List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees who have Asian ancestry. Since Hollywood is an American industry, this article will use the term Asian as defined by the United States Census Bureau: "people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent (for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam)".^[1] In the category of Best Foreign Language Film, this list also includes films submitted by Asian countries and films in an Asian language, in addition to films with an Asian director.

This list is current as of the nominees for the 88th Academy Awards which were announced on January 14, 2016.

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1986	Ismail Merchant	A Room with a View	Nominated	Indian descent[2] First Asian nominated for Best Picture
1989	A. Kitman Ho	Born on the Fourth of July	Nominated	Chinese descent[3] (nominated with Oliver Stone)
1991		JFK	Nominated	(nominated with Oliver Stone)
1992	Ismail Merchant	Howards End	Nominated
1993		The Remains of the Day	Nominated	(nominated with Mike Nichols & John Calley)
1996	Richard Sakai	Jerry Maguire	Nominated	Japanese descent[4] First Asian American nominated for Best Picture (nominated with James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, & Cameron Crowe)
2000	Ang Lee William Kong Hsu Li Kong	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated	All three are of Chinese descent[5][6][7]
2012	Ang Lee	Life of Pi	Nominated	(nominated with Gil Netter & David Womarck)

Best Actor

Actor in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Notes
1982	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	Won	Half-Indian descent (father is Indian)[8] First Asian nominated for Best Actor First Asian to win Best Actor
2003	Ben Kingsley	House of Sand and Fog	Massoud Behrani	Nominated	First Asian with multiple nominations in acting categories

Best Actress

Actress in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Notes
1935	Merle Oberon	The Dark Angel	Kitty Vane	Nominated	Part-Indian descent[9] First Asian nominated for any Academy Award First Asian nominated for Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Actor in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Notes
1957	Sessue Hayakawa	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Saito	Nominated	Japanese descent[10] First Asian nominated for Best Supporting Actor
1966	Mako Iwamatsu	The Sand Pebbles	Po-Han	Nominated	Japanese descent[11]
1984	Pat Morita	The Karate Kid	Mr. Miyagi	Nominated	Japanese descent[12] First Asian American nominated for Best Supporting Actor
	Haing S. Ngor	The Killing Fields	Dith Pran	Won	Chinese/Cambodian descent (father is Chinese, mother is Khmer)[13] First Asian to win Best Supporting Actor This was Ngor's debut acting performance
1991	Ben Kingsley	Bugsy	Meyer Lansky	Nominated
2001	Ben Kingsley	Sexy Beast	Don Logan	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations
2003	Ken Watanabe	The Last Samurai	Lord Katsumoto	Nominated	Japanese descent[14]

Best Supporting Actress

Actress in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Notes
1957	Miyoshi Umeki	Sayonara	Katsumi Kelly	Won	Japanese descent[15] First Asian nominated for Best Supporting Actress First Asian to win Best Supporting Actress
1985	Meg Tilly	Agnes of God	Sister Agnes	Nominated	Half-Chinese descent (father is Chinese)[16] First Asian American nominated for Best Supporting Actress
1994	Jennifer Tilly	Bullets Over Broadway	Olive Neal	Nominated	Half-Chinese descent (father is Chinese)[16]
2006	Rinko Kikuchi	Babel	Chieko Wataya	Nominated	Japanese descent[17] Non-speaking role
2010	Hailee Steinfeld	True Grit	Mattie Ross	Nominated	One-eighth Filipino descent (maternal grandfather is half-Filipino)[18] Youngest Asian nominated for Best Supporting Actress

Best Director

Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1965	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Woman in the Dunes	Nominated	Japanese descent[19] First Asian nominated for Best Director Film was nominated in previous year for Best Foreign Language Film
1985	Akira Kurosawa	Ran	Nominated	Japanese descent[20] Four previous Kurosawa films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	The Sixth Sense	Nominated	Indian descent[21]
2000	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2005		Brokeback Mountain	Won	First Asian to win Best Director First person of color to win Best Director
2012		Life of Pi	Won	Tied for second most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with five nominations (not including nominations in Foreign Language Film category)

