List of Australian Academy Award winners and nominees

This list details Australian people working in the film industry who have been nominated for, or won, Academy Awards (also known as Oscars). These awards honour outstanding achievements in theatrically released motion pictures and were first presented by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 1929. As of 2016, a total of 43 awards from 154 nominations have been won by Australians. Additionally, awards for Scientific and Engineering achievements have been given to Australians four times.

Catherine Martin has won four Academy Awards, more than any other Australian. She has received six nominations in the Best Costume Design and Best Production Design categories.

Art director and costume designer Catherine Martin has received more awards than any other Australian with four wins from six nominations in the Best Costume Design and Best Production Design categories. Cate Blanchett is the most nominated individual in this list with seven nominations, which resulted in a win for Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Peter Weir has received five nominations in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay categories without a win.

May Robson was the first Australian-born person to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 1933 for Lady for a Day. In 1942, Ken G. Hall became the first Australian to win an Academy Award for his documentary Kokoda Front Line! in the Best Documentary category. Suzanne Baker was the first Australian woman to win an Oscar, which was given to her in 1977 for Best Animated Short for Leisure. Cate Blanchett was the first Australian actor to win more than one award in the acting categories. Peter Finch was the first actor to be awarded an Oscar posthumously, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Network in 1976. The only other acting Oscar awarded posthumously was to fellow Australian Heath Ledger 32 years later when his performance in The Dark Knight earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2008.

Australians have been nominated at least once in all categories. The Oscar for Best Costume Design has been the most successful category for Australians with seven wins from 17 nominations. The Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Score, and the Best Documentary (Short Subject) are the only categories in this list where Australians have been nominated without winning.

Nominees and winners

In the following tables, the years correspond to the year in which the films were released; the Academy Award ceremony is held the following year.

Production

Baz Luhrmann was co-nominated for Best Picture in 2001 for Moulin Rouge! (2001).

George Miller won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2006 for Happy Feet (2006).

Emile Sherman was the co-recipient of Best Picture for The King's Speech (2010).

Adam Elliot won Best Animated Short Film for Harvie Krumpet (2003).

Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing (2011) won the Oscar for Best Animated Short film.

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture
Year	Producer(s)	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1993 (66th)	Jan Chapman	The Piano	Nominated		[1]
1995 (68th)	Bruce Davey Mel Gibson	Braveheart	Won	Shared with Alan Ladd, Jr. Gibson was born in America, moved to Australia at age 12	[2]
	Bill Miller George Miller Doug Mitchell	Babe	Nominated		[3]
1996 (68th)	Jane Scott	Shine	Nominated		[4]
1998 (71st)	Grant Hill	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Nominated with Robert Geisler and John Roberdeau.	[5]
2001 (74th)	Baz Luhrmann Martin Brown	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated		[6]
2003 (76th)	Peter Weir	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Nominated	Nominated with Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. and Duncan Henderson.	[7]
2009 (82nd)	Carolynne Cunningham	District 9	Nominated	Nominated with Peter Jackson	[8]
2010 (83rd)	Emile Sherman	The King's Speech	Won	Shared with Iain Canning.	[9]
2011 (84th)	Grant Hill	The Tree of Life	Nominated	Nominated alongside Dede Gardner, Sarah Green and Bill Pohlad.	[10]
2015 (88th)	George Miller Doug Mitchell	Mad Max: Fury Road	Nominated		[11]
2016 (89th)	Bruce Davey Paul Currie	Hacksaw Ridge	Nominated	Shared with Bill Mechanic, David Permut, Terry Benedict & Brian Oliver.	[12]
	Angie Fielder Emile Sherman	Lion	Nominated	Shared with Iain Canning.

