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This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees born in Hungary or as Hungarians according to Hungarian nationality law-people who hold Hungarian citizenship acquired by descent from a Hungarian parent or by naturalisation. [1]
Director | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
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1935 | Michael Curtiz [2] | Captain Blood | Nominated | ||
1938 | Angels with Dirty Faces | Nominated | |||
Four Daughters | Nominated | ||||
1942 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Nominated | |||
1943 | Casablanca | Won | |||
1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady | Won | US-born |
Best Actor | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1932-33 | Leslie Howard | Berkeley Square | Nominated | László Steiner, UK-born | |
1938 | Leslie Howard | Pygmalion | Nominated | Co-directed by Leslie Howard Produced by Gabriel Pascal | |
1943 | Paul Lukas | Watch on the Rhine | Won | Was against possible communist influences in Hollywood. | |
1945 | Cornel Wilde | A Song to Remember | Nominated | Dir:Charles Vidor, music:Miklos Rozsa | |
1958 | Tony Curtis* | The Defiant One | Nominated | Hungarian speaker. Mother Helen Klein [3] b. in Valkó | |
1986 | Paul Newman* | The Color of Money | Won | 3/4-Hungarian | |
2002 | Adrien Brody* | The Pianist | Won | Hungarian mother |
"*"=US-born
Best Actor | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1969 | Goldie Hawn* | Cactus Flower | Won | Hungarian mother, US-born | |
2005 | Rachel Weisz | The Constant Gardener | Won | Hungarian father, UK-born | |
2022 | Jamie Lee Curtis* [4] | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Won | Hungarian father Tony Curtis, US-born |
"*"= US-born
Best Short Subject | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
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1934 | Jules White | Men in Black | Nominated | Born as Gyula Weisz in Budapest | ||
1935 | Oh, My Nerves | Nominated | ||||
1939 | Michael Curtiz | Sons of Liberty | Won | |||
1945 | Jules White | The Jury Goes Round 'N' Round | Nominated | |||
1946 | Hiss and Yell | Nominated |
Best Documentary Feature Film | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
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1977 | Robert Dornhelm | The Children of Theatre Street | Nominated | Born in Temesvár.Hungarian-jewish father. [5] [6] [7] Mother germanspeaker. | ||
1993 | Chris Hegedus [8] [9] | The War Room | Nominated | |||
2018 | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Free Solo | Won | Hungarian father | ||
2019 | Steven Bognar | American Factory | Won | Hungarian father (Escaped 1956) |
Best Short Subject | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
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1965 | Mafilm | Overture | Nominated | |||
1966 | Saint Matthew Passion | Nominated | ||||
1969 | Joan Horvath | Jenny Is a Good Thing | Nominated | |||
1971 | Robert Amram | Sentinels of Silence | Won | Shared with Manuel Arango | ||
1975 | Steven Kovacs | Artur and Lillie | Nominated | Shared with Jon Else and Kristine Samuelson | ||
1979 | Phillip Borsos | Nails | Nominated | |||
2009 | Steven Bognar | The Last Truck | Nominated | Hungarian father (Escaped 1956) |
Best Picture | ||||
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Year | Producer | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
1927-28 | William Fox (producer) | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Won | Directed by F. W. Murnau |
1932-33 | Alexander Korda | The Private Life of Henry VIII | Nominated | |
1938 | Gabriel Pascal | Pygmalion | Nominated | Born in Arad, Arad County |
1968 | Paul Newman | Rachel, Rachel | Nominated | |
1993 | Branko Lustig [10] | Schindler's List | Won | Parents Hungarian Jews from Újvidék |
1999 | Frank Darabont [11] | The Green Mile | Nominated | |
2000 | Branko Lustig | Gladiator | Won | Parents Hungarian Jews from Újvidék |
2009 | Ivan Reitman | Up in the Air | Nominated | Hungarian Jew from Komárom |
2012 | Margaret Menegoz (born Baranyai) | Amour | Nominated | Most EFA-awarded Hungarian: 3 wins/4 nominations (out of ca 16 wins) |
