# List of female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories

This list of female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories details women who have won or been nominated for awards in non-gender-specific categories. The nominees are arranged, in alphabetical order, by film title, with the winners listed first. It's fully current as of the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place on March 2, 2025.

## Best Animated Feature

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 2007 | Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Animated Feature. Shared with Vincent Paronnaud. |
| 2011 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Nominated | First woman of color to be nominated for Best Animated Feature. |
| 2012 | Brenda Chapman | Brave | Won | First woman to win for Best Animated Feature. Shared with Mark Andrews. |
| 2013 | Jennifer Lee | Frozen | Won | Shared with Chris Buck and Peter Del Vecho. |
| 2013 | Kristine Belson | The Croods | Nominated | Shared with Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders. |
| 2014 | Bonnie Arnold | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated | Shared with Dean DeBlois. |
| 2015 | Rosa Tran | Anomalisa | Nominated | Shared with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. |
| 2016 | Arianne Sutner | Kubo and the Two Strings | Nominated | Shared with Travis Knight. |
| 2016 | Osnat Shurer | Moana | Nominated | Shared with John Musker and Ron Clements. |
| 2017 | Darla K. Anderson | Coco | Won | Shared with Lee Unkrich. |
| 2017 | Ramsey Ann Naito | The Boss Baby | Nominated | Shared with Tom McGrath. |
| 2017 | Nora Twomey | The Breadwinner | Nominated | Shared with Anthony Leo. |
| 2017 | Lori Forte | Ferdinand | Nominated | Shared with Carlos Saldanha. |
| 2017 | Dorota Kobiela | Loving Vincent | Nominated | Shared with Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart. |
| 2018 | Nicole Paradis Grindle | Incredibles 2 | Nominated | Shared with Brad Bird and John Walker. |
| 2019 | Bonnie Arnold | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Dean DeBlois and Brad Lewis. |
| 2019 | Jinko Gotoh Marisa Román | Klaus | Nominated | Shared with Sergio Pablos. |
| 2019 | Arianne Sutner | Missing Link | Nominated | Shared with Chris Butler and Travis Knight. |
| 2020 | Dana Murray | Soul | Won | Shared with Pete Docter. |
| 2020 | Kori Rae | Onward | Nominated | Shared with Dan Scanlon. |
| 2020 | Gennie Rin Peilin Chou | Over the Moon | Nominated | Shared with Glen Keane. |
| 2021 | Yvett Merino | Encanto | Won | First Latina to win and be nominated for Best Animated Feature. Shared with Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Clark Spencer. |
| 2021 | Monica Hellström Signe Byrge Sørensen Charlotte de la Gournerie | Flee | Nominated | First animated documentary to be nominated in this category. Shared with Jonas Poher Rasmussen. |
| 2021 | Andrea Warren | Luca | Nominated | Shared with Enrico Casarosa. |
| 2021 | Osnat Shurer | Raya and the Last Dragon | Nominated | Shared with Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, and Peter Del Vecho. |
| 2022 | Elisabeth Holm Caroline Kaplan | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Nominated | Shared with Dean Fleischer Camp, Andrew Goldman, and Paul Mezey. |
| 2022 | Domee Shi Lindsey Collins | Turning Red | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Denise Ream | Elemental | Nominated | Shared with Peter Sohn. |
| 2023 | Karen Ryan Julie Zackary | Nimona | Nominated | Shared with Nick Bruno and Troy Quane. |
| 2023 | Sandra Tapia Díaz | Robot Dreams | Nominated | Shared with Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, and Ignasi Estapé. |
| 2023 | Amy Pascal | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Nominated | Shared with Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller. |
| 2024 | Liz Kearney | Memoir of a Snail | Nominated | Shared with Adam Elliot. |

## Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 2017 | Rachel Morrison | Mudbound | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography. |
| 2021 | Ari Wegner | The Power of the Dog | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Mandy Walker | Elvis | Nominated | |

## Best Costume Design

At least one woman has been nominated for Best Costume Design at every ceremony since the category's inception.
Academy Award for Best Costume Design :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1948 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1948 | Irene | B.F.'s Daughter | Nominated | Among the inaugural nominees in costume categories. |
| Color ||||
| 1948 | Dorothy Jeakins Karinska | Joan of Arc | Won | First women to win in costume categories. Among the inaugural nominees in costume categories. |
| 1948 | Edith Head | The Emperor Waltz | Nominated | Among the inaugural nominees in costume categories. Shared with Gile Steele. |
| 1949 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1949 | Edith Head | The Heiress | Won | First woman to win for Best Costume Design (B&W). First woman with multiple nominations in costume categories. First woman to be nominated in both costume categories. Shared with Gile Steele. |
| Color ||||
| 1949 | Marjorie Best Leah Rhodes | The Adventures of Don Juan | Won | Shared with Travilla. |
| 1949 | Kay Nelson | Mother Is a Freshman | Nominated | |
| 1950 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1950 | Edith Head | All About Eve | Won | First woman with multiple wins in costume categories. Shared with Charles LeMaire. |
| Color ||||
| 1950 | Edith Head Dorothy Jeakins Elois Jenssen Gwen Wakeling | Samson and Delilah | Won | Jeakins was the first woman with multiple wins for Best Costume Design (Color). Head was the first woman to win in both costume categories. Shared with Gile Steele. |
| 1951 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1951 | Edith Head | A Place in the Sun | Won | |
| 1951 | Renié | The Model and the Marriage Broker | Nominated | Shared with Charles LeMaire. |
| 1951 | Margaret Furse | The Mudlark | Nominated | Shared with Edward Stevenson. |
| 1951 | Lucinda Ballard | A Streetcar Named Desire | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1951 | Irene Sharaff | An American in Paris | Won | First LGBT woman to be nominated in a non-acting category and first to win in any category. Shared with Orry-Kelly and Walter Plunkett. |
| 1951 | Helen Rose | The Great Caruso | Nominated | Shared with Gile Steele. |
| 1952 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1952 | Helen Rose | The Bad and the Beautiful | Won | |
| 1952 | Edith Head | Carrie | Nominated | |
| 1952 | Dorothy Jeakins | My Cousin Rachel | Nominated | Shared with Charles LeMaire. |
| 1952 | Sheila O'Brien | Sudden Fear | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1952 | Edith Head Dorothy Jeakins | The Greatest Show on Earth | Nominated | Shared with Miles White. |
| 1952 | Karinska Mary Wills | Hans Christian Andersen | Nominated | Shared with Clavé. |
| 1952 | Helen Rose | The Merry Widow | Nominated | Shared with Gile Steele. |
| 1953 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1953 | Edith Head | Roman Holiday | Won | |
| 1953 | Helen Rose | Dream Wife | Nominated | Shared with Herschel McCoy. |
| 1953 | Renié | The President's Lady | Nominated | Shared with Charles LeMaire. |
| Color ||||
| 1953 | Mary Ann Nyberg | The Band Wagon | Nominated | |
| 1953 | Irene Sharaff | Call Me Madam | Nominated | |
| 1954 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1954 | Edith Head | Sabrina | Won | |
| 1954 | Rosine Delamare | The Earrings of Madame de... | Nominated | Shared with Georges Annenkov. |
| 1954 | Helen Rose | Executive Suite | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1954 | Irene Sharaff | Brigadoon | Nominated | |
| 1954 | Mary Ann Nyberg Irene Sharaff | A Star Is Born | Nominated | Shared with Jean Louis. |
| 1955 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1955 | Helen Rose | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Won | |
| 1955 | Beatrice Dawson | The Pickwick Papers | Nominated | |
| 1955 | Edith Head | The Rose Tattoo | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1955 | Irene Sharaff | Guys and Dolls | Nominated | |
| 1955 | Helen Rose | Interrupted Melody | Nominated | |
| 1955 | Edith Head | To Catch a Thief | Nominated | |
| 1955 | Mary Wills | The Virgin Queen | Nominated | Shared with Charles LeMaire. |
| 1956 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1956 | Helen Rose | The Power and the Prize | Nominated | |
| 1956 | Edith Head | The Proud and Profane | Nominated | |
| 1956 | Mary Wills | Teenage Rebel | Nominated | Shared with Charles LeMaire. |
| Color ||||
| 1956 | Irene Sharaff | The King and I | Won | |
| 1956 | Marjorie Best | Giant | Nominated | Shared with Moss Mabry. |
| 1956 | Edith Head Dorothy Jeakins | The Ten Commandments | Nominated | Shared with Ralph Jester, John Jensen, and Arnold Friberg. |
| 1956 | Maria De Matteis | War and Peace | Nominated | |
| Costume Design |||||
| 1957 | Edith Head | Funny Face | Nominated | Shared with Hubert de Givenchy. |
| 1958 | Edith Head | The Buccaneer | Nominated | Shared with Ralph Jester and John Jensen. |
| 1958 | Mary Wills | A Certain Smile | Nominated | Shared with Charles LeMaire. |
| 1959 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1959 | Edith Head | Career | Nominated | |
| 1959 | Mary Wills | The Diary of Anne Frank | Nominated | Shared with Charles LeMaire. |
| 1959 | Helen Rose | The Gazebo | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1959 | Elizabeth Haffenden | Ben-Hur | Won | |
| 1959 | Adele Palmer | The Best of Everything | Nominated | |
| 1959 | Renié | The Big Fisherman | Nominated | |
| 1959 | Edith Head | The Five Pennies | Nominated | |
| 1959 | Irene Sharaff | Porgy and Bess | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1960 | Edith Head | The Facts of Life | Won | Shared with Edward Stevenson. |
| 1960 | Deni Vachlioti | Never on Sunday | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Marik Vos | The Virgin Spring | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1960 | Irene Sharaff | Can-Can | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Irene | Midnight Lace | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Edith Head | Pepe | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Marjorie Best | Sunrise at Campobello | Nominated | |
| 1961 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1961 | Dorothy Jeakins | The Children's Hour | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1961 | Irene Sharaff | West Side Story | Won | |
| 1961 | Irene Sharaff | Flower Drum Song | Nominated | |
| 1961 | Edith Head | Pocketful of Miracles | Nominated | Shared with Walter Plunkett. |
| 1962 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1962 | Norma Koch | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Won | |
| 1962 | Edith Head | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Nominated | |
| 1962 | Ruth Morley | The Miracle Worker | Nominated | |
| 1962 | Denny Vachlioti | Phaedra | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1962 | Mary Wills | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Won | |
| 1962 | Dorothy Jeakins | The Music Man | Nominated | |
| 1962 | Edith Head | My Geisha | Nominated | |
| 1963 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1963 | Edith Head | Love with the Proper Stranger | Nominated | |
| 1963 | Edith Head | Wives and Lovers | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1963 | Renié Irene Sharaff | Cleopatra | Won | Shared with Vittorio Nino Novarese. |
| 1963 | Edith Head | A New Kind of Love | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1964 | Dorothy Jeakins | The Night of the Iguana | Won | |
| 1964 | Edith Head | A House Is Not a Home | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Norma Koch | Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1964 | Margaret Furse | Becket | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Edith Head | What a Way to Go! | Nominated | Shared with Moss Mabry. |
| 1965 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1965 | Julie Harris | Darling | Won | |
| 1965 | Edith Head | The Slender Thread | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1965 | Phyllis Dalton | Doctor Zhivago | Won | |
| 1965 | Marjorie Best | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Nominated | Shared with Vittorio Nino Novarese. |
| 1965 | Edith Head | Inside Daisy Clover | Nominated | Shared with Bill Thomas. |
| 1965 | Dorothy Jeakins | The Sound of Music | Nominated | |
| 1966 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1966 | Irene Sharaff | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Won | |
| 1966 | Helen Rose | Mister Buddwing | Nominated | |
| 1966 | Jocelyn Rickards | Morgan! | Nominated | |
| Color ||||
| 1966 | Joan Bridge Elizabeth Haffenden | A Man for All Seasons | Won | |
| 1966 | Dorothy Jeakins | Hawaii | Nominated | |
| 1966 | Edith Head | The Oscar | Nominated | |
| Costume Design |||||
| 1967 | Theadora Van Runkle | Bonnie and Clyde | Nominated | |
| 1967 | Irene Sharaff | The Taming of the Shrew | Nominated | Shared with Danilo Donati. |
| 1968 | Margaret Furse | The Lion in Winter | Nominated | |
| 1968 | Phyllis Dalton | Oliver! | Nominated | |
| 1969 | Margaret Furse | Anne of the Thousand Days | Won | |
| 1969 | Irene Sharaff | Hello, Dolly! | Nominated | |
| 1969 | Edith Head | Sweet Charity | Nominated | |
| 1970 | Edith Head | Airport | Nominated | |
| 1970 | Margaret Furse | Scrooge | Nominated | |
| 1971 | Yvonne Blake | Nicholas and Alexandra | Won | Shared with Antonio Castillo. |
| 1971 | Margaret Furse | Mary, Queen of Scots | Nominated | |
| 1972 | Anna Hill Johnstone | The Godfather | Nominated | |
| 1972 | Norma Koch | Lady Sings the Blues | Nominated | Shared with Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie. |
| 1973 | Edith Head | The Sting | Won | Holds the record for most wins in this category, with eight. Holds the record for most wins by a woman in any category, with eight. |
| 1973 | Marik Vos | Cries and Whispers | Nominated | |
| 1973 | Dorothy Jeakins | The Way We Were | Nominated | Shared with Moss Mabry. |
| 1974 | Theoni V. Aldredge | The Great Gatsby | Won | |
| 1974 | Anthea Sylbert | Chinatown | Nominated | |
| 1974 | Theadora Van Runkle | The Godfather Part II | Nominated | |
| 1975 | Milena Canonero Ulla-Britt Söderlund | Barry Lyndon | Won | |
| 1975 | Yvonne Blake | The Four Musketeers | Nominated | Shared with Ron Talsky. |
| 1975 | Karin Erskine Henny Noremark | The Magic Flute | Nominated | |
| 1975 | Edith Head | The Man Who Would Be King | Nominated | |
| 1976 | Mary Wills | The Passover Plot | Nominated | |
| 1977 | Edith Head | Airport '77 | Nominated | Holds the record for most nominations in this category, with 35. Holds the record for most nominations by a woman in any category, with 35. Shared with Burton Miller. |
| 1977 | Anthea Sylbert | Julia | Nominated | |
| 1977 | Florence Klotz | A Little Night Music | Nominated | |
| 1977 | Irene Sharaff | The Other Side of Midnight | Nominated | |
| 1978 | Renié | Caravans | Nominated | |
| 1978 | Patricia Norris | Days of Heaven | Nominated | |
| 1979 | Shirley Ann Russell | Agatha | Nominated | |
| 1979 | Ambra Danon | La Cage aux Folles | Nominated | Shared with Piero Tosi. |
| 1979 | Judy Moorcroft | The Europeans | Nominated | |
| 1980 | Patricia Norris | The Elephant Man | Nominated | |
| 1980 | Anna Senior | My Brilliant Career | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Milena Canonero | Chariots of Fire | Won | |
| 1981 | Anna Hill Johnstone | Ragtime | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Shirley Ann Russell | Reds | Nominated | |
| 1982 | Bhanu Athaiya | Gandhi | Won | First woman of color to be nominated for and win Best Costume Design. Shared with John Mollo. |
| 1982 | Elois Jenssen Rosanna Norton | Tron | Nominated | |
| 1982 | Patricia Norris | Victor/Victoria | Nominated | |
| 1983 | Marik Vos | Fanny and Alexander | Won | |
| 1983 | Anne-Marie Marchand | The Return of Martin Guerre | Nominated | |
| 1984 | Patricia Norris | 2010 | Nominated | |
| 1984 | Jenny Beavan | The Bostonians | Nominated | Shared with John Bright. |
| 1984 | Judy Moorcroft | A Passage to India | Nominated | |
| 1984 | Ann Roth | Places in the Heart | Nominated | |
| 1985 | Emi Wada | Ran | Won | |
| 1985 | Aggie Guerard Rodgers | The Color Purple | Nominated | |
| 1985 | Milena Canonero | Out of Africa | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Jenny Beavan | A Room with a View | Won | Shared with John Bright. |
| 1986 | Anna Anni | Otello | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Theadora Van Runkle | Peggy Sue Got Married | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Dorothy Jeakins | The Dead | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Jenny Beavan | Maurice | Nominated | Shared with John Bright. |
| 1987 | Marilyn Vance-Straker | The Untouchables | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Deborah Nadoolman | Coming to America | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Jane Robinson | A Handful of Dust | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Patricia Norris | Sunset | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Milena Canonero | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Phyllis Dalton | Henry V | Won | |
| 1989 | Gabriella Pescucci | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Elizabeth McBride | Driving Miss Daisy | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Franca Squarciapino | Cyrano de Bergerac | Won | |
| 1990 | Gloria Gresham | Avalon | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Elsa Zamparelli | Dances with Wolves | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Milena Canonero | Dick Tracy | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Ruth Myers | The Addams Family | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Corinne Jorry | Madame Bovary | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Eiko Ishioka | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Won | |
| 1992 | Sheena Napier | Enchanted April | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Jenny Beavan | Howards End | Nominated | Shared with John Bright. |
| 1992 | Ruth E. Carter | Malcolm X | Nominated | First African-American and black woman to be nominated for Best Costume Design. |
| 1993 | Gabriella Pescucci | The Age of Innocence | Won | |
| 1993 | Sandy Powell | Orlando | Nominated | |
| 1993 | Janet Patterson | The Piano | Nominated | |
| 1993 | Jenny Beavan | The Remains of the Day | Nominated | Shared with John Bright. |
| 1993 | Anna B. Sheppard | Schindler's List | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Lizzy Gardiner | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Won | Shared with Tim Chappel. |
| 1994 | Colleen Atwood | Little Women | Nominated | |
| 1994 | April Ferry | Maverick | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Moidele Bickel | Queen Margot | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Julie Weiss | 12 Monkeys | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Shuna Harwood | Richard III | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Jenny Beavan | Sense and Sensibility | Nominated | Shared with John Bright. |
| 1996 | Ann Roth | The English Patient | Won | |
| 1996 | Ruth Myers | Emma | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Alexandra Byrne | Hamlet | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Janet Patterson | The Portrait of a Lady | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Deborah Lynn Scott | Titanic | Won | |
| 1997 | Ruth E. Carter | Amistad | Nominated | First African-American and woman of color with multiple nominations in this category. |
| 1997 | Janet Patterson | Oscar and Lucinda | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Sandy Powell | The Wings of the Dove | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Sandy Powell | Shakespeare in Love | Won | |
| 1998 | Colleen Atwood | Beloved | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Alexandra Byrne | Elizabeth | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Judianna Makovsky | Pleasantville | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Sandy Powell | Velvet Goldmine | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Lindy Hemming | Topsy-Turvy | Won | |
| 1999 | Jenny Beavan | Anna and the King | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Colleen Atwood | Sleepy Hollow | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Ann Roth | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Nominated | Shared with Gary Jones. |
| 1999 | Milena Canonero | Titus | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Janty Yates | Gladiator | Won | |
| 2000 | Rita Ryack | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Jacqueline West | Quills | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Catherine Martin | Moulin Rouge! | Won | Shared with Angus Strathie. |
| 2001 | Milena Canonero | The Affair of the Necklace | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Jenny Beavan | Gosford Park | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Judianna Makovsky | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Ngila Dickson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | Shared with Richard Taylor. |
| 2002 | Colleen Atwood | Chicago | Won | |
| 2002 | Julie Weiss | Frida | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Sandy Powell | Gangs of New York | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Ann Roth | The Hours | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Anna B. Sheppard | The Pianist | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Ngila Dickson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | Shared with Richard Taylor. |
| 2003 | Dien van Straalen | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Ngila Dickson | The Last Samurai | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Wendy Stites | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Judianna Makovsky | Seabiscuit | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Sandy Powell | The Aviator | Won | |
| 2004 | Alexandra Byrne | Finding Neverland | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Colleen Atwood | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Sharen Davis | Ray | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Colleen Atwood | Memoirs of a Geisha | Won | |
| 2005 | Gabriella Pescucci | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Sandy Powell | Mrs Henderson Presents | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Jacqueline Durran | Pride & Prejudice | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Arianne Phillips | Walk the Line | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Milena Canonero | Marie Antoinette | Won | |
| 2006 | Patricia Field | The Devil Wears Prada | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Sharen Davis | Dreamgirls | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Consolata Boyle | The Queen | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Alexandra Byrne | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Won | Twelfth consecutive woman to win in this category. |
| 2007 | Jacqueline Durran | Atonement | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Marit Allen | La Vie en Rose | Nominated | Posthumous nomination. |
| 2007 | Colleen Atwood | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Catherine Martin | Australia | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Jacqueline West | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Sandy Powell | The Young Victoria | Won | |
| 2009 | Janet Patterson | Bright Star | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Catherine Leterrier | Coco Before Chanel | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Monique Prudhomme | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Colleen Atwood | Nine | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Colleen Atwood | Alice in Wonderland | Won | |
| 2010 | Antonella Cannarozzi | I Am Love | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Jenny Beavan | The King's Speech | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Sandy Powell | The Tempest | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Mary Zophres | True Grit | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Lisy Christl | Anonymous | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Sandy Powell | Hugo | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Arianne Phillips | W.E. | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Jacqueline Durran | Anna Karenina | Won | |
| 2012 | Joanna Johnston | Lincoln | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Eiko Ishioka | Mirror Mirror | Nominated | Posthumous nomination. |
| 2012 | Colleen Atwood | Snow White and the Huntsman | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Catherine Martin | The Great Gatsby | Won | |
| 2013 | Patricia Norris | 12 Years a Slave | Nominated | Holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with six. |
| 2014 | Milena Canonero | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Won | |
| 2014 | Colleen Atwood | Into the Woods | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Anna B. Sheppard | Maleficent | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Jacqueline Durran | Mr. Turner | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Jenny Beavan | Mad Max: Fury Road | Won | |
| 2015 | Sandy Powell | Carol | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Sandy Powell | Cinderella | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Jacqueline West | The Revenant | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Colleen Atwood | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Won | |
| 2016 | Joanna Johnston | Allied | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Consolata Boyle | Florence Foster Jenkins | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Madeline Fontaine | Jackie | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Mary Zophres | La La Land | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Jacqueline Durran | Beauty and the Beast | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Jacqueline Durran | Darkest Hour | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Consolata Boyle | Victoria & Abdul | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Ruth E. Carter | Black Panther | Won | First African-American and black woman to win for Best Costume Design. |
| 2018 | Mary Zophres | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Sandy Powell | The Favourite | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Sandy Powell | Mary Poppins Returns | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Alexandra Byrne | Mary Queen of Scots | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Jacqueline Durran | Little Women | Won | |
| 2019 | Sandy Powell | The Irishman | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Peterson. |
| 2019 | Mayes C. Rubeo | Jojo Rabbit | Nominated | First Latina to be nominated for Best Costume Design. |
| 2019 | Arianne Phillips | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Ann Roth | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | Won | Oldest woman to win in any category, at age 89. |
| 2020 | Alexandra Byrne | Emma | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Trish Summerville | Mank | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Bina Daigeler | Mulan | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Jenny Beavan | Cruella | Won | |
| 2021 | Jacqueline Durran | Cyrano | Nominated | Shared with Massimo Cantini Parrini. |
| 2021 | Jacqueline West | Dune | Nominated | Shared with Robert Morgan. |
| 2022 | Ruth E. Carter | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Won | First African-American and woman of color with multiple wins in this category. First Black woman to win multiple Oscars. |
| 2022 | Mary Zophres | Babylon | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Catherine Martin | Elvis | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Shirley Kurata | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Jenny Beavan | Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Holly Waddington | Poor Things | Won | |
| 2023 | Jacqueline Durran | Barbie | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Jacqueline West | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Janty Yates | Napoleon | Nominated | Shared with Dave Crossman. |
| 2023 | Ellen Mirojnick | Oppenheimer | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Arianne Phillips | A Complete Unknown | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Lisy Christl | Conclave | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Janty Yates | Gladiator II | Nominated | Shared with Dave Crossman. |
| 2024 | Linda Muir | Nosferatu | Nominated | |

