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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Director

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1931-32 Samuel Hoffenstein Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Nominated Shared with Percy Heath.
1932-33 Robert Riskin Lady for a Day Nominated
Sonya Levien State Fair Nominated Shared with Paul Green.
1934 Robert Riskin It Happened One Night Won
Ben Hecht[1] Viva Villa! Nominated
1936 Robert Riskin Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Nominated
1937 Morrie Ryskind Stage Door Nominated Shared with Anthony Veiller.
1938 Robert Riskin You Can't Take It with You Nominated
1939 Ben Hecht Wuthering Heights Nominated Shared with Charles MacArthur.
1944 Samuel Hoffenstein Laura Nominated Shared with Jay Dratler & Elizabeth Reinhardt.
1945 Albert Maltz Pride of the Marines Nominated
1949 Robert Rossen All the King's Men Nominated
1950 Albert Maltz Broken Arrow Nominated [note 1]
1955 Paddy Chayefsky Marty Won
1961 Abby Mann Judgment at Nuremberg Won
Robert Rossen The Hustler Nominated Shared with Sidney Carroll.
1962 Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Nominated
1973 Alvin Sargent Paper Moon Nominated
Robert Towne The Last Detail Nominated
1974 Gene Wilder Young Frankenstein Nominated Shared with Mel Brooks.
1977 Alvin Sargent Julia Won
1980 Ordinary People Won
1984 Robert Towne Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Nominated Shared with Michael Austin.
Towne was credited under the pseudonym P.H. Vazak due to unhappiness with co-writer Austin's alterations and the finished film itself.
2005 Tony Kushner Munich Nominated Shared with Eric Roth.
2012 Lincoln Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Story

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

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Russian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Soviet submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Best International Feature Film
Year Film Russian Title Status Director(s) Notes Ref
1968 War and Peace Война и мир Won Sergei Bondarchuk [2]
1969 The Brothers Karamazov Братья Карамазовы Nominated Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev & Mikhail Ulyanov [3]
1971 Tchaikovsky Чайкoвский Nominated Igor Talankin [4]
1972 The Dawns Here Are Quiet А зори здесь тихие Nominated Stanislav Rostotsky [5]
1975 Dersu Uzala Дерсу Узала Won Akira Kurosawa Soviet-Japanese co-production [6]
1978 White Bim Black Ear Белый Бим Черное ухо Nominated Stanislav Rostotsky [7]
1980 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears Москва слезам не верит Won Vladimir Menshov [8]
1982 Private Life Частная жизнь Nominated Yuli Raizman [9]
1984 Wartime Romance Военно-полевой роман Nominated Pyotr Todorovsky Soviet Ukrainian production [10]
1992 Close to Eden Урга Nominated Nikita Mikhalkov First nomination for Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. [11]
1994 Burnt by the Sun Утомлённые солнцем Won [12]
1996 Prisoner of the Mountains Кавказский пленник Nominated Sergei Bodrov [13]
1997 The Thief Вор Nominated Pavel Chukhray [14]
2007 12 12 Nominated Nikita Mikhalkov [15]
2014 Leviathan Левиафан Nominated Andrey Zvyagintsev [16]
2017 Loveless Нелюбовь Nominated [17]

Best Art Direction

Best Art Direction
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1937 Alexander Toluboff Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 Nominated Black and White
1938 Boris Leven Alexander's Ragtime Band Nominated Nominated in the black and white category
Alexander Toluboff Algiers Nominated Black and White
1939 Alexander Toluboff Stagecoach Nominated Black and White
1940 Alexander Golitzen Foreign Correspondent Nominated
1941 Alexander Golitzen Sundown Nominated
1942 Alexander Golitzen Arabian Nights Nominated
1943 Alexander Golitzen Phantom of the Opera Won
1944 Alexander Golitzen The Climax Nominated
1956 Boris Leven Giant Nominated
1960 Alexander Golitzen Spartacus Won
1961 Boris Leven West Side Story Won Nominated in the black-and-white category[18]
Alexander Golitzen Flower Drum Song Nominated
1962 Alexander Golitzen To Kill a Mockingbird Won
Alexander Golitzen That Touch of Mink Nominated
1965 Boris Leven The Sound of Music Nominated
1966 Alexander Golitzen Gambit Nominated
1966 Boris Leven The Sand Pebbles Nominated
1967 Alexander Golitzen Thoroughly Modern Millie Nominated
1968 Mikhail Bogdanov
Gennady Myasnikov		 War and Peace Nominated
Boris Leven Star! Nominated
1969 Alexander Golitzen Sweet Charity Nominated
1970 Alexander Golitzen Airport Nominated
1971 Boris Leven The Andromeda Strain Nominated
1974 Alexander Golitzen Earthquake Nominated
1981 Patrizia von Brandenstein Ragtime Nominated of German-Russian descent
1984 Amadeus Won
1986 Boris Leven The Color of Money Nominated
1987 Patrizia von Brandenstein The Untouchables Nominated of German-Russian descent
2014 Maria Djurkovic The Imitation Game Nominated

Best Cinematography

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

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Live Action Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film
1952 Boris Vermont Light in the Window[19] Won
1953 Joy of Life Nominated

Best Original Score

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

Best Original Song

Best Original Song
Year Name Film Song Status Milestone / Notes
1935 Al Dubin Gold Diggers of 1935 "Lullaby of Broadway" Won [20]
1937 Mr. Dodd Takes the Air "Remember Me" Nominated [21]
Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin Shall We Dance "They Can't Take That Away from Me" Nominated
1943 Al Dubin Stage Door Canteen "We Mustn't Say Goodbye" Nominated [22]
1944 Ira Gershwin Cover Girl "Long Ago (and Far Away)" Nominated
1947 Josef Myrow Mother Wore Tights "You Do" Nominated
1950 Wabash Avenue "Wilhelmina" Nominated
Al Hoffman Cinderella "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" Nominated
1952 Dimitri Tiomkin High Noon "The Ballad of High Noon" Won
1954 Ira Gershwin A Star Is Born "The Man That Got Away" Nominated
Dimitri Tiomkin The High and the Mighty "The High and the Mighty" Nominated
1955 Hy Zaret Unchained "Unchained Melody" Nominated
1956 Dimitri Tiomkin Friendly Persuasion "Friendly Persuasion" Nominated
1957 Wild Is the Wind "Wild Is the Wind" Nominated
1959 The Young Land "Strange Are the Ways of Love" Nominated
1960 The Alamo "The Green Leaves of Summer" Nominated
1961 Town Without Pity "Town Without Pity" Nominated
1963 55 Days at Peking "So Little Time" Nominated

Nominations and Winners

No. of wins No. of nominations
39 177

Notes

  1. ^ Michael Blankfort was originally nominated as the screenwriter of Broken Arrow. In 1991, research proved blacklisted Albert Maltz was the screenwriter and his credit was restored. Blankfort was removed from the nomination and it was given to Maltz.

References

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  17. ^ "The 90th Academy Awards (2018) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
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  19. ^ Boris Vermont acceptance speech at 25th Academy Awards
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