List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Romania
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This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Romania.
Best Picture
| Best Picture | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | John Houseman | Julius Caesar | Nominated | Romanian-born British-American producer and actor. | |
Best Actor
| Best Actor | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Sebastian Stan | The Apprentice | Nominated | Romanian and American actor. | |
Best Supporting Actor
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | John Houseman | The Paper Chase | Won | Houseman was a Romanian-born British-American actor and producer. | |
Best Actress
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Natalie Portman | Black Swan | Won | Israeli American actress with Romanian Jewish heritage.[1] | |
Best Supporting Actress
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Lauren Bacall | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Nominated | American actress born to Romanian and Belarusian heritage. | |
Best Adapted Screenplay
| Best Adapted Screenplay | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Robert Towne | The Last Detail | Nominated | American-born of Romanian and Russian descent. | |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Nominated | Shared with Michael Austin. | ||
| 1992 | Michael Tolkin | The Player | Nominated | American-born of Romanian-jewish and Ukrainian-jewish descent. | |
Best Original Screenplay
| Best Original Screenplay | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Robert Towne | Chinatown | Won | Father Romanian jew | |
| 1975 | Shampoo | Nominated | Shared with Warren Beatty. | ||
Best Story
| Best Story | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
| 1934 | Arthur Caesar[2] | Manhattan Melodrama[3] | Nominated | ||
| 1940 | Bella and Samuel Spewack | My Favorite Wife[4] | Nominated | ||
| 1955 | Henri Troyat | The Sheep Has Five Legs | Nominated | ||
Best International Feature Film
| Best International Feature Film | |||||
| Year | Film | Original Title | Status | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/21 | Collective | Colectiv | Nominated | Alexander Nanau | |
Best Documentary Feature
| Best Documentary Feature | |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Miles Mogulescu | Union Maids | Nominated | Shared with Jim Klein and Julia Reichert. | |
| 2020/21 | Alexander Nanau Bianca Oana |
Collective | Nominated | ||
Best Production Design
| Best Production Design | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
| 1941 | Nathan Juran | How Green Was My Valley | Won | Born in Austrian part of Austro-Hungarian Empire | |
| 1946 | The Razor's Edge | Nominated | |||
| 1966 | Richard Sylbert | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Won | Born in Brooklyn, U S | |
| 1974 | Chinatown | Nominated | |||
| 1975 | Shampoo | Nominated | |||
| 1981 | Reds | Nominated | |||
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | Nominated | |||
| 1990 | Dick Tracy | Won | |||
Best Live Action Short Film
| Best Live Action Short Film | |||||
| Year | Director | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Marin Karmitz | Turkey the Bridge[5] | Nominated | ||
| 1974 | Julian Chagrin | The Concert | Nominated | (father romanian-jewish) | |
| 1976 | The Morning Spider | Nominated | |||
| Andre R. Guttfreund | In the Region of Ice | Won | (mother romanian) | ||
| 2025 | Natalie Musteata | Two People Exchanging Saliva | Won | Romanian-American. Shared with Alexandre Singh. | |
Honorary Award
| Honorary Academy Award | |||||
| Year | Name | Notes | Milestone | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Edward G. Robinson (Posthumous) | "who achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts and a dedicated citizen...in sum, a Renaissance man. From his friends in the industry he loves." | First person of Romanian origin to be awarded an Honorary Academy Award. | ||
| 2009 | Lauren Bacall | "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures." | |||
Nominations and winners
| No. of wins | No. of nominations |
|---|---|
| 7 | 28 |