## Best Director

Academy Award for Best Director :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1976 | Lina Wertmüller | Seven Beauties | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Director. |
| 1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker | Won | First woman to win for Best Director. |
| 2017 | Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | Won | First woman of color to win and be nominated for Best Director. |
| 2020 | Emerald Fennell | Promising Young Woman | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | Won | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. |
| 2023 | Justine Triet | Anatomy of a Fall | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance | Nominated | |

## Best Documentary Film (Feature)

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1948 | Janice Loeb | The Quiet One | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. |
| 1955 | Nancy Hamilton | Helen Keller in Her Story | Won | First woman to win for Best Documentary Feature Film. |
| 1972 | Sarah Kernochan | Marjoe | Won | Shared with Howard Smith. |
| 1973 | Gertrude Ross Marks | Walls of Fire | Nominated | Shared with Edmund F. Penney. |
| 1974 | Judy Collins Jill Godmilow | Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman | Nominated | |
| 1974 | Natalie R. Jones | The Wild and the Brave | Nominated | Shared with Eugene S. Jones. |
| 1975 | Shirley MacLaine | The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir | Nominated | |
| 1976 | Barbara Kopple | Harlan County, U.S.A. | Won | |
| 1977 | Julia Reichert | Union Maids | Nominated | Shared with Jim Klein and Miles Mogulescu. |
| 1978 | Joan Root | Mysterious Castles of Clay | Nominated | Shared with Alan Root. |
| 1978 | Anne Bohlen Lyn Goldfarb Lorraine Gray | With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Suzanne Bauman | Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey | Nominated | Shared with Paul Neshamkin and Jim Burroughs. |
| 1981 | Mary Benjamin Susanne Simpson | Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott | Nominated | Shared with Boyd Estus. |
| 1981 | Tete Vasconcellos | El Salvador: Another Vietnam | Nominated | First Latina to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. Shared with Glenn Silber. |
| 1982 | Meg Switzgable | In Our Water | Nominated | |
| 1983 | Robin Anderson | First Contact | Nominated | Shared with Bob Connolly. |
| 1983 | Tina Viljoen | The Profession of Arms | Nominated | Shared with Michael Bryans. |
| 1983 | Julia Reichert | Seeing Red | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with James Klein. |
| 1984 | Nancy Sloss | High Schools | Nominated | Shared with Charles Guggenheim. |
| 1984 | Cheryl McCall | Streetwise | Nominated | |
| 1985 | Maria Florio Victoria Mudd | Broken Rainbow | Won | |
| 1985 | Susana Blaustein Muñoz Lourdes Portillo | The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Brigitte Berman | Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got | Won | Tied with Joseph Feury and Milton Justice for Down and Out in America, which was also directed by a woman, Lee Grant. Despite that, Grant didn't share the award personally because, under the Academy rules at the time, only credited producers were accepted for nomination in this category. Nevertheless, according to the revised rules, the credited director must be named as a nominee alongside the producers. |
| 1986 | Sharon I. Sopher | Witness to Apartheid | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Aviva Slesin | The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table | Won | |
| 1987 | Callie Crossley | Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years | Nominated | First African-American and woman of color to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. Shared with James A. DeVinney. |
| 1987 | Barbara Herbich | A Stitch for Time | Nominated | Shared with Cyril Christo. |
| 1988 | Nan Bush | Let's Get Lost | Nominated | Shared with Bruce Weber. |
| 1988 | Ginny Durrin | Promises to Keep | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Renee Tajima-Peña Christine Choy | Who Killed Vincent Chin? | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Yvonne Smith | Adam Clayton Powell | Nominated | Shared with Richard Kilberg. |
| 1989 | Betsy Broyles Breier | For All Mankind | Nominated | Shared with Al Reinert. |
| 1989 | Judith Leonard | Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren | Nominated | Shared with Bill Jersey. |
| 1990 | Barbara Kopple | American Dream | Won | First woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Arthur Cohn. |
| 1990 | Susan Robinson | Building Bombs | Nominated | Shared with Mark Mori. |
| 1990 | Judith Montell | Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Allie Light | In the Shadow of the Stars | Won | Shared with Irving Saraf. |
| 1991 | Susan Raymond | Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House | Nominated | Shared with Alan Raymond. |
| 1991 | Hava Kohav Beller | The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Diane Garey | Wild by Law | Nominated | Shared with Lawrence Hott. |
| 1992 | Barbara Trent | The Panama Deception | Won | Shared with David Kasper. |
| 1992 | Sally Dundas | Fires of Kuwait | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Nina Rosenblum | Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Nominated | Shared with Bill Miles. |
| 1992 | Margaret Smilow Roma Baran | Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann | Nominated | |
| 1993 | Susan Raymond | I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School | Won | Shared with Alan Raymond. |
| 1993 | Susan Todd | Children of Fate | Nominated | Shared with Andrew Young. |
| 1993 | Betsy Thompson | For Better or For Worse | Nominated | Shared with David Collier. |
| 1993 | Chris Hegedus | The War Room | Nominated | Shared with D.A. Pennebaker. |
| 1994 | Freida Lee Mock | Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision | Won | First woman of color to win for Best Documentary Feature Film. First woman and woman of color to be nominated in both documentary categories (For the further information, see Best Documentary Short Film). |
| 1994 | Deborah Hoffmann | Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Connie Field Marilyn Mulford | Freedom on My Mind | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Jean Bach | A Great Day in Harlem | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Jeanne Jordan | Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern | Nominated | Shared with Steven Ascher. |
| 1996 | Susan W. Dryfoos | The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Anne Belle Deborah Dickson | Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Michèle Ohayon Julia Schachter | Colors Straight Up | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Liz Garbus | The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. | Nominated | Shared with Jonathan Stack. |
| 1998 | Barbara Sonneborn Janet Cole | Regret to Inform | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Nanette Burstein | On the Ropes | Nominated | Shared with Brett Morgen. |
| 1999 | Paola di Florio Lilibet Foster | Speaking in Strings | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Deborah Oppenheimer | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Won | Shared with Mark Jonathan Harris. |
| 2000 | Deborah Hoffmann Frances Reid | Long Night's Journey into Day | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Edet Belzberg | Children Underground | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Deborah Dickson Susan Froemke | LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Justine Shapiro | Promises | Nominated | Shared with B.Z. Goldberg. |
| 2002 | Gail Dolgin | Daughter from Danang | Nominated | Shared with Vicente Franco. |
| 2003 | Susan R. Behr | My Architect | Nominated | Shared with Nathaniel Kahn. |
| 2004 | Zana Briski | Born into Brothels | Won | Shared with Ross Kauffman. |
| 2004 | Byambasuren Davaa | The Story of the Weeping Camel | Nominated | Shared with Luigi Falorni. |
| 2004 | Karolyn Ali Lauren Lazin | Tupac: Resurrection | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Amy Berg | Deliver Us from Evil | Nominated | Shared with Frank Donner. |
| 2006 | Heidi Ewing Rachel Grady | Jesus Camp | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Jocelyn Glatzer Laura Poitras | My Country, My Country | Nominated} | |
| 2007 | Eva Orner | Taxi to the Dark Side | Won | Shared with Alex Gibney. |
| 2007 | Audrey Marrs | No End in Sight | Nominated | Shared with Charles Ferguson. |
| 2007 | Meghan O'Hara | Sicko | Nominated | Shared with Michael Moore. |
| 2007 | Andrea Nix Fine | War/Dance | Nominated | Shared with Sean Fine. |
| 2008 | Ellen Kuras | The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) | Nominated | Shared with Thavisouk Phrasavath. |
| 2008 | Tia Lessin | Trouble the Water | Nominated | Shared with Carl Deal. |
| 2009 | Lise Lense-Møller | Burma VJ | Nominated | Shared with Anders Østergaard. |
| 2009 | Elise Pearlstein | Food, Inc. | Nominated | Shared with Robert Kenner. |
| 2009 | Judith Ehrlich | The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers | Nominated | Shared with Rick Goldsmith. |
| 2009 | Rebecca Cammisa | Which Way Home | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Audrey Marrs | Inside Job | Won | Shared with Charles Ferguson. |
| 2010 | Trish Adlesic | Gasland | Nominated | Shared with Josh Fox. |
| 2010 | Lucy Walker | Waste Land | Nominated | Shared with Angus Aynsley. |
| 2012 | Philippa Kowarsky Estelle Fialon | The Gatekeepers | Nominated | Shared with Dror Moreh. |
| 2012 | Amy Ziering | The Invisible War | Nominated | Shared with Kirby Dick. |
| 2013 | Caitrin Rogers | 20 Feet from Stardom | Won | Shared with Morgan Neville and Gil Friesen. |
| 2013 | Signe Byrge Sorensen | The Act of Killing | Nominated | Shared with Joshua Oppenheimer. |
| 2013 | Lydia Dean Pilcher | Cutie and the Boxer | Nominated | Shared with Zachary Heinzerling. |
| 2013 | Jehane Noujaim | The Square | Nominated | Shared with Karim Amer. |
| 2014 | Laura Poitras Mathilde Bonnefoy | Citizenfour | Won | Shared with Dirk Wilutzky. |
| 2014 | Rory Kennedy | Last Days in Vietnam | Nominated | Shared with Keven McAlester. |
| 2014 | Joanna Natasegara | Virunga | Nominated | Shared with Orlando von Einsiedel. |
| 2015 | Signe Byrge Sorensen | The Look of Silence | Nominated | Shared with Joshua Oppenheimer. |
| 2015 | Liz Garbus Amy Hobby | What Happened, Miss Simone? | Nominated | Shared with Justin Wilkes. |
| 2016 | Caroline Waterlow | O.J.: Made in America | Won | Shared with Ezra Edelman. |
| 2016 | Donatella Palermo | Fire at Sea | Nominated | Shared with Gianfranco Rosi. |
| 2016 | Julie Goldman | Life, Animated | Nominated | Shared with Roger Ross Williams. |
| 2016 | Ava DuVernay | 13th | Nominated | Shared with Spencer Averick and Howard Barish. |
| 2017 | Julie Goldman | Abacus: Small Enough to Jail | Nominated | Shared with Steve James and Mark Mitten. |
| 2017 | Agnès Varda Rosalie Varda | Faces Places | Nominated | Shared with JR. |
| 2017 | Joslyn Barnes | Strong Island | Nominated | Shared with Yance Ford. |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Shannon Dill | Free Solo | Won | Shared with Jimmy Chin and Evan Hayes. |
| 2018 | Joslyn Barnes Su Kim | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | Nominated | Shared with RaMell Ross. |
| 2018 | Diane Quon | Minding the Gap | Nominated | Shared with Bing Liu. |
| 2018 | Eva Kemme | Of Fathers and Sons | Nominated | Shared with Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, and Tobias N. Siebert. |
| 2018 | Betsy West Julie Cohen | RBG | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Julia Reichert | American Factory | Won | Shared with Steven Bognar and Jeff Reichert. |
| 2019 | Kirstine Barfod Sigrid Dyekjær | The Cave | Nominated | Shared with Feras Fayyad. |
| 2019 | Petra Costa Joanna Natasegara | The Edge of Democracy | Nominated | Shared with Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan. |
| 2019 | Waad Al-Kateab | For Sama | Nominated | Shared with Edward Watts. |
| 2019 | Tamara Kotevska | Honeyland | Nominated | Shared with Ljubomir Stefanov and Atanas Georgiev. |
| 2020 | Pippa Ehrlich | My Octopus Teacher | Won | Shared with James Reed and Craig Foster. |
| 2020 | Bianca Oana | Collective | Nominated | Shared with Alexander Nanau. |
| 2020 | Nicole Newnham Sara Bolder | Crip Camp | Nominated | Shared with Jim LeBrecht. |
| 2020 | Maite Alberdi Marcela Santibáñez | The Mole Agent | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Garrett Bradley Lauren Domino | Time | Nominated | Shared with Kellen Quinn. |
| 2021 | Jessica Kingdon Kira Simon-Kennedy | Ascension | Nominated | Shared with Nathan Truesdell. |
| 2021 | Traci A. Curry | Attica | Nominated | Shared with Stanley Nelson. |
| 2021 | Monica Hellström Signe Byrge Sørensen Charlotte de la Gournerie | Flee | Nominated | First animated documentary to be nominated in this category. Shared with Jonas Poher Rasmussen. |
| 2021 | Rintu Thomas | Writing with Fire | Nominated | Shared with Sushmit Ghosh. |
| 2022 | Odessa Rae Diane Becker Melanie Miller | Navalny | Won | Shared with Daniel Roher and Shane Boris. |
| 2022 | Laura Poitras Nan Goldin | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Nominated | Shared with Howard Gertler, John Lyons, and Yoni Golijov. |
| 2022 | Sara Dosa Ina Fichman | Fire of Love | Nominated | Shared with Shane Boris. |
| 2022 | Monica Hellström | A House Made of Splinters | Nominated | Shared with Simon Lereng Wilmont. |
| 2023 | Michelle Mizner Raney Aronson-Rath | 20 Days in Mariupol | Won | Shared with Mstyslav Chernov. |
| 2023 | Maite Alberdi | The Eternal Memory | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Kaouther Ben Hania | Four Daughters | Nominated | Shared with Nadim Cheikhrouha. |
| 2023 | Nisha Pahuja Cornelia Principe | To Kill a Tiger | Nominated | Shared with David Oppenheim. |
| 2024 | Rachel Szor | No Other Land | Won | Shared with Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham. |
| 2024 | Shiori Itō Hanna Aqvilin | Black Box Diaries | Nominated | Shared with Eric Nyari. |
| 2024 | Aniela Sidorska Paula DuPré Pesmen | Porcelain War | Nominated | Shared with Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev. |
| 2024 | Emily Kassie | Sugarcane | Nominated | Shared with Julian Brave NoiseCat and Kellen Quinn. |

