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This is a list of African Academy Award winners and nominees, which includes both ethnic African people born and/or raised in Africa and non-ethnic Africans born and raised in Africa.
Best Actor in a Leading Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1959 | Laurence Harvey | ![]() ![]() |
Room at the Top | Joe Lampton | Nominated | First Lithuanian nominated for an Oscar. Born in Lithuania, but educated and raised in South Africa, where he joined the army. |
Best Actress in a Leading Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1971 | Janet Suzman | ![]() ![]() |
Nicholas and Alexandra | Alexandra Feodorovna | Nominated | |
2003 | Charlize Theron | ![]() ![]() |
Monster | Aileen Wuornos | Won | First African to win in an acting category. |
2005 | North Country | Josey Aimes | Nominated | |||
2016 | Ruth Negga | ![]() ![]() |
Loving | Mildred Loving | Nominated | |
2019 | Charlize Theron | ![]() ![]() |
Bombshell | Megyn Kelly | Nominated |
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1936 | Basil Rathbone | ![]() ![]() |
Romeo and Juliet | Tybalt | Nominated | Rathbone was a South African-born British actor. |
1938 | If I Were King | King Louis XI | Nominated | |||
1948 | Cecil Kellaway | The Luck of the Irish | Horace | Nominated | ||
1962 | Omar Sharif | ![]() |
Lawrence of Arabia | Sherif Ali | Nominated | First African to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category. |
1967 | Cecil Kellaway | ![]() ![]() |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Monsignor Mike Ryan | Nominated | |
2003 | Djimon Hounsou | ![]() ![]() |
In America | Mateo | Nominated | First Black African to be nominated for an acting award. |
2006 | Blood Diamond | Solomon Vandy | Nominated | |||
2013 | Barkhad Abdi | ![]() ![]() |
Captain Phillips | Abduwali Muse | Nominated | |
2018 | Richard E. Grant | ![]() ![]() |
Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock | Nominated | Grant is from a white British family; he was born and raised in Swaziland. |
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2013 | Lupita Nyong'o | ![]() ![]() |
12 Years a Slave | Patsey | Won | First black African woman to be nominated and win in any category. |
Best Cinematography | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1966 | Ted Moore | ![]() ![]() |
A Man for All Seasons | Won | Moore is a South African-born British. Won for Best Color Cinematography. |
1991 | Stephen Goldblatt | ![]() ![]() |
The Prince of Tides | Nominated | Goldblatt is a South African-born British. |
1995 | Batman Forever | Nominated | |||
2002 | Dion Beebe | ![]() ![]() |
Chicago | Nominated | Beebe is a South African-born Australian. |
2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Won |
Best Director | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1996 | Scott Hicks | ![]() ![]() |
Shine | Nominated | Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian. |
1997 | Atom Egoyan | ![]() ![]() |
The Sweet Hereafter | Nominated | Egoyan is an Egyptian-born Canadian filmmaker. |
Best Documentary Feature | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1997 | Michele Ohayon (director) | ![]() |
Colors Straight Up | Nominated | |
2012 | Malik Bendjelloul | ![]() |
Searching for Sugar Man | Won | |
2013 | Jehane Noujaim (director) Karim Amer (producer) |
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The Square | Nominated | |
2020 | Pippa Ehrlich (director) James Reed (director) Craig Foster (producer) |
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My Octopus Teacher | Won | |
2023 | Moses Bwayo Christopher Sharp[1] |
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Bobi Wine: The People's President | Nominated | Shared with John Battsek |
Kaouther Ben Hania | ![]() |
Four Daughters | Nominated | Shared with Nadim Cheikhrouha |
Best Film Editing | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1970 | Thelma Schoonmaker | ![]() ![]() |
Woodstock | Nominated | Schoonmaker is from a white American family; she was born in Algeria. |
1980 | Raging Bull | Won | |||
1990 | Goodfellas | Nominated | |||
2002 | Gangs of New York | Nominated | |||
2004 | The Aviator | Won | |||
2006 | The Departed | Won | |||
2011 | Hugo | Nominated | |||
2015 | Margaret Sixel | ![]() ![]() |
Mad Max: Fury Road | Won | Sixel is a South African-born Australian. |
2019 | Thelma Schoonmaker | ![]() ![]() |
The Irishman | Nominated | |
2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to a country, not to an individual, and the submitting country is the officially designated nominee in this category.
Best International Feature Film | |||||
Year | Country | Film | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1969 | ![]() |
Z | Costa-Gavras | Won | First African film to win an Academy Award. |
1976 | ![]() |
Black and White in Color | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Won | |
1983 | ![]() |
Le Bal | Ettore Scola | Nominated | |
1995 | Dust of Life | Rachid Bouchareb | Nominated | ||
2004 | ![]() |
Yesterday | Darrell Roodt | Nominated | |
2005 | Tsotsi | Gavin Hood | Won | First African film in a language other than French to win in this category. | |
2006 | ![]() |
Days of Glory | Rachid Bouchareb | Nominated | |
2010 | Outside the Law | Nominated | |||
2014 | ![]() |
Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | Nominated | |
2020 | ![]() |
The Man Who Sold His Skin | Kaouther Ben Hania | Nominated |
Best Live Action Short Film | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2019 | Meryam Joobeur | ![]() ![]() |
Brotherhood | Nominated | Joobeur is Tunisian-born Canadian. Shared with Maria Gracia Turgeon. | |
2023 | Misan Harriman | ![]() ![]() |
The After | Nominated | Harriman is Nigerian-born British. Shared with Nicky Bentham. |
Best Makeup and Hairstyling | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1999 | Trefor Proud | ![]() |
Topsy-Turvy | Won | Proud is the first Zimbabwean to win an Academy Award in this category. Shared with Christine Blundell. | |
2019 | Tristan Versluis | ![]() ![]() |
1917 | Nominated | Versluis is a Zimbabwean-born English. Shared with Naomi Donne and Rebecca Cole. |
Best Original Score | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1985 | Caiphus Semenya | ![]() |
The Color Purple | Nominated | |
1987 | Jonas Gwangwa | Cry Freedom | Nominated |
Best Original Song | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Song | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1987 | Jonas Gwangwa | ![]() |
Cry Freedom | "Cry Freedom" | Nominated | Shared with George Fenton. |
2012 | Herbert Kretzmer | ![]() ![]() |
Les Misérables | "Suddenly" | Nominated | Kretzmer is from a Jewish family. Shared with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. |
2022 | Tems | ![]() |
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | "Lift Me Up" | Nominated | Shared with Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, and Ryan Coogler. |
Best Adapted Screenplay | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Adapted From | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1983 | Ronald Harwood | ![]() ![]() |
The Dresser | The Dresser by Ronald Harwood | Nominated | |
1987 | Mark Peploe | ![]() ![]() |
The Last Emperor | From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi | Won | Peploe is a Kenyan-born English writer. Shared with Bernardo Bertolucci. |
1997 | Atom Egoyan | ![]() ![]() |
The Sweet Hereafter | The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks | Nominated | |
2002 | Ronald Harwood | ![]() ![]() |
The Pianist | The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman | Won | |
2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby | Nominated | |||
2009 | Neill Blomkamp | ![]() |
District 9 | Alive in Joburg by Neill Blomkamp |
Nominated | Shared with Terri Tatchell. |
Best Original Screenplay | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1996 | Scott Hicks | ![]() ![]() |
Shine | Nominated | Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian. Shared with Jan Sardi. |