This is a list of Belgian Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the films and performances of Belgian actors and actresses that have either been nominated for, or have won an Academy Award (The Oscars). This list is current as of the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held on 10 March 2024.
Year | Name | Film | Result | Notes |
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1954 | Audrey Hepburn | Roman Holiday | Won [1] | Hepburn was a Belgian-born English actress. [2] First Belgian-born actress to be nominated for Best Actress. |
1955 | Sabrina | Nominated [3] | ||
1960 | The Nun's Story | Nominated [3] | ||
1962 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Nominated [3] | ||
1968 | Wait Until Dark | Nominated [3] |
Note: With her Best Actress nomination for the 2014 Belgian film Two Days, One Night , French actress Marion Cotillard became the first actor to be nominated for an Academy Award for a Belgian film. [4] [5]
Year | Film | Language | Result |
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1971 | Peace in the Fields | French | Nominated [6] |
1989 | The Music Teacher | Nominated [7] | |
1993 | Daens | Dutch/French | Nominated [8] |
1995 | Farinelli | Italian/French | Nominated [9] |
2001 | Everybody's Famous! | Dutch | Nominated [10] |
2012 | Bullhead | Nominated [11] | |
2014 | The Broken Circle Breakdown | Nominated [12] | |
2023 | Close | French/Dutch | Nominated [13] [14] |
Year | Film | Result | Notes |
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2004 | The Triplets of Belleville | Nominated | Co-produced by Belgium, France, UK and Canada [15] |
2014 | Ernest & Celestine | Nominated | Co-produced by Belgium, France and Luxembourg [16] |
2015 | Song of the Sea | Nominated | Co-produced by Belgium, Ireland, Denmark, France and Luxembourg [5] |
2017 | The Red Turtle | Nominated | Co-produced by Belgium, France and Japan [17] |
2024 | Flow | Pending | Co-produced by Belgium, Latvia, and France [18] |
Year | Film | Name | Result | Notes |
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1967 | Le Volcan interdit (The Forbidden Volcano) | Haroun Tazieff | Nominated [19] | |
1979 | Raoni | Jean-Pierre Dutilleux | Nominated [20] | |
2024 | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Johan Grimonprez | Pending [21] | Shared with Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety |
Year | Film | Name | Result | Notes |
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2003 | Gridlock (aka Fait d'hiver) | Dirk Beliën Anja Daelemans | Nominated [22] | |
2008 | Argentine Tangos (aka Tanghi Argentini) | Guy Thys Anja Daelemans | Nominated [23] | |
2013 | Death of a Shadow | Tom Van Avermaet Ellen De Waele | Nominated [24] | |
2020 | A Sister | Delphine Girard Jacques-Henri Bronckart | Nominated [25] | |
Year | Film | Name | Result | Notes |
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1987 | A Greek Tragedy (aka Een Griekse Tragedie) | Nicole van Goethem | Won [26] [27] | |
2024 | Beautiful Men | Nicolas Keppens Brecht Van Elslande | Pending [28] |
Year | Film | Name | Result | Notes |
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1981 | Tess | Ghislain Cloquet | Won | Ghislain Cloquet was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924 and became a French citizen in 1940. [29] |
Year | Name | Status | Notes |
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1993 | Audrey Hepburn | Won | Hepburn died on January 20, 1993. On March 29, 1993, she received the award posthumously, which was voted for prior to her death. It was accepted on her behalf by her son, Sean Ferrer. [30] |
Year | Category | Name | Result | Notes |
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2024 | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards | Wouter D’Oosterlinck, Goran Stojmenovik and Peter Janssens | Won | for the development of the Barco RGB laser projector [31] |
No. of wins | No. of nominations |
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4 | 25 |
Cotillard's nomination made her the first actor or actress in a Belgian film to compete for the Oscar.