## Best Documentary Film (Short)

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1960 | Altina Schinasi | George Grosz' Interregnum | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. Shared with Charles Carey. |
| 1966 | Helen Kristt Radin | The Odds Against | Nominated | Shared with Lee R. Bobker. |
| 1969 | Joan Horvath | Jenny Is a Good Thing | Nominated | |
| 1969 | Joan Keller Stern | The Magic Machines | Nominated | |
| 1970 | Vivien Carey | Oisin | Nominated | Shared with Patrick Carey. |
| 1972 | Martina Huguenot van der Linden | This Tiny World | Won | First woman to win for Best Documentary Short Film. Shared with Charles Huguenot van der Linden. |
| 1973 | June Wayne | Four Stones for Kanemitsu | Nominated | Shared with Terry Sanders. |
| 1974 | Lesley Foster | John Muir's High Sierra | Nominated | Shared with Dewitt Jones. |
| 1975 | Claire Wilbur | The End of the Game | Won | Shared with Robin Lehman. |
| 1975 | Kristine Samuelson | Arthur and Lillie | Nominated | Shared with Jon Else and Steven Kovacs. |
| 1976 | Lynne Littman Barbara Myerhoff | Number Our Days | Won | |
| 1977 | Helen Whitney | First Edition | Nominated | Shared with DeWitt L. Sage, Jr. |
| 1978 | Jacqueline Phillips Shedd | The Flight of the Gossamer Condor | Won | Shared with Ben Shedd. |
| 1981 | Linda Chapman Pam LeBlanc Freddi Stevens | See What I Say | Nominated | |
| 1982 | Terre Nash | If You Love This Planet | Won | Shared with Edward Le Lorrain. |
| 1982 | Freida Lee Mock | To Live or Let Die | Nominated | First woman of color to be nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. First woman and woman of color to be nominated in both documentary categories (For further information, see Best Documentary Feature Film). |
| 1983 | Cynthia Scott | Flamenco at 5:15 | Won | Shared with Adam Symansky. |
| 1983 | Vivienne Verdon-Roe | In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? | Nominated | Shared with Eric Thiermann. |
| 1983 | Dea Brokman Ilene Landis | You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei) | Nominated | |
| 1984 | Marjorie Hunt | The Stone Carvers | Won | Shared with Paul Wagner. |
| 1984 | Joan Sawyer | Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing | Nominated | Shared with Ben Achtenberg. |
| 1984 | Irina Kalinina | Recollections of Pavlovsk | Nominated | |
| 1985 | Barbara Willis Sweete | Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Vivienne Verdon-Roe | Women – for America, for the World | Won | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. |
| 1986 | Alison Nigh-Strelich | Debonair Dancers | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Sonya Friedman | The Masters of Disaster | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Madeline Bell | Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse | Nominated | Shared with Thomas L. Neff. |
| 1987 | Sue Marx Pamela Conn | Young at Heart | Won | |
| 1987 | Deborah Dickson | Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Megan Williams | Language Says It All | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Lynn Mueller | Silver into Gold | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Karen Goodman | The Children's Storefront | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Lise Yasui Ann Tegnell | Family Gathering | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Nancy Hale Meg Partridge | Portrait of Imogen | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Karen Goodman | Chimps: So Like Us | Nominated | Shared with Kirk Simon. |
| 1990 | Freida Lee Mock | Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember | Nominated | First woman of color with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Terry Sanders. |
| 1991 | Debra Chasnoff | Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment | Won | |
| 1991 | Immy Humes | A Little Vicious | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Gerardine Wurzburg | Educating Peter | Won | Shared with Thomas C. Goodwin (p. a.) |
| 1992 | Wendy L. Weinberg | Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Sally Bochner | The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein | Nominated | Shared with Richard Elson. |
| 1992 | Dorothy Fadiman | When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories | Nominated | |
| 1993 | Margaret Lazarus | Defending Our Lives | Won | Shared with Renner Wunderlich. |
| 1993 | Elaine Holliman | Chicks in White Satin | Nominated | Shared with Jason Schneider. |
| 1994 | Dee Mosbacher Frances Reid | Straight from the Heart | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Nancy Dine | Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls | Nominated | Shared with Richard Stilwell. |
| 1995 | Freida Lee Mock | Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper | Nominated | Shared with Terry Sanders. |
| 1996 | Jessica Yu | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien | Won | First woman of color to win for Best Documentary Short Film. |
| 1996 | Susanne Simpson | Special Effects: Anything Can Happen | Nominated | Shared with Ben Burtt. |
| 1997 | Donna Dewey Carol Pasternak | A Story of Healing | Won | |
| 1997 | Terri Randall | Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Andrea Blaugrund | Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies | Nominated | Shared with Mel Damski. |
| 1998 | Keiko Ibi | The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years | Won | |
| 1999 | Susan Hannah Hadary | King Gimp | Won | Shared with William A. Whiteford. |
| 2000 | Tracy Seretean | Big Mama | Won | |
| 2001 | Sarah Kernochan Lynn Appelle | Thoth | Won | |
| 2001 | Lianne Klapper McNally | Artists and Orphans: A True Drama | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Freida Lee Mock Jessica Sanders | Sing! | Nominated | Mock holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with four. |
| 2002 | Alice Elliott | The Collector of Bedford Street | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Maryann DeLeo | Chernobyl Heart | Won | |
| 2003 | Sandy McLeod Gini Reticker | Asylum | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Katja Esson | Ferry Tales | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Gerardine Wurzburg | Autism Is a World | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Hanna Polak | The Children of Leningradsky | Nominated | Shared with Andrzej Celinski. |
| 2004 | Erin Faith Young | Hardwood | Nominated | Shared with Hubert Davis. |
| 2005 | Corinne Marrinan | A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin | Won | Shared with Eric Simonson. |
| 2005 | Kimberlee Acquaro Stacy Sherman | God Sleeps in Rwanda | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Ruby Yang | The Blood of Yingzhou District | Won | Shared with Thomas Lennon. |
| 2006 | Leslie Iwerks | Recycled Life | Nominated | Shared with Mike Glad. |
| 2006 | Karen Goodman | Rehearsing a Dream | Nominated | Shared with Kirk Simon. |
| 2006 | Susan Rose Behr | Two Hands | Nominated | Shared with Nathaniel Kahn. |
| 2007 | Cynthia Wade Vanessa Roth | Freeheld | Won | |
| 2007 | Amanda Micheli Isabel Vega | La Corona | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Megan Mylan | Smile Pinki | Won | |
| 2008 | Irene Taylor Brodsky | The Final Inch | Nominated | Shared with Tom Grant. |
| 2008 | Margaret Hyde | The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 | Nominated | Shared with Adam Pertofsky. |
| 2009 | Elinor Burkett | Music by Prudence | Won | Shared with Roger Ross Williams. |
| 2009 | Julia Reichert | The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant | Nominated | Shared with Steven Bognar. |
| 2009 | Anna Wydra | Rabbit à la Berlin | Nominated | Shared with Bartek Konopka. |
| 2010 | Karen Goodman | Strangers No More | Won | Shared with Kirk Simon. |
| 2010 | Sara Nesson | Poster Girl | Nominated | Shared with Mitchell Block. |
| 2010 | Jennifer Redfearn | Sun Come Up | Nominated | Shared with Tim Metzger. |
| 2010 | Ruby Yang | The Warriors of Qiugang | Nominated | Shared with Thomas Lennon. |
| 2011 | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | Saving Face | Won | Shared with Daniel Junge. |
| 2011 | Robin Fryday Gail Dolgin | The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Rebecca Cammisa Julie Anderson | God Is the Bigger Elvis | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Lucy Walker Kira Carstensen | The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Andrea Nix Fine | Inocente | Won | Shared with Sean Fine. |
| 2012 | Sari Gilman | Kings Point | Nominated | Shared with Jedd Wider. |
| 2012 | Cynthia Wade Robin Honan | Mondays at Racine | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Cori Shepherd Stern | Open Heart | Nominated | Shared with Kief Davidson. |
| 2013 | Sara Ishaq | Karama Has No Walls | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Ellen Goosenberg Kent Dana Perry | Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 | Won | |
| 2014 | Aneta Kopacz | Joanna | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness | Won | First woman and woman of color with multiple wins in this category. |
| 2015 | Courtney Marsh | Chau, Beyond the Lines | Nominated | Shared with Jerry Franck. |
| 2015 | Dee Hibbert-Jones Nomi Talisman | Last Day of Freedom | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Joanna Natasegara | The White Helmets | Won | Shared with Orlando von Einsiedel. |
| 2016 | Daphne Matziaraki | 4.1 Miles | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Kahane Cooperman Raphaela Neihausen | Joe's Violin | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Laura Checkoway | Edith+Eddie | Nominated | Shared with Thomas Lee Wright. |
| 2017 | Elaine McMillion Sheldon | Heroin(e) | Nominated | Shared with Kerrin Sheldon. |
| 2017 | Kate Davis | Traffic Stop | Nominated | Shared with David Heilbroner. |
| 2018 | Rayka Zehtabchi Melissa Berton | Period. End of Sentence. | Won | |
| 2019 | Carol Dysinger Elena Andreicheva | Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) | Won | |
| 2019 | Kristine Samuelson | Life Overtakes Me | Nominated | Shared with John Haptas. |
| 2019 | Smriti Mundhra | St. Louis Superman | Nominated | Shared with Sami Khan. |
| 2019 | Laura Nix Colette Sandstedt | Walk Run Cha-Cha | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Alice Doyard | Colette | Won | Shared with Anthony Giacchino. |
| 2020 | Charlotte Cook | Do Not Split | Nominated | Shared with Anders Hammer. |
| 2020 | Sophia Nahli Allison Janice Duncan | A Love Song for Latasha | Nominated | First Black women to be nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. |
| 2021 | Elizabeth Mirzaei | Three Songs for Benazir | Nominated | Shared with Gulistan Mirzaei |
| 2022 | Kartiki Gonsalves Guneet Monga | The Elephant Whisperers | Won | |
| 2022 | Evgenia Arbugaeva | Haulout | Nominated | Shared with Maxim Arbugaev. |
| 2022 | Anne Alvergue Beth Levison | The Martha Mitchell Effect | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Sheila Nevins Trish Adlesic | The ABCs of Book Banning | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Christine Turner | The Barber of Little Rock | Nominated | Shared with John Hoffman. |
| 2023 | Jean Tsien | Island in Between | Nominated | Shared with S. Leo Chiang. |
| 2024 | Molly O’Brien Lisa Remington | The Only Girl in the Orchestra | Won | |
| 2024 | Kim A. Snyder Janique L. Robillard | Death by Numbers | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Smriti Mundhra Maya Gnyp | I Am Ready, Warden | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Ema Ryan Yamazaki | Instruments of a Beating Heart | Nominated | Shared with Eric Nyari. |

## Best Film Editing

Academy Award for Best Film Editing :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1934 | Anne Bauchens | Cleopatra | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Film Editing. Among the inaugural nominees in this category. |
| 1935 | Barbara McLean | Les Misérables | Nominated | |
| 1935 | Margaret Booth | Mutiny on the Bounty | Nominated | |
| 1936 | Barbara McLean | Lloyd's of London | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. |
| 1938 | Barbara McLean | Alexander's Ragtime Band | Nominated | |
| 1939 | Barbara McLean | The Rains Came | Nominated | |
| 1939 | Dorothy Spencer | Stagecoach | Nominated | Shared with Otho Lovering. |
| 1940 | Anne Bauchens | North West Mounted Police | Won | First woman to win for Best Film Editing. |
| 1943 | Barbara McLean | The Song of Bernadette | Nominated | |
| 1944 | Barbara McLean | Wilson | Won | |
| 1947 | Monica Collingwood | The Bishop's Wife | Nominated | |
| 1950 | Barbara McLean | All About Eve | Nominated | |
| 1951 | Adrienne Fazan | An American in Paris | Nominated | |
| 1951 | Dorothy Spencer | Decision Before Dawn | Nominated | |
| 1952 | Anne Bauchens | The Greatest Show on Earth | Nominated | |
| 1955 | Alma Macrorie | The Bridges at Toko-Ri | Nominated | |
| 1956 | Anne Bauchens | The Ten Commandments | Nominated | |
| 1957 | Viola Lawrence | Pal Joey | Nominated | Shared with Jerome Thoms. |
| 1958 | Adrienne Fazan | Gigi | Won | |
| 1960 | Viola Lawrence | Pepe | Nominated | Shared with Al Clark. |
| 1962 | Anne V. Coates | Lawrence of Arabia | Won | |
| 1963 | Dorothy Spencer | Cleopatra | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Anne V. Coates | Becket | Nominated | |
| 1967 | Marjorie Fowler | Doctor Dolittle | Nominated | Shared with Samuel E. Beetley. |
| 1968 | Eve Newman | Wild in the Streets | Nominated | Shared with Fred R. Feitshans Jr. |
| 1969 | Françoise Bonnot | Z | Won | |
| 1970 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Woodstock | Nominated | First documentary to be nominated in this category. |
| 1973 | Verna Fields Marcia Lucas | American Graffiti | Nominated | |
| 1974 | Dorothy Spencer | Earthquake | Nominated | |
| 1975 | Verna Fields | Jaws | Won | |
| 1975 | Dede Allen | Dog Day Afternoon | Nominated | |
| 1975 | Lynzee Klingman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Nominated | Shared with Richard Chew and Sheldon Kahn. |
| 1976 | Eve Newman | Two-Minute Warning | Nominated | Shared with Walter Hannemann. |
| 1977 | Marcia Lucas | Star Wars | Won | Shared with Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew. |
| 1979 | Lisa Fruchtman | Apocalypse Now | Nominated | Shared with Richard Marks, Walter Murch, and Gerald B. Greenberg. |
| 1980 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Raging Bull | Won | |
| 1980 | Anne V. Coates | The Elephant Man | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Dede Allen | Reds | Nominated | Shared with Craig McKay. |
| 1982 | Carol Littleton | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Nominated | |
| 1983 | Lisa Fruchtman | The Right Stuff | Won | Shared with Glenn Farr, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, and Tom Rolf. |
| 1984 | Nena Danevic | Amadeus | Nominated | Shared with Michael Chandler. |
| 1985 | Kaja Fehr | Prizzi's Honor | Nominated | Shared with Rudi Fehr. |
| 1986 | Claire Simpson | Platoon | Won | |
| 1986 | Susan E. Morse | Hannah and Her Sisters | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Gabriella Cristiani | The Last Emperor | Won | |
| 1989 | Noëlle Boisson | The Bear | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Lisa Fruchtman | The Godfather Part III | Nominated | Shared with Barry Malkin and Walter Murch. |
| 1990 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Goodfellas | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Geraldine Peroni | The Player | Nominated | |
| 1993 | Anne V. Coates | In the Line of Fire | Nominated | |
| 1993 | Veronika Jenet | The Piano | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Sally Menke | Pulp Fiction | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Pip Karmel | Shine | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Simona Paggi | Life is Beautiful | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Anne V. Coates | Out of Sight | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Leslie Jones | The Thin Red Line | Nominated | Shared with Billy Weber and Saar Klein. |
| 1999 | Lisa Zeno Churgin | The Cider House Rules | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Dede Allen | Wonder Boys | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Dody Dorn | Memento | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Jill Bilcock | Moulin Rouge! | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Gangs of New York | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Thelma Schoonmaker | The Aviator | Won | First woman with multiple wins in this category. |
| 2005 | Claire Simpson | The Constant Gardener | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Thelma Schoonmaker | The Departed | Won | Tied the record for most wins in this category, with three. |
| 2006 | Clare Douglas | United 93 | Nominated | Shared with Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse. |
| 2007 | Juliette Welfling | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Chris Innis | The Hurt Locker | Won | Shared with Bob Murawski. |
| 2009 | Sally Menke | Inglourious Basterds | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Pamela Martin | The Fighter | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Anne-Sophie Bion | The Artist | Nominated | Shared with Michel Hazanavicius. |
| 2011 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Hugo | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Sandra Adair | Boyhood | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Margaret Sixel | Mad Max: Fury Road | Won | |
| 2015 | Maryann Brandon Mary Jo Markey | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Joi McMillon | Moonlight | Nominated | First Black woman and woman of color to be nominated for Best Film Editing. Shared with Nat Sanders. |
| 2017 | Tatiana S. Riegel | I, Tonya | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Thelma Schoonmaker | The Irishman | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Pamela Martin | King Richard | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Monika Willi | Tár | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Jennifer Lame | Oppenheimer | Won | |
| 2023 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated | Holds the record for most nominations in this category, with nine. |
| 2024 | Juliette Welfling | Emilia Pérez | Nominated | |

## Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to countries rather than filmmakers. This list contains female directors of nominated films who typically accept the award on behalf of their country.
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1959 | Astrid Henning-Jensen | Paw | Nominated | First woman to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film. |
| 1976 | Lina Wertmüller | Seven Beauties | Nominated | |
| 1983 | Diane Kurys | Entre Nous | Nominated | |
| 1984 | María Luisa Bemberg | Camila | Nominated | First Latina to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film. |
| 1985 | Agnieszka Holland | Angry Harvest | Nominated | |
| 1985 | Coline Serreau | Three Men and a Cradle | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Mira Nair | Salaam Bombay! | Nominated | First woman of color to direct a film to be nominated for Best International Feature Film. |
| 1995 | Marleen Gorris | Antonia's Line | Won | First woman to direct a film to win for Best International Feature Film. |
| 1996 | Nana Jorjadze | A Chef in Love | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Berit Nesheim | The Other Side of Sunday | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Caroline Link | Beyond Silence | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Agnès Jaoui | The Taste of Others | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Caroline Link | Nowhere in Africa | Won | First woman to direct multiple films nominated in this category. |
| 2002 | Paula van der Oest | Zus & Zo | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Cristina Comencini | The Beast in the Heart | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Susanne Bier | After the Wedding | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Deepa Mehta | Water | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Claudia Llosa | The Milk of Sorrow | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Susanne Bier | In a Better World | Won | |
| 2011 | Agnieszka Holland | In Darkness | Nominated | First woman to direct multiple films nominated in this category, each representing a different country. |
| 2015 | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | Mustang | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Maren Ade | Toni Erdmann | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Ildikó Enyedi | On Body and Soul | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Nadine Labaki | Capernaum | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Tamara Kotevska | Honeyland | Nominated | Shared with Ljubomir Stefanov. |
| 2020 | Kaouther Ben Hania | The Man Who Sold His Skin | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Jasmila Žbanić | Quo Vadis, Aida? | Nominated | |

## Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1982 | Sarah Monzani Michèle Burke | Quest for Fire | Won | First women to win and be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. |
| 1986 | Michèle Burke | The Clan of the Cave Bear | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Michael Westmore. |
| 1988 | Ve Neill | Beetlejuice | Won | Shared with Steve La Porte and Robert Short. |
| 1988 | Bari Dreiband-Burman | Scrooged | Nominated | Shared with Thomas R. Burman. |
| 1989 | Lynn Barber | Driving Miss Daisy | Won | Shared with Manlio Rocchetti and Kevin Haney. |
| 1989 | Maggie Weston | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Nominated | Shared with Fabrizio Sforza. |
| 1990 | Michèle Burke | Cyrano de Bergerac | Nominated | Shared with Jean-Pierre Eychenne. |
| 1990 | Ve Neill | Edward Scissorhands | Nominated | Shared with Stan Winston. |
| 1991 | Christina Smith | Hook | Nominated | Shared with Monty Westmore and Greg Cannom. |
| 1992 | Michèle Burke | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Won | First woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Greg Cannom and Matthew W. Mungle. |
| 1992 | Ve Neill Ronnie Specter | Batman Returns | Nominated | Shared with Stan Winston. |
| 1992 | Ve Neill | Hoffa | Nominated | Shared with Greg Cannom and John Blake. |
| 1993 | Ve Neill Yolanda Toussieng | Mrs. Doubtfire | Won | Shared with Greg Cannom. |
| 1993 | Christina Smith Judith A. Cory | Schindler's List | Nominated | Shared with Matthew W. Mungle. |
| 1994 | Ve Neill Yolanda Toussieng | Ed Wood | Won | Shared with Rick Baker. |
| 1994 | Hallie D'Amore Judith A. Cory | Forrest Gump | Nominated | Shared with Daniel C. Striepeke. |
| 1994 | Carol Hemming | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Nominated | Shared with Daniel Parker and Paul Engelen. |
| 1995 | Lois Burwell | Braveheart | Won | Shared with Peter Frampton and Paul Pattison. |
| 1995 | Colleen Callaghan | Roommates | Nominated | Shared with Greg Cannom and Bob Laden. |
| 1996 | Deborah La Mia Denaver | Ghosts of Mississippi | Nominated | Shared with Matthew W. Mungle. |
| 1997 | Lisa Westcott Veronica Brebner Beverley Binda | Mrs Brown | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Tina Earnshaw | Titanic | Nominated | Shared with Greg Cannom and Simon Thompson. |
| 1998 | Jenny Shircore | Elizabeth | Won | |
| 1998 | Lois Burwell | Saving Private Ryan | Nominated | Shared with Conor O'Sullivan and Daniel C. Striepeke. |
| 1998 | Lisa Westcott Veronica Brebner | Shakespeare in Love | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Christine Blundell | Topsy-Turvy | Won | Shared with Trefor Proud. |
| 1999 | Michèle Burke | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Nominated | Shared with Mike Smithson. |
| 2000 | Gail Ryan | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Won | Shared with Rick Baker. |
| 2000 | Michèle Burke | The Cell | Nominated | Shared with Edouard F. Henriques. |
| 2000 | Ann Buchanan Amber Sibley | Shadow of the Vampire | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Colleen Callaghan | A Beautiful Mind | Nominated | Shared with Greg Cannom. |
| 2002 | Beatrice De Alba | Frida | Won | First Latina to win and be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Shared with John E. Jackson. |
| 2002 | Barbara Lorenz | The Time Machine | Nominated | Shared with John M. Elliott Jr. |
| 2003 | Yolanda Toussieng | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Nominated | Shared with Edouard F. Henriques. |
| 2003 | Ve Neill | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Nominated | Shared with Martin Samuel. |
| 2004 | Valli O'Reilly | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Won | Shared with Bill Corso. |
| 2004 | Jo Allen | The Sea Inside | Nominated | Shared with Manolo García. |
| 2005 | Tami Lane | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Won | Shared with Howard Berger. |
| 2005 | Nikki Gooley | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | Nominated | Shared with Dave Elsey. |
| 2006 | Montse Ribé | Pan's Labyrinth | Won | Shared with David Martí. |
| 2007 | Jan Archibald | La Vie en Rose | Won | Shared with Didier Lavergne. |
| 2007 | Ve Neill | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Nominated | Shared with Martin Samuel. |
| 2009 | Mindy Hall | Star Trek | Won | Shared with Barney Burman and Joel Harlow. |
| 2009 | Jenny Shircore | The Young Victoria | Nominated | Shared with Jon Henry Gordon. |
| 2010 | Yolanda Toussieng | The Way Back | Nominated | Shared with Gregory Funk and Edouard F. Henriques. |
| 2011 | Lynn Johnson | Albert Nobbs | Nominated | Shared with Martial Corneville and Matthew W. Mungle. |
| 2011 | Amanda Knight Lisa Tomblin | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Nominated | Shared with Nick Dudman. |
| 2012 | Lisa Westcott Julie Dartnell | Les Misérables | Won | |
| 2012 | Tami Lane | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Nominated | Shared with Peter Swords King and Rick Findlater. |
| 2013 | Adruitha Lee Robin Mathews | Dallas Buyers Club | Won | |
| 2013 | Gloria Pasqua-Casny | The Lone Ranger | Nominated | Shared with Joel Harlow. |
| 2014 | Frances Hannon | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Won | Shared with Mark Coulier. |
| 2014 | Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou | Guardians of the Galaxy | Nominated | Shared with David White. |
| 2015 | Lesley Vanderwalt Elka Wardega | Mad Max: Fury Road | Won | Shared with Damian Martin. |
| 2015 | Eva von Bahr | The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared | Nominated | Shared with Love Larson. |
| 2015 | Siân Grigg | The Revenant | Nominated | Shared with Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini. |
| 2016 | Eva von Bahr | A Man Called Ove | Nominated | Shared with Love Larson. |
| 2017 | Lucy Sibbick | Darkest Hour | Won | Shared with Kazuhiro Tsuji and David Malinowski. |
| 2017 | Lou Sheppard | Victoria & Abdul | Nominated | Shared with Daniel Phillips. |
| 2018 | Kate Biscoe Patricia Dehaney | Vice | Won | Shared with Greg Cannom. |
| 2018 | Pamela Goldammer | Border | Nominated | Shared with Göran Lundström. |
| 2018 | Jenny Shircore Jessica Brooks | Mary Queen of Scots | Nominated | Shared with Marc Pilcher. |
| 2019 | Anne Morgan Vivian Baker | Bombshell | Won | Shared with Kazu Hiro. |
| 2019 | Naomi Donne Rebecca Cole | 1917 | Nominated | Shared with Tristan Versluis. |
| 2019 | Nicki Ledermann Kay Georgiou | Joker | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Mia Neal Jamika Wilson | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Won | First African-American and black women to win and be nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Shared with Sergio López-Rivera. |
| 2020 | Marese Langan Laura Allen Claudia Stolze | Emma | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Eryn Krueger Mekash Patricia Dehaney | Hillbilly Elegy | Nominated | Shared with Matthew W. Mungle. |
| 2020 | Gigi Williams Kimberley Spiteri Colleen LaBaff | Mank | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Dalia Colli | Pinocchio | Nominated | Shared with Mark Coulier and Francesco Pegoretti. |
| 2021 | Linda Dowds Stephanie Ingram | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Won | Shared with Justin Raleigh. |
| 2021 | Stacey Morris Carla Farmer | Coming 2 America | Nominated | Shared with Mike Marino. |
| 2021 | Nadia Stacey Naomi Donne Julia Vernon | Cruella | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Eva von Bahr | Dune | Nominated | Holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with three. Shared with Donald Mowat and Love Larson. |
| 2021 | Anna Carin Lock | House of Gucci | Nominated | Shared with Göran Lundström and Frederic Aspiras. |
| 2022 | Judy Chin Annemarie Bradley | The Whale | Won | Shared with Adrien Morot. |
| 2022 | Heike Merker Linda Eisenhamerová | All Quiet on the Western Front | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Naomi Donne | The Batman | Nominated | Tied the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with three. Shared with Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine. |
| 2022 | Camille Friend | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Nominated | Shared with Joel Harlow. |
| 2023 | Nadia Stacey | Poor Things | Won | Shared with Mark Coulier and Josh Weston. |
| 2023 | Karen Hartley Thomas Suzi Battersby Ashra Kelly-Blue | Golda | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Kay Georgiou Lori McCoy-Bell | Maestro | Nominated | Shared with Kazu Hiro. |
| 2023 | Luisa Abel | Oppenheimer | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Ana López-Puigcerver Montse Ribé | Society of the Snow | Nominated | Shared with David Martí. |
| 2024 | Stéphanie Guillon Marilyne Scarselli | The Substance | Won | Shared with Pierre-Olivier Persin. |
| 2024 | Crystal Jurado | A Different Man | Nominated | Shared with Mike Marino and David Presto. |
| 2024 | Julia Floch Carbonel | Emilia Pérez | Nominated | Shared with Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini. |
| 2024 | Traci Loader Suzanne Stokes-Munton | Nosferatu | Nominated | Shared with David White. |
| 2024 | Frances Hannon Laura Blount Sarah Nuth | Wicked | Nominated | |

## Best Music (Original Score)

Academy Award for Best Original Score :
| Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1945 | Ann Ronell | G.I. Joe | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Original Score. First woman to be nominated in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Song). Shared with Louis Applebaum. |
| Original Song Score |||||
| 1970 | Tylwyth Kymry (lyrics) | The Baby Maker | Nominated | Shared with Fred Karlin (music). |
| Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score |||||
| 1974 | Angela Morley (adaptation score) | The Little Prince | Nominated | First transgender woman to be nominated in any category. Shared with Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe (song score); Douglas Gamley (adaptation score). |
| 1977 | Angela Morley (adaptation score) | The Slipper and the Rose | Nominated | First transgender woman with multiple nominations in any category. Shared with Sherman Brothers (song score). |
| Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score |||||
| 1983 | Marilyn Bergman (song score) | Yentl | Won | First woman to win for Best Original Score. First woman to win in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Song). Shared with Michel Legrand (song & adaptation score); Alan Bergman (song score). |
| Original Musical or Comedy Score |||||
| 1996 | Rachel Portman | Emma | Won | |
| 1997 | Anne Dudley | The Full Monty | Won | |
| 1997 | Lynn Ahrens | Anastasia | Nominated | Shared with Stephen Flaherty & David Newman. |
| Original Score |||||
| 1999 | Rachel Portman | The Cider House Rules | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Rachel Portman | Chocolat | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Mica Levi | Jackie | Nominated | Subsequently came out as non-binary. |
| 2019 | Hildur Guðnadóttir | Joker | Won | |
| 2021 | Germaine Franco | Encanto | Nominated | First Latina to be nominated for Best Original Score. |
| 2023 | Laura Karpman | American Fiction | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Camille | Emilia Pérez | Nominated | Shared with Clément Ducol. |

## Best Music (Original Song)

Academy Award for Best Original Song :
| Year | Name | Film | Song | Status | Notes |
| 1935 | Dorothy Fields (lyrics) | Roberta | "Lovely to Look At" | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Original Song Shared with Jerome Kern (music); Jimmy McHugh (lyrics). |
| 1936 | Dorothy Fields (lyrics) | Swing Time | "The Way You Look Tonight" | Won | First woman to win for Best Original Song. First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Jerome Kern (music). |
| 1945 | Ann Ronell (music & lyrics) | G.I. Joe | "Linda" | Nominated | First woman to be nominated in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Score). |
| 1953 | Sylvia Fine (lyrics) | The Moon Is Blue | "The Moon Is Blue" | Nominated | Shared with Herschel Burke Gilbert (music). |
| 1959 | Sylvia Fine (music & lyrics) | The Five Pennies | "The Five Pennies" | Nominated | |
| 1960 | Dory Langdon (lyrics) | Pepe | "Faraway Part of Town" | Nominated | Shared with André Previn (music). |
| 1962 | Dory Langdon (lyrics) | Two for the Seesaw | "Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)" | Nominated | Shared with André Previn (music). |
| 1968 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | The Thomas Crown Affair | "The Windmills of Your Mind" | Won | First woman to win in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Score). Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1969 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | The Happy Ending | "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" | Nominated | First woman to win in both music categories (For the further information, see Best Original Score). Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1969 | Dory Langdon (lyrics) | The Sterile Cuckoo | "Come Saturday Morning" | Nominated | Shared with Fred Karlin (music). |
| 1970 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Pieces of Dreams | "Pieces of Dreams" | Nominated | Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1971 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Sometimes a Great Notion | "All His Children" | Nominated | Shared with Henry Mancini (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1972 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" | Nominated | Shared with Maurice Jarre (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1972 | Marsha Karlin (lyrics) | The Little Ark | "Come Follow, Follow Me" | Nominated | Shared with Fred Karlin (music). |
| 1973 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | The Way We Were | "The Way We Were" | Won | First woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1973 | Linda McCartney (music & lyrics) | Live and Let Die | "Live and Let Die" | Nominated | Shared with Paul McCartney (music & lyrics). |
| 1974 | Betty Box (lyrics) | Benji | "I Feel Love" | Nominated | Shared with Euel Box (music). |
| 1976 | Barbra Streisand (music) | A Star Is Born | "Evergreen" | Won | First and only person to win for acting (Best Actress for Funny Girl) and songwriting. Shared with Paul Williams (lyrics). |
| 1976 | Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins (lyrics) | Rocky | "Gonna Fly Now" | Nominated | Shared with Bill Conti (music). |
| 1977 | Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins (lyrics) | The Rescuers | "Someone's Waiting for You" | Nominated | Shared with Sammy Fain (music). |
| 1977 | Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics) | The Spy Who Loved Me | "Nobody Does It Better" | Nominated | Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music). |
| 1978 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Same Time, Next Year | "The Last Time I Felt Like This" | Nominated | Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1979 | Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics) | Ice Castles | "Through the Eyes of Love" | Nominated | Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music). |
| 1979 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | The Promise | "I'll Never Say Goodbye" | Nominated | Shared with David Shire (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1980 | Lesley Gore (lyrics) | Fame | "Out Here on My Own" | Nominated | Shared with Michael Gore (music). |
| 1980 | Dolly Parton (music & lyrics) | Nine to Five | "9 to 5" | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Carole Bayer Sager (music & lyrics) | Arthur | "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" | Won | Shared with Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross & Peter Allen (music & lyrics). |
| 1982 | Buffy Sainte-Marie (music) | An Officer and a Gentleman | "Up Where We Belong" | Won | Shared with Jack Nitzche (music); Will Jennings (lyrics). |
| 1982 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Best Friends | "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" | Nominated | Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1982 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Tootsie | "It Might Be You" | Nominated | Shared with Dave Grusin (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1982 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Yes, Giorgio | "If We Were in Love" | Nominated | Shared with John Williams (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1983 | Irene Cara (lyrics) | Flashdance | "Flashdance... What a Feeling" | Won | First Black woman to win in a non-acting category. Shared with Giorgio Moroder (music); Keith Forsey (lyrics). |
| 1983 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Yentl | "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" | Nominated | First woman to be nominated multiple times in the same category for the same film. Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1983 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Yentl | "The Way He Makes Me Feel" | Nominated | First woman to be nominated multiple times in the same category for the same film. Shared with Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1986 | Cynthia Weil (lyrics) | An American Tail | "Somewhere Out There" | Nominated | Shared with James Horner & Barry Mann (music). |
| 1986 | Diane Nini (lyrics) | The Karate Kid Part II | "Glory of Love" | Nominated | Shared with David Foster (music); Peter Cetera (music & lyrics). |
| 1987 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Mannequin | "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" | Nominated | Shared with Albert Hammond (music & lyrics). |
| 1988 | Carly Simon (music & lyrics) | Working Girl | "Let the River Run" | Won | |
| 1989 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Shirley Valentine | "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" | Nominated | Shared with Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1992 | Linda Thompson (lyrics) | The Bodyguard | "I Have Nothing" | Nominated | Shared with David Foster (music). |
| 1993 | Carole Bayer Sager (music & lyrics) | Beethoven's 2nd | "The Day I Fall in Love" | Nominated | Shared with James Ingram & Clif Magness (music & lyrics). |
| 1993 | Janet Jackson (music & lyrics) | Poetic Justice | "Again" | Nominated | Shared with James Harris III & Terry Lewis (music & lyrics). |
| 1994 | Carole Bayer Sager & Patty Smyth (music & lyrics) | Junior | "Look What Love Has Done" | Nominated | Shared with James Ingram & James Newton Howard (music & lyrics). |
| 1995 | Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) | Sabrina | "Moonlight" | Nominated | Shared with John Williams (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). |
| 1996 | Barbra Streisand (music & lyrics) | The Mirror Has Two Faces | "I Finally Found Someone" | Nominated | Shared with Bryan Adams, Marvin Hamlisch & Mutt Lange (music & lyrics). |
| 1996 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Up Close and Personal | "Because You Loved Me" | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) | Anastasia | "Journey to the Past" | Nominated | Shared with Stephen Flaherty (music). |
| 1997 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Con Air | "How Do I Live?" | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Armageddon | "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Allison Moorer (music & lyrics) | The Horse Whisperer | "A Soft Place to Fall" | Nominated | Shared with Gwil Owen (music & lyrics). |
| 1998 | Carole Bayer Sager (music & lyrics) | Quest for Camelot | "The Prayer" | Nominated | Shared with David Foster (music & lyrics); Tony Renis & Alberto Testa (lyrics). |
| 1999 | Aimee Mann (music & lyrics) | Magnolia | "Save Me" | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Music of the Heart | "Music of My Heart" | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Björk (music) | Dancer in the Dark | "I've Seen It All" | Nominated | Shared with Lars von Trier & Sjón Sigurdsson (lyrics). |
| 2001 | Enya & Roma Ryan (music & lyrics) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | "May It Be" | Nominated | Shared with Nicky Ryan (music & lyrics). |
| 2001 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Pearl Harbor | "There You'll Be" | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Julie Taymor (lyrics) | Frida | "Burn It Blue" | Nominated | Shared with Elliot Goldenthal (music). |
| 2003 | Annie Lennox & Fran Walsh (music & lyrics) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | "Into the West" | Won | Shared with Howard Shore (music & lyrics). |
| 2003 | Annette O'Toole (music & lyrics) | A Mighty Wind | "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" | Nominated | Shared with Michael McKean (music & lyrics). |
| 2005 | Kathleen "Bird" York (music & lyrics) | Crash | "In the Deep" | Nominated | Shared with Michael Becker (music). |
| 2005 | Dolly Parton (music & lyrics) | Transamerica | "Travellin' Thru" | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Melissa Etheridge (music & lyrics) | An Inconvenient Truth | "I Need to Wake Up | Won | First song from a documentary to win in this category. |
| 2006 | Anne Preven (lyrics) | Dreamgirls | "Listen" | Nominated | Shared with Scott Cutler & Henry Krieger (music). |
| 2006 | Siedah Garrett (lyrics) | Dreamgirls | "Love You I Do" | Nominated | Shared with Henry Krieger (music). |
| 2007 | Markéta Irglová (music & lyrics) | Once | "Falling Slowly" | Won | Shared with Glen Hansard (music & lyrics). |
| 2008 | M.I.A. (music & lyrics) | Slumdog Millionaire | "O... Saya" | Nominated | Shared with A. R. Rahman (music & lyrics). |
| 2010 | Dido (lyrics) | 127 Hours | "If I Rise" | Nominated | Shared with A. R. Rahman (music); Rollo Armstrong (lyrics). |
| 2010 | Hillary Lindsey (music & lyrics) | Country Strong | "Coming Home" | Nominated | Shared with Troy Verges & Tom Douglas (music & lyrics). |
| 2011 | Siedah Garrett (lyrics) | Rio | "Real In Rio" | Nominated | Shared with Sérgio Mendes & Carlinhos Brown (music). |
| 2012 | Adele (music & lyrics) | Skyfall | "Skyfall" | Won | Shared with Paul Epworth (music & lyrics). |
| 2012 | Bombay Jayashri (lyrics) | Life of Pi | "Pi's Lullaby" | Nominated | Shared with Mychael Danna (music). |
| 2013 | Kristen Anderson-Lopez (music & lyrics) | Frozen | "Let It Go" | Won | Shared with Robert Lopez (music & lyrics). |
| 2013 | Karen O (music & lyrics) | Her | "The Moon Song" | Nominated | Shared with Spike Jonze (lyrics). |
| 2014 | Danielle Brisebois (music & lyrics) | Begin Again | "Lost Stars" | Nominated | Shared with Gregg Alexander (music & lyrics). |
| 2014 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Beyond the Lights | "Grateful" | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Diane Warren & Lady Gaga (music & lyrics) | The Hunting Ground | "Till It Happens to You" | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Anohni (lyrics) | Racing Extinction | "Manta Ray" | Nominated | First transgender woman to be nominated for Best Original Song. Shared with J. Ralph (music). |
| 2017 | Kristen Anderson-Lopez (music & lyrics) | Coco | "Remember Me" | Won | Shared with Robert Lopez (music & lyrics). |
| 2017 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Marshall | "Stand Up for Something" | Nominated | Shared with Lonnie Lynn (lyrics). |
| 2017 | Mary J. Blige & Taura Stinson (music & lyrics) | Mudbound | "Mighty River" | Nominated | Blige was the first person to be nominated for acting (Best Supporting Actress for Mudbound) and songwriting in the same year. Shared with Raphael Saadiq (music & lyrics). |
| 2018 | Lady Gaga (music & lyrics) | A Star is Born | "Shallow" | Won | Shared with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (music & lyrics). |
| 2018 | Gillian Welch (music & lyrics) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" | Nominated | Shared with David Rawlings (music & lyrics). |
| 2018 | SZA (lyrics) | Black Panther | "All the Stars" | Nominated | Shared with Sounwave (music); Kendrick Lamar & Anthony Tiffith (music & lyrics). |
| 2018 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | RBG | "I'll Fight" | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Breakthrough | "I'm Standing with You" | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Kristen Anderson-Lopez (music & lyrics) | Frozen II | "Into the Unknown" | Nominated | Shared with Robert Lopez (music & lyrics). |
| 2019 | Cynthia Erivo (music & lyrics) | Harriet | "Stand Up" | Nominated | Shared with Joshuah Brian Campbell (music & lyrics). |
| 2020 | H.E.R. (music & lyrics); Tiara Thomas (lyrics) | Judas and the Black Messiah | "Fight for You" | Won | Shared with Dernst Emile II (music). |
| 2020 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics); Laura Pausini (lyrics) | The Life Ahead | "Io Sì (Seen)" | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Celeste Waite (lyrics) | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | "Hear My Voice" | Nominated | Shared with Daniel Pemberton (music & lyrics). |
| 2021 | Billie Eilish (music & lyrics) | No Time to Die | "No Time to Die" | Won | First person born in the 21st century to win in any category. Shared with Finneas O'Connell (music & lyrics). |
| 2021 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Four Good Days | "Somehow You Do" | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Beyoncé (music & lyrics) | King Richard | "Be Alive" | Nominated | Shared with DIXSON (music & lyrics). |
| 2022 | Rihanna (music); Tems (music & lyrics) | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | "Lift Me Up" | Nominated | Shared with Ludwig Göransson (music); Ryan Coogler (music & lyrics). |
| 2022 | Mitski (music) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | "This Is a Life" | Nominated | Shared with David Byrne & Ryan Lott (music & lyrics). |
| 2022 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Tell It Like a Woman | "Applause" | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Lady Gaga (music & lyrics) | Top Gun: Maverick | "Hold My Hand" | Nominated | Shared with BloodPop (music & lyrics). |
| 2023 | Billie Eilish (music & lyrics) | Barbie | "What Was I Made For?" | Won | Youngest person to win multiple Oscars, at age 22. Shared with Finneas O'Connell (music & lyrics). |
| 2023 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | Flamin' Hot | "The Fire Inside" | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Camille (music & lyrics) | Emilia Pérez | "El Mal" | Won | Shared with Clément Ducol (music & lyrics); Jacques Audiard (lyrics). |
| 2024 | Brandi Carlile (music & lyrics) | Elton John: Never Too Late | "Never Too Late" | Nominated | Shared with Elton John, Andrew Watt & Bernie Taupin (music & lyrics). |
| 2024 | Camille (music & lyrics) | Emilia Pérez | "Mi Camino" | Nominated | Shared with Clément Ducol (music & lyrics). |
| 2024 | Diane Warren (music & lyrics) | The Six Triple Eight | "The Journey" | Nominated | Holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with 16. Tied the record for most nominations without a win in any category, with 16. |

## Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1973 | Julia Phillips | The Sting | Won | First woman to win and be nominated for Best Picture. Shared with Tony Bill and Michael Phillips. |
| 1976 | Julia Phillips | Taxi Driver | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Michael Phillips. |
| 1979 | Tamara Asseyev Alex Rose | Norma Rae | Nominated | |
| 1982 | Kathleen Kennedy | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Nominated | Shared with Steven Spielberg. |
| 1984 | Arlene Donovan | Places in the Heart | Nominated | |
| 1985 | Kathleen Kennedy | The Color Purple | Nominated | Shared with Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, and Quincy Jones. |
| 1987 | Sherry Lansing | Fatal Attraction | Nominated | Shared with Stanley R. Jaffe. |
| 1988 | Norma Heyman | Dangerous Liaisons | Nominated | Shared with Hank Moonjean. |
| 1989 | Lili Fini Zanuck | Driving Miss Daisy | Won | Shared with Richard D. Zanuck. |
| 1990 | Lisa Weinstein | Ghost | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Barbra Streisand | The Prince of Tides | Nominated | Shared with Andrew Karsch. |
| 1993 | Jan Chapman | The Piano | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Wendy Finerman | Forrest Gump | Won | Shared with Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey. |
| 1994 | Niki Marvin | The Shawshank Redemption | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Lindsay Doran | Sense and Sensibility | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Jane Scott | Shine | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Bridget Johnson Kristi Zea | As Good as It Gets | Nominated | Shared with James L. Brooks. |
| 1998 | Donna Gigliotti | Shakespeare in Love | Won | Shared with David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, and Marc Norman. |
| 1998 | Alison Owen | Elizabeth | Nominated | Shared with Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan. |
| 1998 | Elda Ferri | Life Is Beautiful | Nominated | Shared with Gianluigi Braschi. |
| 1999 | Kathleen Kennedy | The Sixth Sense | Nominated | Shared with Frank Marshall and Barry Mendel. |
| 2000 | Kit Golden Leslie Holleran | Chocolat | Nominated | Shared with David Brown. |
| 2000 | Stacey Sher | Erin Brockovich | Nominated | Shared with Danny DeVito and Michael Shamberg. |
| 2000 | Laura Bickford | Traffic | Nominated | Shared with Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. |
| 2001 | Fran Walsh | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | Shared with Peter Jackson and Barrie M. Osborne. |
| 2002 | Fran Walsh | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | Shared with Peter Jackson and Barrie M. Osborne. |
| 2003 | Fran Walsh | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | Shared with Peter Jackson and Barrie M. Osborne. |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation | Nominated | Shared with Ross Katz. |
| 2003 | Judie G. Hoyt | Mystic River | Nominated | Shared with Robert Lorenz and Clint Eastwood. |
| 2003 | Kathleen Kennedy | Seabiscuit | Nominated | Shared with Frank Marshall and Gary Ross. |
| 2004 | Nellie Bellflower | Finding Neverland | Nominated | Shared with Richard N. Gladstein. |
| 2005 | Cathy Schulman | Crash | Won | Shared with Paul Haggis. |
| 2005 | Diana Ossana | Brokeback Mountain | Nominated | Shared with James Schamus. |
| 2005 | Caroline Baron | Capote | Nominated | Shared with William Vince and Michael Ohoven. |
| 2005 | Kathleen Kennedy | Munich | Nominated | Shared with Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel. |
| 2006 | Christine Langan Tracey Seaward | The Queen | Nominated | Shared with Andy Harries. |
| 2007 | Lianne Halton | Juno | Nominated | Shared with Mason Novick and Russell Smith. |
| 2007 | Jennifer Fox | Michael Clayton | Nominated | Shared with Kerry Orent and Sydney Pollack. |
| 2007 | JoAnne Sellar | There Will Be Blood | Nominated | Shared with Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi. |
| 2008 | Kathleen Kennedy Ceán Chaffin | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated | Shared with Frank Marshall. |
| 2008 | Donna Gigliotti | The Reader | Nominated | Shared with Anthony Minghella (p. n.), Sydney Pollack (p. n.), and Redmond Morris. |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker | Won | Shared with Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, and Nicolas Chartier. |
| 2009 | Carolynne Cunningham | District 9 | Nominated | Shared with Peter Jackson. |
| 2009 | Finola Dwyer Amanda Posey | An Education | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Sarah Siegel-Magness | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | Nominated | Shared with Lee Daniels and Gary Magness. |
| 2010 | Emma Thomas | Inception | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Nolan. |
| 2010 | Celine Rattray | The Kids Are All Right | Nominated | Shared with Gary Gilbert and Jeffrey Levy-Hinte. |
| 2010 | Ceán Chaffin | The Social Network | Nominated | Shared with Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, and Scott Rudin. |
| 2010 | Darla K. Anderson | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Alix Madigan Anne Rosellini | Winter's Bone | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Letty Aronson | Midnight in Paris | Nominated | Shared with Stephen Tenenbaum. |
| 2011 | Rachael Horovitz | Moneyball | Nominated | Shared with Michael De Luca and Brad Pitt. |
| 2011 | Sarah Green Dede Gardner | The Tree of Life | Nominated | Shared with Bill Pohlad and Grant Hill. |
| 2011 | Kathleen Kennedy | War Horse | Nominated | Shared with Steven Spielberg. |
| 2012 | Margaret Menegoz | Amour | Nominated | Shared with Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz. |
| 2012 | Stacey Sher Pilar Savone | Django Unchained | Nominated | Shared with Reginald Hudlin. |
| 2012 | Debra Hayward | Les Misérables | Nominated | Shared with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Cameron Mackintosh. |
| 2012 | Kathleen Kennedy | Lincoln | Nominated | Holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with eight. Shared with Steven Spielberg. |
| 2012 | Donna Gigliotti | Silver Linings Playbook | Nominated | Shared with Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon. |
| 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow Megan Ellison | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated | Shared with Mark Boal. |
| 2013 | Dede Gardner | 12 Years a Slave | Won | Shared with Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Steven McQueen, and Anthony Katagas. |
| 2013 | Megan Ellison | American Hustle | Nominated | Shared with Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, and Jonathan Gordon. |
| 2013 | Robbie Brenner Rachel Winter | Dallas Buyers Club | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Megan Ellison | Her | Nominated | Shared with Vincent Landay and Spike Jones. |
| 2013 | Gabrielle Tana Tracey Seaward | Philomena | Nominated | Shared with Steve Coogan. |
| 2013 | Emma Tillinger Koskoff | The Wolf of Wall Street | Nominated | Shared with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Joey McFarland. |
| 2014 | Cathleen Sutherland | Boyhood | Nominated | Shared with Richard Linklater. |
| 2014 | Nora Grossman | The Imitation Game | Nominated | Shared with Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman. |
| 2014 | Oprah Winfrey Dede Gardner | Selma | Nominated | Winfrey was the first woman of color to be nominated for Best Picture. Shared with Christian Colson and Jeremy Kleiner. |
| 2014 | Lisa Bruce | The Theory of Everything | Nominated | Shared with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Anthony McCarten. |
| 2014 | Helen Estabrook | Whiplash | Nominated | Shared with Jason Blum and David Lancaster. |
| 2015 | Blye Pagon Faust Nicole Rocklin | Spotlight | Won | Shared with Steve Golin and Michael Sugar. |
| 2015 | Dede Gardner | The Big Short | Nominated | Shared with Jeremy Kleiner and Brad Pitt. |
| 2015 | Kristie Macosko Krieger | Bridge of Spies | Nominated | Shared with Marc Platt and Steven Spielberg. |
| 2015 | Finola Dwyer Amanda Posey | Brooklyn | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Mary Parent | The Revenant | Nominated | Shared with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve Golin, Arnon Milchan, and Keith Redmon. |
| 2016 | Adele Romanski Dede Gardner | Moonlight | Won | Gardner was the first woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Jeremy Kleiner. |
| 2016 | Carla Hacken Julie Yorn | Hell or High Water | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Donna Gigliotti Jenno Topping | Hidden Figures | Nominated | Shared with Peter Chernin, Pharrell Williams, and Theodore Melfi. |
| 2016 | Angie Fielder | Lion | Nominated | Shared with Emile Sherman and Iain Canning. |
| 2016 | Kimberly Steward Lauren Beck | Manchester by the Sea | Nominated | Shared with Matt Damon, Chris Moore, and Kevin J. Walsh. |
| 2017 | Émilie Georges | Call Me by Your Name | Nominated | Shared with Luca Guadagnino, Peter Spears, and Marco Morabito. |
| 2017 | Lisa Bruce | Darkest Hour | Nominated | Shared with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, and Douglas Urbanski. |
| 2017 | Emma Thomas | Dunkirk | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Nolan. |
| 2017 | Evelyn O'Neill | Lady Bird | Nominated | Shared with Eli Bush and Scott Rudin. |
| 2017 | Megan Ellison JoAnne Sellar | Phantom Thread | Nominated | Shared with Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi. |
| 2017 | Kristie Macosko Krieger Amy Pascal | The Post | Nominated | Shared with Steven Spielberg. |
| 2018 | Ceci Dempsey Lee Magiday | The Favourite | Nominated | Shared with Ed Guiney and Yorgos Lanthimos. |
| 2018 | Gabriela Rodríguez | Roma | Nominated | First Latina to be nominated for Best Picture. Shared with Alfonso Cuarón. |
| 2018 | Lynette Howell Taylor | A Star is Born | Nominated | Shared with Bill Gerber and Bradley Cooper. |
| 2018 | Dede Gardner | Vice | Nominated | Shared with Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick. |
| 2019 | Kwak Sin-ae | Parasite | Won | First woman of color to win for Best Picture. Shared with Bong Joon-ho. |
| 2019 | Pippa Harris Jayne-Ann Tenggren | 1917 | Nominated | Shared with Sam Mendes and Callum McDougal. |
| 2019 | Jenno Topping | Ford v Ferrari | Nominated | Shared with Peter Chernin and James Mangold. |
| 2019 | Jane Rosenthal Emma Tillinger Koskoff | The Irishman | Nominated | Shared with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. |
| 2019 | Chelsea Winstanley | Jojo Rabbit | Nominated | Shared with Carthew Neal and Taika Waititi. |
| 2019 | Emma Tillinger Koskoff | Joker | Nominated | Shared with Todd Phillips and Bradley Cooper. |
| 2019 | Amy Pascal | Little Women | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Shannon McIntosh | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Nominated | Shared with David Heyman and Quentin Tarantino. |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand Mollye Asher Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | Won | McDormand is the first woman to win for acting (Best Actress for Fargo) and producing. McDormand is the first person to win for acting (Best Actress for Nomadland) and producing in the same year. Shared with Peter Spears and Dan Janvey. |
| 2020 | Ceán Chaffin | Mank | Nominated | Shared with Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski. |
| 2020 | Christina Oh | Minari | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Ashley Fox Emerald Fennell | Promising Young Woman | Nominated | Shared with Josey McNamara and Ben Browning. |
| 2021 | Laura Berwick Becca Kovacik Tamar Thomas | Belfast | Nominated | Shared with Kenneth Branagh. |
| 2021 | Mary Parent | Dune | Nominated | Shared with Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter. |
| 2021 | Sara Murphy | Licorice Pizza | Nominated | Shared with Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson. |
| 2021 | Jane Campion Tanya Seghatchian | The Power of the Dog | Nominated | Shared with Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Roger Frappier. |
| 2021 | Kristie Macosko Krieger | West Side Story | Nominated | Shared with Steven Spielberg. |
| 2022 | Catherine Martin Gail Berman | Elvis | Nominated | Shared with Baz Luhrmann, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss. |
| 2022 | Kristie Macosko Krieger | The Fabelmans | Nominated | Shared with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner. |
| 2022 | Alexandra Milchan | Tár | Nominated | Shared with Todd Field and Scott Lambert. |
| 2022 | Dede Gardner Frances McDormand | Women Talking | Nominated | Shared with Jeremy Kleiner. |
| 2023 | Emma Thomas | Oppenheimer | Won | Shared with Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan. |
| 2023 | Marie-Ange Luciani | Anatomy of a Fall | Nominated | Shared with David Thion. |
| 2023 | Margot Robbie Robbie Brenner | Barbie | Nominated | Shared with David Heyman and Tom Ackerley. |
| 2023 | Amy Derning Kristie Macosko Krieger | Maestro | Nominated | Shared with Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Fred Berner. |
| 2023 | Christine Vachon Pamela Koffler | Past Lives | Nominated | Shared with David Hinojosa. |
| 2023 | Emma Stone | Poor Things | Nominated | Shared with Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, and Yorgos Lanthimos. |
| 2024 | Samantha Quan | Anora | Won | Shared with Alex Coco and Sean Baker. |
| 2024 | Tessa Ross Juliette Howell | Conclave | Nominated | Shared with Michael A. Jackman. |
| 2024 | Mary Parent Tanya Lapointe | Dune: Part Two | Nominated | Shared with Cale Boyter and Denis Villeneuve. |
| 2024 | Maria Carlota Bruno | I'm Still Here | Nominated | Shared with Rodrigo Teixeira |
| 2024 | Dede Gardner Joslyn Barnes | Nickel Boys | Nominated | Shared with Jeremy Kleiner. |
| 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance | Nominated | Shared with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. |

