List of Latin American Academy Award winners and nominees

This article is about Latin American-born people, not people of Latin American descent. For people of Latin American descent, see List of Hispanic Academy Award winners and nominees.

A list of Latin American Academy Award winners and nominees appears below.

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Babel	Nominated
2013	Alfonso Cuarón		Gravity	Nominated
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Birdman	Won
2015			The Revenant	Nominated
2017	Guillermo del Toro		The Shape of Water	Won
2018	Alfonso Cuarón		Roma	Nominated
	Gabriela Rodríguez			Nominated
2021	Guillermo del Toro		Nightmare Alley	Nominated

Best Director

Best Director
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1985	Héctor Babenco	/	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Nominated
2003	Fernando Meirelles		City of God	Nominated
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Babel	Nominated
2013	Alfonso Cuarón		Gravity	Won
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Birdman	Won
2015			The Revenant	Won
2017	Guillermo del Toro		The Shape of Water	Won
2018	Alfonso Cuarón		Roma	Won

Acting

Best Actor

Best Actor
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1950	José Ferrer		Cyrano de Bergerac	Won
1952			Moulin Rouge	Nominated
1957	Anthony Quinn		Wild Is the Wind	Nominated
1964			Zorba the Greek	Nominated
2011	Demián Bichir		A Better Life	Nominated

Best Actress

Best Actress
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1998	Fernanda Montenegro		Central Station	Nominated
2002	Salma Hayek		Frida	Nominated
2004	Catalina Sandino Moreno		Maria Full of Grace	Nominated
2018	Yalitza Aparicio		Roma	Nominated
2022	Ana de Armas		Blonde	Nominated

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actor
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1948	José Ferrer		Joan of Arc	Nominated
1952	Anthony Quinn		Viva Zapata!	Won
1956			Lust for Life	Won
1990	Andy García		The Godfather Part III	Nominated
2000	Benicio del Toro		Traffic	Won
2003			21 Grams	Nominated

Best Supporting Actress

Best Supporting Actress
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Result	Ref.
1954	Katy Jurado		Broken Lance	Nominated
1961	Rita Moreno		West Side Story	Won
1987	Norma Aleandro		Gaby: A True Story	Nominated
2006	Adriana Barraza		Babel	Nominated
2011	Bérénice Bejo		The Artist	Nominated
2014	Lupita Nyong'o		12 Years a Slave	Won
2018	Marina de Tavira		Roma	Nominated

Best Cinematography

This list focuses on Latin American-born cinematographers.

Best Cinematography
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1964	Gabriel Figueroa		The Night of the Iguana	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Cinematography – Black-and-White".
1995	Emmanuel Lubezki		A Little Princess	Nominated
1999			Sleepy Hollow	Nominated
2003	César Charlone		City of God	Nominated	Charlone is Uruguayan, but is based in Brazil.
2005	Emmanuel Lubezki		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) First Latin American and Mexican cinematographer to win an Academy Award.
2008	Claudio Miranda		The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated
2011	Emmanuel Lubezki		The Tree of Life	Nominated
2012	Claudio Miranda		Life of Pi	Won
2013	Emmanuel Lubezki		Gravity	Won
2014			Birdman	Won	First Latin American cinematographer to win consecutive Academy Awards.
2015			The Revenant	Won	First person to win this award in three consecutive years. First Latin American cinematographer to win three Academy Awards.
2016	Rodrigo Prieto		Silence	Nominated
2018	Alfonso Cuarón		Roma	Won	First Latin American and Mexican director to be nominated for Best Cinematography while serving as both director and cinematographer. First Latin American and 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

This list focuses on Latin American-born costume designers.