Best Adapted Screenplay | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1930-31 | Francis Edward Faragoh | Little Caesar | Nominated | ||
1937 | Geza Herczeg | The Life of Emile Zola | Won | ||
1942 | Emeric Pressburger | 49th Parallel | Nominated | ||
1948 | Frank Partos | The Snake Pit | Nominated | ||
1971 | Ernest Tidyman | The French Connection | Won | Hungarian mother | |
1994 | Frank Darabont | The Shawshank Redemption | Nominated | (Parents escaped 1956.) | |
1999 | The Green Mile | Nominated |
Best Original Screenplay | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1927-28 | Lajos Bíró | The Last Command | Nominated | Born in Nagyvárad | |
1940 | János Székely | Arise, My Love | Won | ||
1942 | Emeric Pressburger | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing | Nominated | Born in Miskolcz | |
1949 | Robert Pirosh | Battleground | Won | US-born | |
1951 | Robert Pirosh | Go for Broke! | Nominated | US-born |
Best Story | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1937 | Geza Herczeg | The Life of Emile Zola | Nominated | Born in Nagykanizsa | |
1939 | Melchior Lengyel | Ninotchka | Nominated | ||
1942 | Emeric Pressburger | 49th Parallel | Won | Most awarded hungarian in screenplay category: 1 AA out of 4 nominations. | |
1945 | László Görög | The Affairs of Susan | Nominated | Shared with Thomas Monroe | |
1948 | Emeric Pressburger | The Red Shoes | Nominated | Born in Miskolcz. | |
1950 | André de Toth | The Gunfighter | Nominated | Shared with William Bowers |
Academy Award for Best Dance Direction | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1935 | Dave Gould | Folies Bergère de Paris | Won | Born as Dezsö Guttman in Cigánd | |
Broadway Melody of 1936 | Won | ||||
1936 | Born to Dance | Nominated | |||
1937 | A Day at the Races | Nominated |
Costume Design | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
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1952 | Marcel Vertès | Moulin Rouge | Won |
Makeup | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
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1985 | Zoltan Elek | Mask | Won |
Best International Feature Film | |||||
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Year | Film | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1956 | The Captain from Köpenick (for Western Germany) | Gyula Trebitsch (producer) | Nominated (for West Germany) | Co-producer for Germany | |
1966 | The Shop on Main Street | Jan Kadar (Born in Budapest as János Kádár) | Won (for Czechoslovakia) | shared with Elmar Klos | |
1964 | Sallah Shabati (for Israel) | Ephraim Kishon (Born in Budapest as Ferenc Hoffman) | Nominated (for Israel) | First ever Israeli film in category Best Foreign Film | |
1971 | The Policeman (for Israel) | Ephraim Kishon | Nominated (for Israel) | ||
1968 | The Boys of Paul Street | Zoltán Fábri | Nominated [14] | ||
1974 | Cats' Play | Károly Makk | Nominated [15] | ||
1978 | Hungarians | Zoltán Fábri | Nominated [16] | ||
1978 | Madame Rosa (for France) | Jean Bolvary co-producer | Won (For France) | For France | |
1980 | Confidence | István Szabó | Nominated [17] | ||
1981 | Mephisto | István Szabó | Won [18] | ||
1983 | Job's Revolt | Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay | Nominated [19] | ||
1985 | Colonel Redl | István Szabó | Nominated [20] | ||
1988 | Hanussen | István Szabó | Nominated [21] | ||
2004 | Ondskan (for Sweden) | Mikael Håfström | Nominated (for Sweden) | hungarian mother from Pozsony | |
2014 | The Notebook [22] [23] | Janos Szász | Shortlisted | ||
2015 | Son of Saul [24] | László Nemes | Won [25] | ||
2017 | On Body and Soul [26] | Ildikó Enyedi | Nominated [27] | ||
2019 | Those Who Remained | Barnabás Tóth | Shortlisted | ||
Best Animated Short Film | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1941 | George Pal [29] | Rhythm in the Ranks | Nominated | ||
1942 | Tulips Shall Grow | Nominated | |||
1943 | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | Nominated | |||
1944 | And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street | Nominated | |||
1945 | Jasper and the Beanstalk | Nominated | |||
1946 | John Henry and the Inky-Poo | Nominated | |||
1947 | Tubby the Tuba | Nominated | |||
1963 | Jules Engel | Icarus Montgolfier Wright | Nominated | ||
1964 | John Halas | Automania 2000 | Nominated | ||
1975 | Peter Foldes | Hunger | Nominated | ||
1976 | Marcell Jankovics | Sisyphus | Nominated | ||
1980 | Ferenc Rofusz | The Fly | Won | ||
2007 | Géza M. Tóth | Maestro | Nominated | ||
2014 | Réka Bucsi [30] | Symphony no.42 | Shortlisted | ||
2023 | Flóra Anna Buda | 27 [31] | Shortlisted |
Best Live Action Short Film | |||||
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Year | Director | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1963 | Istvan Szabo | Concert [32] | Nominated | ||
1971 | Robert Amram | Sentinels of Silence | Won | Shared with Manuel Arango | |
2016 | Kristóf Deák | Sing [32] | Won |
Best Original Music Score | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1935 | Max Steiner | The Informer | Won | Father Gábor was born in Temesvár, Kingdom of Hungary. | |
1936 | The Garden of Allah | Nominated | |||
1938 | Jezebel | Nominated | |||
1939 | Dark Victory | Nominated | |||
1939 | Gone With the Wind | Nominated | |||
1940 | Miklos Rózsa | The Thief of Baghdad | Nominated Prod: Alexander Korda | ||
1941 | Lydia | Nominated | |||
Sundown | Nominated | ||||
1942 | Jungle Book | Nominated | |||
1943 | Max Steiner | Now, Voyager | Won | ||
1944 | Miklos Rózsa | Double Indemnity | Nominated | ||
The Woman of the Town | Nominated | ||||
Karl Hajos | Summer Storm | Nominated | |||
1945 | The Man Who Walked Alone | Nominated | |||
Leo Erdody | The Minstrel Man | Nominated | |||
Max Steiner | Since You Went Away | Won | |||
Miklos Rózsa | Spellbound | Won | |||
The Lost Weekend | Nominated | ||||
A Song to Remember | Nominated | ||||
1946 | The Killers | Nominated | |||
1947 | Double Life | Won | |||
1951 | Quo Vadis | Nominated | |||
1952 | Ivanhoe | Nominated | |||
1953 | Julius Caesar | Nominated | |||
1959 | Ben-Hur | Won | |||
1961 | El Cid | Nominated | |||
1961 | Ernest Gold [33] [34] [35] & Schurmann orchestrated ( both 1/2 Hungarians) | Exodus | Won | Ernest Golds paternal grandmother: Jaiteles/Szmetan from Szeged and his maternal grandmother:(Sprung/Slazka) [36] from Temesvár (Spitzer [36] /Gross) from Budapest | |
1963 | Oscar to Jarre but Gerard Schurmann [37] orchestrated | Lawrence of Arabia | {won} (association to only) | Hungarian mother studied with Béla Bartók |
Technical/Scientific Awards | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1941 | Joe Lapis | Nominated | Best special effects | ||
1944 | George Pal | Won | For the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons | ||
1949 | Steve Csillag | Won | |||
1950 | George Pal Productions [38] | Destination Moon | Won | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects | |
1951 | George Pal (produced by) [38] | When Worlds Collide | won | Special Achievements Award | |
1953 | George Pal (produced by) [38] | The War of the Worlds | Won) | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects | |
1985 | Chuck Gaspar | Ghostbusters | Nominated | shared Technical Award (cinematography:László Kovács direction: Ivan Reitman) | |
1988 | Dr.Antal Lisziewicz [39] | Won | Dr. Antal Lisziewicz and Glenn M. Berggren of ISCO-OPTIC GmbH for the design and development of the Ultra-Star series of motion picture lenses. | ||
1996 | Attila Szalay [40] | Won | shared Scientific & Technical Award | ||
1998 | Bill Kovacs | Won | The Advanced Visualizer Scientific & Technical Award | ||
2004 | Gyula Mester [39] | Won | GYULA MESTER (electronic systems design) and KEITH EDWARDS (mechanical engineering) for their significant contributions to and continuing development of the Technocrane telescoping camera crane. | ||
2010 | Márk Jászberényi, Perlaki and Gyula Priskin [41] | Won | For their contributions to the development of the Lustre color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process. | ||
2014 | Tibor Madjar, [42] Imre Major and Csaba Kőhegyi | Won | To Andrew Camenisch, David Cardwell and Tibor Madjar for the concept and design, and to Csaba Kohegyi (from Nyíregyháza) and Imre Major (from Hajdúböszörmény) for the implementation of the Mudbox software. | ||
2014 | Chuck Gaspar [43] | Won | (shared) As Technical Achievement Award | ||