## Best Production Design

Academy Award for Best Production Design :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| Black-and-White |||||
| 1941 | Julia Heron (set decoration) | That Hamilton Woman | Nominated | First woman to be nominated in production categories. Shared with Vincent Korda (production design). |
| 1942 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1942 | Fay Babcock (set decoration) | The Talk of the Town | Nominated | Shared with Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad (production design). |
| Color ||||
| 1942 | Julia Heron (set decoration) | Jungle Book | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Production Design (Color). First woman with multiple nominations in production categories. First woman to be nominated in both production categories. Shared with Vincent Korda (production design). |
| Black-and-White |||||
| 1943 | Julia Heron (set decoration) | Casanova Brown | Nominated | Shared with Perry Ferguson (production design). |
| Color |||||
| 1944 | Fay Babcock (set decoration) | Cover Girl | Nominated | Shared with Lionel Banks and Cary Odell (production design). |
| 1945 | Mildred Griffiths (set decoration) | National Velvet | Nominated | Shared with Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary (production design); Edwin B. Willis (set decoration). |
| Black-and-White |||||
| 1946 | Carmen Dillon (production design) | Henry V | Nominated | Shared with Paul Sheriff (production design). |
| 1948 | Carmen Dillon (set decoration) | Hamlet | Won | First woman to win in production categories. Shared with Roger K. Furse (production design). |
| 1954 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1954 | Grace Gregory (set decoration) | This Country Girl | Nominated | Shared with Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson (production design); Samuel M. Comer (set decoration). |
| Color ||||
| 1954 | Irene Sharaff (production design) | A Star Is Born | Nominated | Shared with Malcolm C. Bert and Gene Allen (production design); George James Hopkins (set decoration). |
| Color |||||
| 1959 | Julia Heron (set decoration) | The Big Fisherman | Nominated | Shared with John DeCuir (production design). |
| 1959 | Ruby R. Levitt (set decoration) | Pillow Talk | Nominated | Shared with Richard H. Riedel (p. n.) (production design); Russell A. Gausman (set decoration). |
| 1960 | Julia Heron (set decoration) | Spartacus | Won | First woman to win for Best Production Design (Color). Shared with Harry Horner and Eric Orbom (production design); Russell A. Gausman (set decoration). |
| 1963 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1963 | Grace Gregory (set decoration) | Love with the Proper Stranger | Nominated | Shared with Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson (production design); Samuel M. Comer (set decoration). |
| Color ||||
| 1963 | Jocelyn Herbert (production design); Josie MacAvin (set decoration) | Tom Jones | Nominated | Shared with Ralph W. Brinton and Ted Marshall (production design). |
| 1965 | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White | Black-and-White |
| 1965 | Josie MacAvin (set decoration) | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Nominated | Shared with Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen (production design); Ted Marshall (set decoration). |
| Color ||||
| 1965 | Ruby R. Levitt (set decoration) | The Sound of Music | Nominated | Shared with Boris Leven (production design); Walter M. Scott (set decoration). |
| Production Design |||||
| 1970 | Pamela Cornell (set decoration) | Scrooge | Nominated | Shared with Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright (production design). |
| 1971 | Ruby R. Levitt (set decoration) | The Andromeda Strain | Nominated | Shared with Boris Leven and William H. Tuntke (production design). |
| 1974 | Ruby R. Levitt (set decoration) | Chinatown | Nominated | Shared with Richard Sylbert and W. Stewart Campbell (production design). |
| 1979 | Linda DeScenna (set decoration) | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Nominated | Shared with Harold Michelson, Joseph R. Jennings, Leon Harris, and John Vallone (production design). |
| 1981 | Ann Mollo (set decoration) | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Nominated | Shared with Assheton Gorton (production design). |
| 1981 | Patrizia von Brandenstein (production design) | Ragtime | Nominated | Shared with John Graysmark and Tony Reading (production design); George DeTitta Sr., George DeTitta Jr. and Peter Howitt (set decoration). |
| 1982 | Linda DeScenna (set decoration) | Blade Runner | Nominated | Shared with Lawrence G. Paull and David Snyder (production design). |
| 1983 | Anna Asp (production design) | Fanny and Alexander | Won | |
| 1983 | Polly Platt (production design) | Terms of Endearment | Nominated | Shared with Harold Michelson (production design); Tom Pedigo and Anthony Mondell (set decoration). |
| 1983 | Tessa Davies (set decoration) | Yentl | Nominated | Shared with Roy Walker and Leslie Tomkins (production design). |
| 1984 | Patrizia von Brandenstein (production design) | Amadeus | Won | Shared with Karel Černý (production design). |
| 1985 | Josie MacAvin (set decoration) | Out of Africa | Won | Shared with Stephen B. Grimes (production design). |
| 1985 | Maggie Gray (set decoration) | Brazil | Nominated | Shared with Norman Garwood (production design). |
| 1985 | Linda DeScenna (set decoration) | The Color Purple | Nominated | Shared with J. Michael Riva and Bo Welch (production design). |
| 1985 | Shinobu Muraki (production design) | Ran | Nominated | First woman of color to be nominated for Best Production Design. Shared with Yoshiro Muraki (production design). |
| 1986 | Karen O'Hara (set decoration) | The Color of Money | Nominated | Shared with Boris Leven (production design). |
| 1986 | Carol Joffe (set decoration) | Hannah and Her Sisters | Nominated | Shared with Stuart Wurtzel (production design). |
| 1987 | Joanne Woollard (set decoration) | Hope and Glory | Nominated | Shared with Anthony D. G. Pratt (production design). |
| 1987 | Carol Joffe (set decoration) | Radio Days | Nominated | Shared with Santo Loquasto (production design); Leslie Bloom and George DeTitta Jr. (set decoration). |
| 1987 | Patrizia von Brandenstein (production design) | The Untouchables | Nominated | Shared with William A. Elliott (production design); Hal Gausman (set decoration). |
| 1988 | Ida Random (production design); Linda DeScenna (set decoration) | Rain Man | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Anne Kuljian (set decoration) | The Abyss | Nominated | Shared with Leslie Dilley (production design). |
| 1989 | Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Nominated | Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design). |
| 1990 | Lisa Dean (set decoration) | Dances with Wolves | Nominated | Shared with Jeffrey Beecroft (production design). |
| 1990 | Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) | Hamlet | Nominated | Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design). |
| 1991 | Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | Bugsy | Won | Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design). |
| 1991 | Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | Barton Fink | Nominated | Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design). |
| 1991 | Cindy Carr (set decoration) | The Fisher King | Nominated | Shared with Mel Bourne (production design). |
| 1991 | Caryl Heller (set decoration) | The Prince of Tides | Nominated | Shared with Paul Sylbert (production design). |
| 1992 | Luciana Arrighi (production design) | Howards End | Won | Shared with Ian Whittaker (set decoration). |
| 1992 | Linda DeScenna (set decoration) | Toys | Nominated | Shared with Ferdinando Scarfiotti (production design). |
| 1992 | Janice Blackie-Goodine (set decoration) | Unforgiven | Nominated | Shared with Henry Bumstead (production design). |
| 1993 | Ewa Braun (set decoration) | Schindler's List | Won | Shared with Allan Starski (production design). |
| 1993 | Luciana Arrighi (production design) | The Remains of the Day | Nominated | Shared with Ian Whittaker (set decoration). |
| 1994 | Carolyn Scott (set decoration) | The Madness of King George | Won | Shared with Ken Adam (production design). |
| 1994 | Susan Bode (set decoration) | Bullets over Broadway | Nominated | Shared Santo Loquasto (production design). |
| 1994 | Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | Forrest Gump | Nominated | Shared with Rick Carter (production design). |
| 1994 | Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) | Interview with the Vampire | Nominated | Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design). |
| 1994 | Lilly Kilvert (production design); Dorree Cooper (set decoration) | Legends of the Fall | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Merideth Boswell (set decoration) | Apollo 13 | Nominated | Shared with Michael Corenblith (production design). |
| 1995 | Kerrie Brown (set decoration) | Babe | Nominated | Shared with Roger Ford (production design). |
| 1995 | Cheryl Carasik (set decoration) | A Little Princess | Nominated | Shared with Bo Welch (production design). |
| 1996 | Stephenie McMillan (set decoration) | The English Patient | Won | Shared with Stuart Craig (production design). |
| 1996 | Cheryl Carasik (set decoration) | The Birdcage | Nominated | Shared with Bo Welch (production design). |
| 1996 | Catherine Martin (production design); Brigitte Broch (set decoration) | Romeo + Juliet | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Nancy Nye (set decoration) | Gattaca | Nominated | Shared with Jan Roelfs (production design). |
| 1997 | Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) | Kundun | Nominated | Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design). |
| 1997 | Jeannine Oppewall (production design) | L.A. Confidential | Nominated | Shared with Jay Hart (set decoration). |
| 1997 | Cheryl Carasik (set decoration) | Men in Black | Nominated | Shared with Bo Welch (production design). |
| 1998 | Jill Quertier (set decoration) | Shakespeare in Love | Won | Shared with Martin Childs (production design). |
| 1998 | Jeannine Oppewall (production design) | Pleasantville | Nominated | Shared with Jay Hart (set decoration). |
| 1998 | Lisa Dean Kavanaugh (set decoration) | Saving Private Ryan | Nominated | Shared with Thomas E. Sanders (production design). |
| 1998 | Cindy Carr (set decoration) | What Dreams May Come | Nominated | Shared with Eugenio Zanetti (production design). |
| 1999 | Luciana Arrighi (production design) | Anna and the King | Nominated | Shared with Ian Whittaker (set decoration). |
| 1999 | Beth Rubino (set decoration) | The Cider House Rules | Nominated | Shared with David Gropman (production design). |
| 1999 | Eve Stewart (production design) | Topsy-Turvy | Nominated | Shared with John Bush (set decoration). |
| 2000 | Merideth Boswell (set decoration) | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Nominated | Shared with Michael Corenblith (production design). |
| 2000 | Jill Quertier (set decoration) | Quills | Nominated | Shared with Martin Childs (production design). |
| 2000 | Françoise Benoît-Fresco (set decoration) | Vatel | Nominated | Shared with Jean Rabasse (production design). |
| 2001 | Catherine Martin (production design); Brigitte Broch (set decoration) | Moulin Rouge! | Won | |
| 2001 | Aline Bonetto (production design); Marie-Laure Valla (set decoration) | Amélie | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Anna Pinnock (set decoration) | Gosford Park | Nominated | Shared with Stephen Altman (production design). |
| 2001 | Stephenie McMillan (set decoration) | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Nominated | Shared with Stuart Craig (production design). |
| 2002 | Hania Robledo (set decoration) | Frida | Nominated | Shared with Felipe Fernández del Paso (production design). |
| 2002 | Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) | Gangs of New York | Nominated | Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design). |
| 2002 | Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | Road to Perdition | Nominated | Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design). |
| 2003 | Cecile Heideman (set decoration) | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Nominated | Shared with Ben Van Os (production design). |
| 2003 | Lilly Kilvert (production design); Gretchen Rau (set decoration) | The Last Samurai | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Jeannine Oppewall (production design); Leslie Pope (set decoration) | Seabiscuit | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) | The Aviator | Won | Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design). |
| 2004 | Gemma Jackson (production design); Trisha Edwards (set decoration) | Finding Neverland | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Cheryl Carasik (set decoration) | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Nominated | Shared with Rick Heinrichs (production design). |
| 2004 | Celia Bobak (set decoration) | The Phantom of the Opera | Nominated | Shared with Anthony D. G. Pratt (production design). |
| 2004 | Aline Bonetto (production design) | A Very Long Engagement | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Gretchen Rau (set decoration) | Memoirs of a Geisha | Won | Shared with John Myhre (production design). |
| 2005 | Jan Pascale (set decoration) | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Nominated | Shared with James D. Bissell (production design). |
| 2005 | Stephenie McMillan (set decoration) | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Nominated | Shared with Stuart Craig (production design). |
| 2005 | Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration) | Pride & Prejudice | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Pilar Revuelta (set decoration) | Pan's Labyrinth | Won | Shared with Eugenio Caballero (production design). |
| 2006 | Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | Dreamgirls | Nominated | Shared with John Myhre (production design). |
| 2006 | Jeannine Claudia Oppewall (production design); Gretchen Rau (set decoration) | The Good Shepherd | Nominated | Shared with Leslie E. Rollins (set decoration). |
| 2006 | Cheryl Carasik (set decoration) | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Nominated | Shared with Rick Heinrichs (production design). |
| 2006 | Julie Ochipinti (set decoration) | The Prestige | Nominated | Shared with Nathan Crowley (production design). |
| 2007 | Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Won | First woman with multiple wins in this category. Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design). |
| 2007 | Beth Rubino (set decoration) | American Gangster | Nominated | Shared with Arthur Max (production design). |
| 2007 | Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration) | Atonement | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Anna Pinnock (set decoration) | The Golden Compass | Nominated | Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design). |
| 2008 | Rebecca Alleway (set decoration) | The Duchess | Nominated | Shared with Michael Carlin (production design). |
| 2008 | Kristi Zea (production design); Debra Schutt (set decoration) | Revolutionary Road | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Anastasia Masaro (production design); Caroline Smith (set decoration) | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Nominated | Shared with Dave Warren (production design). |
| 2009 | Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration) | Sherlock Holmes | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Maggie Gray (set decoration) | The Young Victoria | Nominated | Shared with Patrice Vermette (production design). |
| 2010 | Karen O'Hara (set decoration) | Alice in Wonderland | Won | Shared with Robert Stromberg (production design). |
| 2010 | Stephenie McMillan (set decoration) | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | Nominated | Shared with Stuart Craig (production design). |
| 2010 | Eve Stewart (production design); Judy Farr (set decoration) | The King's Speech | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | True Grit | Nominated | Shared with Jess Gonchor (production design). |
| 2011 | Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) | Hugo | Won | Shared with Dante Ferretti (production design). |
| 2011 | Stephenie McMillan (set decoration) | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Nominated | Shared with Stuart Craig (production design). |
| 2011 | Anne Seibel (production design); Hélène Dubreuil (set decoration) | Midnight in Paris | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration) | Anna Karenina | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Eve Stewart (production design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (set decoration) | Les Misérables | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Anna Pinnock (set decoration) | Life of Pi | Nominated | Shared with David Gropman (production design). |
| 2013 | Catherine Martin (production design); Beverley Dunn (set decoration) | The Great Gatsby | Won | |
| 2013 | Alice Baker (set decoration) | 12 Years a Slave | Nominated | Shared with Adam Stockhausen (production design). |
| 2013 | Judy Becker (production design); Heather Loeffler (set decoration) | American Hustle | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (set decoration) | Gravity | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nicholson (production design). |
| 2014 | Anna Pinnock (set decoration) | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Won | Shared with Adam Stockhausen (production design). |
| 2014 | Maria Djurkovic (production design); Tatiana Macdonald (set decoration) | The Imitation Game | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Anna Pinnock (set decoration) | Into the Woods | Nominated | Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design). |
| 2014 | Suzie Davies (production design); Charlotte Watts (set decoration) | Mr. Turner | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Lisa Thompson (set decoration) | Mad Max: Fury Road | Won | Shared with Colin Gibson (production design). |
| 2015 | Rena DeAngelo (set decoration) | Bridge of Spies | Nominated | Shared with Adam Stockhausen (production design); Bernhard Henrich (set decoration). |
| 2015 | Eve Stewart (production design) | The Danish Girl | Nominated | Shared with Michael Standish (set decoration). |
| 2015 | Celia Bobak (set decoration) | The Martian | Nominated | Shared with Arthur Max (production design). |
| 2016 | Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (set decoration) | La La Land | Won | Shared with David Wasco (production design). |
| 2016 | Anna Pinnock (set decoration) | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominated | Shared with Stuart Craig (production design). |
| 2016 | Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | Hail, Caesar! | Nominated | Shared with Jess Gonchor (production design). |
| 2017 | Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration) | Beauty and the Beast | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Alessandra Querzola (set decoration) | Blade Runner 2049 | Nominated | Shared with Dennis Gassner (production design). |
| 2017 | Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration) | Darkest Hour | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Hannah Beachler (production design) | Black Panther | Won | First African-American and black woman to win and be nominated for Best Production Design. Shared with Jay Hart (set decoration). |
| 2018 | Fiona Crombie (production design); Alice Felton (set decoration) | The Favourite | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Kathy Lucas (set decoration) | First Man | Nominated | Shared with Nathan Crowley (production design). |
| 2018 | Bárbara Enríquez (set decoration) | Roma | Nominated | Shared with Eugenio Caballero (production design). |
| 2019 | Barbara Ling (production design); Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Won | |
| 2019 | Regina Graves (set decoration) | The Irishman | Nominated | Shared with Bob Shaw (production design). |
| 2019 | Nora Sopková (set decoration) | Jojo Rabbit | Nominated | Shared with Ra Vincent (production design). |
| 2020 | Jan Pascale (set decoration) | Mank | Won | Shared with Donald Graham Burt (production design). |
| 2020 | Cathy Featherstone (set decoration) | The Father | Nominated | Shared with Peter Francis (production design). |
| 2020 | Karen O'Hara and Diana Stoughton (set decoration) | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Nominated | Shared with Mark Ricker (production design). |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Keenan (set decoration) | News of the World | Nominated | Shared with David Crank (production design). |
| 2020 | Kathy Lucas (set decoration) | Tenet | Nominated | Shared with Nathan Crowley (production design). |
| 2021 | Zsuzsanna Sipos (set decoration) | Dune | Won | Shared with Patrice Vermette (production design). |
| 2021 | Tamara Deverell (production design) | Nightmare Alley | Nominated | Shared with Shane Vieau (set decoration). |
| 2021 | Amber Richards (set decoration) | The Power of the Dog | Nominated | Shared with Grant Major (production design). |
| 2021 | Nancy Haigh (set decoration) | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Nominated | Shared with Stefan Dechant (production design). |
| 2021 | Rena DeAngelo (set decoration) | West Side Story | Nominated | Shared with Adam Stockhausen (production design). |
| 2022 | Ernestine Hipper (set decoration) | All Quiet on the Western Front | Won | Shared with Christian M. Goldbeck (production design). |
| 2022 | Vanessa Cole (set decoration) | Avatar: The Way of Water | Nominated | Shared with Dylan Cole and Ben Procter (production design). |
| 2022 | Florencia Martin (production design) | Babylon | Nominated | Shared with Anthony Carlino (set decoration). |
| 2022 | Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy (production design); Bev Dunn (set decoration) | Elvis | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Karen O'Hara (set decoration) | The Fabelmans | Nominated | Shared with Rick Carter (production design). |
| 2023 | Shona Heath (production design); Zsuzsa Mihalek (set decoration) | Poor Things | Won | Shared with James Price (production design). |
| 2023 | Sarah Greenwood (production design); Katie Spencer (set decoration) | Barbie | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Elli Griff (set decoration) | Napoleon | Nominated | Shared with Arthur Max (production design). |
| 2023 | Ruth De Jong (production design); Claire Kaufman (set decoration) | Oppenheimer | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Judy Becker (production design); Patricia Cuccia (set decoration) | The Brutalist | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Suzie Davies (production design); Cynthia Sleiter (set decoration) | Conclave | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Beatrice Brentnerová (set decoration) | Nosferatu | Nominated | Shared with Craig Lathrop (production design). |

