List of Academy Award winners and nominees of Asian descent

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees who are of Asian descent. This list is current as of the 96th Academy Awards.

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1973	William Peter Blatty	/	The Exorcist	Nominated	Lebanese descent. First American of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Picture.
1980	Ronald L. Schwary		Ordinary People	Won	Lebanese descent.[1] First American of Asian descent to win for Best Picture.
1984			A Soldier's Story	Nominated	(Shared with Norman Jewison and Patrick Palmer.)
1986	Ismail Merchant	/	A Room with a View	Nominated	Indian descent.[2]
1988	Hank Moonjean	/	Dangerous Liaisons	Nominated	Armenian descent.[3] (Shared with Norma Heyman.)
1989	Tony Thomas	/	Dead Poets Society	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
1989	A. Kitman Ho	/	Born on the Fourth of July	Nominated	Chinese descent. First Asian-American nominated for Best Picture[4] (Shared with Oliver Stone.)
1991			JFK	Nominated	(Shared with Oliver Stone.)
1992	Ismail Merchant	/	Howards End	Nominated	Indian descent.[2]
1993			The Remains of the Day	Nominated	Indian descent.[2] (Shared with Mike Nichols and John Calley.)
1996	Richard Sakai	/	Jerry Maguire	Nominated	Japanese-American.[5] (Shared with James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, and Cameron Crowe)
2000	Ang Lee William Kong Hsu Li-kong		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated	All three are of Chinese descent.[6][7][8]
2011	Thomas Langmann	/	The Artist	Won	Lebanese descent.[9][10][11]
2012	Ang Lee		Life of Pi	Nominated	Taiwanese.[6] (Shared with Gil Netter and David Womark)
2019	Kwak Sin-ae Bong Joon-ho		Parasite	Won	Korean. First Best Picture win by Asian filmmakers.
2020	Christina Oh	/	Minari	Nominated[12]	Korean-American.
	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Won	Chinese descent.
2021	Teruhisa Yamamoto		Drive My Car	Nominated	Japanese.[13]
	Tanya Seghatchian	/	The Power of the Dog	Nominated	Armenian descent. (Shared with Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, and Emile Sherman)
2022	Jonathan Wang	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Won	Both are of Chinese descent. (Shared with Daniel Scheinert)
	Daniel Kwan	//
2024	Samantha Quan	/	Anora	Won	Vietnamese descent. Shared with Alex Coco and Sean Baker.[14]

Best Director

Best Director
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1965	Hiroshi Teshigahara		Woman in the Dunes	Nominated	Japanese descent.[15] First Asian nominated for Best Director.
1985	Akira Kurosawa		Ran	Nominated	Japanese descent.[16]
1997	Atom Egoyan	//	The Sweet Hereafter	Nominated	Of Armenian descent.[17]
1998	Terrence Malick	/	The Thin Red Line	Nominated	Lebanese and Assyrian descent.[18][19][20]
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	/	The Sixth Sense	Nominated	Indian descent.[21] First Asian-American director to be nominated.
2000	Ang Lee		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2005			Brokeback Mountain	Won	First Asian to win Best Director.
2011	Terrence Malick	/	The Tree of Life	Nominated
2012	Ang Lee		Life of Pi	Won	First Asian to win Best Director multiple times.
2019	Bong Joon-ho		Parasite	Won	First Korean director to be nominated and win Best Director.
2020	Lee Isaac Chung	/	Minari	Nominated	Korean descent.
	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Won	Chinese descent. First Asian woman to win Best Director.
2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi		Drive My Car	Nominated
2022	Daniel Kwan	//	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Won	Chinese descent. (Shared with Daniel Scheinert)

Best Actor

Best Actor
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1956	Yul Brynner		The King and I	King Mongkut	Won	Buryat (Mongol) descent as well First Asian (and first Asian-American, overall) to be nominated for Best Actor, First Asian (and first Asian-American) to win Best Actor. Brynner became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943.
1982	Ben Kingsley	/	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	Won	Half-Indian descent (father is Indian).[22]
1984	F. Murray Abraham	/	Amadeus	Antonio Salieri	Won	Half-Syrian descent (father is Syrian).
2003	Ben Kingsley	/	House of Sand and Fog	Massoud Behrani	Nominated
2011	Demián Bichir	/	A Better Life	Carlos Galindo	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2020	Riz Ahmed	/	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone	Nominated	Pakistani descent. First Muslim actor to be nominated for Best Actor.
	Steven Yeun	/	Minari	Jacob Yi	Nominated	Korean descent. First East Asian actor to be nominated for Best Actor.

