List of Bulgarian Academy Award winners and nominees

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Theodore Ushev (left) and Maria Bakalova were the first Bulgarians to be nominated for an Oscar in the competitive categories, receiving nominations for Best Animated Short for Blind Vaysha (2016), and Best Supporting Actress for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020), respectively.

Several Bulgarian individuals and Bulgarian-produced films have been nominated for the Academy Awards in different categories. As of 2022^[update], four Bulgarians have been nominated and two have won Oscars including in the scientific and technical category.

At the 44th Academy Awards, Dimitar Petrov's 1971 film Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles was Bulgaria's first submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category.^[1] At the 82nd Academy Awards, The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner became the first Bulgarian film to be shortlisted to compete in the category; however, it was not nominated.^[2]

In 2017, filmmaker Theodore Ushev became the first Bulgarian person to be nominated for an Academy Award in a competitive category, receiving a nomination for Best Animated Short Film for Blind Vaysha (2016).

Competitive awards

Competitive awards
Year	Nominee(s)	Film	Category	Result	Ref.
2017 (89th)	Theodore Ushev	Blind Vaysha	Best Animated Short Film	Nominated	^[3]
2021 (93rd)	Maria Bakalova	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated	^[4]
2021 (93rd)	Iliyan Ivanov Dana Prodanova^[a]	Feeling Through	Best Live Action Short Film	Nominated	^[4]

Scientific and technical awards

Scientific and technical awards
Year	Nominee(s)/recipient(s)	Category	Note	Ref.
2001	George Borshukov^[b]	Academy Award for Technical Achievement	Shared the award with Kim Libreri and Dan Piponi.	^[6]
2014	George Borshukov^[c]		Shared the award with Dan Piponi and Kim Libreri.	^[7]
2017	Vladimir Koylazov^[d]			^[8]

Footnotes

^ Associate producers.^[5]
^ For the development of a system for image-based rendering allowing choreographed camera movements through computer graphic reconstructed sets.
^ For their pioneering work in the development of Universal Capture at ESC Entertainment.
^ For the original concept, design and implementation of V-Ray from Chaos Group.

References

^ Kovachev, Pencho (16 January 2021). "Viva, Мария – нашата надежда за "Оскар"..." 24 Chasa. Archived from the original on 4 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "9 Foreign Language Films Advance in Oscar Race". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 9 March 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "The 89th Academy Awards (2017) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ ^a ^b "The 93rd Academy Awards (2021) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ Georgieff, Anthony (1 April 2021). "Feeling Through". Vagabond. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "The 73rd Scientific & Technical Awards 2000 | 2001". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 June 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "The 87th Scientific & Technical Awards 2014 | 2015". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 June 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "The 89th Scientific & Technical Awards 2016 | 2017". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 June 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Records Most awards per ceremony
Combined major Academy Awards	Superlatives Big Five All four acting categories
Acting	All nominees Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Non-English acting noms Actor multi-nom years Multi-win actors Multi-nom actors "Oscar love curse"
Directing	Best Director
Film	Winning films Multi-noms in same category Two acting awards for same film Foreign-language wins Foreign-language noms in other categories International Feature nominees International Feature: count by country Best Animated Feature submissions Best Documentary Feature submissions Best Animated Short submissions Best Documentary Short submissions Animated feature noms in other categories
Countries of the nominees	Africa Argentina Australia Austria Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Czech Republic Europe France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan (South) Korea Latin America Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Nordic Pakistan Philippines Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Spain Switzerland United Kingdom
Nominees demographics	Asian Black Hispanic Indigenous Jewish Muslim
Other	Ceremonies Families False names Multi-win years Awards for Walt Disney Posthumous wins and noms Best Picture presenters Trophies on public display Oldest and youngest LGBTQ Women in non-gendered categories
Combined major awards	EGOT Triple Crown of Acting
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Competitive awards

Scientific and technical awards

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