List of female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories

This list of female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories details women who have won or been nominated for awards in non-gender-specific categories. It's fully current as of the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place on March 10, 2024.

Best Animated Feature

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
2007	Marjane Satrapi	Persepolis	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Animated Feature. Shared with Vincent Paronnaud.
2011	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	Kung Fu Panda 2	Nominated	First woman of color to be nominated for Best Animated Feature.
2012	Brenda Chapman	Brave	Won	First woman to win for Best Animated Feature. Shared with Mark Andrews.
2013 [note 1]	Jennifer Lee	Frozen	Won	Shared with Chris Buck and Peter Del Vecho.
	Kristine Belson	The Croods	Nominated	Shared with Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders.
2014	Bonnie Arnold	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Nominated	Shared with Dean DeBlois.
2015	Rosa Tran	Anomalisa	Nominated	Shared with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson.
2016	Arianne Sutner	Kubo and the Two Strings	Nominated	Shared with Travis Knight.
	Osnat Shurer	Moana	Nominated	Shared with John Musker and Ron Clements.
2017 [note 2]	Darla K. Anderson	Coco	Won	Shared with Lee Unkrich.
	Ramsey Ann Naito	The Boss Baby	Nominated	Shared with Tom McGrath.
	Nora Twomey	The Breadwinner	Nominated	Shared with Anthony Leo.
	Lori Forte	Ferdinand	Nominated	Shared with Carlos Saldanha.
	Dorota Kobiela	Loving Vincent	Nominated	Shared with Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart.
2018	Nicole Paradis Grindle	Incredibles 2	Nominated	Shared with Brad Bird and John Walker.
2019	Bonnie Arnold	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Dean DeBlois and Brad Lewis.
	Jinko Gotoh Marisa Román	Klaus	Nominated	Shared with Sergio Pablos.
	Arianne Sutner	Missing Link	Nominated	Shared with Chris Butler and Travis Knight.
2020	Dana Murray	Soul	Won	Shared with Pete Docter.
	Kori Rae	Onward	Nominated	Shared with Dan Scanlon.
	Gennie Rin Peilin Chou	Over the Moon	Nominated	Shared with Glen Keane.
2021	Yvett Merino	Encanto	Won	First Latina to win and be nominated for Best Animated Feature. Shared with Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Clark Spencer.
	Monica Hellström Signe Byrge Sørensen Charlotte de la Gournerie	Flee	Nominated	First animated documentary to be nominated in this category. Shared with Jonas Poher Rasmussen.
	Andrea Warren	Luca	Nominated	Shared with Enrico Casarosa.
	Osnat Shurer	Raya and the Last Dragon	Nominated	Shared with Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, and Peter Del Vecho.
2022	Elisabeth Holm Caroline Kaplan	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Nominated	Shared with Dean Fleischer Camp, Andrew Goldman, and Paul Mezey.
	Domee Shi Lindsey Collins	Turning Red	Nominated
2023	Denise Ream	Elemental	Nominated	Shared with Peter Sohn.
	Karen Ryan Julie Zackary	Nimona	Nominated	Shared with Nick Bruno and Troy Quane.
	Sandra Tapia Díaz	Robot Dreams	Nominated	Shared with Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, and Ignasi Estapé.
	Amy Pascal	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Nominated	Shared with Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller.

Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
2017	Rachel Morrison	Mudbound	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
2021	Ari Wegner	The Power of the Dog	Nominated
2022	Mandy Walker	Elvis	Nominated

Best Costume Design

At least one woman has been nominated for Best Costume Design at every ceremony since the category's inception.

Academy Award for Best Costume Design [note 3]
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1948 [note 1]	Black-and-White
	Irene	B.F.'s Daughter	Nominated	Among the inaugural nominees in costume categories.
	Color
	Dorothy Jeakins Karinska	Joan of Arc	Won	First women to win in costume categories. Among the inaugural nominees in costume categories.
	Edith Head	The Emperor Waltz	Nominated	Among the inaugural nominees in costume categories. Shared with Gile Steele.
1949	Black-and-White
	Edith Head	The Heiress	Won	First woman to win for Best Costume Design (B&W). First woman with multiple nominations in costume categories. First woman to be nominated in both costume categories. Shared with Gile Steele.
	Color
	Marjorie Best Leah Rhodes	The Adventures of Don Juan	Won	Shared with Travilla.
	Kay Nelson	Mother Is a Freshman	Nominated
1950	Black-and-White
	Edith Head	All About Eve	Won	First woman with multiple wins in costume categories. Shared with Charles LeMaire.
	Color
	Edith Head Dorothy Jeakins Elois Jenssen Gwen Wakeling	Samson and Delilah	Won	Jeakins was the first woman with multiple wins for Best Costume Design (Color). Head was the first woman to win in both costume categories. Shared with Gile Steele.
1951	Black-and-White
	Edith Head	A Place in the Sun	Won
	Renié	The Model and the Marriage Broker	Nominated	Shared with Charles LeMaire.
	Margaret Furse	The Mudlark	Nominated	Shared with Edward Stevenson.
	Lucinda Ballard	A Streetcar Named Desire	Nominated
	Color
	Irene Sharaff	An American in Paris	Won	First LGBT woman to be nominated in a non-acting category and first to win in any category. Shared with Orry-Kelly and Walter Plunkett.
	Helen Rose	The Great Caruso	Nominated	Shared with Gile Steele.
1952	Black-and-White
	Helen Rose	The Bad and the Beautiful	Won
	Edith Head	Carrie	Nominated
	Dorothy Jeakins	My Cousin Rachel	Nominated	Shared with Charles LeMaire.
	Sheila O'Brien	Sudden Fear	Nominated
	Color
	Edith Head Dorothy Jeakins	The Greatest Show on Earth	Nominated	Shared with Miles White.
	Karinska Mary Wills	Hans Christian Andersen	Nominated	Shared with Clavé.
	Helen Rose	The Merry Widow	Nominated	Shared with Gile Steele.
1953	Black-and-White
	Edith Head	Roman Holiday	Won
	Helen Rose	Dream Wife	Nominated	Shared with Herschel McCoy.
	Renié	The President's Lady	Nominated	Shared with Charles LeMaire.
	Color
	Mary Ann Nyberg	The Band Wagon	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	Call Me Madam	Nominated
1954	Black-and-White
	Edith Head	Sabrina	Won
	Rosine Delamare	The Earrings of Madame de...	Nominated	Shared with Georges Annenkov.
	Helen Rose	Executive Suite	Nominated
	Color
	Irene Sharaff	Brigadoon	Nominated
	Mary Ann Nyberg Irene Sharaff	A Star Is Born	Nominated	Shared with Jean Louis.
1955	Black-and-White
	Helen Rose	I'll Cry Tomorrow	Won
	Beatrice Dawson	The Pickwick Papers	Nominated
	Edith Head	The Rose Tattoo	Nominated
	Color
	Irene Sharaff	Guys and Dolls	Nominated
	Helen Rose	Interrupted Melody	Nominated
	Edith Head	To Catch a Thief	Nominated
	Mary Wills	The Virgin Queen	Nominated	Shared with Charles LeMaire.
1956	Black-and-White
	Helen Rose	The Power and the Prize	Nominated
	Edith Head	The Proud and Profane	Nominated
	Mary Wills	Teenage Rebel	Nominated	Shared with Charles LeMaire.
	Color
	Irene Sharaff	The King and I	Won
	Marjorie Best	Giant	Nominated	Shared with Moss Mabry.
	Edith Head Dorothy Jeakins	The Ten Commandments	Nominated	Shared with Ralph Jester, John Jensen, and Arnold Friberg.
	Maria De Matteis	War and Peace	Nominated
Costume Design
1957	Edith Head	Funny Face	Nominated	Shared with Hubert de Givenchy.
1958		The Buccaneer	Nominated	Shared with Ralph Jester and John Jensen.
	Mary Wills	A Certain Smile	Nominated	Shared with Charles LeMaire.
1959 [note 4]	Black-and-White
	Edith Head	Career	Nominated
	Mary Wills	The Diary of Anne Frank	Nominated	Shared with Charles LeMaire.
	Helen Rose	The Gazebo	Nominated
	Color
	Elizabeth Haffenden	Ben-Hur	Won
	Adele Palmer	The Best of Everything	Nominated
	Renié	The Big Fisherman	Nominated
	Edith Head	The Five Pennies	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	Porgy and Bess	Nominated
1960	Black-and-White
	Edith Head	The Facts of Life	Won	Shared with Edward Stevenson.
	Deni Vachlioti	Never on Sunday	Nominated
	Marik Vos	The Virgin Spring	Nominated
	Color
	Irene Sharaff	Can-Can	Nominated
	Irene	Midnight Lace	Nominated
	Edith Head	Pepe	Nominated
	Marjorie Best	Sunrise at Campobello	Nominated
1961	Black-and-White
	Dorothy Jeakins	The Children's Hour	Nominated
	Color
	Irene Sharaff	West Side Story	Won
		Flower Drum Song	Nominated
	Edith Head	Pocketful of Miracles	Nominated	Shared with Walter Plunkett.
1962	Black-and-White
	Norma Koch	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Won
	Edith Head	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Nominated
	Ruth Morley	The Miracle Worker	Nominated
	Denny Vachlioti	Phaedra	Nominated
	Color
	Mary Wills	The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	Won
	Dorothy Jeakins	The Music Man	Nominated
	Edith Head	My Geisha	Nominated
1963	Black-and-White
	Edith Head	Love with the Proper Stranger	Nominated
		Wives and Lovers	Nominated
	Color
	Renié Irene Sharaff	Cleopatra	Won	Shared with Vittorio Nino Novarese.
	Edith Head	A New Kind of Love	Nominated
1964	Black-and-White
	Dorothy Jeakins	The Night of the Iguana	Won
	Edith Head	A House Is Not a Home	Nominated
	Norma Koch	Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Nominated
	Color
	Margaret Furse	Becket	Nominated
	Edith Head	What a Way to Go!	Nominated	Shared with Moss Mabry.
1965	Black-and-White
	Julie Harris	Darling	Won
	Edith Head	The Slender Thread	Nominated
	Color
	Phyllis Dalton	Doctor Zhivago	Won
	Marjorie Best	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Nominated	Shared with Vittorio Nino Novarese.
	Edith Head	Inside Daisy Clover	Nominated	Shared with Bill Thomas.
	Dorothy Jeakins	The Sound of Music	Nominated
1966	Black-and-White
	Irene Sharaff	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Won
	Helen Rose	Mister Buddwing	Nominated
	Jocelyn Rickards	Morgan!	Nominated
	Color
	Joan Bridge Elizabeth Haffenden	A Man for All Seasons	Won
	Dorothy Jeakins	Hawaii	Nominated
	Edith Head	The Oscar	Nominated
Costume Design
1967	Theadora Van Runkle	Bonnie and Clyde	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	The Taming of the Shrew	Nominated	Shared with Danilo Donati.
1968	Margaret Furse	The Lion in Winter	Nominated
	Phyllis Dalton	Oliver!	Nominated
1969	Margaret Furse	Anne of the Thousand Days	Won
	Irene Sharaff	Hello, Dolly!	Nominated
	Edith Head	Sweet Charity	Nominated
1970		Airport	Nominated
	Margaret Furse	Scrooge	Nominated
1971	Yvonne Blake	Nicholas and Alexandra	Won	Shared with Antonio Castillo.
	Margaret Furse	Mary, Queen of Scots	Nominated
1972	Anna Hill Johnstone	The Godfather	Nominated
	Norma Koch	Lady Sings the Blues	Nominated	Shared with Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie.
1973	Edith Head	The Sting	Won	Holds the record for most wins in this category, with eight. Holds the record for most wins by a woman in any category, with eight.
	Marik Vos	Cries and Whispers	Nominated
	Dorothy Jeakins	The Way We Were	Nominated	Shared with Moss Mabry.
1974	Theoni V. Aldredge	The Great Gatsby	Won
	Anthea Sylbert	Chinatown	Nominated
	Theadora Van Runkle	The Godfather Part II	Nominated
1975	Milena Canonero Ulla-Britt Söderlund	Barry Lyndon	Won
	Yvonne Blake	The Four Musketeers	Nominated	Shared with Ron Talsky.
	Karin Erskine Henny Noremark	The Magic Flute	Nominated
	Edith Head	The Man Who Would Be King	Nominated
1976	Mary Wills	The Passover Plot	Nominated
1977	Edith Head	Airport '77	Nominated	Holds the record for most nominations in this category, with 35. Holds the record for most nominations by a woman in any category, with 35. Shared with Burton Miller.
	Anthea Sylbert	Julia	Nominated
	Florence Klotz	A Little Night Music	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	The Other Side of Midnight	Nominated
1978	Renié	Caravans	Nominated
	Patricia Norris	Days of Heaven	Nominated
1979	Shirley Ann Russell	Agatha	Nominated
	Ambra Danon	La Cage aux Folles	Nominated	Shared with Piero Tosi.
	Judy Moorcroft	The Europeans	Nominated
1980	Patricia Norris	The Elephant Man	Nominated
	Anna Senior	My Brilliant Career	Nominated
1981	Milena Canonero	Chariots of Fire	Won
	Anna Hill Johnstone	Ragtime	Nominated
	Shirley Ann Russell	Reds	Nominated
1982	Bhanu Athaiya	Gandhi	Won	First woman of color to win and be nominated for Best Costume Design. Shared with John Mollo.
	Elois Jenssen Rosanna Norton	Tron	Nominated
	Patricia Norris	Victor/Victoria	Nominated
1983	Marik Vos	Fanny and Alexander	Won
	Anne-Marie Marchand	The Return of Martin Guerre	Nominated
1984	Patricia Norris	2010	Nominated
	Jenny Beavan	The Bostonians	Nominated	Shared with John Bright.
	Judy Moorcroft	A Passage to India	Nominated
	Ann Roth	Places in the Heart	Nominated
1985	Emi Wada	Ran	Won
	Aggie Guerard Rodgers	The Color Purple	Nominated
	Milena Canonero	Out of Africa	Nominated
1986	Jenny Beavan	A Room with a View	Won	Shared with John Bright.
	Anna Anni	Otello	Nominated
	Theadora Van Runkle	Peggy Sue Got Married	Nominated
1987	Dorothy Jeakins	The Dead	Nominated
	Jenny Beavan	Maurice	Nominated	Shared with John Bright.
	Marilyn Vance-Straker	The Untouchables	Nominated
1988	Deborah Nadoolman	Coming to America	Nominated
	Jane Robinson	A Handful of Dust	Nominated
	Patricia Norris	Sunset	Nominated
	Milena Canonero	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Nominated
1989	Phyllis Dalton	Henry V	Won
	Gabriella Pescucci	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Nominated
	Elizabeth McBride	Driving Miss Daisy	Nominated
1990	Franca Squarciapino	Cyrano de Bergerac	Won
	Gloria Gresham	Avalon	Nominated
	Elsa Zamparelli	Dances with Wolves	Nominated
	Milena Canonero	Dick Tracy	Nominated
1991	Ruth Myers	The Addams Family	Nominated
	Corinne Jorry	Madame Bovary	Nominated
1992	Eiko Ishioka	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won
	Sheena Napier	Enchanted April	Nominated
	Jenny Beavan	Howards End	Nominated	Shared with John Bright.
	Ruth E. Carter	Malcolm X	Nominated	First African-American and black woman to be nominated for Best Costume Design.
1993 [note 5]	Gabriella Pescucci	The Age of Innocence	Won
	Sandy Powell	Orlando	Nominated
	Janet Patterson	The Piano	Nominated
	Jenny Beavan	The Remains of the Day	Nominated	Shared with John Bright.
	Anna B. Sheppard	Schindler's List	Nominated
1994	Lizzy Gardiner	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Won	Shared with Tim Chappel.
	Colleen Atwood	Little Women	Nominated
	April Ferry	Maverick	Nominated
	Moidele Bickel	Queen Margot	Nominated
1995	Julie Weiss	12 Monkeys	Nominated
	Shuna Harwood	Richard III	Nominated
	Jenny Beavan	Sense and Sensibility	Nominated	Shared with John Bright.
1996	Ann Roth	The English Patient	Won
	Ruth Myers	Emma	Nominated
	Alexandra Byrne	Hamlet	Nominated
	Janet Patterson	The Portrait of a Lady	Nominated
1997	Deborah Lynn Scott	Titanic	Won
	Ruth E. Carter	Amistad	Nominated	First African-American and woman of color with multiple nominations in this category.
	Janet Patterson	Oscar and Lucinda	Nominated
	Sandy Powell	The Wings of the Dove	Nominated
1998 [note 5]		Shakespeare in Love	Won
	Colleen Atwood	Beloved	Nominated
	Alexandra Byrne	Elizabeth	Nominated
	Judianna Makovsky	Pleasantville	Nominated
	Sandy Powell	Velvet Goldmine	Nominated
1999 [note 5]	Lindy Hemming	Topsy-Turvy	Won
	Jenny Beavan	Anna and the King	Nominated
	Colleen Atwood	Sleepy Hollow	Nominated
	Ann Roth	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated	Shared with Gary Jones.
	Milena Canonero	Titus	Nominated
2000	Janty Yates	Gladiator	Won
	Rita Ryack	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Nominated
	Jacqueline West	Quills	Nominated
2001 [note 5]	Catherine Martin	Moulin Rouge!	Won	Shared with Angus Strathie.
	Milena Canonero	The Affair of the Necklace	Nominated
	Jenny Beavan	Gosford Park	Nominated
	Judianna Makovsky	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Nominated
	Ngila Dickson	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	Shared with Richard Taylor.
2002 [note 5]	Colleen Atwood	Chicago	Won
	Julie Weiss	Frida	Nominated
	Sandy Powell	Gangs of New York	Nominated
	Ann Roth	The Hours	Nominated
	Anna B. Sheppard	The Pianist	Nominated
2003 [note 5]	Ngila Dickson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won	Shared with Richard Taylor.
	Dien van Straalen	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Nominated
	Ngila Dickson	The Last Samurai	Nominated
	Wendy Stites	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Nominated
	Judianna Makovsky	Seabiscuit	Nominated
2004	Sandy Powell	The Aviator	Won
	Alexandra Byrne	Finding Neverland	Nominated
	Colleen Atwood	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Nominated
	Sharen Davis	Ray	Nominated
2005 [note 5]	Colleen Atwood	Memoirs of a Geisha	Won
	Gabriella Pescucci	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Nominated
	Sandy Powell	Mrs Henderson Presents	Nominated
	Jacqueline Durran	Pride & Prejudice	Nominated
	Arianne Phillips	Walk the Line	Nominated
2006	Milena Canonero	Marie Antoinette	Won
	Patricia Field	The Devil Wears Prada	Nominated
	Sharen Davis	Dreamgirls	Nominated
	Consolata Boyle	The Queen	Nominated
2007	Alexandra Byrne	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Won	Twelfth consecutive woman to win in this category.
	Jacqueline Durran	Atonement	Nominated
	Marit Allen	La Vie en Rose	Nominated	Posthumous nomination.
	Colleen Atwood	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Nominated
2008	Catherine Martin	Australia	Nominated
	Jacqueline West	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated
2009 [note 5]	Sandy Powell	The Young Victoria	Won
	Janet Patterson	Bright Star	Nominated
	Catherine Leterrier	Coco Before Chanel	Nominated
	Monique Prudhomme	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	Nominated
	Colleen Atwood	Nine	Nominated
2010 [note 5]		Alice in Wonderland	Won
	Antonella Cannarozzi	I Am Love	Nominated
	Jenny Beavan	The King's Speech	Nominated
	Sandy Powell	The Tempest	Nominated
	Mary Zophres	True Grit	Nominated
2011	Lisy Christl	Anonymous	Nominated
	Sandy Powell	Hugo	Nominated
	Arianne Phillips	W.E.	Nominated
2012	Jacqueline Durran	Anna Karenina	Won
	Joanna Johnston	Lincoln	Nominated
	Eiko Ishioka	Mirror Mirror	Nominated	Posthumous nomination.
	Colleen Atwood	Snow White and the Huntsman	Nominated
2013	Catherine Martin	The Great Gatsby	Won
	Patricia Norris	12 Years a Slave	Nominated	Holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with six.
2014	Milena Canonero	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Won
	Colleen Atwood	Into the Woods	Nominated
	Anna B. Sheppard	Maleficent	Nominated
	Jacqueline Durran	Mr. Turner	Nominated
2015	Jenny Beavan	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won
	Sandy Powell	Carol	Nominated
		Cinderella	Nominated
	Jacqueline West	The Revenant	Nominated
2016 [note 5]	Colleen Atwood	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Won
	Joanna Johnston	Allied	Nominated
	Consolata Boyle	Florence Foster Jenkins	Nominated
	Madeline Fontaine	Jackie	Nominated
	Mary Zophres	La La Land	Nominated
2017	Jacqueline Durran	Beauty and the Beast	Nominated
		Darkest Hour	Nominated
	Consolata Boyle	Victoria & Abdul	Nominated
2018 [note 5]	Ruth E. Carter	Black Panther	Won	First African-American and black woman to win for Best Costume Design.
	Mary Zophres	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Nominated
	Sandy Powell	The Favourite	Nominated
		Mary Poppins Returns	Nominated
	Alexandra Byrne	Mary Queen of Scots	Nominated
2019	Jacqueline Durran	Little Women	Won
	Sandy Powell	The Irishman	Nominated	Shared with Christopher Peterson.
	Mayes C. Rubeo	Jojo Rabbit	Nominated	First Latina to be nominated for Best Costume Design.
	Arianne Phillips	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Nominated
2020	Ann Roth	Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom	Won	Oldest woman to win in any category, at age 89.
	Alexandra Byrne	Emma	Nominated
	Trish Summerville	Mank	Nominated
	Bina Daigeler	Mulan	Nominated
2021	Jenny Beavan	Cruella	Won
	Jacqueline Durran	Cyrano	Nominated	Shared with Massimo Cantini Parrini.
	Jacqueline West	Dune	Nominated	Shared with Robert Morgan.
2022 [note 5]	Ruth E. Carter	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	Won	First African-American and woman of color with multiple wins in this category. First Black woman to win multiple Oscars.
	Mary Zophres	Babylon	Nominated
	Catherine Martin	Elvis	Nominated
	Shirley Kurata	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Nominated
	Jenny Beavan	Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris	Nominated
2023 [note 5]	Holly Waddington	Poor Things	Won
	Jacqueline Durran	Barbie	Nominated
	Jacqueline West	Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated
	Janty Yates	Napoleon	Nominated	Shared with Dave Crossman.
	Ellen Mirojnick	Oppenheimer	Nominated