Best Actress

Best Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1935	Merle Oberon	/	The Dark Angel	Kitty Vane	Nominated	Part-Sri Lankan and Māori (Polynesian) descent.[23] First Asian nominated for any Academy Award. First actress of Asian (Burgher) descent to be nominated for Best Actress.
1987	Cher	/	Moonstruck	Loretta Castorini	Won	Born in the United States, is of Armenian descent.
2002	Salma Hayek	/	Frida	Frida Kahlo	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2010	Natalie Portman	/	Black Swan	Nina	Won	Israeli descent.
2016			Jackie	Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy	Nominated
2022	Michelle Yeoh		Everything Everywhere All at Once	Evelyn Quan Wang	Won	Malaysian-Chinese descent. First Southeast Asian actress nominated for and to win Best Actress. Second person of color to win Best Actress.

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1936	Akim Tamiroff	/	The General Died at Dawn	General Yang	Nominated	Armenian descent. First Asian to be nominated in a supporting acting category. First Asian with multiple nominations in acting categories.
1943			For Whom the Bell Tolls	Pablo	Nominated
1957	Sessue Hayakawa		The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Saito	Nominated	Japanese descent.
1962	Omar Sharif	/	Lawrence of Arabia	Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish	Nominated	Syrian descent.
1966	Mako Iwamatsu		The Sand Pebbles	Po-Han	Nominated	Japanese descent.
1984	Haing S. Ngor		The Killing Fields	Dith Pran	Won	Born in Cambodia, is of Chinese descent.
	Pat Morita	/	The Karate Kid	Mr. Miyagi	Nominated	Japanese descent.[24] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
1991	Ben Kingsley	/	Bugsy	Meyer Lansky	Nominated
2001			Sexy Beast	Don Logan	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations.
2003	Ken Watanabe		The Last Samurai	Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2016	Dev Patel	/	Lion	Saroo Brierley	Nominated	Indian descent.[25]
2022	Ke Huy Quan	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang	Won	Born in Vietnam, is of Chinese descent.

Best Supporting Actress

Best Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
1957	Miyoshi Umeki	/	Sayonara	Katsumi Kelly	Won	She was a shin Issei, or post-1945 immigrant from Japan. The first Asian woman to win an Academy Award for acting.
1983	Cher	/	Silkwood	Dolly Pelliker	Nominated	Armenian descent.
1985	Meg Tilly	/	Agnes of God	Sister Agnes	Nominated	Half-Chinese descent.[26] First Asian American and first Chinese American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
1994	Jennifer Tilly		Bullets Over Broadway	Olive Neal	Nominated	Half-Chinese descent.[26]
1999	Catherine Keener	/	Being John Malkovich	Maxine Lund	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
2003	Shohreh Aghdashloo	/	House of Sand and Fog	Nadereh "Nadi" Behrani	Nominated	Iranian descent.
2004	Natalie Portman	/	Closer	Alice Ayres / Jane Jones	Nominated	Israeli descent.
2005	Catherine Keener	/	Capote	Nelle Harper Lee	Nominated
2006	Rinko Kikuchi		Babel	Chieko Wataya	Nominated	First Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years.
2010	Hailee Steinfeld	/	True Grit	Mattie Ross	Nominated	Filipino descent (maternal grandfather was of half Filipino and half African-American descent).[27][28][29] Youngest Asian American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress (age 14).
2020	Youn Yuh-jung		Minari	Soon-ja	Won	First South Korean actor to be nominated and win an Academy Award.
2022	Hong Chau	/	The Whale	Liz	Nominated	Vietnamese descent. First time two Asian American actresses nominated in the same year.
	Stephanie Hsu	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki	Nominated	Chinese descent. First time two Asian American actresses nominated in the same year.

