List of German Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Germany.

Acting categories

Actor in a Leading Role

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.
1961	Maximilian Schell	The Judgement at Nuremberg	Won	Schell was a Austria-born German actor.
2015	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Nominated	Fassbender is an Irish-German actor.

Actor in a Supporting Role

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		Django Unchained	Won
2013	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave	Nominated	Fassbender is an Irish-German actor.

Actress in a Leading Role

Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld.

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		The Good Earth	Won	First actor regardless of gender to win two consecutive awards.[1]

Best Art Direction

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 had been announced this year.
1929		The Love Parade	Nominated
1930		The Vagabond King	Nominated
		Morocco	Nominated
1932		A Farewell to Arms	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson.
1937		Souls at Sea	Nominated
1938	Carl Jules Weyl	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Won
	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.
		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.
		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.
	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.
		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.
	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.
1996	Brigitte Broch	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	Broch is a German-born Mexican production designer. Shared with the Australian-born Catherine Martin.
2001		Moulin Rouge!	Won
2015	Bernhard Henrich	Bridge of Spies	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo.

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1937	Karl Freund	The Good Earth	Won
1941		The Chocolate Soldier	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
		Blossoms in the Dust	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1961	Eugen Schüfftan	The Hustler	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1964	Walter Lassally	Zorba the Greek	Won
1980	Ralf D. Bode	Coal Miner's Daughter	Nominated	Bode was a German-born American cinematographer.
1981	Jost Vacano	Das Boot	Nominated
1987	Michael Ballhaus	Broadcast News	Nominated
1989		The Fabulous Baker Boys	Nominated
2002		Gangs of New York	Nominated

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1951	Hein Heckroth	The Tales of Hoffmann	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1994	Moidele Bickel	Queen Margot (La reine Margot)	Nominated
2011	Lisy Christl	Anonymous	Nominated

Best Documentary

Feature

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
1973	Bengt von zur Mühlen	Schlacht um Berlin	Nominated
1980		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.
	Dirk Wilutzky	Citizenfour	Won	Shared with the American-born Laura Poitras and French-born Mathilde Bonnefoy.

Short Subject

Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1972	Peter Schamoni	Hundertwassers Regentag	Nominated
1975	Manfred Baier	Millions of Years Ahead of Man	Nominated
2003	Katja Esson	Ferry Tales	Nominated

Best Director

Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1928/29	Ernst Lubitsch	The Patriot	Nominated	No official nominees were announced.
1929		The Love Parade	Nominated
1937	William Dieterle	The Life of Emile Zola	Nominated
1946	Robert Siodmak	The Killers	Nominated
1947	Henry Koster	The Bishop's Wife	Nominated
1966	Mike Nichols	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nominated	Nichols is a German-born American director and producer.
1967		The Graduate	Won
1982	Wolfgang Petersen	Das Boot	Nominated
1983	Mike Nichols	Silkwood	Nominated
1988		Working Girl	Nominated

Best Editing

Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1938	Tom Held	The Great Waltz	Nominated
		Test Pilot	Nominated
1982	Hannes Nikel	Das Boot	Nominated
1985	Rudi Fehr	Prizzi's Honor	Nominated	Shared with his American-born daughter, Kaja Fehr.

Best Foreign Language Film

Foreign Language Film
Year	Director	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1956	Helmut Käutner	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	Nominated	Producers Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel were officially nominated in 1957.
1957	Robert Siodmak	Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam	Nominated
1958	Franz Peter Wirth	Helden	Nominated
1959	Bernhard Wicki	Die Brücke	Nominated
1973	Maximilian Schell	Der Fußgänger	Nominated	First filmmaker to have two of his films nominated for different countries.
1976	Frank Beyer	Jakob der Lügner	Nominated	First and only film from East Germany to be nominated for an Academy Award.
1978	Hans W. Geißendörfer	Die gläserne Zelle	Nominated
1979	Volker Schlöndorff	Die Blechtrommel	Won
1985	Agnieszka Holland	Bittere Ernte	Nominated	First female filmmaker to direct a German-language nominated film.
1990	Michael Verhoeven	Das schreckliche Mädchen	Nominated	First submission of United Germany to be nominated.
1992	Helmut Dietl	Schtonk!	Nominated
1997	Caroline Link	Jenseits der Stille	Nominated	Some parts in English, German Sign Language & Spanish.
2002		Nirgendwo in Afrika	Won	Second female filmmaker to direct a Foreign-Language-Film winner.
2004	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Der Untergang	Nominated
2005	Marc Rothemund	Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage	Nominated
2006	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Das Leben der Anderen	Won
2008	Uli Edel	Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex	Nominated
2009	Michael Haneke	Das weiße Band	Nominated
2016	Maren Ade	Toni Erdmann	Nominated	Some parts in English and Romanian
2018	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Werk ohne Autor	Nominated

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2019	Nicki Ledermann	Joker	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Kay Georgiou.