Best Director

Academy Award for Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1976	Lina Wertmüller	Seven Beauties	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Director.
1993	Jane Campion	The Piano	Nominated
2003	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	Nominated
2009	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker	Won	First woman to win for Best Director.
2017	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird	Nominated
2020 [note 1]	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland	Won	First woman of color to win and be nominated for Best Director.
	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman	Nominated
2021	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog	Won	First woman with multiple nominations in this category.
2023	Justine Triet	Anatomy of a Fall	Nominated

Best Documentary Film (Feature)

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1948	Janice Loeb	The Quiet One	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film.
1955	Nancy Hamilton	Helen Keller in Her Story	Won	First woman to win for Best Documentary Feature Film.
1972	Sarah Kernochan	Marjoe	Won	Shared with Howard Smith.
1973	Gertrude Ross Marks	Walls of Fire	Nominated	Shared with Edmund F. Penney.
1974 [note 1]	Judy Collins Jill Godmilow	Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman	Nominated
	Natalie R. Jones	The Wild and the Brave	Nominated	Shared with Eugene S. Jones.
1975	Shirley MacLaine	The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir	Nominated
1976	Barbara Kopple	Harlan County, U.S.A.	Won
1977	Julia Reichert	Union Maids	Nominated	Shared with Jim Klein and Miles Mogulescu.
1978	Joan Root	Mysterious Castles of Clay	Nominated	Shared with Alan Root.
	Anne Bohlen Lyn Goldfarb Lorraine Gray	With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade	Nominated
1981	Suzanne Bauman	Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey	Nominated	Shared with Paul Neshamkin and Jim Burroughs.
	Mary Benjamin Susanne Simpson	Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott	Nominated	Shared with Boyd Estus.
	Tete Vasconcellos	El Salvador: Another Vietnam	Nominated	First Latina to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. Shared with Glenn Silber.
1982	Meg Switzgable	In Our Water	Nominated
1983	Robin Anderson	First Contact	Nominated	Shared with Bob Connolly.
	Tina Viljoen	The Profession of Arms	Nominated	Shared with Michael Bryans.
	Julia Reichert	Seeing Red	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with James Klein.
1984	Nancy Sloss	High Schools	Nominated	Shared with Charles Guggenheim.
	Cheryl McCall	Streetwise	Nominated
1985	Maria Florio Victoria Mudd	Broken Rainbow	Won
	Susana Blaustein Muñoz Lourdes Portillo	The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	Nominated
1986 [note 6]	Brigitte Berman	Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got	Won	Tied with Joseph Feury and Milton Justice for Down and Out in America , which was also directed by a woman, Lee Grant. Despite that, Grant didn't share the award personally because, under the Academy rules at the time, only credited producers were accepted for nomination in this category. Nevertheless, according to the revised rules, the credited director must be named as a nominee alongside the producers. [1]
	Sharon I. Sopher	Witness to Apartheid	Nominated
1987	Aviva Slesin	The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table	Won
	Callie Crossley	Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years	Nominated	First African-American and woman of color to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. Shared with James A. DeVinney.
	Barbara Herbich	A Stitch for Time	Nominated	Shared with Cyril Christo.
1988	Nan Bush	Let's Get Lost	Nominated	Shared with Bruce Weber.
	Ginny Durrin	Promises to Keep	Nominated
	Renee Tajima-Peña Christine Choy	Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Nominated
1989	Yvonne Smith	Adam Clayton Powell	Nominated	Shared with Richard Kilberg.
	Betsy Broyles Breier	For All Mankind	Nominated	Shared with Al Reinert.
	Judith Leonard	Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren	Nominated	Shared with Bill Jersey.
1990	Barbara Kopple	American Dream	Won	First woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Arthur Cohn.
	Susan Robinson	Building Bombs	Nominated	Shared with Mark Mori.
	Judith Montell	Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade	Nominated
1991	Allie Light	In the Shadow of the Stars	Won	Shared with Irving Saraf.
	Susan Raymond	Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House	Nominated	Shared with Alan Raymond.
	Hava Kohav Beller	The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945	Nominated
	Diane Garey	Wild by Law	Nominated	Shared with Lawrence Hott.
1992	Barbara Trent	The Panama Deception	Won	Shared with David Kasper.
	Sally Dundas	Fires of Kuwait	Nominated
	Nina Rosenblum	Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II	Nominated	Shared with Bill Miles.
	Margaret Smilow Roma Baran	Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann	Nominated
1993	Susan Raymond	I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School	Won	Shared with Alan Raymond.
	Susan Todd	Children of Fate	Nominated	Shared with Andrew Young.
	Betsy Thompson	For Better or For Worse	Nominated	Shared with David Collier.
	Chris Hegedus	The War Room	Nominated	Shared with D.A. Pennebaker.
1994	Freida Lee Mock	Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision	Won	First woman of color to win for Best Documentary Feature Film. First woman and woman of color to be nominated in both documentary categories (For the further information, see Best Documentary Short Film).
	Deborah Hoffmann	Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter	Nominated
	Connie Field Marilyn Mulford	Freedom on My Mind	Nominated
	Jean Bach	A Great Day in Harlem	Nominated
1995	Jeanne Jordan	Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	Nominated	Shared with Steven Ascher.
1996	Susan W. Dryfoos	The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story	Nominated
	Anne Belle Deborah Dickson	Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse	Nominated
1997	Michèle Ohayon Julia Schachter	Colors Straight Up	Nominated
1998	Liz Garbus	The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.	Nominated	Shared with Jonathan Stack.
	Barbara Sonneborn Janet Cole	Regret to Inform	Nominated
1999	Nanette Burstein	On the Ropes	Nominated	Shared with Brett Morgen.
	Paola di Florio Lilibet Foster	Speaking in Strings	Nominated
2000	Deborah Oppenheimer	Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport	Won	Shared with Mark Jonathan Harris.
	Deborah Hoffmann Frances Reid	Long Night's Journey into Day	Nominated
2001	Edet Belzberg	Children Underground	Nominated
	Deborah Dickson Susan Froemke	LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton	Nominated
	Justine Shapiro	Promises	Nominated	Shared with B.Z. Goldberg.
2002	Gail Dolgin	Daughter from Danang	Nominated	Shared with Vicente Franco.
2003	Susan R. Behr	My Architect	Nominated	Shared with Nathaniel Kahn.
2004	Zana Briski	Born into Brothels	Won	Shared with Ross Kauffman.
	Byambasuren Davaa	The Story of the Weeping Camel	Nominated	Shared with Luigi Falorni.
	Karolyn Ali Lauren Lazin	Tupac: Resurrection	Nominated
2006	Amy Berg	Deliver Us from Evil	Nominated	Shared with Frank Donner.
	Heidi Ewing Rachel Grady	Jesus Camp	Nominated
	Jocelyn Glatzer Laura Poitras	My Country, My Country	Nominated}
2007	Eva Orner	Taxi to the Dark Side	Won	Shared with Alex Gibney.
	Audrey Marrs	No End in Sight	Nominated	Shared with Charles Ferguson.
	Meghan O'Hara	Sicko	Nominated	Shared with Michael Moore.
	Andrea Nix Fine	War/Dance	Nominated	Shared with Sean Fine.
2008	Ellen Kuras	The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)	Nominated	Shared with Thavisouk Phrasavath.
	Tia Lessin	Trouble the Water	Nominated	Shared with Carl Deal.
2009	Lise Lense-Møller	Burma VJ	Nominated	Shared with Anders Østergaard.
	Elise Pearlstein	Food, Inc.	Nominated	Shared with Robert Kenner.
	Judith Ehrlich	The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers	Nominated	Shared with Rick Goldsmith.
	Rebecca Cammisa	Which Way Home	Nominated
2010	Audrey Marrs	Inside Job	Won	Shared with Charles Ferguson.
	Trish Adlesic	Gasland	Nominated	Shared with Josh Fox.
	Lucy Walker	Waste Land	Nominated	Shared with Angus Aynsley.
2012	Philippa Kowarsky Estelle Fialon	The Gatekeepers	Nominated	Shared with Dror Moreh.
	Amy Ziering	The Invisible War	Nominated	Shared with Kirby Dick.
2013	Caitrin Rogers	20 Feet from Stardom	Won	Shared with Morgan Neville and Gil Friesen.
	Signe Byrge Sorensen	The Act of Killing	Nominated	Shared with Joshua Oppenheimer.
	Lydia Dean Pilcher	Cutie and the Boxer	Nominated	Shared with Zachary Heinzerling.
	Jehane Noujaim	The Square	Nominated	Shared with Karim Amer.
2014	Laura Poitras Mathilde Bonnefoy	Citizenfour	Won	Shared with Dirk Wilutzky.
	Rory Kennedy	Last Days in Vietnam	Nominated	Shared with Keven McAlester.
	Joanna Natasegara	Virunga	Nominated	Shared with Orlando von Einsiedel.
2015	Signe Byrge Sorensen	The Look of Silence	Nominated	Shared with Joshua Oppenheimer.
	Liz Garbus Amy Hobby	What Happened, Miss Simone?	Nominated	Shared with Justin Wilkes.
2016	Caroline Waterlow	O.J.: Made in America	Won	Shared with Ezra Edelman.
	Donatella Palermo	Fire at Sea	Nominated	Shared with Gianfranco Rosi.
	Julie Goldman	Life, Animated	Nominated	Shared with Roger Ross Williams.
	Ava DuVernay	13th	Nominated	Shared with Spencer Averick and Howard Barish.
2017	Julie Goldman	Abacus: Small Enough to Jail	Nominated	Shared with Steve James and Mark Mitten.
	Agnès Varda Rosalie Varda	Faces Places	Nominated	Shared with JR.
	Joslyn Barnes	Strong Island	Nominated	Shared with Yance Ford.
2018 [note 7]	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Shannon Dill	Free Solo	Won	Shared with Jimmy Chin and Evan Hayes.
	Joslyn Barnes Su Kim	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	Nominated	Shared with RaMell Ross.
	Diane Quon	Minding the Gap	Nominated	Shared with Bing Liu.
	Eva Kemme	Of Fathers and Sons	Nominated	Shared with Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, and Tobias N. Siebert.
	Betsy West Julie Cohen	RBG	Nominated
2019 [note 7]	Julia Reichert	American Factory	Won	Shared with Steven Bognar and Jeff Reichert.
	Kirstine Barfod Sigrid Dyekjær	The Cave	Nominated	Shared with Feras Fayyad.
	Petra Costa Joanna Natasegara	The Edge of Democracy	Nominated	Shared with Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan.
	Waad Al-Kateab	For Sama	Nominated	Shared with Edward Watts.
	Tamara Kotevska	Honeyland	Nominated	Shared with Ljubomir Stefanov and Atanas Georgiev.
2020 [note 7]	Pippa Ehrlich	My Octopus Teacher	Won	Shared with James Reed and Craig Foster.
	Bianca Oana	Collective	Nominated	Shared with Alexander Nanau.
	Nicole Newnham Sara Bolder	Crip Camp	Nominated	Shared with Jim LeBrecht.
	Maite Alberdi Marcela Santibáñez	The Mole Agent	Nominated
	Garrett Bradley Lauren Domino	Time	Nominated	Shared with Kellen Quinn.
2021	Jessica Kingdon Kira Simon-Kennedy	Ascension	Nominated	Shared with Nathan Truesdell.
	Traci A. Curry	Attica	Nominated	Shared with Stanley Nelson.
	Monica Hellström Signe Byrge Sørensen Charlotte de la Gournerie	Flee	Nominated	First animated documentary to be nominated in this category. Shared with Jonas Poher Rasmussen.
	Rintu Thomas	Writing with Fire	Nominated	Shared with Sushmit Ghosh.
2022	Odessa Rae Diane Becker Melanie Miller	Navalny	Won	Shared with Daniel Roher and Shane Boris.
	Laura Poitras Nan Goldin	All the Beauty and the Bloodshed	Nominated	Shared with Howard Gertler, John Lyons, and Yoni Golijov.
	Sara Dosa Ina Fichman	Fire of Love	Nominated	Shared with Shane Boris.
	Monica Hellström	A House Made of Splinters	Nominated	Shared with Simon Lereng Wilmont.
2023	Michelle Mizner Raney Aronson-Rath	20 Days in Mariupol	Won	Shared with Mstyslav Chernov.
	Maite Alberdi	The Eternal Memory	Nominated
	Kaouther Ben Hania	Four Daughters	Nominated	Shared with Nadim Cheikhrouha.
	Nisha Pahuja Cornelia Principe	To Kill a Tiger	Nominated	Shared with David Oppenheim.

