List of African Academy Award winners and nominees
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. See also, List of black Academy Award winners and nominees.
Best Actress
Best Actress | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Role | Status | Milestone |
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1971 | Janet Suzman | Nicholas and Alexandra | Alexandra Feodorovna | Nominated | Suzman is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family. | |
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
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Role | Status | Milestone |
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1962 | Omar Sharif | Lawrence of Arabia | Sherif Ali | Nominated | First African to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category | |
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 | Abdiwali 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
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Role | Status | Milestone |
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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
Best Cinematography | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone |
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1966 | Ted Moore | A Man for All Seasons | Won | Moore is a South African-born British Won for Best Colour Cinematography | |
2002 | Dion Beebe | Chicago | Nominated | Beebe is a South African-born Australian | |
2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Won |
Best Director
Best Director | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone |
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1997 | Atom Egoyan | The Sweet Hereafter | Nominated | Egoyan is an Egyptian-born Canadian filmmaker |
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Feature | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone |
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2013 | Jehane Noujaim (director) Karim Amer (producer) |
The Square | Nominated |
Best Film Editing
Best Film Editing | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone |
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1970 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Woodstock | Nominated | Schoonmaker is from a white American family; she was born and raised 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 |
Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is awarded to a country, not to an individual, and the submitting country is the officially designated nominee in this category.
Best Foreign Language Film | |||||
Year | Country | Flag | Film | Status | Milestone |
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1969 | Algeria | Z | Won | First African film to win an Academy Award | |
1976 | Ivory Coast | Black and White in Color | Won | ||
1983 | Algeria | Le Bal | Nominated | ||
1995 | Dust of Life | Nominated | |||
2004 | South Africa | Yesterday | Nominated | ||
2005 | Tsotsi | Won | First African film in a language other than French to win in this category. | ||
2006 | Algeria | Days of Glory | Nominated | ||
2010 | Outside the Law | Nominated | |||
2014 | Mauritania | Timbuktu | Nominated |
Best Live Action Short Film
Best Live Action Short Film | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone | |
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2019 | Meryam Joobeur | Brotherhood | Nominated | Joobeur is a Tunisian-born Canadian Shared with Maria Gracia Turgeon |
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Makeup and Hairstyling | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone | |
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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 an Zimbabwean-born English Shared with Naomi Donne and Rebecca Cole |
Best Music, Original Score
Best Original Score | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone |
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1985 | Caiphus Semenya | The Color Purple | Nominated | ||
1987 | Jonas Gwangwa | Cry Freedom | Nominated |
Best Music, Original Song
Best Original Song | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Song | Status | Milestone |
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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 a from a Jewish family. Shared with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. |
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Best Adapted Screenplay | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Adapted From | Status | Milestone |
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1987 | Mark Peploe | The Last Emperor | From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi | Won | ||
1997 | Atom Egoyan | The Sweet Hereafter | The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks | Nominated | ||
2009 | Neill Blomkamp | District 9 | Alive in Joburg by Neill Blomkamp |
Nominated |
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Best Original Screenplay | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone | |
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1996 | Scott Hicks | Shine | Nominated | Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian Shared with Jan Sardi |
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