List of Hungarian Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees born in Hungary or as Hungarians, according to Hungarian nationality law.

Best Director

Director
Year Name Film Status Notes
1935 Michael Curtiz[1] Captain Blood Nominated
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces Nominated
Four Daughters Nominated
1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy Nominated
1943 Casablanca Won
1965 George Cukor My Fair Lady Won

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1943 Paul Lukas Watch on the Rhine Won First Ever Hungarian to win an Acting Oscar
1945 Cornel Wilde A Song to Remember Nominated
1959 Paul Newman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Nominated 3/4-Hungarian
1987 Paul Newman The Color of Money Won 3/4-Hungarian
2003 Adrien Brody The Pianist Won Hungarian mother

Best Short Subject

Best Short Subject
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1934 Jules White Men in Black Nominated Born as Gyula Weiss in Budapest
1935 Oh, My Nerves Nominated
1939 Michael Curtiz Sons of Liberty Won
1945 Jules White The Jury Goes Round 'N' Round Nominated
1946 Hiss and Yell Nominated

Best Documentary (Long Subject)

Best Documentary Feature Film
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2019 Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Free Solo Won Hungarian father
2020 Steven Bognar American Factory Won Hungarian father (Escaped 1956)

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Best Short Subject
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1967 Tamás Czigány Saint Matthew Passion Nominated
1980 Phillip Borsos Nails Nominated
2010 Steven Bognar The Last Truck Nominated Hungarian father (Escaped 1956)

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year Producer Film Status Milestone / Notes
1929 William Fox (producer) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Won Directed by F. W. Murnau
1932/3 Alexander Korda The Private Life of Henry VIII Nominated
1938 Gabriel Pascal Pygmalion Nominated
1949 Adolph Zukor ... Won Honorary Award
1968 Paul Newman Rachel, Rachel Nominated
1993 Branko Lustig Schindler's List Won Parents Hungarian Jews from Újvidék
1999 Frank Darabont[2] The Green Mile Nominated
2000 Branko Lustig Gladiator Won Parents Hungarian Jews from Újvidék
2009 Ivan Reitman Up in the Air Nominated
2012 Margaret Menegoz (born Baranyai) Amour Nominated Most EFA-awarded Hungarian: 3 wins/4 nominations (out of ca 16 wins)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1931 Francis Edward Faragoh Little Caesar Nominated
1937 Geza Herczeg [de] The Life of Emile Zola Won
1942 Emeric Pressburger 49th Parallel Nominated
1948 Frank Partos The Snake Pit Nominated
1972 Ernest Tidyman The French Connection Won Hungarian mother
1993 Frank Darabont The Shawshank Redemption Nominated (Parents escaped 1956.)
1998 The Green Mile Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

Best Original Screenplay
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1929 Lajos Bíró The Last Command Nominated
1941 János Székely Arise, My Love Won
1942 Emeric Pressburger One of Our Aircraft Is Missing Nominated
1950 Robert Pirosh Battleground Won
1951 Robert Pirosh Go for Broke! Nominated

Best Story

Best Story
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1928 Lajos Bíró The Last Command Nominated
1937 Geza Herczeg [de] The Life of Emile Zola Nominated
1939 Melchior Lengyel Ninotchka Nominated
1942 Emeric Pressburger 49th Parallel Won
1945 László Görög The Affairs of Susan Nominated Shared with Thomas Monroe
1948 Emeric Pressburger The Red Shoes Nominated
1950 André de Toth The Gunfighter Nominated Shared with William Bowers

Best Dance Direction

Academy Award for Best Dance Direction
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1936 Dave Gould Broadway Melody of 1936 Won Born as Dezsö Guttman in Cigánd
1936 Folies Bergère de Paris Won
1937 Born to Dance Nominated
1938 A Day at the Races Nominated

Best Art Direction

Best Art Direction
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1932–33 William S. Darling Cavalcade Won Born in Sandorháza, Banat, Transylvania; Kingdom of Hungary as Vilmos Sándorházy
1936 Lloyd's of London Nominated
1937 Wee Willie Winkie Nominated
1939 The Rains Came Nominated
1940 Vincent Korda The Thief of Baghdad Won Color
Paul Groesse Pride and Prejudice Won Black & White
1941 Vincent Korda That Hamilton Woman Nominated
1942 Jungle Book Nominated
1944 Paul Groesse Madame Curie Nominated
1944 William S. Darling The Song of Bernadette Won shared with James Basevi
1945 The Keys of the Kingdom Nominated
1947 Anna and the King of Siam Won Black & White, shared with Lyle R. Wheeler
1947 Paul Groesse The Yearling Won Color
1949 Little Women Won
1950 Annie Get Your Gun Nominated
1951 Too Young to Kiss Nominated
1952 The Merry Widow Nominated
1953 Lili Nominated
1953 Marcel Vertès Moulin Rouge Won
1959 Joseph Kish Journey to the Center of the Earth Nominated
1960 Alexandre Trauner The Apartment Won
1962 Paul Groesse The Music Man Nominated
Vincent Korda The Longest Day Nominated
1963 Paul Groesse Twilight of Honor Nominated
1966 Mister Buddwing Nominated
1966 Joseph Kish The Slender Thread Nominated
1966 Joseph Kish Ship of Fools Won
2022 Zsuzsanna Sipos Dune Won

