List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees

This article is about Mexico-born people, not people of Mexican descent. For people of Mexican descent, see List of Hispanic-American (U.S.) Academy Award winners and nominees.

This is a list of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Mexican filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.

Special Achievement

Special Achievement Academy Award
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2017	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Flesh and Sand	Recipient	First Mexican to receive this award.

Best Picture

This list focuses on Mexican-born producers.

Academy Award for Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel	Nominated	Shared with Steve Golin and Jon Kilik
2013	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity	Nominated	Shared with David Heyman
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman	Won	Shared with John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole
2015		The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon
2017	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water	Won	Shared with J. Miles Dale
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Nominated	Shared with Gabriela Rodriguez

Best Director

This list focuses on Mexican-born directors.

Academy Award for Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel	Nominated	First Mexican to be nominated for Best Director.
2013	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity	Won	First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director.
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman	Won	First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director twice.
2015		The Revenant	Won	First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director two times. Third director in history to win consecutive Best Director Academy Awards. First Mexican and Latin American to be nominated for Best Director three times.
2017	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water	Won
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Won	First person to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography.

Best Actor

This list focuses on Mexican-born actors.

Leading

Academy Award for Best Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1957	Anthony Quinn	Wild Is the Wind	Nominated
1964		Zorba the Greek	Nominated
2012	Demián Bichir	A Better Life	Nominated

Supporting

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1952	Anthony Quinn	Viva Zapata!	Won
1956		Lust for Life	Won	First Mexican-born actor to win two Oscars in the same category

Best Actress

This list focuses on Mexican-born actresses.

Leading

Academy Award for Best Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2002	Salma Hayek	Frida	Nominated	First Mexican actress to be nominated for Best Leading Actress.
2018	Yalitza Aparicio	Roma	Nominated	Debut performance First Indigenous Latin American (Indigenous Mexican) to be nominated in any category.

Supporting

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1954	Katy Jurado	Broken Lance	Nominated	First Mexican and Hispanic actress to be nominated for an Academy Award.
2006	Adriana Barraza	Babel	Nominated
2013	Lupita Nyong'o	12 Years a Slave	Won	Mexican with Kenyan citizenship. First Mexican-born actress to win an Academy Award.
2018	Marina de Tavira	Roma	Nominated

Best Production Design

This list focuses on Mexican-born art directors.

Academy Award for Best Production Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1942	Emile Kuri	Silver Queen	Nominated
1949		The Heiress	Won
	Edward Carrere	Adventures of Don Juan	Nominated	Shared with Lyle Reifsnider
1952	Emile Kuri	Carrie	Nominated
1954		20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won
		Executive Suite	Nominated
1960	Edward Carrere	Sunrise at Campobello	Nominated	Shared with George James Hopkins
1961	Emile Kuri	The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated
1964		Mary Poppins	Nominated
1967	Edward Carrere	Camelot	Won	Shared with John Truscott and John W. Brown
1971	Emile Kuri	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Nominated
1996	Brigitte Broch	Romeo + Juliet	Nominated	German-born Mexican art director. Shared with Catherine Martin
2001		Moulin Rouge!	Won
2002	Felipe Fernández del Paso Hania Robledo	Frida	Nominated
2006	Eugenio Caballero	Pan's Labyrinth	Won	Original title: El laberinto del fauno Shared with Pilar Revuelta
2018	Eugenio Caballero Bárbara Enríquez	Roma	Nominated

Best Cinematography

This list focuses on Mexican-born cinematographers.

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1964	Gabriel Figueroa	The Night of the Iguana	Nominated
1975	John A. Alonzo	Chinatown	Nominated	First American-born Latino to be nominated for Best Cinematography
1995	Emmanuel Lubezki	A Little Princess	Nominated
1999		Sleepy Hollow	Nominated
2005		The New World	Nominated
	Rodrigo Prieto	Brokeback Mountain	Nominated
2006	Emmanuel Lubezki	Children of Men	Nominated
	Guillermo Navarro	Pan's Labyrinth	Won	Original title: El laberinto del fauno
2011	Emmanuel Lubezki	The Tree of Life	Nominated
2013		Gravity	Won
2014		Birdman	Won
2015		The Revenant	Won	First cinematographer to win three years in a row. First Mexican and Latin American to win the Oscars three times. First Mexican Jews to nominate and win the Oscars in any category.
2016	Rodrigo Prieto	Silence	Nominated
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Won	First Mexican director to be nominated for Best Cinematography while serving as both director and cinematographer. First Mexican director to win for Best Director and Best Cinematography in the same year.
2019	Rodrigo Prieto	The Irishman	Nominated

