List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees

Maximilian Schell in Judgement at Nuremberg.

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees of German, Austrian or Swiss-German nationality. This list details the performances of Germany's filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been nominated or have won an Academy Award (Oscar).

Acting categories

Actor in a Leading Role

Actor
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1929	Emil Jannings		The Way of All Flesh & The Last Command	Won	Jannings was a Swiss-born German actor.
1930	Paul Muni		The Valiant	Nominated	No official nominees were announced that year.
1934	Paul Muni		I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	Nominated
1936	Paul Muni		Black Fury	Nominated	This was a write-in candidate, who came in second on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination.
1937	Paul Muni		The Story of Louis Pasteur	Won
1938	Paul Muni		The Life of Emile Zola	Nominated
1960	Paul Muni		The Last Angry Man	Nominated
1962	Maximilian Schell		Judgment at Nuremberg	Won	Schell was an Austro-Swiss actor.
1966	Oskar Werner		Ship of Fools	Nominated
1976	Maximilian Schell		The Man in the Glass Booth	Nominated
2016	Michael Fassbender		Steve Jobs	Nominated	Fassbender is a German-born Irish actor

Actor in a Supporting Role

Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Joseph Schildkraut		The Life of Emile Zola	Won
1941	Albert Bassermann		Foreign Correspondent	Nominated
1949	Oskar Homolka		I Remember Mama	Nominated
1951	Erich von Stroheim		Sunset Boulevard	Nominated
1959	Theodore Bikel		The Defiant Ones	Nominated
1978	Maximilian Schell		Julia	Nominated	First German-speaking actor to be nominated in two different categories.
1986	Klaus Maria Brandauer		Out of Africa	Nominated
1997	Armin Mueller-Stahl		Shine	Nominated
2009	Christoph Waltz		Inglourious Bastards	Won	Waltz is an Austrian-German actor.
2012	Christoph Waltz		Django Unchained	Won
2013	Michael Fassbender		12 Years a Slave	Nominated	Fassbender is a German-born Irish actor

Actress in a Leading Role

Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld.

Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1931	Marlene Dietrich		Morocco	Nominated
1936	Elisabeth Bergner		Escape Me Never	Nominated
1937	Luise Rainer		The Great Ziegfeld	Won	Due to the political atmosphere, Rainer was promoted to be Austrian by this time.
1938	Luise Rainer		The Good Earth	Won	First actor regardless of gender to win two consecutive awards.[1]
2010	Sandra Bullock		The Blind Side	Won	Bullock is half German. Until her 18th birthday she retained German citizenship.[2]
2014	Sandra Bullock		Gravity	Nominated

Actress in a Supporting Role

Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1962	Lotte Lenya		The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Nominated
1964	Lilia Skala		Lilies of the Field	Nominated