Best Original Screenplay

Best Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1986	Ken Shadie	/	Crocodile Dundee	Nominated	Lebanese descent.[30]
1986	Hanif Kureishi	/	My Beautiful Laundrette	Nominated	Half-Pakistani descent (father is Pakistani).[31]
1991	Callie Khouri	/	Thelma & Louise	Won	Lebanese descent First American of Asian descent to win for Best Original Screenplay.
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	/	The Sixth Sense	Nominated	Indian descent.[21]
2002	Steven Zaillian	/	Gangs of New York	Nominated	Armenian descent.
2006	Iris Yamashita	/	Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated	Japanese descent.[32] Second time a screenplay written almost entirely in an Asian language (Japanese) was nominated for a screenplay award. (Shared with Paul Haggis.)
2011	Asghar Farhadi		A Separation	Nominated	Iranian descent. First screenplay written in Persian to be nominated for a screenplay award.
2015	Alex Garland	/	Ex Machina	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
	Ronnie del Carmen		Inside Out	Nominated	Filipino descent.[33] (Shared with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley.)
2017	Kumail Nanjiani	/	The Big Sick	Nominated	Pakistani descent.[34] (Shared with Emily V. Gordon.)
2019	Bong Joon-ho Han Jin-won		Parasite	Won	First Asian writers to win any screenwriting Academy Award.[35][36]
2020	Lee Isaac Chung	/	Minari	Nominated	Korean descent.
2022	Daniel Kwan	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Won	Chinese descent. (Shared with Daniel Scheinert)
2023	Celine Song	/	Past Lives	Nominated	Korean descent.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Adapted From	Status	Notes
1973	William Peter Blatty	/	The Exorcist	The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty	Won	Lebanese descent. First American of Asian descent to win for Best Adapted Screenplay.
1990	Steven Zaillian	/	Awakenings	Awakenings by Oliver Sacks	Nominated
1993			Schindler's List	Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally	Won
1997	Hossein Amini	/	The Wings of the Dove	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James	Nominated
	Atom Egoyan	//	The Sweet Hereafter	The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks	Nominated	Of Armenian descent.[17]
1998	Terrence Malick	/	The Thin Red Line	The Thin Red Line by James Jones	Nominated	Lebanese and Assyrian descent.
2000	Wang Hui-ling Kuo Jung Tsai		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Dulu	Nominated	Both are of Chinese descent.[6] First Asian-language screenplay to be nominated in a writing category. (Shared with James Schamus.)
2011	Steven Zaillian	/	Moneyball	Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis	Nominated	(Shared with Aaron Sorkin.)
2019			The Irishman	I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt	Nominated
2020	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder	Nominated
	Ramin Bahrani	/	The White Tiger	The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga	Nominated	Iranian descent.
	Nina Pedrad		Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Borat Sagdiyev, created by Sacha Baron Cohen	Nominated	Iranian descent. (Shared with Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja and Dan Swimer.)
2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe		Drive My Car	Short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami	Nominated
2022	Kazuo Ishiguro	/	Living	Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni	Nominated

Best Cinematography

Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1938	James Wong Howe	/	Algiers	Nominated	Chinese descent.[37] First Asian to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
1940			Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Nominated
1942			Kings Row	Nominated
1943			Air Force	Nominated	(nominated with Elmer Dyer and Charles A. Marshall)
			The North Star	Nominated
1955			The Rose Tattoo	Won	First Asian to win Best Cinematography.
1958			The Old Man and the Sea	Nominated
1963			Hud	Won	First Asian to win multiple Academy Awards.
1966			Seconds	Nominated
1970	Osamu Furuya Shinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh		Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	All three are of Japanese descent.[38] (Shared with Charles F. Wheeler.)
1975	James Wong Howe		Funny Lady	Nominated	Most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with ten nominations.
1985	Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai		Ran	Nominated	All three are of Japanese descent.[39][40]
1993	Gu Changwei		Farewell My Concubine	Nominated	Chinese descent.[41]
1995	Lü Yue		Shanghai Triad	Nominated	Chinese descent.[42]
1996	Darius Khondji	/	Evita	Nominated	Iranian descent.
2000	Peter Pau		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent.[6]
2004	Zhao Xiaoding		House of Flying Daggers	Nominated	Chinese descent.
2010	Matthew Libatique	/	Black Swan	Nominated	Filipino descent.[43] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Cinematography since Howe.
2018			A Star Is Born	Nominated
2022	Darius Khondji	/	Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths	Nominated	Iranian descent.
2023	Matthew Libatique	/	Maestro	Nominated	Filipino descent.

Best Costume Design

Best Costume Design
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1952	Irene Sharaff	/	An American in Paris	Won	Armenian descent. First designer of Asian descent to win for Best Costume Design. Award shared with Orry-Kelly & Walter Plunkett[44]
1954			Call Me Madam	Nominated	Armenian descent.[45]
1955	Sanzo Wada		Gate of Hell	Won	Japanese descent. First designer of East Asian descent to win for Best Costume Design[46]
	Irene Sharaff	/	Brigadoon	Nominated	Armenian descent.[47]
			A Star Is Born	Nominated
1956	Tadaoto Kainosho		Ugetsu	Nominated	Japanese descent.[48]
	Irene Sharaff	/	Guys and Dolls	Nominated	Armenian descent.[49]
1957			The King and I	Won	Armenian descent.[50]
	Kohei Ezaki		Seven Samurai	Nominated	Japanese descent.[51]
1960	Irene Sharaff	/	Porgy and Bess	Nominated	Armenian descent.[52]
1961			Can-Can	Nominated	Armenian descent.[53]
1962			West Side Story	Won	Armenian descent.[54]
	Yoshirō Muraki		Yojimbo	Nominated	Japanese descent.[55]
1964	Irene Sharaff	/	Cleopatra	Won	Armenian descent. With Renié & Vittorio Nino Novarese[56]
1967			Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nominated	Armenian descent.[57]
1968			The Taming of the Shrew	Nominated	Armenian descent.[58]
1970			Hello, Dolly!	Nominated	Armenian descent.[59]
1978			The Other Side of Midnight	Nominated	Armenian descent.[60]
1982	Bhanu Athaiya		Gandhi	Won	First Indian to win an academy award in costume design
1986	Emi Wada		Ran	Won	Japanese descent.[61]
1993	Eiko Ishioka		Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	Japanese descent.[62]
2001	Tim Yip		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated	Chinese descent from Hong Kong.[63]
2007	Yee Chung-man		Curse of the Golden Flower	Nominated	Chinese descent from Hong Kong.[64]
2013	Eiko Ishioka		Mirror Mirror	Nominated	Japanese descent.[65] Posthumous nomination.
2014	William Chang		The Grandmaster	Nominated	Chinese descent from Hong Kong.[66]
2022	Shirley Kurata	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Nominated	Japanese descent.[67]

