This list of Academy Award records is current as of the 95th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place in March 2023.
These people won Academy Awards for their debut performances in film:
These people won Academy Awards for their directing debuts:
Main article: List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees |
Three films have received the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay (Original or Adapted; all won for Best Adapted Screenplay).[6][7][8]
Ethnicity/Nationality | Category | First Nominee | Year | Film | First Winner | Year | Film |
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African | Acting | Basil Rathbone (from South Africa), Best Supporting actor | 1936 | Romeo and Juliet | Charlize Theron (from South Africa), Best Actress | 2003 | Monster |
Asian | Acting | Miyoshi Umeki (from Japan), Best Supporting Actress | 1957 | Sayonara | |||
Nordic | Acting | Greta Garbo (from Sweden), Best Actress | 1930 | Anna Christie | Ingrid Bergman (from Sweden), Best Actress | 1944 | Gaslight |
Nordic | Acting (Male) | Max von Sydow (from Sweden), Best Actor | 1988 | Pelle the Conqueror | |||
Southeast European | Acting | Maria Bakalova (from Bulgaria), Best Supporting Actress | 2020 | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | |||
Australian | Best Actor | Peter Finch | 1976 | Network | |||
Australian | Best Actress | Judy Davis, Best Actress | 1984 | A Passage to India | Nicole Kidman (born in U.S.) | 2002 | The Hours |
Canadian | Acting (Male) | Harold Russell, Best Supporting Actor | 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | |||
Canadian | Best Actress | Mary Pickford | 1929 | Coquette | |||
French | Best Actor | Jean Dujardin | 2011 | The Artist | |||
French | Best Actress | Claudette Colbert | 1934 | It Happened One Night | |||
French | Acting (in French language) | Anouk Aimée, Best Actress | 1966 | A Man and a Woman | Marion Cotillard, Best Actress | 2007 | La Vie en rose |
Italian | Best Actor | Roberto Benigni | 1997 | Life Is Beautiful | |||
Italian | Best Actress | Anna Magnani | 1955 | The Rose Tattoo | |||
German | Best Actor | Emil Jannings (born in Switzerland) | 1927/8 | The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command | |||
German | Best Actress | Luise Rainer | 1937 | The Great Ziegfeld | |||
Latin American | Best Actor | José Ferrer (from Puerto Rico) | 1950 | Cyrano de Bergerac | |||
Latin American | Acting (female) | Rita Moreno (from Puerto Rico), Best Supporting Actress | 1961 | West Side Story | |||
South Korean | Acting | Youn Yuh-jung, Best Supporting Actress | 2020 | Minari | |||
Spanish | Acting (male) | Javier Bardem, Best Supporting Actor | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | |||
Spanish | Acting (female) | Penélope Cruz, Best Supporting Actress | 2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | |||
Russian | Acting (male) | Yul Brynner, Best Actor | 1956 | The King and I | |||
Russian | Acting (female) | Lila Kedrova, Best Supporting Actress | 1964 | Zorba the Greek | |||
Middle Eastern/North African | Acting | Omar Sharif (born in Egypt), Best Supporting Actor | 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | |||
Black | Acting (male) | Sidney Poitier, Best Actor | 1963 | Lilies of the Field | |||
Black | Acting (female) | Hattie McDaniel, Best Supporting Actress | 1939 | Gone with the Wind | |||
Black | Best Actress | Halle Berry | 2001 | Monster's Ball | |||
Black African | Acting | Djimon Hounsou (born in Benin, U.S.-Benin dual citizen), Best Supporting Actor | 2003 | In America | |||
South American | Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro (from Brazil) | 1998 | Central Station | |||
Muslim | Acting | Mahershala Ali | 2016 | Moonlight | |||
Malaysian | Acting | Michelle Yeoh | 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
Actor | Actress | ||||
Time in h:mm:ss | Shortest | Longest | Shortest | Longest | |
Lead | Won | David Niven in Separate Tables (1958) 23:39 [28] |
Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959) 2:01:23 |
Patricia Neal in Hud (1963) 21:51 [29] |
Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939) 2:23:32 |
Nominated | Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936) 14:58 |
Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992) 2:21:58 |
Eleanor Parker in Detective Story (1951) 20:10 | ||
Supporting | Won | Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971) 9:54 [30] |
Mahershala Ali in Green Book (2018) 1:06:38 |
Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) 5:02 |
Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973) 1:06:58 |
Nominated | Ned Beatty in Network (1976) 6:00 [31] |
Frank Finlay in Othello (1965) 1:30:43 |
Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) 2:19 |
Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away (1944) 1:15:38 |
Main article: Oscar speech |
There have been six two-way ties
The following films with at least two nominations won all of their categories.