# List of Russian Academy Award winners and nominees

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

## Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1956 | Yul Brynner | The King and I | Won | Brynner was a Soviet citizen who later became a naturalized US citizen. |

## Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1936 | Mischa Auer | My Man Godfrey | Nominated | First Russian to be nominated for an acting Oscar. |
| 1945 | Michael Chekhov | Spellbound | Nominated | |
| 1977 | Mikhail Baryshnikov | The Turning Point | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Yura Borisov | Anora | Nominated | |

## Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Actress in a Supporting Role :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1936 | Maria Ouspenskaya | Dodsworth | Nominated | First Russian actress to be nominated for an Oscar |
| 1939 | Maria Ouspenskaya | Love Affair | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Lila Kedrova | Zorba the Greek | Won | Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress. |

## Best Director

Best Director :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1927/1928 | Lewis Milestone | Two Arabian Knights | Won | Russian-Jewish; First Russian to win an Oscar. |
| 1929/1930 | Lewis Milestone | All Quiet on the Western Front | Won | First Russian to win multiple Oscars. First director to win Best Director twice. |
| 1930/1931 | Lewis Milestone | The Front Page | Nominated | |

## Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1931-32 | Samuel Hoffenstein | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Nominated | Shared with Percy Heath. |
| 1932-33 | Robert Riskin | Lady for a Day | Nominated | |
| 1932-33 | Sonya Levien | State Fair | Nominated | Shared with Paul Green. |
| 1934 | Robert Riskin | It Happened One Night | Won | |
| 1934 | Ben Hecht | Viva Villa! | Nominated | |
| 1936 | Robert Riskin | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Nominated | |
| 1937 | Morrie Ryskind | Stage Door | Nominated | Shared with Anthony Veiller. |
| 1938 | Robert Riskin | You Can't Take It with You | Nominated | |
| 1939 | Ben Hecht | Wuthering Heights | Nominated | Shared with Charles MacArthur. |
| 1944 | Samuel Hoffenstein | Laura | Nominated | Shared with Jay Dratler & Elizabeth Reinhardt. |
| 1945 | Albert Maltz | Pride of the Marines | Nominated | |
| 1949 | Robert Rossen | All the King's Men | Nominated | |
| 1950 | Albert Maltz | Broken Arrow | Nominated | |
| 1955 | Paddy Chayefsky | Marty | Won | |
| 1961 | Abby Mann | Judgment at Nuremberg | Won | |
| 1961 | Robert Rossen | The Hustler | Nominated | Shared with Sidney Carroll. |
| 1962 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | Nominated | |
| 1973 | Alvin Sargent | Paper Moon | Nominated | |
| 1973 | Robert Towne | The Last Detail | Nominated | |
| 1974 | Gene Wilder | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | Shared with Mel Brooks. |
| 1977 | Alvin Sargent | Julia | Won | |
| 1980 | Alvin Sargent | Ordinary People | Won | |
| 1984 | Robert Towne | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Nominated | Shared with Michael Austin. Towne was credited under the pseudonym P.H. Vazak due to unhappiness with co-writer Austin's alterations and the finished film itself. |
| 2005 | Tony Kushner | Munich | Nominated | Shared with Eric Roth. |
| 2012 | Tony Kushner | Lincoln | Nominated | |

## Best Original Screenplay

Best Original Screenplay :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1955 | Sonya Levien | Interrupted Melody | Won | Shared with William Ludwig. |
| 1961 | Valentin Yezhov Grigory Chukhray | Ballad of a Soldier | Nominated | |

## Best Story

Best Story :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1946 | Victor Trivas | The Stranger | Nominated | |
| 1955 | Henri Troyat | The Sheep Has Five Legs | Nominated | Shared with Jean Marsan, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil & Raoul Ploquin. |

## Best International Feature Film

Best International Feature Film :
| Year | Film | Russian Title | Status | Director(s) | Notes |
| 1968 | War and Peace | Война и мир | Won | Sergei Bondarchuk | |
| 1969 | The Brothers Karamazov | Братья Карамазовы | Nominated | Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev & Mikhail Ulyanov | |
| 1971 | Tchaikovsky | Чайкoвский | Nominated | Igor Talankin | |
| 1972 | The Dawns Here Are Quiet | А зори здесь тихие | Nominated | Stanislav Rostotsky | |
| 1975 | Dersu Uzala | Дерсу Узала | Won | Akira Kurosawa | Soviet-Japanese co-production |
| 1978 | White Bim Black Ear | Белый Бим Черное ухо | Nominated | Stanislav Rostotsky | |
| 1980 | Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears | Москва слезам не верит | Won | Vladimir Menshov | |
| 1982 | Private Life | Частная жизнь | Nominated | Yuli Raizman | |
| 1984 | Wartime Romance | Военно-полевой роман | Nominated | Pyotr Todorovsky | Soviet Ukrainian production |
| 1992 | Close to Eden | Урга | Nominated | Nikita Mikhalkov | First nomination for Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. |
| 1994 | Burnt by the Sun | Утомлённые солнцем | Won | Nikita Mikhalkov | |
| 1996 | Prisoner of the Mountains | Кавказский пленник | Nominated | Sergei Bodrov | |
| 1997 | The Thief | Вор | Nominated | Pavel Chukhray | |
| 2007 | 12 | 12 | Nominated | Nikita Mikhalkov | |
| 2014 | Leviathan | Левиафан | Nominated | Andrey Zvyagintsev | |
| 2017 | Loveless | Нелюбовь | Nominated | Andrey Zvyagintsev | |

