List of New Zealand Academy Award winners and nominees
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This is a list of New Zealand Academy Award winners and nominees.
Best Actor
[edit]Best Leading Actor | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1999 | Russell Crowe | The Insider | Nominated | Crowe was born in New Zealand, but has lived in Australia since his childhood. |
2000 | Gladiator | Won | ||
2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Nominated |
Best Actress
[edit]Best Leading Actress | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2003 | Keisha Castle-Hughes | Whale Rider | Nominated | Debut performance. First indigenous person (Māori) ever nominated in this category. Second youngest nominee (age 13) ever in this category. |
Best Supporting Actress
[edit]Best Supporting Actress | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1993 | Anna Paquin | The Piano | Won | Dual New Zealand-Canadian citizen. Debut performance. Second youngest winner (age 11) in Academy Award history. |
Best Animated Short Film
[edit]Best Animated Short Film | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1986 | Bob Stenhouse | The Frog, the Dog and the Devil | Nominated | This is NZ made animated short film made by NZ National Film Unit. |
1994 | Erica Russell | Triangle | Nominated |
Best Animated Film
[edit]Best Animated Feature | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2004 | Andrew Adamson | Shrek 2 | Nominated |
Best Costume Design
[edit]Best Costume Design | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2001 | Ngila Dickson Richard Taylor |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | |
2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | First time that featured two New Zealanders costume designers in the Best Costume Design category (in different nominations) within the same year. | |
Ngila Dickson | The Last Samurai | Nominated |
Best Director
[edit]Best Director | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | Nominated | Second woman ever to be nominated in this category. |
2001 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | |
2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | ||
2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | Won | First woman ever to be nominated twice in this category. |
Best Documentary Feature Film
[edit]Documentary (Feature) | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1977 | Michael Firth | Off the Edge | Nominated |
Best Film Editing
[edit]Best Film Editing | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2001 | John Gilbert | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | |
2002 | Michael Horton | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | |
2003 | Jamie Selkirk | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | |
2016 | John Gilbert | Hacksaw Ridge | Won | |
2019 | Tom Eagles | Jojo Rabbit | Nominated |
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
[edit]Best Makeup and Hairstyling | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2001 | Richard Taylor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Won | Shared with Peter Owen. |
2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | Shared with Peter King. | |
2015 | Lesley Vanderwalt | Mad Max: Fury Road | Won | New Zealand-born Australian citizen. Shared with Elka Wardega and Damian Martin. |
Best Original Song
[edit]Best Original Song | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Song | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2003 | Fran Walsh | The Return of the King | "Into the West" | Won | Shared with Annie Lennox and Howard Shore. |
2011 | Bret McKenzie | The Muppets | "Man or Muppet" | Won |
Best Picture
[edit]Best Production Design
[edit]Best Production Design | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2001 | Grant Major Dan Hennah |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | |
2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | Shared with Alan Lee. | |
2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | ||
2005 | Grant Major Dan Hennah Simon Bright |
King Kong | Nominated | |
2009 | Kim Sinclair | Avatar | Won | Shared with Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg. |
2012 | Dan Hennah Ra Vincent Simon Bright |
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Nominated | |
2019 | Ra Vincent | Jojo Rabbit | Nominated | Shared with Nora Sopková. |
2021 | Grant Major Amber Richards |
The Power of the Dog | Nominated |
Best Short Film - Live Action
[edit]Live Action Short Film | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1958 | Brian Brake | Snows of Aorangi | Nominated | First New Zealand film nominated in any category. |
1980 | Lloyd Phillips | The Dollar Bottom | Won | First New Zealander to win in any category. |
2004 | Taika Waititi Ainsley Gardiner |
Two Cars, One Night | Nominated | |
2014 | James Lucas | The Phone Call | Won | Dual British-New Zealand citizen. Shared with Mat Kirkby. |
Best Sound Editing
[edit]Sound Editing | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2002 | Mike Hopkins | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Won | Shared with Ethan Van der Ryn. |
2005 | King Kong | Won | ||
2007 | Transformers | Nominated | ||
2013 | Brent Burge Chris Ward |
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Nominated | |
2014 | Brent Burge | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Nominated | Shared with Jason Canovas. |
Best Sound Mixing
[edit]Best Sound Mixing | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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2001 | Gethin Creagh Hammond Peek |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Boyes, and Michael Semanick. |
2002 | Michael Hedges Hammond Peek |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | |
2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | ||
2005 | King Kong | Won | ||
Tony Johnson[1] | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Nominated | Shared with Terry Porter, and Dean A. Zupancic. | |
2009 | Avatar | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, and Andy Nelson. | |
2013 | Michael Hedges Tony Johnson |
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Boyes, and Michael Semanick. |
Best Visual Effects
[edit]Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
[edit]Best Adapted Screenplay | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Source Material | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1980 | Jonathan Hardy | Breaker Morant | The play Breaker Morant by Kenneth G. Ross | Nominated | Shared with David Stevens and Bruce Beresford. |
2001 | Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson Fran Walsh |
The Fellowship of the Ring | The novel The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien | Nominated | |
2003 | The Return of the King | The novel The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien | Won | ||
2014 | Anthony McCarten | The Theory of Everything | The book Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen Hawking by Jane Hawking | Nominated | |
2019 | Taika Waititi | Jojo Rabbit | The novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens | Won | First indigenous person (Māori) ever to win this category. Second time that two different nominations in the same year and category were for New Zealanders. |
Anthony McCarten | The Two Popes | The play by Anthony McCarten | Nominated | Second time that two different nominations in the same year and category were for New Zealanders. | |
2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | The novel The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage | Nominated |
Best Writing – Original Screenplay
[edit]Best Original Screenplay | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | Won | |
1994 | Peter Jackson Fran Walsh |
Heavenly Creatures | Nominated |
Nominations and Winners
[edit]No. of wins | No. of nominations |
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27 | 68 |