Best Documentary Film (Short)

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1960	Altina Schinasi	George Grosz' Interregnum	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. Shared with Charles Carey.
1966	Helen Kristt Radin	The Odds Against	Nominated	Shared with Lee R. Bobker.
1969 [note 1]	Joan Horvath	Jenny Is a Good Thing	Nominated
	Joan Keller Stern	The Magic Machines	Nominated
1970	Vivien Carey	Oisin	Nominated	Shared with Patrick Carey.
1972	Martina Huguenot van der Linden	This Tiny World	Won	First woman to win for Best Documentary Short Film. Shared with Charles Huguenot van der Linden.
1973	June Wayne	Four Stones for Kanemitsu	Nominated	Shared with Terry Sanders.
1974	Lesley Foster	John Muir's High Sierra	Nominated	Shared with Dewitt Jones.
1975	Claire Wilbur	The End of the Game	Won	Shared with Robin Lehman.
	Kristine Samuelson	Arthur and Lillie	Nominated	Shared with Jon Else and Steven Kovacs.
1976	Lynne Littman Barbara Myerhoff	Number Our Days	Won
1977	Helen Whitney	First Edition	Nominated	Shared with DeWitt L. Sage, Jr.
1978	Jacqueline Phillips Shedd	The Flight of the Gossamer Condor	Won	Shared with Ben Shedd.
1981	Linda Chapman Pam LeBlanc Freddi Stevens	See What I Say	Nominated
1982	Terre Nash	If You Love This Planet	Won	Shared with Edward Le Lorrain.
	Freida Lee Mock	To Live or Let Die	Nominated	First woman of color to be nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. First woman and woman of color to be nominated in both documentary categories For the further information, see Best Documentary Feature Film).
1983	Cynthia Scott	Flamenco at 5:15	Won	Shared with Adam Symansky.
	Vivienne Verdon-Roe	In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?	Nominated	Shared with Eric Thiermann.
	Dea Brokman Ilene Landis	You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei)	Nominated
1984	Marjorie Hunt	The Stone Carvers	Won	Shared with Paul Wagner.
	Joan Sawyer	Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing	Nominated	Shared with Ben Achtenberg.
	Irina Kalinina	Recollections of Pavlovsk	Nominated
1985	Barbara Willis Sweete	Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra	Nominated
1986	Vivienne Verdon-Roe	Women – for America, for the World	Won	First woman with multiple nominations in this category.
	Alison Nigh-Strelich	Debonair Dancers	Nominated
	Sonya Friedman	The Masters of Disaster	Nominated
	Madeline Bell	Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse	Nominated	Shared with Thomas L. Neff.
1987	Sue Marx Pamela Conn	Young at Heart	Won
	Deborah Dickson	Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller	Nominated
	Megan Williams	Language Says It All	Nominated
	Lynn Mueller	Silver into Gold	Nominated
1988	Karen Goodman	The Children's Storefront	Nominated
	Lise Yasui Ann Tegnell	Family Gathering	Nominated
	Nancy Hale Meg Partridge	Portrait of Imogen	Nominated
1990	Karen Goodman	Chimps: So Like Us	Nominated	Shared with Kirk Simon.
	Freida Lee Mock	Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember	Nominated	First woman of color with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Terry Sanders.
1991	Debra Chasnoff	Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment	Won
	Immy Humes	A Little Vicious	Nominated
1992	Gerardine Wurzburg	Educating Peter	Won	Shared with Thomas C. Goodwin (p. a.)
	Wendy L. Weinberg	Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review'	Nominated
	Sally Bochner	The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein	Nominated	Shared with Richard Elson.
	Dorothy Fadiman	When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories	Nominated
1993	Margaret Lazarus	Defending Our Lives	Won	Shared with Renner Wunderlich.
	Elaine Holliman	Chicks in White Satin	Nominated	Shared with Jason Schneider.
1994	Dee Mosbacher Frances Reid	Straight from the Heart	Nominated
1995	Nancy Dine	Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls	Nominated	Shared with Richard Stilwell.
	Freida Lee Mock	Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper	Nominated	Shared with Terry Sanders.
1996	Jessica Yu	Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien	Won	First woman of color to win for Best Documentary Short Film.
	Susanne Simpson	Special Effects: Anything Can Happen	Nominated	Shared with Ben Burtt.
1997	Donna Dewey Carol Pasternak	A Story of Healing	Won
	Terri Randall	Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride	Nominated
	Andrea Blaugrund	Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies	Nominated	Shared with Mel Damski.
1998	Keiko Ibi	The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years	Won
1999	Susan Hannah Hadary	King Gimp	Won	Shared with William A. Whiteford.
2000	Tracy Seretean	Big Mama	Won
2001 [note 8]	Sarah Kernochan Lynn Appelle	Thoth	Won
	Lianne Klapper McNally	Artists and Orphans: A True Drama	Nominated
	Freida Lee Mock Jessica Sanders	Sing!	Nominated	Mock holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with four.
2002	Alice Elliott	The Collector of Bedford Street	Nominated
2003 [note 8]	Maryann DeLeo	Chernobyl Heart	Won
	Sandy McLeod Gini Reticker	Asylum	Nominated
	Katja Esson	Ferry Tales	Nominated
2004	Gerardine Wurzburg	Autism Is a World	Nominated
	Hanna Polak	The Children of Leningradsky	Nominated	Shared with Andrzej Celinski.
	Erin Faith Young	Hardwood	Nominated	Shared with Hubert Davis.
2005	Corinne Marrinan	A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin	Won	Shared with Eric Simonson.
	Kimberlee Acquaro Stacy Sherman	God Sleeps in Rwanda	Nominated
2006 [note 8]	Ruby Yang	The Blood of Yingzhou District	Won	Shared with Thomas Lennon.
	Leslie Iwerks	Recycled Life	Nominated	Shared with Mike Glad.
	Karen Goodman	Rehearsing a Dream	Nominated	Shared with Kirk Simon.
	Susan Rose Behr	Two Hands	Nominated	Shared with Nathaniel Kahn.
2007	Cynthia Wade Vanessa Roth	Freeheld	Won
	Amanda Micheli Isabel Vega	La Corona	Nominated
2008	Megan Mylan	Smile Pinki	Won
	Irene Taylor Brodsky	The Final Inch	Nominated	Shared with Tom Grant.
	Margaret Hyde	The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306	Nominated	Shared with Adam Pertofsky.
2009	Elinor Burkett	Music by Prudence	Won	Shared with Roger Ross Williams.
	Julia Reichert	The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant	Nominated	Shared with Steven Bognar.
	Anna Wydra	Rabbit à la Berlin	Nominated	Shared with Bartek Konopka.
2010	Karen Goodman	Strangers No More	Won	Shared with Kirk Simon.
	Sara Nesson	Poster Girl	Nominated	Shared with Mitchell Block.
	Jennifer Redfearn	Sun Come Up	Nominated	Shared with Tim Metzger.
	Ruby Yang	The Warriors of Qiugang	Nominated	Shared with Thomas Lennon.
2011	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	Saving Face	Won	Shared with Daniel Junge.
	Robin Fryday Gail Dolgin	The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement	Nominated
	Rebecca Cammisa Julie Anderson	God Is the Bigger Elvis	Nominated
	Lucy Walker Kira Carstensen	The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom	Nominated
2012	Andrea Nix Fine	Inocente	Won	Shared with Sean Fine.
	Sari Gilman	Kings Point	Nominated	Shared with Jedd Wider.
	Cynthia Wade Robin Honan	Mondays at Racine	Nominated
	Cori Shepherd Stern	Open Heart	Nominated	Shared with Kief Davidson.
2013	Sara Ishaq	Karama Has No Walls	Nominated
2014	Ellen Goosenberg Kent Dana Perry	Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1	Won
	Aneta Kopacz	Joanna	Nominated
2015	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness	Won	First woman and woman of color with multiple wins in this category.
	Courtney Marsh	Chau, Beyond the Lines	Nominated	Shared with Jerry Franck.
	Dee Hibbert-Jones Nomi Talisman	Last Day of Freedom	Nominated
2016	Joanna Natasegara	The White Helmets	Won	Shared with Orlando von Einsiedel.
	Daphne Matziaraki	4.1 Miles	Nominated
	Kahane Cooperman Raphaela Neihausen	Joe's Violin	Nominated
2017	Laura Checkoway	Edith+Eddie	Nominated	Shared with Thomas Lee Wright.
	Elaine McMillion Sheldon	Heroin(e)	Nominated	Shared with Kerrin Sheldon.
	Kate Davis	Traffic Stop	Nominated	Shared with David Heilbroner.
2018	Rayka Zehtabchi Melissa Berton	Period. End of Sentence.	Won
2019	Carol Dysinger Elena Andreicheva	Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)	Won
	Kristine Samuelson	Life Overtakes Me	Nominated	Shared with John Haptas.
	Smriti Mundhra	St. Louis Superman	Nominated	Shared with Sami Khan.
	Laura Nix Colette Sandstedt	Walk Run Cha-Cha	Nominated
2020	Alice Doyard	Colette	Won	Shared with Anthony Giacchino.
	Charlotte Cook	Do Not Split	Nominated	Shared with Anders Hammer.
	Sophia Nahli Allison Janice Duncan	A Love Song for Latasha	Nominated	First black women to be nominated for Best Documentary Short Film.
2021	Elizabeth Mirzaei	Three Songs for Benazir	Nominated	Shared with Gulistan Mirzaei
2022	Kartiki Gonsalves Guneet Monga	The Elephant Whisperers	Won
	Evgenia Arbugaeva	Haulout	Nominated	Shared with Maxim Arbugaev.
	Anne Alvergue Beth Levison	The Martha Mitchell Effect	Nominated
2023	Sheila Nevins Trish Adlesic	The ABCs of Book Banning	Nominated
	Christine Turner	The Barber of Little Rock	Nominated	Shared with John Hoffman.
	Jean Tsien	Island in Between	Nominated	Shared with S. Leo Chiang.

Best Film Editing

Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1934	Anne Bauchens	Cleopatra	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Film Editing. Among the inaugural nominees in this category.
1935 [note 1]	Barbara McLean	Les Misérables	Nominated
	Margaret Booth	Mutiny on the Bounty	Nominated
1936	Barbara McLean	Lloyd's of London	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations in this category.
1938		Alexander's Ragtime Band	Nominated
1939		The Rains Came	Nominated
	Dorothy Spencer	Stagecoach	Nominated	Shared with Otho Lovering.
1940	Anne Bauchens	North West Mounted Police	Won	First woman to win for Best Film Editing.
1943	Barbara McLean	The Song of Bernadette	Nominated
1944		Wilson	Won
1947	Monica Collingwood	The Bishop's Wife	Nominated
1950	Barbara McLean	All About Eve	Nominated
1951	Adrienne Fazan	An American in Paris	Nominated
	Dorothy Spencer	Decision Before Dawn	Nominated
1952	Anne Bauchens	The Greatest Show on Earth	Nominated
1955	Alma Macrorie	The Bridges at Toko-Ri	Nominated
1956	Anne Bauchens	The Ten Commandments	Nominated
1957	Viola Lawrence	Pal Joey	Nominated	Shared with Jerome Thoms.
1958	Adrienne Fazan	Gigi	Won
1960	Viola Lawrence	Pepe	Nominated	Shared with Al Clark.
1962	Anne V. Coates	Lawrence of Arabia	Won
1963	Dorothy Spencer	Cleopatra	Nominated
1964	Anne V. Coates	Becket	Nominated
1967	Marjorie Fowler	Doctor Dolittle	Nominated	Shared with Samuel E. Beetley.
1968	Eve Newman	Wild in the Streets	Nominated	Shared with Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
1969	Françoise Bonnot	Z	Won
1970	Thelma Schoonmaker	Woodstock	Nominated	First documentary to be nominated in this category.
1973	Verna Fields Marcia Lucas	American Graffiti	Nominated
1974	Dorothy Spencer	Earthquake	Nominated
1975	Verna Fields	Jaws	Won
	Dede Allen	Dog Day Afternoon	Nominated
	Lynzee Klingman	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Nominated	Shared with Richard Chew and Sheldon Kahn.
1976	Eve Newman	Two-Minute Warning	Nominated	Shared with Walter Hannemann.
1977	Marcia Lucas	Star Wars	Won	Shared with Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew.
1979	Lisa Fruchtman	Apocalypse Now	Nominated	Shared with Richard Marks, Walter Murch, and Gerald B. Greenberg.
1980	Thelma Schoonmaker	Raging Bull	Won
	Anne V. Coates	The Elephant Man	Nominated
1981	Dede Allen	Reds	Nominated	Shared with Craig McKay.
1982	Carol Littleton	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
1983	Lisa Fruchtman	The Right Stuff	Won	Shared with Glenn Farr, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, and Tom Rolf.
1984	Nena Danevic	Amadeus	Nominated	Shared with Michael Chandler.
1985	Kaja Fehr	Prizzi's Honor	Nominated	Shared with Rudi Fehr.
1986	Claire Simpson	Platoon	Won
	Susan E. Morse	Hannah and Her Sisters	Nominated
1987	Gabriella Cristiani	The Last Emperor	Won
1989	Noëlle Boisson	The Bear	Nominated
1990	Lisa Fruchtman	The Godfather Part III	Nominated	Shared with Barry Malkin and Walter Murch.
	Thelma Schoonmaker	Goodfellas	Nominated
1992	Geraldine Peroni	The Player	Nominated
1993	Anne V. Coates	In the Line of Fire	Nominated
	Veronika Jenet	The Piano	Nominated
1994	Sally Menke	Pulp Fiction	Nominated
1996	Pip Karmel	Shine	Nominated
1998	Simona Paggi	Life is Beautiful	Nominated
	Anne V. Coates	Out of Sight	Nominated
	Leslie Jones	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Shared with Billy Weber and Saar Klein.
1999	Lisa Zeno Churgin	The Cider House Rules	Nominated
2000	Dede Allen	Wonder Boys	Nominated
2001	Dody Dorn	Memento	Nominated
	Jill Bilcock	Moulin Rouge!	Nominated
2002	Thelma Schoonmaker	Gangs of New York	Nominated
2004		The Aviator	Won	First woman with multiple wins in this category.
2005	Claire Simpson	The Constant Gardener	Nominated
2006	Thelma Schoonmaker	The Departed	Won	Tied the record for most wins in this category, with three.
	Clare Douglas	United 93	Nominated	Shared with Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse.
2007	Juliette Welfling	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Nominated
2009	Chris Innis	The Hurt Locker	Won	Shared with Bob Murawski.
	Sally Menke	Inglourious Basterds	Nominated
2010	Pamela Martin	The Fighter	Nominated
2011	Anne-Sophie Bion	The Artist	Nominated	Shared with Michel Hazanavicius.
	Thelma Schoonmaker	Hugo	Nominated
2014	Sandra Adair	Boyhood	Nominated
2015	Margaret Sixel	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won
	Maryann Brandon Mary Jo Markey	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Nominated
2016	Joi McMillon	Moonlight	Nominated	First black woman and woman of color to be nominated for Best Film Editing. Shared with Nat Sanders.
2017	Tatiana S. Riegel	I, Tonya	Nominated
2019	Thelma Schoonmaker	The Irishman	Nominated
2020	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland	Nominated
2021	Pamela Martin	King Richard	Nominated
2022	Monika Willi	Tár	Nominated
2023	Jennifer Lame	Oppenheimer	Won
	Thelma Schoonmaker	Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	Holds the record for most nominations in this category, with nine.

Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to countries rather than filmmakers. This list contains female directors of nominated films who typically accept the award on behalf of their country.

