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
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
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
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
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
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
2013	Jehane Noujaim (director) Karim Amer (producer)		The Square	Nominated

Best Film Editing

Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1996	Scott Hicks		Shine	Nominated	Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian Shared with Jan Sardi

See also

• List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of black Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees