List of Hungarian Academy Award winners and nominees

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]

Best Director

Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
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 in a Leading Role

Best Actor
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:Miklós Rózsa
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
2025	Adrien Brody*	The Brutalist	Nominated	Hungarian mother

"*"=US-born

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Actor
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

Best Short Subject
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
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 (Long Subject)

Best Documentary Feature Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1977	Robert Dornhelm	The Children of Theatre Street	Nominated	Born in Temesvár.Hungarian-Jewish father. [5] [6] Mother a German speaker.
1993	Chris Hegedus [7] [8]	The War Room	Nominated
2000 [9]	Kevin MacDonald	One Day In September	Won	Hungarian citizen/grand-father Imre Pressburger
2018*	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi	Free Solo	Won	Hungarian father
2019	Steven Bognar*	American Factory	Won	Hungarian father (Escaped 1956)

* = US-born

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Best Short Subject
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
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

Best Picture
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

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1930-31	Francis Edward Faragoh	Little Caesar	Nominated
1937	Geza Herczeg  [ de ]	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

Best Original Screenplay
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
2015	Dan Gilroy*	Nightcrawler	Nominated	US-born, mother HUN

* = US-born

Best Original Story

Best Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1937	Geza Herczeg  [ de ]	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 categories: 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

Best Dance Direction

Academy Award for Best Dance Direction
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
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

Best Art Direction

Best Art Direction
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1932–33	William S. Darling	Cavalcade	Won	Born in Sandorháza, Banat, Transylvania; Kingdom of Hungary as Vilmos Sándorházy
1936		Lloyd's of London	Nominated
1937		Wee Willie Winkie	Nominated
1939		The Rains Came	Nominated
1940	Vincent Korda	The Thief of Bagdad	Won	Color
	Paul Groesse	Pride and Prejudice	Won	Black & White
1941	Vincent Korda	That Hamilton Woman	Nominated
1942		Jungle Book	Nominated
1943	Paul Groesse	Madame Curie	Nominated
1943	William S. Darling	The Song of Bernadette	Won	shared with James Basevi
1945		The Keys of the Kingdom	Nominated
1946		Anna and the King of Siam	Won	Black & White, shared with Lyle R. Wheeler
1946	Paul Groesse	The Yearling	Won	Color
1949		Little Women	Won
1950		Annie Get Your Gun	Nominated
1951		Too Young to Kiss	Nominated
1952		The Merry Widow	Nominated
1953		Lili	Nominated
1952	Marcel Vertès	Moulin Rouge	Won
1959	Joseph Kish	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Nominated
1960	Alexandre Trauner	The Apartment	Won
1962	Paul Groesse	The Music Man	Nominated
	Vincent Korda	The Longest Day	Nominated
1963	Paul Groesse	Twilight of Honor	Nominated
1966		Mister Buddwing	Nominated
1965	Joseph Kish	The Slender Thread	Nominated
1965	Joseph Kish	Ship of Fools	Won
1976	Alexandre Trauner [12]	The Man Who Would Be King	Nominated
2021	Zsuzsanna Sipos	Dune	Won	won BAFTA
2023	Zsuzsa Mihalek [13]	Poor Things	Won	[14] won BAFTA

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1952	Marcel Vertès	Moulin Rouge	Won

Best Makeup

Makeup
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1985	Zoltan Elek	Mask	Won

Best International Feature film

See also: List of Hungarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Best International Feature Film
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 (for Czechoslovakia)	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 [15]
1974	Cats' Play	Károly Makk	Nominated [16]
1978	Hungarians	Zoltán Fábri	Nominated [17]
1978	Madame Rosa (for France)	Jean Bolvary co-producer	Won (For France)	For France
1980	Confidence	István Szabó	Nominated [18]
1981	Mephisto	István Szabó	Won [19]
1983	Job's Revolt	Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay	Nominated [20]
1985	Colonel Redl	István Szabó	Nominated [21]
1988	Hanussen	István Szabó	Nominated [22]
2004	Ondskan (for Sweden)	Mikael Håfström	Nominated (for Sweden)	Hungarian mother from Pozsony
2014	The Notebook [23] [24]	Janos Szász	Shortlisted
2015	Son of Saul [25]	László Nemes	Won [26]
2017	On Body and Soul [27]	Ildikó Enyedi	Nominated [28]
2019	Those Who Remained	Barnabás Tóth	Shortlisted

