List of Swiss Academy Award winners and nominees
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This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Switzerland.
Best Actor in a Leading Role
| Best Actor | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1962 | Maximilian Schell | Judgment at Nuremberg | Won | ||
| 1976 | The Man in the Glass Booth | Nominated | |||
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
| Best Supporting Actor | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1978 | Maximilian Schell | Julia | Nominated | First German-speaking actor to be nominated in two different categories. | |
Best Documentary
| Documentary Feature | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1961 | Arthur Cohn | Le Ciel et la boue | Won | ||
| 1981 | Der Gelbe Stern | Nominated | Shared with Bengt von zur Mühlen. | ||
| 1991 | American Dream | Won | |||
| 2000 | One Day in September | Won | |||
| 2002 | Christian Frei | War Photographer | Nominated | ||
Best Animated Feature
| Animated Feature | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 2016 | Claude Barras Max Karli | My Life as a Courgette | Nominated | ||
Best Original Screenplay
| Best Original Screenplay | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1946 | Richard Schweizer | Marie-Louise | Won | First foreign language film to win a writing award. | |
| 2024 | Tim Fehlbaum | September 5 | Nominated | Shared with Moritz Binder and Alex David | |
Best Adapted Screenplay
| Best Adapted Screenplay | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1949 | Richard Schweizer David Wechsler | The Search | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | Edward Berger | All Quiet on the Western Front | Nominated | Berger was born in West Germany and holds Swiss citizenship Shared with Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell | |
Best Story
| Best Story | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1949 | Richard Schweizer David Wechsler | The Search | Won | ||
Best Live Action Short
| Live Action Short | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1931/32 | Mack Sennett | The Loud Mouth | Nominated | ||
| Wrestling Swordfish | Won | ||||
| Hal Roach | The Music Box | Won | |||
| 1935 | Tit for Tat | Nominated | |||
| 1936 | Bored of Education | Won | |||
| 2009 | Reto Caffi | Auf der Strecke | Nominated | ||
| 2014 | Stefan Eichenberger Talkhon Hamzavi | Parvaneh | Nominated | ||
Best Animated Short
| Animated Short | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film and Song | Status | Notes | |
| 2017 | Giacun Caduff Timo von Gunten |
La Femme et le TGV | Nominated | ||
Best Costume Design
| Costume Design | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1955 | René Hubert | Désirée | Nominated | ||
| 1965 | The Visit | ||||
Best Visual Effects
| Visual Effects | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
| 1980 | H. R. Giger | Alien | Won | ||
Best International Feature Film
| Best International Feature Film | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year (Ceremony) | Film | Original title | Language(s) | Director | Result |
| 1970 (43rd) |
First Love | Erste Liebe | German | Maximilian Schell | Nominated[1] |
| 1973 (46th) |
L'Invitation | L'Invitation | French | Claude Goretta | Nominated[2] |
| 1981 (54th) |
The Boat Is Full | Das Boot ist Voll | German | Markus Imhoof | Nominated[3] |
| 1984 (57th) |
Dangerous Moves | La Diagonale du fou | French | Richard Dembo | Won Academy Award[4] |
| 1990 (63rd) |
Journey of Hope | Reise der Hoffnung | Turkish, Swiss German, Italian | Xavier Koller | Won Academy Award[5] |
Honorary Academy Award
| Academy Honorary Award | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Winner | Note | |||
| 1938 | Mack Sennett | For his contribution to Live Action Short films | |||
| 2010 | Jean-Luc Godard | "For passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema." | |||