Best Costume Design
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2019	Mayes C. Rubeo		Jojo Rabbit	Nominated

Best Documentary Feature

This list focuses on documentary features directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Documentary Feature
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1957	Manuel Barbachano Ponce		Torero!	Nominated
1981	Tetê Vasconcellos		El Salvador: Another Vietnam	Nominated	Shared with Glenn Silber.
1985	Susana Blaustein Muñoz Lourdes Portillo		The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	Nominated
2014	Juliano Ribeiro Salgado		The Salt of the Earth	Nominated	Shared with Wim Wenders and producer David Rosier.
2016	Raoul Peck Hébert Peck		I Am Not Your Negro	Nominated	Shared with Rémi Grellety
2019	Petra Costa Tiago Pavan		The Edge of Democracy	Nominated	Shared with Joanna Natasegara and Shane Boris.
2020	Maite Alberdi Marcela Santibáñez		The Mole Agent	Nominated
2023	Maite Alberdi		The Eternal Memory	Nominated

Best Documentary Short Subject

This list focuses on documentary short subject directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Documentary Short Subject
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1971	Manuel Arango		Sentinels of Silence	Won	This was the only time that a short film won the Academy Award in two categories, having also won for Best Short Subject.
1980	Jorge Preloran		Luther Metke at 94	Nominated	Shared with producer Richard Hawkins.
2007	Isabel Vega		The Crown	Nominated	Shared with director Amanda Micheli
2014	Gabriel Serra Argüello		The Reaper	Nominated
2021	Pedro Kos		Lead Me Home	Nominated	Shared with director Jon Shenk.

Best Film Editing

This list focuses on Latin American-born film editors.

Best Film Editing
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2003 (76th)	Daniel Rezende		City of God	Nominated	First Brazilian-born and Latino editor to be nominated for Best Film Editing.
2006 (79th)	Alfonso Cuarón Álex Rodríguez		Children of Men	Nominated	First Mexican editors to be nominated. French-born Mexican editor (Rodríguez).
2013 (86th)	Alfonso Cuarón		Gravity	Won	First Mexican-born editor to win Best Film Editing. Shared with Mark Sanger.

Best International Feature Film

Best Foreign Language Film
Year	Film	Director	Country	Status	Milestone / Notes
1960	Macario	Roberto Gavaldón		Nominated	First Latin American film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1961	The Important Man	Ismael Rodríguez		Nominated	(original title: Ánimas Trujano)
1962	Keeper of Promises	Anselmo Duarte		Nominated	(original title: O Pagador de Promessas)
	The Pearl of Tlayucan	Luis Alcoriza		Nominated	(original title: Tlayucan)
1974	The Truce	Sergio Renán		Nominated	(original title: La tregua)
1975	Letters from Marusia	Miguel Littin		Nominated	(original title: Actas de Marusia)
1982	Alsino and the Condor			Nominated	(original title: Alsino y el cóndor) Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Chilean Miguel Littín. Only Latin American director to receive nominations for films directed in two different countries.
1984	Camila	María Luisa Bemberg		Nominated	First nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by a Latin American woman director.
1985	The Official Story	Luis Puenzo		Won	(original title: La historia oficial) First Latin American film to win for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
1989	What Happened to Santiago	Jacobo Morales		Nominated	(original title: Lo que le pasó a Santiago)
1992	A Place in the World	Adolfo Aristarain		Nominated (Disqualified)	(original title: Un lugar en el mundo) After nominations were announced, information came to light that showed that the film was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.
1994	Strawberry and Chocolate	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío		Nominated	(original title: Fresa y chocolate) First and only Cuban film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
1995	O Quatrilho	Fábio Barreto		Nominated	Second Brazilian film nominated to the award in over 30 years.
1997	Four Days in September	Bruno Barreto		Nominated	(original title: O Que É Isso Companheiro?)
1998	Central Station	Walter Salles		Nominated	(original title: Central do Brasil) The film was also nominated for Best Actress.
	Tango	Carlos Saura		Nominated	(original title: Tango, no me dejes nunca)
2000	Amores perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Nominated
2001	Son of the Bride	Juan José Campanella		Nominated	(original title: El hijo de la novia)
2002	El crimen del padre Amaro	Carlos Carrera		Nominated
2006	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro		Nominated	(original title: El laberinto del fauno) The film was nominated for other five Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup, and won the last three of them.
2009	The Milk of Sorrow	Claudia Llosa		Nominated	(original title: La teta asustada) First, and only, Peruvian Film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
	The Secret in Their Eyes	Juan José Campanella		Won	(original title: El secreto de sus ojos) Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Juan José Campanella, and first to win. Second Argentine, and Latin American, film to win for Best Foreign Language Film.
2010	Biutiful	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Nominated	Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film was also nominated for Best Actor.
2012	No	Pablo Larraín		Nominated	First Chilean Film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
2014	Wild Tales	Damián Szifron		Nominated	(original title: Relatos salvajes)
2015	Embrace of the Serpent	Ciro Guerra		Nominated	(original title: El abrazo de la serpiente) First Colombian film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
2017	A Fantastic Woman	Sebastián Lelio		Won	(original title: Una mujer fantástica) First Chilean film to win the Best Foreign Language Film award.
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón		Won	First Latin American film to be simultaneously nominated for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film.
2022	Argentina, 1985	Santiago Mitre		Nominated