Best Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1986	Hanif Kureishi	My Beautiful Laundrette	Nominated	Half-Pakistani descent (father is Pakistani)[22] First Asian nominated for Best Original Screenplay
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	The Sixth Sense	Nominated
2006	Iris Yamashita	Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated	Japanese descent[23] (nominated with Paul Haggis)
2015	Ronnie del Carmen	Inside Out	Nominated	Filipino descent[24] (nominated with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, & Josh Cooley)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Adapted From	Status	Notes
2000	Wang Hui-ling Tsai Kuo Jung	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Dulu	Nominated	Both are of Chinese descent[5] First Asians nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay First Asian-language screenplay nominated in a writing category (nominated with James Schamus)

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1938	James Wong Howe	Algiers	Nominated	Chinese descent[25] First Asian nominated for Best Cinematography
1940		Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Nominated
1942		Kings Row	Nominated
1943		Air Force	Nominated	(nominated with Elmer Dyer & Charles A. Marshall)
		The North Star	Nominated
1955		The Rose Tattoo	Won	First Asian to win Best Cinematography
1958		The Old Man and the Sea	Nominated
1963		Hud	Won	First Asian to win multiple Academy Awards
1966		Seconds	Nominated
1970	Osami Furuya Sinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	All three are of Japanese descent[26] (nominated with Charles F. Wheeler)
1975	James Wong Howe	Funny Lady	Nominated	Most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with ten nominations
1985	Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai	Ran	Nominated	All three are of Japanese descent[27][28]
1993	Gu Changwei	Farewell My Concubine	Nominated	Chinese descent[29]
1995	Lü Yue	Shanghai Triad	Nominated	Chinese descent[30]
2000	Peter Pau	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent[5]
2004	Zhao Xiaoding	House of Flying Daggers	Nominated	Chinese descent[31]
2010	Matthew Libatique	Black Swan	Nominated	Filipino descent[32] First Asian American nominated for Best Cinematography

Best Film Editing

Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1975	Richard Chew	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Nominated	Chinese descent[25] First Asian nominated for Best Film Editing First Asian American nominated for Best Film Editing (nominated with Lynzee Klingman & Sheldon Kahn)
1977		Star Wars	Won	First Asian to win Best Film Editing First Asian American to win Best Film Editing (won with Paul Hirsch & Marcia Lucas)
1992	Kant Pan	The Crying Game	Nominated	Chinese descent[33]
1999	Tariq Anwar	American Beauty	Nominated	Half-Indian descent (father is Indian)[34]
2010		The King's Speech	Nominated
2014	Tom Cross	Whiplash	Won	Half-Vietnamese descent (mother is Vietnamese)[35]

Best Art Direction

Art Direction
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1952	So Matsuyama H. Motsumoto	Rashomon	Nominated	Both are of Japanese descent[36] First Asians nominated for Best Art Direction
1956	Albert Nozaki	The Ten Commandments	Nominated	Japanese descent[37] (nominated with Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, & Ray Moyer)
	So Matsuyama	Seven Samurai	Nominated
1969	George B. Chan	Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	Chinese descent[38] (nominated with Robert F. Boyle, Edward G. Boyle, & Carl Biddiscombe)
1970	Yoshirō Muraki Taizô Kawashima	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	Both are of Japanese descent[39] (nominated with Jack Martin Smith, Richard Day, Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockette, & Carl Biddiscombe)
1980	Yoshirō Muraki	Kagemusha	Nominated
1985	Yoshirō Muraki Shinobu Muraki	Ran	Nominated	Shinobu Muraki is of Japanese descent[40]
2000	Timmy Yip	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent[5] First Asian to win Best Art Direction
2008	James J. Murakami	Changeling	Nominated	Japanese descent[41] (nominated with Gary Fettis)

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1954	Sanzo Wada	Gate of Hell	Won	Japanese descent[42] First Asian nominated for Best Costume Design First Asian to win Best Costume Design
1955	Tadaoto Kainosho	Ugetsu	Nominated	Japanese descent[43]
1956	Kohei Ezaki	Seven Samurai	Nominated	Japanese descent[44]
1961	Yoshirō Muraki	Yojimbo	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations
1982	Bhanu Athaiya	Gandhi	Won	Indian descent[45] (nominated with John Mollo)
1985	Emi Wada	Ran	Won	Japanese descent[46]
1992	Eiko Ishioka	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	Japanese descent[47]
2000	Timmy Yip	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2006	Yee Chung-Man	Curse of the Golden Flower	Nominated	Chinese descent[48]
2012	Eiko Ishioka	Mirror Mirror	Nominated	Posthumous nomination
2013	William Chang Suk Ping	The Grandmaster	Nominated	Chinese descent[49]

