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
1929	Emil Jannings	The Way of All Flesh & The Last Command	Won	Jannings was a Swiss-born German actor.
2016	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Nominated	Fassbender is an Irish-German actor.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1941	Albert Bassermann	Foreign Correspondent	Nominated
1997	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Shine	Nominated
2013	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave	Nominated	Fassbender is an Irish-German actor.

Actress in a Leading Role

Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1931	Marlene Dietrich	Morocco	Nominated
1937	Luise Rainer	The Great Ziegfeld	Won	Due to the political atmosphere, Rainer was promoted to be Austrian by this time.
1938	Luise Rainer	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
1928	Rochus Gliese	Sunrise	Nominated
1929	Hans Dreier	The Patriot	Nominated	No official nominees had been announced this year.
1930		The Vagabond King	Nominated
1930		The Love Parade	Nominated
1931		Morocco	Nominated
1934		A Farewell to Arms	Nominated
1938		Souls at Sea	Nominated
1939	Carl Jules Weyl	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Won
1939	Hans Dreier	If I Were King	Nominated
1940		Beau Geste	Nominated
1941		Arise, My Love	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1941		North West Mounted Police	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1942		Hold Back the Dawn	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1943		Take a Letter, Darling	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
		Reap the Wild Wind	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
		Five Graves to Cairo	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
		For Whom the Bell Tolls	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
		No Time for Love	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
		Lady in the Dark	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
	Paul Huldschinsky	Gaslight	Won
1944	Carl Jules Weyl	Mission to Moscow	Nominated
1944	Hans Dreier Ernst Fegté	Five Graves to Cairo	Nominated
1945	Walter Holscher	Address Unknown	Nominated	Holscher was a German-born American art director.
1945	Ernst Fegté	The Princess and the Pirate	Nominated
1946	Hans Dreier	Love Letters	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1946	Hans Dreier Ernst Fegté	Frenchman's Creek	Won	Nominated in the color category.
1947	Hans Dreier	Kitty	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1948	Alfred Junge	Black Narcissus	Won	Nominated in the color category.
1949	Hein Heckroth	The Red Shoes	Won	Nominated in the color category.
1951	Ernst Fegté	Destination Moon	Nominated
	Hans Dreier	Sunset Boulevard	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category. First person to win both art direction categories in the same year.
	Hans Dreier	Samson and Delilah	Won	Nominated in the color category.
1952	Hein Heckroth	The Tales of Hoffmann	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1954	Paul Markwitz Fritz Maurischat	Martin Luther	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1954	Alfred Junge	Knights of the Round Table	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1955	Max Ophüls	Le Plaisir	Nominated	First person to receive nominations for writing and art direction.
1958	Walter Holscher	Pal Joey	Nominated
1960	Franz Bachelin	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Nominated
1969	Harry Lange	2001: A Space Odyssey	Nominated	Lange was a German-born British.
1973	Hans Jürgen Kiebach Herbert Strabel Rolf Zehetbauer	Cabaret	Won
1981	Harry Lange	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back	Nominated
1997	Brigitte Broch	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	Broch is a German-Mexican production designer.
2002	Brigitte Broch	Moulin Rouge!	Won	Broch is a German-Mexican production designer.
2016	Bernhard Henrich	Bridge of Spies	Nominated

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Karl Freund	The Good Earth	Won
1942		The Chocolate Soldier	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1942		Blossoms in the Dust	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1962	Eugen Schüfftan	The Hustler	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1965	Walter Lassally	Zorba the Greek	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1981	Ralf D. Bode	Coal Miner's Daughter	Nominated	Bode was a German-born American cinematographer
1983	Jost Vacano	Das Boot	Nominated
1988	Michael Ballhaus	Broadcast News	Nominated
1990		The Fabulous Baker Boys	Nominated
2003		Gangs of New York	Nominated

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1952	Hein Heckroth	The Tales of Hoffmann	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1995	Moidele Bickel	Queen Margot (La reine Margot)	Nominated
2012	Lisy Christl	Anonymous	Nominated

Best Documentary

Feature

Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1950	Curt Oertel	The Titan: Story of Michelangelo	Won
1960	Bernhard Grzimek	Serengeti darf nicht sterben	Won
1971	Harald Reinl	Erinnerungen an die Zukunft	Nominated
1972	Marcel Ophüls	Le chagrin et la pitié	Nominated
1974	Bengt von zur Mühlen	Schlacht um Berlin	Nominated
1981	Bengt von zur Mühlen	Der Gelbe Stern	Nominated	Shared with Arthur Cohn.
1989	Marcel Ophüls	Hôtel Terminus	Won
1999	Wim Wenders	Buena Vista Social Club	Nominated
2009	Werner Herzog	Encounters at the End of the World	Nominated
2012	Gian-Piero Ringel Wim Wenders	Pina	Nominated
2015	Wim Wenders	The Salt of the Earth	Nominated
2015	Dirk Wilutzky	Citizenfour	Won

