List of Latin American Academy Award winners and nominees

A list of Latin American Academy Award winners and nominees appears below. This account does not include individuals born in the continental United States, and is current as of the 88th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 28, 2016.

Best Actor – Leading Role

This list focuses on Latin American-born actors.

Actor
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1950	José Ferrer		Cyrano de Bergerac	Won	First Latino actor to win an Academy Award. First Latino actor to be nominated more than once.
1952	José Ferrer		Moulin Rouge	Nominated
1957	Anthony Quinn		Wild Is the Wind	Nominated
1964	Anthony Quinn		Zorba the Greek	Nominated
2011	Demián Bichir		A Better Life	Nominated

Best Actor – Supporting Role

This list focuses on Latin American-born actors.

Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1948	José Ferrer		Joan of Arc	Nominated	First Latino actor to be nominated for an acting Academy Award.
1952	Anthony Quinn		Viva Zapata!	Won	First Mexican actor to win an Academy Award.
1956	Anthony Quinn		Lust for Life	Won	First Mexican, and Latino, to win two Oscars in the same category.
1990	Andy García		The Godfather Part III	Nominated
2000	Benicio del Toro		Traffic	Won	First and only actor to win for a Spanish-speaking role.
2003	Benicio del Toro		21 Grams	Nominated

Best Actress – Leading Role

This list focuses on Latin American-born actress.

Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1998	Fernanda Montenegro		Central Station	Nominated	First Latin American to be nominated for Best Actress and first actress to be nominated for a Portuguese-speaking role.
2002	Salma Hayek		Frida	Nominated	First Mexican Actress to be nominated for Best Actress.
2004	Catalina Sandino Moreno		Maria Full of Grace	Nominated	First Colombian to be nominated for an Academy Award and first actress to be nominated for a Spanish-speaking role.

Best Actress – Supporting Role

This list focuses on Latin American-born actresses.

Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1954	Katy Jurado		Broken Lance	Nominated	First Mexican Actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
1961	Rita Moreno		West Side Story	Won	First Puerto Rican to be nominated and win for Best Supporting Actress.
1987	Norma Aleandro		Gaby: A True Story	Nominated	First Argentine Actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
2006	Adriana Barraza		Babel	Nominated	Second Mexican Actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
2011	Bérénice Bejo		The Artist	Nominated	Second Argentine Actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Bejo is an Argentine-born French actress.
2013	Lupita Nyong'o		12 Years a Slave	Won	Mexican-born Kenyan actress.

Best Art Direction

This list focuses on Latin American-born art directors.

Art Direction
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1942	Emile Kuri		Silver Queen	Nominated	Nominated with Ralph Berger.
1949	Emile Kuri		The Heiress	Won	Nominated with Harry Horner and John Meehan.
1952	Emile Kuri		Carrie	Nominated	Nominated with Roland Anderson and Hal Pereira.
1954	Emile Kuri		20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won	Nominated with John Meehan.
			Executive Suite	Nominated	Nominated with Edward C. Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis.
1961	Emile Kuri		The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated	Nominated with Carroll Clark and Hal Gausman.
1964	Emile Kuri		Mary Poppins	Nominated	Nominated with Carroll Clark, Hal Gausman and William H. Tuntke.
1971	Emile Kuri		Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated	Nominated with Peter Ellenshaw, Hal Gausman and John B. Mansbridge.
1995	Eugenio Zanetti		Restoration	Won
1996	Brigitte Broch		Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	Broch is a Germany-born Mexican art director.
1998	Eugenio Zanetti		What Dreams May Come	Nominated	Nominated with Cindy Carr.
2001	Brigitte Broch		Moulin Rouge!	Won	Nominated with Catherine Martin.
2002	Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo		Frida	Nominated
2006	Eugenio Caballero		Pan's Labyrinth	Won	(original title: El laberinto del fauno) Nominated with Pilar Revuelta.

Best Cinematography

This list focuses on Latin American-born cinematographers.

