List of Russian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Russia.

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1956	Yul Brynner	The King and I	Won	Brynner was a Soviet citizen who later became a naturalized US citizen.

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1936	Mischa Auer	My Man Godfrey	Nominated	First Russian to be nominated for an acting Oscar.
1945	Michael Chekhov	Spellbound	Nominated
1977	Mikhail Baryshnikov	The Turning Point	Nominated
2024	Yura Borisov	Anora	Nominated

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1936	Maria Ouspenskaya	Dodsworth	Nominated	First Russian actress to be nominated for an Oscar
1939		Love Affair	Nominated
1964	Lila Kedrova	Zorba the Greek	Won	Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress.

Best Director

Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1927/1928	Lewis Milestone	Two Arabian Knights	Won	Russian-Jewish; First Russian to win an Oscar.
1929/1930		All Quiet on the Western Front	Won	First Russian to win multiple Oscars. First director to win Best Director twice.
1930/1931		The Front Page	Nominated

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1931-32	Samuel Hoffenstein	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Nominated	Shared with Percy Heath.
1932-33	Robert Riskin	Lady for a Day	Nominated
	Sonya Levien	State Fair	Nominated	Shared with Paul Green.
1934	Robert Riskin	It Happened One Night	Won
	Ben Hecht [1]	Viva Villa!	Nominated
1936	Robert Riskin	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Nominated
1937	Morrie Ryskind	Stage Door	Nominated	Shared with Anthony Veiller.
1938	Robert Riskin	You Can't Take It with You	Nominated
1939	Ben Hecht	Wuthering Heights	Nominated	Shared with Charles MacArthur.
1944	Samuel Hoffenstein	Laura	Nominated	Shared with Jay Dratler & Elizabeth Reinhardt.
1945	Albert Maltz	Pride of the Marines	Nominated
1949	Robert Rossen	All the King's Men	Nominated
1950	Albert Maltz	Broken Arrow	Nominated	[note 1]
1955	Paddy Chayefsky	Marty	Won
1961	Abby Mann	Judgment at Nuremberg	Won
	Robert Rossen	The Hustler	Nominated	Shared with Sidney Carroll.
1962	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	Nominated
1973	Alvin Sargent	Paper Moon	Nominated
	Robert Towne	The Last Detail	Nominated
1974	Gene Wilder	Young Frankenstein	Nominated	Shared with Mel Brooks.
1977	Alvin Sargent	Julia	Won
1980		Ordinary People	Won
1984	Robert Towne	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Nominated	Shared with Michael Austin. Towne was credited under the pseudonym P.H. Vazak due to unhappiness with co-writer Austin's alterations and the finished film itself.
2005	Tony Kushner	Munich	Nominated	Shared with Eric Roth.
2012		Lincoln	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

Best Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1955	Sonya Levien	Interrupted Melody	Won	Shared with William Ludwig.
1961	Valentin Yezhov Grigory Chukhray	Ballad of a Soldier	Nominated

Best Story

Best Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1946	Victor Trivas	The Stranger	Nominated
1955	Henri Troyat	The Sheep Has Five Legs	Nominated	Shared with Jean Marsan, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil & Raoul Ploquin.

Best International Feature Film

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

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

Best International Feature Film
Year	Film	Russian Title	Status	Director(s)	Notes	Ref
1968	War and Peace	Война и мир	Won	Sergei Bondarchuk		[2]
1969	The Brothers Karamazov	Братья Карамазовы	Nominated	Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev & Mikhail Ulyanov		[3]
1971	Tchaikovsky	Чайкoвский	Nominated	Igor Talankin		[4]
1972	The Dawns Here Are Quiet	А зори здесь тихие	Nominated	Stanislav Rostotsky		[5]
1975	Dersu Uzala	Дерсу Узала	Won	Akira Kurosawa	Soviet-Japanese co-production	[6]
1978	White Bim Black Ear	Белый Бим Черное ухо	Nominated	Stanislav Rostotsky		[7]
1980	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears	Москва слезам не верит	Won	Vladimir Menshov		[8]
1982	Private Life	Частная жизнь	Nominated	Yuli Raizman		[9]
1984	Wartime Romance	Военно-полевой роман	Nominated	Pyotr Todorovsky	Soviet Ukrainian production	[10]
1992	Close to Eden	Урга	Nominated	Nikita Mikhalkov	First nomination for Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.	[11]
1994	Burnt by the Sun	Утомлённые солнцем	Won			[12]
1996	Prisoner of the Mountains	Кавказский пленник	Nominated	Sergei Bodrov		[13]
1997	The Thief	Вор	Nominated	Pavel Chukhray		[14]
2007	12	12	Nominated	Nikita Mikhalkov		[15]
2014	Leviathan	Левиафан	Nominated	Andrey Zvyagintsev		[16]
2017	Loveless	Нелюбовь	Nominated			[17]