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Year	Name	Film	Country	Status	Notes
1959	Astrid Henning-Jensen	Paw		Nominated	First woman to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film.
1976	Lina Wertmüller	Seven Beauties		Nominated
1983	Diane Kurys	Entre Nous		Nominated
1984	María Luisa Bemberg	Camila		Nominated	First Latina to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film.
1985 [note 9]	Agnieszka Holland	Angry Harvest		Nominated
	Coline Serreau	Three Men and a Cradle		Nominated
1988	Mira Nair	Salaam Bombay!		Nominated	First woman of color to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film.
1995	Marleen Gorris	Antonia's Line		Won	First woman to direct a film to win for Best International Feature Film.
1996	Nana Jorjadze	A Chef in Love		Nominated
	Berit Nesheim	The Other Side of Sunday		Nominated
1997	Caroline Link	Beyond Silence		Nominated
2000	Agnès Jaoui	The Taste of Others		Nominated
2002	Caroline Link	Nowhere in Africa		Won	First woman to direct multiple films nominated in this category.
	Paula van der Oest	Zus & Zo		Nominated
2005	Cristina Comencini	The Beast in the Heart		Nominated
2006	Susanne Bier	After the Wedding		Nominated
	Deepa Mehta	Water		Nominated
2009	Claudia Llosa	The Milk of Sorrow		Nominated
2010	Susanne Bier	In a Better World		Won
2011	Agnieszka Holland	In Darkness		Nominated	First woman to direct multiple films nominated in this category, each represented different country.
2015	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	Mustang		Nominated
2016	Maren Ade	Toni Erdmann		Nominated
2017	Ildikó Enyedi	On Body and Soul		Nominated
2018	Nadine Labaki	Capernaum		Nominated
2019	Tamara Kotevska	Honeyland		Nominated	Shared with Ljubomir Stefanov.
2020	Kaouther Ben Hania	The Man Who Sold His Skin		Nominated
	Jasmila Žbanić	Quo Vadis, Aida?		Nominated

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1982	Sarah Monzani Michèle Burke	Quest for Fire	Won	First women to win and be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
1986	Michèle Burke	The Clan of the Cave Bear	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Michael Westmore.
1988 [note 1]	Ve Neill	Beetlejuice	Won	Shared with Steve La Porte and Robert Short.
	Bari Dreiband-Burman	Scrooged	Nominated	Shared with Thomas R. Burman.
1989	Lynn Barber	Driving Miss Daisy	Won	Shared with Manlio Rocchetti and Kevin Haney.
	Maggie Weston	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Nominated	Shared with Fabrizio Sforza.
1990	Michèle Burke	Cyrano de Bergerac	Nominated	Shared with Jean-Pierre Eychenne.
	Ve Neill	Edward Scissorhands	Nominated	Shared with Stan Winston.
1991	Christina Smith	Hook	Nominated	Shared with Monty Westmore and Greg Cannom.
1992	Michèle Burke	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	First woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Greg Cannom and Matthew W. Mungle.
	Ve Neill Ronnie Specter	Batman Returns	Nominated	Shared with Stan Winston.
	Ve Neill	Hoffa	Nominated	Shared with Greg Cannom and John Blake.
1993	Ve Neill Yolanda Toussieng	Mrs. Doubtfire	Won	Shared with Greg Cannom.
	Christina Smith Judith A. Cory	Schindler's List	Nominated	Shared with Matthew W. Mungle.
1994 [note 10]	Ve Neill Yolanda Toussieng	Ed Wood	Won	Shared with Rick Baker.
	Hallie D'Amore Judith A. Cory	Forrest Gump	Nominated	Shared with Daniel C. Striepeke.
	Carol Hemming	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Nominated	Shared with Daniel Parker and Paul Engelen.
1995	Lois Burwell	Braveheart	Won	Shared with Peter Frampton and Paul Pattison.
	Colleen Callaghan	Roommates	Nominated	Shared with Greg Cannom and Bob Laden.
1996	Deborah La Mia Denaver	Ghosts of Mississippi	Nominated	Shared with Matthew W. Mungle.
1997	Lisa Westcott Veronica Brebner Beverley Binda	Mrs Brown	Nominated
	Tina Earnshaw	Titanic	Nominated	Shared with Greg Cannom and Simon Thompson.
1998 [note 10]	Jenny Shircore	Elizabeth	Won
	Lois Burwell	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated	Shared with Conor O'Sullivan and Daniel C. Striepeke.
	Lisa Westcott Veronica Brebner	Shakespeare in Love	Nominated
1999	Christine Blundell	Topsy-Turvy	Won	Shared with Trefor Proud.
	Michèle Burke	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	Nominated	Shared with Mike Smithson.
2000 [note 10]	Gail Ryan	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Won	Shared with Rick Baker.
	Michèle Burke	The Cell	Nominated	Shared with Edouard F. Henriques.
	Ann Buchanan Amber Sibley	Shadow of the Vampire	Nominated
2001	Colleen Callaghan	A Beautiful Mind	Nominated	Shared with Greg Cannom.
2002 [note 10]	Beatrice De Alba	Frida	Won	First Latina to win and be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Shared with John E. Jackson.
	Barbara Lorenz	The Time Machine	Nominated	Shared with John M. Elliott Jr.
2003	Yolanda Toussieng	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Nominated	Shared with Edouard F. Henriques.
	Ve Neill	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Nominated	Shared with Martin Samuel.
2004	Valli O'Reilly	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Won	Shared with Bill Corso.
	Jo Allen	The Sea Inside	Nominated	Shared with Manolo García.
2005	Tami Lane	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Won	Shared with Howard Berger.
	Nikki Gooley	Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	Nominated	Shared with Dave Elsey.
2006	Montse Ribé	Pan's Labyrinth	Won	Shared with David Martí.
2007	Jan Archibald	La Vie en Rose	Won	Shared with Didier Lavergne.
	Ve Neill	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Nominated	Shared with Martin Samuel.
2009	Mindy Hall	Star Trek	Won	Shared with Barney Burman and Joel Harlow.
	Jenny Shircore	The Young Victoria	Nominated	Shared with Jon Henry Gordon.
2010	Yolanda Toussieng	The Way Back	Nominated	Shared with Gregory Funk and Edouard F. Henriques.
2011	Lynn Johnson	Albert Nobbs	Nominated	Shared with Martial Corneville and Matthew W. Mungle.
	Amanda Knight Lisa Tomblin	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Nominated	Shared with Nick Dudman.
2012	Lisa Westcott Julie Dartnell	Les Misérables	Won
	Tami Lane	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	Shared with Peter Swords King and Rick Findlater.
2013	Adruitha Lee Robin Mathews	Dallas Buyers Club	Won
	Gloria Pasqua-Casny	The Lone Ranger	Nominated	Shared with Joel Harlow.
2014	Frances Hannon	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Won	Shared with Mark Coulier.
	Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou	Guardians of the Galaxy	Nominated	Shared with David White.
2015 [note 10]	Lesley Vanderwalt Elka Wardega	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won	Shared with Damian Martin.
	Eva von Bahr	The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared	Nominated	Shared with Love Larson.
	Siân Grigg	The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini.
2016	Eva von Bahr	A Man Called Ove	Nominated	Shared with Love Larson.
2017	Lucy Sibbick	Darkest Hour	Won	Shared with Kazuhiro Tsuji and David Malinowski.
	Lou Sheppard	Victoria & Abdul	Nominated	Shared with Daniel Phillips.
2018 [note 10]	Kate Biscoe Patricia Dehaney	Vice	Won	Shared with Greg Cannom.
	Pamela Goldammer	Border	Nominated	Shared with Göran Lundström.
	Jenny Shircore Jessica Brooks	Mary Queen of Scots	Nominated	Shared with Marc Pilcher.
2019	Anne Morgan Vivian Baker	Bombshell	Won	Shared with Kazu Hiro.
	Naomi Donne Rebecca Cole	1917	Nominated	Shared with Tristan Versluis.
	Nicki Ledermann Kay Georgiou	Joker	Nominated
2020 [note 10]	Mia Neal Jamika Wilson	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Won	First African-American and black women to win and be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Shared with Sergio López-Rivera.
	Marese Langan Laura Allen Claudia Stolze	Emma	Nominated
	Eryn Krueger Mekash Patricia Dehaney	Hillbilly Elegy	Nominated	Shared with Matthew W. Mungle.
	Gigi Williams Kimberley Spiteri Colleen LaBaff	Mank	Nominated
	Dalia Colli	Pinocchio	Nominated	Shared with Mark Coulier and Francesco Pegoretti.
2021 [note 10]	Linda Dowds Stephanie Ingram	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Won	Shared with Justin Raleigh.
	Stacey Morris Carla Farmer	Coming 2 America	Nominated	Shared with Mike Marino.
	Nadia Stacey Naomi Donne Julia Vernon	Cruella	Nominated
	Eva von Bahr	Dune	Nominated	Holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with three. Shared with Donald Mowat and Love Larson.
	Anna Carin Lock	House of Gucci	Nominated	Shared with Göran Lundström and Frederic Aspiras.
2022	Judy Chin Annemarie Bradley	The Whale	Won	Shared with Adrien Morot.
	Heike Merker Linda Eisenhamerová	All Quiet on the Western Front	Nominated
	Naomi Donne	The Batman	Nominated	Tied the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with three. Shared with Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine.
	Camille Friend	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	Nominated	Shared with Joel Harlow.
2023 [note 10]	Nadia Stacey	Poor Things	Won	Shared with Mark Coulier and Josh Weston.
	Karen Hartley Thomas Suzi Battersby Ashra Kelly-Blue	Golda	Nominated
	Kay Georgiou Lori McCoy-Bell	Maestro	Nominated	Shared with Kazu Hiro.
	Luisa Abel	Oppenheimer	Nominated
	Ana López-Puigcerver Montse Ribé	Society of the Snow	Nominated	Shared with David Martí.

Best Music (Original Score)

Academy Award for Best Original Score [note 11]
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1945	Ann Ronell	G.I. Joe	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Original Score. First woman to be nominated in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Song). Shared with Louis Applebaum.
Original Song Score
1970	Tylwyth Kymry (lyrics)	The Baby Maker	Nominated	Shared with Fred Karlin (music).
Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
1974	Angela Morley (adaptation score)	The Little Prince	Nominated	First transgender woman to be nominated in any category. Shared with Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe (song score); Douglas Gamley (adaptation score).
1977		The Slipper and the Rose	Nominated	First transgender woman with multiple nominations in any category. Shared with Sherman Brothers (song score).
Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
1983	Marilyn Bergman (song score)	Yentl	Won	First woman to win for Best Original Score. First woman to win in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Song). Shared with Michel Legrand (song & adaptation score); Alan Bergman (song score).
Original Musical or Comedy Score
1996	Rachel Portman	Emma	Won
1997 [note 1]	Anne Dudley	The Full Monty	Won
	Lynn Ahrens	Anastasia	Nominated	Shared with Stephen Flaherty & David Newman.
Original Score
1999	Rachel Portman	The Cider House Rules	Nominated
2000		Chocolat	Nominated
2016	Mica Levi	Jackie	Nominated	Subsequently came out as non-binary.
2019	Hildur Guðnadóttir	Joker	Won
2021	Germaine Franco	Encanto	Nominated	First Latina to be nominated for Best Original Score.
2023	Laura Karpman	American Fiction	Nominated

Best Music (Original Song)

Academy Award for Best Original Song
Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Notes
1935	Dorothy Fields (lyrics)	Roberta	"Lovely to Look At"	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Original Song Shared with Jerome Kern (music); Jimmy McHugh (lyrics).
1936		Swing Time	"The Way You Look Tonight"	Won	First woman to win for Best Original Song. First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Jerome Kern (music).
1945	Ann Ronell (music & lyrics)	G.I. Joe	"Linda"	Nominated	First woman to be nominated in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Score).
1953	Sylvia Fine (lyrics)	The Moon Is Blue	"The Moon Is Blue"	Nominated	Shared with Herschel Burke Gilbert (music).
1959	Sylvia Fine (music & lyrics)	The Five Pennies	"The Five Pennies"	Nominated
1960	Dory Langdon (lyrics)	Pepe	"Faraway Part of Town"	Nominated	Shared with André Previn (music).
1962		Two for the Seesaw	"Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)"	Nominated
1968	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	The Thomas Crown Affair	"The Windmills of Your Mind"	Won	First woman to win in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Score). Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
1969 [note 1]		The Happy Ending	"What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"	Nominated
	Dory Langdon (lyrics)	The Sterile Cuckoo	"Come Saturday Morning"	Nominated	Shared with Fred Karlin (music).
1970	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	Pieces of Dreams	"Pieces of Dreams"	Nominated	Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
1971		Sometimes a Great Notion	"All His Children"	Nominated	Shared with Henry Mancini (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
1972		The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	"Marmalade, Molasses & Honey"	Nominated	Shared with Maurice Jarre (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
	Marsha Karlin (lyrics)	The Little Ark	"Come Follow, Follow Me"	Nominated	Shared with Fred Karlin (music).
1973	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	The Way We Were	"The Way We Were"	Won	First woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
	Linda McCartney (music & lyrics)	Live and Let Die	"Live and Let Die"	Nominated	Shared with Paul McCartney (music & lyrics).
1974	Betty Box (lyrics)	Benji	"I Feel Love"	Nominated	Shared with Euel Box (music).
1976	Barbra Streisand (music)	A Star Is Born	"Evergreen"	Won	Streisand is the only person to win for acting (Best Actress for Funny Girl ) and songwriting. Shared with Paul Williams (lyrics).
	Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins (lyrics)	Rocky	"Gonna Fly Now"	Nominated	Shared with Bill Conti (music).
1977		The Rescuers	"Someone's Waiting for You"	Nominated	Shared with Sammy Fain (music).
	Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics)	The Spy Who Loved Me	"Nobody Does It Better"	Nominated	Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music).
1978	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	Same Time, Next Year	"The Last Time I Felt Like This"	Nominated	Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
1979	Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics)	Ice Castles	"Through the Eyes of Love"	Nominated	Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music).
	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	The Promise	"I'll Never Say Goodbye"	Nominated	Shared with David Shire (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
1980	Lesley Gore (lyrics)	Fame	"Out Here on My Own"	Nominated	Shared with Michael Gore (music).
	Dolly Parton (music & lyrics)	Nine to Five	"9 to 5"	Nominated
1981	Carole Bayer Sager (music & lyrics)	Arthur	"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"	Won	Shared with Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross & Peter Allen (music & lyrics).
1982	Buffy Sainte-Marie (music)	An Officer and a Gentleman	"Up Where We Belong"	Won	Shared with Jack Nitzche (music); Will Jennings (lyrics).
	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	Best Friends	"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"	Nominated	Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
		Tootsie	"It Might Be You"	Nominated	Shared with Dave Grusin (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
		Yes, Giorgio	"If We Were in Love"	Nominated	Shared with John Williams (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
1983	Irene Cara (lyrics)	Flashdance	"Flashdance... What a Feeling"	Won	First black woman to win in a non-acting category. Shared with Giorgio Moroder (music); Keith Forsey (lyrics).
	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	Yentl	"Papa, Can You Hear Me?"	Nominated	Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
			"The Way He Makes Me Feel"	Nominated
1986	Cynthia Weil (lyrics)	An American Tail	"Somewhere Out There"	Nominated	Shared with James Horner & Barry Mann (music).
	Diane Nini (lyrics)	The Karate Kid Part II	"Glory of Love"	Nominated	Shared with David Foster (music); Peter Cetera (music & lyrics).
1987	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Mannequin	"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"	Nominated	Shared with Albert Hammond (music & lyrics).
1988	Carly Simon (music & lyrics)	Working Girl	"Let the River Run"	Won
1989	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	Shirley Valentine	"The Girl Who Used to Be Me"	Nominated	Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
1992	Linda Thompson (lyrics)	The Bodyguard	"I Have Nothing"	Nominated	Shared with David Foster (music).
1993	Carole Bayer Sager (music & lyrics)	Beethoven's 2nd	"The Day I Fall in Love"	Nominated	Shared with James Ingram & Clif Magness (music & lyrics).
	Janet Jackson (music & lyrics)	Poetic Justice	"Again"	Nominated	Shared with James Harris III & Terry Lewis (music & lyrics).
1994	Carole Bayer Sager & Patty Smyth (music & lyrics)	Junior	"Look What Love Has Done"	Nominated	Shared with James Ingram & James Newton Howard (music & lyrics).
1995	Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)	Sabrina	"Moonlight"	Nominated	Shared with John Williams (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics).
1996	Barbra Streisand (music & lyrics)	The Mirror Has Two Faces	"I Finally Found Someone"	Nominated	Shared with Bryan Adams, Marvin Hamlisch & Mutt Lange (music & lyrics).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Up Close and Personal	"Because You Loved Me"	Nominated
1997	Lynn Ahrens (lyrics)	Anastasia	"Journey to the Past"	Nominated	Shared with Stephen Flaherty (music).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Con Air	"How Do I Live?"	Nominated
1998		Armageddon	"I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing"	Nominated
	Allison Moorer (music & lyrics)	The Horse Whisperer	"A Soft Place to Fall"	Nominated	Shared with Gwil Owen (music & lyrics).
	Carole Bayer Sager (music & lyrics)	Quest for Camelot	"The Prayer"	Nominated	Shared with David Foster (music & lyrics); Tony Renis & Alberto Testa (lyrics).
1999	Aimee Mann (music & lyrics)	Magnolia	"Save Me"	Nominated
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Music of the Heart	"Music of My Heart"	Nominated
2000	Björk (music)	Dancer in the Dark	"I've Seen It All"	Nominated	Shared with Lars von Trier & Sjón Sigurdsson (lyrics).
2001	Enya & Roma Ryan (music & lyrics)	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	"May It Be"	Nominated	Shared with Nicky Ryan (music & lyrics).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Pearl Harbor	"There You'll Be"	Nominated
2002	Julie Taymor (lyrics)	Frida	"Burn It Blue"	Nominated	Shared with Elliot Goldenthal (music).
2003	Annie Lennox & Fran Walsh (music & lyrics)	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	"Into the West"	Won	Shared with Howard Shore (music & lyrics).
	Annette O'Toole (music & lyrics)	A Mighty Wind	"A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow"	Nominated	Shared with Michael McKean (music & lyrics).
2005	Kathleen "Bird" York (music & lyrics)	Crash	"In the Deep"	Nominated	Shared with Michael Becker (music).
	Dolly Parton (music & lyrics)	Transamerica	"Travellin' Thru"	Nominated
2006	Melissa Etheridge (music & lyrics)	An Inconvenient Truth	"I Need to Wake Up	Won	First song from a documentary to win in this category.
	Anne Preven (lyrics)	Dreamgirls	"Listen"	Nominated	Shared with Scott Cutler & Henry Krieger (music).
	Siedah Garrett (lyrics)		"Love You I Do"	Nominated	Shared with Henry Krieger (music).
2007	Markéta Irglová (music & lyrics)	Once	"Falling Slowly"	Won	Shared with Glen Hansard (music & lyrics).
2008	M.I.A. (music & lyrics)	Slumdog Millionaire	"O... Saya"	Nominated	Shared with A. R. Rahman (music & lyrics).
2010	Dido (lyrics)	127 Hours	"If I Rise"	Nominated	Shared with A.R. Rahman (music); Rollo Armstrong (lyrics).
	Hillary Lindsey (music & lyrics)	Country Strong	"Coming Home"	Nominated	Shared with Troy Verges & Tom Douglas (music & lyrics).
2011	Siedah Garrett (lyrics)	Rio	"Real In Rio"	Nominated	Shared with Sérgio Mendes & Carlinhos Brown (music).
2012	Adele (music & lyrics)	Skyfall	"Skyfall"	Won	Shared with Paul Epworth (music & lyrics).
	Bombay Jayashri (lyrics)	Life of Pi	"Pi's Lullaby"	Nominated	Shared with Mychael Danna (music).
2013	Kristen Anderson-Lopez (music & lyrics)	Frozen	"Let It Go"	Won	Shared with Robert Lopez (music & lyrics).
	Karen O (music & lyrics)	Her	"The Moon Song"	Nominated	Shared with Spike Jonze (lyrics).
2014	Danielle Brisebois (music & lyrics)	Begin Again	"Lost Stars"	Nominated	Shared with Gregg Alexander (music & lyrics).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Beyond the Lights	"Grateful"	Nominated
2015	Diane Warren & Lady Gaga (music & lyrics)	The Hunting Ground	"Till It Happens to You"	Nominated
	Anohni (lyrics)	Racing Extinction	"Manta Ray"	Nominated	First transgender woman to nominated for Best Original Song. Shared with J. Ralph (music).
2017	Kristen Anderson-Lopez (music & lyrics)	Coco	"Remember Me"	Won	Shared with Robert Lopez (music & lyrics).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Marshall	"Stand Up for Something"	Nominated	Shared with Lonnie Lynn (lyrics).
	Mary J. Blige & Taura Stinson (music & lyrics)	Mudbound	"Mighty River"	Nominated	Blige was the first person to be nominated for acting (Best Supporting Actress for Mudbound) and songwriting in the same year. Shared with Raphael Saadiq (music & lyrics).
2018	Lady Gaga (music & lyrics)	A Star is Born	"Shallow"	Won	Shared with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (music & lyrics).
	Gillian Welch (music & lyrics)	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings"	Nominated	Shared with David Rawlings (music & lyrics).
	SZA (lyrics)	Black Panther	"All the Stars"	Nominated	Shared with Sounwave (music); Kendrick Lamar & Anthony Tiffith (music & lyrics).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	RBG	"I'll Fight"	Nominated
2019	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Breakthrough	"I'm Standing with You"	Nominated
	Kristen Anderson-Lopez (music & lyrics)	Frozen II	"Into the Unknown"	Nominated	Shared with Robert Lopez (music & lyrics).
	Cynthia Erivo (music & lyrics)	Harriet	"Stand Up"	Nominated	Shared with Joshuah Brian Campbell (music & lyrics).
2020	H.E.R. (music & lyrics); Tiara Thomas (lyrics)	Judas and the Black Messiah	"Fight for You"	Won	Shared with Dernst Emile II (music).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics); Laura Pausini (lyrics)	The Life Ahead	"Io Sì (Seen)"	Nominated
	Celeste Waite (lyrics)	The Trial of the Chicago 7	"Hear My Voice"	Nominated	Shared with Daniel Pemberton (music & lyrics).
2021	Billie Eilish (music & lyrics)	No Time to Die	"No Time to Die"	Won	First person born in the 21st century to win in any category. Shared with Finneas O'Connell (music & lyrics).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Four Good Days	"Somehow You Do"	Nominated
	Beyoncé (music & lyrics)	King Richard	"Be Alive"	Nominated	Shared with DIXSON (music & lyrics).
2022	Rihanna (music); Tems (music & lyrics)	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	"Lift Me Up"	Nominated	Shared with Ludwig Göransson (music); Ryan Coogler (music & lyrics).
	Mitski (music)	Everything Everywhere All at Once	"This Is a Life"	Nominated	Shared with David Byrne & Ryan Lott (music & lyrics).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Tell It Like a Woman	"Applause"	Nominated
	Lady Gaga (music & lyrics)	Top Gun: Maverick	"Hold My Hand"	Nominated	Shared with BloodPop (music & lyrics).
2023	Billie Eilish (music & lyrics)	Barbie	"What Was I Made For?"	Won	Youngest person to win multiple Oscars, at age 22. Shared with Finneas O'Connell (music & lyrics).
	Diane Warren (music & lyrics)	Flamin' Hot	"The Fire Inside"	Nominated	Holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with 15. Holds the record for most nominations by a woman without a win in any category, with 15.