Music categories

Best Original Score

Original Music Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
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
1944	Kurt Weill Werner R. Heymann	Knickerbocker Holiday	Nominated
	Ernst Toch	Address Unknown	Nominated
1946	Ray Heindorf	Night and Day	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Max Steiner.
	Franz Waxman	Humoresque	Nominated
1950		Sunset Boulevard	Won
1951		A Place in the Sun	Won
1953	Friedrich Hollaender	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T	Nominated
	André Previn	Kiss Me Kate	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Saul Chaplin.
1954	Franz Waxman	The Silver Chalice	Nominated
1955	André Previn	It's Always Fair Weather	Nominated
1958		Gigi	Won
1959		Porgy and Bess	Won	Shared with the American-born Ken Darby.
	Franz Waxman	The Nun's Story	Nominated
1962		Taras Bulba	Nominated
	Ray Heindorf	The Music Man	Won	First winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1963	André Previn	Irma la Douce	Won	Winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1964		My Fair Lady	Won
1973		Jesus Christ Superstar	Nominated	Nominated for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Shared with the English-born Andrew Lloyd Webber and Chilean-born American Herbert W. Spencer.
1988	Hans Zimmer	Rain Man	Nominated
1994		The Lion King	Won
1996		The Preacher's Wife	Nominated	Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category.
1997		As Good as It Gets	Nominated
1998		The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Nominated in the Dramatic Score category.
		The Prince of Egypt	Nominated	Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category. Shared with the American-born Stephen Schwartz.
2000		Gladiator	Nominated
2009		Sherlock Holmes	Nominated
2010		Inception	Nominated
2014		Interstellar	Nominated
2016	Hauschka	Lion	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Dustin O'Halloran.
2017	Hans Zimmer	Dunkirk	Nominated

Best Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1937	Friedrich Hollaender	Artists and Models for the song: "Whispers in the Dark"	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Leo Robin.
1948		That Lady in Ermine for the song: "This Is the Moment"	Nominated
1987	Harold Faltermeyer	Beverly Hills Cop II for the song: "Shakedown"	Nominated	Shared with the British-born Keith Forsey and American-born Bob Seger.

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1928/29	Ernst Lubitsch	The Patriot	Nominated
1929		The Love Parade	Nominated
1931		The Smiling Lieutenant	Nominated
1932		One Hour with You	Nominated
1935	Henry Blanke	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Nominated
1936		Anthony Adverse	Nominated
		The Story of Louis Pasteur	Nominated
1937		The Life of Emile Zola	Won
1938		Jezebel	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Hal B. Wallis.
1943	Ernst Lubitsch	Heaven Can Wait	Nominated
1948	Henry Blanke	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Nominated
1959		The Nun's Story	Nominated
1993	Mike Nichols	The Remains of the Day	Nominated	Nichols is a German-born American director and producer. Shared with the American-born John Calley and Indian-born Ismail Merchant.
2005	Michael Ohoven	Capote	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Caroline Baron and Canadian-born William Vince.
2012	Stefan Arndt Margaret Ménégoz	Amour	Nominated	Shared with the Austrian-born Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz.
2015	Michael Schaefer	The Martian	Nominated	Shared with the British-born Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott and Mark Huffam.

Best Short Film

Live Action

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1956	Konstantin Kalser	Crashing the Water Barrier	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

Animated

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1941	Max Fleischer	Superman	Nominated
1974	Wolfgang Reitherman	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!	Nominated
1989	Christoph Lauenstein Wolfgang Lauenstein	Balance	Won
1996	Thomas Stellmach Tyron Montgomery	Quest	Won	Montgomery is an Irish-born German.
2000	Steffen Schäffler Anette Schäffler	Periwig Maker	Nominated
2002	Chris Stenner Heidi Wittlinger	Das Rad	Nominated	Arvid Uibel directed the film alongside Stenner and Wittlinger, but died in 2000 and was not nominated.
2010	Max Lang Jakob Schuh	Der Grüffelo	Nominated
2013	Max Lang Jan Lachauer	Room on the Broom	Nominated
2017	Jakob Schuh Jan Lachauer	Revolting Rhymes	Nominated

Best Sound Mixing

Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1982	Milan Bor	Das Boot	Nominated	Shared with the British-born Trevor Pyke and American-born Mike Le Mare.

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1996	Volker Engel	Independence Day	Won	Shared with the American-born Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joseph Viskocil.
2010	Stephan Trojansky	Hereafter	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Michael Owens and Bryan Grill, and Australian-born Joe Farrell.
2017	Gerd Nefzer	Blade Runner 2049	Won	Shared with the American-born John Nelson and Richard R. Hoover, and British-born Paul Lambert.

Writing categories

Best Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1928/29	Hanns Kräly	The Patriot	Won	No official nominees have been announced that year.
		The Last of Mrs. Cheyney	Nominated
1948	Irma von Cube	Johnny Belinda	Nominated	First German woman to be nominated for a writing award. Shared with the American-born Allen Vincent.
1951	Max Ophüls	La Ronde	Nominated	Shared with the French-born Jacques Natanson.
1958	Don Mankiewicz	I Want to Live!	Nominated	Mankiewicz is a German-born American screenwriter. Shared with the American-born Nelson Gidding.
1982	Wolfgang Petersen	Das Boot	Nominated
1986	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	A Room with a View	Won	Jhabvala is a German-born British screenwriter, with an Indian citizenship before moving to the US.
1992		Howards End	Won
1993		The Remains of the Day	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1940	Heinz Herald	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	Nominated
1962	Wolfgang Reinhardt	Freud	Nominated

Best Story (1928–1958)

Best Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1937	Heinz Herald	The Life of Emile Zola	Won	Shared with the Hungarian-American Geza Herczeg.
	Hanns Kräly	One Hundred Men and a Girl	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser.
1938	Frederick Kohner	Mad About Music	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Marcella Burke.
1940	Walter Reisch	Comrade X	Nominated
1944	Alfred Neumann	None Shall Escape	Nominated	Shared with the Austrian-born Joseph Than.

See also

• Cinema of Germany
• List of German films

References

1. "And the Oscar goes to: Luise Rainer | Boulevard der Stars". Boulevard-der-stars-berlin.de. 2010-12-13. Retrieved 2015-03-10.