List of Latin American Academy Award winners and nominees

A list of Latin American Academy Award winners and nominees appears below. This account does not include individuals born in the continental United States, and is current as of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony held on February 27, 2011.

Best Actor – Leading Role

This list focuses on Latin American-born actors.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Actor
1950	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	Won	First Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.
1957	Anthony Quinn	Wild Is the Wind	Nominated
1964	Anthony Quinn	Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas)	Nominated

Best Actor – Supporting Role

This list focuses on Latin American-born actors.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Supporting Actor
1948	José Ferrer	Joan of Arc	Nominated
1952	Anthony Quinn	Viva Zapata!	Won	First Mexican actor to win an Academy Award.
1956	Anthony Quinn	Lust for Life	Won	First Mexican, and Hispanic, to win two Oscars in the same category.
1990	Andy García	The Godfather: Part III	Nominated
2000	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Won	First and only actor to win for a Spanish-speaking role.
2003	Benicio del Toro	21 Grams	Nominated

Best Actress – Leading Role

This list focuses on Latin American-born actress.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Actress
1998	Fernanda Montenegro	Central Station (Central do Brasil)	Nominated	First Latin American to be nominated for Best Actress and first actress to be nominated for a Portuguese-speaking role.
2002	Salma Hayek	Frida	Nominated	First Mexican Actress to be nominated for Best Actress.
2004	Catalina Sandino Moreno	Maria Full of Grace	Nominated	First Colombian to be nominated for an Academy Award and first actress to be nominated for a Spanish-speaking role.

Best Actress – Supporting Role

This list focuses on Latin American-born actresses.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Actress
1954	Katy Jurado	Broken Lance	Nominated	First Mexican Actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
1961	Rita Moreno	West Side Story	Won	First Puerto Rican to be nominated and win for Best Supporting Actress.
1987	Norma Aleandro	Gaby: A True Story	Nominated	First Argentine Actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
2006	Adriana Barraza	Babel	Nominated	Second Mexican Actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Best Art Direction

This list focuses on Latin American-born art directors.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Art Direction
1942	Emile Kuri	Silver Queen	Nominated	Nominated with Ralph Berger.
1949	Emile Kuri	The Heiress	Won	Nominated with Harry Horner and John Meehan.
1952	Emile Kuri	Carrie	Nominated	Nominated with Roland Anderson and Hal Pereira.
1954	Emile Kuri	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won	Nominated with John Meehan.
1954	Emile Kuri	Executive Suite	Nominated	Nominated with Edward C. Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis.
1961	Emile Kuri	The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated	Nominated with Carroll Clark and Hal Gausman.
1964	Emile Kuri	Mary Poppins	Nominated	Nominated with Carroll Clark, Hal Gausman and William H. Tuntke.
1971	Emile Kuri	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated	Nominated with Peter Ellenshaw, Hal Gausman and John B. Mansbridge.
1995	Eugenio Zanetti	Restoration	Won
1996	Brigitte Broch	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	Broch is a Germany-born Mexican art director.
1998	Eugenio Zanetti	What Dreams May Come	Nominated	Nominated with Cindy Carr.
2001	Brigitte Broch	Moulin Rouge!	Won	Nominated with Catherine Martin.
2002	Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo	Frida	Nominated
2006	Eugenio Caballero	Pan's Labyrinth	Won	(original title: El laberinto del fauno) Nominated with Pilar Revuelta.

Best Cinematography

This list focuses on Latin American-born cinematographers.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Cinematography
1964	Gabriel Figueroa	The Night of the Iguana	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Cinematography – Black-and-White".
1995	Emmanuel Lubezki	A Little Princess	Nominated
1999	Emmanuel Lubezki	Sleepy Hollow	Nominated
2003	César Charlone	City of God	Nominated	(original title: Cidade de Deus)
2005	Emmanuel Lubezki	The New World	Nominated
2005	Rodrigo Prieto	Brokeback Mountain	Nominated
2006	Emmanuel Lubezki	Children of Men	Nominated
2006	Guillermo Navarro	Pan's Labyrinth	Won	(original title: El laberinto del fauno)
2008	Claudio Miranda	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated

Best Director

This list focuses on Latin American-born directors.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Director
1985	Héctor Babenco	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Nominated	Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian director.
2003	Fernando Meirelles	City of God (Cidade de Deus)	Nominated
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel	Nominated

Best Documentary Feature

This list focuses on documentaries features directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.

