# List of Romanian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Romania.

## Best Picture

Best Picture :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1953 | John Houseman | Julius Caesar | Nominated | Romanian-born British-American producer and actor. |

## Best Actor

Best Actor :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 2024 | Sebastian Stan | The Apprentice | Nominated | Romanian-born Romanian-American actor. |

## Best Supporting Actor

Best Actor in a Supporting Role :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1973 | John Houseman | The Paper Chase | Won | |

## Best Supporting Actress

Best Actress in a Supporting Role :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1996 | Lauren Bacall | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Nominated | American actress born to Romanian and Belarusian heritage. |

## Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1973 | Robert Towne | The Last Detail | Nominated | American-born of Romanian and Russian descent. |
| 1984 | Robert Towne | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Nominated | Shared with Michael Austin. |
| 1992 | Michael Tolkin | The Player | Nominated | American-born of Romanian-jewish and Ukrainian-jewish descent. |

## Best Original Screenplay

Best Original Screenplay :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1974 | Robert Towne | Chinatown | Won | Father Romanian jew |
| 1975 | Robert Towne | Shampoo | Nominated | Shared with Warren Beatty. |

## Best Story

Best Story :
| Year | Name | Film | Status |
| 1934 | Arthur Caesar | Manhattan Melodrama | Nominated |
| 1940 | Bella and Samuel Spewack | My Favorite Wife | Nominated |
| 1955 | Henri Troyat | The Sheep Has Five Legs | Nominated |

## Best International Feature Film

Best International Feature Film :
| Year | Film | Original Title | Status | Director(s) | Notes |
| 2020/21 | Collective | Colectiv | Nominated | Alexander Nanau | |

## Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1977 | Miles Mogulescu | Union Maids | Nominated | Shared with Jim Klein and Julia Reichert. |
| 2020/21 | Alexander Nanau Bianca Oana | Collective | Nominated | |

## Best Production Design

Best Production Design :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1941 | Nathan Juran | How Green Was My Valley | Won | Born in Austrian part of Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| 1946 | Nathan Juran | The Razor's Edge | Nominated | |
| 1966 | Richard Sylbert | Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? | Won | Born in Brooklyn, U S |
| 1974 | Richard Sylbert | Chinatown | Nominated | |
| 1975 | Richard Sylbert | Shampoo | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Richard Sylbert | Reds | Nominated | |
| 1984 | Richard Sylbert | The Cotton Club | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Richard Sylbert | Dick Tracy | Won | |

## Best Live Action Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film :
| Year | Director | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1966 | Marin Karmitz | Turkey the Bridge | Nominated | |
| 1974 | Julian Chagrin | The Concert | Nominated | (father romanian-jewish) |
| 1976 | Julian Chagrin | The Morning Spider | Nominated | |
| 1976 | Andre R. Guttfreund | In the Region of Ice | Won | (mother romanian) |

## Honorary Award

Honorary Academy Award :
| Year | Name | Notes | Milestone |
| 2009 | Lauren Bacall | "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures." | First person of Romanian origin to be awarded an Honorary Academy Award. |

## Nominations and Winners

| No. of wins | No. of nominations |
| 4 | 22 |