List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Mexican filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.

List of winners

Name	#	Academy Awards	Title	Year
Alfonso Cuarón	5	Best Director	Gravity	2013
		Best Film Editing
		Best Director	Roma	2018
		Best Cinematography
		Best Foreign Language Film
Alejandro González Iñárritu		Special Achievement	Flesh and Sand	2017
		Best Director	The Revenant	2015
		Best Picture	Birdman	2014
		Best Director
		Best Original Screenplay
Emmanuel Lubezki	3	Best Cinematography	The Revenant	2015
			Birdman	2014
			Gravity	2013
Guillermo del Toro		Best Picture	The Shape of Water	2017
		Best Director
		Best Animated Picture	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	2022
Anthony Quinn	2	Best Supporting Actor	Lust for Life	1956
			Viva Zapata!	1952
Emile Kuri		Best Production Design	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	1954
			The Heiress	1949
Manuel Arango		Best Documentary (Short Subject)	Sentinels of Silence	1971
		Best Live Action Short Film
Lupita Nyong'o	1	Best Supporting Actress	12 Years a Slave	2013
Guillermo Navarro	Best Cinematography	El Laberinto del Fauno	2006
Eugenio Caballero	Best Production Design
Brigitte Broch		Moulin Rouge!	2001
Edward Carrere		Camelot	1967
Jaime Baksht	Best Sound	Sound of Metal	2020
Michelle Couttolenc
Carlos Cortés

Special Achievement

Special Achievement Academy Award
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2017	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Flesh and Sand	Recipient	First Mexican to receive this award.

Best Picture

This list focuses on Mexican-born producers.

Academy Award for Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel	Nominated	Shared with Steve Golin and Jon Kilik.
2013	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity	Nominated	Shared with David Heyman.
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman	Won	Shared with John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole.
2015		The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon.
2017	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water	Won	Shared with J. Miles Dale.
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Nominated	Shared with Gabriela Rodriguez.
2021	Guillermo del Toro	Nightmare Alley	Nominated	Shared with J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper.

Best Director

This list focuses on Mexican-born directors.

Academy Award for Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel	Nominated	First Mexican to be nominated for Best Director.
2013	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity	Won	First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director.
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman [1]	Won	First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director twice.
2015		The Revenant	Won	First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director two times. Third director in history to win consecutive Best Director Academy Awards. First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director three times.
2017	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water	Won
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Won	First person to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography.

Best Actor

This list focuses on Mexican-born actors.

Leading

Academy Award for Best Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1957	Anthony Quinn	Wild Is the Wind	Nominated
1964		Zorba the Greek	Nominated
2012	Demián Bichir	A Better Life	Nominated

Supporting

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1952	Anthony Quinn	Viva Zapata!	Won
1956		Lust for Life	Won	First Mexican-born actor to win two Oscars in the same category.

Best Actress

This list focuses on Mexican-born actresses.

Leading

Academy Award for Best Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2002	Salma Hayek	Frida	Nominated	First Mexican actress to be nominated for Best Leading Actress.
2018	Yalitza Aparicio	Roma	Nominated	Debut performance. First Indigenous Latin American (Indigenous Mexican) to be nominated in any category.

Supporting

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1954	Katy Jurado	Broken Lance	Nominated	First Mexican and Hispanic actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
2006	Adriana Barraza	Babel	Nominated
2013	Lupita Nyong'o	12 Years a Slave	Won	Mexican with Kenyan citizenship. First Mexican-born actress to win an Academy Award.
2018	Marina de Tavira	Roma	Nominated

Best Animated Feature Film

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2021	Carlos López Estrada [2]	Raya and the Last Dragon	Nominated	Shared with Don Hall, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho.
2022	Guillermo del Toro	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Won	Shared with Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley.

Best Cinematography

This list focuses on Mexican-born cinematographers.

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1964	Gabriel Figueroa	The Night of the Iguana	Nominated
1975	John A. Alonzo	Chinatown	Nominated	First American-born Latino to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
1995	Emmanuel Lubezki	A Little Princess	Nominated
1999		Sleepy Hollow	Nominated
2005		The New World	Nominated
	Rodrigo Prieto	Brokeback Mountain	Nominated
2006	Emmanuel Lubezki	Children of Men	Nominated
	Guillermo Navarro	Pan's Labyrinth	Won	Original title: El laberinto del fauno
2011	Emmanuel Lubezki	The Tree of Life	Nominated
2013		Gravity	Won
2014		Birdman	Won
2015		The Revenant	Won	First cinematographer to win three years in a row. First Mexican and Latin American to win the Oscars three times. First Mexican Jews to be nominated and to win an Academy Award in any category.
2016	Rodrigo Prieto	Silence	Nominated
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Won	First Mexican director to be nominated for Best Cinematography while serving as both director and cinematographer. First Mexican director to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography in the same year.
2019	Rodrigo Prieto	The Irishman	Nominated
2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated

Best Costume Design

Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2019	Mayes C. Rubeo	Jojo Rabbit	Nominated	First Mexican and Latin American costume designer to be nominated for Best Costume Design. [3]

Best Documentary Feature

This list focuses on documentaries features directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone / Notes
1957	Torero!	Manuel Barbachano Ponce	Nominated
1969	The Olympics in Mexico	Alberto Isaac	Nominated
1985	The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	Lourdes Portillo	Nominated	Shared with Susana Blaustein Muñoz.
2001	Promises	Carlos Bolado	Nominated	Shared with B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro.

