List of African Academy Award winners and nominees

Din doli ŋɔ na nyɛla yuya n-zaŋ ti ban di African Academy Award, bɛ ni dɔɣi shɛba Africa mini bɛ ni bi dɔɣi shɛba Africa zaa be din ni.

Kpɛrikpɛrita ŋun nyɛ doo ka kpaŋ o maŋa
 Best Actor in a Leading RoleYearNameCountryRoleFilmStatusMilestone / Notes1959 Laurence Harvey  Room at the Top Joe Lampton  First Lithuanian nominated for an Oscar.Born in Lithuania, but educated and raised in South Africa, where he joined the army.

Kpɛrkpɛrita paɣa ŋun kpaŋ o maŋa
 Best Actress in a Leading RoleYearNameCountryRoleFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1971 Janet Suzman  Nicholas and Alexandra Alexandra Feodorovna   2003 Charlize Theron  Monster Aileen Wuornos  First African to win in an acting category. 2005 North Country Josey Aimes  2016 Ruth Negga  Loving Mildred Loving   2019 Charlize Theron  Bombshell Megyn Kelly 

Kpɛrikpɛrita ŋun nyɛ doo ka kpaŋ o maŋa tab'sɔŋ polo
 Best Actor in a Supporting RoleYearNameCountryRoleFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1936Basil Rathbone Romeo and Juliet Tybalt  Rathbone was a South African-born British actor. 1938 If I Were King King Louis XI  1948 Cecil Kellaway The Luck of the Irish Horace   1962 Omar Sharif  Lawrence of Arabia Sherif Ali  First African to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category. 1967 Cecil Kellaway  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Monsignor Mike Ryan   2003 Djimon Hounsou  In America Mateo  First Black African to be nominated for an acting award. 2006 Blood Diamond Solomon Vandy  2013 Barkhad Abdi  Captain Phillips Abduwali Muse  2018 Richard E. Grant  Can You Ever Forgive Me? Jack Hock  Grant is from a white British family; he was born and raised in Swaziland.

Kpɛrikpɛrita ŋun nyɛ paɣa ka niŋ kpaŋmaŋa tab'sɔŋ polo
 Best Actress in a Supporting RoleYearNameCountryRoleFilmStatusMilestone / Notes2013 Lupita Nyong'o  12 Years a Slave Patsey  First black African woman to be nominated and win in any category.

Best Cinematography
 Best CinematographyYearNameCountryFilmStatusMilestone / Notes1966Ted Moore A Man for All Seasons  Moore is a South African-born British.Won for Best Color Cinematography. 1991 Stephen Goldblatt  The Prince of Tides  Goldblatt is a South African-born British. 1995 Batman Forever  2002 Dion Beebe  Chicago  Beebe is a South African-born Australian. 2005 Memoirs of a Geisha 

Best Director
 Best DirectorYearNameCountryFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1996 Scott Hicks  Shine  Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian. 1997 Atom Egoyan  The Sweet Hereafter  Egoyan is an Egyptian-born Canadian filmmaker.

Best Documentary Feature
 Best Documentary FeatureYearNameCountryFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1997 Michele Ohayon (director)  Colors Straight Up  2012 Malik Bendjelloul  Searching for Sugar Man  2013 Jehane Noujaim (director)Karim Amer (producer)  The Square  2020 Pippa Ehrlich (director)James Reed (director)Craig Foster (producer)  My Octopus Teacher  2023 Moses BwayoChristopher Sharp  Bobi Wine: The People's President  Shared with John Battsek Kaouther Ben Hania  Four Daughters  Shared with Nadim Cheikhrouha

Best Film Editing
 Best Film EditingYearNameCountryFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1970 Thelma Schoonmaker  Woodstock Schoonmaker is from a white American family; she was born in Algeria. 1980 Raging Bull  1990 Goodfellas  2002 Gangs of New York  2004 The Aviator  2006 The Departed  2011 Hugo  2015 Margaret Sixel  Mad Max: Fury Road  Sixel is a South African-born Australian. 2019Thelma SchoonmakerThe Irishman  2023 Killers of the Flower Moon 

Best International Feature Film
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film nyɛla bɛ bi mali shɛli n-tiri tiɣbana, bɛ bi mali lala pini ŋɔ n-titi ninvuɣ'yino,

 Best International Feature FilmYearCountryFilmDirectorStatusMilestone / Notes 1969  Z Costa-Gavras  First African film to win an Academy Award. 1976  Black and White in Color Jean-Jacques Annaud  1983  Le Bal Ettore Scola  1995 Dust of Life Rachid Bouchareb  2004  Yesterday Darrell Roodt  2005 Tsotsi Gavin Hood  First African film in a language other than French to win in this category. 2006  Days of GloryRachid Bouchareb   2010 Outside the Law   2014  Timbuktu Abderrahmane Sissako   2020  The Man Who Sold His Skin Kaouther Ben Hania  

Best Live Action Short Film
 Best Live Action Short FilmYearNameCountryFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 2019 Meryam Joobeur  Brotherhood  Joobeur is Tunisian-born Canadian.Shared with Maria Gracia Turgeon. 2023 Misan Harriman  The After  Harriman is Nigerian-born British.Shared with Nicky Bentham.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
 Best Makeup and HairstylingYearNameCountryFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1999 Trefor Proud  Topsy-Turvy  Proud is the first Zimbabwean to win an Academy Award in this category.Shared with Christine Blundell. 2019 Tristan Versluis  1917  Versluis is a Zimbabwean-born English.Shared with Naomi Donne and Rebecca Cole.

Best Music, Original Score
 Best Original ScoreYearNameCountryFilmStatusMilestone / Notes1985 Caiphus Semenya  The Color Purple 1987 Jonas Gwangwa Cry Freedom  

Best Music, Original Song
 Best Original SongYearNameCountryFilmSongStatusMilestone / Notes1987 Jonas Gwangwa  Cry Freedom "Cry Freedom"  Shared with George Fenton.2012 Herbert Kretzmer  Les Misérables "Suddenly"  Kretzmer is from a Jewish family.Shared with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.2022 Tems  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever "Lift Me Up"  Shared with Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, and Ryan Coogler.

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
 Best Adapted ScreenplayYearNameCountryFilmAdapted FromStatusMilestone / Notes 1983 Ronald Harwood  The Dresser The Dresser by Ronald Harwood  1987 Mark Peploe  The Last Emperor From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi  Peploe is a Kenyan-born English writer.Shared with Bernardo Bertolucci. 1997 Atom Egoyan  The Sweet Hereafter The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks   2002Ronald Harwood  The Pianist The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman   2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby  2009 Neill Blomkamp  District 9 Alive in Joburgby Neill Blomkamp  Shared with Terri Tatchell.

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
 Best Original ScreenplayYearNameCountryFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1996 Scott Hicks  Shine  Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian.Shared with Jan Sardi.

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