Best Art Direction

Art Direction
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1928	Rochus Gliese		Sunrise	Nominated
1929	Hans Dreier		The Patriot	Nominated	No official nominees had been announced this year.
1930	Hans Dreier		The Vagabond King	Nominated
			The Love Parade	Nominated
1931	Hans Dreier		Morocco	Nominated
1934	Hans Dreier		A Farewell to Arms	Nominated
1938	Hans Dreier		Souls at Sea	Nominated
1939	Carl Jules Weyl	Germany	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Won
	Hans Dreier		If I Were King	Nominated
1940	Hans Dreier		Beau Geste	Nominated
1941	Hans Dreier		Arise, My Love	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
			North West Mounted Police	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1942	Hans Dreier		Hold Back the Dawn	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1943	Hans Dreier		Take a Letter, Darling	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
			Reap the Wild Wind	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
	Hans Dreier		Five Graves to Cairo	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
			For Whom the Bell Tolls	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
	Hans Dreier		No Time for Love	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
			Lady in the Dark	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
	Paul Huldschinsky		Gaslight	Won
1944	Carl Jules Weyl	Germany	Mission to Moscow	Nominated
	Hans Dreier Ernst Fegté	Germany Germany	Five Graves to Cairo	Nominated
1945	Walter Holscher	Germany	Address Unknown	Nominated		Holscher was a German-born American art director
	Ernst Fegté	Germany	The Princess and the Pirate	Nominated
1946	Hans Dreier		Love Letters	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
	Hans Dreier Ernst Fegté		Frenchman's Creek	Won	Nominated in the color category.
1947	Hans Dreier		Kitty	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1948	Alfred Junge		Black Narcissus	Won	Nominated in the color category.
1949	Hein Heckroth		The Red Shoes	Won	Nominated in the color category.
1950	Harry Horner		The Heiress	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
	William Kellner		Saraband for Dead Lovers	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1951	Ernst Fegté	Germany	Destination Moon	Nominated
	Hans Dreier		Sunset Boulevard	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category. / First person to win both art direction categories in the same year.
			Samson and Delilah	Won	Nominated in the color category.
1952	Hein Heckroth		The Tales of Hoffmann	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1954	Paul Markwitz Fritz Maurischat		Martin Luther	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
	Alfred Junge		Knights of the Round Table	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1955	Max Ophüls		Le Plaisir	Nominated	First person to receive nominations for writing and art direction.
1958	Walter Holscher	Germany	Pal Joey	Nominated
1960	Franz Bachelin	Germany	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Nominated
	William Kellner		Suddenly, Last Summer	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1961	Harry Horner		Spartacus	Won	Nominated in color category.
1969	Harry Lange	Germany	2001: A Space Odyssey	Nominated		Lange was a German-born British
1970	Harry Horner		They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Nominated
1973	Hans Jürgen Kiebach Herbert Strabel Rolf Zehetbauer		Cabaret	Won
1981	Harry Lange	Germany	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back	Nominated
1997	Brigitte Broch	Germany	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated		Broch is a German-Mexican production designer
2002	Brigitte Broch	Germany	Moulin Rouge!	Won
2016	Bernhard Henrich	Germany	Bridge of Spies	Nominated

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Karl Freund		The Good Earth	Won
1942	Karl Freund		The Chocolate Soldier	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
			Blossoms in the Dust	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1950	Franz Planer		Champion	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1952	Franz Planer		Death of a Salesman	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1954	Franz Planer		Roman Holiday	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1960	Franz Planer		The Nun's Story	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1962	Eugen Schüfftan		The Hustler	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
	Franz Planer		The Children's Hour	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1965	Walter Lassally		Zorba the Greek	Won	Lassally is a German-born British cinematographer.
1981	Ralf D. Bode		Coal Miner's Daughter	Nominated	Bode was a German-born American cinematographer
1983	Jost Vacano		Das Boot	Nominated
1988	Michael Ballhaus		Broadcast News	Nominated
1990	Michael Ballhaus		The Fabulous Baker Boys	Nominated
2003	Michael Ballhaus		Gangs of New York	Nominated
2010	Christian Berger		The White Ribbon	Nominated

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1952	Hein Heckroth		The Tales of Hoffmann	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1955	René Hubert		Désirée	Nominated
1963	Ruth Morley		The Miracle Worker	Nominated	Morley was an Austrian-born American costume designer
1965	René Hubert		The Visit	Nominated
2012	Lisy Christl		Anonymous	Nominated

Best Documentary

Feature Film

Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1950	Curt Oertel		The Titan: Story of Michelangelo	Won
1960	Bernhard Grzimek		Serengeti darf nicht sterben	Won
1961	Arthur Cohn		Le Ciel et la boue	Won
1971	Harald Reinl		Erinnerungen an die Zukunft	Nominated
1972	Marcel Ophüls		Le chagrin et la pitié	Nominated	Ophüls is a German-born US-American filmmaker.
1974	Bengt von zur Mühlen		Schlacht um Berlin	Nominated
1981	Bengt von zur Mühlen Arthur Cohn		Der Gelbe Stern	Nominated
1989	Marcel Ophüls		Hôtel Terminus	Won
1991	Arthur Cohn		American Dream	Won
2000	Arthur Cohn		One Day in September	Won
	Wim Wenders		Buena Vista Social Club	Nominated
2002	Christian Frei		War Photographer	Nominated
2006	Hubert Sauper		Darwin's Nightmare	Nominated
2009	Werner Herzog		Encounters at the End of the World	Nominated
2012	Wim Wenders Gian-Piero Ringel		Pina	Nominated
2015	Wim Wenders		The Salt of the Earth	Nominated
	Dirk Wilutzky		Citizenfour	Won