2021 | Attila T. Áfra [44] [45] | Won | shared | ||
2024 | Christopher Jon Horvath [46] | Won | hungarian family name | ||
40-ies? | Béla Gáspár | 1st full color one-strip film | {won} ? | Patents sold to Technicolor, 3M and reputedly included in AA wins |
Academy Honorary Award | |||||
Year | Name | Status | Notes | ||
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1949 | Adolph Zukor | Won | Hungarian-Jewish, buried in the flag of Kingdom of Hungary | ||
1979 | King Vidor | Won | US-born | ||
1986 | Paul Newman | Won | 3/4-Hungarian, mother born in Peticse, Kingdom of Hungary |
This list focuses on recipients of Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Awarded | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1939 | Joe Pasternak | 43rd Academy Awards | Nominated | Born in Szilágysomlyó,Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary |
Jean Hersholt Award | |||||
Year | Name | Status | Notes | ||
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1993 | Paul Newman | Won | 3/4-Hungarian, mother born in Peticse, Kingdom of Hungary |
Academy Awards & nominees | |||||
Year | Name | Status | Film | Notes | |
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1929 | King Vidor | Nominated (Directing) | The Crowd | US-born Grandfather Károly participant of 1848 Hungarian revolution | |
1930 | King Vidor | Nominated | Hallelujah | ||
1932 | King Vidor | Nominated | The Champ | ||
1936 | Mischa Auer | Nominated (Supporting role) | My Man Godfrey | Related to Leopold von Auer | |
1939 | King Vidor | Nominated (Director) | The Citadel | ||
1954 | Audrey Hepburn | Won | Roman Holiday | grandparent [47] Kovarc, Nyitra County | |
1956 | King Vidor | Nominated (Director) | War and Peace | ||
1960 | Simone Signoret | Won (Actress) | Room at the Top | Grandparent Hirschler/ Goldberger de Buda (or: de Buday) [48] [49] | |
1965 | Simone Signoret | Nominated (Actress) | Ship of Fools | Charles Korvin co-starred and two Oscars to: | |
1977 | Jerry Goldsmith [50] | Won (Best Original Score) | The Omen | Father's mother Schwartz born in Budapest. | |
1989 | River Phoenix | Nominated (Supporting Role) | Running on Empty | Grandmother Hungarian-Jewish: Lefkowitz | |
1993 | Audrey Hepburn | Won Jean Hersholt Award | Roman Holiday | grandparent [47] born in Hungary | |
2000 | Kevin Macdonald | Won (Documentary) | One Day in September | Grandfather Hungarian:Emeric Pressburger | |
2001 | Joaquin Phoenix | Nominated (Supporting Role) | Gladiator | Grandmother Lefkowitz [51] born in Budapest. | |
2006 | Joaquin Phoenix | Nominated (Actor, leading role) | Walk the Line | Grandmother Hungarian-Jewish: Margaret Lefkowitz | |
2010 | Paul Tamasy | Nominated (Writing) | The Fighter | Hungarian family name | |
2013 | Joaquin Phoenix | Nominated (Actor, leading role) | The Master | Grandmother born in Budapest. | |
2015 | Phyllis Nagy | Nominated (Writing) | Carol | ||
2017 | Isabelle Huppert | Nominated (Supporting) | Elle | fathers father Hungarian-Jewish born in Eperjes, Kingdom of Hungary | |
2020 | Joaquin Phoenix | Won (Actor, leading role) | Joker | Grandmother Hungarian-Jewish: Lefkowitz | |
2024 | Robert Downey Jr. (1/8th hungarian) | Won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Oppenheimer | Hungarian-jewish ancestry: 1/8th, fathers grand-f.:Ormay/Stern from Tata | |
2023 | Paul Mezey | Nominated (Animated feature) | ... | Hungarian family name |
This list focuses on recipients of Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | |||||
Year | Name | Country | Awarded | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1939 | Joe Pasternak | Hungary | Nominated | Born in Szilágysomlyó,Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary |
No. of wins | No. of nominations | No. of ONLY shortlisted |
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63–73 | ca 198–213 | 5 |
No. of wins | No. of nominations |
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5 fully, 8:1/2; 6:1/4; 13-19 (20) [52] |
Half:
Quarter:
Unknown:
3.Tamásy
All with hungarian family names. Sometimes included in hungarian related lists, but not confirmed. Probably around 1/4, and most probably never fully. Some 1/8 hungarians have changed names.
