List of French Academy Award winners and nominees
This is a list of French Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of French actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Academy Award. This list is current as of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony held on February 9, 2020.
Best Actor
Leading
Best Actress
Leading
Supporting
Best Animated Feature
This list focuses on French-born film directors.| Year | Winner | Title | Status | /Notes |
| 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | ' | ||
| 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis | Satrapi was born in Iran. | |
| 2010 | Sylvain Chomet | ' | ||
| 2011 | Alain Gagnol Jean-Loup Felicioli | A Cat in Paris | ||
| 2013 | Pierre Coffin | Despicable Me 2 | Shared with Chris Renaud & Chris Meledandri | |
| 2013 | Didier Brunner Benjamin Renner | Ernest & Celestine | ||
| 2019 | Jérémy Clapin Marc du Pontavice | I Lost My Body |
Best Production Design
This list focuses on French-born art directors and set decorators.| Year | Name | Title | Status | /Notes |
| 1931 | Lazare Meerson | À Nous la Liberté | Meerson was a Russian-born French and English film art director. | |
| 1951 | Jean d'Eaubonne | La Ronde | ||
| 1952 | Marcel Vertès | Moulin Rouge | Shared with Paul Sheriff | |
| 1954 | Max Ophüls | Le Plaisir | Ophüls was a German-born French | |
| 1960 | Alexandre Trauner | The Apartment | Nominated with Edward G. Boyle. | |
| 1962 | Léon Barsacq Gabriel Béchir | The Longest Day | Shared with Ted Haworth and Vincent Korda | |
| 1964 | Raphaël Bretton | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Shared with William Glasgow | |
| 1966 | Marc Frédérix Pierre Guffroy | Is Paris Burning? | Nominated with Willy Holt. | |
| 1969 | Raphaël Bretton | Hello, Dolly! | Shared with John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott and George James Hopkins | |
| 1970 | Pierre-Louis Thévenet | Patton | Shared with Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos | |
| 1972 | Raphaël Bretton | The Poseidon Adventure | Shared with William J. Creber | |
| 1974 | Raphaël Bretton | The Towering Inferno | Shared with William J. Creber and Ward Preston | |
| 1975 | Alexandre Trauner | The Man Who Would Be King | Nominated with Tony Inglis and Peter James | |
| 1980 | Pierre Guffroy | Tess | Nominated with Jack Stephens. | |
| 1988 | Gérard James | Dangerous Liaisons | Shared with Stuart Craig | |
| 1990 | Jacques Rouxel | Cyrano de Bergerac | Nominated with Ezio Frigerio. | |
| 1996 | Philippe Turlure | Evita | Nominated with Brian Morris. | |
| 2000 | Françoise Benoît-Fresco Jean Rabasse | Vatel | ||
| 2001 | Aline Bonetto Marie-Laure Valla | Amélie | ||
| 2004 | Aline Bonetto | |||
| 2011 | Anne Seibel Hélène Dubreuil | Midnight in Paris |
Best Cinematography
This list focuses on French-born cinematographers.| Year | Winner | Title | Status | /Notes |
| 1939 | Georges Périnal | The Four Feathers | Shared with Osmond Borradaile | |
| 1940 | Georges Périnal | The Thief of Bagdad | First and only French cinematographer to win Best Cinematography First French cinematographer to receive more than one Academy Award nomination | |
| 1953 | Henri Alekan | Roman Holiday | Shared with Franz Planer | |
| 1953 | Joseph C. Brun | Martin Luther | ||
| 1962 | Jean Bourgoin Walter Wottitz | The Longest Day | ||
| 1966 | Marcel Grignon | Is Paris Burning? | ||
| 1980 | Ghislain Cloquet | Tess | Cloquet was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. | |
