This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Romania.
| Best Picture | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | John Houseman | Julius Caesar | Nominated | Romanian-born British-American producer and actor. | |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | John Houseman | The Paper Chase | Won | ||
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Lauren Bacall | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Nominated | American actress born to Romanian and Belarusian heritage. | |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Robert Towne | The Last Detail | Nominated | American-born of Romanian and Russian descent. | |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Nominated | Shared with Michael Austin. | ||
| 1992 | Michael Tolkin | The Player | Nominated | American-born of Romanian-jewish and Ukrainian-jewish descent. | |
| Best Original Screenplay | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Robert Towne | Chinatown | Won | Father Romanian jew | |
| 1975 | Shampoo | Nominated | Shared with Warren Beatty. | ||
| Best Story | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
| 1934 | Arthur Caesar [1] | Manhattan Melodrama [2] | Nominated | ||
| 1940 | Bella and Samuel Spewack | My Favorite Wife [3] | Nominated | ||
| 1955 | Henri Troyat | The Sheep Has Five Legs | Nominated | ||
| Best International Feature Film | |||||
| Year | Film | Original Title | Status | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/21 | Collective | Colectiv | Nominated | Alexander Nanau | |
| Best Documentary Feature | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Miles Mogulescu | Union Maids | Nominated | Shared with Jim Klein and Julia Reichert. | |
| 2020/21 | Alexander Nanau Bianca Oana | Collective | Nominated | ||
| Best Production Design | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
| 1941 | Nathan Juran | How Green Was My Valley | Won | Born in Austrian part of Austro-Hungarian Empire | |
| 1946 | The Razor's Edge | Nominated | |||
| 1966 | Richard Sylbert | Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? | Won | Born in Brooklyn, U S | |
| 1974 | Chinatown | Nominated | |||
| 1975 | Shampoo | Nominated | |||
| 1981 | Reds | Nominated | |||
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | Nominated | |||
| 1990 | Dick Tracy | Won | |||
| Best Live Action Short Film | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Director | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
| 1966 | Marin Karmitz | Turkey the Bridge [4] | Nominated | ||
| 1974 | Julian Chagrin | The Concert | Nominated | (father romanian-jewish) | |
| 1976 | The Morning Spider | Nominated | |||
| Andre R. Guttfreund | In the Region of Ice | Won | (mother romanian) | ||
| Honorary Academy Award | |||||
| Year | Name | Notes | Milestone | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Lauren Bacall | "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures." | First person of Romanian origin to be awarded an Honorary Academy Award. | ||
| No. of wins | No. of nominations |
|---|---|
| 4 | 22 |
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