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1973	Julia Phillips	The Sting	Won	First woman to win and be nominated for Best Picture. Shared with Tony Bill and Michael Phillips.
1976		Taxi Driver	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Michael Phillips.
1979	Tamara Asseyev Alex Rose	Norma Rae	Nominated
1982	Kathleen Kennedy	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated	Shared with Steven Spielberg.
1984	Arlene Donovan	Places in the Heart	Nominated
1985	Kathleen Kennedy	The Color Purple	Nominated	Shared with Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, and Quincy Jones.
1987	Sherry Lansing	Fatal Attraction	Nominated	Shared with Stanley R. Jaffe.
1988	Norma Heyman	Dangerous Liaisons	Nominated	Shared with Hank Moonjean.
1989	Lili Fini Zanuck	Driving Miss Daisy	Won	Shared with Richard D. Zanuck.
1990	Lisa Weinstein	Ghost	Nominated
1991	Barbra Streisand	The Prince of Tides	Nominated	Shared with Andrew Karsch.
1993	Jan Chapman	The Piano	Nominated
1994 [note 1]	Wendy Finerman	Forrest Gump	Won	Shared with Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey.
	Niki Marvin	The Shawshank Redemption	Nominated
1995	Lindsay Doran	Sense and Sensibility	Nominated
1996	Jane Scott	Shine	Nominated
1997	Bridget Johnson Kristi Zea	As Good as It Gets	Nominated	Shared with James L. Brooks.
1998	Donna Gigliotti	Shakespeare in Love	Won	Shared with David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, and Marc Norman.
	Alison Owen	Elizabeth	Nominated	Shared with Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan.
	Elda Ferri	Life Is Beautiful	Nominated	Shared with Gianluigi Braschi.
1999	Kathleen Kennedy	The Sixth Sense	Nominated	Shared with Frank Marshall and Barry Mendel.
2000	Kit Golden Leslie Holleran	Chocolat	Nominated	Shared with David Brown.
	Stacey Sher	Erin Brockovich	Nominated	Shared with Danny DeVito and Michael Shamberg.
	Laura Bickford	Traffic	Nominated	Shared with Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.
2001	Fran Walsh	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	Shared with Peter Jackson and Barrie M. Osborne.
2002		The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Nominated
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	Nominated	Shared with Ross Katz.
	Judie G. Hoyt	Mystic River	Nominated	Shared with Robert Lorenz and Clint Eastwood.
	Kathleen Kennedy	Seabiscuit	Nominated	Shared with Frank Marshall and Gary Ross.
2004	Nellie Bellflower	Finding Neverland	Nominated	Shared with Richard N. Gladstein.
2005	Cathy Schulman	Crash	Won	Shared with Paul Haggis.
	Diana Ossana	Brokeback Mountain	Nominated	Shared with James Schamus.
	Caroline Baron	Capote	Nominated	Shared with William Vince and Michael Ohoven.
	Kathleen Kennedy	Munich	Nominated	Shared with Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel.
2006	Christine Langan Tracey Seaward	The Queen	Nominated	Shared with Andy Harries.
2007	Lianne Halton	Juno	Nominated	Shared with Mason Novick and Russell Smith.
	Jennifer Fox	Michael Clayton	Nominated	Shared with Kerry Orent and Sydney Pollack.
	JoAnne Sellar	There Will Be Blood	Nominated	Shared with Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi.
2008	Kathleen Kennedy Ceán Chaffin	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated	Shared with Frank Marshall.
	Donna Gigliotti	The Reader	Nominated	Shared with Anthony Minghella (p. n.), Sydney Pollack (p. n.), and Redmond Morris.
2009 [note 12]	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker	Won	Shared with Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, and Nicolas Chartier.
	Carolynne Cunningham	District 9	Nominated	Shared with Peter Jackson.
	Finola Dwyer Amanda Posey	An Education	Nominated
	Sarah Siegel-Magness	Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire	Nominated	Shared with Lee Daniels and Gary Magness.
2010	Emma Thomas	Inception	Nominated	Shared with Christopher Nolan.
	Celine Rattray	The Kids Are All Right	Nominated	Shared with Gary Gilbert and Jeffrey Levy-Hinte.
	Ceán Chaffin	The Social Network	Nominated	Shared with Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, and Scott Rudin.
	Darla K. Anderson	Toy Story 3	Nominated
	Alix Madigan Anne Rosellini	Winter's Bone	Nominated
2011	Letty Aronson	Midnight in Paris	Nominated	Shared with Stephen Tenenbaum.
	Rachael Horovitz	Moneyball	Nominated	Shared with Michael De Luca and Brad Pitt.
	Sarah Green Dede Gardner	The Tree of Life	Nominated	Shared with Bill Pohlad and Grant Hill.
	Kathleen Kennedy	War Horse	Nominated	Shared with Steven Spielberg.
2012	Margaret Menegoz	Amour	Nominated	Shared with Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz.
	Stacey Sher Pilar Savone	Django Unchained	Nominated	Shared with Reginald Hudlin.
	Debra Hayward	Les Misérables	Nominated	Shared with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Cameron Mackintosh.
	Kathleen Kennedy	Lincoln	Nominated	Holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with eight. Shared with Steven Spielberg.
	Donna Gigliotti	Silver Linings Playbook	Nominated	Shared with Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon.
	Kathryn Bigelow Megan Ellison	Zero Dark Thirty	Nominated	Shared with Mark Boal.
2013	Dede Gardner	12 Years a Slave	Won	Shared with Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Steven McQueen, and Anthony Katagas.
	Megan Ellison	American Hustle	Nominated	Shared with Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, and Jonathan Gordon.
	Robbie Brenner Rachel Winter	Dallas Buyers Club	Nominated
	Megan Ellison	Her	Nominated	Shared with Vincent Landay and Spike Jones.
	Gabrielle Tana Tracey Seaward	Philomena	Nominated	Shared with Steve Coogan.
	Emma Tillinger Koskoff	The Wolf of Wall Street	Nominated	Shared with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Joey McFarland.
2014	Cathleen Sutherland	Boyhood	Nominated	Shared with Richard Linklater.
	Nora Grossman	The Imitation Game	Nominated	Shared with Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman.
	Oprah Winfrey Dede Gardner	Selma	Nominated	Winfrey was the first woman of color to be nominated for Best Picture. Shared with Christian Colson and Jeremy Kleiner.
	Lisa Bruce	The Theory of Everything	Nominated	Shared with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Anthony McCarten.
	Helen Estabrook	Whiplash	Nominated	Shared with Jason Blum and David Lancaster.
2015	Blye Pagon Faust Nicole Rocklin	Spotlight	Won	Shared with Steve Golin and Michael Sugar.
	Dede Gardner	The Big Short	Nominated	Shared with Jeremy Kleiner and Brad Pitt.
	Kristie Macosko Krieger	Bridge of Spies	Nominated	Shared with Marc Platt and Steven Spielberg.
	Finola Dwyer Amanda Posey	Brooklyn	Nominated
	Mary Parent	The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve Golin, Arnon Milchan, and Keith Redmon.
2016	Adele Romanski Dede Gardner	Moonlight	Won	Gardner was the first woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Jeremy Kleiner.
	Carla Hacken Julie Yorn	Hell or High Water	Nominated
	Donna Gigliotti Jenno Topping	Hidden Figures	Nominated	Shared with Peter Chernin, Pharrell Williams, and Theodore Melfi.
	Angie Fielder	Lion	Nominated	Shared with Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.
	Kimberly Steward Lauren Beck	Manchester by the Sea	Nominated	Shared with Matt Damon, Chris Moore, and Kevin J. Walsh.
2017	Émilie Georges	Call Me by Your Name	Nominated	Shared with Luca Guadagnino, Peter Spears, and Marco Morabito.
	Lisa Bruce	Darkest Hour	Nominated	Shared with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, and Douglas Urbanski.
	Emma Thomas	Dunkirk	Nominated	Shared with Christopher Nolan.
	Evelyn O'Neill	Lady Bird	Nominated	Shared with Eli Bush and Scott Rudin.
	Megan Ellison JoAnne Sellar	Phantom Thread	Nominated	Shared with Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi.
	Kristie Macosko Krieger Amy Pascal	The Post	Nominated	Shared with Steven Spielberg.
2018	Ceci Dempsey Lee Magiday	The Favourite	Nominated	Shared with Ed Guiney and Yorgos Lanthimos.
	Gabriela Rodríguez	Roma	Nominated	First Latina to be nominated for Best Picture. Shared with Alfonso Cuarón.
	Lynette Howell Taylor	A Star is Born	Nominated	Shared with Bill Gerber and Bradley Cooper.
	Dede Gardner	Vice	Nominated	Shared with Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick.
2019	Kwak Sin-ae	Parasite	Won	First woman of color to win for Best Picture. Shared with Bong Joon-ho.
	Pippa Harris Jayne-Ann Tenggren	1917	Nominated	Shared with Sam Mendes and Callum McDougal.
	Jenno Topping	Ford v Ferrari	Nominated	Shared with Peter Chernin and James Mangold.
	Jane Rosenthal Emma Tillinger Koskoff	The Irishman	Nominated	Shared with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
	Chelsea Winstanley	Jojo Rabbit	Nominated	Shared with Carthew Neal and Taika Waititi.
	Emma Tillinger Koskoff	Joker	Nominated	Shared with Todd Phillips and Bradley Cooper.
	Amy Pascal	Little Women	Nominated
	Shannon McIntosh	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Nominated	Shared with David Heyman and Quentin Tarantino.
2020	Frances McDormand Mollye Asher Chloé Zhao	Nomadland	Won	McDormand is the first woman to win for acting (Best Actress for Fargo ) and producing. McDormand is the first person to win for acting (Best Actress for Nomadland) and producing in the same year. Shared with Peter Spears and Dan Janvey.
	Ceán Chaffin	Mank	Nominated	Shared with Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski.
	Christina Oh	Minari	Nominated
	Ashley Fox Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman	Nominated	Shared with Josey McNamara and Ben Browning.
2021	Laura Berwick Becca Kovacik Tamar Thomas	Belfast	Nominated	Shared with Kenneth Branagh.
	Mary Parent	Dune	Nominated	Shared with Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter.
	Sara Murphy	Licorice Pizza	Nominated	Shared with Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson.
	Jane Campion Tanya Seghatchian	The Power of the Dog	Nominated	Shared with Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Roger Frappier.
	Kristie Macosko Krieger	West Side Story	Nominated	Shared with Steven Spielberg.
2022	Catherine Martin Gail Berman	Elvis	Nominated	Shared with Baz Luhrmann, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss.
	Kristie Macosko Krieger	The Fabelmans	Nominated	Shared with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner.
	Alexandra Milchan	Tár	Nominated	Shared with Todd Field and Scott Lambert.
	Dede Gardner Frances McDormand	Women Talking	Nominated	Shared with Jeremy Kleiner.
2023	Emma Thomas	Oppenheimer	Won	Shared with Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan.
	Marie-Ange Luciani	Anatomy of a Fall	Nominated	Shared with David Thion.
	Margot Robbie	Barbie	Nominated	Shared with David Heyman, Tom Ackerley, and Robbie Brenner.
	Amy Derning Kristie Macosko Krieger	Maestro	Nominated	Shared with Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Fred Berner.
	Christine Vachon Pamela Koffler	Past Lives	Nominated	Shared with David Hinojosa.
	Emma Stone	Poor Things	Nominated	Shared with Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, and Yorgos Lanthimos.

