

Best Foreign Language Film

Main article: List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Year	Film	Result
1948	Monsieur Vincent	Won (Honorary)
1949	The Walls of Malapaga	Won (Honorary)
1952	Forbidden Games	Won (Honorary)
1958	Mon Oncle	Won
1959	Orfeu Negro	Won
1962	Sundays and Cybele	Won
1966	A Man and a Woman	Won
1969	Z	Won
1972	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Won
1973	Day for Night	Won
1976	Black and White in Color	Won
1977	Madame Rosa	Won
1978	Get Out Your Handkerchiefs	Won
1980	The Last Metro	Nominated
1982	Coup de Torchon	Nominated
1983	Entre Nous	Nominated
1984	Dangerous Moves	Won
1985	Three Men and a Cradle	Nominated
1986	Betty Blue	Nominated
1987	Au revoir les enfants	Nominated
1989	Camille Claudel	Nominated
1990	Cyrano de Bergerac	Nominated
1992	Indochine	Won
1996	Ridicule	Nominated
1999	East/West	Nominated
2000	The Taste of Others	Nominated
2001	Amélie	Nominated
2004	The Chorus	Nominated
2005	Joyeux Noël	Nominated
2008	The Class	Nominated
2009	A Prophet	Nominated
2012	Amour	Won

Best Music

This list focuses on scores or songs created by French-born composers.

Original Score

Year	Writer	Award	Film	Result
1962	Maurice Jarre	Best Score – Substantially Original	Lawrence of Arabia	Won
1963		Best Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment	Sundays and Cybele	Nominated
1965	Jacques Demy Michel Legrand	Best Score – Substantially Original	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Nominated
	Maurice Jarre	Best Score – Substantially Original	Doctor Zhivago	Won
1968	Jacques Demy Michel Legrand	Best Score – Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation)l	The Young Girls of Rochefort	Nominated
1969	Georges Delerue	Best Original Score	Anne of the Thousand Days	Nominated
1970	Francis Lai	Best Original Score	Love Story	Won
1971	Michel Legrand	Best Original Score – Dramatic	Summer of '42	Won
1973	Georges Delerue	Best Original Score – Dramatic	The Day of the Dolphin	Nominated
1977		Best Original Score – Dramatic	Julia	Nominated
	Maurice Jarre	Best Original Score	Mohammad, Messenger of God	Nominated
1979	Georges Delerue	Best Original Score	A Little Romance	Won
1980	Philippe Sarde	Best Original Score	Tess	Nominated
1983	Michel Legrand	Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score	Yentl	Won
1984	Maurice Jarre	Best Original Score	A Passage to India	Won
1985		Best Original Score	Witness	Nominated
	Georges Delerue	Best Original Score – Dramatic	Agnes of God	Nominated
1988	Maurice Jarre	Best Original Score	Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey	Nominated
1990		Best Original Score	Ghost	Nominated
1996	Gabriel Yared	Best Original Score	The English Patient	Won
1999		Best Original Score	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated
2003		Best Original Score	Cold Mountain	Nominated
2006	Alexandre Desplat	Best Original Score	The Queen	Nominated
2008		Best Original Score	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated
2009		Best Original Score	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Nominated
2010		Best Original Score	The King's Speech	Nominated
2011	Ludovic Bource	Best Original Score	The Artist	Won
2012	Alexandre Desplat	Best Original Score	Argo	Nominated
2013		Best Original Score	Philomena	Nominated
2014		Best Original Score	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Won
		Best Original Score	The Imitation Game	Nominated

Original Song

Year	Winner	Song and Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1965	Jacques Demy Michel Legrand	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg for the song: "I Will Wait for You"	Nominated
1968	Michel Legrand	The Thomas Crown Affair for the song: "The Windmills of Your Mind"	Won
1969		The Happy Ending for the song: "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"	Nominated
1970		Pieces of Dreams for the song: "Pieces of Dream"	Nominated
1972	Maurice Jarre	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean for the song: "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey"	Nominated
2003	Sylvain Chomet	The Triplets of Belleville for the song: "Belleville Rendez-vous	Nominated	Nomination shared with Benoit Charest
2004	Christophe Barratier Bruno Coulais	The Chorus for the song: "Look to Your Path (Vois sur ton chemin)"	Nominated
2009	Reinhardt Wagner Frank Thomas	Paris 36 for the song: "Loin de Paname"	Nominated
2012	Claude-Michel Schönberg Alain Boublil	Les Misérables for the song: "Suddenly"	Nominated	Nomination shared with Herbert Kretzmer

Best Short Film

Live Action

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1962	Jean-Claude Carrière Pierre Étaix	Heureux Anniversaire	Won
1963	Marcel Ichac	An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	Won
1965	Claude Berri	The Chicken	Won
1993	Sam Karmann	Omnibus	Won
2007	Philippe Pollet-Villard	Le Mozart des Pickpockets	Won

Animated

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
2007	Sylvain Chomet	The Old Lady and the Pigeons	Nominated
2008	Thierry Marchand	Oktapodi	Nominated
2009	Nicolas Schmerkin	Logorama	Won	Schmerkin is an Argentinian-born French producer.
2009	Fabrice O. Joubert	French Roast	Nominated
2010	Bastien Dubois	Madagascar, a Journey Diary	Nominated
2013	Laurent Witz Alexandre Espigares	Mr Hublot	Won

Best Sound

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
2001	Guillaume Leriche	Amélie	Nominated

Best Visual Effects

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1962	Jacques Maumont	The Longest Day	Won	Shared with Robert MacDonald. Last to win before the name changed.
1963	Emil Kosa, Jr.	Cleopatra	Won	First person to win Visual effects after the name change
1994	Jacques Stroweis	True Lies	Nominated	Nomination shared with John Bruno, Thomas L. Fisher and Patrick McClung
2012	Cedric Nicolas-Troyan	Snow White and the Huntsman	Nominated	Nomination shared with Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson
2012	Guillaume Rocheron	Life of Pi	Won	Nomination shared with Bill Westenhofer, Erik De Boer, and Donald Elliot
2014	Stephane Ceretti Nicolas Aithadi	Guardians of the Galaxy	Nominated	Nomination shared with Paul Corbould and Jonathan Fawkner

Best Writing

This list focuses on French-born writers.

Adapted Screenplay

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1963	Serge Bourguignon Antoine Tudal	Sundays and Cybele	Nominated
1977	Jean-Claude Carrière	That Obscure Object of Desire	Nominated	Nominated with Luis Buñuel
1979	Marcello Danon Edouard Molinaro Jean Poiret Francis Veber	La Cage aux Folles	Nominated
1988	Jean-Claude Carrière	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Nominated
2004	Julie Delpy	Before Sunset	Nominated	Nominated with Americans Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Kim Krizan
2013		Before Midnight	Nominated	Nominated with Americans Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke

Original Screenplay

Year	Winner	Title	Status	Milestone/Notes
1959	Marcel Moussy François Truffaut	The 400 Blows	Nominated	Moussy is an Algerian-born French writer.
1960	Marguerite Duras	Hiroshima, My Love	Nominated	Duras was born in French Cochinchina [now Vietnam].
1962	Alain Robbe-Grillet	Last Year at Marienbad	Nominated
1965	Jacques Demy	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Nominated
1966	Claude Lelouch	A Man and a Woman	Won
1970	Eric Rohmer	My Night at Maud's	Nominated
1972	Jean-Claude Carrière	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Nominated	Nominated with Luis Buñuel
	Louis Malle	Murmur of the Heart	Nominated
1974	Jean-Louis Richard Suzanne Schiffman François Truffaut	Day for Night	Nominated
1975	Claude Lelouch	And Now My Love	Nominated
1976	Jean Charles Tacchella Danièle Thompson	Cousin, cousine	Nominated	Thompson was born in Monaco.
1980	Jean Gruault	My American Uncle	Nominated
1987	Louis Malle	Goodbye, Children	Nominated
2001	Jean-Pierre Jeunet Guillaume Laurant	Amélie	Nominated
2004	Pierre Bismuth Michel Gondry	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Won	Nominated with Charlie Kaufman.
2011	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist	Nominated

See also

• Cinema of France