UK:
Australia:
Austria:
Yugoslavia(in former Kingdom of Hungary and ethnic hungarian region of Vojvodina):
Romania (in former Kingdom of Hungary and ethnic hungarian region of Transsylvania):
France:
Czechoslovakia (in former Kingdom of Hungary and ethnic hungarian region of Slovakia)
Sweden: *Mikael Håfström (hungarian mother) 1 nom
EFA Award winner & nominees | |||
Year | Name | Status | Film |
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2023 | Béla Tarr | Won (Directing) | |
Flóra Anna Buda | Nominated (short) | 27 [53] | |
Tibor Bánocki & Sarolta Szabó | Nominated long animation | White Plastic Sky [54] | |
2020 | Margaret Menegoz | Nominated (Producer) | Undine |
2018 | Erzsébet Szilágyi | Nominated (discovery) | Egy Nap |
2017 | Ildikó Enyedi | Nominated (film ) Mesterházi, Muhi, Mécs, Enyedi | On Body and Soul |
2017 | Ildikó Enyedi | Nominated (screenwriter) | |
2017 | Ildikó Enyedi | Nominated (director) | |
2017 | Alexandra Borbély | Won (actress) | |
2016 | Réka Bucsi | Nominated (short animation) | Love |
2015 | Kornél Mundruczó | Nominated (Peoples Choice Award) | White God |
2012 | Margaret Menegoz | Won | White Ribbon |
2011 | Béla Tarr | Nominated | The Turin Horse |
Fred Kelemen | Nominated (cinematography) | ||
Mihály Víg | Nominated (composer) | ||
2009 | Margaret Menegoz | Won (Producer) | Amour |
2007 | Won (Producer) | Prix Euroimages | |
2006 | Bálint Kenyeres | Won (short) | Before Dawn |
Ágnes Kocsis | Nominated (discovery) | Fresh Air | |
2005 | Gyula Pados | Nominated (cinematography) | Fateless |
István Szabó | Nominated (peoples choice awards) | Meeting Julia | |
2004 | Lajos Koltai | Nominated (cinematography) | |
Nimród Antal | Nominated (director) | Kontroll | |
2002 | György Pálffi | Won (discovery) | Hukkle |
2002 | Kornél Mundruczó | Nominated (discovery) | |
2001 | Péter Gothár | Nominated (directing) | Paszport |
Tamás Babos | Nominated (cinematography) | ||
2000 | Lívia Gyarmathy | Won (short documentary) | A mi Gólyáink |
1999 | István Szabó | Won (screenplay) | Sunshine |
András Hámori & Robert Lantos | Nominated film | ||
Lajos Koltai | Won | ||
Ralph Fiennes* (actor) | Nominated | ||
1997 | Tibor Máthé (cinematography) | Nominated | Wittman Fiúk |
1994 | János Szász | Won (young european film) | Woyzek (DOP: Tibor Máthé) |
1993 | István Szabó | Won (screenplay) | Dear Emma Sweet Böbe |
1989 | Livia Gyarmathy | Won documentary | Recsk |
Géza Bereményi | Won (director) | Eldórado | |
Nominated (writer) | |||
Nominated (film) | |||
Sándor Kardos | Nominated (cinematographer) | ||
Sándor Darvas | Nominated (music) | ||
Károly Eperjes | Nominated (actor) | ||
1988 | Béla Tarr | Nominated (discovery) | Kárhozat |
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