List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain

This article is a list of British people working in mainstream and independent British cinema industry, who were born or were longtime residents of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) who have been nominated for or have won an Academy Award.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1927–28	Charles Chaplin	The Circus	Nominated	Chaplin was originally nominated in this category (and three others) for The Circus, but the academy took him out of the running and gave him a Special Award.
1929–30	George Arliss	Disraeli	Won
	George Arliss	The Green Goddess	Nominated
	Ronald Colman	Bulldog Drummond	Nominated
	Ronald Colman	Condemned	Nominated
1932–33	Charles Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII	Won
1932–33	Leslie Howard	Berkeley Square	Nominated
1935	Victor McLaglen	The Informer	Won
1935	Charles Laughton	Mutiny on the Bounty	Nominated
1938	Leslie Howard	Pygmalion	Nominated
1938	Robert Donat	The Citadel	Nominated
1939	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Won
1939	Laurence Olivier	Wuthering Heights	Nominated
1940	Laurence Olivier	Rebecca	Nominated
1940	Charles Chaplin	The Great Dictator	Nominated
1941	Cary Grant	Penny Serenade	Nominated
1942	Ronald Colman	Random Harvest	Nominated
1944	Cary Grant	None but the Lonely Heart	Nominated
1945	Ray Milland	The Lost Weekend	Won	Milland was born in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales.
1946	Laurence Olivier	Henry V	Nominated
1947	Michael Redgrave	Mourning Becomes Electra	Nominated
1947	Ronald Colman	A Double Life	Won
1948	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet	Won
1949	Richard Todd	The Hasty Heart	Nominated	Todd was an Irish-born British actor.
1952	Alec Guinness	The Lavender Hill Mob	Nominated
1953	Richard Burton	The Robe	Nominated
1956	Laurence Olivier	Richard III	Nominated
1957	Alec Guinness	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Won
1957	Charles Laughton	Witness for the Prosecution	Nominated
1958	David Niven	Separate Tables	Won
1959	Laurence Harvey	Room at the Top	Nominated	Harvey was a Lithuanian-born South African-British actor.
1960	Laurence Olivier	The Entertainer	Nominated
1960	Trevor Howard	Sons and Lovers	Nominated
1962	Peter O'Toole	Lawrence of Arabia	Nominated	O'Toole was a British-Irish actor.
1963	Albert Finney	Tom Jones	Nominated
1963	Rex Harrison	Cleopatra	Nominated
1964	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady	Won	Harrison recreated his Tony Award-winning role from musical of the same name.
	Peter Sellers	Dr. Strangelove	Nominated
	Peter O'Toole	Becket	Nominated
	Richard Burton	Becket	Nominated
1965	Richard Burton	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Nominated
1965	Laurence Olivier	Othello	Nominated
1966	Richard Burton	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nominated
	Michael Caine	Alfie	Nominated
	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons	Won	Scofield recreated his Tony Award-winning role from play of the same name.
1968	Ron Moody	Oliver!	Nominated	Moody recreated his Tony Award-Nominated role from musical of the same name.
	Alan Bates	The Fixer	Nominated
	Peter O'Toole	The Lion in Winter	Nominated
1969	Richard Burton	Anne of the Thousand Days	Nominated
1969	Peter O'Toole	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Nominated
1971	Peter Finch	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Nominated	Finch was an English-born Australian actor.
1972	Peter O'Toole	The Ruling Class	Nominated
	Michael Caine	Sleuth	Nominated
	Laurence Olivier	Sleuth	Nominated
1974	Albert Finney	Murder on the Orient Express	Nominated
1976	Peter Finch	Network	Won	Posthumous win.
1977	Richard Burton	Equus	Nominated
1978	Laurence Olivier	The Boys from Brazil	Nominated
1979	Peter Sellers	Being There	Nominated
1980	Peter O'Toole	The Stunt Man	Nominated
1980	John Hurt	The Elephant Man	Nominated
1981	Dudley Moore	Arthur	Nominated
1982	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	Won
1982	Peter O'Toole	My Favorite Year	Nominated
1983	Tom Conti	Reuben, Reuben	Nominated
	Michael Caine	Educating Rita	Nominated
	Tom Courtenay	The Dresser	Nominated
	Albert Finney	The Dresser	Nominated
1984	Albert Finney	Under the Volcano	Nominated
1986	Bob Hoskins	Mona Lisa	Nominated
1989	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	Nominated	Film debut performance. First Northern Irish nominee.
1989	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot	Won	Day-Lewis is an English-born actor with joint British/Irish citizenship.
1990	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune	Won
1991	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs	Won	Hopkins was born in Margam, Glamorgan, Wales.
1992	Stephen Rea	The Crying Game	Nominated
1993	Anthony Hopkins	The Remains of the Day	Nominated
	Daniel Day-Lewis	In the Name of the Father	Nominated
	Liam Neeson	Schindler's List	Nominated
1994	Nigel Hawthorne	The Madness of King George	Nominated
1995	Anthony Hopkins	Nixon	Nominated
1996	Ralph Fiennes	The English Patient	Nominated
1998	Ian McKellen	Gods and Monsters	Nominated
2001	Tom Wilkinson	In the Bedroom	Nominated
2002	Michael Caine	The Quiet American	Nominated
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	Nominated
2003	Jude Law	Cold Mountain	Nominated
2003	Ben Kingsley	House of Sand and Fog	Nominated
2006	Peter O'Toole	Venus	Nominated
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Won
2009	Colin Firth	A Single Man	Nominated
2010	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	Won
2011	Gary Oldman	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Nominated
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Won
2013	Christian Bale	American Hustle	Nominated	Though born in Wales, Bale and his family moved to England when he was 1 year old.
2013	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Nominated	First black English actor to be nominated for Best Actor.
2014	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Imitation Game	Nominated
2014	Eddie Redmayne	The Theory of Everything	Won
2015	Eddie Redmayne	The Danish Girl	Nominated
2016	Andrew Garfield	Hacksaw Ridge	Nominated	Garfield is an American-British actor.
2017	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Nominated
	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Won
	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out	Nominated
2018	Christian Bale	Vice	Nominated
2019	Jonathan Pryce	The Two Popes	Nominated
2020	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal	Nominated	First British Muslim actor to be nominated for Best Actor.
	Anthony Hopkins	The Father	Won	At age 83, Hopkins became the oldest Best Actor winner.
	Gary Oldman	Mank	Nominated
2021	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Power of the Dog	Nominated
2021	Andrew Garfield	Tick, Tick... Boom!	Nominated
2022	Bill Nighy	Living	Nominated
2024	Ralph Fiennes	Conclave	Nominated