Best Makeup

Makeup
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
2006	Kazuhiro Tsuji	Click	Nominated	Japanese descent[50] First Asian nominated for Best Makeup (nominated with Bill Corso)
2007		Norbit	Nominated	(nominated with Rick Baker)

Best Original Score

Original Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1966	Toshiro Mayuzumi	The Bible	Nominated	Japanese descent[51] First Asian nominated for Best Original Score
1982	Ravi Shankar	Gandhi	Nominated	Indian descent[52] First Asian nominated for both Academy and Grammy Awards (nominated with George Fenton)
1987	Cong Su Ryuichi Sakamoto	The Last Emperor	Won	Su is of Chinese descent[25] Sakamoto is of Japanese descent[53] First Asians to win Best Original Score (won with David Byrne)
2000	Tan Dun	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	Chinese descent[5]
2008	A. R. Rahman	Slumdog Millionaire	Won	Indian descent[54]
2010		127 Hours	Nominated	First Asian to receive multiple Best Original Score nominations

Best Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Notes
2000	Tan Dun	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Best Original Song (nominated with Jorge Calandrelli & James Schamus)
2008	A. R. Rahman M.I.A.	Slumdog Millionaire	"O Saya"	Nominated	M.I.A. is of Sri Lankan descent[55] Rahman is the first Asian to receive three Academy Award nominations in the same year M.I.A. is the first Asian nominated for Academy and Grammy Awards in the same year
	A. R. Rahman Gulzar	Slumdog Millionaire	"Jai Ho"	Won	Gulzar is of Indian descent[56] First Asians to win Best Original Song Rahman is the first Asian to win two Oscars in the same year
2010	A. R. Rahman	127 Hours	"If I Rise"	Nominated	(nominated with Rollo Armstrong & Dido)
2012	Bombay Jayashri	Life of Pi	"Pi's Lullaby"	Nominated	Indian descent[57] (nominated with Mychael Danna)
2013	Robert Lopez	Frozen	"Let It Go"	Won	Part-Filipino descent (paternal grandfather is Filipino, paternal grandmother is part-Filipino)[58] First Asian American nominated for Best Original Song First Asian American to win Best Original Song (nominated with Kristen Anderson-Lopez)
	Karen O	Her	"The Moon Song"	Nominated	Half-Korean descent (mother is Korean)[59] (nominated with Spike Jonze)

Best Sound Mixing

Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
2008	Resul Pookutty	Slumdog Millionaire	Won	Indian descent[60] First Asian nominated for Best Sound Mixing First Asian to win Best Sound Mixing (nominated with Ian Tapp & Richard Pryke)

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1977	Greg Jein	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated	Chinese descent[61] First Asian nominated for Best Visual Effects First Asian American nominated for Best Visual Effects (nominated with Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, & Richard Yuricich)
1979		1941	Nominated	(nominated with William A. Fraker & A. D. Flowers)
1992	Doug Chiang	Death Becomes Her	Won	Chinese descent[25] First Asian to win Best Visual Effects (won with Ken Ralston, Douglas Smythe, & Tom Woodruff Jr.)
1999	Jerome Chen	Stuart Little	Nominated	Chinese descent[62] (nominated with John Dykstra, Henry F. Anderson III, & Eric Allard)

Best Animated Feature

Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
2002	Hayao Miyazaki	Spirited Away	Won	Japanese descent[63] First Asian nominated for Best Animated Feature First Asian to win Best Animated Feature
2005	Hayao Miyazaki	Howl's Moving Castle	Nominated
2011	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	Kung Fu Panda 2	Nominated	Korean descent[64] First woman to direct a Hollywood animated feature film
2013	Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki	The Wind Rises	Nominated	Suzuki is of Japanese descent[63]
2014	Isao Takahata Yoshiaki Nishimura	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Nominated	Both are of Japanese descent[65][66]
2015	Hiromasa Yonebayashi Yoshiaki Nishimura	When Marnie Was There	Nominated	Yonebayashi is of Japanese descent[66]
	Rosa Tran	Anomalisa	Nominated	Vietnamese descent[24] (nominated with Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)