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Year	Director(s)	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2016 (89th)	Martin Butler Bentley Dean	Tanna	Nominated	First Australian film to make the final round nominations in this category.	[13]

Best Documentary Feature

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1942 (15th)	Ken G. Hall	Kokoda Front Line!	Won	First Australian to win an Academy Award in any category.	[14]
1980 (53rd)	David Bradbury	Front Line	Nominated		[15]
1983 (56th)	Robin Anderson Bob Connolly	First Contact	Nominated		[16]
1986 (59th)	David Bradbury	Chile: Hasta Cuando?	Nominated
2007 (80th)	Eva Orner	Taxi to the Dark Side	Won	Shared with Alex Gibney.	[17]

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1947 (20th)	Australian News & Information Bureau	School in the Mailbox	Nominated		[18]
1979 (52nd)	Phillip Borsos	Nails	Nominated

Best Animated Film

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2006 (79th)	George Miller	Happy Feet	Won		[19]

Best Animated Short Film

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1977 (50th)	Suzanne Baker	Leisure	Won	First Australian woman to win an Academy Award.	[20]
2003 (76th)	Adam Elliot	Harvie Krumpet	Won	Elliot has since donated his Oscar to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).	[21]
2004 (77th)	Sejong Park Andrew Gregory	Birthday Boy	Nominated		[22]
2005 (78th)	Anthony Lucas	The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello	Nominated		[23]
2010 (83rd)	Shaun Tan	The Lost Thing	Won	Shared with Andrew Ruhemann.	[24]

Best Live Action Short Film

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2006 (79th)	Peter Templeman Stuart Parkyn	The Saviour	Nominated
2008 (81st)	Tamara Anghie	New Boy	Nominated	Nominated with Steph Green.	[25]
2010 (83rd)	Luke Doolan Drew Bailey	Miracle Fish	Nominated
2017 (90th)	Derin Seale Josh Lawson	The Eleven O'Clock	Nominated

Performance

May Robson was the first Australian-born person to be nominated for an Oscar, receiving a nomination for Best Actress for Lady for a Day (1933).

Nicole Kidman has won one out of four acting Oscars, winning Best Actress for The Hours (2002).

Cate Blanchett has been nominated for seven Oscars, more than any other Australian. She won one each for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress for The Aviator (2004) and Blue Jasmine (2013), respectively.

Peter Finch was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor for Network (1976).

Geoffrey Rush has been nominated twice in both acting categories, winning once for Best Actor for Shine (1996).

Russell Crowe won once from three nominations for Best Actor, winning for Gladiator (2000).

Like Finch, Heath Ledger received a posthumous Oscar. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight (2008).

Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1932/33 (6th)	May Robson	Lady for a Day	Nominated	First Australian to be nominated for an Oscar. She is also the oldest Australian nominated for an acting Oscar, at age 75.	[26]
1984 (57th)	Judy Davis	A Passage to India	Nominated		[27]
1998 (71st)	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth	Nominated		[28]
2001 (74th)	Nicole Kidman	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated	Kidman was born in the United States of America. First female nomination for an Australian-made production.	[29]
2002 (75th)		The Hours	Won	First Australian to be nominated in this category more than once, and in consecutive years, the first Australian to win Best Actress, and the first win for a female Australian in a Biography.	[30]
2003 (76th)	Keisha Castle-Hughes	Whale Rider	Nominated	Australian born, New Zealand actress.	[31]
	Naomi Watts	21 Grams	Nominated	British born, Australian actress
2007 (80th)	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Nominated	This nomination made Blanchett the first actress and fifth overall performer to be nominated in this category for portraying the same character (Elizabeth I of England) in two different films (her other nomination was for Elizabeth (1998)).[32]	[33]
2010 (83rd)	Nicole Kidman	Rabbit Hole	Nominated		[34]
2012 (85th)	Naomi Watts	The Impossible	Nominated		[35]
2013 (86th)	Cate Blanchett	Blue Jasmine	Won		[36]
2015 (88th)		Carol	Nominated		[37]
2017 (90th)	Margot Robbie	I, Tonya	Nominated	First actress to be nominated for portraying a real-life athlete (Tonya Harding).	[38]