Short Subject

Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1973	Peter Schamoni		Hundertwassers Regentag	Nominated
1976	Manfred Baier		Millions of Years Ahead of Man	Nominated
2004	Katja Esson		Ferry Tales	Nominated

Best Director

Director
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1929	Ernst Lubitsch		The Patriot	Nominated	No official nominees were announced that year.
1930	Ernst Lubitsch		The Love Parade	Nominated
1931	Josef von Sternberg		Morocco	Nominated
1932	Josef von Sternberg		Shanghai Express	Nominated
1936	Michael Curtiz		Captain Blood	Nominated	This was a write-in candidate, who came in second on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination.
1937	William Wyler		Dodsworth	Nominated
1938	William Dieterle		The Life of Emile Zola	Nominated
1939	Michael Curtiz		Four Daughters	Nominated
			Angels with Dirty Faces	Nominated
1940	William Wyler		Wuthering Heights	Nominated
1941	William Wyler		The Letter	Nominated
1942	William Wyler		The Little Foxes	Nominated
1943	William Wyler		Mrs. Miniver	Won
1943	Michael Curtiz		Yankee Doodle Dandy	Nominated
1944	Michael Curtiz		Casablanca	Won	Curtiz was a Hungarian immigrant to Austria before moving to the US.
1945	Billy Wilder		Double Indemnity	Nominated
	Otto Preminger		Laura	Nominated
1946	Billy Wilder		The Lost Weekend	Won
1947	Robert Siodmak		The Killers	Nominated
	William Wyler		The Best Years of Our Lives	Won
1948	Henry Koster		The Bishop's Wife	Nominated
1949	Fred Zinnemann		The Search	Nominated
1950	William Wyler		The Heiress	Nominated
1951	Billy Wilder		Sunset Boulevard	Nominated
1952	William Wyler		Detective Story	Nominated
1953	Fred Zinnemann		High Noon	Nominated
1954	William Wyler		Roman Holiday	Nominated
	Billy Wilder		Stalag 17	Nominated
	Fred Zinnemann		From Here to Eternity	Won
1955	Billy Wilder		Sabrina	Nominated
1957	William Wyler		Friendly Persuasion	Nominated
1958	Billy Wilder		Witness for the Prosecution	Nominated
1960	William Wyler		Ben Hur	Won
	Billy Wilder		Some Like It Hot	Nominated
	Fred Zinnemann		The Nun's Story	Nominated
1961	Billy Wilder		The Apartment	Won
	Fred Zinnemann		The Sundowners	Nominated
1964	Otto Preminger		The Cardinal	Nominated
1966	William Wyler		The Collector	Nominated	Holding the record for the most nominations in this category (12).
1967	Fred Zinnemann		A Man for All Seasons	Won
1967	Mike Nichols	Germany	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nominated
1968	Mike Nichols		The Graduate	Won
1978	Fred Zinnemann		Julia	Nominated
1983	Wolfgang Petersen		Das Boot	Nominated
1984	Mike Nichols	Germany	Silkwood	Nominated
1989	Mike Nichols	Germany	Working Girl	Nominated
2012	Michael Haneke		Amour	Nominated	Haneke is a German-born Austrian filmmaker.