Cinematography
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1964	Gabriel Figueroa		The Night of the Iguana	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Cinematography – Black-and-White".
1995	Emmanuel Lubezki		A Little Princess	Nominated
1999	Emmanuel Lubezki		Sleepy Hollow	Nominated
2003	César Charlone		City of God	Nominated	César Charlone is an Uruguayan-born Brazilian director.
2005	Emmanuel Lubezki		The New World	Nominated
	Rodrigo Prieto		Brokeback Mountain	Nominated
2006	Emmanuel Lubezki		Children of Men	Nominated
	Guillermo Navarro		Pan's Labyrinth	Won	(original title: El laberinto del fauno)
2008	Claudio Miranda		The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated
2011	Emmanuel Lubezki		The Tree of Life	Nominated
2012	Claudio Miranda		Life of Pi	Won
2013	Emmanuel Lubezki		Gravity	Won
2014	Emmanuel Lubezki		Birdman	Won
2015	Emmanuel Lubezki		The Revenant	Won

Best Director

This list focuses on Latin American-born directors.

Director
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone
1985	Héctor Babenco		Kiss of the Spider Woman	Nominated	Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian director.
2003	Fernando Meirelles		City of God	Nominated
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Babel	Nominated
2013	Alfonso Cuarón		Gravity	Won	First Latin American director to win Best Director.
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Birdman	Won	First Latin American director to have multiple Best Director nominations
2015	Alejandro González Iñárritu		The Revenant	Won	First Latin American director to win two Oscars

Best Documentary Feature

This list focuses on documentary features directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Documentary Feature
Year	Film	Country	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
1957	Torero!		Manuel Barbachano Ponce	Nominated	Producer Manuel Barbachano Ponce was nominated instead of director Carlos Velo, also Mexican.
1969	The Olympics in Mexico		Alberto Isaac	Nominated	The Organizing Committee of the XIX Summer Olympic Games was nominated, and not Isaac.
1981	El Salvador: Another Vietnam		Tetê Vasconcellos Glenn Silber	Nominated	Shared with Glenn Silber
1985	The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo		Susana Blaustein Muñoz Lourdes Portillo	Nominated
2001	Promises		Carlos Bolado Justine Shapiro B.Z. Goldberg	Nominated	Bolado's partners, Shapiro and Goldberg, were nominated, and not him.
2010	Waste Land		João Jardim Karen Harley Lucy Walker	Nominated	João and Karen's partners, Walker and producer Angus Aynsley, were nominated, and not them.
2014	The Salt of the Earth		Juliano Ribeiro Salgado Wim Wenders	Nominated	Shared with Wenders and producer David Rosier

Best Documentary Short Subject

This list focuses on documentary short subject directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Documentary Short Subject
Year	Film	Country	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
1971	Sentinels of Silence		Manuel Arango	Won	This was the only time that a short film won the Academy Award in two categories, having also won for Best Short Subject.
1980	Luther Metke at 94		Jorge Preloran	Nominated	Shared with producer Richard Hawkins
2007	The Crown		Amanda Micheli Isabel Vega	Nominated
2014	The Reaper		Gabriel Serra Argüello	Nominated

Best Film Editing

This list focuses on Latin American-born film editors.

Film Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone
2003	Daniel Rezende		City of God (Cidade de Deus)	Nominated
2006	Alfonso Cuarón Álex Rodríguez		Children of Men	Nominated	Rodriguez is a French-born Mexican editor.
2013	Alfonso Cuarón		Gravity	Won	Shared with Mark Sanger.

Best Foreign Language Film

This list focuses on films produced in Latin America.