## Best Art Direction

Best Art Direction :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1937 | Alexander Toluboff | Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 | Nominated | Black and White |
| 1938 | Boris Leven | Alexander's Ragtime Band | Nominated | Nominated in the black and white category |
| 1938 | Alexander Toluboff | Algiers | Nominated | Black and White |
| 1939 | Alexander Toluboff | Stagecoach | Nominated | Black and White |
| 1940 | Alexander Golitzen | Foreign Correspondent | Nominated | |
| 1941 | Alexander Golitzen | Sundown | Nominated | |
| 1942 | Alexander Golitzen | Arabian Nights | Nominated | |
| 1943 | Alexander Golitzen | Phantom of the Opera | Won | |
| 1944 | Alexander Golitzen | The Climax | Nominated | |
| 1956 | Boris Leven | Giant | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Alexander Golitzen | Spartacus | Won | |
| 1961 | Boris Leven | West Side Story | Won | Nominated in the black-and-white category |
| 1961 | Alexander Golitzen | Flower Drum Song | Nominated | |
| 1962 | Alexander Golitzen | To Kill a Mockingbird | Won | |
| 1962 | Alexander Golitzen | That Touch of Mink | Nominated | |
| 1965 | Boris Leven | The Sound of Music | Nominated | |
| 1966 | Alexander Golitzen | Gambit | Nominated | |
| 1966 | Boris Leven | The Sand Pebbles | Nominated | |
| 1967 | Alexander Golitzen | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Nominated | |
| 1968 | Mikhail Bogdanov Gennady Myasnikov | War and Peace | Nominated | |
| 1968 | Boris Leven | Star! | Nominated | |
| 1969 | Alexander Golitzen | Sweet Charity | Nominated | |
| 1970 | Alexander Golitzen | Airport | Nominated | |
| 1971 | Boris Leven | The Andromeda Strain | Nominated | |
| 1974 | Alexander Golitzen | Earthquake | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Patrizia von Brandenstein | Ragtime | Nominated | of German-Russian descent |
| 1984 | Patrizia von Brandenstein | Amadeus | Won | of German-Russian descent |
| 1986 | Boris Leven | The Color of Money | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Patrizia von Brandenstein | The Untouchables | Nominated | of German-Russian descent |
| 2014 | Maria Djurkovic | The Imitation Game | Nominated | |

## Best Cinematography

Best Cinematography :
| Year | Name | Film | Status |
| 1953 | Joseph Ruttenberg | Julius Caesar | Nominated |
| 1954 | Boris Kaufman | On the Waterfront | Won |
| 1956 | Boris Kaufman | Baby Doll | Nominated |
| 1956 | Joseph Ruttenberg | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Won |
| 1958 | Joseph Ruttenberg | Gigi | Won |
| 1960 | Joseph Ruttenberg | BUtterfield 8 | Nominated |

## Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature :
| Year | Name | Film | Status |
| 1942 | Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov | Moscow Strikes Back | Won |
| 1942 | Victor Stoloff | Little Isles of Freedom | Nominated |
| 2015 | Den Tolmor Evgeny Afineevsky | Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Nominated |

## Best Animated Short Film

Best Animated Short Film :
| Year | Name | Film | Status |
| 1989 | Aleksandr Petrov | The Cow | Nominated |
| 1995 | Alexiy Kharitidi | Gagarin | Nominated |
| 1997 | Aleksandr Petrov | The Mermaid | Nominated |
| 1999 | Aleksandr Petrov | The Old Man and the Sea | Won |
| 2007 | Aleksandr Petrov | My Love | Nominated |
| 2008 | Konstantin Bronzit | Lavatory – Lovestory | Nominated |
| 2015 | Konstantin Bronzit | We Can't Live Without Cosmos | Nominated |
| 2021 | Anton Dyakov | Boxballet | Nominated |

