List of Argentine Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Argentine Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Argentine filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.

Foreign Language Film category

This list focuses on Argentine films that won or were nominated for the foreign language film award.

Best Foreign Language Film
Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
1974	The Truce	Sergio Renán	Nominated	(original title: La tregua)
1984	Camila	María Luisa Bemberg	Nominated	first nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by a Latin American woman director
1985	The Official Story	Luis Puenzo	Won	(original title: La historia oficial) first Latin American film to win for Best Foreign Language Film, the film was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay
1998	Tango	Carlos Saura	Nominated	(original title: Tango, no me dejes nunca)
2001	Son of the Bride	Juan José Campanella	Nominated	(original title: El hijo de la novia)
2009	The Secret in Their Eyes		Won	(original title: El Secreto de sus Ojos) second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Juan José Campanella, and first to win; second Argentine, and Latin American, film to win for Best Foreign Language Film
2014	Wild Tales	Damián Szifrón	Nominated	(original title: Relatos Salvajes)

Acting

This list focuses on Argentine-born actors and actresses.

Supporting Actress

Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1987	Norma Aleandro	Gaby: A True Story	Nominated
2011	Bérénice Bejo	The Artist	Nominated

Art Direction

Art Direction
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1995	Eugenio Zanetti	Restoration	Won
1998		What Dreams May Come	Nominated	Shared with Cindy Carr

Director

This list focuses on Argentine-born directors.

Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1985	Héctor Babenco	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Nominated

Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
2002	Pablo Helman	Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	Nominated
2005		War of the Worlds	Nominated
2019	Pablo Helman Leandro Estebecorena	The Irishman	Nominated	Shared with Nelson Sepulveda and Stephane Grabli

Writing categories

Original Screenplay

This list focuses on Argentine-born screenplay writers.

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1985	Aída Bortnik and Luis Puenzo	La historia oficial	Nominated
2014	Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone	Birdman	Won	Shared with Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alexander Dinelaris, Jr.

Best Story

Writing-Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1930/1931	Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast	Laughter	Nominated	Nomination shared with Douglas Z. Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast was an Argentinean born French screenwriter.

Music

This list focuses on scores or songs created by Argentine-born composers.

Original Score

Original Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1966	Luis Enríquez Bacalov	Il vangelo secondo Matteo	Nominated
1968	Lalo Schifrin	Cool Hand Luke	Nominated
1969		The Fox	Nominated	the Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)"
1977		Voyage of the Damned	Nominated
1980		The Amityville Horror	Nominated
1984		The Sting II	Nominated	the Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score"
1985	Jorge Calandrelli	The Color Purple	Nominated
1995	Luis Enríquez Bacalov	Il postino	Won	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Dramatic Score"
2005	Gustavo Santaolalla	Brokeback Mountain	Won
2006		Babel	Won	first (and only) Argentine to win two consecutive Oscars in the same category

Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1981	Lalo Schifrin	The Competition	Nominated	for the song "People Alone"; shared with Will Jennings
2000	Jorge Calandrelli	Wo hu cang long	Nominated	for the song "A Love Before Time"; shared with Tan Dun and James Schamus

Documentary categories

This list focuses on documentaries directed by Argentine-born filmmakers.

Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature
Documentary	Year	Award	Filmmaker	Result
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	1985	Best Documentary Feature	Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo	Nominated

Documentary Short Subject

Best Documentary Short Subject
Documentary	Year	Award	Filmmaker	Result
Luther Metke at 94	1980	Best Documentary Short Subject	Jorge Preloran	Nominated

Short Film categories

Short Film, Animated

Best Animated Short Film
Year	Film	Producer	Result
2009	Logorama	Nicolas Schmerkin	Won

Special awards

This list focuses on Argentine-born honorees

Recipient	Year	Notes	Award
Lalo Schifrin	2018	"in recognition of his unique musical style, compositional integrity and influential contributions to the art of film scoring."	Academy Honorary Award

See also

• Cinema of Argentina
• List of Argentine films