Short Subject

Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1973	Peter Schamoni	Hundertwassers Regentag	Nominated
1976	Manfred Baier	Millions of Years Ahead of Man	Nominated
2004	Katja Esson	Ferry Tales	Nominated

Best Director

Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1928	Ernst Lubitsch	The Patriot	Nominated	No official nominees were announced.
1929	Ernst Lubitsch	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
1967	Mike Nichols	The Graduate	Won
1982	Wolfgang Petersen	Das Boot	Nominated
1983	Mike Nichols	Silkwood	Nominated
1988	Mike Nichols	Working Girl	Nominated

Best Editing

Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1939	Tom Held	The Great Waltz	Nominated
1939	Tom Held	Test Pilot	Nominated
1983	Hannes Nikel	Das Boot	Nominated
1985	Rudi Fehr	Prizzi's Honor	Nominated	Shared with his daughter, Kaja Fehr.

Best Foreign Language Film

Foreign Language Film
Year	Director	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1957	Helmut Käutner	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	Nominated	Producers Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel were officially nominated in 1957.
1958	Robert Siodmak	Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam	Nominated
1959	Franz Peter Wirth	Helden	Nominated
1960	Bernhard Wicki	Die Brücke	Nominated
1974	Maximilian Schell	Der Fußgänger	Nominated	First filmmaker to have two of his films nominated for different countries.
1977	Frank Beyer	Jakob der Lügner	Nominated	First and only film from East Germany to be nominated for an Academy Award.
1979	Hans W. Geißendörfer	Die gläserne Zelle	Nominated
1980	Volker Schlöndorff	Die Blechtrommel	Won
1986	Agnieszka Holland	Bittere Ernte	Nominated	First female filmmaker to direct a German-language nominated film.
1991	Michael Verhoeven	Das schreckliche Mädchen	Nominated	First subimission of United Germany to be nominated.
1993	Helmut Dietl	Schtonk!	Nominated
1998	Caroline Link	Jenseits der Stille	Nominated	Some parts in English, German Sign Language & Spanish.
2003	Caroline Link	Nirgendwo in Afrika	Won	Second female filmmaker to direct a Foreign-Language-Film winner.
2005	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Der Untergang	Nominated
2006	Marc Rothemund	Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage	Nominated
2007	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Das Leben der Anderen	Won
2009	Uli Edel	Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex	Nominated
2010	Michael Haneke	Das weiße Band	Nominated
2017	Maren Ade	Toni Erdmann	Nominated	Some parts in English and Romanian

Music categories

Best Original Score

Original Music Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1939	Franz Waxman	The Young in Heart	Nominated
1941		Rebecca	Nominated
1942		Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Nominated
		Suspicion	Nominated
	Ernst Toch	Ladies in Retirement	Nominated
1943	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
1944	Ray Heindorf	This Is the Army	Won
1945	Kurt Weill Werner R. Heymann	Knickerbocker Holiday	Nominated
1945	Ernst Toch	Address Unknown	Nominated
1947	Ray Heindorf	Night and Day	Nominated	Shared with Max Steiner.
1947	Franz Waxman	Humoresque	Nominated
1951		Sunset Boulevard	Won
1952		A Place in the Sun	Won
1954	Friedrich Hollaender	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T	Nominated
1954	André Previn	Kiss Me Kate	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Saul Chaplin.
1955	Franz Waxman	The Silver Chalice	Nominated
1956	André Previn	It's Always Fair Weather	Nominated
1959		Gigi	Won
1960		Porgy and Bess	Won	Shared with the American-born Ken Darby.
1960	Franz Waxman	The Nun's Story	Nominated
1963	Franz Waxman	Taras Bulba	Nominated
1963	Ray Heindorf	The Music Man	Won	First winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1964	André Previn	Irma la Douce	Won	Winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1965		My Fair Lady	Won
1974		Jesus Christ Superstar	Nominated	Nominated for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Shared nomination with English-born Andrew Lloyd Webber and Chilean-born American Herbert W. Spencer.
1989	Hans Zimmer	Rain Man	Nominated
1995		The Lion King	Won
1997		The Preacher's Wife	Nominated	Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category.
1998		As Good as It Gets	Nominated	Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category.
1999		The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Nominated in the Dramatic Score category.
1999		The Prince of Egypt	Nominated	Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category. Shared nomination with American-born Stephen Schwartz.
2001		Gladiator	Nominated
2010		Sherlock Holmes	Nominated
2011		Inception	Nominated
2015		Interstellar	Nominated
2017	Hauschka	Lion	Nominated	Shared with Dustin O'Halloran
2018	Hans Zimmer	Dunkirk	Nominated