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1931–32	Lynn Fontanne	The Guardsman	Nominated
1932–33	Diana Wynyard	Cavalcade	Nominated
1935	Merle Oberon	The Dark Angel	Nominated	Oberon was an Indian-born English actress.
1938	Wendy Hiller	Pygmalion	Nominated
1939	Vivien Leigh	Gone with the Wind	Won	Leigh was an Indian-born English actress.
1939	Greer Garson	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Nominated
1940	Joan Fontaine	Rebecca	Nominated	Fontaine was a Japanese-born English actress.
1941	Joan Fontaine	Suspicion	Won
	Greer Garson	Blossoms in the Dust	Nominated
	Olivia de Havilland	Hold Back the Dawn	Nominated	de Havilland was a Japanese-born British-American actress.
1942	Greer Garson	Mrs. Miniver	Won
1943	Joan Fontaine	The Constant Nymph	Nominated
1943	Greer Garson	Madame Curie	Nominated
1944		Mrs. Parkington	Nominated
1945		The Valley of Decision	Nominated	Garson is one of only two actresses to receive five consecutive nominations (tied with Bette Davis).
1946	Olivia de Havilland	To Each His Own	Won
1946	Celia Johnson	Brief Encounter	Nominated
1948	Olivia de Havilland	The Snake Pit	Nominated
1949	Olivia de Havilland	The Heiress	Won	de Havilland was the first of three British actresses to win this award twice (tied with Vivien Leigh, Glenda Jackson).
1949	Deborah Kerr	Edward, My Son	Nominated	Kerr is a Scottish-born actress, raised partially in England.
1951	Vivien Leigh	A Streetcar Named Desire	Won
1953	Deborah Kerr	From Here to Eternity	Nominated
1953	Audrey Hepburn	Roman Holiday	Won	Hepburn was a Belgian-born English actress.
1954	Audrey Hepburn	Sabrina	Nominated
1956	Deborah Kerr	The King and I	Nominated
1957	Deborah Kerr	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	Nominated
1957	Elizabeth Taylor	Raintree County	Nominated
1958	Deborah Kerr	Separate Tables	Nominated
1958	Elizabeth Taylor	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Nominated
1959	Audrey Hepburn	The Nun's Story	Nominated
1959	Elizabeth Taylor	Suddenly, Last Summer	Nominated
1960	Deborah Kerr	The Sundowners	Nominated
	Greer Garson	Sunrise at Campobello	Nominated	Garson has more Best Actress nominations than any other British actress (with seven).
	Elizabeth Taylor	BUtterfield 8	Won	Taylor was British-American.
1961	Audrey Hepburn	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Nominated
1963	Rachel Roberts	This Sporting Life	Nominated
1964	Julie Andrews	Mary Poppins	Won	Andrews' debut performance.
1965	Julie Christie	Darling	Won	Christie is an Indian-born English actress.
	Julie Andrews	The Sound of Music	Nominated
	Samantha Eggar	The Collector	Nominated
1966	Lynn Redgrave	Georgy Girl	Nominated
	Vanessa Redgrave	Morgan	Nominated
	Elizabeth Taylor	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Won
1967	Audrey Hepburn	Wait Until Dark	Nominated
1967	Edith Evans	The Whisperers	Nominated
1968	Vanessa Redgrave	Isadora	Nominated
1969	Maggie Smith	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Won	Smith is the first and only British actress to date to win in both acting categories (Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress).