Best Editing

Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1939	Tom Held		The Great Waltz	Nominated
			Test Pilot	Nominated
1951	Oswald Hafenrichter	Austria	The Third Man	Nominated
1973	Peter Zinner		The Godfather	Nominated
1979	Peter Zinner		The Deer Hunter	Won
1983	Hannes Nikel		Das Boot	Nominated
	Peter Zinner		An Officer and a Gentleman	Nominated
1985	Rudi Fehr Kaja Fehr		Prizzi's Honor	Nominated	Kaja Fehr is the US-born daughter of Rudi Fehr.

Best Foreign Language Film

This list contains nominated films that were primary shot in German. Therefore submissions from Hungary, Belgium and the Netherlands are as well considered. Furthermore all nominated films from Switzerland that were primary shot in French are omitted such as La Diagonale du fou (which won in 1985) as well as Amour, the Austrian submission for 2013 with all of its dialogue in French.

Foreign Language Film
Year	Director	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1957	Helmut Käutner		Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	Nominated	Producers Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel were officially nominated in 1957.
1958	Robert Siodmak		Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam	Nominated
1959	Franz Peter Wirth		Helden	Nominated
1960	Bernhard Wicki		Die Brücke	Nominated
1971	Maximilian Schell		Erste Liebe	Nominated
1974	Maximilian Schell		Der Fußgänger	Nominated	First filmmaker to have two of his films nominated for different countries.
1977	Frank Beyer		Jakob der Lügner	Nominated	First and only film from East Germany to be nominated for an Academy Award.
1979	Hans W. Geißendörfer		Die gläserne Zelle	Nominated
1980	Volker Schlöndorff		Die Blechtrommel	Won
1982	István Szabó		Mephisto	Won	Shot entirely in German, this was the first film that won for being in another language than the one of the country that submitted it.
	Markus Imhoof		Das Boot ist voll	Nominated
1986	Agnieszka Holland		Bittere Ernte	Nominated	First female filmmaker to direct a German-language nominated film.
	István Szabó		Oberst Redl	Nominated
1987	Wolfgang Glück		38 – Auch das war Wien	Nominated
1989	Gérard Corbiau		Le maître de musique	Nominated	Some parts in English, French & Italian.
1991	Michael Verhoeven		Das schreckliche Mädchen	Nominated	First subimission of United Germany to be nominated.
	Xavier Koller		Reise der Hoffnung	Won	Some parts in Turkish
1993	Helmut Dietl		Schtonk!	Nominated
1998	Caroline Link		Jenseits der Stille	Nominated	Some parts in English, German Sign Language & Spanish
2003	Caroline Link		Nirgendwo in Afrika	Won	Second female filmmaker to direct a Foreign-Language-Film winner.
2004	Ben Sombogaart		De tweeling	Nominated	Half and half spoken in German & Dutch.
2005	Oliver Hirschbiegel		Der Untergang	Nominated
2006	Marc Rothemund		Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage	Nominated
2007	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck		Das Leben der Anderen	Won
2008	Stefan Ruzowitzky		Die Fälscher	Won
2009	Uli Edel		Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex	Nominated
	Götz Spielmann		Revanche	Nominated
2010	Michael Haneke		Das weiße Band	Nominated
2012	Michael Haneke		Amour	Won

