# List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Mexican filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.

## List of winners

| Name | # | Academy Awards | Title | Year |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 5 | Best Director | Gravity | 2013 |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 5 | Best Film Editing | Gravity | 2013 |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 5 | Best Director | Roma | 2018 |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 5 | Best Cinematography | Roma | 2018 |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 5 | Best Foreign Language Film | Roma | 2018 |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 5 | Special Achievement | Flesh and Sand | 2017 |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 5 | Best Director | The Revenant | 2015 |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 5 | Best Picture | Birdman | 2014 |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 5 | Best Director | Birdman | 2014 |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 5 | Best Original Screenplay | Birdman | 2014 |
| Emmanuel Lubezki | 3 | Best Cinematography | The Revenant | 2015 |
| Emmanuel Lubezki | 3 | Best Cinematography | Birdman | 2014 |
| Emmanuel Lubezki | 3 | Best Cinematography | Gravity | 2013 |
| Guillermo del Toro | 3 | Best Picture | The Shape of Water | 2017 |
| Guillermo del Toro | 3 | Best Director | The Shape of Water | 2017 |
| Guillermo del Toro | 3 | Best Animated Picture | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | 2022 |
| Anthony Quinn | 2 | Best Supporting Actor | Lust for Life | 1956 |
| Anthony Quinn | 2 | Best Supporting Actor | Viva Zapata! | 1952 |
| Emile Kuri | 2 | Best Production Design | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1954 |
| Emile Kuri | 2 | Best Production Design | The Heiress | 1949 |
| Manuel Arango | 2 | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Sentinels of Silence | 1971 |
| Manuel Arango | 2 | Best Live Action Short Film | Sentinels of Silence | 1971 |
| Lupita Nyong'o | 1 | Best Supporting Actress | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 |
| Guillermo Navarro | Best Cinematography | El Laberinto del Fauno | 2006 |
| Eugenio Caballero | Best Production Design | El Laberinto del Fauno | 2006 |
| Brigitte Broch | Best Production Design | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 |
| Edward Carrere | Best Production Design | Camelot | 1967 |
| Jaime Baksht | Best Sound | Sound of Metal | 2020 |
| Michelle Couttolenc | Best Sound | Sound of Metal | 2020 |
| Carlos Cortés | Best Sound | Sound of Metal | 2020 |

## Special Achievement

Special Achievement Academy Award :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2017 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Flesh and Sand | Recipient | First Mexican to receive this award. |

## Best Picture

This list focuses on Mexican-born producers.
Academy Award for Best Picture :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel | Nominated | Shared with Steve Golin and Jon Kilik. |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | Nominated | Shared with David Heyman. |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman | Won | Shared with John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole. |
| 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant | Nominated | Shared with Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon. |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | Won | Shared with J. Miles Dale. |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Nominated | Shared with Gabriela Rodriguez. |
| 2021 | Guillermo del Toro | Nightmare Alley | Nominated | Shared with J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper. |

## Best Director

This list focuses on Mexican-born directors.
Academy Award for Best Director :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel | Nominated | First Mexican to be nominated for Best Director. |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | Won | First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director. |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman | Won | First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director twice. |
| 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant | Won | First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director two times. Third director in history to win consecutive Best Director Academy Awards. First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director three times. |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | Won | |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Won | First person to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography. |

## Best Actor

This list focuses on Mexican-born actors.

### Leading

Academy Award for Best Actor :
| Year | Name | Film | Status |
| 1957 | Anthony Quinn | Wild Is the Wind | Nominated |
| 1964 | Anthony Quinn | Zorba the Greek | Nominated |
| 2012 | Demián Bichir | A Better Life | Nominated |

### Supporting

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1952 | Anthony Quinn | Viva Zapata! | Won | |
| 1956 | Anthony Quinn | Lust for Life | Won | First Mexican-born actor to win two Oscars in the same category. |

## Best Actress

This list focuses on Mexican-born actresses.

