List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees
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This is a list of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Mexican filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.
List of winners
Special Achievement
| Special Achievement Academy Award | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Flesh and Sand | Recipient | First Mexican to receive this award. |
Best Picture
This list focuses on Mexican-born producers.
| Academy Award for Best Picture | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel | Nominated | Shared with Steve Golin and Jon Kilik. |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | Nominated | Shared with David Heyman. |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman | Won | Shared with John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole. |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Nominated | Shared with Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon. | |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | Won | Shared with J. Miles Dale. |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Nominated | Shared with Gabriela Rodriguez. |
| 2021 | Guillermo del Toro | Nightmare Alley | Nominated | Shared with J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper. |
| 2025 | Frankenstein | Nominated | Shared with J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber. | |
Best Director
This list focuses on Mexican-born directors.
| Academy Award for Best Director | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel | Nominated | First Mexican to be nominated for Best Director. |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | Won | First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director. |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman[1] | Won | First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director twice. |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Won | First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director two times. Third director in history to win consecutive Best Director Academy Awards. First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director three times. | |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | Won | |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Won | First person to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography. |
Best Actor
This list focuses on Mexican-born actors.
Leading
| Academy Award for Best Actor | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Anthony Quinn | Wild Is the Wind | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Zorba the Greek | Nominated | ||
| 2012 | Demián Bichir | A Better Life | Nominated | |
Supporting
| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Anthony Quinn | Viva Zapata! | Won | |
| 1956 | Lust for Life | Won | First Mexican-born actor to win two Oscars in the same category. | |
Best Actress
This list focuses on Mexican-born actresses.
Leading
| Academy Award for Best Actress | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Salma Hayek | Frida | Nominated | First Mexican actress to be nominated for Best Leading Actress. |
| 2018 | Yalitza Aparicio | Roma | Nominated | Debut performance. First Indigenous Latin American (Indigenous Mexican) to be nominated in any category. |
Supporting
| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Katy Jurado | Broken Lance | Nominated | First Mexican and Hispanic actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. |
| 2006 | Adriana Barraza | Babel | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Lupita Nyong'o | 12 Years a Slave | Won | Mexican with Kenyan citizenship. First Mexican-born actress to win an Academy Award. |
| 2018 | Marina de Tavira | Roma | Nominated | |
Best Animated Feature Film
| Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | ||||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Carlos López Estrada[2] | Raya and the Last Dragon | Nominated | Shared with Don Hall, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho. | ||
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Won | Shared with Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley. | ||
Best Cinematography
This list focuses on Mexican-born cinematographers.
| Academy Award for Best Cinematography | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Gabriel Figueroa | The Night of the Iguana | Nominated | |
| 1975 | John A. Alonzo | Chinatown | Nominated | First American-born Latino to be nominated for Best Cinematography. |
| 1995 | Emmanuel Lubezki | A Little Princess | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | Nominated | ||
| 2005 | The New World | Nominated | ||
| Rodrigo Prieto | Brokeback Mountain | Nominated | ||
| 2006 | Emmanuel Lubezki | Children of Men | Nominated | |
| Guillermo Navarro | Pan's Labyrinth | Won | Original title: El laberinto del fauno | |
| 2011 | Emmanuel Lubezki | The Tree of Life | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Gravity | Won | ||
| 2014 | Birdman | Won | ||
| 2015 | The Revenant | Won | First cinematographer to win three years in a row. First Mexican and Latin American to win the Oscars three times. First Mexican Jews to be nominated and to win an Academy Award in any category. | |
| 2016 | Rodrigo Prieto | Silence | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Won | First Mexican director to be nominated for Best Cinematography while serving as both director and cinematographer. First Mexican director to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography in the same year. |
| 2019 | Rodrigo Prieto | The Irishman | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated | ||
Best Costume Design
| Academy Award for Best Costume Design | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Mayes C. Rubeo | Jojo Rabbit | Nominated | First Mexican and Latin American costume designer to be nominated for Best Costume Design.[3] |
Best Documentary Feature
This list focuses on documentaries features directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
| Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature | ||||
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Torero! | Manuel Barbachano Ponce | Nominated | |
| 1969 | The Olympics in Mexico | Alberto Isaac | Nominated | |
| 1985 | The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo | Lourdes Portillo | Nominated | Shared with Susana Blaustein Muñoz. |
| 2001 | Promises | Carlos Bolado | Nominated | Shared with B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro. |
Best Documentary Short Subject
This list focuses on documentaries short subject directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
| Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject | ||||
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Sentinels of Silence | Manuel Arango | Won | Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram. This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories. |
Best Film Editing
This list focuses on Mexican-born film editors.
| Academy Award for Best Film Editing | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men | Nominated | Shared with Alex Rodriguez. |
| 2013 | Gravity | Won | Shared with Mark Sanger. | |
Best International Feature Film
This list focuses on Mexican films that won or were nominated for the foreign language film award.
| Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | |||||
| Year | Film | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Macario | Roberto Gavaldón | Nominated | First Latin American and Mexican film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. | |
| 1961 | The Important Man | Ismael Rodríguez | Nominated | Original title: Ánimas Trujano | |
| 1962 | The Pearl of Tlayucan | Luis Alcoriza | Nominated | Original title: Tlayucan | |
| 1975 | Letters from Marusia | Miguel Littín | Nominated | Original title: Actas de Marusia | |
| 2000 | Love's a Bitch | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Nominated | Original title: Amores Perros | |
| 2002 | The Crime of Father Amaro | Carlos Carrera | Nominated | Original title: El Crimen del Padre Amaro | |
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | Nominated | Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno The film was nominated for five other Academy Awards, and won three of them: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup. | |
| 2010 | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Nominated | Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. | |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Won | First Mexican film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film and to be simultaneously nominated for Best Picture. | |
Best Live Action Short Film
This list focuses on live action short-films directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
| Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film | ||||
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Sentinels of Silence | Manuel Arango | Won | Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram. This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories. |
| 1996 | De tripas, corazón | Antonio Urrutia | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Le pupille | Alfonso Cuarón | Nominated | Shared with Alice Rohrwacher |
Best Makeup
This list focuses on Mexican-born makeup artists.
| Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Mike Elizalde | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Nominated | |
Best Original Score
| Academy Award for Best Original Score | ||||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Bill Melendez | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | Nominated | The category was Best Music, Original Song Score. Shared with Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter, Alan Shean, and Vince Guaraldi. | ||
Best Production Design
This list focuses on Mexican-born art directors/production designers and set decorators.
| Academy Award for Best Production Design | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Emile Kuri | Silver Queen | Nominated | Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese descent. |
| 1949 | The Heiress | Won | ||
| Edward Carrere | Adventures of Don Juan | Nominated | Shared with Lyle Reifsnider. | |
| 1952 | Emile Kuri | Carrie | Nominated | |
| 1954 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Won | ||
| Executive Suite | Nominated | |||
| 1959 | John DeCuir | The Big Fisherman | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Edward Carrere | Sunrise at Campobello | Nominated | Shared with George James Hopkins. |
| 1961 | Emile Kuri | The Absent-Minded Professor | Nominated | |
| Fernando Carrere | The Children's Hour | Nominated | ||
| 1963 | John DeCuir | Cleopatra | Won | |
| 1964 | Emile Kuri | Mary Poppins | Nominated | |
| 1967 | Edward Carrere | Camelot | Won | Shared with John Truscott and John W. Brown. |
| John DeCuir | The Taming of the Shrew | Nominated | ||
| 1969 | Hello, Dolly! | Won | ||
| 1971 | Emile Kuri | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Brigitte Broch | Romeo + Juliet | Nominated | German-born Mexican art director. Shared with Catherine Martin. |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Won | ||
| 2002 | Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo | Frida | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Eugenio Caballero | Pan's Labyrinth | Won | Original title: El laberinto del fauno Shared with Pilar Revuelta. |
| 2018 | Eugenio Caballero Bárbara Enríquez | Roma | Nominated | |
Best Sound
This list focuses on Mexican-born sound editors and mixers.
Prior to the 93rd Academy Awards, the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.[4]
| Academy Award for Best Sound | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Category | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Fernando Cámara[5] | Apocalypto | Mixing | Nominated | |
| 2012 | José Antonio García | Argo | Nominated | ||
| 2014 | Martin Hernández | Birdman | Editing | Nominated | Shared with Aaron Glascock. |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Nominated | Shared with Lon Bender. | ||
| 2018 | José Antonio García | Roma | Mixing | Nominated | Shared with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan. |
| Sergio Díaz | Editing | Nominated | Shared with Skip Lievsay. | ||
| 2020 | Jaime Baksht Michelle Couttolenc Carlos Cortés Navarrete | Sound of Metal | Sound | Won | Shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh. |
| 2025 | José Antonio García | One Battle After Another | Sound | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor. |
Best Writing (Screenplay)
This list focuses on Mexican-born writers.
Adapted
| Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men | Nominated | Shared with Hawk Otsby, Timothy J. Sexton and Mark Fergus. |
| 2025 | Guillermo del Toro | Frankenstein | Nominated | |
Original
| Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón | And Your Mother Too | Nominated | Original title: Y Tu Mamá También |
| 2006 | Guillermo Arriaga | Babel | Nominated | |
| Guillermo del Toro | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated | Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno | |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman | Won | Shared with Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo. |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | Nominated | Shared with Vanessa Taylor. Story by Guillermo del Toro. |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Nominated | |
Best Visual Effects
| Academy Award for Best Visual Effects | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | Paul Lerpae | Unconquered | Nominated | Mexican born-American special effects artist. |
Nominations and Winners
| No. of wins | No. of nominations |
|---|---|
| 28 | 100 |
