List of Austrian Academy Award winners and nominees

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

Best Picture[edit]

Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1955	Sam Spiegel	On the Waterfront	Won
1958	Sam Spiegel	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Won
1960	Otto Preminger	Anatomy of a Murder	Nominated
1961	Billy Wilder	The Apartment	Won
1961	Fred Zinnemann	The Sundowners	Nominated
1963	Sam Spiegel	Lawrence of Arabia	Won
1967	Fred Zinnemann	A Man for All Seasons	Won
1971	Ingo Preminger	MASH*	Nominated
1972	Sam Spiegel	Nicholas and Alexandra	Nominated
2013	Veit Heiduschka Michael Katz	Amour	Nominated	Shared with Stefan Arndt and Margaret Ménégoz.

Best Director[edit]

Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1930	Josef von Sternberg	Morocco	Nominated
1931	Josef von Sternberg	Shanghai Express	Nominated
1944	Otto Preminger	Laura	Nominated
1944	Billy Wilder	Double Indemnity	Nominated
1945	Billy Wilder	The Lost Weekend	Won
1948	Fred Zinnemann	The Search	Nominated
1950	Billy Wilder	Sunset Boulevard	Nominated
1952	Fred Zinnemann	High Noon	Nominated
1953	Fred Zinnemann	From Here to Eternity	Won
1953	Billy Wilder	Stalag 17	Nominated
1954		Sabrina	Nominated
1957		Witness for the Prosecution	Nominated
1959		Some Like It Hot	Nominated
1959	Fred Zinnemann	The Nun's Story	Nominated
1960	Fred Zinnemann	The Sundowners	Nominated
1960	Billy Wilder	The Apartment	Won
1964	Otto Preminger	The Cardinal	Nominated
1966	Fred Zinnemann	A Man for All Seasons	Won
1977	Fred Zinnemann	Julia	Nominated
2012	Michael Haneke	Amour	Nominated

Best Actor in a Leading Role[edit]

Best Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1930	Paul Muni	The Valiant	Nominated	No official nominees were announced that year.
1934		I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	Nominated
1936		Black Fury	Nominated	This was a write-in candidate, who came in second on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination.
1937		The Story of Louis Pasteur	Won
1938		The Life of Emile Zola	Nominated
1960		The Last Angry Man	Nominated
1966	Oskar Werner	Ship of Fools	Nominated

Best Actor in a Supporting Role[edit]

Best Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1938	Joseph Schildkraut	The Life of Emile Zola	Won
1949	Oskar Homolka	I Remember Mama	Nominated
1951	Erich von Stroheim	Sunset Boulevard	Nominated
1956	Joe Mantell	Marty	Nominated
1959	Theodore Bikel	The Defiant Ones	Nominated
1986	Klaus Maria Brandauer	Out of Africa	Nominated
2009	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Won
2012	Christoph Waltz	Django Unchained	Won

Best Actress in a Leading Role[edit]

Best Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
1936	Elisabeth Bergner	Escape Me Never	Nominated		^[1]

Best Actress in a Supporting Role[edit]

Best Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
1962	Lotte Lenya	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Nominated		^[2]
1964	Lilia Skala	Lilies of the Field	Nominated		^[3]

Best Adapted Screenplay[edit]

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1940	Walter Reisch Billy Wilder	Ninotchka	Nominated
1942	George Froeschel	Mrs. Miniver	Won
	George Froeschel	Random Harvest	Nominated
	Billy Wilder	Hold Back the Dawn	Nominated
1945	Walter Reisch	Gaslight	Nominated
1945	Billy Wilder	Double Indemnity	Nominated
1946		The Lost Weekend	Won
1949		A Foreign Affair	Nominated
1955		Sabrina	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay[edit]

Best Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1951	Billy Wilder	Sunset Boulevard	Won
1952		Ace in the Hole	Nominated
1961		The Apartment	Won
1966		The Fortune Cookie	Nominated
2013	Michael Haneke	Amour	Nominated

Best Story[edit]

Best Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1946	Ernst Marischka	A Song to Remember	Nominated

Best International Feature Film[edit]

Best International Feature Film
Year	Director	Film	Original Title	Status	Milestone / Notes
1987	Wolfgang Glück	'38 – Vienna Before the Fall	38 – Auch das war Wien	Nominated
2008	Stefan Ruzowitzky	The Counterfeiters	Die Fälscher	Won
2009	Götz Spielmann	Revanche	Revanche	Nominated
2013	Michael Haneke	Amour	Amour	Won	French-language film

Best Art Direction[edit]

Best Art Direction
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
1950	Harry Horner	The Heiress	Won	Nominated in the black-and-white category.	^[4]
1950	William Kellner	Saraband for Dead Lovers	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.	^[4]
1960	William Kellner	Suddenly, Last Summer	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.	^[5]
1961	Harry Horner	Spartacus	Won	Nominated in color category.	^[6]
1970	Harry Horner	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Nominated		^[7]

Best Cinematography[edit]

Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1950	Franz Planer	Champion	Nominated	Nominated in the black-and-white category.
1952		Death of a Salesman	Nominated
1954		Roman Holiday	Nominated
1960		The Nun's Story	Nominated	Nominated in the color category.
1962		The Children's Hour	Nominated
2010	Christian Berger	The White Ribbon	Nominated

Best Costume Design[edit]

Best Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1963	Ruth Morley	The Miracle Worker	Nominated

Best Documentary[edit]

Best Documentary
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2006	Hubert Sauper	Darwin's Nightmare	Nominated
2008	Werner Herzog	Encounters at the End of the World	Nominated