### Leading

Academy Award for Best Actress :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2002 | Salma Hayek | Frida | Nominated | First Mexican actress to be nominated for Best Leading Actress. |
| 2018 | Yalitza Aparicio | Roma | Nominated | Debut performance. First Indigenous Latin American (Indigenous Mexican) to be nominated in any category. |

### Supporting

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1954 | Katy Jurado | Broken Lance | Nominated | First Mexican and Hispanic actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. |
| 2006 | Adriana Barraza | Babel | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Lupita Nyong'o | 12 Years a Slave | Won | Mexican with Kenyan citizenship. First Mexican-born actress to win an Academy Award. |
| 2018 | Marina de Tavira | Roma | Nominated | |

## Best Animated Feature Film

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2021 | Carlos López Estrada | Raya and the Last Dragon | Nominated | Shared with Don Hall, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho. |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Won | Shared with Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley. |

## Best Cinematography

This list focuses on Mexican-born cinematographers.
Academy Award for Best Cinematography :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1964 | Gabriel Figueroa | The Night of the Iguana | Nominated | |
| 1975 | John A. Alonzo | Chinatown | Nominated | First American-born Latino to be nominated for Best Cinematography. |
| 1995 | Emmanuel Lubezki | A Little Princess | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Emmanuel Lubezki | Sleepy Hollow | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Emmanuel Lubezki | The New World | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Rodrigo Prieto | Brokeback Mountain | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Emmanuel Lubezki | Children of Men | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Guillermo Navarro | Pan's Labyrinth | Won | Original title: El laberinto del fauno |
| 2011 | Emmanuel Lubezki | The Tree of Life | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Emmanuel Lubezki | Gravity | Won | |
| 2014 | Emmanuel Lubezki | Birdman | Won | |
| 2015 | Emmanuel Lubezki | The Revenant | Won | First cinematographer to win three years in a row. First Mexican and Latin American to win the Oscars three times. First Mexican Jews to be nominated and to win an Academy Award in any category. |
| 2016 | Rodrigo Prieto | Silence | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Won | First Mexican director to be nominated for Best Cinematography while serving as both director and cinematographer. First Mexican director to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography in the same year. |
| 2019 | Rodrigo Prieto | The Irishman | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Rodrigo Prieto | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated | |

## Best Costume Design

Academy Award for Best Costume Design :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2019 | Mayes C. Rubeo | Jojo Rabbit | Nominated | First Mexican and Latin American costume designer to be nominated for Best Costume Design. |

## Best Documentary Feature

This list focuses on documentaries features directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature :
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1957 | Torero! | Manuel Barbachano Ponce | Nominated | |
| 1969 | The Olympics in Mexico | Alberto Isaac | Nominated | |
| 1985 | The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo | Lourdes Portillo | Nominated | Shared with Susana Blaustein Muñoz. |
| 2001 | Promises | Carlos Bolado | Nominated | Shared with B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro. |

## Best Documentary Short Subject

This list focuses on documentaries short subject directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject :
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1971 | Sentinels of Silence | Manuel Arango | Won | Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram. This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories. |

## Best Film Editing

This list focuses on Mexican-born film editors.
Academy Award for Best Film Editing :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men | Nominated | Shared with Alex Rodriguez. |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | Won | Shared with Mark Sanger. |

## Best International Feature Film

This list focuses on Mexican films that won or were nominated for the foreign language film award.
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film :
| Year | Film | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1960 | Macario | Roberto Gavaldón | Nominated | First Latin American and Mexican film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. |
| 1961 | The Important Man | Ismael Rodríguez | Nominated | Original title: Ánimas Trujano |
| 1962 | The Pearl of Tlayucan | Luis Alcoriza | Nominated | Original title: Tlayucan |
| 1975 | Letters from Marusia | Miguel Littín | Nominated | Original title: Actas de Marusia |
| 2000 | Love's a Bitch | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Nominated | Original title: Amores Perros |
| 2002 | The Crime of Father Amaro | Carlos Carrera | Nominated | Original title: El Crimen del Padre Amaro |
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | Nominated | Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno The film was nominated for five other Academy Awards, and won three of them: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup. |
| 2010 | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Nominated | Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Won | First Mexican film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film and to be simultaneously nominated for Best Picture. |