Best Animated Feature

This list focuses on animated features directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Animated Feature
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2015 (88th)	Alê Abreu		Boy and the World	Nominated	First Latin American film to be nominated for Best Animated Feature.
2017 (90th)	Carlos Saldanha		Ferdinand	Nominated
2021 (94th)	Carlos López Estrada		Raya and the Last Dragon	Nominated
2022	Guillermo del Toro		Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Won

Best Live Action Short Film

This list focuses on live action short films directed/produced by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1971 (44th)	Manuel Arango		Sentinels of Silence	Won	First and only time a short film won Academy Awards in two different categories.
1976 (49th)	André Gutffreund		In the Region of Ice	Won	Shared with director Peter Werner.
1996 (69th)	Antonio Urrutia		De tripas, corazón	Nominated
2000 (73rd)	Paulo Machline		Uma História de Futebol	Nominated
2021 (94th)	K.D. Dávila		Please Stay	Nominated
2022 (95th)	Alfonso Cuarón		Le pupille	Nominated	Shared with Alice Rohrwacher

Best Animated Short Film

This list focuses on animated short films directed by Latin American-born filmmakers.

Best Animated Short Film
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1994 (67th)	Vanessa Schwartz		The Janitor	Nominated
2003 (76th)	Carlos Saldanha		Gone Nutty	Nominated	First Animated Short Film directed by a Latin American director to receive an Academy Award nomination.
2009 (82nd)	Nicolas Schmerkin		Logorama	Won
2015 (88th)	Pato Escala Pierart Gabriel Osorio Vargas		Bear Story	Won	First Latin American Animated Short to be nominated for and win an Academy Award.
2021 (94th)	Hugo Covarrubias Tevo Díaz		Bestia	Nominated

Best Makeup

This list focuses on Latin American-born makeup artists.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2008 (81st)	Mike Elizalde		Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Nominated

Best Music – Original Score

This list focuses on scores by Latin American-born composers.

Best Original Score
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1966	Luis Bacalov		The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Nominated	(original title: Il Vangelo secondo Matteo)
1967	Lalo Schifrin		Cool Hand Luke	Nominated
1968			The Fox	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)".
1970	Bill Melendez		A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score." Shared nomination with Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter, Al Shean, and Vince Guaraldi.
	Herbert W. Spencer		Scrooge	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score". Shared nomination with English-born Leslie Bricusse and Ian Fraser.
1973			Jesus Christ Superstar	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation". Shared nomination with English-born Andrew Lloyd Webber and German-American André Previn.
1976	Lalo Schifrin		Voyage of the Damned	Nominated
1979			The Amityville Horror	Nominated
1983			The Sting II	Nominated	The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score".
1985	Jorge Calandrelli		The Color Purple	Nominated	Nominated with eleven other composers.
1995	Luis Bacalov		The Postman	Won	(original title: Il Postino). The Academy Award category was "Best Music, Original Dramatic Score".
2005	Gustavo Santaolalla		Brokeback Mountain	Won	Fourth composer to win two years in a row.
2006			Babel	Won

Best Music – Original Song

This list focuses on songs by Latin American-born composers and/or lyricists.