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year Name Film Status Notes
1953 Marcel Vertès Moulin Rouge Won

Best Make Up

Costume Design
Year Name Film Status Notes
1985 Zoltan Elek Mask Won Cinematography by Laszlo Kovács (cinematographer]

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Hungarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Best International Feature Film
Year Film Director Status Milestone / Notes
1957 The Captain from Köpenick Gyula Trebitsch (producer) Nominated Co-producer for Germany
1966
(39th) 		The Shop on Main Street Jan Kadar (Born in Budapest as János Kádár) WIN for Czechoslovakia Won shared with Elmar Klos
1965 Sallah Shabati Ephraim Kishon (Born in Budapest as Ferenc Hoffman) First ever Israeli film in category Best Foreign Film Nominated
1972 The Policeman Ephraim Kishon Nominated
1968
(41st) 		The Boys of Paul Street Zoltán Fábri Nominated[3]
1974
(47th) 		Cats' Play Károly Makk Nominated[4]
1978
(51st) 		Hungarians Zoltán Fábri Nominated[5]
1980
(53rd) 		Confidence István Szabó Nominated[6]
1981
(54th) 		Mephisto István Szabó Won[7]
1983
(56th) 		Job's Revolt Imre Gyöngyössy and
Barna Kabay 		Nominated[8]
1985
(58th) 		Colonel Redl István Szabó Nominated[9]
1988
(61st) 		Hanussen István Szabó Nominated[10]
2013
(88th) 		Amour co-produced by:Margaret Menegoz for Austria, directed By Haneke Nominated
2015
(88th) 		Son of Saul[11] László Nemes Won[12]
2017
(90th) 		On Body and Soul[13] Ildikó Enyedi Nominated[14]

Best Cinematography

Best Cinematography
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1951 John Alton An American in Paris Won (born as János/Johann Altmann in Sopron) Color
Shared with Alfred Gilks
1960 Ernest Laszlo Inherit the Wind Nominated
1961 Judgment at Nuremberg Nominated
1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Nominated
1965 Ship of Fools Won Black-and-White
1966 Fantastic Voyage Nominated
1968 Star! Nominated
1970 Airport Nominated
1976 Logan's Run Nominated
1977 Vilmos Zsigmond Close Encounters of the Third Kind Won
1978 The Deer Hunter Nominated
1984 The River Nominated
2001 Lajos Koltai Malèna Nominated
2006 Vilmos Zsigmond The Black Dahlia Nominated

Best Animated Short Film

Best Animated Short Film
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1941 George Pal[15] Rhythm in the Ranks Nominated
1942 Tulips Shall Grow Nominated
1943 The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Nominated
1944 And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Nominated
1945 Jasper and the Beanstalk Nominated
1946 John Henry and the Inky-Poo Nominated
1947 Tubby the Tuba Nominated
1963 Jules Engel Icarus Montgolfier Wright Nominated
1964 John Halas Automania 2000 Nominated
1975 Peter Foldes Hunger Nominated
1976 Marcell Jankovics Sisyphus Nominated
1980 Ferenc Rofusz The Fly Won
2007 Géza M. Tóth Maestro Nominated

Best Live Action Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film
Year Director Film Status Milestone / Notes
1963 Istvan Szabo Concert[16] Nominated
2016 Kristóf Deák Sing[16] Won

Best Original Score

Best Original Music Score
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1935 Max Steiner The Informer Won Father Gábor was born in Temesvár, Kingdom of Hungary
1936 The Garden of Allah Nominated Grandfather Maximilian was born in Buda, now Budapest
1938 Jezebel Nominated
1939 Dark Victory Nominated
1939 Gone With the Wind Nominated
1940 Miklos Rosza The Thief of Baghdad Nominated
1941 Lydia Nominated
Sundown Nominated
1942 Jungle Book Nominated
1943 Max Steiner Now, Voyager Won
1944 Miklos Rosza Double Indemnity Nominated
The Woman of the Town Nominated
Karl Hajos Summer Storm Nominated
1945 The Man Who Walked Alone Nominated
Leo Erdody The Minstrel Man Nominated
Max Steiner Since You Went Away Won
Miklos Rosza Spellbound Won
The Lost Weekend Nominated
A Song to Remember Nominated
1946 The Killers Nominated
1947 Double Life Won
1951 Quo Vadis Nominated
1952 Ivanhoe Nominated
1953 Julius Caesar Nominated
1959 Ben-Hur Won
1961 El Cid Nominated