## Best Live Action Short Film

This list focuses on live action short-films directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film :
| Year | Film | Name | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1971 | Sentinels of Silence | Manuel Arango | Won | Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram. This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories. |
| 1996 | De tripas, corazón | Antonio Urrutia | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Le pupille | Alfonso Cuarón | Nominated | Shared with Alice Rohrwacher |

## Best Makeup

This list focuses on Mexican-born makeup artists.
Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2008 | Mike Elizalde | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Nominated | |

## Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1970 | Bill Melendez | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | Nominated | The category was Best Music, Original Song Score. Shared with Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter, Alan Shean, and Vince Guaraldi. |

## Best Production Design

This list focuses on Mexican-born art directors/production designers and set decorators.
Academy Award for Best Production Design :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1942 | Emile Kuri | Silver Queen | Nominated | Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese descent. |
| 1949 | Emile Kuri | The Heiress | Won | |
| 1949 | Edward Carrere | Adventures of Don Juan | Nominated | Shared with Lyle Reifsnider. |
| 1952 | Emile Kuri | Carrie | Nominated | |
| 1954 | Emile Kuri | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Won | |
| 1954 | Emile Kuri | Executive Suite | Nominated | |
| 1959 | John DeCuir | The Big Fisherman | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Edward Carrere | Sunrise at Campobello | Nominated | Shared with George James Hopkins. |
| 1961 | Emile Kuri | The Absent-Minded Professor | Nominated | |
| 1961 | Fernando Carrere | The Children's Hour | Nominated | |
| 1963 | John DeCuir | Cleopatra | Won | |
| 1964 | Emile Kuri | Mary Poppins | Nominated | |
| 1967 | Edward Carrere | Camelot | Won | Shared with John Truscott and John W. Brown. |
| 1967 | John DeCuir | The Taming of the Shrew | Nominated | |
| 1969 | John DeCuir | Hello, Dolly! | Won | |
| 1971 | Emile Kuri | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Brigitte Broch | Romeo + Juliet | Nominated | German-born Mexican art director. Shared with Catherine Martin. |
| 2001 | Brigitte Broch | Moulin Rouge! | Won | German-born Mexican art director. Shared with Catherine Martin. |
| 2002 | Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo | Frida | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Eugenio Caballero | Pan's Labyrinth | Won | Original title: El laberinto del fauno Shared with Pilar Revuelta. |
| 2018 | Eugenio Caballero Bárbara Enríquez | Roma | Nominated | |

## Best Sound

This list focuses on Mexican-born sound editors and mixers.
Prior to the 93rd Academy Awards, the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.
Academy Award for Best Sound :
| Year | Name | Film | Category | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2006 | Fernando Cámara | Apocalypto | Mixing | Nominated | |
| 2012 | José Antonio García | Argo | Mixing | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Martin Hernández | Birdman | Editing | Nominated | Shared with Aaron Glascock. |
| 2015 | Martin Hernández | The Revenant | Editing | Nominated | Shared with Lon Bender. |
| 2018 | José Antonio García | Roma | Mixing | Nominated | Shared with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan. |
| 2018 | Sergio Díaz | Roma | Editing | Nominated | Shared with Skip Lievsay. |
| 2020 | Jaime Baksht Michelle Couttolenc Carlos Cortés | Sound of Metal | Sound | Won | Shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh. |

## Best Writing (Screenplay)

This list focuses on Mexican-born writers.

### Adapted

Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men | Nominated | Shared with Hawk Otsby, Timothy J. Sexton and Mark Fergus. |

### Original

Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2002 | Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón | And Your Mother Too | Nominated | Original title: Y Tu Mamá También |
| 2006 | Guillermo Arriaga | Babel | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated | Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman | Won | Shared with Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo. |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | Nominated | Shared with Vanessa Taylor. Story by Guillermo del Toro. |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | Nominated | |

## Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1947 | Paul Lerpae | Unconquered | Nominated | Mexican born-American special effects artist. |