## Best Short Film (Animated)

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1962 | Faith Hubley | The Hole | Won | First woman to win and be nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First woman with multiple wins and nominations in this category. Shared with John Hubley. |
| 1966 | Faith Hubley | Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature | Won | First woman to win and be nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First woman with multiple wins and nominations in this category. Shared with John Hubley. |
| 1968 | Faith Hubley | Windy Day | Nominated | First woman to win and be nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First woman with multiple wins and nominations in this category. Shared with John Hubley. |
| 1969 | Faith Hubley | Of Men and Demons | Nominated | First woman to win and be nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First woman with multiple wins and nominations in this category. Shared with John Hubley. |
| 1974 | Faith Hubley | Voyage to Next | Nominated | First woman to win and be nominated for Best Animated Short Film. First woman with multiple wins and nominations in this category. Shared with John Hubley. |
| 1976 | Suzanne Baker | Leisure | Won | |
| 1976 | Caroline Leaf | The Street | Nominated | Shared with Guy Glover. |
| 1977 | Faith Hubley | The Doonesbury Special | Nominated | Shared with John Hubley and Garry Trudeau. |
| 1978 | Eunice Macaulay | Special Delivery | Won | Shared with John Weldon. |
| 1981 | Janet Perlman | The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin | Nominated | |
| 1982 | Dianne Jackson | The Snowman | Nominated | |
| 1983 | Eda Godel Hallinan | Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain | Nominated | |
| 1985 | Cilia van Dijk | Anna & Bella | Won | |
| 1985 | Alison Snowden | Second Class Mail | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Linda Van Tulden | A Greek Tragedy | Won | Shared with Willem Thijsen. |
| 1987 | Eunice Macaulay | George and Rosemary | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Wendy Tilby | Strings | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Joan C. Gratz | Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase | Won | |
| 1992 | Michaela Pavlátová | Reci, Reci, Reci... | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Alison Snowden | Bob's Birthday | Won | Shared with David Fine. |
| 1994 | Vanessa Schwartz | The Janitor | Nominated | First Latina to be nominated for Best Animated Short Film. |
| 1994 | Erica Russell | Triangle | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Joanna Quinn | Famous Fred | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Torill Kove | My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Wendy Tilby Amanda Forbis | When the Day Breaks | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Annette Schäffler | Periwig Maker | Nominated | Shared with Steffen Schäffler. |
| 2002 | Heidi Wittlinger | Das Rad | Nominated | Shared with Chris Stenner. |
| 2005 | Peggy Stern | The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation | Won | Shared with John Canemaker. |
| 2005 | Sharon Colman | Badgered | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Torill Kove | The Danish Poet | Won | |
| 2007 | Suzie Templeton | Peter & the Wolf | Won | Shared with Hugh Welchman. |
| 2011 | Sue Goffe | A Morning Stroll | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Wendy Tilby Amanda Forbis | Wild Life | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly | Head Over Heels | Nominated | Shared with Timothy Reckart. |
| 2013 | Lauren MacMullan Dorothy McKim | Get a Horse! | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Kristina Reed | Feast | Won | Shared with Patrick Osborne. |
| 2014 | Daisy Jacobs | The Bigger Picture | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Hees. |
| 2014 | Torill Kove | Me and My Moulton | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Imogen Sutton | Prologue | Nominated | Shared with Richard Williams. |
| 2015 | Nicole Paradis Grindle | Sanjay's Super Team | Nominated | Shared with Sanjay Patel. |
| 2016 | Cara Speller | Pear Cider and Cigarettes | Nominated | Shared with Robert Valley. |
| 2017 | Dana Murray | Lou | Nominated | Shared with Dave Mullins. |
| 2017 | Ru Kuwahata | Negative Space | Nominated | Shared with Max Porter. |
| 2018 | Domee Shi Becky Neiman-Cobb | Bao | Won | |
| 2018 | Alison Snowden | Animal Behaviour | Nominated | Shared with David Fine. |
| 2018 | Louise Bagnall Nuria González-Blanco | Late Afternoon | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Karen Rupert Toliver | Hair Love | Won | Shared with Matthew A. Cherry. |
| 2019 | Daria Kashcheeva | Daughter | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Rosana Sullivan Kathryn Hendrickson | Kitbull | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Siqi Song | Sister | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Madeline Sharafian | Burrow | Nominated | Shared with Michael Capbarat. |
| 2021 | Joanna Quinn | Affairs of the Art | Nominated | Shared with Les Mills. |
| 2022 | Amanda Forbis Wendy Tilby | The Flying Sailor | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Sara Gunnarsdóttir Pamela Ribon | My Year of Dicks | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Tal Kantor | Letter to a Pig | Nominated | Shared with Amit R. Gicelter. |
| 2023 | Jerusha Hess | Ninety-Five Senses | Nominated | Shared with Jared Hess. |
| 2023 | Yegane Moghaddam | Our Uniform | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Stéphanie Clément | Pachyderme | Nominated | Shared with Marc Rius. |
| 2024 | Shirin Sohani | In the Shadow of the Cypress | Won | Shared with Hossein Molayemi. |
| 2024 | Nina Gantz Stienette Bosklopper | Wander to Wonder | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Juliette Marquet | Yuck! | Nominated | Shared with Loïc Espuche. |

## Best Short Film (Live Action)

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1959 | Shirley Clarke | Skyscraper | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. Shared with Willard Van Dyke and Irving Jacoby. |
| 1962 | Martina Huguenot van der Linden | Big City Blues | Nominated | Shared with Charles Huguenot van der Linden. |
| 1969 | Joan Keller Stern | The Magic Machines | Won | First woman to win for Best Live Action Short Film. |
| 1976 | Marjorie Anne Short | Kudzu | Nominated | |
| 1976 | Claire Wilbur | Nightlife | Nominated | Shared with Robin Lehman. |
| 1976 | Dyan Cannon | Number One | Nominated | Shared with Vince Cannon. |
| 1977 | Beverly Shaffer Yuki Yoshida | I'll Find a Way | Won | Yoshida was the first woman of color to win and be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. |
| 1978 | Fern Field | A Different Approach | Nominated | Shared with Jim Belcher. |
| 1979 | Sarah Pillsbury | Board and Care | Won | Shared with Ron Ellis. |
| 1979 | Carol Lowell | Oh Brother, My Brother | Nominated | Shared with Ross Lowell. |
| 1980 | Sally Heckel | A Jury of Her Peers | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Shelley Levinson | Violet | Won | Shared with Paul Kemp. |
| 1981 | Christine Oestreicher | Couples and Robbers | Nominated | |
| 1982 | Christine Oestreicher | A Shocking Accident | Won | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. |
| 1983 | Janice L. Platt | Boys and Girls | Won | |
| 1984 | Janice L. Platt | The Painted Door | Nominated | Shared with Michael MacMillan. |
| 1984 | Sharon Oreck Lesli Linka Glatter | Tales of Meeting and Parting | Nominated | |
| 1985 | Dianna Costello | Graffiti | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Fredda Weiss | Love Struck | Nominated | |
| 1987 | Jana Sue Memel | Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall | Won | Shared with Jonathan Sanger. |
| 1987 | Ann Wingate | Making Waves | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Matia Karrell Abbee Goldstein | Cadillac Dreams | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Hillary Ripps | 12:01 PM | Nominated | Shared with Jonathan Heap. |
| 1992 | Jana Sue Memel | Contact | Nominated | Shared with Jonathan Darby. |
| 1993 | Stacy Title | Down on the Waterfront | Nominated | Shared with Jonathan Penner. |
| 1993 | Susan Seidelman | The Dutch Master | Nominated | Shared with Jonathan Brett. |
| 1993 | Jana Sue Memel | Partners | Nominated | Shared with Peter Weller. |
| 1994 | Ruth Kenley-Letts | Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life | Won | Shared with Peter Capaldi. Tied with Trevor. |
| 1994 | Peggy Rajski | Trevor | Won | Shared with Randy Stone. Tied with Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. |
| 1994 | Christine Astin | Kangaroo Court | Nominated | Shared with Sean Astin. |
| 1994 | JoBeth Williams Michele McGuire | On Hope | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Christine Lahti Jana Sue Memel | Lieberman in Love | Won | Memel was the first woman with multiple wins in this category. |
| 1995 | Tikki Goldberg | Little Surprises | Nominated | Shared with Jeff Goldblum. |
| 1995 | Dianne Houston Joy Ryan | Tuesday Morning Ride | Nominated | Houston was the first Black woman to be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. |
| 1996 | Bernadette Carranza | Wordless | Nominated | Shared with Antonello De Leo. |
| 1998 | Vivian Goffette | La Carte Postale (The Postcard) | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Barbara Schock Tamara Tiehel | My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York | Won | |
| 1999 | Gabriele Lins | Kleingeld | Nominated | Shared with Marc-Andreas Bochert. |
| 2000 | Ericka Frederick | By Courier | Nominated | Shared with Peter Riegert. |
| 2000 | Joan Stein Christina Lazaridi | One Day Crossing | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Gail Lerner | Seraglio | Nominated | Shared with Colin Campbell. |
| 2001 | Lisa Blount | The Accountant | Won | Shared with Ray McKinnon. |
| 2001 | Shameela Bakhsh | Speed for Thespians | Nominated | Shared with Kalman Apple. |
| 2002 | Mie Andreasen | Der Er En Yndig Man (This Charming Man) | Won | Shared with Martin Strange-Hansen. |
| 2002 | Anja Daelemans | Fait D'Hiver | Nominated | Shared with Dirk Beliën. |
| 2002 | Lexi Alexander | Johnny Flynton | Nominated | Shared with Alexander Buono. |
| 2004 | Andrea Arnold | Wasp | Won | |
| 2004 | Ainsley Gardiner | Two Cars, One Night | Nominated | Shared with Taika Waititi. |
| 2005 | Ulrike Grote | Ausreisser (The Runaway) | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Lene Bausager | Cashback | Nominated | Shared with Sean Ellis. |
| 2005 | Pia Clemente | Our Time Is Up | Nominated | Shared with Rob Pearlstein. |
| 2007 | Louise Vesth | At Night | Nominated | Shared with Christian E. Christiansen. |
| 2007 | Anja Daelemans | Tanghi Argentini | Nominated | Shared with Guido Thys. |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Marre | Manon on the Asphalt | Nominated | Shared with Olivier Pont. |
| 2008 | Steph Green Tamara Anghie | New Boy | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Dorte Høgh | The Pig | Nominated | Shared with Tivi Magnusson. |
| 2009 | Juanita Wilson | The Door | Nominated | Shared with James Flynn. |
| 2010 | Samantha Waite | Wish 143 | Nominated | Shared with Ian Barnes. |
| 2011 | Oorlagh George | The Shore | Won | Shared with Terry George. |
| 2011 | Eimear O'Kane | Pentecost | Nominated | Shared with Peter McDonald. |
| 2011 | Gigi Causey | Time Freak | Nominated | Shared with Andrew Bowler. |
| 2012 | Ellen De Waele | Dood van een Schaduw (Death of a Shadow) | Nominated | Shared with Tom Van Avermaet. |
| 2013 | Selma Vilhunen Kirsikka Saari | Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Mihal Brezis | Aya | Nominated | Shared with Oded Binnun. |
| 2014 | Talkhon Hamzavi | Parvaneh | Nominated | Shared with Stefan Eichenberger. |
| 2015 | Serena Armitage | Stutterer | Won | Shared with Benjamin Cleary. |
| 2016 | Anna Udvardy | Sing | Won | Shared with Kristóf Deák. |
| 2017 | Rachel Shenton | The Silent Child | Won | Shared with Chris Overton. |
| 2017 | Katja Benrath | Watu Wore: All of Us | Nominated | Shared with Tobias Rosen. |
| 2018 | Jaime Ray Newman | Skin | Won | Shared with Guy Nattiv. |
| 2018 | Maria Gracia Turgeon | Fauve | Nominated | Shared with Jeremy Comte. |
| 2018 | Marianne Farley Marie-Hélène Panisset | Marguerite | Nominated | Shared with Tobias Rosen. |
| 2018 | María del Puy Alvarado | Mother | Nominated | Shared with Rodrigo Sorogoyen. |
| 2019 | Meryam Joobeur Maria Gracia Turgeon | Brotherhood | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Delphine Girard | A Sister | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Susan Ruzenski | Feeling Through | Nominated | Shared with Doug Roland. |
| 2020 | Elvira Lind Sofia Sondervan | The Letter Room | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Farah Nabulsi | The Present | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Shira Hochman | White Eye | Nominated | Shared with Tomer Shushan. |
| 2021 | Maria Brendle Nadine Lüchinger | Ala Kachuu – Take and Run | Nominated | |
| 2021 | K.D. Dávila | Please Hold | Nominated | First Latina to be nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. Shared with Levin Menekse. |
| 2022 | Rebecca Pruzan | Ivalu | Nominated | Shared with Anders Walter. |
| 2022 | Alice Rohrwacher | Le pupille | Nominated | Shared with Alfonso Cuarón. |
| 2023 | Nicky Bentham | The After | Nominated | Shared with Misan Harriman. |
| 2023 | Nazrin Choudhury Sara McFarlane | Red, White and Blue | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Victoria Warmerdam | I'm Not a Robot | Won | Shared with Trent. |
| 2024 | Suchitra Mattai | Anuja | Nominated | Shared with Adam J. Graves. |
| 2024 | Cindy Lee | The Last Ranger | Nominated | Shared with Darwin Shaw. |

## Best Sound

Academy Award for Best Sound :
| Sound Editing |||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1984 | Kay Rose | The River | Won | First and only woman to receive the non-competitive Special Achievement Academy Award (Sound Effects Editing). |
| 1986 | Cecelia Hall | Top Gun | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for competitive award in sound categories. Shared with George Watters II. |
| 1990 | Cecelia Hall | The Hunt for Red October | Won | First woman to win competitive award in sound categories. First woman with multiple nominations in sound categories. Shared with George Watters II. |
| 1991 | Gloria Borders | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Won | Shared with Gary Rydstrom. |
| 1994 | Gloria Borders | Forrest Gump | Nominated | Shared with Randy Thom. |
| Sound Mixing |||||
| 1995 | Anna Behlmer | Braveheart | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for Best Sound Mixing. Shared with Andy Nelson, Scott Millan, and Brian Simmons. |
| 1996 | Anna Behlmer | Evita | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations for Best Sound Mixing. Shared with Andy Nelson and Ken Weston. |
| 1997 | Anna Behlmer | L.A. Confidential | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nelson and Kirk Francis. |
| 1998 | Pud Cusack | The Mask of Zorro | Nominated | Shared with Kevin O'Connell and Greg P. Russell. |
| 1998 | Anna Behlmer | The Thin Red Line | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nelson and Paul Brincat. |
| 2001 | Anna Behlmer | Moulin Rouge! | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nelson, Roger Savage, and Guntis Sics. |
| 2003 | Anna Behlmer | The Last Samurai | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nelson and Jeff Wexler. |
| 2003 | Anna Behlmer | Seabiscuit | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nelson and Tod A. Maitland. |
| 2005 | Anna Behlmer | War of the Worlds | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nelson and Ron Judkins. |
| 2006 | Anna Behlmer | Blood Diamond | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nelson and Ivan Sharrock. |
| Sound Editing |||||
| 2007 | Karen Baker Landers | The Bourne Ultimatum | Won | Shared with Per Hallberg. |
| Sound Mixing |||||
| 2008 | Lora Hirschberg | The Dark Knight | Nominated | Shared with Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick. |
| 2009 | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing |
| 2009 | Anna Behlmer | Star Trek | Nominated | Shared with Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin. |
| Sound Editing ||||
| 2009 | Gwendolyn Yates Whittle | Avatar | Nominated | Shared with Christopher Boyes. |
| 2010 | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing |
| 2010 | Lora Hirschberg | Inception | Won | First woman to win for Best Sound Mixing. Shared with Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick. |
| Sound Editing ||||
| 2010 | Gwendolyn Yates Whittle | Tron: Legacy | Nominated | Shared with Addison Teague. |
| Sound Mixing |||||
| 2011 | Deb Adair | Moneyball | Nominated | Shared with Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco, and Ed Novick. |
| Sound Editing |||||
| 2012 | Karen Baker Landers | Skyfall | Won | First woman with multiple wins in sound categories. Shared with Per Hallberg. Tied with Paul N. J. Ottosson for Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2014 | Becky Sullivan | Unbroken | Nominated | Shared with Andrew DeCristofaro. |
| 2016 | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing |
| 2016 | Renée Tondelli | Deepwater Horizon | Nominated | Shared with Wylie Stateman. |
| 2016 | Ai-Ling Lee | La La Land | Nominated | First woman of color to be nominated in sound categories. First woman to be nominated in both sound categories and in the same year. Shared with Andy Nelson and Steven A. Morrow. |
| Sound Editing ||||
| 2016 | Ai-Ling Lee Mildred Iatrou Morgan | La La Land | Nominated | Lee was the first woman of color to be nominated in sound categories. Lee was the first woman to be nominated in both sound categories and in the same year. |
| Sound Mixing |||||
| 2017 | Mary H. Ellis | Baby Driver | Nominated | Shared with Julian Slater and Tim Cavagin. |
| 2018 | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing | Sound Mixing |
| 2018 | Ai-Ling Lee Mary H. Ellis | First Man | Nominated | Shared with Jon Taylor and Frank A. Montaño. |
| Sound Editing ||||
| 2018 | Nina Hartstone | Bohemian Rhapsody | Won | Shared with John Warhurst. |
| 2018 | Ai-Ling Lee Mildred Iatrou Morgan | First Man | Nominated | |
| Sound Editing |||||
| 2019 | Rachael Tate | 1917 | Nominated | Shared with Oliver Tarney. |
| Sound |||||
| 2020 | Michelle Couttolenc | Sound of Metal | Won | Shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, and Phillip Bladh. |
| 2020 | Coya Elliott | Soul | Nominated | Shared with Ren Klyce and David Parker. |
| 2021 | Denise Yarde | Belfast | Nominated | Shared with Simon Chase, James Mather, and Niv Adiri. |
| 2021 | Tara Webb | The Power of the Dog | Nominated | Shared with Richard Flynn and Robert Mackenzie. |
| 2022 | Gwendolyn Yates Whittle | Avatar: The Way of Water | Nominated | Shared with Julian Howarth, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, and Michael Hedges. |
| 2024 | Nancy Nugent Title | Wicked | Nominated | Shared with Simon Hayes, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis. |

## Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1986 | Suzanne M. Benson | Aliens | Won | First woman to win and be nominated for Best Visual Effects. Shared with Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, and John Richardson. |
| 1993 | Pamela Easley | Cliffhanger | Nominated | Shared with Neil Krepela, John Richardson, and John Bruno. |
| 2015 | Sara Bennett | Ex Machina | Won | Shared with Mark Williams Ardington, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst. |
| 2020 | Genevieve Camilleri | Love and Monsters | Nominated | Shared with Matt Sloan, Brian Cox, and Matt Everitt. |
| 2023 | Kiyoko Shibuya | Godzilla Minus One | Won | First woman of color to win and be nominated for Best Visual Effects. Shared with Takashi Yamazaki, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima. |

## Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay :
| Year | Name | Film | Source Material | Status | Notes |
| 1928-29 | Bess Meredyth | A Woman of Affairs | The novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in writing categories. Among the first women to be nominated in writing categories. One of only three women among 36 founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
| 1928-29 | Bess Meredyth | Wonder of Women | The novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt by Hermann Sudermann | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in writing categories. Among the first women to be nominated in writing categories. One of only three women among 36 founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
| 1932-33 | Sarah Y. Mason | Little Women | The novel by Louisa May Alcott | Won | First woman to win for Best Adapted Screenplay. Shared with Victor Heerman. |
| 1932-33 | Sonya Levien | State Fair | The novel by Phil Stong | Nominated | Shared with Paul Green. |
| 1934 | Frances Goodrich | The Thin Man | The novel by Dashiell Hammett | Nominated | Shared with Albert Hackett. |
| 1936 | Frances Goodrich | After the Thin Man | The novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett | Nominated | Shared with Albert Hackett. |
| 1937 | Viña Delmar | The Awful Truth | The play by Arthur Richman | Nominated | |
| 1937 | Dorothy Parker | A Star Is Born | A story by William A. Wellman & Robert Carson | Nominated | Shared with Alan Campbell and Robert Carson. |
| 1938 | Elizabeth Hill | The Citadel | The novel by A. J. Cronin | Nominated | Shared with Ian Dalrymple and Frank Wead. |
| 1938 | Lenore Coffee | Four Daughters | The short story Sister Act by Fannie Hurst | Nominated | Shared with Julius J. Epstein. |
| 1939 | Claudine West | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | The novella by James Hilton | Nominated | Shared with R.C. Sherriff and Eric Maschwitz. |
| 1940 | Joan Harrison | Rebecca | The novel by Daphne du Maurier | Nominated | First person to be nominated in both screenwriting categories and in the same year (For the further information, see Best Original Screenplay). Shared with Robert E. Sherwood. |
| 1941 | Lillian Hellman | The Little Foxes | The play by Hellman | Nominated | First woman to be nominated for adapting her own work. |
| 1942 | Claudine West | Mrs. Miniver | The character Mrs. Miniver from the newspaper columns by Jan Struther | Won | Shared with George Froeschel, James Hilton, and Arthur Wimperis. |
| 1942 | Claudine West | Random Harvest | The novel by James Hilton | Nominated | Shared with George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis. |
| 1944 | Elizabeth Reinhardt | Laura | The novel by Vera Caspary | Nominated | Shared with Jay Dratler and Samuel Hoffenstein. |
| 1945 | Tess Slesinger | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | The novel by Betty Smith | Nominated | Posthumous nomination. Shared with Frank Davis. |
| 1946 | Sally Benson | Anna and the King of Siam | The novel by Margaret Landon | Nominated | Shared with Talbot Jennings. |
| 1948 | Irma von Cube | Johnny Belinda | The play by Elmer Blaney Harris | Nominated | Shared with Allen Vincent. |
| 1950 | Frances Goodrich | Father of the Bride | The novel by Edward Streeter | Nominated | Shared with Albert Hackett. |
| 1953 | Helen Deutsch | Lili | The short story Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico | Nominated | |
| 1954 | Frances Goodrich Dorothy Kingsley | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | The short story The Sobbin' Women by Stephen Vincent Benét | Nominated | Goodrich tied the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with four. Shared with Albert Hackett. |
| 1955 | Isobel Lennart | Love Me or Leave Me | A story by Daniel Fuchs | Nominated | Shared with Daniel Fuchs. |
| 1960 | Isobel Lennart | The Sundowners | The novel by Jon Cleary | Nominated | |
| 1962 | Eleanor Perry | David and Lisa | The novella Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin | Nominated | |
| 1963 | Phoebe Ephron | Captain Newman, M.D. | The novel by Leo Rosten | Nominated | Shared with Richard L. Breen and Henry Ephron. |
| 1963 | Harriet Frank Jr. | Hud | The novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry | Nominated | Shared with Irving Ravetch. |
| 1969 | Bridget Boland | Anne of the Thousand Days | The play by Maxwell Anderson | Nominated | Shared with John Hale and Richard Sokolove. |
| 1970 | Renée Taylor | Lovers and Other Strangers | The play by Joseph Bologna & Taylor | Nominated | Shared with Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman. |
| 1972 | Jay Presson Allen | Cabaret | The musical by Joe Masteroff | Nominated | |
| 1975 | Gladys Hill | The Man Who Would Be King | The short story by Rudyard Kipling | Nominated | Shared with John Huston. |
| 1978 | Elaine May | Heaven Can Wait | The play by Harry Segall | Nominated | Shared with Warren Beatty. |
| 1979 | Harriet Frank Jr. | Norma Rae | The book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by Hank Leiferman | Nominated | Shared with Irving Ravetch. |
| 1981 | Jay Presson Allen | Prince of the City | The book Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much by Robert Daley | Nominated | Shared with Sidney Lumet. |
| 1985 | Janet Roach | Prizzi's Honor | The novel by Richard Condon | Nominated | Shared with Richard Condon. |
| 1986 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | A Room with a View | The novel by E.M. Forster | Won | |
| 1986 | Hesper Anderson | Children of a Lesser God | The play by Mark Medoff | Nominated | Shared with Mark Medoff. |
| 1986 | Beth Henley | Crimes of the Heart | The play by Henley | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Anna Hamilton Phelan | Gorillas in the Mist | The article by Harold Hayes | Nominated | Shared with Tab Murphy. |
| 1988 | Christine Edzard | Little Dorrit | The novel by Charles Dickens | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Agnieszka Holland | Europa Europa | The book I Was Hitler Youth Salomon by Solomon Perel | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Fannie Flagg Carol Sobieski | Fried Green Tomatoes | The novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Flagg | Nominated | Posthumous nomination for Sobieski. |
| 1991 | Pat Conroy Becky Johnston | The Prince of Tides | The novel by Conroy | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Howards End | The novel by E.M. Forster | Won | First woman with multiple wins in this category. Tied the record for most wins in this category, with two. |
| 1993 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The Remains of the Day | The novel by Kazuo Ishiguro | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Emma Thompson | Sense and Sensibility | The novel by Jane Austen | Won | First and only person to win for acting (Best Actress for Howards End) and screenwriting. First woman to be nominated for acting (Best Actress for Sense and Sensibility) and screenwriting in the same year. |
| 1995 | Anna Pavignano | Il Postino | The novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta | Nominated | Shared with Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi, Furio Scarpelli, and Giacomo Scarpelli. |
| 1997 | Hilary Henkin | Wag the Dog | The novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart | Nominated | Shared with David Mamet. |
| 1998 | Elaine May | Primary Colors | The novel by Joe Klein | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Wang Hui-ling | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | The novel by Wang Dulu | Nominated | Shared with James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai. |
| 2001 | Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | The novel by J. R. R. Tolkien | Nominated | Shared with Peter Jackson. |
| 2003 | Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | The novel by J. R. R. Tolkien | Won | Shared with Peter Jackson. |
| 2003 | Shari Springer Berman | American Splendor | The comic book series by Harvey Pekar & graphic novel Our Cancer Year by Pekar & Joyce Brabner | Nominated | Shared with Robert Pulcini. |
| 2004 | Julie Delpy Kim Krizan | Before Sunset | Characters from the film Before Sunrise created by Richard Linklater and Krizan | Nominated | Shared with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater. |
| 2005 | Diana Ossana | Brokeback Mountain | The short story by Annie Proulx | Won | Shared with Larry McMurtry. |
| 2007 | Sarah Polley | Away from Her | The short story The Bear Went Over the Mountain by Alice Munro | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Robin Swicord | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | The short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Nominated | Shared with Eric Roth. |
| 2009 | Terri Tatchell | District 9 | The short film Alive in Joburg written by Neill Blomkamp | Nominated | Shared with Neill Blomkamp. |
| 2010 | Debra Granik Anne Rosellini | Winter's Bone | The novel by Daniel Woodrell | Nominated | |
| 2011 | Bridget O'Connor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | The novel by John le Carré | Nominated | Posthumous nomination. Shared with Peter Straughan. |
| 2012 | Lucy Alibar | Beasts of the Southern Wild | The play Juicy and Delicious by Alibar | Nominated | Shared with Benh Zeitlin. |
| 2013 | Julie Delpy | Before Midnight | Characters from the film Before Sunrise created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan | Nominated | Shared with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater. |
| 2015 | Phyllis Nagy | Carol | The novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Emma Donoghue | Room | The novel by Donoghue | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Allison Schroeder | Hidden Figures | The book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly | Nominated | Shared with Theodore Melfi. |
| 2017 | Dee Rees | Mudbound | The novel by Hillary Jordan | Nominated | First Black woman and woman of color to be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Shared with Virgil Williams. |
| 2018 | Nicole Holofcener | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | The memoir by Lee Israel | Nominated | Shared with Jeff Whitty. |
| 2019 | Greta Gerwig | Little Women | The novel by Louisa May Alcott | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Erica Rivinoja Jena Friedman Nina Pedrad | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | Based on the character Borat Sagdiyev from the television series Da Ali G Show by Sacha Baron Cohen | Nominated | Shared with Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, and Lee Kern. |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | The book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Sian Heder | CODA | Based on the screenplay La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Éric Lartigau | Won | |
| 2021 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | The Lost Daughter | The novel by Elena Ferrante | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | The novel by Thomas Savage | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Sarah Polley | Women Talking | The novel by Miriam Toews | Won | |
| 2022 | Lesley Paterson | All Quiet on the Western Front | The novel by Erich Maria Remarque | Nominated | Shared with Edward Berger and Ian Stokell. |
| 2023 | Greta Gerwig | Barbie | The characters created by Ruth Handler | Nominated | Shared with Noah Baumbach. |
| 2024 | Léa Mysius | Emilia Pérez | The opera libretto by Jacques Audiard & the novel Écoute by Boris Razon | Nominated | Shared with Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Nicolas Livecchi. |
| 2024 | Joslyn Barnes | Nickel Boys | The novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead | Nominated | Shared with RaMell Ross. |

## Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1928-29 | Josephine Lovett | Our Dancing Daughters | Nominated | Among the first women to be nominated in writing categories. |
| 1929-30 | Frances Marion | The Big House | Won | First woman to win in writing categories. First person with multiple wins in writing categories (for further information, see Best Original Story). |
| 1940 | Joan Harrison | Foreign Correspondent | Nominated | First person to be nominated in both screenwriting categories and in the same year (for further information, see Best Adapted Screenplay). Shared with Charles Bennett. |
| 1943 | Lillian Hellman | The North Star | Nominated | |
| 1944 | Gladys Lehman | Two Girls and a Sailor | Nominated | Shared with Richard Connell. |
| 1946 | Muriel Box | The Seventh Veil | Won | Shared with Sydney Box. |
| 1947 | Ruth Gordon | A Double Life | Nominated | Shared with Garson Kanin. |
| 1949 | Helen Levitt Janice Loeb | The Quiet One | Nominated | First documentary to be nominated in this category. Shared with Sidney Meyers. |
| 1950 | Ruth Gordon | Adam's Rib | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. Shared with Garson Kanin. |
| 1950 | Virginia Kellogg | Caged | Nominated | Shared with Bernard C. Schoenfeld. |
| 1952 | Ruth Gordon | Pat and Mike | Nominated | Shared with Garson Kanin. |
| 1953 | Betty Comden | The Band Wagon | Nominated | Shared with Adolph Green. |
| 1955 | Sonya Levien | Interrupted Melody | Won | Shared with William Ludwig. |
| 1955 | Betty Comden | It's Always Fair Weather | Nominated | Shared with Adolph Green. |
| 1955 | Isobel Lennart | Love Me or Leave Me | Nominated | Shared with Daniel Fuchs. |
| 1958 | Fay Kanin | Teacher's Pet | Nominated | Shared with Michael Kanin. |
| 1960 | Marguerite Duras | Hiroshima, Mon Amour | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Ariane Mnouchkine | That Man from Rio | Nominated | Shared with Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Daniel Boulanger, and Philippe de Broca. |
| 1965 | Suso Cecchi d'Amico | Casanova 70 | Nominated | Shared with Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, and Giorgio Salvioni. |
| 1970 | Adrien Joyce | Five Easy Pieces | Nominated | Shared with Bob Rafelson. |
| 1971 | Penelope Gilliatt | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Nominated | |
| 1972 | Chris Clark Suzanne de Passe | Lady Sings the Blues | Nominated | De Passe was the first African-American and black woman to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Shared with Terrence McCloy. |
| 1973 | Gloria Katz | American Graffiti | Nominated | Shared with George Lucas and Willard Huyck. |
| 1974 | Suzanne Schiffman | Day for Night | Nominated | Shared with François Truffaut and Jean-Louis Richard. |
| 1976 | Daniele Thompson | Cousin, Cousine | Nominated | Shared with Jean-Charles Tacchella. |
| 1976 | Lina Wertmüller | Seven Beauties | Nominated | |
| 1978 | Nancy Dowd | Coming Home | Won | Shared with Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt. |
| 1979 | Valerie Curtin | ...And Justice for All | Nominated | Shared with Barry Levinson. |
| 1980 | Nancy Meyers | Private Benjamin | Nominated | Shared with Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller. |
| 1982 | Melissa Mathison | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Nominated | |
| 1983 | Barbara Benedek | The Big Chill | Nominated | Shared with Lawrence Kasdan. |
| 1983 | Nora Ephron Alice Arlen | Silkwood | Nominated | |
| 1984 | Anna Thomas | El Norte | Nominated | Shared with Gregory Nava. |
| 1985 | Pamela Wallace | Witness | Won | Shared with Earl W. Wallace and William Kelley. |
| 1985 | Aida Bortnik | The Official Story | Nominated | First Latina to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Shared with Luis Puenzo. |
| 1988 | Anne Spielberg | Big | Nominated | Shared with Gary Ross. |
| 1988 | Naomi Foner | Running on Empty | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Callie Khouri | Thelma & Louise | Won | |
| 1991 | Meg Kasdan | Grand Canyon | Nominated | Shared with Lawrence Kasdan. |
| 1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | Won | |
| 1993 | Nora Ephron | Sleepless in Seattle | Nominated | Shared with Jeff Arch and David S. Ward. |
| 1994 | Fran Walsh | Heavenly Creatures | Nominated | Shared with Peter Jackson. |
| 2000 | Susannah Grant | Erin Brockovich | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Nia Vardalos | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation | Won | |
| 2003 | Kirsten Sheridan Naomi Sheridan | In America | Nominated | Shared with Jim Sheridan. |
| 2006 | Iris Yamashita | Letters from Iwo Jima | Nominated | Shared with Paul Haggis. |
| 2007 | Diablo Cody | Juno | Won | |
| 2007 | Nancy Oliver | Lars and the Real Girl | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Tamara Jenkins | The Savages | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Courtney Hunt | Frozen River | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko | The Kids Are All Right | Nominated | Shared with Stuart Blumberg. |
| 2011 | Annie Mumolo Kristen Wiig | Bridesmaids | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Melisa Wallack | Dallas Buyers Club | Nominated | Shared with Craig Borten. |
| 2015 | Meg LeFauve | Inside Out | Nominated | Shared with Pete Docter, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen. |
| 2015 | Andrea Berloff | Straight Outta Compton | Nominated | Shared with Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus. |
| 2017 | Emily V. Gordon | The Big Sick | Nominated | Shared with Kumail Nanjiani. |
| 2017 | Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Vanessa Taylor | The Shape of Water | Nominated | Shared with Guillermo del Toro. |
| 2018 | Deborah Davis | The Favourite | Nominated | Shared with Tony McNamara. |
| 2019 | Krysty Wilson-Cairns | 1917 | Nominated | Shared with Sam Mendes. |
| 2020 | Emerald Fennell | Promising Young Woman | Won | |
| 2023 | Justine Triet | Anatomy of a Fall | Won | Shared with Arthur Harari. |
| 2023 | Samy Burch | May December | Nominated | Shared with Alex Mechanik. |
| 2023 | Celine Song | Past Lives | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Mona Fastvold | The Brutalist | Nominated | Shared with Brady Corbet. |
| 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance | Nominated | |

## Best Writing (Original Story)

Academy Award for Best Story :
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes |
| 1931-32 | Frances Marion | The Champ | Won | Among the first women to be nominated and the first woman to win for Best Original Story. First person with multiple wins in writing categories (for further information, see Best Original Screenplay) |
| 1931-32 | Adela Rogers St. Johns Jane Murfin | What Price Hollywood? | Nominated | Among the first women to be nominated for Best Original Story. |
| 1932-33 | Frances Marion | The Prizefighter and the Lady | Nominated | First woman with multiple nominations in this category. |
| 1936 | Adele Comandini | Three Smart Girls | Nominated | |
| 1938 | Eleanore Griffin | Boys Town | Won | Shared with Dore Schary. |
| 1938 | Marcella Burke | Mad About Music | Nominated | Shared with Frederick Kohner. |
| 1939 | Mildred Cram | Love Affair | Nominated | Shared with Leo McCarey. |
| 1940 | Bella Spewack | My Favorite Wife | Nominated | Shared with Leo McCarey and Samuel Spewack. |
| 1946 | Clemence Dane | Vacation from Marriage | Won | |
| 1947 | Dorothy Parker | Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman | Nominated | Shared with Frank Cavett. |
| 1948 | Frances H. Flaherty | Louisiana Story | Nominated | Shared with Robert J. Flaherty. |
| 1949 | Clare Boothe Luce | Come to the Stable | Nominated | |
| 1949 | Virginia Kellogg | White Heat | Nominated | |
| 1950 | Edna Anhalt | Panic in the Streets | Won | Shared with Edward Anhalt. |
| 1952 | Edna Anhalt | The Sniper | Nominated | Shared with Edward Anhalt. |
| 1953 | Ruth Orkin | Little Fugitive | Nominated | Shared with Ray Ashley and Morris Engel. |

## Special Awards

Academy Honorary Award :
| Year | Name | Notes |
| 1954 | Greta Garbo | "for her unforgettable screen performances." |
| 1968 | Onna White | "for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!" |
| 1970 | Lillian Gish | "for superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures." |
| 1975 | Mary Pickford | "in recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium." |
| 1977 | Margaret Booth | "for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry." |
| 1981 | Barbara Stanwyck | "for superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting." |
| 1990 | Sophia Loren | "one of the genuine treasures of world cinema who, in a career rich with memorable performances, has added permanent luster to our art form." |
| 1990 | Myrna Loy | "in recognition of her extraordinary qualities both on screen and off, with appreciation for a lifetime's worth of indelible performances." |
| 1993 | Deborah Kerr | "in appreciation for a full career's worth of elegant and beautifully crafted performances." |
| 2009 | Lauren Bacall | "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures." |
| 2013 | Angela Lansbury | "an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors." |
| 2014 | Maureen O'Hara | "One of Hollywood's brightest stars, whose inspiring performances glowed with passion, warmth and strength." |
| 2015 | Gena Rowlands | "an original talent whose devotion to her craft has earned her worldwide recognition as an independent film icon" |
| 2016 | Anne V. Coates | "In her more than 60 years as a film editor, she has worked side by side with many leading directors on an impressive range of films" |
| 2017 | Agnès Varda | "her compassion and curiosity inform a uniquely personal cinema" |
| 2018 | Cicely Tyson | "whose unforgettable performances and personal integrity have inspired generations of filmmakers, actors and audiences" |
| 2019 | Lina Wertmüller | "for her provocative disruption of political and social norms delivered with bravery through her weapon of choice: the camera lens." |
| 2021 | Elaine May | "for her bold, uncompromising approach to filmmaking, as a writer, director and actress" |
| 2021 | Liv Ullmann | "Ullman's bravery and emotional transparency has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals" |
| 2022 | Euzhan Palcy | "a masterful filmmaker who broke ground for Black women directors and inspired storytellers of all kinds across the globe" |
| 2022 | Diane Warren | "for her genius, generosity and passionate commitment to the power of song in film" |
| 2023 | Angela Bassett | "Across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting" |
| 2023 | Carol Littleton | "Littleton's career in film editing serves as a model for those who come after her" |
| 2024 | Juliet Taylor | "Juliet Taylor has cast iconic and beloved films and paved a new path for the field." |
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award :
| Year | Name | Notes |
| 1968 | Martha Raye | |
| 1972 | Rosalind Russell | |
| 1992 | Audrey Hepburn | The award, which was voted to confer eight days prior to Hepburn's death, was presented posthumously. Her son, Sean, accepted the award at the ceremony. |
| 1992 | Elizabeth Taylor | |
| 2006 | Sherry Lansing | |
| 2011 | Oprah Winfrey | |
| 2013 | Angelina Jolie | |
| 2015 | Debbie Reynolds | |
| 2019 | Geena Davis | |
| 2023 | Michelle Satter | |
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award :
| Year | Name | Notes |
| 2018 | Kathleen Kennedy | Shared with Frank Marshall. |
| 2024 | Barbara Broccoli | Shared with Michael G. Wilson. |
Academy Juvenile Award :
| Year | Name | Notes |
| 1934 | Shirley Temple | "in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934." |
| 1938 | Deanna Durbin | "for [her] significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement." |
| 1939 | Judy Garland | "for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year." |
| 1944 | Margaret O'Brien | "outstanding child actress of 1944." |
| 1945 | Peggy Ann Garner | "outstanding child actress of 1945." |
| 1960 | Hayley Mills | "for Pollyanna, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960." |