This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Romania.
Best Picture
[edit]Best Picture | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1953 | John Houseman | Julius Caesar | Nominated | Romanian-born British-American producer and actor. |
Best Supporting Actor
[edit]Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1973 | John Houseman | The Paper Chase | Won |
Best Supporting Actress
[edit]Best Actress in a Supporting Role | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1996 | Lauren Bacall | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Nominated | American actress born to Romanian and Belarusian heritage. |
Best Adapted Screenplay
[edit]Best Adapted Screenplay | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1973 | Robert Towne | The Last Detail | Nominated | American-born of Romanian and Russian descent. | |
1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Nominated | Shared with Michael Austin. | ||
1992 | Michael Tolkin | The Player | Nominated | American-born of Romanian-jewish and Ukrainian-jewish descent. |
Best Original Screenplay
[edit]Best Original Screenplay | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1974 | Robert Towne | Chinatown | Won | Father Romanian jew | |
1975 | Shampoo | Nominated | Shared with Warren Beatty. |
Best Story
[edit]Best Story | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1934 | Arthur Caesar[1] | Manhattan Melodrama[2] | Nominated | ||
1940 | Bella and Samuel Spewack | My Favorite Wife[3] | Nominated | ||
1955 | Henri Troyat | The Sheep Has Five Legs | Nominated |
Best International Feature Film
[edit]Best International Feature Film | |||||
Year | Film | Original Title | Status | Director(s) | Notes |
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2020/21 | Collective | Colectiv | Nominated | Alexander Nanau |
Best Documentary Feature
[edit]Best Documentary Feature | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1977 | Miles Mogulescu | Union Maids | Nominated | Shared with Jim Klein and Julia Reichert. | |
2020/21 | Alexander Nanau Bianca Oana |
Collective | Nominated |
Best Production Design
[edit]Best Production Design | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1941 | Nathan Juran | How Green Was My Valley | Won | Born in Austrian part of Austro-Hungarian Empire | |
1946 | The Razor's Edge | Nominated | |||
1966 | Richard Sylbert | Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? | Won | Born in Brooklyn, U S | |
1974 | Chinatown | Nominated | |||
1975 | Shampoo | Nominated | |||
1981 | Reds | Nominated | |||
1984 | The Cotton Club | Nominated | |||
1990 | Dick Tracy | Won |
Best Live Action Short Film
[edit]Best Live Action Short Film | |||||
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Year | Director | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1966 | Marin Karmitz | Turkey the Bridge[4] | Nominated | ||
1974 | Julian Chagrin | The Concert | Nominated | (father romanian-jewish) | |
1976 | The Morning Spider | Nominated | |||
Andre R. Guttfreund | In the Region of Ice | Won | (mother romanian) |
Honorary Award
[edit]Honorary Academy Award | |||||
Year | Name | Notes | Milestone | ||
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2009 | Lauren Bacall | "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures." | First person of Romanian origin to be awarded an Honorary Academy Award. |
Nominations and Winners
[edit]No. of wins | No. of nominations |
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4 | 22 |