Best Music, Original Score

Original Music Score
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1935	Max Steiner		The Lost Patrol	Nominated
			The Gay Divorcee	Nominated
1936	Max Steiner		The Informer	Won
	Leo F. Forbstein		Captain Blood	Nominated	This was a write-in candidate, who came in third on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination.
1937	Max Steiner		The Garden of Allah	Nominated
	Leo F. Forbstein		Anthony Adverse	Won
			The Charge of the Light Brigade	Nominated
1938	Leo F. Forbstein		The Life of Emile Zola	Nominated
	Hugo Riesenfeld		Make a Wish	Nominated
1939	Erich Wolfgang Korngold		The Adventures of Robin Hood	Won
	Franz Waxman		The Young in Heart	Nominated
	Max Steiner		Jezebel	Nominated
1940	Max Steiner		Dark Victory	Nominated
			Gone with the Wind	Nominated
1941	Robert Stolz		Spring Parade	Nominated
	Erich Wolfgang Korngold		The Sea Hawk	Nominated
	Franz Waxman		Rebecca	Nominated
	Max Steiner		The Letter	Nominated
1942	Franz Waxman		Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Nominated
			Suspicion	Nominated
	Max Steiner		Sergeant York	Nominated
	Ernst Toch		Ladies in Retirement	Nominated
1943	Max Steiner		Now, Voyager	Won
	Ray Heindorf Heinz Roemheld		Yankee Doodle Dandy	Won
	Friedrich Hollaender		The Talk of the Town	Nominated
	Werner Heymann		To Be or Not to Be	Nominated
	Hans J. Salter		It Started with Eve	Nominated
1944	Max Steiner		Casablanca	Nominated
	Hanns Eisler		Hangmen Also Die!	Nominated
	Hans J. Salter		The Amazing Mrs. Holliday	Nominated
	Ray Heindorf		This Is the Army	Won
1945	Max Steiner		Since You Went Away	Won
			The Adventures of Mark Twain	Nominated
	Robert Stolz	Austria	It Happened Tomorrow	Nominated
	Hanns Eisler		None but the Lonely Heart	Nominated
	Kurt Weill Werner R. Heymann		Knickerbocker Holiday	Nominated
	Ernst Toch		Address Unknown	Nominated
	Hans J. Salter		Christmas Holiday The Merry Monahans	Nominated
1946	Max Steiner		Rhapsody in Blue	Nominated
	Franz Waxman		Objective, Burma!	Nominated
	Hans J. Salter		This Love of Ours	Nominated
			Can't Help Singing	Nominated
1947	Max Steiner Ray Heindorf		Night and Day	Nominated
	Franz Waxman		Humoresque	Nominated
1948	Max Steiner		Life with Father	Nominated
			My Wild Irish Rose	Nominated
1949	Max Steiner		Johnny Belinda	Nominated
1950	Max Steiner		Beyond the Forest	Nominated
1951	Max Steiner		The Flame and the Arrow	Nominated
	Franz Waxman		Sunset Boulevard	Won
1952	Franz Waxman		A Place in the Sun	Won
1953	Max Steiner		The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima	Nominated
			The Jazz Singer	Nominated
1954	Friedrich Hollaender		The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T	Nominated
	André Previn		Kiss Me Kate	Nominated	Shared with the American-born Saul Chaplin.
1955	Max Steiner		The Caine Mutiny	Nominated
	Franz Waxman		The Silver Chalice	Nominated
1956	Max Steiner		Battle Cry	Nominated
	André Previn		It's Always Fair Weather	Nominated
1959	André Previn		Gigi	Won
1960	Franz Waxman		The Nun's Story	Nominated
	Ernest Gold		On the Beach	Nominated
	André Previn		Porgy and Bess	Won	Shared with the American-born Ken Darby.
1961	Ernest Gold		Exodus	Won
1963	Franz Waxman		Taras Bulba	Nominated
1963	Ray Heindorf		The Music Man	Won	First winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1964	Ernest Gold		It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Nominated
1964	André Previn		Irma la Douce	Won	Winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1965	André Previn		My Fair Lady	Won	Winner of Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment.
1970	Ernest Gold		The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Nominated
1974	André Previn		Jesus Christ Superstar	Nominated	Nominated for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Shared nomination with English-born Andrew Lloyd Webber and Chilean-born American Herbert W. Spencer.
1975	Frederick Loewe		The Little Prince	Nominated	Nominated for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Shared nomination with American-born Alan Jay Lerner, English-born Angela Morley and Australian-born Douglas Gamley.
1989	Hans Zimmer		Rain Man	Nominated
1995	Hans Zimmer		The Lion King	Won
1997	Hans Zimmer		The Preacher's Wife	Nominated	Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category.
1998	Hans Zimmer		As Good as It Gets	Nominated	Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category.
1999	Hans Zimmer		The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Nominated in the Dramatic Score category.
			The Prince of Egypt	Nominated	Nominated in the Musical or Comedy Score category. Shared nomination with American-born Stephen Schwartz.
2001	Hans Zimmer		Gladiator	Nominated
2010	Hans Zimmer		Sherlock Holmes	Nominated
2011	Hans Zimmer		Inception	Nominated
2015	Hans Zimmer		Interstellar	Nominated