## Best Live Action Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film :
| 1952 | Boris Vermont | Light in the Window | Won |
| 1953 | Boris Vermont | Joy of Life | Nominated |

## Best Original Score

Best Original Music Score :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes |
| 1937 | Constantin Bakaleinikoff | Something to Sing About | Nominated | |
| 1937 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Lost Horizon | Nominated | |
| 1937 | Boris Morros | Souls at Sea | Nominated | |
| 1938 | Boris Morros | Tropic Holiday | Nominated | |
| 1939 | Lud Gluskin | The Man in the Iron Mask | Nominated | |
| 1939 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Nominated | |
| 1939 | Aaron Copland | Of Mice and Men | Nominated | |
| 1940 | Aaron Copland | Our Town | Nominated | |
| 1940 | Artie Shaw | Second Chorus | Nominated | |
| 1941 | Bernard Herrmann | The Devil and Daniel Webster | Won | |
| 1941 | Bernard Herrmann | Citizen Kane | Nominated | |
| 1942 | Max Terr | The Gold Rush | Nominated | |
| 1942 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Corsican Brothers | Nominated | |
| 1943 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Moon and Sixpence | Nominated | |
| 1943 | Aaron Copland | The North Star | Nominated | |
| 1943 | Constantin Bakaleinikoff | The Fallen Sparrow | Nominated | |
| 1944 | Constantin Bakaleinikoff | None But the Lonely Heart | Nominated | |
| 1944 | Constantin Bakaleinikoff | Higher and Higher | Nominated | |
| 1944 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Nominated | |
| 1945 | Daniele Amfitheatrof | Guest Wife | Nominated | He was an Italian composer of Russian origin |
| 1946 | Bernard Herrmann | Anna and the King of Siam | Nominated | |
| 1947 | Daniele Amfitheatrof | Song of the South | Nominated | Shared nomination with Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott |
| 1947 | David Raksin | Forever Amber | Nominated | |
| 1949 | Aaron Copland | The Heiress | Won | |
| 1949 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Champion | Nominated | |
| 1952 | Dimitri Tiomkin | High Noon | Won | |
| 1952 | Herschel Burke Gilbert | The Thief | Nominated | |
| 1954 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The High and the Mighty | Won | |
| 1956 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Giant | Nominated | |
| 1958 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Old Man and the Sea | Won | |
| 1958 | Yuri Fayer Gennady Rozhdestvensky | The Bolshoi Ballet | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Alamo | Nominated | |
| 1961 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Guns of Navarone | Nominated | |
| 1961 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Khovanshchina | Nominated | |
| 1963 | Dimitri Tiomkin | 55 Days at Peking | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Nominated | |
| 1971 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Tchaikovsky | Nominated | |
| 1976 | Bernard Herrmann | Obsession | Nominated | |
| 1976 | Bernard Herrmann | Taxi Driver | Nominated | |

## Best Original Song

Best Original Song :
| Year | Name | Film | Song | Status |
| 1935 | Al Dubin | Gold Diggers of 1935 | "Lullaby of Broadway" | Won |
| 1937 | Al Dubin | Mr. Dodd Takes the Air | "Remember Me" | Nominated |
| 1937 | Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin | Shall We Dance | "They Can't Take That Away from Me" | Nominated |
| 1943 | Al Dubin | Stage Door Canteen | "We Mustn't Say Goodbye" | Nominated |
| 1944 | Ira Gershwin | Cover Girl | "Long Ago (and Far Away)" | Nominated |
| 1947 | Josef Myrow | Mother Wore Tights | "You Do" | Nominated |
| 1950 | Josef Myrow | Wabash Avenue | "Wilhelmina" | Nominated |
| 1950 | Al Hoffman | Cinderella | "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" | Nominated |
| 1952 | Dimitri Tiomkin | High Noon | "The Ballad of High Noon" | Won |
| 1954 | Ira Gershwin | A Star Is Born | "The Man That Got Away" | Nominated |
| 1954 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The High and the Mighty | "The High and the Mighty" | Nominated |
| 1955 | Hy Zaret | Unchained | "Unchained Melody" | Nominated |
| 1956 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Friendly Persuasion | "Friendly Persuasion" | Nominated |
| 1957 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Wild Is the Wind | "Wild Is the Wind" | Nominated |
| 1959 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Young Land | "Strange Are the Ways of Love" | Nominated |
| 1960 | Dimitri Tiomkin | The Alamo | "The Green Leaves of Summer" | Nominated |
| 1961 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Town Without Pity | "Town Without Pity" | Nominated |
| 1963 | Dimitri Tiomkin | 55 Days at Peking | "So Little Time" | Nominated |

## Nominations and Winners

| No. of wins | No. of pendings | No. of nominations |
| 32 | 1 | 161 |