Year	Film	Director	Status
Best Documentary Feature
1969	The Olympics in Mexico	Alberto Isaac	Nominated
2001	Promises	Carlos Bolado	Nominated

Best Documentary Short Subject

This list focuses on documentaries short subject directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
Best Documentary Short Subject
1971	Sentinels of Silence	Robert Amram	Won	(original title: Centinelas del silencio) This was the only time that a short film won the Academy Award in two categories.
1980	Luther Metke at 94	Jorge Preloran	Nominated
2007	The Crown	Isabel Vega	Nominated	(original title: La corona)

Best Film Editing

This list focuses on Latin American-born film editors.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Film Editing
2003	Daniel Rezende	City of God (Cidade de Deus)	Nominated
2006	Alfonso Cuarón Alex Rodriguez	Children of Men	Nominated	Rodriguez is a French-born Mexican editor.

Best Foreign Language Film

Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
Best Foreign Language Film
1960	Macario	Roberto Gavaldón	Nominated	First Latin American film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1961	The Important Man	Ismael Rodríguez	Nominated	(original title: Ánimas Trujano)
1962	Keeper of Promises	Anselmo Duarte	Nominated	(original title: O Pagador de Promessas)
1962	The Pearl of Tlayucan	Luis Alcoriza	Nominated	(original title: Tlayucan)
1974	The Truce	Sergio Renán	Nominated	(original title: La tregua)
1975	Letters from Marusia	Miguel Littín	Nominated	(original title: Actas de Marusia)
1982	Alsino and the Condor	Miguel Littín	Nominated	(original title: Alsino y el Cóndor) Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Miguel Littín. Only Latin American Director to receive nominations for films directed in two different countries.
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.
1989	Santiago, the Story of his New Life	Jacobo Morales	Nominated	(original title: Lo que le pasó a Santiago)
1992	A Place in the World	Adolfo Aristarain	Nominated	(original title: Un lugar en el mundo) After nominations were announced, information came to light that showed that the film was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.
1994	Strawberry and Chocolate	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío	Nominated	(original title: Fresa y chocolate) First and only Cuban film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1998	Central Station	Walter Salles	Nominated	(original title: Central do Brasil) The film was also nominated for Best Actress.
1998	Tango	Carlos Saura	Nominated	(original title: Tango, no me dejes nunca)
1999	Four Days in September	Bruno Barreto	Nominated	(original title: O Que É Isso Companheiro?)
2000	Love's a Bitch	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	(original title: Amores perros)
2001	Son of the Bride	Juan José Campanella	Nominated	(original title: El hijo de la novia)
2002	The Crime of Father Amaro	Carlos Carrera	Nominated	(original title: El crimen del Padre Amaro)
2006	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	Nominated	(original title: El laberinto del fauno) The film was nominated for other five Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup, and won the last three of them.
2009	The Milk of Sorrow	Claudia Llosa	Nominated	(original title: La teta asustada) First, and only, Peruvian Film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
2009	The Secret in Their Eyes	Juan José Campanella	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.
2010	Biutiful	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film was also nominated for Best Actor.

Best Live Action Short Film

This list focuses on live action short films directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.

Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
Best Live Action Short Film
1971	Sentinels of Silence	Robert Amram	Won	(original title: Centinelas del silencio) This was the only time that a short film won the Academy Award in two categories.
1996	De tripas, corazón	Antonio Urrutia	Nominated

Best Makeup

Year	Name	Film	Status
Makeup
2002	Beatrice De Alba	Frida	Won
2006	Mike Elizalde	Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Nominated

Best Music – Original Score

This list focuses on Latin American-born composers.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Original Score
1966	Luis Bacalov	The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Nominated	(original title: Il Vangelo secondo Matteo)
1985	Jorge Calandrelli	The Color Purple	Nominated	Nominated with eleven other composers.
1995	Luis Bacalov	The Postman	Won	(original title: Il Postino)
2005	Gustavo Santaolalla	Brokeback Mountain	Won
2006	Gustavo Santaolalla	Babel	Won	Fourth composer to win two years in a row.

Best Music – Original Song