Best Foreign Language Film
Year	Film	Country	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
1960	Macario		Roberto Gavaldón	Nominated	First Latin American film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1961	The Important Man		Ismael Rodríguez	Nominated	(original title: Ánimas Trujano)
1962	Keeper of Promises		Anselmo Duarte	Nominated	(original title: O Pagador de Promessas)
	The Pearl of Tlayucan		Luis Alcoriza	Nominated	(original title: Tlayucan)
1974	The Truce		Sergio Renán	Nominated	(original title: La tregua)
1975	Letters from Marusia		Miguel Littín	Nominated	(original title: Actas de Marusia)
1982	Alsino and the Condor		Miguel Littín	Nominated	(original title: Alsino y el Cóndor) Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Miguel Littín. Only Latin American Director to receive nominations for films directed in two different countries.
1984	Camila		María Luisa Bemberg	Nominated	First nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by a Latin American woman director.
1985	The Official Story		Luis Puenzo	Won	(original title: La historia oficial) First Latin American film to win for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
1989	Santiago, the Story of his New Life		Jacobo Morales	Nominated	(original title: Lo que le pasó a Santiago)
1992	A Place in the World		Adolfo Aristarain	Nominated	(original title: Un lugar en el mundo) After nominations were announced, information came to light that showed that the film was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.
1994	Strawberry and Chocolate		Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío	Nominated	(original title: Fresa y chocolate) First and only Cuban film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1995	O Quatrilho		Fábio Barreto	Nominated	Second Brazilian film nominated to the award in over 30 years.
1997	Four Days in September		Bruno Barreto	Nominated	(original title: O Que É Isso Companheiro?)
1998	Central Station		Walter Salles	Nominated	(original title: Central do Brasil) The film was also nominated for Best Actress.
	Tango		Carlos Saura	Nominated	(original title: Tango, no me dejes nunca)
2000	Love's a Bitch		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	(original title: Amores perros)
2001	Son of the Bride		Juan José Campanella	Nominated	(original title: El hijo de la novia)
2002	The Crime of Father Amaro		Carlos Carrera	Nominated	(original title: El crimen del Padre Amaro)
2006	Pan's Labyrinth		Guillermo del Toro	Nominated	(original title: El laberinto del fauno) The film was nominated for other five Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup, and won the last three of them.
2009	The Milk of Sorrow		Claudia Llosa	Nominated	(original title: La teta asustada) First, and only, Peruvian Film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
	The Secret in Their Eyes		Juan José Campanella	Won	(original title: El secreto de sus ojos) Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Juan José Campanella, and first to win. Second Argentine, and Latin American, film to win for Best Foreign Language Film.
2010	Biutiful		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film was also nominated for Best Actor.
2012	No		Pablo Larraín	Nominated	First, and only, Chilean Film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
2014	Wild Tales		Damián Szifrón	Nominated	(original title: Relatos Salvajes)
2015	Embrace of the Serpent		Ciro Guerra	Nominated	(original title: El abrazo de la serpiente) First Colombian film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

Best Animated Feature

This list focuses on animated feature directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Animated Feature
Year	Film	Country	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
2002	Ice Age		Carlos Saldanha	Nominated	The co-director, American Chris Wedge, was nominated, and not Saldanha.
2015	Boy & the World		Alê Abreu	Nominated	Boy & the World is the first Latin American film to be nominated for Best Animated Feature

Best Live Action Short Film

This list focuses on live action short films directed/produced by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Film	Country	Name	Status	Milestone/Notes
1971	Sentinels of Silence		Robert Amram	Won	(original title: Centinelas del silencio) This was the only time that a short film won the Academy Award in two categories.
1976	In the Region of Ice		André Gutffreund	Won	Shared with director Peter Werner.
1996	De tripas, corazón		Antonio Urrutia	Nominated
2001	Uma História de Futebol		Paulo Machline	Nominated

Best Animated Short Film

This list focuses on animated short films directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
2003	Gone Nutty		Carlos Saldanha	Nominated	First animated short film directed by a Latin-American director to be nominated for an Academy Award.
2015	Bear Story		Pato Escala Pierart and Gabriel Osorio Vargas	Won	First Latin American animated short film to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Best Makeup

This list focuses on Latin American-born makeup artists.

Makeup
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2002	Beatrice De Alba		Frida	Won	Shared with American John Jackson
2006	Mike Elizalde		Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Nominated

Best Music – Original Score

This list focuses on scores by Latin American-born composers.

Original Score
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1966	Luis Bacalov		The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Nominated	(original title: Il Vangelo secondo Matteo)
1967	Lalo Schifrin		Cool Hand Luke	Nominated
1968	Lalo Schifrin		The Fox	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)".
1970	Herbert W. Spencer		Scrooge	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score". Shared nomination with English-born Leslie Bricusse and Ian Fraser.
1973	Herbert W. Spencer		Jesus Christ Superstar	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation". Shared nomination with English-born Andrew Lloyd Webber and German-American André Previn.
1976	Lalo Schifrin		Voyage of the Damned	Nominated
1979	Lalo Schifrin		The Amityville Horror	Nominated
1983	Lalo Schifrin		The Sting II	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score".
1985	Jorge Calandrelli		The Color Purple	Nominated	Nominated with eleven other composers.
1995	Luis Bacalov		The Postman	Won	(original title: Il Postino). The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Dramatic Score".
2005	Gustavo Santaolalla		Brokeback Mountain	Won
2006	Gustavo Santaolalla		Babel	Won	Fourth composer to win two years in a row.