Best Original Song
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
1942	Ernesto Lecuona		Always in My Heart	"Always in My Heart"	Nominated	First Hispanic person (along with Emile Kuri) to be nominated in any category. First person from a Caribbean country to be nominated in any category. Nominated with American Kim Gannon.
1944	Ary Barroso		Brazil	"Rio de Janeiro"	Nominated	First Brazilian and Latin-American songwriter to be nominated. Nominated with American Ned Washington.
1981	Lalo Schifrin		The Competition	"People Alone"	Nominated	First Argentinean to be nominated. Nominated with American Will Jennings.
2000	Jorge Calandrelli		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	(original title: Wo hu cang long) Nominated with Chinese Tan Dun and American James Schamus.
2004	Jorge Drexler		The Motorcycle Diaries	"Al otro lado del río"	Won	(original title: Diarios de motocicleta) First Uruguayan to be nominated and win an Academy Award.
2011	Sergio Mendes Carlinhos Brown		Rio	"Real in Rio"	Nominated	First two Brazilian songwriters to be nominated together. Brown is the first black Latin songwriter to be nominated. Nominated with American Siedah Garrett.

Best Production Design

This list focuses on Latin American-born production designers and set decorators.

Best Production Design
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1942	Emile Kuri		Silver Queen	Nominated	First Hispanic person (along with Ernesto Lecuona) to be nominated in any category. Nominated with Ralph Berger.
1949			The Heiress	Won	Nominated with Harry Horner and John Meehan.
	Edward Carrere		Adventures of Don Juan	Nominated	Nominated with Lyle Reifsnider.
1952	Emile Kuri		Carrie	Nominated	Nominated with Roland Anderson and Hal Pereira.
1954			20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won	Nominated with John Meehan.
			Executive Suite	Nominated	Nominated with Edward Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis.
1960	Edward Carrere		Sunrise at Campobello	Nominated	Nominated with George James Hopkins.
1961	Emile Kuri		The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated	Nominated with Carroll Clark and Hal Gausman.
1964			Mary Poppins	Nominated	Nominated with Carroll Clark, Hal Gausman and William H. Tuntke.
1967	Edward Carrere		Camelot	Won	Nominated with John Truscott and John W. Brown.
1971	Emile Kuri		Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated	Nominated with Peter Ellenshaw, Hal Gausman and John B. Mansbridge.
1995	Eugenio Zanetti		Restoration	Won
1996	Brigitte Broch		Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	Broch is a German-born Mexican art director. Nominated with Catherine Martin.
1998	Eugenio Zanetti		What Dreams May Come	Nominated	Nominated with Cindy Carr.
2001	Brigitte Broch		Moulin Rouge!	Won	Nominated with Catherine Martin.
2002	Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo		Frida	Nominated
2006	Eugenio Caballero		Pan's Labyrinth	Won	Nominated with Pilar Revuelta.
2018	Eugenio Caballero Bárbara Enríquez		Roma	Nominated

Best Sound or Sound Mixing

This list focuses on Latin American-born sound engineers.

Best Sound Mixing
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2006 (79th)	Fernando Cámara		Apocalypto	Nominated	First Mexican-born and Latino / Hispanic to be nominated for Best Sound Mixing.
2012 (85th)	José Antonio García		Argo	Nominated	Shared with John T. Reitz and Gregg Rudloff.
2018 (91st)			Roma	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan.
2020 (93rd)	Jaime Baksht Michelle Couttolenc Carlos Cortés		Sound of Metal	Won	Shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh.

Best Sound Editing

This list focuses on Latin American-born sound editors.

Best Sound Editing
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2014 (87th)	Martín Hernández		Birdman	Nominated	Shared with Aaron Glascock.
2015 (88th)			The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Lon Bender.
2018 (91st)	Sergio Díaz		Roma	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay.