1969	Jean Simmons	The Happy Ending	Nominated
1970	Glenda Jackson	Women in Love	Won
1970	Sarah Miles	Ryan's Daughter	Nominated
1971	Janet Suzman	Nicholas and Alexandra	Nominated	Suzman is a South African/British actress.
	Julie Christie	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Nominated
	Glenda Jackson	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Nominated
	Vanessa Redgrave	Mary, Queen of Scots	Nominated
1972	Maggie Smith	Travels with My Aunt	Nominated
1973	Glenda Jackson	A Touch of Class	Won
1975	Glenda Jackson	Hedda	Nominated
1982	Julie Andrews	Victor Victoria	Nominated
1983	Julie Walters	Educating Rita	Nominated
1989	Pauline Collins	Shirley Valentine	Nominated
1989	Jessica Tandy	Driving Miss Daisy	Won
1992	Emma Thompson	Howards End	Won
1993	Emma Thompson	The Remains of the Day	Nominated
1994	Miranda Richardson	Tom and Viv	Nominated
1995	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility	Nominated
1996	Brenda Blethyn	Secrets & Lies	Nominated
	Kristin Scott Thomas	The English Patient	Nominated
	Emily Watson	Breaking the Waves	Nominated
1997	Helena Bonham Carter	The Wings of the Dove	Nominated
	Julie Christie	Afterglow	Nominated
	Judi Dench	Mrs Brown	Nominated
	Kate Winslet	Titanic	Nominated	At age 22, Winslet became the fourth-youngest Best Actress nominee at the time in the category.
1998	Emily Watson	Hilary and Jackie	Nominated
1999	Janet McTeer	Tumbleweeds	Nominated
1999	Julianne Moore	The End of the Affair	Nominated	Moore is an American–British actress.
2001	Judi Dench	Iris	Nominated
2002	Julianne Moore	Far from Heaven	Nominated
2003	Samantha Morton	In America	Nominated
2003	Naomi Watts	21 Grams	Nominated
2004	Imelda Staunton	Vera Drake	Nominated
2004	Kate Winslet	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Nominated
2005	Judi Dench	Mrs Henderson Presents	Nominated
2005	Keira Knightley	Pride and Prejudice	Nominated	At age 20, Knightley became the fourth-youngest Best Actress nominee at the time in the category.
2006	Judi Dench	Notes on a Scandal	Nominated
	Helen Mirren	The Queen	Won
	Kate Winslet	Little Children	Nominated
2007	Julie Christie	Away from Her	Nominated
2008	Kate Winslet	The Reader	Won
2009	Helen Mirren	The Last Station	Nominated
2009	Carey Mulligan	An Education	Nominated
2012	Naomi Watts	The Impossible	Nominated
2013	Judi Dench	Philomena	Nominated
2014	Felicity Jones	The Theory of Everything	Nominated
	Rosamund Pike	Gone Girl	Nominated
	Julianne Moore	Still Alice	Won
2015	Charlotte Rampling	45 Years	Nominated
2017	Sally Hawkins	The Shape of Water	Nominated
2018	Olivia Colman	The Favourite	Won
2019	Cynthia Erivo	Harriet	Nominated	First black English actress to be nominated for Best Actress.
2020	Carey Mulligan	Promising Young Woman	Nominated
2020	Vanessa Kirby	Pieces of a Woman	Nominated
2021	Olivia Colman	The Lost Daughter	Nominated
2022	Andrea Riseborough	To Leslie	Nominated
2023	Carey Mulligan	Maestro	Nominated
2024	Cynthia Erivo	Wicked	Nominated