Best Film Editing

Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1975	Richard Chew	/	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Nominated	Chinese descent.[37] First Asian nominated for Best Film Editing. First Asian American nominated for Best Film Editing. (Shared with Lynzee Klingman and Sheldon Kahn.)
1977			Star Wars	Won	First Asian to win Best Film Editing. First Asian American to win Best Film Editing. (Shared with Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas.)
1992	Kant Pan		The Crying Game	Nominated	Chinese descent.[68]
1999	Tariq Anwar	//	American Beauty	Nominated	Half-Indian descent (father is Indian).[69]
2010			The King's Speech	Nominated
2014	Tom Cross	/	Whiplash	Won	Half-Vietnamese descent (mother is Vietnamese).[70]
2016			La La Land	Nominated
2019	Yang Jin-mo		Parasite	Nominated
2020	Chloé Zhao		Nomadland	Nominated	First Asian (and Asian woman, overall) to be nominated for Best Film Editing while serving as director, producer, writer, and editor.

Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to countries, not individuals. This list contains directors of nominated films of Asian descent, who typically accept the award on behalf of their country.

Best International Feature Film
Year	Director(s)	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1951	Akira Kurosawa		Rashomon	Won	Honorary Oscar
1954	Teinosuke Kinugasa		Gate of Hell	Won	Honorary Oscar
1955	Hiroshi Inagaki		Samurai, The Legend of Musashi	Won	Honorary Oscar
1956	Kon Ichikawa		Harp of Burma	Nominated
1957	Mehboob Khan		Mother India	Nominated
1961	Keisuke Kinoshita		Immortal Love	Nominated
1963	Noburu Nakamura		Twin Sisters of Kyoto	Nominated
1964	Ephraim Kishon		Sallah Shabati	Nominated
	Hiroshi Teshigahara		Woman in the Dunes	Nominated
1965	Masaki Kobayashi		Kwaidan	Nominated
1967	Noboru Nakamura		Portrait of Chieko	Nominated
1971	Akira Kurosawa		Dodes'ka-den	Nominated
	Ephraim Kishon		The Policeman	Nominated
1972	Moshé Mizrahi		I Love You Rosa	Nominated
1973			The House on Chelouche Street	Nominated
1975	Kei Kumai		Sandakan No. 8	Nominated
1977	Menahem Golan		Operation Thunderbolt	Nominated
1980	Akira Kurosawa		Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)	Nominated
1981	Kôhei Oguri		Muddy River	Nominated
1984	Uri Barbash		Beyond the Walls	Nominated
1988	Mira Nair		Salaam Bombay!	Nominated
1990	Zhang Yimou Yang Fengliang		Ju Dou	Nominated
1991	Zhang Yimou		Raise the Red Lantern	Nominated
1993	Chen Kaige		Farewell My Concubine	Nominated
	Trần Anh Hùng		The Scent of Green Papaya	Nominated
	Ang Lee		The Wedding Banquet	Nominated
1994			Eat Drink Man Woman	Nominated
1996	Nana Jorjadze		A Chef in Love	Nominated
1998	Majid Majidi		Children of Heaven	Nominated
2000	Ang Lee		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	First Asian film to be nominated for Best International Feature and Best Picture.
2001	Ashutosh Gowariker		Lagaan	Nominated
2002	Zhang Yimou		Hero	Nominated
2003	Yoji Yamada		The Twilight Samurai	Nominated
2005	Hany Abu-Assad		Paradise Now	Nominated
2007	Joseph Cedar		Beaufort	Nominated
	Sergei Bodrov		Mongol	Nominated
2008	Yōjirō Takita		Departures	Won
	Ari Folman		Waltz with Bashir	Nominated
2009	Scandar Copti Yaron Shani		Ajami	Nominated
2011	Asghar Farhadi		A Separation	Won
	Joseph Cedar		Footnote	Nominated
2013	Rithy Panh		The Missing Picture	Nominated
	Hany Abu-Assad		Omar	Nominated
2015	Naji Abu Nowar		Theeb	Nominated
2016	Asghar Farhadi		The Salesman	Won
2017	Ziad Doueiri		The Insult	Nominated
2018	Nadine Labaki		Capernaum	Nominated
	Hirokazu Kore-eda		Shoplifters	Nominated
2019	Bong Joon-ho		Parasite	Won	First Asian film to win (and second to be nominated for) Best Picture and Best International Feature.
2020	Derek Tsang		Better Days	Nominated
2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi		Drive My Car	Won	Third Asian film to be nominated for Best International Feature and Best Picture.
	Pawo Choyning Dorji		Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom	Nominated
2023	Wim Wenders		Perfect Days	Nominated