Best Music – Original Musical

This list focuses on musical scores by Latin American-born composers and/or lyricists.

Original Musical
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1992	Johnny Pacheco Carlos Franzetti		The Mambo Kings	Not Nominated

Best Music – Original Song

This list focuses on songs by Latin American-born composers and/or lyricists.

Original Song
Year	Name	Country	Film	Song	Status	Milestone/Notes
1945	Ary Barroso		Brazil	"Rio de Janeiro"	Nominated	First Brazilian and Latin-American songwriter to be nominated. Nominated with American Ned Washington.
1981	Lalo Schifrin		The Competition	"People Alone"	Nominated	First Argentinean to be nominated. Nominated with American Will Jennings.
2000	Jorge Calandrelli		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	(original title: Wo hu cang long) Nominated with Chinese Tan Dun and American James Schamus.
2004	Jorge Drexler		The Motorcycle Diaries	"Al otro lado del río"	Won	(original title: Diarios de motocicleta) First Uruguayan to be nominated and win an Academy Award.
2011	Sergio Mendes Carlinhos Brown		Rio	"Real in Rio"	Nominated	First two Brazilian songwriters to be nominated together. Brown is the first black Latin songwriter to be nominated. Nominated with American Siedah Garrett.

Best Picture

This list focuses on Latin American-born producers.

Picture
Year	Film	Country	Producer	Status	Milestone
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman			Nominated	First Latin-American and Brazilian film nominated for the Best Picture. Producer David Weisman was the only Academy Award nominee, but there were many associate producers from Latin-American background
2006	Babel		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated
2013	Gravity		Alfonso Cuarón	Nominated	Gravity is an American-British film, produced by Mexican Alfonso Cuarón and Englishman David Heyman.
2014	Birdman		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Won	Birdman is an American movie, produced by Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu and Americans John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole.
2015	The Revenant		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	The Revenant is an American film produced by Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu; Americans Steve Golin, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon; and Israeli Arnon Milchan.

Best Sound or Sound Mixing

This list focuses on Latin American-born sound engineers.

Best Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2006	Fernando Cámara		Apocalypto	Nominated
2012	José Antonio Garcia		Argo	Nominated	Nominated with John Reitz and Gregg Rudloff.

Best Sound Editing

This list focuses on Latin American-born sond editors.

Sound Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2014	Martín Hernández		Birdman	Nominated	Nominated with Aaron Glascock.
2015	Martín Hernández		The Revenant	Nominated	Nominated with Lon Bender

Best Visual Effects

Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1947	Paul Lerpae		Unconquered	Nominated	Nomination shared with Farciot Edouart, Devereaux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and George Dutton
2002	Pablo Helman		Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	Nominated	Nomination shared with Rob Coleman, John Knoll and Ben Snow
2005	Pablo Helman		War of the Worlds	Nominated	Nomination shared with Randal M. Dutra, Dennis Muren and Daniel Sudick

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2003	Bráulio Mantovani		City of God	Nominated
2004	José Rivera		The Motorcycle Diaries	Nominated
2006	Alfonso Cuarón		Children of Men	Nominated

Best Writing – Original Screenplay

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1985	Aída Bortnik Luis Puenzo		The Official Story (La historia oficial)	Nominated
2002	Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón		And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también)	Nominated
2006	Guillermo Arriaga		Babel	Nominated
	Guillermo del Toro		Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)	Nominated
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu Nicolás Giacobone Armando Bó		Birdman	Won	Shared with American Alexander Dinelaris, Jr.

Best Story

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Writing-Story
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1930/1931	Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast		Laughter	Nominated	Nomination shared with Douglas Z. Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast was an Argentinean born French screenwriter.

See also

• Lists of Hispanic Academy Award winners and nominees by country