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1936	Basil Rathbone	Romeo and Juliet	Nominated
1937	H. B. Warner	Lost Horizon	Nominated
1937	Roland Young	Topper	Nominated
1938	Basil Rathbone	If I Were King	Nominated
1938	Robert Morley	Marie Antoinette	Nominated
1939	Brian Aherne	Juarez	Nominated
1939	Claude Rains	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Nominated
1940	James Stephenson	The Letter	Nominated
1941	Donald Crisp	How Green Was My Valley	Won
1941	Sydney Greenstreet	The Maltese Falcon	Nominated
1942	Henry Travers	Mrs. Miniver	Nominated
1943	Claude Rains	Casablanca	Nominated
1944		Mr. Skeffington	Nominated
1946		Notorious	Nominated
1947	Edmund Gwenn	Miracle on 34th Street	Won
1949	Ralph Richardson	The Heiress	Nominated
1950	George Sanders	All About Eve	Won
1950	Edmund Gwenn	Mister 880	Nominated
1951	Leo Genn	Quo Vadis	Nominated
1951	Peter Ustinov	Quo Vadis	Nominated
1952	Victor McLaglen	The Quiet Man	Nominated
1952	Richard Burton	My Cousin Rachel	Nominated
1959	Hugh Griffith	Ben-Hur	Won
1960	Peter Ustinov	Spartacus	Won
1962	Terence Stamp	Billy Budd	Nominated
1963	Hugh Griffith	Tom Jones	Nominated
1964	Peter Ustinov	Topkapi	Won
	John Gielgud	Becket	Nominated
	Stanley Holloway	My Fair Lady	Nominated	Holloway recreated his Tony Award-nominated role from musical of the same name.
1965	Tom Courtenay	Doctor Zhivago	Nominated
	Frank Finlay	Othello	Nominated
	Ian Bannen	The Flight of the Phoenix	Nominated
1966	Robert Shaw	A Man for All Seasons	Nominated
1966	James Mason	Georgy Girl	Nominated
1968	Jack Wild	Oliver!	Nominated	At age 16, Wild became the fourth-youngest nominee in the category.
1968	Daniel Massey	Star!	Nominated
1969	Anthony Quayle	Anne of the Thousand Days	Nominated
1970	John Mills	Ryan's Daughter	Won
1973	John Houseman	The Paper Chase	Won	Houseman was a Romanian-born British-American actor and producer.
1976	Laurence Olivier	Marathon Man	Nominated
1977	Peter Firth	Equus	Nominated
1977	Alec Guinness	Star Wars	Nominated
1978	John Hurt	Midnight Express	Nominated
1981	John Gielgud	Arthur	Won
1981	Ian Holm	Chariots of Fire	Nominated
1982	James Mason	The Verdict	Nominated
1984	Ralph Richardson	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Nominated
1986	Denholm Elliott	A Room with a View	Nominated
1986	Michael Caine	Hannah and Her Sisters	Won
1987	Sean Connery	The Untouchables	Won	Connery is the first and only Scottish actor to win an Academy Award for acting.
1988	Alec Guinness	Little Dorrit	Nominated
1991	Ben Kingsley	Bugsy	Nominated
1992	Jaye Davidson	The Crying Game	Nominated	First black British actor to be nominated for an Academy Award.
1993	Ralph Fiennes	Schindler's List	Nominated
1993	Pete Postlethwaite	In the Name of the Father	Nominated
1994	Paul Scofield	Quiz Show	Nominated
1995	Tim Roth	Rob Roy	Nominated
1997	Anthony Hopkins	Amistad	Nominated
1999	Michael Caine	The Cider House Rules	Won
1999	Jude Law	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated
2000	Albert Finney	Erin Brockovich	Nominated
2001	Jim Broadbent	Iris	Won
	Ben Kingsley	Sexy Beast	Nominated
	Ian McKellen	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated
2004	Clive Owen	Closer	Nominated
2007	Tom Wilkinson	Michael Clayton	Nominated
2010	Christian Bale	The Fighter	Won	Born in Wales to English parents, Bale and his family moved to England when he was 1 year old.
2011	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn	Nominated
2015	Christian Bale	The Big Short	Nominated
	Tom Hardy	The Revenant	Nominated
	Mark Rylance	Bridge of Spies	Won
2016	Dev Patel	Lion	Nominated
2018	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Nominated	Grant is a Swazi-born English actor.
2019	Anthony Hopkins	The Two Popes	Nominated
2020	Sacha Baron Cohen	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Nominated