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2006	Kazu Hiro	/	Click	Nominated	Japanese descent.[71] First Asian to be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Shared with Bill Corso.)
2007			Norbit	Nominated	(Shared with Rick Baker.)
2017			Darkest Hour	Won	First Asian to win for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.[72] (Shared with David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick.)
2019			Bombshell	Won	US citizen.[73][74] (Shared with Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker.)
2021	Frederic Aspiras	//	House of Gucci	Nominated	Vietnamese-Filipino descent.[75] Second Asian to be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. (Shared with Göran Lundström and Anna Carin Lock.)
2022	Judy Chin		The Whale	Won	The first woman of Asian descent to win the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.[76] (Shared with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley.)
2023	Kazu Hiro	/	Maestro	Nominated	(Shared with Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell.)

Best Production Design

Best Production Design
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1936	Eddie Imazu	/	The Great Ziegfeld	Nominated	First Asian to be nominated for Best Production Design. (Shared with Cedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis.)
1942	Emile Kuri	//	Silver Queen	Nominated	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1949			The Heiress	Won	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1952	So Matsuyama H. Matsumoto		Rashomon	Nominated	Japanese. Black and White.
	Emile Kuri	//	Carrie	Nominated	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1954			20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won	Lebanese descent. Color
			Executive Suite	Nominated	Lebanese descent. Black and White.
1956	So Matsuyama		Seven Samurai	Nominated	Japanese descent.[77]
	Albert Nozaki	/	The Ten Commandments	Nominated	Japanese descent.[78] Color. (Shared with Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.)
1961	Emile Kuri	//	The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated	Black and White.
1964			Mary Poppins	Nominated	Color.
1969	George B. Chan	/	Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	Chinese descent.[79] (Shared with Robert F. Boyle, Edward G. Boyle, and Carl Biddiscombe.)
1971	Yoshirō Muraki and Taizô Kawashima		Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	Japanese descent.[80] (Shared with Jack Martin Smith and Richard Day.)
1972	Emile Kuri	//	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated
1981	Yoshirō Muraki		Kagemusha	Nominated	Japanese descent.[81]
1986	Yoshirō Muraki and Shinobu Muraki		Ran	Nominated	Japanese descent.[82]
2001	Tim Yip		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Hong Kong Chinese.[83]
2008	James J. Murakami	/	Changeling	Nominated	Japanese descent.[84] (Shared with Gary Fettis.)
2013	Ra Vincent		The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	Maori descent.[85] (Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright.)
2017	Paul Denham Austerberry	//	The Shape of Water	Won	Filipino descent.[86] (Shared with Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin.)
2020	Lee Ha-jun Cho Won-woo		Parasite	Nominated

Best Original Score

Best Original Score
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1966	Toshiro Mayuzumi		The Bible	Nominated	Japanese descent.[87] First Asian to be nominated for Best Original Score.
1982	Ravi Shankar		Gandhi	Nominated	Indian descent.[88] First Asian to be nominated for both Academy and Grammy Awards. (Shared with George Fenton)
1987	Cong Su Ryuichi Sakamoto		The Last Emperor	Won	Su is of Chinese descent.[37] Sakamoto is of Japanese descent.[89] First Asians to win Best Original Score. (Shared with David Byrne.)
1996	Gabriel Yared	/	The English Patient	Won	Lebanese descent.
1999			The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated
2000	Tan Dun		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent.[6]
2003	Gabriel Yared	/	Cold Mountain	Nominated
2008	A. R. Rahman		Slumdog Millionaire	Won	First Indian to win two Oscars in one night.[90]
2010			127 Hours	Nominated
2022	Ian Chang Rafiq Bhatia	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Nominated	Nominated as the group Son Lux, with Ryan Lott.