| 1990 | Philippe Rousselot | Henry & June | ||
| 1992 | Philippe Rousselot | ' | ||
| 1992 | Robert Fraisse | The Lover | ||
| 1996 | Darius Khondji | Evita | Khondji is an Iranian-French cinematographer | |
| 2001 | Bruno Delbonnel | Amélie | ||
| 2004 | Bruno Delbonnel | ' | ||
| 2009 | Bruno Delbonnel | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | ||
| 2011 | Guillaume Schiffman | The Artist | ||
| 2013 | Philippe Le Sourd | The Grandmaster | ||
| 2013 | Bruno Delbonnel | Inside Llewyn Davis | ||
| 2017 | Bruno Delbonnel | Darkest Hour | Most Academy Award nominations - 6 nominations for Best Cinematography |
Best Costume Design
This list focuses on French-born costume designers.| Year | Winner | Title | Status | /Notes |
| 1950 | Jean Louis | Born Yesterday | ||
| 1952 | Jean Louis | Affair in Trinidad | ||
| 1952 | Marcel Vertès | Moulin Rouge | Vertès was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian origins | |
| 1953 | Jean Louis | From Here to Eternity | ||
| 1954 | Jean Louis | It Should Happen to You | ||
| 1954 | Jean Louis | A Star Is Born | Shared with Mary Ann Nyberg and Irene Sharaff | |
| 1954 | Rosine Delamare | The Earrings of Madame de… | Shared with Yury Annenkov | |
| 1954 | Christian Dior | Terminal Station | ||
| 1955 | Jean Louis | Queen Bee | ||
| 1956 | Jean Louis | The Solid Gold Cadillac | ||
| 1957 | Hubert de Givenchy | Funny Face | Shared with Edith Head | |
| 1957 | Jean Louis | Pal Joey | ||
| 1958 | Jean Louis | Bell, book, and candle | ||
| 1961 | Jean Louis | Back Street | ||
| 1961 | Jean Louis | Judgment at Nuremberg | ||
| 1965 | Jean Louis | Ship of Fools | Shared with Bill Thomas | |
| 1966 | Jean Louis | Gambit | ||
| 1967 | Jean Louis | Thoroughly Modern Millie | ||
| 1979 | Albert Wolsky | All That Jazz | Wolsky is a French-born American costume designer. | |
| 1980 | Jean-Pierre Dorléac | Somewhere in Time | ||
| 1982 | Albert Wolsky | Sophie's Choice | ||
| 1983 | Anne-Marie Marchand | ' | ||
| 1985 | Albert Wolsky | ' | ||
| 1991 | Albert Wolsky | Bugsy | ||
| 1991 | Corinne Jorry | Madame Bovary | ||
| 1992 | Albert Wolsky | Toys | ||
| 2007 | Albert Wolsky | Across the Universe | ||
| 2008 | Albert Wolsky | Revolutionary Road | ||
| 2009 | Catherine Leterrier | Coco Before Chanel | ||
| 2016 | Madeline Fontaine | Jackie |
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
This list focuses on French-born makeup artist.| Year | Winner | Title | Status | /Notes |
| 1990 | Jean-Pierre Eychenne | Cyrano de Bergerac | Shared with Michèle Burke | |
| 2007 | Didier Lavergne | La Vie en rose | Shared with Jan Archibald |
Best Director
Best Documentary Film
This list focuses on French-born producers/directors.| Year | Winner | Title | Status | /Notes |
| 1955 | René Risacher | Crèvecoeur | ||
| 1956 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau | The Silent World | ||
| 1961 | René Lafuite | Sky Above and Mud Beneath | Shared with Arthur Cohn | |
| 1963 | Paul de Roubaix | The Link and the Chain | ||
| 1964 | Jean Aurel | 14-18 | Aurel was a Romanian-born French film director and scriptwriter. | |
| 1964 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau | World Without Sun | ||
| 1965 | Frédéric Rossif | To Die in Madrid | ||
| 1966 | Haroun Tazieff | Le Volcan interdit | ||
| 1967 | Pierre Schoendoerffer | The Anderson Platoon | ||
| 1969 | Bernard Chevry | Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life | ||