Best Visual Effects

Best Visual Effects
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1947	Paul Lerpae		Unconquered	Nominated	Nomination shared with Farciot Edouart, Devereaux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and George Dutton.
2002	Pablo Helman		Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	Nominated	Nomination shared with Rob Coleman, John Knoll and Ben Snow.
2005			War of the Worlds	Nominated	Nomination shared with Randal M. Dutra, Dennis Muren and Dan Sudick.
2019	Pablo Helman Leandro Estebecorena Nelson Sepúlveda		The Irishman	Nominated	Nomination shared with Stéphane Grabli.

Best Adapted Screenplay

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2003 (76th)	Bráulio Mantovani		City of God	Nominated	First Brazilian-born screenwriter to be nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
2004 (77th)	José Rivera		The Motorcycle Diaries	Nominated	First Puerto Rican-born screenwriter to be nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
2006 (79th)	Alfonso Cuarón		Children of Men	Nominated	First Mexican-born screenwriter to be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Best Original Screenplay

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Best Original Screenplay
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1985 (58th)	Aída Bortnik Luis Puenzo		The Official Story	Nominated	First Argentine-born screenwriters to be nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
2002 (75th)	Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón		Y Tu Mamá También	Nominated	First Mexican-born screenwriters to be nominated for Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original).
2006 (79th)	Guillermo Arriaga		Babel	Nominated
	Guillermo del Toro		Pan's Labyrinth	Nominated
2014 (87th)	Alejandro González Iñárritu Nicolás Giacobone Armando Bó		Birdman	Won	First Mexican-born screenwriter to win for Best Original Screenplay (Iñárritu). First Argentine-born screenwriters to win Best Original Screenplay (Giacobone and Bó). Shared with Alexander Dinelaris Jr.
2017 (90th)	Guillermo del Toro		The Shape of Water	Nominated	Shared with Vanessa Taylor.
2018 (91st)	Alfonso Cuarón		Roma	Nominated

Best Story

This list focuses on Latin American-born screenplay writers.

Best Story
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
1930/1931 (4th)	Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast		Laughter	Nominated	Argentine-born French screenwriter. Nomination shared with Douglas Z. Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart.

Note: Defunct category.

Special Awards

Honorary Award
Year	Nominee	Country	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2018 (91st)	Lalo Schifrin		Recipient	First Latino and Argentine to receive this award.

Special Achievement Academy Award
Year	Nominee	Country	Film	Status	Notes	Ref(s)
2017 (90th)	Alejandro González Iñárritu		Flesh and Sand	Recipient	First Latino and Mexican to receive this award.

By decade

All categories

Decade	1930s	1940s	1950s	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s	2010s	2020s	Total
Wins	-	1	4	2	3	1	2	9	18	2	42
Nominations	1	6	6	12	8	12	13	34	31	11	134
Total nominations	1	7	10	14	11	13	15	43	49	13	176

Note: Each win and nomination in a category in a given year counts only once, regardless of whether a win or a nomination was shared among multiple Latin Americans.

Acting nominations

Decade	1940s	1950s	1960s	1980s	1990s	2000s	2010s	2020s	Total
Actor	-	3	1	-	-	-	1	-	5
Actress	-	-	-	-	1	2	1	1	5
Supp. Actor	1	2	-	-	1	2	-	-	6
Supp. Actress	-	1	1	1	-	1	3	-	7
Total	1	6	2	1	2	5	5	1	23

By country

Rank	Country	No. of wins	No. of nominations
1	Mexico*	27	92
2	Argentina*	8	35
3	Chile	4	15
4	Puerto Rico	3	8
5	Uruguay	1	2
6	El Salvador	1	1
7	Brazil	0	19
8	Cuba	0	4
9	Colombia	0	3
10	Haiti	0	1
	Peru	0	1
	Nicaragua	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1
14	Bolivia	0	0
	Costa Rica	0	0
	Dominican Republic	0	0
	Ecuador	0	0
	Guatemala	0	0
	Honduras	0	0
	Panama	0	0
	Paraguay	0	0

* "No. of wins" column excludes Special Award.

See also

• Lists of Hispanic Academy Award winners and nominees by country