Best Music, Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Country	Film and Song	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Friedrich Hollaender		Artists and Models for the song: "Whispers in the Dark"	Nominated	Shared with Leo Robin
1949	Friedrich Hollaender		That Lady in Ermine for the song: "This Is the Moment"	Nominated	Shared with Leo Robin
1959	Frederick Loewe		Gigi for the song: "Gigi"	Won
1964	Ernest Gold		It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World For the song: "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"	Nominated	Shared with Mack David
1975	Frederick Loewe		The Little Prince For the song: "Little Prince"	Nominated
1988	Harold Faltermeyer		Beverly Hills Cop II for the song: "Shakedown"	Nominated	Shared with Keith Forsey and Bob Seger

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1929	Ernst Lubitsch		The Patriot	Nominated
1930	Ernst Lubitsch		The Love Parade	Nominated
1931	Ernst Lubitsch		The Smiling Lieutenant	Nominated
1932	Ernst Lubitsch		One Hour with You	Nominated
1936	Henry Blanke		A Midsummer Night's Dream	Nominated
1937	Henry Blanke		The Story of Louis Pasteur	Nominated
1937	Henry Blanke		Anthony Adverse	Nominated
1938	Henry Blanke		The Life of Emile Zola	Won
1939	Henry Blanke		Jezebel	Nominated	Shared with Hal B. Wallis
1944	Ernst Lubitsch		Heaven Can Wait	Nominated
1949	Henry Blanke		The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Nominated
1950	William Wyler		The Heiress	Nominated
1954	William Wyler		Roman Holiday	Nominated
1955	Sam Spiegel		On the Waterfront	Won
1957	William Wyler		Friendly Persuasion	Nominated
1958	Sam Spiegel		The Bridge on the River Kwai	Won
1960	Henry Blanke		The Nun's Story	Nominated
1960	Otto Preminger		Anatomy of a Murder	Nominated
1961	Billy Wilder		The Apartment	Won
1961	Fred Zinnemann		The Sundowners	Nominated
1963	Sam Spiegel		Lawrence of Arabia	Won
1967	Fred Zinnemann		A Man for All Seasons	Won
1971	Ingo Preminger		M*A*S*H	Nominated
1972	Sam Spiegel		Nicholas and Alexandra	Nominated
1994	Mike Nichols	Germany	The Remains of the Day	Nominated	Shared with John Calley and Ismail Merchant
2006	Michael Ohoven		Capote	Nominated
2013	Stefan Arndt Margaret Ménégoz Veit Heiduschka Michael Katz		Amour	Nominated

Best Short Film

Live Action

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Film and Song	Status	Milestone/Notes
1957	Konstantin Kalser		Crashing the Water Barrier	Won
1994	Pepe Danquardt		Schwarzfahrer	Won
1999	Alexander Jovy	Germany	Holiday Romance	Nominated
2000	Marc-Andreas Bochert Gabriele Lins		Kleingeld	Nominated
2001	Florian Gallenberger		Quiero ser (I want to be ...)	Won
2002	Johannes Kiefer		Gregors größte Erfindung	Nominated
	Virgil Widrich		Copy Shop	Nominated
2003	Lexi Alexander	Germany	Johnny Flynton	Nominated	Shared with Alexander Buono
2004	Florian Baxmeyer		Die Rote Jacke	Nominated
2006	Ulrike Grote		Der Ausreißer	Nominated
2009	Jochen Alexander Freydank		Spielzeugland	Won
	Reto Caffi		Auf der Strecke	Nominated
2012	Max Zähle Stefan Gieren		Raju	Nominated