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1940 (13th)	Judith Anderson	Rebecca	Nominated	First Australian to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.	[39]
1963 (36th)	Diane Cilento	Tom Jones	Nominated		[40]
1992 (65th)	Judy Davis	Husbands and Wives	Nominated	First Australian to have received nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.	[41]
1998 (71st)	Rachel Griffiths	Hilary and Jackie	Nominated		[28]
1999 (72nd)	Toni Collette	The Sixth Sense	Nominated		[42]
2004 (77th)	Cate Blanchett	The Aviator	Won	First overall performer to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar winner (Katharine Hepburn).[43]	[44]
2006 (79th)		Notes on a Scandal	Nominated		[45]
2007 (80th)		I'm Not There	Nominated	Blanchett became the first Australian, and the eleventh overall performer, to receive double acting nominations in the same year (the other for Best Actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age).[46][47] This performance also made her one of three women to have ever been nominated for a female acting Oscar for portraying a man.[43]	[33]
2010 (83rd)	Jacki Weaver	Animal Kingdom	Nominated		[34]
2012 (85th)		Silver Linings Playbook	Nominated		[48]
2016 (89th)	Nicole Kidman	Lion	Nominated		[49]
2019 (92nd)	Margot Robbie	Bombshell	Nominated

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1971 (44th)	Peter Finch	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Nominated		[50]
1976 (49th)		Network	Won	First actor in Oscars history to win posthumously.[51] First Australian actor to receive a posthumous nomination.[52]	[53]
1996 (69th)	Geoffrey Rush	Shine	Won	First Australian-born person and first living Australian to win an acting Oscar.	[54]
1999 (72nd)	Russell Crowe	The Insider	Nominated	Crowe moved from his native New Zealand when he was four years old and currently resides in Australia.[55]	[42]
2000 (73rd)		Gladiator	Won		[56]
	Geoffrey Rush	Quills	Nominated
2001 (74th)	Russell Crowe	A Beautiful Mind	Nominated		[29]
2005 (78th)	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Nominated		[57]
2012 (85th)	Hugh Jackman	Les Misérables	Nominated		[48]

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1998 (71st)	Geoffrey Rush	Shakespeare in Love	Nominated		[28]
2008 (81st)	Heath Ledger	The Dark Knight	Won	First Australian to win in this category. Second person to win an acting Oscar posthumously (the first was fellow Australian Peter Finch).[58]	[59]
2010 (83rd)	Geoffrey Rush	The King's Speech	Nominated		[34]

Craft

Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Year	Director(s)	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1950 (23rd)	Robert Krasker	The Third Man	Won	Awarded for black and white cinematography.	[60]
1985 (58th)	John Seale	Witness	Nominated		[61]
1988 (61st)		Rain Man	Nominated		[62]
1990 (63rd)	Dean Semler	Dances with Wolves	Won		[63]
1996 (69th)	John Seale	The English Patient	Won		[64]
2001 (74th)	Andrew Lesnie	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won		[29]
	Donald McAlpine	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated		[29]
2002 (75th)	Dion Beebe	Chicago	Nominated	Beebe was born in Australia but moved to South Africa at the age of 4.	[30]
2003 (76th)	Russell Boyd	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Won		[31]
	John Seale	Cold Mountain	Nominated		[31]
2005 (78th)	Dion Beebe	Memoirs of a Geisha	Won		[57]
2015 (88th)	John Seale	Mad Max: Fury Road	Nominated		[11]
2016 (89th)	Greig Fraser	Lion	Nominated		[49]