Best Costume Design

Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2019	Mayes C. Rubeo	Jojo Rabbit	Nominated

Best Documentary Feature

This list focuses on documentaries features directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone/Notes
1957	Torero!	Manuel Barbachano Ponce	Nominated
1969	The Olympics in Mexico	Alberto Isaac	Nominated
1985	The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	Lourdes Portillo	Nominated	Shared with Susana Blaustein Muñoz
2001	Promises	Carlos Bolado	Nominated	Shared with B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro

Best Documentary Short Subject

This list focuses on documentaries short subject directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone/Notes
1971	Sentinels of Silence	Manuel Arango	Won	Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories

Best Film Editing

This list focuses on Mexican-born film editors.

Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2006	Alfonso Cuarón	Children of Men	Nominated	Shared with Alex Rodriguez
2013		Gravity	Won	Shared with Mark Sanger

Best Foreign Language Film

Main article: List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

This list focuses on Mexican films that won or were nominated for the foreign language film award.

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
1960	Macario	Roberto Gavaldón	Nominated	First Latin American and Mexican film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
1961	The Important Man	Ismael Rodríguez	Nominated	Original title: Ánimas Trujano
1962	The Pearl of Tlayucan	Luis Alcoriza	Nominated	Original title: Tlayucan
1975	Letters from Marusia	Miguel Littín	Nominated	Original title: Actas de Marusia
2000	Love's a Bitch	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	Original title: Amores Perros
2002	The Crime of Father Amaro	Carlos Carrera	Nominated	Original title: El Crimen del Padre Amaro
2006	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	Nominated	Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno The film was nominated for other five Academy Awards, and won three of them: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup
2010	Biutiful	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated	Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	Won	First Mexican film nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film to be simultaneously nominated for Best Picture

Best Live Action Short Film

This list focuses on live action short-films directed by Mexican-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone/Notes
1971	Sentinels of Silence	Manuel Arango	Won	Original title: Centinelas del silencio Shared with Robert Amram This was the only time that a short film won Oscars in two categories
1996	De tripas, corazón	Antonio Urrutia	Nominated

Best Makeup

This list focuses on Mexican-born makeup artists.

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2002	Beatrice De Alba	Frida	Won
2008	Mike Elizalde	Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Nominated

Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1970	Bill Melendez	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Nominated	The category was Best Music, Original Song Score. Shared with Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter, Alan Shean, and Vince Guaraldi.

Best Sound

Editing

This list focuses on Mexican-born sound editors.

Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2014	Martin Hernández	Birdman	Nominated	Shared with Aaron Glascock
2015		The Revenant	Nominated	Shared with Lon Bender
2018	Sergio Díaz	Roma	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay

Mixing

This list focuses on Mexican-born sound mixers.

Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2006	Fernando Cámara	Apocalypto	Nominated
2012	José Antonio García	Argo	Nominated
2018		Roma	Nominated	Shared with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan

Best Writing (Screenplay)

This list focuses on Mexican-born writers.

Adapted

Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2006	Alfonso Cuarón	Children of Men	Nominated	Shared with Hawk Otsby, Timothy J. Sexton and Mark Fergus

Original

Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2002	Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón	And Your Mother Too	Nominated	Original title: Y Tu Mamá También
2006	Guillermo Arriaga	Babel	Nominated
	Guillermo del Toro	Pan's Labyrinth	Nominated	Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman	Won	Shared with Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo
2017	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water	Nominated	Shared with Vanessa Taylor Story by: Guillermo del Toro
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Nominated

Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1947	Paul Lerpae	Unconquered	Nominated	Mexican born-American special effects artist.

See also

• Cinema of Mexico
• List of Mexican films

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