Best Original Song

Best Original Song
Year	Name	Country	Film	Song	Status	Notes
1978	Paul Jabara	/	Thank God It's Friday	"Last Dance"	Won	Lebanese descent.
2000	Tan Dun		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	Chinese. (Shared with Jorge Calandrelli and James Schamus.)
2008	Gulzar A.R. Rahman		Slumdog Millionaire	"Jai Ho"	Won	Indian.
	M.I.A. A.R. Rahman	/		"O Saya"	Nominated	M.I.A. is of Sri Lankan descent.[91]
2012	Bombay Jayashri		Life of Pi	"Pi's Lullaby"	Nominated	Indian. (Shared with Mychael Danna.)
2013	Robert Lopez	/	Frozen	"Let It Go"	Won	Part-Filipino descent (paternal grandfather is Filipino, paternal grandmother is part-Filipino).[92] First Asian American to be nominated for Best Original Song. First Asian American to win Best Original Song. (Shared with Kristen Anderson-Lopez.)
	Karen O	//	Her	"The Moon Song"	Nominated	Half-Korean descent (mother is Korean, father is Polish).[93] (Shared with Spike Jonze.)
2015	Belly	/	Fifty Shades of Grey	"Earned It"	Nominated	Palestinian-born Canadian. (nominated with DaHeala, Stephan Moccio and The Weeknd)
2017	Robert Lopez	/	Coco	"Remember Me"	Won	(Shared with Kristen Anderson-Lopez.)
2019			Frozen II	"Into the Unknown"	Nominated
2020	H.E.R.		Judas and the Black Messiah	"Fight for You"	Won	American born, of Filipino descent. (Shared with D'Mile & Tiara Thomas.)
	Savan Kotecha	/	Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga	"Husavik"	Nominated	American born, of Indian descent. (Shared with Rickard Göransson & Fat Max Gsus.)
2022	M. M. Keeravani Chandrabose		RRR	"Naatu Naatu"	Won	Indian (Telugu) descent.
	Mitski	/	Everything Everywhere All at Once	"This is a Life"	Nominated	Japanese descent. (Shared with Ryan Lott & David Byrne.)

Best Sound

Prior to the 93rd Academy Awards, the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.^[94]

Best Sound
Year	Name	Country	Film	Category	Status	Notes
1999	Ren Klyce	/	Fight Club	Editing	Nominated	Japanese descent. First Asian to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. First Asian American to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. (Shared with Richard Hymns.)
2006	Kami Asgar	/	Apocalypto		Nominated	Iranian descent. First and only Middle Eastern to date to be nominated for Best Sound Editing. (Shared with Sean McCormack.)
2008	Ren Klyce	/	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Mixing	Nominated	Japanese descent. First Asian to be nominated for Best Sound Mixing. First Asian American nominated for Best Sound Mixing. (Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick & Mark Weingarten.)
2010			The Social Network		Nominated	(Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick & Mark Weingarten.)
2011			The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo		Nominated	(Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick & Bo Persson.)
				Editing	Nominated
2017			Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Mixing	Nominated	(Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick & Stuart Wilson.)
				Editing	Nominated	(Shared with Matthew Wood.)
2020			Mank	Sound	Nominated	(Shared with Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance & Drew Kunin.)
			Soul		Nominated	(Shared with Coya Elliot & David Parker.)

Best Visual Effects

Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1977	Greg Jein	/	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated	Chinese descent.[95] First Asian nominated for Best Visual Effects. First Asian American nominated for Best Visual Effects. (Shared with Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, and Richard Yuricich.)
1979			1941	Nominated	(Shared with William A. Fraker and A. D. Flowers.)
1992	Doug Chiang	/	Death Becomes Her	Won	Chinese descent.[37] First Asian to win Best Visual Effects. (Shared with Ken Ralston, Douglas Smythe, and Tom Woodruff Jr.)
1993	Ariel Velasco Shaw	/	The Nightmare Before Christmas	Nominated	Filipino descent.[96] First person of Filipino descent to be nominated for Best Visual Effects. (Shared with Pete Kozachik, Eric Leighton, and Gordon Baker.)
1999	Jerome Chen	/	Stuart Little	Nominated	Chinese descent.[97] (Shared with John Dykstra, Henry F. Anderson III, & Eric Allard.)
2023	Takashi Yamazaki Kiyoko Shibuya Masaki Takahashi Tatsuji Nojima		Godzilla Minus One	Won	First Japanese production to win for Best Visual Effects.

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1985	Steven Okazaki	/	Unfinished Business	Nominated	Japanese descent.[98] First Asian nominated for Best Documentary Feature. First Asian American nominated for Best Documentary Feature.
1988	Renee Tajima-Peña		Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Nominated	Tajima-Peña is of Japanese descent.[99] (Shared with Christine Choy.)
1994	Freida Lee Mock	/	Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision	Won	Chinese descent.[100] First Asian to win Best Documentary Feature. First Asian American to win Best Documentary Feature. (Shared with Terry Sanders.)
2010	Audrey Marrs	/	Inside Job	Won	Half-Japanese descent (mother is Japanese)[101]
2011	Jehane Noujaim	/	The Square	Nominated	Lebanese descent
2014	Joanna Natasegara	//	Virunga	Nominated	Malaysian and Japanese descent. (Shared with Orlando von Einsiedel.)
	John Maloof	/	Finding Vivian Maier	Nominated	Lebanese descent.[102]
2015	Asif Kapadia	/	Amy	Won	Indian descent[103] (Shared with James Gay-Rees.)
2018	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Jimmy Chin		Free Solo	Won	Vasarhelyi is of Chinese, Hong Kong, Hungarian, and Brazilian descent.[104] Chin is of Chinese and Taiwanese descent.[105] They are the first married couple of Asian descent to share a nomination. (Shared with Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill.)
		//		Won
	Bing Liu Diane Moy Quon	/	Minding the Gap	Nominated	Liu and Moy Quon are of Chinese descent.[106]
	Su Kim	/	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	Nominated	Korean descent.[107] (nominated with RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes.)
2019	Joanna Natasegara	//	The Edge of Democracy	Nominated	(Shared with Petra Costa, Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan.)
2019	Waad Al-Kateab		For Sama	Nominated	(Shared with Edward Watts.)
2021	Joseph Patel	/	Summer of Soul	Won	(Shared with Questlove, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein)
	Jessica Kingdon	/	Ascension	Nominated	(Shared with Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell)
2022	Aman Mann	/	All That Breathes	Nominated	Canadian of Indian descent.
2023	Nisha Pahuja		To Kill a Tiger	Nominated	Canadian of Indian descent. (Shared with Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim)
2024	Shiori Itō		Black Box Diaries	Nominated	(Shared with Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin.)
	Basel Adra Rachel Szor Hamdan Ballal Yuval Abraham		No Other Land	Won	Adra and Ballal are the first Palestinians to win Academy Awards. [108]