Technical & Scientifical

Technical/Scientifical Awards
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1941 Joe Lapis Nominated Best special effects
1944 George Pal Won For the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons
1949 Steve Csillag Won
1950 George Pal Productions[17] Destination Moon (film) Won Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
1951 George Pal (produced by)[17] When Worlds Collide (1951 film) Won Special Achievements Award
1953 George Pal (produced by) [17] War of the Worlds (1953 film) Won Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
1985 Chuck Gaspar Ghost Busters Nominated shared Technical Award

(cinematography:László Kovács direction: Ivan Reitman)

1996 Attila Szalay[18] Won shared Scientific & Technical Award
2010 Márk Jászberényi, Perlaki and Gyula Priskin [19] Won For their contributions to the development of the Lustre color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.
2014 Tibor Madjar,[20] Imre Major and Csaba Kőhegyi Won To Andrew Camenisch, David Cardwell and Tibor Madjar for the concept and design, and to Csaba Kohegyi and Imre Major for the implementation of the Mudbox software.
2014 Chuck Gaspar[21] Won (shared) As Technical Achievement Award
2021 Attila T. Áfra[22][23] Won shared

One grandparent

Academy Awards and Nominees
Year Artist Film Status Milestone / Notes
1929 King Vidor The Crowd Nominated Grandfather Károly Vidor was participant of 1848-49 Hungarian revolution and escaped.
1930 Hallelujah Nominated
1932 The Champ Nominated
1937 Mischa Auer My Man Godfrey Nominated Fathers mother was daughter of the Hungarian violinist Leopold von Auer
1939 King Vidor The Citadel Nominated
1954 Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday Won Grandparent born in Kovarce, Kingdom of Hungary[24]
1957 King Vidor War and Peace Nominated
1960 Simone Signoret Ship of Fools Nominated Fathers mother was Hungarian:Ernestine Hirschler (from Pozsony)/Goldberger de Buda [25] Goldberger du Buda/(Buda)
1969 Room at the Top Won
1979 King Vidor Honorary Award Won For his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator.
1997 Barbara Hershey The Portrait of a Lady Nominated
1999 Kevin Macdonald One Day in September Won Grandfather Emeric Pressburger
2006 Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener Won Supporting actress
2015 Phyllis Nagy Carol Nominated

Nominations and Winners

No. of wins No. of nominations
60 185

References

  1. ^ "Michael Curtiz". October 25, 2019.
  2. ^ "Frank Darabont". www.centipedepress.com.
  3. ^ "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  4. ^ "The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  5. ^ "The 51st Academy Awards (1979) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  6. ^ "The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  7. ^ "The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  8. ^ "The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  9. ^ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  10. ^ "The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  11. ^ Roxborough, Scott (11 June 2015). "Oscars: Hungary Selects 'Son of Saul' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  12. ^ "Oscars: Hungary Wins Its First Foreign-Language Honor Since Fall of Communism". The Hollywood Reporter. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  13. ^ Clarke, Stewart (5 September 2017). "Hungary Selects Golden Bear Winner 'On Body and Soul' as Foreign Language Oscar Entry". Variety. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  14. ^ "Oscars 2018: The list of nominees in full". BBC News. 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  15. ^ "George Pal | Hungarian-born animator, director, and producer". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  16. ^ a b "Embassy of Hungary Kuwait". kuvait.mfa.gov.hu.
  17. ^ a b c "With George Pal Productions (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb.
  18. ^ "Attila Szalay". IMDb.
  19. ^ "Gyula Priskin". IMDb.
  20. ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1300809/awards>
  21. ^ "Chuck Gaspar". IMDb.
  22. ^ https://ro.linkedin.com/in/attila-afra[self-published source]
  23. ^ "Van egy szatmárnémeti Oscar-díjas".
  24. ^ "Anna Juliana Franziska Karolina Ruston (Wels)".
  25. ^ Simon's paternal grandmother Ernestine was born in Vienna, Austria, to a Hungarian-born father, from[Pozsony, and a Hungarian-born mother, from Budapest. Hermann was the son of Markus Löb Hirschler and Rosalie Ullmann Tedesco/Tedesko, from Pozsony. Sophie was the daughter of Samuel Franz Goldberger de Buda and Elisabeth Adler, from Lovasberény. The Tedesco line may have an Italian Jewish origin.
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