Best Art Direction

Best Art Direction
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1937	Alexander Toluboff	Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938	Nominated	Black and White
1938	Boris Leven	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Nominated	Nominated in the black and white category
	Alexander Toluboff	Algiers	Nominated	Black and White
1939	Alexander Toluboff	Stagecoach	Nominated	Black and White
1940	Alexander Golitzen	Foreign Correspondent	Nominated
1941	Alexander Golitzen	Sundown	Nominated
1942	Alexander Golitzen	Arabian Nights	Nominated
1943	Alexander Golitzen	Phantom of the Opera	Won
1944	Alexander Golitzen	The Climax	Nominated
1956	Boris Leven	Giant	Nominated
1960	Alexander Golitzen	Spartacus	Won
1961	Boris Leven	West Side Story	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category [18]
	Alexander Golitzen	Flower Drum Song	Nominated
1962	Alexander Golitzen	To Kill a Mockingbird	Won
	Alexander Golitzen	That Touch of Mink	Nominated
1965	Boris Leven	The Sound of Music	Nominated
1966	Alexander Golitzen	Gambit	Nominated
1966	Boris Leven	The Sand Pebbles	Nominated
1967	Alexander Golitzen	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Nominated
1968	Mikhail Bogdanov Gennady Myasnikov	War and Peace	Nominated
	Boris Leven	Star!	Nominated
1969	Alexander Golitzen	Sweet Charity	Nominated
1970	Alexander Golitzen	Airport	Nominated
1971	Boris Leven	The Andromeda Strain	Nominated
1974	Alexander Golitzen	Earthquake	Nominated
1981	Patrizia von Brandenstein	Ragtime	Nominated	of German-Russian descent
1984		Amadeus	Won
1986	Boris Leven	The Color of Money	Nominated
1987	Patrizia von Brandenstein	The Untouchables	Nominated	of German-Russian descent
2014	Maria Djurkovic	The Imitation Game	Nominated

Best Cinematography

Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1953	Joseph Ruttenberg	Julius Caesar	Nominated
1954	Boris Kaufman	On the Waterfront	Won
1956		Baby Doll	Nominated
	Joseph Ruttenberg	Somebody Up There Likes Me	Won
1958		Gigi	Won
1960		BUtterfield 8	Nominated

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1942	Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov	Moscow Strikes Back	Won
1942	Victor Stoloff	Little Isles of Freedom	Nominated
2015	Den Tolmor Evgeny Afineevsky	Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom	Nominated

Best Animated Short Film

Best Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1989	Aleksandr Petrov	The Cow	Nominated
1995	Alexiy Kharitidi	Gagarin	Nominated
1997	Aleksandr Petrov	The Mermaid	Nominated
1999		The Old Man and the Sea	Won
2007		My Love	Nominated
2008	Konstantin Bronzit	Lavatory – Lovestory	Nominated
2015		We Can't Live Without Cosmos	Nominated
2021	Anton Dyakov	Boxballet	Nominated

Best Live Action Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film
1952	Boris Vermont	Light in the Window [19]	Won
1953		Joy of Life	Nominated