Best Documentary Feature

Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1985	Steven Okazaki	Unfinished Business	Nominated	Japanese descent[67] First Asian nominated for Best Documentary Feature First Asian American nominated for Best Documentary Feature
1988	Renee Tajima-Peña Christine Choy	Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Nominated	Tajima-Peña is of Japanese descent[68] Choy is of Chinese/Korean descent (mother is Chinese, father is Korean)[69]
1994	Freida Lee Mock	Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision	Won	Chinese descent[70] First Asian to win Best Documentary Feature First Asian American to win Best Documentary Feature (won with Terry Sanders)
2004	Byambasuren Davaa	The Story of the Weeping Camel	Nominated	Mongolian descent[71] (nominated with Luigi Falorni)
2008	Thavisouk Phrasavath	The Betrayal – Nerakhoon	Nominated	Laotian descent[72] (nominated with Ellen Kuras)
2010	Audrey Marrs	Inside Job	Won	Half-Japanese descent (mother is Japanese)[73]
2014	Joanna Natasegara	Virunga	Nominated	(nominated with Orlando von Einsiedel)
2015	Asif Kapadia	Amy	Won	Indian descent[74] (nominated with James Gay-Rees)

Best Documentary Short Subject

Documentary Short Subject
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1979	Vidhu Vinod Chopra K.K. Kapil	An Encounter with Faces	Nominated	Both are of Indian descent[75][76] First Asians nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject
1982	Freida Lee Mock	To Live or Let Die	Nominated	First Asian American nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject
1983	Arthur Dong	Sewing Woman	Nominated	Chinese descent[25]
1984	Paul T.K. Lin	The Children of Soong Ching Ling	Nominated	Chinese descent[77] (nominated with Gary Bush)
1988	Lise Yasui	Family Gathering	Nominated	Japanese descent[78] (nominated with Ann Tegnell)
1990	Freida Lee Mock	Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember	Nominated	(nominated with Terry Sanders)
	Steven Okazaki	Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo	Won	First Asian to win Best Documentary Short Subject First Asian American to win Best Documentary Short Subject
1995	Freida Lee Mock	Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper	Nominated	(nominated with Terry Sanders)
1996	Jessica Yu	Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien	Won	Chinese descent[79]
1998	Keiko Ibi	The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years	Won	Japanese descent[80]
	Shui-Bo Wang	Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square	Nominated	Chinese descent[81] (nominated with Donald McWilliams)
2001	Freida Lee Mock	Sing!	Nominated	Tied for second most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with five nominations (nominated with Jessica Sanders)
2005	Steven Okazaki	The Mushroom Club	Nominated
2006	Ruby Yang	The Blood of Yingzhou District	Won	Chinese descent[82] (nominated with Thomas Lennon)
2008	Steven Okazaki	The Conscience of Nhem En	Nominated	Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations
2010	Ruby Yang	The Warriors of Qiugang	Nominated	(nominated with Thomas Lennon)
2011	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	Saving Face	Won	Pakistani descent[83] (nominated with Daniel Junge)
2015	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness	Won

Best Animated Short Film

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1968	Jimmy T. Murakami	The Magic Pear Tree	Nominated	Japanese descent[84] First Asian nominated for Best Animated Short Film First Asian American nominated for Best Animated Short Film
1977	Ishu Patel	Bead Game	Nominated	Indian descent[85]
1984		Paradise	Nominated
2002	Kōji Yamamura	Mt. Head	Nominated	Japanese descent[66]
2004	Sejong Park	Birthday Boy	Nominated	Korean descent[86] (nominated with Andrew Gregory)
2008	Kunio Katō	La Maison En Petits Cubes	Won	Japanese descent[87] First Asian to win Best Animated Short Film
2010	Shaun Tan	The Lost Thing	Won	Half-Chinese descent (father is Chinese)[88] (nominated with Andrew Ruhemann)
2011	Minkyu Lee	Adam and Dog	Nominated	Korean descent[89]
2013	Shuhei Morita	Possessions	Nominated	Japanese descent[90]
2014	Robert Kondo Daisuke Tsutsumi	The Dam Keeper	Nominated	Both are of Japanese descent[66]
2015	Sanjay Patel	Sanjay's Super Team	Nominated	Indian descent[24] (nominated with Nicole Paradis Grindle)