2020	Daniel Kaluuya	Judas and the Black Messiah	Won	Kaluuya is the first black British actor to win an Academy Award for acting.^[1] At age 32, Kaluuya became the seventh-youngest winner to win an Academy Award in the category.^[1]
2024	Guy Pearce	The Brutalist	Nominated	Pearce is a British-Australian actor.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1937	May Whitty	Night Must Fall	Nominated
1939	Olivia de Havilland	Gone with the Wind	Nominated
1940	Judith Anderson	Rebecca	Nominated	Anderson was an Australian-born British actress.
1941	Margaret Wycherly	Sergeant York	Nominated
1942	May Whitty	Mrs. Miniver	Nominated
1942	Gladys Cooper	Now, Voyager	Nominated
1943	Gladys Cooper	The Song of Bernadette	Nominated
1944	Angela Lansbury	Gaslight	Nominated
1945	Angela Lansbury	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Nominated
1946	Flora Robson	Saratoga Trunk	Nominated
1948	Jean Simmons	Hamlet	Nominated
1949	Elsa Lanchester	Come to the Stable	Nominated
1957	Elsa Lanchester	Witness for the Prosecution	Nominated
1958	Wendy Hiller	Separate Tables	Won
1959	Hermione Baddeley	Room at the Top	Nominated
1960	Glynis Johns	The Sundowners	Nominated
1960	Mary Ure	Sons and Lovers	Nominated
1962	Angela Lansbury	The Manchurian Candidate	Nominated
1963	Margaret Rutherford	The V.I.P.s	Won
	Edith Evans	Tom Jones	Nominated
	Joyce Redman	Tom Jones	Nominated
1964	Gladys Cooper	My Fair Lady	Nominated
1964	Edith Evans	The Chalk Garden	Nominated
1965	Joyce Redman	Othello	Nominated
1965	Maggie Smith	Othello	Nominated
1966	Wendy Hiller	A Man for All Seasons	Nominated
1966	Vivien Merchant	Alfie	Nominated
1969	Susannah York	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Nominated
1971	Margaret Leighton	The Go-Between	Nominated
1977	Vanessa Redgrave	Julia	Won
1978	Maggie Smith	California Suite	Won
1980	Eva Le Gallienne	Resurrection	Nominated
1984	Peggy Ashcroft	A Passage to India	Won
1986	Maggie Smith	A Room with a View	Nominated
1991	Jessica Tandy	Fried Green Tomatoes	Nominated
1992	Joan Plowright	Enchanted April	Nominated
	Vanessa Redgrave	Howards End	Nominated
	Miranda Richardson	Damage	Nominated
1993	Emma Thompson	In the Name of the Father	Nominated
1994	Rosemary Harris	Tom & Viv	Nominated
1994	Helen Mirren	The Madness of King George	Nominated
1995	Kate Winslet	Sense and Sensibility	Nominated
1996	Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Secrets & Lies	Nominated	First Black English actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
1997	Julianne Moore	Boogie Nights	Nominated	Moore is an American–British actress.
1997	Minnie Driver	Good Will Hunting	Nominated
1998	Brenda Blethyn	Little Voice	Nominated
	Judi Dench	Shakespeare in Love	Won
	Lynn Redgrave	Gods and Monsters	Nominated
1999	Samantha Morton	Sweet and Lowdown	Nominated
2000	Judi Dench	Chocolat	Nominated
2000	Julie Walters	Billy Elliot	Nominated
2001	Helen Mirren	Gosford Park	Nominated
	Maggie Smith	Gosford Park	Nominated
	Kate Winslet	Iris	Nominated
2002	Julianne Moore	The Hours	Nominated
2002	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Chicago	Won	Zeta-Jones was born as Catherine Zeta Jones in Swansea, Wales.
2004	Sophie Okonedo	Hotel Rwanda	Nominated
2005	Rachel Weisz	The Constant Gardener	Won
2007	Tilda Swinton	Michael Clayton	Won
2010	Helena Bonham Carter	The King's Speech	Nominated
2011	Janet McTeer	Albert Nobbs	Nominated
2013	Sally Hawkins	Blue Jasmine	Nominated
2014	Keira Knightley	The Imitation Game	Nominated
2015	Kate Winslet	Steve Jobs	Nominated
2016	Naomie Harris	Moonlight	Nominated
2017	Lesley Manville	Phantom Thread	Nominated
2018	Rachel Weisz	The Favourite	Nominated
2019	Florence Pugh	Little Women	Nominated
2020	Olivia Colman	The Father	Nominated
2021	Judi Dench	Belfast	Nominated
2023	Emily Blunt	Oppenheimer	Nominated
2024	Felicity Jones	The Brutalist	Nominated