Best Original Score

Best Original Music Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1937	Constantin Bakaleinikoff	Something to Sing About	Nominated
	Dimitri Tiomkin	Lost Horizon	Nominated
	Boris Morros	Souls at Sea	Nominated
1938		Tropic Holiday	Nominated
1939	Lud Gluskin	The Man in the Iron Mask	Nominated
	Dimitri Tiomkin	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Nominated
	Aaron Copland	Of Mice and Men	Nominated
1940		Our Town	Nominated
	Artie Shaw	Second Chorus	Nominated
1941	Bernard Herrmann	The Devil and Daniel Webster	Won
		Citizen Kane	Nominated
1942	Max Terr	The Gold Rush	Nominated
	Dimitri Tiomkin	The Corsican Brothers	Nominated
1943		The Moon and Sixpence	Nominated
	Aaron Copland	The North Star	Nominated
	Constantin Bakaleinikoff	The Fallen Sparrow	Nominated
1944		None But the Lonely Heart	Nominated
		Higher and Higher	Nominated
	Dimitri Tiomkin	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Nominated
1945	Daniele Amfitheatrof	Guest Wife	Nominated	He was an Italian composer of Russian origin
1946	Bernard Herrmann	Anna and the King of Siam	Nominated
1947	Daniele Amfitheatrof	Song of the South	Nominated	Shared nomination with Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott
	David Raksin	Forever Amber	Nominated
1949	Aaron Copland	The Heiress	Won
	Dimitri Tiomkin	Champion	Nominated
1952		High Noon	Won
	Herschel Burke Gilbert	The Thief	Nominated
1954	Dimitri Tiomkin	The High and the Mighty	Won
1956		Giant	Nominated
1958		The Old Man and the Sea	Won
	Yuri Fayer Gennady Rozhdestvensky	The Bolshoi Ballet	Nominated
1960	Dimitri Tiomkin	The Alamo	Nominated
1961		The Guns of Navarone	Nominated
	Dmitri Shostakovich	Khovanshchina	Nominated
1963	Dimitri Tiomkin	55 Days at Peking	Nominated
1964		The Fall of the Roman Empire	Nominated
1971		Tchaikovsky	Nominated
1976	Bernard Herrmann	Obsession	Nominated
		Taxi Driver	Nominated

Best Original Song

Best Original Song
Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1935	Al Dubin	Gold Diggers of 1935	"Lullaby of Broadway"	Won	[20]
1937		Mr. Dodd Takes the Air	"Remember Me"	Nominated	[21]
	Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin	Shall We Dance	"They Can't Take That Away from Me"	Nominated
1943	Al Dubin	Stage Door Canteen	"We Mustn't Say Goodbye"	Nominated	[22]
1944	Ira Gershwin	Cover Girl	"Long Ago (and Far Away)"	Nominated
1947	Josef Myrow	Mother Wore Tights	"You Do"	Nominated
1950		Wabash Avenue	"Wilhelmina"	Nominated
	Al Hoffman	Cinderella	"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"	Nominated
1952	Dimitri Tiomkin	High Noon	"The Ballad of High Noon"	Won
1954	Ira Gershwin	A Star Is Born	"The Man That Got Away"	Nominated
	Dimitri Tiomkin	The High and the Mighty	"The High and the Mighty"	Nominated
1955	Hy Zaret	Unchained	"Unchained Melody"	Nominated
1956	Dimitri Tiomkin	Friendly Persuasion	"Friendly Persuasion"	Nominated
1957		Wild Is the Wind	"Wild Is the Wind"	Nominated
1959		The Young Land	"Strange Are the Ways of Love"	Nominated
1960		The Alamo	"The Green Leaves of Summer"	Nominated
1961		Town Without Pity	"Town Without Pity"	Nominated
1963		55 Days at Peking	"So Little Time"	Nominated

Nominations and Winners

No. of wins	No. of pendings	No. of nominations
32	1	161

See also

• Cinema of Russia

Notes

1. Michael Blankfort was originally nominated as the screenwriter of Broken Arrow . In 1991, research proved blacklisted Albert Maltz was the screenwriter and his credit was restored. Blankfort was removed from the nomination and it was given to Maltz.

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