| 1971 | Marcel Ophüls | The Sorrow and the Pity | ||
| 1978 | Albert Lamorisse | The Lovers' Wind | ||
| 1978 | Michel Gast | Raoni | Shared with Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Barry Hugh Williams | |
| 1979 | Jacques Bobet | Going the Distance | Shared with Paul Cowan | |
| 1988 | Marcel Ophüls | |||
| 2001 | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade Denis Poncet | Murder on a Sunday Morning | ||
| 2002 | Jacques Perrin | Winged Migration | ||
| 2005 | Yves Darondeau Luc Jacquet | March of the Penguins | ||
| 2014 | Mathilde Bonnefoy | Citizenfour | Shared with Laura Poitras and Dirk Wilutzky | |
| 2014 | David Rosier | The Salt of the Earth | Shared with Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | |
| 2016 | Rémi Grellety | I Am Not Your Negro | Shared with Raoul Peck and Hébert Peck | |
| 2017 | Agnès Varda JR Rosalie Varda | Faces Places | Oldest competitive Oscar nominee |
Best Editing
This list focuses on French-born film editors.| Year | Winner | Title | Status | /Notes |
| 1969 | Françoise Bonnot | Z | ||
| 1989 | Noëlle Boisson | The Bear | ||
| 2002 | Hervé de Luze | ' | ||
| 2006 | Alex Rodríguez | Children of Men | Rodríguez is a French-born Mexican editor Nominated with Alfonso Cuarón | |
| 2007 | Juliette Welfling | ' | ||
| 2011 | Anne-Sophie Bion Michel Hazanavicius |
Best Picture
This list focuses on French-born producers.| Year | Winner | Title | Status | /Notes |
| 1938 | Réalisation d'art cinématographique | Grand Illusion | ||
| 1969 | Jacques Perrin | Z | Shared with Ahmed Rachedi | |
| 1980 | Claude Berri | Tess | Shared with Timothy Burrill. | |
| 2002 | Robert Benmussa Roman Polanski Alain Sarde | ' | ||
| 2010 | Nicolas Chartier | The Hurt Locker | First French-produced film to win Best Picture. Shared with Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Greg Shapiro | |
| 2011 | Thomas Langmann | ' | Second French-produced film to win Best Picture | |
| 2012 | Margaret Ménégoz | Amour | Margaret Ménégoz is a German-French film producer. Shared with Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz | |
| 2017 | Emilie Georges | Call Me by Your Name | Shared with Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, and Marco Morabito |
Best Foreign Language Film
| Year | Film | Result |
| 1948 | Monsieur Vincent | |
| 1949 | The Walls of Malapaga | |
| 1952 | Forbidden Games | |
| 1956 | Gervaise | |
| 1957 | Gates of Paris | |
| 1958 | Mon Oncle | |
| 1959 | Orfeu Negro | |
| 1960 | The Truth | |
| 1962 | Sundays and Cybele | |
| 1964 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | |
| 1966 | A Man and a Woman | |
| 1967 | Live for Life | |
| 1968 | Stolen Kisses | |
| 1969 | My Night at Maud's | |
| 1970 | Hoa-Binh | |
| 1972 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | |
| 1973 | Day for Night | |
| 1974 | Lacombe, Lucien | |
| 1976 | Cousin Cousine | |
| 1977 | Madame Rosa | |
| 1978 | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | |
| 1979 | A Simple Story | |
| 1980 | ' | |
| 1982 | Coup de Torchon | |
| 1983 | Entre Nous | |
| 1985 | Three Men and a Cradle | |
| 1986 | Betty Blue | |
| 1987 | Au revoir les enfants | |
| 1989 | Camille Claudel | |
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| 1992 | Indochine | |
| 1996 | Ridicule | |
| 1999 | East/West | |
| 2000 | ' | |
| 2001 | Amélie | |
| 2004 | The Chorus | |
| 2005 | Joyeux Noël | |
| 2008 | ' | |
| 2009 | ' | |
| 2015 | Mustang | |
| 2019 | Les Misérables |