Best Live Action Short Film

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes
1960	Ismail Merchant	The Creation of Woman	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Best Live Action Short Film Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations (nominated with Charles F. Schwep)
1977	Yuki Yoshida	I'll Find a Way	Nominated	Japanese descent[91] (nominated with Beverly Shaffer)
1982	Michael Toshiyuki Uno	The Silence	Nominated	Japanese descent[92] First Asian American nominated for Best Live Action Short Film (nominated with Joseph Benson)
1997	Chris Tashima	Visas and Virtue	Won	Half-Japanese descent (father is Japanese)[93] First Asian American to win Best Live Action Short Film (nominated with Chris Donahue)
2004	Ashvin Kumar	Little Terrorist	Nominated	Indian descent[94]
2005	Pia Clemente	Our Time is Up	Nominated	Filipino descent[95] (nominated with Rob Pearlstein)
2013	Baldwin Li	The Voorman Problem	Nominated	(nominated with Mark Gill)
2014	Hu Wei	Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)	Nominated	(nominated with Julien Ferét)

Best Foreign Language Film

Foreign Language Film
Year	Country	Film	Director	Status	Notes
1951	Japan	Rashômon 羅生門	Akira Kurosawa	Won	Special Honorary Award
1954		Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) 地獄門	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Won	Special Honorary Award
1955		Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto 宮本武蔵	Hiroshi Inagaki	Won	Special Honorary Award
1956		Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) ビルマの竪琴	Masayuki Takagi	Nominated	First Asian country nominated for competitive award in category
1957	India	Mother India (Bharat Mata) भारत माता	Mehboob Khan	Nominated	First Asian musical film nominated in category First South Asian country nominated in category
1961	Japan	Immortal Love (Eien no hito) 永遠の人	Keisuke Kinoshita	Nominated
1963		Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Koto) 古都	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
1964		Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) 砂の女	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Nominated
1965		Kwaidan 怪談	Masaki Kobayashi	Nominated
1967		Portrait of Chieko (Chieko-sho) 智恵子抄	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
1971		Dodes'ka-Den どですかでん	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
1974		Sandakan No. 8 (Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo) サンダカン八番娼館 望郷	Kei Kumai	Nominated
1980		Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) 影武者	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated	Fourth Kurosawa film nominated or awarded in Foreign Language Film category
1981		Muddy River (film) (Doro no kawa) 泥の河	Kohei Oguri	Nominated
1988	India	Salaam Bombay! सलाम बॉम्बे	Mira Nair	Nominated
1990	China	Jú Dòu 菊豆	Zhang Yimou Yang Fengliang	Nominated
1991	Hong Kong	Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà) 大紅燈籠高高掛	Zhang Yimou	Nominated
1993		Farewell My Concubine (Bàwáng Bié Jī) 霸王別姬	Chen Kaige	Nominated
	Vietnam	The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi đu đủ xanh)	Anh Hung Tran	Nominated
	Taiwan	The Wedding Banquet (Xǐyàn) 喜宴	Ang Lee	Nominated
1994		Eat Drink Man Woman (yǐn shí nán nǚ) 飲食男女	Ang Lee	Nominated
1999	Nepal	Himalaya(हिमालय)	Eric Valli	Nominated	First Nepalese film nominated in Best Foreign Language Film category.
2000	Taiwan	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wòhǔ Cánglóng) 臥虎藏龍	Ang Lee	Won	First Asian country to win competitive award in category
2001	India	Lagaan लगान	Ashutosh Gowariker	Nominated
2002	China	Hero (Yīngxióng) 英雄	Zhang Yimou	Nominated
2003	Japan	The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) たそがれ清兵衛	Yoji Yamada	Nominated
2006	Canada[note 1]	Water वाटर	Deepa Mehta	Nominated	Indo-Canadian Hindi-language film
2007	Kazakhstan[note 2]	Mongol Монгол	Sergei Bodrov	Nominated	Mongolian-language film
2008	Japan	Departures (Okuribito) おくりびと	Yojiro Takita	Won	4th most winning country of all time with 4 awards. 5th most Oscar-nominated country with 12 competitive nominations. Most winning and nominated Asian country.
2013	Cambodia	The Missing Picture	Rithy Panh	Nominated

Non-Competitive Awards

Non-Competitive Awards
Year	Name	Award
1989	Akira Kurosawa	Honorary Academy Award[96] For cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.
1991	Satyajit Ray	Honorary Academy Award[97] For his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures and for his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.
2004	Takuo Miyagishima	Gordon E. Sawyer Award[98]
2014	Hayao Miyazaki	Honorary Academy Award[99]
2016	Jackie Chan	Honorary Academy Award[100]

See also

• List of African Academy Award winners and nominees

Notes

1. The film was directed by Deepa Mehta, a Canadian of Indian descent. It was shot twice with the same bilingual actors, once in Hindi, once in English.
2. The film was shot in Mongolian and Mandarin.

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