Best Production Design

Academy Award for Best Production Design [note 13]
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
Black-and-White
1941	Julia Heron (set decoration)	That Hamilton Woman	Nominated	First woman to be nominated in production categories. Shared with Vincent Korda (production design).
1942	Black-and-White
	Fay Babcock (set decoration)	The Talk of the Town	Nominated	Shared with Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad (production design).
	Color
	Julia Heron (set decoration)	Jungle Book	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Production Design (Color). First woman with multiple nominations in production categories. First woman to be nominated in both production categories. Shared with Vincent Korda (production design).
Black-and-White
1943	Julia Heron (set decoration)	Casanova Brown	Nominated	Shared with Perry Ferguson (production design).
Color
1944	Fay Babcock (set decoration)	Cover Girl	Nominated	Shared with Lionel Banks and Cary Odell (production design).
1945	Mildred Griffiths (set decoration)	National Velvet	Nominated	Shared with Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary (production design); Edwin B. Willis (set decoration).
Black-and-White
1946	Carmen Dillon (production design)	Henry V	Nominated	Shared with Paul Sheriff (production design).
1948	Carmen Dillon (set decoration)	Hamlet	Won	First woman to win in production categories. Shared with Roger K. Furse (production design).
1954	Black-and-White
	Grace Gregory (set decoration)	This Country Girl	Nominated	Shared with Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson (production design); Samuel M. Comer (set decoration).
	Color
	Irene Sharaff (production design)	A Star Is Born	Nominated	Shared with Malcolm C. Bert and Gene Allen (production design); George James Hopkins (set decoration).
Color
1959 [note 1]	Julia Heron (set decoration)	The Big Fisherman	Nominated	Shared with John DeCuir (production design).
	Ruby R. Levitt (set decoration)	Pillow Talk	Nominated	Shared with Richard H. Riedel (p. n.) (production design); Russell A. Gausman (set decoration).
1960	Julia Heron (set decoration)	Spartacus	Won	First woman to win for Best Production Design (Color). Shared with Harry Horner and Eric Orbom (production design); Russell A. Gausman (set decoration).
1963	Black-and-White
	Grace Gregory (set decoration)	Love with the Proper Stranger	Nominated	Shared with Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson (production design); Samuel M. Comer (set decoration).
	Color
	Jocelyn Herbert (production design); Josie MacAvin (set decoration)	Tom Jones	Nominated	Shared with Ralph W. Brinton and Ted Marshall (production design).
1965	Black-and-White
	Josie MacAvin (set decoration)	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Nominated	Shared with Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen (production design); Ted Marshall (set decoration).
	Color
	Ruby R. Levitt (set decoration)	The Sound of Music	Nominated	Shared with Boris Leven (production design); Walter M. Scott (set decoration).
Production Design
1970	Pamela Cornell (set decoration)	Scrooge	Nominated	Shared with Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright (production design).
1971	Ruby R. Levitt (set decoration)	The Andromeda Strain	Nominated	Shared with Boris Leven and William H. Tuntke (production design).
1974		Chinatown	Nominated	Shared with Richard Sylbert and W. Stewart Campbell (production design).
1979	Linda DeScenna (set decoration)	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Nominated	Shared with Harold Michelson, Joseph R. Jennings, Leon Harris, and John Vallone (production design).
1981	Ann Mollo (set decoration)	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Nominated	Shared with Assheton Gorton (production design).
	Patrizia von Brandenstein (production design)	Ragtime	Nominated	Shared with John Graysmark and Tony Reading (production design); George DeTitta Sr., George DeTitta Jr. and Peter Howitt (set decoration).
1982	Linda DeScenna (set decoration)	Blade Runner	Nominated	Shared with Lawrence G. Paull and David Snyder (production design).
1983	Anna Asp (production design)	Fanny and Alexander	Won
	Polly Platt (production design)	Terms of Endearment	Nominated	Shared with Harold Michelson (production design); Tom Pedigo and Anthony Mondell (set decoration).
	Tessa Davies (set decoration)	Yentl	Nominated	Shared with Roy Walker and Leslie Tomkins (production design).
1984	Patrizia von Brandenstein (production design)	Amadeus	Won	Shared with Karel Černý (production design).
1985	Josie MacAvin (set decoration)	Out of Africa	Won	Shared with Stephen B. Grimes (production design).
	Maggie Gray (set decoration)	Brazil	Nominated	Shared with Norman Garwood (production design).
	Linda DeScenna (set decoration)	The Color Purple	Nominated	Shared with J. Michael Riva and Bo Welch (production design).
	Shinobu Muraki (production design)	Ran	Nominated	First woman of color to be nominated for Best Production Design. Shared with Yoshiro Muraki (production design).
1986	Karen O'Hara (set decoration)	The Color of Money	Nominated	Shared with Boris Leven (production design).
	Carol Joffe (set decoration)	Hannah and Her Sisters	Nominated	Shared with Stuart Wurtzel (production design).
1987	Joanne Woollard (set decoration)	Hope and Glory	Nominated	Shared with Anthony D. G. Pratt (production design).
	Carol Joffe (set decoration)	Radio Days	Nominated	Shared with Santo Loquasto (production design); Leslie Bloom and George DeTitta Jr (set decoration).
	Patrizia von Brandenstein (production design)	The Untouchables	Nominated	Shared with William A. Elliott (production design); Hal Gausman (set decoration).
1988	Ida Random (production design); Linda DeScenna (set decoration)	Rain Man	Nominated
1989	Anne Kuljian (set decoration)	The Abyss	Nominated	Shared with Leslie Dilley (production design).
	Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration)	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Nominated	Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design).
1990	Lisa Dean (set decoration)	Dances with Wolves	Nominated	Shared with Jeffrey Beecroft (production design).
	Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration)	Hamlet	Nominated	Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design).
1991	Nancy Haigh (set decoration)	Bugsy	Won	Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design).
		Barton Fink	Nominated
	Cindy Carr (set decoration)	The Fisher King	Nominated	Shared with Mel Bourne (production design).
	Caryl Heller (set decoration)	The Prince of Tides	Nominated	Shared with Paul Sylbert (production design).
1992	Luciana Arrighi (production design)	Howards End	Won	Shared with Ian Whittaker (set decoration).
	Linda DeScenna (set decoration)	Toys	Nominated	Shared with Ferdinando Scarfiotti (production design).
	Janice Blackie-Goodine (set decoration)	Unforgiven	Nominated	Shared with Henry Bumstead (production design).
1993	Ewa Braun (set decoration)	Schindler's List	Won	Shared with Allan Starski (production design).
	Luciana Arrighi (production design)	The Remains of the Day	Nominated	Shared with Ian Whittaker (set decoration).
1994 [note 14]	Carolyn Scott (set decoration)	The Madness of King George	Won	Shared with Ken Adam (production design).
	Susan Bode (set decoration)	Bullets over Broadway	Nominated	Shared Santo Loquasto (production design).
	Nancy Haigh (set decoration)	Forrest Gump	Nominated	Shared with Rick Carter (production design).
	Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration)	Interview with the Vampire	Nominated	Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design).
	Lilly Kilvert (production design); Dorree Cooper (set decoration)	Legends of the Fall	Nominated
1995	Merideth Boswell (set decoration)	Apollo 13	Nominated	Shared with Michael Corenblith (production design).
	Kerrie Brown (set decoration)	Babe	Nominated	Shared with Roger Ford (production design).
	Cheryl Carasik (set decoration)	A Little Princess	Nominated	Shared with Bo Welch (production design).
1996	Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)	The English Patient	Won	Shared with Stuart Craig (production design).
	Cheryl Carasik (set decoration)	The Birdcage	Nominated	Shared with Bo Welch (production design).
	Catherine Martin (production design); Brigitte Broch (set decoration)	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated
1997	Nancy Nye (set decoration)	Gattaca	Nominated	Shared with Jan Roelfs (production design).
	Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration)	Kundun	Nominated	Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design).
	Jeannine Oppewall (production design)	L.A. Confidential	Nominated	Shared with Jay Hart (set decoration).
	Cheryl Carasik (set decoration)	Men in Black	Nominated	Shared with Bo Welch (production design).
1998	Jill Quertier (set decoration)	Shakespeare in Love	Won	Shared with Martin Childs (production design).
	Jeannine Oppewall (production design)	Pleasantville	Nominated	Shared with Jay Hart (set decoration).
	Lisa Dean Kavanaugh (set decoration)	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated	Shared with Thomas E. Sanders (production design).
	Cindy Carr (set decoration)	What Dreams May Come	Nominated	Shared with Eugenio Zanetti (production design).
1999	Luciana Arrighi (production design)	Anna and the King	Nominated	Shared with Ian Whittaker (set decoration).
	Beth Rubino (set decoration)	The Cider House Rules	Nominated	Shared with David Gropman (production design).
	Eve Stewart (production design)	Topsy-Turvy	Nominated	Shared with John Bush (set decoration).
2000	Merideth Boswell (set decoration)	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Nominated	Shared with Michael Corenblith (production design).
	Jill Quertier (set decoration)	Quills	Nominated	Shared with Martin Childs (production design).
	Françoise Benoît-Fresco (set decoration)	Vatel	Nominated	Shared with Jean Rabasse (production design).
2001	Catherine Martin (production design); Brigitte Broch (set decoration)	Moulin Rouge!	Won
	Aline Bonetto (production design); Marie-Laure Valla (set decoration)	Amélie	Nominated
	Anna Pinnock (set decoration)	Gosford Park	Nominated	Shared with Stephen Altman (production design).
	Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Nominated	Shared with Stuart Craig (production design).
2002	Hania Robledo (set decoration)	Frida	Nominated	Shared with Felipe Fernández del Paso (production design).
	Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration)	Gangs of New York	Nominated	Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design).
	Nancy Haigh (set decoration)	Road to Perdition	Nominated	Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design).
2003	Cecile Heideman (set decoration)	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Nominated	Shared with Ben Van Os (production design).
	Lilly Kilvert (production design); Gretchen Rau (set decoration)	The Last Samurai	Nominated
	Jeannine Oppewall (production design); Leslie Pope (set decoration)	Seabiscuit	Nominated
2004 [note 14]	Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration)	The Aviator	Won	Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design).
	Gemma Jackson (production design); Trisha Edwards (set decoration)	Finding Neverland	Nominated
	Cheryl Carasik (set decoration)	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Nominated	Shared with Rick Heinrichs (production design).
	Celia Bobak (set decoration)	The Phantom of the Opera	Nominated	Shared with Anthony D. G. Pratt (production design).
	Aline Bonetto (production design)	A Very Long Engagement	Nominated
2005	Gretchen Rau (set decoration)	Memoirs of a Geisha	Won	Shared with John Myhre (production design).
	Jan Pascale (set decoration)	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Nominated	Shared with James D. Bissell (production design).
	Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Nominated	Shared with Stuart Craig (production design).
	Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration)	Pride & Prejudice	Nominated
2006 [note 14]	Pilar Revuelta (set decoration)	Pan's Labyrinth	Won	Shared with Eugenio Caballero (production design).
	Nancy Haigh (set decoration)	Dreamgirls	Nominated	Shared with John Myhre (production design).
	Jeannine Claudia Oppewall (production design); Gretchen Rau (set decoration)	The Good Shepherd	Nominated	Shared with Leslie E. Rollins (set decoration).
	Cheryl Carasik (set decoration)	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Nominated	Shared with Rick Heinrichs (production design).
	Julie Ochipinti (set decoration)	The Prestige	Nominated	Shared with Nathan Crowley (production design).
2007	Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration)	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Won	First woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design).
	Beth Rubino (set decoration)	American Gangster	Nominated	Shared with Arthur Max (production design).
	Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration)	Atonement	Nominated
	Anna Pinnock (set decoration)	The Golden Compass	Nominated	Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design).
2008	Rebecca Alleway (set decoration)	The Duchess	Nominated	Shared with Michael Carlin (production design).
	Kristi Zea (production design); Debra Schutt (set decoration)	Revolutionary Road	Nominated
2009	Anastasia Masaro (production design); Caroline Smith (set decoration)	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	Nominated	Shared with Dave Warren (production design).
	Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration)	Sherlock Holmes	Nominated
	Maggie Gray (set decoration)	The Young Victoria	Nominated	Shared with Patrice Vermette (production design).
2010	Karen O'Hara (set decoration)	Alice in Wonderland	Won	Shared with Robert Stromberg (production design).
	Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	Nominated	Shared with Stuart Craig (production design).
	Eve Stewart (production design); Judy Farr (set decoration)	The King's Speech	Nominated
	Nancy Haigh (set decoration)	True Grit	Nominated	Shared with Jess Gonchor (production design).
2011	Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration)	Hugo	Won	Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design).
	Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Nominated	Shared with Stuart Craig (production design).
	Anne Seibel (production design); Hélène Dubreuil (set decoration)	Midnight in Paris	Nominated
2012	Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration)	Anna Karenina	Nominated
	Eve Stewart (production design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (set decoration)	Les Misérables	Nominated
	Anna Pinnock (set decoration)	Life of Pi	Nominated	Shared with David Gropman (production design).
2013	Catherine Martin (production design); Beverley Dunn (set decoration)	The Great Gatsby	Won
	Alice Baker (set decoration)	12 Years a Slave	Nominated	Shared with Adam Stockhausen (production design).
	Judy Becker (production design); Heather Loeffler (set decoration)	American Hustle	Nominated
	Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (set decoration)	Gravity	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nicholson (production design).
2014	Anna Pinnock (set decoration)	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Won	Shared with Adam Stockhausen (production design).
	Maria Djurkovic (production design); Tatiana Macdonald (set decoration)	The Imitation Game	Nominated
	Anna Pinnock (set decoration)	Into the Woods	Nominated	Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design).
	Suzie Davies (production design); Charlotte Watts (set decoration)	Mr. Turner	Nominated
2015	Lisa Thompson (set decoration)	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won	Shared with Colin Gibson (production design).
	Rena DeAngelo (set decoration)	Bridge of Spies	Nominated	Shared with Adam Stockhausen (production design); Bernhard Henrich (set decoration).
	Eve Stewart (production design)	The Danish Girl	Nominated	Shared with Michael Standish (set decoration).
	Celia Bobak (set decoration)	The Martian	Nominated	Shared with Arthur Max (production design).
2016	Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (set decoration)	La La Land	Won	Shared with David Wasco (production design).
	Anna Pinnock (set decoration)	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Nominated	Shared with Stuart Craig (production design).
	Nancy Haigh (set decoration)	Hail, Caesar!	Nominated	Shared with Jess Gonchor (production design).
2017	Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration)	Beauty and the Beast	Nominated
		Darkest Hour	Nominated
	Alessandra Querzola (set decoration)	Blade Runner 2049	Nominated	Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design).
2018	Hannah Beachler (production design)	Black Panther	Won	First African-American and black woman to win and be nominated for Best Production Design. Shared with Jay Hart (set decoration).
	Fiona Crombie (production design); Alice Felton (set decoration)	The Favourite	Nominated
	Kathy Lucas (set decoration)	First Man	Nominated	Shared with Nathan Crowley (production design).
	Bárbara Enríquez (set decoration)	Roma	Nominated	Shared with Eugenio Caballero (production design).
2019	Barbara Ling (production design); Nancy Haigh (set decoration)	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Won
	Regina Graves (set decoration)	The Irishman	Nominated	Shared with Bob Shaw (production design).
	Nora Sopková (set decoration)	Jojo Rabbit	Nominated	Shared with Ra Vincent (production design).
2020 [note 14]	Jan Pascale (set decoration)	Mank	Won	Shared with Donald Graham Burt (production design).
	Cathy Featherstone (set decoration)	The Father	Nominated	Shared with Peter Francis (production design).
	Karen O'Hara and Diana Stoughton (set decoration)	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Nominated	Shared with Mark Ricker (production design).
	Elizabeth Keenan (set decoration)	News of the World	Nominated	Shared with David Crank (production design).
	Kathy Lucas (set decoration)	Tenet	Nominated	Shared with Nathan Crowley (production design).
2021 [note 14]	Zsuzsanna Sipos (set decoration)	Dune	Won	Shared with Patrice Vermette (production design).
	Tamara Deverell (production design)	Nightmare Alley	Nominated	Shared with Shane Vieau (set decoration).
	Amber Richards (set decoration)	The Power of the Dog	Nominated	Shared with Grant Major (production design).
	Nancy Haigh (set decoration)	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Nominated	Shared with Stefan Dechant (production design).
	Rena DeAngelo (set decoration)	West Side Story	Nominated	Shared with Adam Stockhausen (production design).
2022 [note 14]	Ernestine Hipper (set decoration)	All Quiet on the Western Front	Won	Shared with Christian M. Goldbeck (production design).
	Vanessa Cole (set decoration)	Avatar: The Way of Water	Nominated	Shared with Dylan Cole and Ben Procter (production design).
	Florencia Martin (production design)	Babylon	Nominated	Shared with Anthony Carlino (set decoration).
	Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy (production design); Bev Dunn (set decoration)	Elvis	Nominated
	Karen O'Hara (set decoration)	The Fabelmans	Nominated	Shared with Rick Carter (production design).
2023	Shona Heath (production design); Zsuzsa Mihalek (set decoration)	Poor Things	Won	Shared with James Price (production design).
	Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration)	Barbie	Nominated
	Elli Griff (set decoration)	Napoleon	Nominated	Shared with Arthur Max (production design).
	Ruth De Jong (production design); Claire Kaufman (set decoration)	Oppenheimer	Nominated

Best Short Film (Animated)

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1962	Faith Hubley	The Hole	Won	First woman to win and be nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First woman with multiple wins and nominations in this category. Shared with John Hubley.
1966		Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature	Won
1968		Windy Day	Nominated
1969		Of Men and Demons	Nominated
1974		Voyage to Next	Nominated
1976 [note 1]	Suzanne Baker	Leisure	Won
	Caroline Leaf	The Street	Nominated	Shared with Guy Glover.
1977	Faith Hubley	The Doonesbury Special	Nominated	Shared with John Hubley and Garry Trudeau.
1978	Eunice Macaulay	Special Delivery	Won	Shared with John Weldon.
1981	Janet Perlman	The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin	Nominated
1982	Dianne Jackson	The Snowman	Nominated
1983	Eda Godel Hallinan	Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain	Nominated
1985	Cilia van Dijk	Anna & Bella	Won
	Alison Snowden	Second Class Mail	Nominated
1986	Linda Van Tulden	A Greek Tragedy	Won	Shared with Willem Thijsen.
1987	Eunice Macaulay	George and Rosemary	Nominated
1991	Wendy Tilby	Strings	Nominated
1992	Joan C. Gratz	Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase	Won
	Michaela Pavlátová	Reci, Reci, Reci...	Nominated
1994	Alison Snowden	Bob's Birthday	Won	Shared with David Fine.
	Vanessa Schwartz	The Janitor	Nominated	First Latina to be nominated for Best Animated Short Film.
	Erica Russell	Triangle	Nominated
1997	Joanna Quinn	Famous Fred	Nominated
1999	Torill Kove	My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts	Nominated
	Wendy Tilby Amanda Forbis	When the Day Breaks	Nominated
2000	Annette Schäffler	Periwig Maker	Nominated	Shared with Steffen Schäffler.
2002	Heidi Wittlinger	Das Rad	Nominated	Shared with Chris Stenner.
2005	Peggy Stern	The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation	Won	Shared with John Canemaker.
	Sharon Colman	Badgered	Nominated
2006	Torill Kove	The Danish Poet	Won
2007	Suzie Templeton	Peter & the Wolf	Won	Shared with Hugh Welchman.
2011	Sue Goffe	A Morning Stroll	Nominated
	Wendy Tilby Amanda Forbis	Wild Life	Nominated
2012	Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly	Head Over Heels	Nominated	Shared with Timothy Reckart.
2013	Lauren MacMullan Dorothy McKim	Get a Horse!	Nominated
2014	Kristina Reed	Feast	Won	Shared with Patrick Osborne.
	Daisy Jacobs	The Bigger Picture	Nominated	Shared with Christopher Hees.
	Torill Kove	Me and My Moulton	Nominated
2015	Imogen Sutton	Prologue	Nominated	Shared with Richard Williams.
	Nicole Paradis Grindle	Sanjay's Super Team	Nominated	Shared with Sanjay Patel.
2016	Cara Speller	Pear Cider and Cigarettes	Nominated	Shared with Robert Valley.
2017	Dana Murray	Lou	Nominated	Shared with Dave Mullins.
	Ru Kuwahata	Negative Space	Nominated	Shared with Max Porter.
2018	Domee Shi Becky Neiman-Cobb	Bao	Won
	Alison Snowden	Animal Behaviour	Nominated	Shared with David Fine.
	Louise Bagnall Nuria González-Blanco	Late Afternoon	Nominated
2019	Karen Rupert Toliver	Hair Love	Won	Shared with Matthew A. Cherry.
	Daria Kashcheeva	Daughter	Nominated
	Rosana Sullivan Kathryn Hendrickson	Kitbull	Nominated
	Siqi Song	Sister	Nominated
2020	Madeline Sharafian	Burrow	Nominated	Shared with Michael Capbarat.
2021	Joanna Quinn	Affairs of the Art	Nominated	Shared with Les Mills.
2022	Amanda Forbis Wendy Tilby	The Flying Sailor	Nominated
	Sara Gunnarsdóttir Pamela Ribon	My Year of Dicks	Nominated
2023	Tal Kantor	Letter to a Pig	Nominated	Shared with Amit R. Gicelter.
	Jerusha Hess	Ninety-Five Senses	Nominated	Shared with Jared Hess.
	Yegane Moghaddam	Our Uniform	Nominated
	Stéphanie Clément	Pachyderme	Nominated	Shared with Marc Rius.

