List of Israeli Academy Award winners and nominees

Topol nominated for 1971's Fiddler on the Roof .

The following is a list of Israeli people and films that have been nominated for or won Academy Awards .

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
1971	Chaim Topol	Fiddler on the Roof	Nominated	First Israeli nominated in any category. First Middle Eastern person nominated for an acting award.	[1]

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2010	Natalie Portman	Black Swan	Won	First Israeli to win an award in any category.
2016		Jackie	Nominated	First Israeli to receive three nominations.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2004	Natalie Portman	Closer	Nominated	First and (to date) only Israeli woman ever nominated for an acting award.

Best Picture

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1997	Arnon Milchan	L.A. Confidential	Nominated	Shared with Curtis Hanson, and Michael Nathanson.
2015		The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon.

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2009	Oren Moverman	The Messenger	Nominated	Shared with Alessandro Camon.

Best Animated Feature

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2016	Osnat Shurer	Moana	Nominated	Shared with John Musker, and Ron Clements.
2021		Raya and the Last Dragon	Nominated	Shared with Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, and Peter Del Vecho.

Best Documentary Feature

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
1974	Haim Gouri	The 81st Blow	Nominated	Shared with Jacquot Ehrlich, and David Bergman.
2012	Guy Davidi	5 Broken Cameras	Nominated	Shared with Emad Burnat.	[2]
	Estelle Fialon Philippa Kowarsky Dror Moreh	The Gatekeepers	Nominated
2015	Evgeny Afineevsky	Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom	Nominated	Shared with Den Tolmor.
2024	Rachel Szor Yuval Abraham	No Other Land	Won	Shared with Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal

Best Documentary Short Film

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
2015	Nomi Talisman	Last Day of Freedom	Nominated	Shared with Dee Hibbert-Jones.

Best Live Action Short

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
1974	Julian Chagrin	The Concert	Nominated
1976		The Morning Spider	Nominated
2014	Oded Binnun Mihal Brezis	Aya	Nominated		[3]
2018	Guy Nattiv	Skin	Won		[4]

Best Animated Short

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
2023	Tal Kantor Amit R. Gicelter	Letter to a Pig	Nominated

Best Sound

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2013	Niv Adiri	Gravity	Won	Shared with Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, and Chris Munro.
2021		Belfast	Nominated	Shared with Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, and James Mather.

Best International Film

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

The following films were submitted by the country of Israel for Best International Feature Film and received a nomination.

Year (Ceremony)	English film title	Original title	Director	Status	Ref.
1964 (37th)	Sallah	Sallakh Shabati (סאלח שבתי)	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated	[5]
1971 (44th)	The Policeman	Hashoter Azulai (השוטר אזולאי)		Nominated	[1]
1972 (45th)	I Love You Rosa	Ani Ohev Otakh Rozah (אני אוהב אותך רוזה)	Moshé Mizrahi	Nominated	[6]
1973 (46th)	The House on Chelouche Street	Habayit Birkhov Chelouche (הבית ברחוב שלוש)		Nominated	[7]
1977 (50th)	Operation Thunderbolt	Mivtza Yonatan (מבצע יונתן)	Menahem Golan	Nominated	[8]
1984 (57th)	Beyond the Walls	Me'akhorei Hasoragim (מאחורי הסורגים)	Uri Barbash	Nominated	[9]
2007 (80th)	Beaufort	Beaufort (בופור)	Joseph Cedar	Nominated	[10]
2008 (81st)	Waltz with Bashir	Vals Im Bashir (ואלס עם באשיר)	Ari Folman	Nominated	[11]
2009 (82nd)	Ajami	Agami (عجمي / עג'מי)	Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani	Nominated	[12]
2011 (84th)	Footnote	He'arat Shulayyim (הערת שוליים)	Joseph Cedar	Nominated	[13]

Nominations and Winners

No. of wins	No. of nominations
4	25

References

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3. "The 87th Academy Awards | 2015". 10 March 2015.
4. "The 91st Academy Awards | 2019". 15 April 2019.
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8. "The 50th Academy Awards | 1978". 5 October 2014.
9. "The 57th Academy Awards | 1985". 5 October 2014.
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13. "Oscars 2012: Nominees in full". BBC News. 24 January 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-24.