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1928–29	Frank Lloyd	Drag	Nominated	No official nominees had been announced this year.
		Weary River	Nominated	No official nominees had been announced this year.
		The Divine Lady	Won
1932–33		Cavalcade	Won	Lloyd's father was Welsh and his mother was Scottish, and Lloyd was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
1935		Mutiny on the Bounty	Nominated
1940	Alfred Hitchcock	Rebecca	Nominated
1944		Lifeboat	Nominated
1945		Spellbound	Nominated
1945	David Lean	Brief Encounter	Nominated
1947	David Lean	Great Expectations	Nominated
1948	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet	Nominated
1949	Carol Reed	The Fallen Idol	Nominated
1950	Carol Reed	The Third Man	Nominated
1954	Alfred Hitchcock	Rear Window	Nominated
1955	David Lean	Summertime	Nominated
1956	Michael Anderson	Around the World in 80 Days	Nominated
1957	David Lean	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Won
1959	Jack Clayton	Room at the Top	Nominated
1960	Jack Cardiff	Sons and Lovers	Nominated
1960	Alfred Hitchcock	Psycho	Nominated
1961	J. Lee Thompson	The Guns of Navarone	Nominated
1962	David Lean	Lawrence of Arabia	Won
1963	Tony Richardson	Tom Jones	Won
1964	Robert Stevenson	Mary Poppins	Nominated
1964	Peter Glenville	Becket	Nominated
1965	John Schlesinger	Darling	Nominated
1965	David Lean	Doctor Zhivago	Nominated
1968	Carol Reed	Oliver!	Won
1968	Anthony Harvey	The Lion in Winter	Nominated
1969	John Schlesinger	Midnight Cowboy	Won
1970	Ken Russell	Women In Love	Nominated
1971	John Schlesinger	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Nominated
1972	John Boorman	Deliverance	Nominated
1978	Alan Parker	Midnight Express	Nominated
1979	Peter Yates	Breaking Away	Nominated
1981	Hugh Hudson	Chariots of Fire	Nominated
1982	Richard Attenborough	Gandhi	Won
1983	Peter Yates	The Dresser	Nominated
1984	David Lean	A Passage to India	Nominated
1984	Roland Joffé	The Killing Fields	Nominated
1986	Roland Joffé	The Mission	Nominated
1987	John Boorman	Hope and Glory	Nominated
1987	Adrian Lyne	Fatal Attraction	Nominated
1988	Charles Crichton	A Fish Called Wanda	Nominated
1988	Alan Parker	Mississippi Burning	Nominated
1989	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	Nominated	Film directorial debut.
1990	Stephen Frears	The Grifters	Nominated
1991	Ridley Scott	Thelma & Louise	Nominated
1995	Mike Figgis	Leaving Las Vegas	Nominated
1995	Michael Radford	The Postman	Nominated	(original title: Il postino). Radford is an English director born in India.
1996	Mike Leigh	Secrets & Lies	Nominated
1996	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient	Won
1997	Peter Cattaneo	The Full Monty	Nominated
1998	John Madden	Shakespeare in Love	Nominated
1999	Sam Mendes	American Beauty	Won	Film directorial debut. Mendes is the first British director and the sixth director overall, to win an Academy Award for Best Director for a debut film.
2000	Stephen Daldry	Billy Elliot	Nominated
2000	Ridley Scott	Gladiator	Nominated
2001	Ridley Scott	Black Hawk Down	Nominated
2002	Stephen Daldry	The Hours	Nominated
2004	Mike Leigh	Vera Drake	Nominated
2006	Stephen Frears	The Queen	Nominated
2006	Paul Greengrass	United 93	Nominated
2008	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire	Won
2008	Stephen Daldry	The Reader	Nominated
2010	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech	Won
2013	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave	Nominated	First black English director to be nominated for Best Director.
2017	Christopher Nolan	Dunkirk	Nominated
2019	Sam Mendes	1917	Nominated
2020	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman	Nominated	First English woman to be nominated for Best Director.
2021	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast	Nominated
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin	Nominated
2023	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer	Won
2023	Jonathan Glazer	The Zone of Interest	Nominated