Best Short Film (Live Action)

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1959	Shirley Clarke	Skyscraper	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. Shared with Willard Van Dyke and Irving Jacoby.
1962	Martina Huguenot van der Linden	Big City Blues	Nominated	Shared with Charles Huguenot van der Linden.
1969	Joan Keller Stern	The Magic Machines	Won	First woman to win for Best Live Action Short Film.
1976 [note 1]	Marjorie Anne Short	Kudzu	Nominated
	Claire Wilbur	Nightlife	Nominated	Shared with Robin Lehman.
	Dyan Cannon	Number One	Nominated	Shared with Vince Cannon.
1977	Beverly Shaffer Yuki Yoshida	I'll Find a Way	Won	Yoshida was the first woman of color to win and be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film.
1978	Fern Field	A Different Approach	Nominated	Shared with Jim Belcher.
1979	Sarah Pillsbury	Board and Care	Won	Shared with Ron Ellis.
	Carol Lowell	Oh Brother, My Brother	Nominated	Shared with Ross Lowell.
1980	Sally Heckel	A Jury of Her Peers	Nominated
1981	Shelley Levinson	Violet	Won	Shared with Paul Kemp.
	Christine Oestreicher	Couples and Robbers	Nominated
1982		A Shocking Accident	Won	First woman with multiple nominations in this category.
1983	Janice L. Platt	Boys and Girls	Won
1984		The Painted Door	Nominated	Shared with Michael MacMillan.
	Sharon Oreck Lesli Linka Glatter	Tales of Meeting and Parting	Nominated
1985	Dianna Costello	Graffiti	Nominated
1986	Fredda Weiss	Love Struck	Nominated
1987	Jana Sue Memel	Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall	Won	Shared with Jonathan Sanger.
	Ann Wingate	Making Waves	Nominated
1988	Matia Karrell Abbee Goldstein	Cadillac Dreams	Nominated
1990	Hillary Ripps	12:01 PM	Nominated	Shared with Jonathan Heap.
1992	Jana Sue Memel	Contact	Nominated	Shared with Jonathan Darby.
1993	Stacy Title	Down on the Waterfront	Nominated	Shared with Jonathan Penner.
	Susan Seidelman	The Dutch Master	Nominated	Shared with Jonathan Brett.
	Jana Sue Memel	Partners	Nominated	Shared with Peter Weller.
1994 [note 6]	Ruth Kenley-Letts	Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life	Won	Shared with Peter Capaldi. Tied with Trevor.
	Peggy Rajski	Trevor	Won	Shared with Randy Stone. Tied with Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life.
	Christine Astin	Kangaroo Court	Nominated	Shared with Sean Astin.
	JoBeth Williams Michele McGuire	On Hope	Nominated
1995	Christine Lahti Jana Sue Memel	Lieberman in Love	Won	Memel was the first woman with multiple wins in this category.
	Tikki Goldberg	Little Surprises	Nominated	Shared with Jeff Goldblum.
	Dianne Houston Joy Ryan	Tuesday Morning Ride	Nominated	Houston was the first black woman to be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film.
1996	Bernadette Carranza	Wordless	Nominated	Shared with Antonello De Leo.
1998	Vivian Goffette	La Carte Postale (The Postcard)	Nominated
1999	Barbara Schock Tamara Tiehel	My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York	Won
	Gabriele Lins	Kleingeld	Nominated	Shared with Marc-Andreas Bochert.
2000	Ericka Frederick	By Courier	Nominated	Shared with Peter Riegert.
	Joan Stein Christina Lazaridi	One Day Crossing	Nominated
	Gail Lerner	Seraglio	Nominated	Shared with Colin Campbell.
2001	Lisa Blount	The Accountant	Won	Shared with Ray McKinnon.
	Shameela Bakhsh	Speed for Thespians	Nominated	Shared with Kalman Apple.
2002	Mie Andreasen	Der Er En Yndig Man (This Charming Man)	Won	Shared with Martin Strange-Hansen.
	Anja Daelemans	Fait D'Hiver	Nominated	Shared with Dirk Beliën.
	Lexi Alexander	Johnny Flynton	Nominated	Shared with Alexander Buono.
2004	Andrea Arnold	Wasp	Won
	Ainsley Gardiner	Two Cars, One Night	Nominated	Shared with Taika Waititi.
2005	Ulrike Grote	Ausreisser (The Runaway)	Nominated
	Lene Bausager	Cashback	Nominated	Shared with Sean Ellis.
	Pia Clemente	Our Time Is Up	Nominated	Shared with Rob Pearlstein.
2007	Louise Vesth	At Night	Nominated	Shared with Christian E. Christiansen.
	Anja Daelemans	Tanghi Argentini	Nominated	Shared with Guido Thys.
2008	Elizabeth Marre	Manon on the Asphalt	Nominated	Shared with Olivier Pont.
	Steph Green Tamara Anghie	New Boy	Nominated
	Dorte Høgh	The Pig	Nominated	Shared with Tivi Magnusson.
2009	Juanita Wilson	The Door	Nominated	Shared with James Flynn.
2010	Samantha Waite	Wish 143	Nominated	Shared with Ian Barnes.
2011	Oorlagh George	The Shore	Won	Shared with Terry George.
	Eimear O'Kane	Pentecost	Nominated	Shared with Peter McDonald.
	Gigi Causey	Time Freak	Nominated	Shared with Andrew Bowler.
2012	Ellen De Waele	Dood van een Schaduw (Death of a Shadow)	Nominated	Shared with Tom Van Avermaet.
2013	Selma Vilhunen Kirsikka Saari	Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)	Nominated
2014	Mihal Brezis	Aya	Nominated	Shared with Oded Binnun.
	Talkhon Hamzavi	Parvaneh	Nominated	Shared with Stefan Eichenberger.
2015	Serena Armitage	Stutterer	Won	Shared with Benjamin Cleary.
2016	Anna Udvardy	Sing	Won	Shared with Kristóf Deák.
2017	Rachel Shenton	The Silent Child	Won	Shared with Chris Overton.
	Katja Benrath	Watu Wore: All of Us	Nominated	Shared with Tobias Rosen.
2018	Jaime Ray Newman	Skin	Won	Shared with Guy Nattiv.
	Maria Gracia Turgeon	Fauve	Nominated	Shared with Jeremy Comte.
	Marianne Farley Marie-Hélène Panisset	Marguerite	Nominated	Shared with Tobias Rosen.
	María del Puy Alvarado	Mother	Nominated	Shared with Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
2019	Meryam Joobeur Maria Gracia Turgeon	Brotherhood	Nominated
	Delphine Girard	A Sister	Nominated
2020	Susan Ruzenski	Feeling Through	Nominated	Shared with Doug Roland.
	Elvira Lind Sofia Sondervan	The Letter Room	Nominated
	Farah Nabulsi	The Present	Nominated
	Shira Hochman	White Eye	Nominated	Shared with Tomer Shushan.
2021	Maria Brendle Nadine Lüchinger	Ala Kachuu – Take and Run	Nominated
	K.D. Dávila	Please Hold	Nominated	First Latina to be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. Shared with Levin Menekse.
2022	Rebecca Pruzan	Ivalu	Nominated	Shared with Anders Walter.
	Alice Rohrwacher	Le pupille	Nominated	Shared with Alfonso Cuarón.
2023	Nicky Bentham	The After	Nominated	Shared with Misan Harriman.
	Nazrin Choudhury Sara McFarlane	Red, White and Blue	Nominated

Best Sound

Academy Award for Best Sound [note 15]
Sound Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1984	Kay Rose	The River	Won	Rose was the only woman to receive non-competitive Special Achievement Academy Award (Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing).
1986	Cecelia Hall	Top Gun	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for competitive award in sound categories. Shared with George Watters II.
1990		The Hunt for Red October	Won	First woman to win competitive award in sound categories. First woman with multiple nominations in sound categories. Shared with George Watters II.
1991	Gloria Borders	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Won	Shared with Gary Rydstrom.
1994		Forrest Gump	Nominated	Shared with Randy Thom.
Sound Mixing
1995	Anna Behlmer	Braveheart	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for Best Sound Mixing. Shared with Andy Nelson, Scott Millan, and Brian Simmons.
1996		Evita	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations for Best Sound Mixing. Shared with Andy Nelson and Ken Weston.
1997		L.A. Confidential	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nelson and Kirk Francis.
1998 [note 1]	Pud Cusack	The Mask of Zorro	Nominated	Shared with Kevin O'Connell and Greg P. Russell.
	Anna Behlmer	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nelson and Paul Brincat.
2001		Moulin Rouge!	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nelson, Roger Savage, and Guntis Sics.
2003		The Last Samurai	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nelson and Jeff Wexler.
		Seabiscuit	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nelson and Tod A. Maitland.
2005		War of the Worlds	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nelson and Ron Judkins.
2006		Blood Diamond	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nelson and Ivan Sharrock.
Sound Editing
2007	Karen Baker Landers	The Bourne Ultimatum	Won	Shared with Per Hallberg.
Sound Mixing
2008	Lora Hirschberg	The Dark Knight	Nominated	Shared with Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick.
2009	Sound Mixing
	Anna Behlmer	Star Trek	Nominated	Shared with Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin.
	Sound Editing
	Gwendolyn Yates Whittle	Avatar	Nominated	Shared with Christopher Boyes.
2010	Sound Mixing
	Lora Hirschberg	Inception	Won	First woman to win for Best Sound Mixing. Shared with Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick.
	Sound Editing
	Gwendolyn Yates Whittle	Tron: Legacy	Nominated	Shared with Addison Teague.
Sound Mixing
2011	Deb Adair	Moneyball	Nominated	Shared with Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco, and Ed Novick.
Sound Editing
2012 [note 6]	Karen Baker Landers	Skyfall	Won	First woman with multiple wins in sound categories. Shared with Per Hallberg. Tied with Paul N. J. Ottosson for Zero Dark Thirty
2014	Becky Sullivan	Unbroken	Nominated	Shared with Andrew DeCristofaro.
2016	Sound Mixing
	Renée Tondelli	Deepwater Horizon	Nominated	Shared with Wylie Stateman.
	Ai-Ling Lee	La La Land	Nominated	First woman of color to be nominated in sound categories. First woman to be nominated in both sound categories and in the same year. Shared with Andy Nelson and Steven A. Morrow.
	Sound Editing
	Ai-Ling Lee Mildred Iatrou Morgan	La La Land	Nominated	Lee was the first woman of color to be nominated in sound categories. Lee was the first woman to be nominated in both sound categories and in the same year.
Sound Mixing
2017	Mary H. Ellis	Baby Driver	Nominated	Shared with Julian Slater and Tim Cavagin.
2018	Sound Mixing
	Ai-Ling Lee Mary H. Ellis	First Man	Nominated	Shared with Jon Taylor and Frank A. Montaño.
	Sound Editing
	Nina Hartstone	Bohemian Rhapsody	Won	Shared with John Warhurst.
	Ai-Ling Lee Mildred Iatrou Morgan	First Man	Nominated
Sound Editing
2019	Rachael Tate	1917	Nominated	Shared with Oliver Tarney.
Sound
2020	Michelle Couttolenc	Sound of Metal	Won	Shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, and Phillip Bladh.
	Coya Elliott	Soul	Nominated	Shared with Ren Klyce and David Parker.
2021	Denise Yarde	Belfast	Nominated	Shared with Simon Chase, James Mather, and Niv Adiri.
	Tara Webb	The Power of the Dog	Nominated	Shared with Richard Flynn and Robert Mackenzie.
2022	Gwendolyn Yates Whittle	Avatar: The Way of Water	Nominated	Shared with Julian Howarth, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, and Michael Hedges.

Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1986	Suzanne M. Benson	Aliens	Won	First woman to win and be nominated for Best Visual Effects. Shared with Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, and John Richardson.
1993	Pamela Easley	Cliffhanger	Nominated	Shared with Neil Krepela, John Richardson, and John Bruno.
2015	Sara Bennett	Ex Machina	Won	Shared with Mark Williams Ardington, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst.
2020	Genevieve Camilleri	Love and Monsters	Nominated	Shared with Matt Sloan, Brian Cox, and Matt Everitt.
2023	Kiyoko Shibuya	Godzilla Minus One	Won	First woman of color to win and be nominated for Best Visual Effects. Shared with Takashi Yamazaki, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima.