Best Animated Feature

Best Animated Feature
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
2002	Hayao Miyazaki		Spirited Away	Won	Japanese descent.
2005			Howl's Moving Castle	Nominated
2007	Marjane Satrapi		Persepolis	Nominated	Iranian descent. (Shared with Vincent Paronnaud.)
2011	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	/	Kung Fu Panda 2	Nominated	Korean descent.[109] First woman to direct a Hollywood animated feature film.
2013	Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki		The Wind Rises	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2014	Isao Takahata Yoshiaki Nishimura		The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Nominated
2015	Rosa Tran	/	Anomalisa	Nominated	Vietnamese descent.[33] (Shared with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson.)
	Hiromasa Yonebayashi Yoshiaki Nishimura		When Marnie Was There	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2016	Toshio Suzuki		The Red Turtle	Nominated	Japanese descent. (Shared with Michaël Dudok de Wit.)
2017	Ramsey Naito	/	The Boss Baby	Nominated	Japanese descent.[110] (Shared with Tom McGrath.)
2018	Mamoru Hosoda Yuichiro Saito		Mirai	Nominated	Japanese descent.
2019	Jinko Gotoh	/	Klaus	Nominated	Born in Japan and raised in California.[111] (Shared with Sergio Pablos and Marisa Román.)
2020	Gennie Rim	/	Over the Moon	Nominated	Chinese descent.
	Peilin Chou			Nominated
2022	Domee Shi	/	Turning Red	Nominated	Chinese descent. (Shared with Lindsey Collins)
2023	Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki		The Boy and the Heron	Won
	Peter Sohn	/	Elemental	Nominated	Korean descent (Shared with Denise Ream)

Best Documentary Short Subject

Best Documentary Short Subject
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1982	Freida Lee Mock	/	To Live or Let Die	Nominated	First Asian American nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject.
1983	Arthur Dong		Sewing Woman	Nominated	Chinese descent.[37]
1984	Paul T.K. Lin	/	The Children of Soong Ching Ling	Nominated	Chinese descent.[112] (Shared with Gary Bush.)
1988	Lise Yasui	/	Family Gathering	Nominated	Japanese descent.[113] (Shared with Ann Tegnell.)
1990	Freida Lee Mock	/	Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember	Nominated	(Shared with Terry Sanders.)
	Steven Okazaki	/	Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo	Won	First Asian to win Best Documentary Short Subject. First Asian American to win Best Documentary Short Subject.
1995	Freida Lee Mock	/	Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper	Nominated	(Shared with Terry Sanders.)
1996	Jessica Yu		Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien	Won	Chinese descent.[114]
1998	Keiko Ibi	/	The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years	Won	Japanese descent.[115]
	Shui-Bo Wang	/	Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square	Nominated	Chinese descent.[116] (Shared with Donald McWilliams.)
2001	Freida Lee Mock	/	Sing!	Nominated	Tied for second most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with five nominations. (Shared with Jessica Sanders.)
2005	Steven Okazaki	/	The Mushroom Club	Nominated
2006	Ruby Yang	/	The Blood of Yingzhou District	Won	(Shared with Thomas Lennon.)
2008	Steven Okazaki	/	The Conscience of Nhem En	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations.
2011	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	/	Saving Face	Won	Pakistani descent.[117] (Shared with Daniel Junge.)
2015			A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness	Won
2016	Joanna Natasegara	//	The White Helmets	Won	Malaysian and Japanese descent. (Shared with Orlando von Einsiedel.)
2018	Rayka Zehtabchi	/	Period. End of Sentence.	Won	Iranian descent.[118] (Shared with Melissa Berton.)
2019	Smriti Mundhra Sami Khan	/	St. Louis Superman	Nominated	Indian descent.[119]
2022	Kartiki Gonsalves Guneet Monga		The Elephant Whisperers	Won
2023	S. Leo Chiang Jean Tsien		Island in Between	Nominated
	Sean Wang		Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó	Nominated	Shared with Sam Davis.
2024	Smriti Mundhra	/	I Am Ready, Warden	Nominated	Indian descent. (Shared with Maya Gnyp.)
	Ema Ryan Yamazaki	/	Instruments of a Beating Heart	Nominated	(Shared with Eric Nyari.)

