List of Swiss Academy Award winners and nominees

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	Maximilian Schell	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.

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 [de]	The Search	Won

Best Live Action Short

Live Action Short
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1931/32	Mack Sennett	The Loud Mouth	Nominated
	Mack Sennett	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	René Hubert	The Visit	Nominated

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."

References

^ "The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^ "The 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^ "The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^ "The 57th Academy Awards (1985) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^ "The 63rd Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

[1] "The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

[2] "The 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

[3] "The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

[4] "The 57th Academy Awards (1985) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

[5] "The 63rd Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Records Most awards per ceremony
Combined major Academy Awards	Superlatives Big Five All four acting categories
Acting	All nominees Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Non-English acting noms Actor multi-nom years Multi-win actors Multi-nom actors "Oscar love curse"
Directing	Best Director
Film	Winning films Multi-noms in same category Two acting awards for same film Foreign-language wins Foreign-language noms in other categories International Feature nominees International Feature: count by country Best Animated Feature submissions Best Documentary Feature submissions Best Animated Short submissions Best Documentary Short submissions Animated feature noms in other categories
Countries of the nominees	Africa Argentina Australia Austria Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Czech Republic Europe France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan (South) Korea Latin America Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Nordic Pakistan Philippines Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Spain Switzerland United Kingdom
Nominees demographics	Asian Black Hispanic Indigenous Jewish Muslim
Other	Ceremonies Families False names Multi-win years Awards for Walt Disney Posthumous wins and noms Best Picture presenters Trophies on public display Oldest and youngest LGBTQ Women in non-gendered categories
Combined major awards	EGOT Triple Crown of Acting
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