Best Documentary Short Subject

This list focuses on documentaries short subject directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone / Notes
1971	Sentinels of Silence	Manuel Arango	Won	Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram. This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories.

Best Film Editing

This list focuses on Mexican-born film editors.

Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2006	Alfonso Cuarón	Children of Men	Nominated	Shared with Alex Rodriguez.
2013		Gravity	Won	Shared with Mark Sanger.

Best International Feature Film

Main article: List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

This list focuses on Mexican films that won or were nominated for the foreign language film award.

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone / Notes
1960	Macario	Roberto Gavaldón	Nominated	First Latin American and Mexican film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1961	The Important Man	Ismael Rodríguez	Nominated	Original title: Ánimas Trujano
1962	The Pearl of Tlayucan	Luis Alcoriza	Nominated	Original title: Tlayucan
1975	Letters from Marusia	Miguel Littín	Nominated	Original title: Actas de Marusia
2000	Love's a Bitch	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	Original title: Amores Perros
2002	The Crime of Father Amaro	Carlos Carrera	Nominated	Original title: El Crimen del Padre Amaro
2006	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	Nominated	Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno The film was nominated for five other Academy Awards, and won three of them: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup.
2010	Biutiful	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	Won	First Mexican film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film and to be simultaneously nominated for Best Picture.

Best Live Action Short Film

This list focuses on live action short-films directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone / Notes
1971	Sentinels of Silence	Manuel Arango	Won	Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram. This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories.
1996	De tripas, corazón	Antonio Urrutia	Nominated
2022	Le pupille	Alfonso Cuarón	Nominated	Shared with Alice Rohrwacher

Best Makeup

This list focuses on Mexican-born makeup artists.

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2008	Mike Elizalde	Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Nominated

Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1970	Bill Melendez	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Nominated	The category was Best Music, Original Song Score. Shared with Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter, Alan Shean, and Vince Guaraldi.

Best Production Design

This list focuses on Mexican-born art directors/production designers and set decorators.

Academy Award for Best Production Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1942	Emile Kuri	Silver Queen	Nominated	Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese descent.
1949		The Heiress	Won
	Edward Carrere	Adventures of Don Juan	Nominated	Shared with Lyle Reifsnider.
1952	Emile Kuri	Carrie	Nominated
1954		20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won
		Executive Suite	Nominated
1959	John DeCuir	The Big Fisherman	Nominated
1960	Edward Carrere	Sunrise at Campobello	Nominated	Shared with George James Hopkins.
1961	Emile Kuri	The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated
	Fernando Carrere	The Children's Hour	Nominated
1963	John DeCuir	Cleopatra	Won
1964	Emile Kuri	Mary Poppins	Nominated
1967	Edward Carrere	Camelot	Won	Shared with John Truscott and John W. Brown.
	John DeCuir	The Taming of the Shrew	Nominated
1969		Hello, Dolly!	Won
1971	Emile Kuri	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated
1996	Brigitte Broch	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	German-born Mexican art director. Shared with Catherine Martin.
2001		Moulin Rouge!	Won
2002	Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo	Frida	Nominated
2006	Eugenio Caballero	Pan's Labyrinth	Won	Original title: El laberinto del fauno Shared with Pilar Revuelta.
2018	Eugenio Caballero Bárbara Enríquez	Roma	Nominated

Best Sound

This list focuses on Mexican-born sound editors and mixers.

Prior to the 93rd Academy Awards, the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories. ^[4]

Academy Award for Best Sound
Year	Name	Film	Category	Status	Milestone / Notes
2006	Fernando Cámara [5]	Apocalypto	Mixing	Nominated
2012	José Antonio García	Argo		Nominated
2014	Martin Hernández	Birdman	Editing	Nominated	Shared with Aaron Glascock.
2015		The Revenant		Nominated	Shared with Lon Bender.
2018	José Antonio García	Roma	Mixing	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan.
	Sergio Díaz		Editing	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay.
2020	Jaime Baksht Michelle Couttolenc Carlos Cortés	Sound of Metal	Sound	Won	Shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh.

Best Writing (Screenplay)

This list focuses on Mexican-born writers.

Adapted

Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2006	Alfonso Cuarón	Children of Men	Nominated	Shared with Hawk Otsby, Timothy J. Sexton and Mark Fergus.

Original

Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2002	Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón	And Your Mother Too	Nominated	Original title: Y Tu Mamá También
2006	Guillermo Arriaga	Babel	Nominated
	Guillermo del Toro	Pan's Labyrinth	Nominated	Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman	Won	Shared with Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo.
2017	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water	Nominated	Shared with Vanessa Taylor. Story by Guillermo del Toro.
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Nominated

Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1947	Paul Lerpae	Unconquered	Nominated	Mexican born-American special effects artist.

See also

• Mexico portal

• Cinema of Mexico
• List of Mexican films

References

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2. "Carlos López Estrada… feliz, emocionado (y sí con mucha presión) por el Oscar". Quién (in Spanish). 2022-03-27. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
3. "Mayes Rubeo is the first Latina to be nominated for the Oscars for the Best Costume Design". IQ Latino. February 14, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
4. Hammond, Pete (April 28, 2020). "Oscars Keeping Show Date But Make Big News As Academy Lightens Eligibility Rules, Combines Sound Categories, Ends DVD Screeners and More". Deadline Hollywood .
5. "FERNANDO CAMARA IS NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR FOR SOUND | London Film School". lfs.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-04-13.