Best Animated Short Film

Best Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1968	Jimmy T. Murakami	/	The Magic Pear Tree	Nominated	Japanese descent.[120] First Asian nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First Asian American nominated for Best Animated Short Film.
2002	Kōji Yamamura		Mt. Head	Nominated
2008	Kunio Kato		La maison en petits cubes	Won	Japanese descent first Asian to win for Best Animated short film
2010	Shaun Tan	/	The Lost Thing	Won	Half-Chinese descent (father is Chinese)[121] (Shared with Andrew Ruhemann.)
2011	Minkyu Lee	/	Adam and Dog	Nominated	Korean descent.[122]
2014	Robert Kondo	/	The Dam Keeper	Nominated	Japanese descent. (Shared with Daisuke Tsutsumi.)
2015	Sanjay Patel	/	Sanjay's Super Team	Nominated	Indian descent.[123] (Shared with Nicole Paradis Grindle.)
2017	Ru Kuwahata	/	Negative Space	Nominated	Japanese descent.[124] (Shared with her husband, Max Porter.)[125]
2018	Domee Shi	/	Bao	Won	Chinese descent.[126] (Shared with Becky Neiman-Cobb.)
	Trevor Jimenez	/	Weekends	Nominated	Filipino descent.[127]
	Bobby Pontillas	/	One Small Step	Nominated	Filipino descent.[128] (Shared with Andrew Chesworth.)
2019	Siqi Song		Sister	Nominated	Chinese descent.
2020	Madeline Sharafian	/	Burrow	Nominated	Armenian descent.[129] (Shared with Michael Capbarat.)
2023	Tal Kantor Amit R. Gicelter		Letter to a Pig	Nominated
	Yegane Moghaddam		Our Uniform	Nominated
2024	Shirin Sohani Hossein Molayemi		In the Shadow of the Cypress	Won
	Daisuke Nishio Takashi Washio		Magic Candies	Nominated

Best Live Action Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Notes
1977	Yuki Yoshida	/	I'll Find a Way	Won	Japanese descent.[130] (Shared with Beverly Shaffer.)
1982	Michael Toshiyuki Uno	/	The Silence	Nominated	Japanese descent.[131] First Asian American nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. (Shared with Joseph Benson.)
1988	Matia Karrell	/	Cadillac Dreams	Nominated	Lebanese descent.
1997	Chris Tashima	/	Visas and Virtue	Won	Japanese descent (father is Japanese).[132] First Asian American to win Best Live Action Short Film. (Shared with Chris Donahue.)
1999	Mehdi Norowzian	/	Killing Joe	Won	Iranian descent. (Shared with Steve Wax.)
2002	Lexi Alexander	/	Johnny Flynton	Nominated	Half-Palestinian descent (mother is German, father is Palestinian). (Shared with Alexander Buono.)
2005	Pia Clemente	/	Our Time is Up	Nominated	Filipino descent.[133] (Shared with Rob Pearlstein.)
2013	Baldwin Li	/	The Voorman Problem	Nominated	(Shared with Mark Gill.)
2020	Farah Nabulsi	/	The Present	Nominated	Palestinian descent (mother is Palestinian, father is Palestinian-Egyptian).[134]
2021	Riz Ahmed Aneil Karia	/ /	The Long Goodbye	Won
2023	Nazrin Choudhury	/	Red, White, and Blue	Nominated	Bangladeshi descent (Shared with Sara McFarlane.)
2024	Suchitra Mattai	//	Anuja	Nominated	Guyanese-born and Indian descent (Shared with Adam J. Graves.)

Honorary Awards

Academy Honorary Awards
Year	Name	Country	Award
1989	Akira Kurosawa		Academy Honorary Award for cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.
1991	Satyajit Ray		Academy Honorary Award in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.
2014	Hayao Miyazaki		Academy Honorary Award has deeply influenced animation forever, inspiring generations of artists to work in our medium and illuminate its limitless potential.
2016	Jackie Chan		Academy Honorary Award Chan starred in – and sometimes wrote, directed and produced – more than 30 martial arts features in his native Hong Kong, charming audiences with his dazzling athleticism, inventive stunt work and boundless charisma.

Non-Competitive Awards

Non-Competitive Awards
Year	Name	Country	Award
2004	Takuo Miyagishima	/	Gordon E. Sawyer Award[135] Takuo Miyagishima, one of the most notable design engineers in the motion picture industry, has been voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

See also

• List of Asian Golden Globe winners and nominees
• List of Asian Tony Award winners and nominees