Best Costume Design

Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1951 (24th)	Orry-Kelly	An American in Paris	Won	Nominated for Best Costume Design, Colour. Shared with Walter Plunkett and Irene Sharaff.	[65]
1957 (30th)		Les Girls	Won		[65]
1959 (32nd)		Some Like It Hot	Won	Nominated for Best Costume Design, Black and White	[65]
1962 (35th)		Gypsy	Nominated	Nominated for Best Costume Design, Colour	[65]
1966 (39th)	Jocelyn Rickards	Morgan!	Nominated	Best Costume Design, Black and White	[66]
1967 (40th)	John Truscott	Camelot	Won		[67]
1980 (53rd)	Anna Senior	My Brilliant Career	Nominated		[68]
1993 (66th)	Janet Patterson	The Piano	Nominated		[69]
1995 (68th)	Lizzy Gardiner Tim Chappel	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Won		[70]
1996 (69th)	Janet Patterson	The Portrait of a Lady	Nominated		[69]
1997 (70th)		Oscar and Lucinda	Nominated		[69]
2001 (74th)	Catherine Martin Angus Strathie	Moulin Rouge!	Won		[29]
2003 (76th)	Wendy Stites	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Nominated		[31]
2008 (81st)	Catherine Martin	Australia	Nominated		[59]
2009 (82nd)	Janet Patterson	Bright Star	Nominated		[69]
2013 (86th)	Catherine Martin	The Great Gatsby	Won	First Australian to win four Oscars, the most by any Australian.	[71]
	Michael Wilkinson	American Hustle	Nominated	First time that two Australian costume designers were nominated for Best Costume Design category in a same year (Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby).	[36]

Best Director

Academy Award for Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1942 (15th)	John Farrow	Wake Island	Nominated	Farrow ceased to be an Australian citizen in 1947 when he adopted US citizenship.	[72]
1983 (56th)	Bruce Beresford	Tender Mercies	Nominated		[73]
1985 (58th)	Peter Weir	Witness	Nominated		[74]
1989 (62nd)		Dead Poets Society	Nominated		[75]
1993 (66th)	Jane Campion	The Piano	Nominated	Campion was born in New Zealand but resides in Australia.[76]	[77]
1995 (68th)	Chris Noonan	Babe	Nominated		[78]
	Mel Gibson	Braveheart	Won	Born in America, moved to Australia at age 12
1996 (69th)	Scott Hicks	Shine	Nominated	Born in Uganda, moved to Australia at age 14,	[54]
1998 (71st)	Peter Weir	The Truman Show	Nominated		[79]
2003 (76th)		Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Nominated		[79]
2010 (83rd)	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech	Won	Hooper is British-Australian.	[34]
2015 (88th)	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road	Nominated		[11]
2016 (89th)	Mel Gibson	Hacksaw Ridge	Nominated		[37]

Best Editing

Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1961 (34th)	Alan Osbiston	The Guns of Navarone	Nominated	Alan Osbiston was an Australian-born British film editor
1993 (66th)	Veronika Jenet	The Piano	Nominated		[80]
1994 (67th)	Richard Francis-Bruce	The Shawshank Redemption	Nominated		[81]
1995 (68th)		Se7en	Nominated		[78]
	Marcus D'Arcy	Babe	Nominated	Shared with Jay Friedkin.	[82]
1996 (69th)	Pip Karmel	Shine	Nominated		[54]
1997 (70th)	Richard Francis-Bruce	Air Force One	Nominated		[83]
2001 (74th)	Jill Bilcock	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated
2003 (76th)	Lee Smith	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Nominated
2008 (81st)		The Dark Knight	Nominated		[59]
	Kirk Baxter	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated	Shared with Angus Wall.
2010 (83rd)		The Social Network	Won	First Australian to win in this category. Shared with Angus Wall.
2011 (84th)		The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Won	First Australian to win Oscars in consecutive years in the same category. Shared with Angus Wall.
2015 (88th)	Margaret Sixel	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won	Sixel was born in South Africa	[11]
2017 (90th)	Lee Smith	Dunkirk	Won
	Paul Machliss	Baby Driver	Nominated	Shared with Jonathan Amos.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Refs
1995 (68th)	Paul Pattison	Braveheart	Won	Award shared with Lois Burwell and Peter Frampton.
2005 (78th)	Dave Elsey Nikki Gooley	Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	Nominated
2010 (83rd)	Dave Elsey	The Wolfman	Won	Award shared with Rick Baker
2012 (85th)	Rick Findlater	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	Nominated with Peter King and Tami Lane.	[48]
2015 (88th)	Lesley Vanderwalt Elka Wardega Damian Martin	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won		[11]