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Source Material	Status	Notes
1928-29 [note 16] [note 17]	Bess Meredyth	A Woman of Affairs	The novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations in writing categories. Among the first women to be nominated in writing categories. One of only three women among 36 founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		Wonder of Women	The novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt by Hermann Sudermann	Nominated
1932-33 [note 1]	Sarah Y. Mason	Little Women	The novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott	Won	First woman to win for Best Adapted Screenplay. Shared with Victor Heerman.
	Sonya Levien	State Fair	The novel of the same name by Phil Stong	Nominated	Shared with Paul Green.
1934	Frances Goodrich	The Thin Man	The novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett	Nominated	Shared with Albert Hackett.
1936		After the Thin Man	The novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett	Nominated
1937	Viña Delmar	The Awful Truth	The play of the same name by Arthur Richman	Nominated
	Dorothy Parker	A Star Is Born	A story by William A. Wellman & Robert Carson	Nominated	Shared with Alan Campbell and Robert Carson.
1938	Elizabeth Hill	The Citadel	The novel of the same name by A. J. Cronin	Nominated	Shared with Ian Dalrymple and Frank Wead.
	Lenore Coffee	Four Daughters	The short story Sister Act by Fannie Hurst	Nominated	Shared with Julius J. Epstein.
1939	Claudine West	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	The novella of the same name by James Hilton	Nominated	Shared with R.C. Sherriff and Eric Maschwitz.
1940	Joan Harrison	Rebecca	The novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier	Nominated	First person to be nominated in both screenwriting categories and in the same year (For the further information, see Best Original Screenplay). Shared with Robert E. Sherwood.
1941	Lillian Hellman	The Little Foxes	The play of the same name by Hellman	Nominated	First woman to be nominated for adapting her own work.
1942	Claudine West	Mrs. Miniver	The character Mrs. Miniver from the newspaper columns by Jan Struther	Won	Shared with George Froeschel, James Hilton, and Arthur Wimperis.
		Random Harvest	The novel of the same name by James Hilton	Nominated	Shared with George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis.
1944	Elizabeth Reinhardt	Laura	The novel of the same name by Vera Caspary	Nominated	Shared with Jay Dratler and Samuel Hoffenstein.
1945	Tess Slesinger	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	The novel of the same name by Betty Smith	Nominated	Posthumous nomination. Shared with Frank Davis.
1946	Sally Benson	Anna and the King of Siam	The novel of the same name by Margaret Landon	Nominated	Shared with Talbot Jennings.
1948	Irma von Cube	Johnny Belinda	The play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris	Nominated	Shared with Allen Vincent.
1950	Frances Goodrich	Father of the Bride	The novel of the same name by Edward Streeter	Nominated	Shared with Albert Hackett.
1953	Helen Deutsch	Lili	The short story Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico	Nominated
1954	Frances Goodrich Dorothy Kingsley	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	The short story The Sobbin' Women by Stephen Vincent Benét	Nominated	Goodrich tied the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with four. Shared with Albert Hackett.
1955	Isobel Lennart	Love Me or Leave Me	A story by Daniel Fuchs	Nominated	Shared with Daniel Fuchs.
1960		The Sundowners	The novel of the same name by Jon Cleary	Nominated
1962	Eleanor Perry	David and Lisa	The novella Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin	Nominated
1963	Phoebe Ephron	Captain Newman, M.D.	The novel of the same name by Leo Rosten	Nominated	Shared with Richard L. Breen and Henry Ephron.
	Harriet Frank Jr.	Hud	The novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry	Nominated	Shared with Irving Ravetch.
1969	Bridget Boland	Anne of the Thousand Days	The play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson	Nominated	Shared with John Hale and Richard Sokolove.
1970	Renée Taylor	Lovers and Other Strangers	The play of the same name by Joseph Bologna & Taylor	Nominated	Shared with Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman.
1972	Jay Presson Allen	Cabaret	The musical of the same name, book by Joe Masteroff	Nominated
1975	Gladys Hill	The Man Who Would Be King	The short story of the same name by Rudyard Kipling	Nominated	Shared with John Huston.
1978	Elaine May	Heaven Can Wait	The play of the same name by Harry Segall	Nominated	Shared with Warren Beatty.
1979	Harriet Frank Jr.	Norma Rae	The book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by Hank Leiferman	Nominated	Shared with Irving Ravetch.
1981	Jay Presson Allen	Prince of the City	The book Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much by Robert Daley	Nominated	Shared with Sidney Lumet.
1985	Janet Roach	Prizzi's Honor	The novel of the same name by Richard Condon	Nominated	Shared with Richard Condon.
1986	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	A Room with a View	The novel of the same name by E.M. Forster	Won
	Hesper Anderson	Children of a Lesser God	The play of the same name by Mark Medoff	Nominated	Shared with Mark Medoff.
	Beth Henley	Crimes of the Heart	The play of the same name by Henley	Nominated
1988	Anna Hamilton Phelan	Gorillas in the Mist	The article by Harold Hayes	Nominated	Shared with Tab Murphy.
	Christine Edzard	Little Dorrit	The novel of the same name by Charles Dickens	Nominated
1991	Agnieszka Holland	Europa Europa	The book I Was Hitler Youth Salomon by Solomon Perel	Nominated
	Fannie Flagg Carol Sobieski	Fried Green Tomatoes	The novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Flagg	Nominated	Posthumous nomination for Sobieski.
	Pat Conroy Becky Johnston	The Prince of Tides	The novel of the same name by Conroy	Nominated
1992	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Howards End	The novel of the same name by E.M. Forster	Won	First woman with multiple wins in this category. Tied the record for most wins in this category, with two.
1993		The Remains of the Day	The novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro	Nominated
1995	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility	The novel of the same name by Jane Austen	Won	Thompson is the only person to win for acting (Best Actress for Howards End ) and screenwriting. Thompson is the first woman to be nominated for acting (Best Actress for Sense and Sensibility) and screenwriting in the same year.
	Anna Pavignano	Il Postino	The novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta	Nominated	Shared with Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi, Furio Scarpelli, and Giacomo Scarpelli.
1997	Hilary Henkin	Wag the Dog	The novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart	Nominated	Shared with David Mamet.
1998	Elaine May	Primary Colors	The novel of the same name by Joe Klein	Nominated
2000	Wang Hui-ling	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	The novel of the same name by Wang Dulu	Nominated	Shared with James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai.
2001	Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	The novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien	Nominated	Shared with Peter Jackson.
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	The novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien	Won
	Shari Springer Berman	American Splendor	The comic book series of the same name by Harvey Pekar & Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner	Nominated	Shared with Robert Pulcini.
2004	Julie Delpy Kim Krizan	Before Sunset	Characters from the film Before Sunrise created by Richard Linklater and Krizan	Nominated	Shared with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.
2005	Diana Ossana	Brokeback Mountain	The short story of the same name by Annie Proulx	Won	Shared with Larry McMurtry.
2007	Sarah Polley	Away from Her	The short story The Bear Went Over the Mountain by Alice Munro	Nominated
2008	Robin Swicord	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	The short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald	Nominated	Shared with Eric Roth.
2009	Terri Tatchell	District 9	The short film Alive in Joburg written by Neill Blomkamp	Nominated	Shared with Neill Blomkamp.
2010	Debra Granik Anne Rosellini	Winter's Bone	The novel of the same name by Daniel Woodrell	Nominated
2011	Bridget O'Connor	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	The novel of the same name by John le Carré	Nominated	Posthumous nomination. Shared with Peter Straughan.
2012	Lucy Alibar	Beasts of the Southern Wild	The play Juicy and Delicious by Alibar	Nominated	Shared with Benh Zeitlin.
2013	Julie Delpy	Before Midnight	Characters from the film Before Sunrise created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan	Nominated	Shared with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.
2015	Phyllis Nagy	Carol	The novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith	Nominated
	Emma Donoghue	Room	The novel of the same name by Donoghue	Nominated
2016	Allison Schroeder	Hidden Figures	The book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly	Nominated	Shared with Theodore Melfi.
2017	Dee Rees	Mudbound	The novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan	Nominated	First black woman and woman of color to be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Shared with Virgil Williams.
2018	Nicole Holofcener	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	The memoir of the same name by Lee Israel	Nominated	Shared with Jeff Whitty.
2019	Greta Gerwig	Little Women	The novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott	Nominated
2020	Erica Rivinoja Jena Friedman Nina Pedrad	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Based on the character Borat Sagdiyev from the television series Da Ali G Show by Sacha Baron Cohen	Nominated	Shared with Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, and Lee Kern.
	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland	The book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder	Nominated
2021	Sian Heder	CODA	Based on the screenplay La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Éric Lartigau	Won
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The Lost Daughter	The novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante	Nominated
	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog	The novel of the same name by Thomas Savage	Nominated
2022	Sarah Polley	Women Talking	The novel of the same name by Miriam Toews	Won
	Lesley Paterson	All Quiet on the Western Front	The novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque	Nominated	Shared with Edward Berger and Ian Stokell.
2023	Greta Gerwig	Barbie	The characters created by Ruth Handler	Nominated	Shared with Noah Baumbach.

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1928-29 [note 16] [note 17]	Josephine Lovett	Our Dancing Daughters	Nominated	Among the first women to be nominated in writing categories.
1929-30 [note 17]	Frances Marion	The Big House	Won	First woman to win in writing categories. First person with multiple wins in writing categories (For the further information, see Best Original Story).
1940	Joan Harrison	Foreign Correspondent	Nominated	First person to be nominated in both screenwriting categories and in the same year (For the further information, see Best Adapted Screenplay). Shared with Charles Bennett.
1943	Lillian Hellman	The North Star	Nominated
1944	Gladys Lehman	Two Girls and a Sailor	Nominated	Shared with Richard Connell.
1946	Muriel Box	The Seventh Veil	Won	Shared with Sydney Box.
1947	Ruth Gordon	A Double Life	Nominated	Shared with Garson Kanin.
1949	Helen Levitt Janice Loeb	The Quiet One	Nominated	First documentary to be nominated in this category. Shared with Sidney Meyers.
1950 [note 1]	Ruth Gordon	Adam's Rib	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Garson Kanin.
	Virginia Kellogg	Caged	Nominated	Shared with Bernard C. Schoenfeld.
1952	Ruth Gordon	Pat and Mike	Nominated	Shared with Garson Kanin.
1953	Betty Comden	The Band Wagon	Nominated	Shared with Adolph Green.
1955	Sonya Levien	Interrupted Melody	Won	Shared with William Ludwig.
	Betty Comden	It's Always Fair Weather	Nominated	Shared with Adolph Green.
	Isobel Lennart	Love Me or Leave Me	Nominated	Shared with Daniel Fuchs.
1958	Fay Kanin	Teacher's Pet	Nominated	Shared with Michael Kanin.
1960	Marguerite Duras	Hiroshima, Mon Amour	Nominated
1964	Ariane Mnouchkine	That Man from Rio	Nominated	Shared with Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Daniel Boulanger, and Philippe de Broca.
1965	Suso Cecchi d'Amico	Casanova 70	Nominated	Shared with Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, and Giorgio Salvioni.
1970	Adrien Joyce	Five Easy Pieces	Nominated	Shared with Bob Rafelson.
1971	Penelope Gilliatt	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Nominated
1972	Chris Clark Suzanne de Passe	Lady Sings the Blues	Nominated	De Passe was the first African-American and black woman to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Shared with Terrence McCloy.
1973	Gloria Katz	American Graffiti	Nominated	Shared with George Lucas and Willard Huyck.
1974	Suzanne Schiffman	Day for Night	Nominated	Shared with François Truffaut and Jean-Louis Richard.
1976	Daniele Thompson	Cousin, Cousine	Nominated	Shared with Jean-Charles Tacchella.
	Lina Wertmüller	Seven Beauties	Nominated
1978	Nancy Dowd	Coming Home	Won	Shared with Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt.
1979	Valerie Curtin	...And Justice for All	Nominated	Shared with Barry Levinson.
1980	Nancy Meyers	Private Benjamin	Nominated	Shared with Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller.
1982	Melissa Mathison	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
1983	Barbara Benedek	The Big Chill	Nominated	Shared with Lawrence Kasdan.
	Nora Ephron Alice Arlen	Silkwood	Nominated
1984	Anna Thomas	El Norte	Nominated	Shared with Gregory Nava.
1985	Pamela Wallace	Witness	Won	Shared with Earl W. Wallace and William Kelley.
	Aida Bortnik	The Official Story	Nominated	First Latina to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Shared with Luis Puenzo.
1988	Anne Spielberg	Big	Nominated	Shared with Gary Ross.
	Naomi Foner	Running on Empty	Nominated
1989	Nora Ephron	When Harry Met Sally...	Nominated
1991	Callie Khouri	Thelma & Louise	Won
	Meg Kasdan	Grand Canyon	Nominated	Shared with Lawrence Kasdan.
1993	Jane Campion	The Piano	Won
	Nora Ephron	Sleepless in Seattle	Nominated	Shared with Jeff Arch and David S. Ward.
1994	Fran Walsh	Heavenly Creatures	Nominated	Shared with Peter Jackson.
2000	Susannah Grant	Erin Brockovich	Nominated
2002	Nia Vardalos	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Nominated
2003	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	Won
	Kirsten Sheridan Naomi Sheridan	In America	Nominated	Shared with Jim Sheridan.
2006	Iris Yamashita	Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated	Shared with Paul Haggis.
2007	Diablo Cody	Juno	Won
	Nancy Oliver	Lars and the Real Girl	Nominated
	Tamara Jenkins	The Savages	Nominated
2008	Courtney Hunt	Frozen River	Nominated
2010	Lisa Cholodenko	The Kids Are All Right	Nominated	Shared with Stuart Blumberg.
2011	Annie Mumolo Kristen Wiig	Bridesmaids	Nominated
2013	Melisa Wallack	Dallas Buyers Club	Nominated	Shared with Craig Borten.
2015	Meg LeFauve	Inside Out	Nominated	Shared with Pete Docter, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen.
	Andrea Berloff	Straight Outta Compton	Nominated	Shared with Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus.
2017	Emily V. Gordon	The Big Sick	Nominated	Shared with Kumail Nanjiani.
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird	Nominated
	Vanessa Taylor	The Shape of Water	Nominated	Shared with Guillermo del Toro.
2018	Deborah Davis	The Favourite	Nominated	Shared with Tony McNamara.
2019	Krysty Wilson-Cairns	1917	Nominated	Shared with Sam Mendes.
2020	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman	Won
2023	Justine Triet	Anatomy of a Fall	Won	Shared with Arthur Harari.
	Samy Burch	May December	Nominated	Shared with Alex Mechanik.
	Celine Song	Past Lives	Nominated

Best Writing (Original Story)

Academy Award for Best Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1931-32 [note 1]	Frances Marion	The Champ	Won	Among the first women to be nominated and the first woman to win for Best Original Story. First person with multiple wins in writing categories (For the further information, see Best Original Screenplay)
	Adela Rogers St. Johns Jane Murfin	What Price Hollywood?	Nominated	Among the first women to be nominated for Best Original Story.
1932-33	Frances Marion	The Prizefighter and the Lady	Nominated	First woman with multiple nominations in this category.
1936	Adele Comandini	Three Smart Girls	Nominated
1938	Eleanore Griffin	Boys Town	Won	Shared with Dore Schary.
	Marcella Burke	Mad About Music	Nominated	Shared with Frederick Kohner.
1939	Mildred Cram	Love Affair	Nominated	Shared with Leo McCarey.
1940	Bella Spewack	My Favorite Wife	Nominated	Shared with Leo McCarey and Samuel Spewack.
1946	Clemence Dane	Vacation from Marriage	Won
1947	Dorothy Parker	Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman	Nominated	Shared with Frank Cavett.
1948	Frances H. Flaherty	Louisiana Story	Nominated	Shared with Robert J. Flaherty.
1949	Clare Boothe Luce	Come to the Stable	Nominated
	Virginia Kellogg	White Heat	Nominated
1950	Edna Anhalt	Panic in the Streets	Won	Shared with Edward Anhalt.
1952		The Sniper	Nominated
1953	Ruth Orkin	Little Fugitive	Nominated	Shared with Ray Ashley and Morris Engel.

Special Awards

Academy Honorary Award
Year	Name	Notes
1954	Greta Garbo	"for her unforgettable screen performances."
1968	Onna White	"for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver! "
1970	Lillian Gish	"for superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures."
1975	Mary Pickford	"in recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium."
1977	Margaret Booth	"for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry."
1981	Barbara Stanwyck	"for superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting."
1990	Sophia Loren	"one of the genuine treasures of world cinema who, in a career rich with memorable performances, has added permanent luster to our art form."
	Myrna Loy	"in recognition of her extraordinary qualities both on screen and off, with appreciation for a lifetime's worth of indelible performances."
1993	Deborah Kerr	"in appreciation for a full career's worth of elegant and beautifully crafted performances."
2009	Lauren Bacall	"in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."
2013	Angela Lansbury	"an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors."
2014	Maureen O'Hara	"One of Hollywood's brightest stars, whose inspiring performances glowed with passion, warmth and strength."
2015	Gena Rowlands	"an original talent whose devotion to her craft has earned her worldwide recognition as an independent film icon"
2016	Anne V. Coates	"In her more than 60 years as a film editor, she has worked side by side with many leading directors on an impressive range of films"
2017	Agnès Varda	"her compassion and curiosity inform a uniquely personal cinema"
2018	Cicely Tyson	"whose unforgettable performances and personal integrity have inspired generations of filmmakers, actors and audiences"
2019	Lina Wertmüller	"for her provocative disruption of political and social norms delivered with bravery through her weapon of choice: the camera lens."
2021	Elaine May	"for her bold, uncompromising approach to filmmaking, as a writer, director and actress"
	Liv Ullmann	"Ullman's bravery and emotional transparency has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals"
2022	Euzhan Palcy	"a masterful filmmaker who broke ground for Black women directors and inspired storytellers of all kinds across the globe"
	Diane Warren	"for her genius, generosity and passionate commitment to the power of song in film"
2023	Angela Bassett	"Across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting"
	Carol Littleton	"Littleton's career in film editing serves as a model for those who come after her"

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Year	Name	Notes
1968	Martha Raye
1972	Rosalind Russell
1992	Audrey Hepburn	Posthumous award. Hepburn was alive when the Academy voted to bestow the award on her, but she had died by the time it was presented.
	Elizabeth Taylor
2006	Sherry Lansing
2011	Oprah Winfrey
2013	Angelina Jolie
2015	Debbie Reynolds
2019	Geena Davis
2023	Michelle Satter

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Year	Name	Notes
2018	Kathleen Kennedy	Shared with Frank Marshall.

Academy Juvenile Award [note 18]
Year	Name	Notes
1934	Shirley Temple	"in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934."
1938	Deanna Durbin	"for [her] significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement."
1939	Judy Garland	"for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year."
1944	Margaret O'Brien	"outstanding child actress of 1944."
1945	Peggy Ann Garner	"outstanding child actress of 1945."
1960	Hayley Mills	"for Pollyanna , the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960."

Notes

1. This was the first year that multiple women competed against each other for the same award in this category.
2. All five films nominated for Best Animated Feature this year were produced by both female and male producers.
3. This category was re-introduced at the 40th Academy Awards by merging two previously separate categories for Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) and Best Costume Design (Color) into a single Best Costume Design category.
4. All five films nominated for Best Costume Design (Color) this year featured exclusively female nominees.
5. All five films nominated for Best Costume Design this year featured female costume designers.
6. A tie in voting this year resulted in multiple winners.
7. All five films nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film this year featured female nominees.
8. All films nominated for Best Documentary Short Film this year featured female nominees (on each occasion in a year with less than five films nominated).
9. This was the first year that multiple female-directed films competed against each other for the same award in this category.
10. All films nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling this year featured female make-up artists and/or hairstylists.
11. This category has had numerous name changes and demarcations throughout its history, as detailed on the award's page.
12. In 2009, the Academy expanded the number of nominees for Best Picture from five nominees to (potentially) ten nominees. In every subsequent year, there has been at least four films with female producers nominated for the award.
13. This category was re-introduced at the 40th Academy Awards by merging two previously separate categories for Best Production Design (Black-and-White) and Best Production Design (Color) into a single Best Production Design category.
14. All five films nominated for Best Production Design this year featured female production designers and/or set decorators.
15. This category was re-introduced at the 93rd Academy Awards by merging two previously separate categories for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing into a single Best Sound category.
16. The only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees.
17. During this year, the award was bestowed as Best Writing and included original and adapted screenplays.
18. The Juvenile Oscar was intermittently awarded between 1934 and 1960, recognizing performers under the age of eighteen. It was not gender-specific.

References

General

• "Winners and Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 21, 2011.

Specific

1. "92nd Academy Awards" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2020-02-05.