Best Cinematography

Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1941	Rudolph Maté [29]	Foreign Correspondent	Nominated
1942	Rudolph Maté	That Hamilton Woman	Nominated	Dir: Alexander Korda Music: Miklós Rózsa
1943	Rudolph Maté	The Pride of the Yankees	Nominated
1944	Rudolph Maté	Sahara	Nominated	Directed by Korda. Music by Rózsa.
1945	Rudolph Maté	Cover Girl	Nominated	Shared with Allen M. Davey Director: Charles Vidor
1951	John Alton	An American in Paris	Won	Born as János/Johann Altmann in Sopron Color. Shared with Alfred Gilks
1960	Ernest Laszlo	Inherit the Wind	Nominated	Music by 1/2- Hungarian Gold.
1961		Judgment at Nuremberg	Nominated	Music by Ernest Gold.
1963		It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Nominated
1965		Ship of Fools	Won	Black-and-White
1966		Fantastic Voyage	Nominated
1968		Star!	Nominated
1970		Airport	Nominated
1976		Logan's Run	Nominated
1977	Vilmos Zsigmond	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Won
1978		The Deer Hunter	Nominated
1984		The River	Nominated
2001	Lajos Koltai	Malèna	Nominated
2006	Vilmos Zsigmond	The Black Dahlia	Nominated

Best Animated Short film

Best Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1941	George Pal [30]	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 [31]	Symphony no.42	Shortlisted
2023	Flóra Anna Buda	27 [32]	Shortlisted

Best Live Action Short film

Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Director	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1963	Istvan Szabo	Concert [33]	Nominated
1971	Robert Amram	Sentinels of Silence	Won	Shared with Manuel Arango
2016	Kristóf Deák	Sing [33]	Won

Best Original Score

Best Original Music Score
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	Miklós Rózsa	The Thief of Baghdad	Nominated	Producer: Alexander Korda
1941		Lydia	Nominated
		Sundown	Nominated
1942		Jungle Book	Nominated
1943	Max Steiner	Now, Voyager	Won
1944	Miklós 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
	Miklós 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 [34] [35] [36] Schurmann orchestrated (both 1⁄2 Hungarians)	Exodus	Won	Ernest Gold's paternal grandmother: Jaiteles/Szmetan from Szeged and his maternal grandmother:(Sprung/Slazka) [37] from Temesvár (Spitzer [37] /Gross) from Budapest
1963	Oscar to Jarre but Gerard Schurmann [38] orchestrated	Lawrence of Arabia	{won} (association to only)	Hungarian mother studied with Béla Bartók

Best Film Editing

Best Film Editing
Year	Director	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2024	Dávid Jancsó	The Brutalist	Pending	First Hungarian nominated for Best Film Editing

Technical and scientific

Technical/Scientific Awards
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 [39]	Destination Moon	Won	Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
1951	George Pal (produced by) [39]	When Worlds Collide	Won	Special Achievements Award
1953	George Pal (produced by) [39]	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 [40]		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.
1992	Robert Orban* [41]		Won	Scientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering Award). To Claus Wiedemann and Robert Orban for the design and Dolby Laboratories for the development of the Dolby Labs “Container”/Orban is a Hungarian surname.
1996	Attila Szalay [42]		Won	shared Scientific & Technical Award
1998	Bill Kovacs*		Won	The Advanced Visualizer Scientific & Technical Award
2004	Gyula Mester [40]		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 [43]		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, [44] 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* [45]		Won	(shared) As Technical Achievement Award
2021	Attila T. Áfra [46] [47]		Won	shared
2024	Christopher Jon Horvath* [48]		Won	Hungarian family name
40s?	Béla Gáspár	1st full color one-strip film	{won} ?	Patents sold to Technicolor, 3M and reputedly included in AA wins

* = US-born

Honorary Award

Academy Honorary Award
Year	Name	Status	Notes
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

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

This list focuses on recipients of Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Year	Name	Country	Awarded	Status	Milestone/Notes
1939	Joe Pasternak		43rd Academy Awards	Nominated	Born in Szilágysomlyó, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary

Jean Hersholt Award

Jean Hersholt Award
Year	Name	Status	Notes
1993	Paul Newman	Won	3/4-Hungarian, mother born in Peticse, Kingdom of Hungary

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