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This is a list of African Academy Award winners and nominees, which includes both ethnic African people born and/or raised in Africa and non-ethnic Africans born and raised in Africa.

Best Actor

Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Actor in a Leading Role
1959	Laurence Harvey		Room at the Top	Joe Lampton	Nominated	First Lithuanian nominated for an Oscar. Born in Lithuania, but educated and raised in South Africa, where he joined the army.

Best Actress

Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Actress in a Leading Role
1971	Janet Suzman	Nicholas and Alexandra	Alexandra Feodorovna	Nominated
2003	Charlize Theron	Monster	Aileen Wuornos	Won	First African to win in an acting category.
2005	Charlize Theron	North Country	Josey Aimes	Nominated
2016	Ruth Negga	Loving	Mildred Loving	Nominated
2019	Charlize Theron	Bombshell	Megyn Kelly	Nominated

Best Supporting Actor

Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1936	Basil Rathbone	Romeo and Juliet	Tybalt	Nominated	Rathbone was a South African-born British actor.
1938	Basil Rathbone	If I Were King	King Louis XI	Nominated
1948	Cecil Kellaway	The Luck of the Irish	Horace	Nominated
1962	Omar Sharif	Lawrence of Arabia	Sherif Ali	Nominated	First African to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category.
1967	Cecil Kellaway	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Monsignor Mike Ryan	Nominated
2003	Djimon Hounsou	In America	Mateo	Nominated	First Black African to be nominated for an acting award.
2006	Djimon Hounsou	Blood Diamond	Solomon Vandy	Nominated
2013	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips	Abduwali Muse	Nominated
2018	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock	Nominated	Grant is from a white British family; he was born and raised in Swaziland.

Best Supporting Actress

Year	Name	Country	Film	Role	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
2013	Lupita Nyong'o		12 Years a Slave	Patsey	Won	First black African woman to be nominated and win in any category.

Best Cinematography

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Cinematography
1966	Ted Moore	A Man for All Seasons	Won	Moore is a South African-born British. Won for Best Color Cinematography.
1991	Stephen Goldblatt	The Prince of Tides	Nominated	Goldblatt is a South African-born British.
1995	Stephen Goldblatt	Batman Forever	Nominated	Goldblatt is a South African-born British.
2002	Dion Beebe	Chicago	Nominated	Beebe is a South African-born Australian.
2005	Dion Beebe	Memoirs of a Geisha	Won	Beebe is a South African-born Australian.

Best Director

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Director
1996	Scott Hicks	Shine	Nominated	Hicks is a Ugandan-born Australian.
1997	Atom Egoyan	The Sweet Hereafter	Nominated	Egoyan is an Egyptian-born Canadian filmmaker.

Best Documentary Feature

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Documentary Feature
1997	Michele Ohayon (director)	Colors Straight Up	Nominated
2012	Malik Bendjelloul	Searching for Sugar Man	Won
2013	Jehane Noujaim (director) Karim Amer (producer)	The Square	Nominated
2020	Pippa Ehrlich (director) James Reed (director) Craig Foster (producer)	My Octopus Teacher	Won
2023	Moses Bwayo Christopher Sharp^[1]	Bobi Wine: The People's President	Nominated	Shared with John Battsek
2023	Kaouther Ben Hania	Four Daughters	Nominated	Shared with Nadim Cheikhrouha

Best Film Editing

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Film Editing
1970	Thelma Schoonmaker	Woodstock	Nominated	Schoonmaker is from a white American family; she was born in Algeria.
1980		Raging Bull	Won
1990		Goodfellas	Nominated
2002		Gangs of New York	Nominated
2004		The Aviator	Won
2006		The Departed	Won
2011		Hugo	Nominated
2015	Margaret Sixel	Mad Max: Fury Road	Won	Sixel is a South African-born Australian.
2019	Thelma Schoonmaker	The Irishman	Nominated
2023	Thelma Schoonmaker	Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated

Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to a country, not to an individual, and the submitting country is the officially designated nominee in this category.

Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best International Feature Film
1969	Z	Costa-Gavras	Won	First African film to win an Academy Award.
1976	Black and White in Color	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Won
1983	Le Bal	Ettore Scola	Nominated
1995	Dust of Life	Rachid Bouchareb	Nominated
2004	Yesterday	Darrell Roodt	Nominated
2005	Tsotsi	Gavin Hood	Won	First African film in a language other than French to win in this category.
2006	Days of Glory	Rachid Bouchareb	Nominated
2010	Outside the Law	Rachid Bouchareb	Nominated
2014	Timbuktu	Abderrahmane Sissako	Nominated
2020	The Man Who Sold His Skin	Kaouther Ben Hania	Nominated

Best Live Action Short Film

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Live Action Short Film
2019	Meryam Joobeur	Brotherhood	Nominated	Joobeur is Tunisian-born Canadian. Shared with Maria Gracia Turgeon.
2023	Misan Harriman	The After	Nominated	Harriman is Nigerian-born British. Shared with Nicky Bentham.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
1999	Trefor Proud	Topsy-Turvy	Won	Proud is the first Zimbabwean to win an Academy Award in this category. Shared with Christine Blundell.
2019	Tristan Versluis	1917	Nominated	Versluis is a Zimbabwean-born English. Shared with Naomi Donne and Rebecca Cole.

Best Music, Original Score

Year	Name	Film	Status
Best Original Score
1985	Caiphus Semenya	The Color Purple	Nominated
1987	Jonas Gwangwa	Cry Freedom	Nominated

Best Music, Original Song

Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Original Song
1987	Jonas Gwangwa	Cry Freedom	"Cry Freedom"	Nominated	Shared with George Fenton.
2012	Herbert Kretzmer	Les Misérables	"Suddenly"	Nominated	Kretzmer is from a Jewish family. Shared with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.
2022	Tems	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	"Lift Me Up"	Nominated	Shared with Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, and Ryan Coogler.

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Year	Name	Film	Adapted From	Status	Milestone / Notes
Best Adapted Screenplay
1983	Ronald Harwood	The Dresser	The Dresser by Ronald Harwood	Nominated
1987	Mark Peploe	The Last Emperor	From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi	Won	Peploe is a Kenyan-born English writer. Shared with Bernardo Bertolucci.
1997	Atom Egoyan	The Sweet Hereafter	The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks	Nominated
2002	Ronald Harwood	The Pianist	The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman	Won
2007	Ronald Harwood	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby	Nominated
2009	Neill Blomkamp	District 9	Alive in Joburg by Neill Blomkamp	Nominated	Shared with Terri Tatchell.