List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Director

Best Assistant Director (1933 to 1937)

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

Best Writing – Original Screenplay

Best Writing – Story (1928 to 1956)

Best Picture

Best International Feature Film

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary – Short Subject

Best Animated Feature

Best Animated Short Film

Best Production Design

Best Cinematography

Best Editing

Best Sound

Best Sound Editing (1963 to 2019)

Best Costume Design

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Best Original Score

Best Original Song

Best Visual Effects

Best Live Action Short Film

Special awards

Nominations and winners

Multiple wins and nominations

See also

References

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Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1933	Fred Fox	—	Won	For United Artists.
1935	Eric G. Stacey	Les Misérables	Nominated
1936		The Garden of Allah	Nominated
1937		A Star Is Born	Nominated

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1942	Emeric Pressburger	49th Parallel	Won
1943	Gordon McDonell	Shadow of a Doubt	Nominated	McDonell is a British-born American writer.
1945	Charles G. Booth	The House on 92nd Street	Won
1946	Clemence Dane	Perfect Strangers	Won
1948	Emeric Pressburger	The Red Shoes	Nominated
1951	Alfred Hayes	Teresa	Nominated	Shared with Stewart Stern.
	Oscar Millard	The Frogmen	Nominated
	James Bernard Paul Dehn	Seven Days to Noon	Won

Year	Name	Film	Status	Languages
1993	Paul Turner	Hedd Wyn	Nominated	Welsh. (some parts in English.)
1999	Paul Morrison	Solomon and Gaenor	Nominated	Welsh. (some parts in Yiddish.)
2023	Jonathan Glazer	The Zone of Interest	Won	German. (some parts in Polish and Yiddish.)

Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1941	British Ministry of Information	Christmas Under Fire	Nominated
1941	British Ministry of Information	A Letter from Home	Nominated
1952	Norman McLaren	Neighbours	Won	McLaren was a Scottish-born British/Canadian animator, director, and producer.
1953	James Carr	They Planted a Stone	Nominated
1954	World Wide Pictures Morse Films	Thursday's Children	Won
1958	Thorold Dickinson	Oeuverture	Nominated
1960	James Hill	Giuseppina	Won
1963	Edgar Anstey	Thirty Million Letters	Nominated
1965	Patrick Carey Joe Mendoza	Yeats Country	Nominated
1970	Patrick Carey Vivien Carey	Oisin	Nominated
1972	Humphrey Swingler	The Tide of Traffic	Nominated
1974	Pen Densham	Life Times Nine	Nominated	Densham is a British-Canadian-American. Shared with John Watson.
1974	Robin Lehman	Don't	Won
1975	Robin Lehman	The End of the Game	Won
1979	Phillip Borsos	Nails	Nominated
1980	Pen Densham	Don't Mess with Bill	Nominated
1981	Nigel Noble	Close Harmony	Won
1988	Malcolm Clarke	You Don't Have to Die	Won	Shared with Bill Guttentag.
2011	Lucy Walker	The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom	Nominated	Shared with Kira Carstensen.
2013	Malcolm Clarke Nicholas Reed	The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life	Won	Winner of Best Documentary – Short Subject.
2013	Sara Ishaq	Karama Has No Walls	Nominated	Ishaq is a Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker. Nominated for Best Documentary – Short Subject.
2015	Adam Benzine	Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah	Nominated
2016	Orlando von Einsiedel Joanna Natasegara	The White Helmets	Won	Winner for Best Documentary – Short Subject.
2016	Stephen Ellis	Watani: My Homeland	Nominated	Nominated for Best Documentary – Short Subject. Shared with Marcel Mettelsiefen.