Best Editing[edit]

Best Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1951	Oswald Hafenrichter	The Third Man	Nominated
1973	Peter Zinner	The Godfather	Nominated
1979		The Deer Hunter	Won
1983		An Officer and a Gentleman	Nominated
2022	Monika Willi	Tár	Nominated

Best Original Score[edit]

Best Original Music Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1935	Max Steiner	The Lost Patrol	Nominated
1935		The Gay Divorcee	Nominated
1936		The Informer	Won
	Ernst Toch	Peter Ibbetson	Nominated
	Leo F. Forbstein	Captain Blood	Nominated	This was a write-in candidate, who came in third on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination.
	Erich Wolfgang Korngold	Captain Blood	Nominated
1937	Max Steiner	The Garden of Allah	Nominated	father Hungarian-Jewish Gábor, born in Temesvár
	Erich Wolfgang Korngold	Anthony Adverse	Won
	Leo F. Forbstein	Anthony Adverse	Nominated
		The Charge of the Light Brigade	Nominated
1938		The Life of Emile Zola	Nominated
1938	Hugo Riesenfeld	Make a Wish	Nominated
1939	Erich Wolfgang Korngold	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Won
	Erich Wolfgang Korngold	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	Nominated
	Max Steiner	Jezebel	Nominated
1940		Dark Victory	Nominated
1940		Gone with the Wind	Nominated
1941	Robert Stolz	Spring Parade	Nominated
	Erich Wolfgang Korngold	The Sea Hawk	Nominated
	Artie Shaw	Second Chorus	Nominated
	Max Steiner	The Letter	Nominated
1942		Sergeant York	Nominated
1943		Now, Voyager	Won
	Ernst Toch	Address Unknown	Nominated
	Hans J. Salter	It Started with Eve	Nominated
1944	Hans J. Salter	The Amazing Mrs. Holliday	Nominated
	Hanns Eisler	Hangmen Also Die!	Nominated
	Max Steiner	Casablanca	Nominated
1945		Since You Went Away	Won
		The Adventures of Mark Twain	Nominated
	Robert Stolz	It Happened Tomorrow	Nominated
	Hanns Eisler	None but the Lonely Heart	Nominated
	Hans J. Salter	Christmas Holiday The Merry Monahans	Nominated
1946		This Love of Ours	Nominated
		Can't Help Singing	Nominated
	Max Steiner	Rhapsody in Blue	Nominated
1947		Night and Day	Nominated	Shared with Ray Heindorf.
1948		Life with Father	Nominated
1948		My Wild Irish Rose	Nominated
1949		Johnny Belinda	Nominated
1950		Beyond the Forest	Nominated
1951		The Flame and the Arrow	Nominated
1952		A Place in the Sun	Won
1953		The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima	Nominated
1953		The Jazz Singer	Nominated
1955		The Caine Mutiny	Nominated
1956		Battle Cry	Nominated
1960	Ernest Gold	On the Beach	Nominated
1961		Exodus	Won
1964		It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Nominated
1967	Elmer Bernstein	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Won
1970	Ernest Gold	The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Nominated
1974	Marvin Hamlisch	The Sting	Won
1974	Marvin Hamlisch	The Way We Were	Won
1975	Frederick Loewe	The Little Prince	Nominated	Nominated for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Shared nomination with American-born Alan Jay Lerner, English-born Angela Morley and Australian-born Douglas Gamley.
1977	Marvin Hamlisch	The Spy Who Loved Me	Nominated
1982	Marvin Hamlisch	Sophie's Choice	Nominated

Best Original Song[edit]

Best Original Song
Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Milestone / Notes	Ref.
1942	Robert Stolz	Spring Parade	"Waltzing in the Clouds"	Nominated		^[8]
1959	Frederick Loewe	Gigi	"Gigi"	Won		^[9]
1964	Ernest Gold	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	"It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"	Nominated	Shared with Mack David.	^[10]
1975	Frederick Loewe	The Little Prince	"Little Prince"	Nominated		^[11]

Best Sound Mixing[edit]

Best Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1935	Carl Dreher	The Gay Divorcee	Nominated
1936	Carl Dreher	I Dream Too Much	Nominated

Technical & Scientifical[edit]

Technical/Scientifical Awards
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1988	Fritz Gabriel Bauer	...	Won	Science
1992	Otto Nemenz		Won	(Technical Achievement Award)
1994	Fritz Gabriel Bauer	...	Won	Science
2000	Fritz Gabriel Bauer	...	Won	Science
2007	Martin Waitz		Won	(Technical Achievement Award)
1998	Markus Kurtz	Titanic	Won	Best visual effects
2002	Markus Kurtz	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won	(Best Visual Effects)
2013	Markus Kurtz	The Life of Pi	Won

Nominations and Winners[edit]

No. of wins	No. of nominations
41	145

References[edit]

[1] "The 8th Academy Awards | 1936".

[2] "The 34th Academy Awards | 1962".

[3] "The 36th Academy Awards | 1964".

[4] "The 22nd Academy Awards | 1950".

[5] "The 32nd Academy Awards | 1960".

[6] "The 33rd Academy Awards | 1961".

[7] "The 42nd Academy Awards | 1970".

[8] "The 13th Academy Awards | 1941".

[9] "The 31st Academy Awards | 1959".

[10] "The 36th Academy Awards | 1964".

[11] "The 47th Academy Awards | 1975".

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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 Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Spain Switzerland United Kingdom
Nominees demographics	Asian Black Hispanic Indigenous Jewish Muslim
Other	Broadcasters 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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