Best Music, Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score
Year	Composer(s)	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1974 (47th)	Douglas Gamley	The Little Prince	Nominated	Nominated for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Shared nomination with English-born Angela Morley, Austrian-American Frederick Loewe, and American-born Alan Jay Lerner.
1996 (69th)	David Hirschfelder	Shine	Nominated	Nominated for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score.	[54]
1998 (71st)		Elizabeth	Nominated		[28]

Best Music, Original Song

Academy Award for Best Original Song
Year	Writer(s)	Song	Film	Result	Notes	Refs
1978 (51st)	John Farrar	"Hopelessly Devoted to You"	Grease	Nominated
1981 (54th)	Peter Allen	"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"	Arthur	Won	Shared with Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross and Carole Bayer Sager.	[84]

Best Production Design

Note: Before 2012, the category was called Best Art Direction-Set Decoration.

Academy Award for Best Production Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1967 (40th)	John Truscott	Camelot	Won	Shared with Edward Carrere and John W. Brown.	[85]
1969 (42nd)	Ken Muggleston	Oliver!	Won	Shared with Vernon Dixon.	[86]
1993 (66th)	Luciana Arrighi	Howards End	Won	Arrighi is an Italian who was born in Brazil and raised in Australia. Shared with Ian Whittaker	[87]
1995 (68th)	Roger Ford Kerrie Brown	Babe	Nominated
1996 (69th)	Catherine Martin	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	Shared with Brigitte Broch	[54]
1999 (72nd)	Luciana Arrighi	Anna and the King	Nominated	Shared with Ian Whittaker	[42]
2001 (74th)	Catherine Martin	Moulin Rouge!	Won	Shared with Brigitte Broch.
2008 (81st)	Michael Carlin	The Duchess	Nominated
2013 (86th)	Catherine Martin Beverley Dunn	The Great Gatsby	Won
2015 (88th)	Colin Gibson Lisa Thompson	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won		[11]
2018 (91st)	Fiona Crombie	The Favourite	Nominated	Shared with Alice Felton

Best Sound Mixing

Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1998 (71st)	Paul Brincat	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Nominated alongside Andy Nelson and Anna Behlmer	[28]
1999 (72nd)	David Lee	The Matrix	Won	Shared with John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and David E. Campbell	[42]
2001 (74th)	Roger Savage Guntis Sics	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated	Nominated with Andy Nelson and Anna Behlmer.
	Gethin Creagh	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	Creagh was born in New Zealand but is considered Australian.[88] Nominated with Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick and Hammond Peek.
2014 (87th)	David Lee	Unbroken	Nominated	Nominated with Jon Taylor and Frank A. Montaño
2015 (88th)	Ben Osmo	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won	Nominated with Chris Jenkins and Gregg Rudloff	[11]
2016 (89th)	Andy Wright Robert Mackenzie Peter Grace	Hacksaw Ridge	Won	Nominated with Kevin O'Connell

Best Sound Editing

Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2015 (88th)	David White	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won	Nominated with Mark Mangini	[11]
2016 (89th)	Robert Mackenzie Andy Wright	Hacksaw Ridge	Nominated

Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Shared with	Ref(s)
1995 (68th)	John Cox	Babe	Won	Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, and Neal Scanlan
1999 (72nd)	Steve Courtley	The Matrix	Won	John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, and Jon Thum	[42]
2001 (74th)	Ben Snow	Pearl Harbor	Nominated	Eric Brevig, John Frazier and Ed Hirsh
2002 (75th)		Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	Nominated	Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman and John Knoll
2003 (76th)	Nathan McGuinness	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Nominated	Dan Sudick, Stefen Fangmeier and Robert Stromberg
2008 (81st)	Ben Snow	Iron Man	Nominated	Shane Mahan, John Nelson and Dan Sudick
2010 (83rd)	Ben Snow Ged Wright	Iron Man 2	Nominated	Janek Sirrs and Dan Sudick
	Joe Farrell	Hereafter	Nominated	Michael Owens, Bryan Grill and Stephan Trojansky
2012 (85th)	David Clayton	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon and R. Christopher White
2013 (86th)		The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Nominated	Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon and Eric Reynolds
2014 (87th)	Tim Crosbie	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Nominated	Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora and Cameron Waldbauer
2015 (88th)	Andrew Jackson Dan Oliver	Mad Max: Fury Road	Nominated	Tom Wood and Andy Williams	[11]
2016 (89th)	Jason Billington	Deepwater Horizon	Nominated	Nominated with Craig Hammack, Jason Snell & Burt Dalton

Best Adapted Screenplay

Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1956 (29th)	John Farrow	Around the World in Eighty Days	Won	Born in Australia but had ceased to be an Australian citizen in 1947 when he adopted US citizenship. Nominated with S. J. Perelman and James Poe.	[89]
1980 (53rd)	Jonathan Hardy David Stevens Bruce Beresford	Breaker Morant	Nominated	Jonathan Hardy was born in New Zealand and David Stevens in Israel.	[90]
1995 (68th)	George Miller Chris Noonan	Babe	Nominated
2016 (89th)	Luke Davies	Lion	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1957 (30th)	Ivan Goff	Man of a Thousand Faces	Nominated	Shared with Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell and Ben Roberts	[91]
1986 (59th)	John Cornell Paul Hogan Ken Shadie	"Crocodile" Dundee	Nominated		[92]
1990 (63rd)	Peter Weir	Green Card	Nominated		[79]
1992 (65th)	Nick Enright George Miller	Lorenzo's Oil	Nominated		[93]
1993 (66th)	Jane Campion	The Piano	Won	Campion was born in New Zealand but resides in Australia.[76]	[94]
1996 (69th)	Scott Hicks Jan Sardi	Shine	Nominated	Hicks was born in Uganda but moved to Australia at age 14.[95]	[54]
2018 (91st)	Tony McNamara	The Favourite	Nominated	Shared with Deborah Davis

Scientific and Engineering

Academy Scientific and Technical Award
Year	Name	Field	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1997 (70th)	Jim Frazier	Photography	Won	Frazier was awarded for the concept. His fellow recipients Iain Neil, Rick Gelbard were involved in the design and development of the Panavision/Frazier Lens System for motion picture photography.	[96]
1998 (71st)	Gary Tregaskis	Computer software	Won	Gary Tregaskis, for the primary design; Dominique Boisvert, Phillip Panzini, Andre LeBlanc for the development and implementation of the Flame and Inferno software.	[97]
2001 (74th)	Bruce Tulloch Norman Jackson Andrew Brent John Lancken	Development of Digital Audio Dubbing equipment (Fairlight DaD) for film audio dubbing and mixing.	Won	Bruce Tulloch and Norman Jackson developed a technology used by film dubbing engineers to mix film soundtracks. Emilijo Mihatov was Product Manager, Andrew Brent was technical support and John Lancken was market development. The product was manufactured by Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd, Sydney Australia.
2003 (76th)	Michael Carlos Andrew Cannon Christopher Alfred	Digital audio editing for motion picture post-production	Won	Michael Carlos, Andrew Cannon, and Christopher Alfred developed the technology at Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia.	[98]
2010 (83rd)	Tony Clark Alan Rogers Neil Wilson Rory McGregor	Software design and continued development of cineSync, a tool for remote collaboration and review of visual effects	Won		[99]

See also

• Cinema of Australia
• List of Australian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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External links

• The official website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Further reading

• Academy Awards® Nominations and Awards for Australian projects and people at Screen Australia
• O stands for Oscar and also for Oz at The Age