Animated

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Film and Song	Status	Milestone/Notes
1942	Max Fleischer		Superman	Nominated
1975	Wolfgang Reitherman		Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!	Nominated
1990	Christoph Lauenstein Wolfgang Lauenstein		Balance	Won
1997	Thomas Stellmach Tyron Montgomery		Quest	Won	Montgomery is an Irish-born German.
2001	Steffen Schäffler Anette Schäffler		Periwig Maker	Nominated
2003	Chris Stenner Heidi Wittlinger		Das Rad	Nominated	Arvid Uibel directed the film alongside Stenner and Wittlinger, but died in 2000 and was not nominated
2011	Max Lang Jakob Schuh		Der Grüffelo	Nominated
2014	Max Lang Jan Lachauer		Room on the Broom	Nominated

Sound categories

Best Sound Mixing

Sound
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1935	Carl Dreher		The Gay Divorcee	Nominated
1936	Carl Dreher		I Dream Too Much	Nominated
1983	Milan Bor		Das Boot	Nominated

Best Sound Editing

Sound Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1980	H. R. Giger	Switzerland	Alien	Won
1997	Volker Engel		Independence Day	Won

Writing categories

Best Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1929	Hanns Kräly		The Patriot	Won	No official nominees have been announced that year.
			The Last of Mrs. Cheyney	Nominated	No official nominees have been announced that year.
1940	Walter Reisch Billy Wilder		Ninotchka	Nominated
1942	Billy Wilder		Hold Back the Dawn	Nominated
1943	George Froeschel		Mrs. Miniver	Won
			Random Harvest	Nominated
1945	Billy Wilder		Double Indemnity	Nominated
	Walter Reisch		Gaslight	Nominated
1946	Billy Wilder		The Lost Weekend	Won
1949	Billy Wilder		A Foreign Affair	Nominated
	Irma von Cube		Johnny Belinda	Nominated	First German-speaking female to be nominated for a writing award.
	Richard Schweizer David Wechsler		The Search	Nominated
1952	Robert Wyler		Detective Story	Nominated
	Max Ophüls		La Ronde	Nominated
1955	Billy Wilder		Sabrina	Nominated
1959	Don Mankiewicz	Germany	I Want to Live!	Nominated
1983	Wolfgang Petersen		Das Boot	Nominated
1987	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Germany	A Room with a View	Won
1993	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Germany	Howards End	Won
1994	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Germany	The Remains of the Day	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Heinz Herald		The Life of Emile Zola	Nominated
1941	Heinz herald	Germany	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	Nominated
1946	Richard Schweizer		Marie-Louise	Won	First time a foreign screenplay won the award.
1951	Billy Wilder		Sunset Boulevard	Won
1952	Billy Wilder		Ace in the Hole	Nominated
1961	Billy Wilder		The Apartment	Won
1963	Wolfgang Reinhardt		Freud	Nominated
1966	Billy Wilder		The Fortune Cookie	Nominated
2013	Michael Haneke		Amour	Nominated

Best Story (1928-1958)

Best Story
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1938	Heinz Herald		The Life of Emile Zola	Won
	Hanns Kräly		One Hundred Men and a Girl	Nominated
1939	Frederick Kohner		Mad About Music	Nominated
1941	Walter Reisch		Comrade X	Nominated
1942	Billy Wilder		Ball of Fire	Nominated
1945	Alfred Neumann		None Shall Escape	Nominated
1946	Ernst Marischka		A Song to Remember	Nominated
1949	Richard Schweizer David Wechsler		The Search	Won

See also

• Cinema of Austria
• Cinema of Belgium
• Cinema of Germany
• Cinema of Luxembourg
• Cinema of Switzerland
• List of German films

References

1. "And the Oscar goes to: Luise Rainer | Boulevard der Stars". Boulevard-der-stars-berlin.de. 2010-12-13. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
2. "Oscar für Sandra Bullock: Zimtzicke mit Haltung | Dossier - Frankfurter Rundschau" (in German). Fr-online.de. Retrieved 2015-03-10.