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.
Best Actor
Best Actor in a Leading Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1959 | Laurence Harvey | Room at the Top | Joe Lampton | Nominated | First Lithuanian nominated for an Oscar. Born in Lithuania, but educated and raised in South Africa, where he joined the army. |
Best Actress
Best Actress in a Leading Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1971 | Janet Suzman | Nicholas and Alexandra | Alexandra Feodorovna | Nominated | ||
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 Supporting Actor
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1936 | Basil Rathbone | Romeo and Juliet | Tybalt | Nominated | Rathbone was a South African-born British actor. | |
1938 | If I Were King | King Louis XI | Nominated | |||
1948 | Cecil Kellaway | The Luck of the Irish | Horace | Nominated | ||
1962 | Omar Sharif | Lawrence of Arabia | Sherif Ali | Nominated | First African to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category. | |
1967 | Cecil Kellaway | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Monsignor Mike Ryan | Nominated | ||
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 | Abduwali 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 Supporting Actress
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Role | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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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 / Notes |
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1966 | Ted Moore | A Man for All Seasons | Won | Moore is a South African-born British. Won for Best Color Cinematography. | |
1991 | Stephen Goldblatt | The Prince of Tides | Nominated | Goldblatt is a South African-born British. | |
1995 | Batman Forever | Nominated | |||
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 / Notes |
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1996 | Scott Hicks | Shine | Nominated | Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian. | |
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 / Notes |
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1997 | Michele Ohayon (director) | Colors Straight Up | Nominated | ||
2012 | Malik Bendjelloul | Searching for Sugar Man | Won | ||
2013 | Jehane Noujaim (director) Karim Amer (producer) | The Square | Nominated | ||
2020 | Pippa Ehrlich (director) James Reed (director) Craig Foster (producer) | My Octopus Teacher | Won | ||
2023 | Moses Bwayo Christopher Sharp[1] | Bobi Wine: The People's President | Nominated | Shared with John Battsek | |
Kaouther Ben Hania | Four Daughters | Nominated | Shared with Nadim Cheikhrouha |
Best Film Editing
Best Film Editing | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1970 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Woodstock | Nominated | Schoonmaker is from a white American family; she was born 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 | ||
2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to a country, not to an individual, and the submitting country is the officially designated nominee in this category.
Best International Feature Film | |||||
Year | Country | Film | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1969 | Z | Costa-Gavras | Won | First African film to win an Academy Award. | |
1976 | Black and White in Color | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Won | ||
1983 | Le Bal | Ettore Scola | Nominated | ||
1995 | Dust of Life | Rachid Bouchareb | Nominated | ||
2004 | Yesterday | Darrell Roodt | Nominated | ||
2005 | Tsotsi | Gavin Hood | Won | First African film in a language other than French to win in this category. | |
2006 | Days of Glory | Rachid Bouchareb | Nominated | ||
2010 | Outside the Law | Nominated | |||
2014 | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | Nominated | ||
2020 | The Man Who Sold His Skin | Kaouther Ben Hania | Nominated |
Best Live Action Short Film
Best Live Action Short Film | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2019 | Meryam Joobeur | Brotherhood | Nominated | Joobeur is Tunisian-born Canadian. Shared with Maria Gracia Turgeon. | ||
2023 | Misan Harriman | The After | Nominated | Harriman is Nigerian-born British. Shared with Nicky Bentham. |
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Makeup and Hairstyling | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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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 a Zimbabwean-born English. Shared with Naomi Donne and Rebecca Cole. |
Best Music, Original Score
Best Original Score | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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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 / Notes |
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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 from a Jewish family. Shared with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. | |
2022 | Tems | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | "Lift Me Up" | Nominated | Shared with Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, and Ryan Coogler. |
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Best Adapted Screenplay | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Adapted From | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1983 | Ronald Harwood | The Dresser | The Dresser by Ronald Harwood | Nominated | ||
1987 | Mark Peploe | The Last Emperor | From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi | Won | Peploe is a Kenyan-born English writer. Shared with Bernardo Bertolucci. | |
1997 | Atom Egoyan | The Sweet Hereafter | The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks | Nominated | ||
2002 | Ronald Harwood | The Pianist | The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman | Won | ||
2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby | Nominated | |||
2009 | Neill Blomkamp | District 9 | Alive in Joburg by Neill Blomkamp | Nominated | Shared with Terri Tatchell. |
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Best Original Screenplay | ||||||
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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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
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References
- ^ Sciences, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and. "Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo: 5 Must-See Documentaries". A.frame. Retrieved 2024-03-17.