List of Greek Academy Award winners and nominees

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

Best Picture

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Picture
1963	Elia Kazan	America, America	Nominated	Kazan is Turkish-born Greek
1964	Michael Cacoyannis	Zorba the Greek	Nominated	Cacoyannis is Cypriot-born Greek
2018	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite	Nominated	Shared with Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney and Lee Magiday

Best Director

Year	Name	Film	Status
Academy Award for Best Director
1947	Elia Kazan	Gentleman's Agreement	Won
1951		A Streetcar Named Desire	Nominated
1954		On the Waterfront	Won
1955		East of Eden	Nominated
1963		America, America	Nominated
1964	Michael Cacoyannis	Zorba the Greek	Nominated
1969	Costa-Gavras	Z	Nominated
2018	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite	Nominated

Best Actress

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Actress
1960	Melina Mercouri	Never on Sunday	Nominated	Only person nominated for a Greek-language role.

Best Supporting Actress

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1943	Katina Paxinou	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Won	First Greek person to win an Oscar.[1]

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
1963	Elia Kazan	America, America	Nominated
2015	Yorgos Lanthimos Efthimis Filippou	The Lobster	Nominated

Best Adapted Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
1964	Michael Cacoyannis	Zorba the Greek	Nominated
1969	Costa-Gavras	Z	Nominated	Shared with Jorge Semprún
1982	Costa-Gavras	Missing	Won	Shared with Donald E. Stewart

Best Art Direction

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Art Direction
1964	Vassilis Fotopoulos	Zorba the Greek	Won	Black & White category
1974	Dean Tavoularis	The Godfather Part II	Won	American of Greek descent Shared with Angelo P. Graham and George R. Nelson
1978		The Brink's Job	Nominated
1979		Apocalypse Now	Nominated
1988		Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Nominated	Shared with Armin Ganz
1990		The Godfather Part III	Nominated	Shared with Gary Fettis

Best Cinematography

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
2013	Phedon Papamichael	Nebraska	Nominated

Best Editing

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
2018	Yorgos Mavropsaridis	The Favourite	Nominated

Best Costume Design

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Costume Design
2006	Patricia Field	The Devil Wears Prada	Nominated	American of Greek descent
2010	Mary Zophres	True Grit	Nominated
2016		La La Land	Nominated
2018		The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Nominated

Best Original Song

Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Original Song
1960	Manos Hatzidakis	Never on Sunday	For the song "Ta Paidia Tou Piraia" ("Never on Sunday").	Won

Best Original Score

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Original Score
1981	Vangelis	Chariots of Fire	Won

Best Documentary Short Subject

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
2016	Daphne Matziaraki	4.1 Miles	Nominated

Best Foreign Language Film

Year	Film	Director(s)	Status
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1962	Electra	Michael Cacoyannis	Nominated
1963	The Red Lanterns	Vasilis Georgiadis	Nominated
1966	Blood on the Land	Vasilis Georgiadis	Nominated
1977	Iphigenia	Michael Cacoyannis	Nominated
2009	Dogtooth	Yorgos Lanthimos	Nominated

References

On the trail of Greek filmmakers who won an Oscar

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Academy Awards lists
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Records Most awards per ceremony
Combined major Academy Awards	Superlatives Big Five All four acting categories
Combined major awards	EGOT Triple Crown of Acting
Acting	All nominees Best Actor (by age) Best Actress (by age) Best Supporting Actor (by age) Best Supporting Actress (by age) Non-English acting noms Actor multi-nom years Multi-Best Picture acting careers Multi-win actors Multi-nom actors "Oscar love curse"
Directing	Best Director (by age)
Film	Films Foreign-language wins Foreign-language noms in other categories International Feature nominees International Feature: count by country Shortlists Animated feature submissions Submissions for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Submissions for Best Animated Short Academy Award Animated feature noms in other categories
Countries of the nominees	Africa Argentina Asia Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Cuba France Germany Greece India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latin America Mexico New Zealand Nordic Pakistan Poland Puerto Rico Spain Switzerland United Kingdom
Diversity of the nominees	Asian Black Hispanic Indigenous Jewish Muslim
Other	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
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