Best Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Friedrich Hollaender	Artists and Models for the song: "Whispers in the Dark"	Nominated	Shared with Leo Robin
1949	Friedrich Hollaender	That Lady in Ermine for the song: "This Is the Moment"	Nominated	Shared with Leo Robin
1988	Harold Faltermeyer	Beverly Hills Cop II for the song: "Shakedown"	Nominated	Shared with Keith Forsey and Bob Seger

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1929	Ernst Lubitsch	The Patriot	Nominated
1930		The Love Parade	Nominated
1931		The Smiling Lieutenant	Nominated
1932		One Hour with You	Nominated
1936	Henry Blanke	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Nominated
1937		The Story of Louis Pasteur	Nominated
1937		Anthony Adverse	Nominated
1938		The Life of Emile Zola	Won
1939		Jezebel	Nominated	Shared with Hal B. Wallis.
1944	Ernst Lubitsch	Heaven Can Wait	Nominated
1949	Henry Blanke	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Nominated
1960	Henry Blanke	The Nun's Story	Nominated
1994	Mike Nichols	The Remains of the Day	Nominated	Shared with John Calley and Ismail Merchant.
2006	Michael Ohoven	Capote	Nominated
2013	Stefan Arndt Margaret Ménégoz	Amour	Nominated	Shared with Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz.
2016	Michael Schaefer	The Martian	Nominated	Shared with Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott and Mark Huffam.

Best Short Film

Live Action

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone/Notes
1957	Konstantin Kalser	Crashing the Water Barrier	Won
1994	Pepe Danquardt	Schwarzfahrer	Won
1999	Alexander Jovy	Holiday Romance	Nominated
2000	Marc-Andreas Bochert Gabriele Lins	Kleingeld	Nominated
2001	Florian Gallenberger	Quiero ser (I want to be...)	Won
2002	Johannes Kiefer	Gregors größte Erfindung	Nominated
2003	Lexi Alexander	Johnny Flynton	Nominated	Shared with Alexander Buono.
2004	Florian Baxmeyer	Die Rote Jacke	Nominated
2006	Ulrike Grote	Der Ausreißer	Nominated
2009	Jochen Alexander Freydank	Spielzeugland	Won
2012	Max Zähle Stefan Gieren	Raju	Nominated
2016	Patrick Vollrath	Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)	Nominated

Animated

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film and Song	Status	Milestone/Notes
1942	Max Fleischer	Superman	Nominated
1975	Wolfgang Reitherman	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!	Nominated
1990	Christoph Lauenstein Wolfgang Lauenstein	Balance	Won
1997	Thomas Stellmach Tyron Montgomery	Quest	Won	Montgomery is an Irish-born German.
2001	Steffen Schäffler Anette Schäffler	Periwig Maker	Nominated
2003	Chris Stenner Heidi Wittlinger	Das Rad	Nominated	Arvid Uibel directed the film alongside Stenner and Wittlinger, but died in 2000 and was not nominated
2011	Max Lang Jakob Schuh	Der Grüffelo	Nominated
2014	Max Lang Jan Lachauer	Room on the Broom	Nominated
2018	Jakob Schuh Jan Lachauer	Revolting Rhymes	Nominated

Best Sound Mixing

Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1983	Milan Bor	Das Boot	Nominated

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1997	Volker Engel	Independence Day	Won
2011	Stephan Trojansky	Hereafter	Nominated
2018	Gerd Nefzer	Blade Runner 2049	Won

Writing categories

Best Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1929	Hanns Kräly	The Patriot	Won	No official nominees have been announced that year.
1929	Hanns Kräly	The Last of Mrs. Cheyney	Nominated	No official nominees have been announced that year.
1943	George Froeschel	Mrs. Miniver	Won
1943	George Froeschel	Random Harvest	Nominated
1948	Irma von Cube	Johnny Belinda	Nominated	First German woman to be nominated for a writing award.
1950	Max Ophüls	La Ronde	Nominated
1959	Don Mankiewicz	I Want to Live!	Nominated
1983	Wolfgang Petersen	Das Boot	Nominated
1987	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	A Room with a View	Won	Jhabvala is a German-born British with an Indian citizenship before moving to the US.
1993		Howards End	Won
1994		The Remains of the Day	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Heinz Herald	The Life of Emile Zola	Nominated
1941	Heinz Herald	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	Nominated
1963	Wolfgang Reinhardt	Freud	Nominated

Best Story (1928-1958)

Best Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Heinz Herald	The Life of Emile Zola	Won
1938	Hanns Kräly	One Hundred Men and a Girl	Nominated
1939	Frederick Kohner	Mad About Music	Nominated
1941	Walter Reisch	Comrade X	Nominated
1945	Alfred Neumann	None Shall Escape	Nominated

References

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