List of Mexican 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.

List of winners

Name	#	Academy Awards	Title	Year
Alfonso Cuarón	5	Best Director	Gravity	2013
		Best Film Editing	Gravity	2013
		Best Director	Roma	2018
		Best Cinematography
		Best Foreign Language Film
Alejandro González Iñárritu		Special Achievement	Flesh and Sand	2017
		Best Director	The Revenant	2015
		Best Picture	Birdman	2014
		Best Director
		Best Original Screenplay
Emmanuel Lubezki	3	Best Cinematography	The Revenant	2015
			Birdman	2014
			Gravity	2013
Guillermo del Toro	2	Best Picture	The Shape of Water	2017
Guillermo del Toro		Best Director	The Shape of Water	2017
Anthony Quinn		Best Supporting Actor	Lust for Life	1956
Anthony Quinn		Best Supporting Actor	Viva Zapata!	1952
Emile Kuri		Best Production Design	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	1954
Emile Kuri		Best Production Design	The Heiress	1949
Manuel Arango		Best Documentary (Short Subject)	Sentinels of Silence	1971
Manuel Arango		Best Live Action Short Film	Sentinels of Silence	1971
Lupita Nyong'o	1	Best Supporting Actress	12 Years a Slave	2013
Guillermo Navarro		Best Cinematography	El Laberinto del Fauno	2006
Eugenio Caballero		Best Production Design	El Laberinto del Fauno	2006
Brigitte Broch			Moulin Rouge!	2001
Edward Carrere			Camelot	1967
Beatrice de Alba		Best Makeup and Hairstyling	Frida	2002

Special Achievement

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

Best Picture

This list focuses on Mexican-born producers.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Picture
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	Alejandro González Iñárritu	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.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Director
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	Alejandro González Iñárritu	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

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

Supporting

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1952	Anthony Quinn	Viva Zapata!	Won
1956	Anthony Quinn	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

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Actress
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

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Production Design
1942	Emile Kuri	Silver Queen	Nominated
1949	Emile Kuri	The Heiress	Won
1949	Edward Carrere	Adventures of Don Juan	Nominated	Shared with Lyle Reifsnider
1952	Emile Kuri	Carrie	Nominated
1954		20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Won
1954		Executive Suite	Nominated
1960	Edward Carrere	Sunrise at Campobello	Nominated	Shared with George James Hopkins
1961	Emile Kuri	The Absent-Minded Professor	Nominated
1964	Emile Kuri	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	Brigitte Broch	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.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
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
2005	Rodrigo Prieto	Brokeback Mountain	Nominated
2006	Emmanuel Lubezki	Children of Men	Nominated
2006	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

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

Best Documentary Feature

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

Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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.

Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
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.

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

Best Foreign Language Film

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

Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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.

Year	Film	Name	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
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.

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

Best Original Score

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Original Score
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.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
2014	Martin Hernández	Birdman	Nominated	Shared with Aaron Glascock
2015	Martin Hernández	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.

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

Best Writing (Screenplay)

This list focuses on Mexican-born writers.

Adapted

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

Original

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
2002	Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón	And Your Mother Too	Nominated	Original title: Y Tu Mamá También
2006	Guillermo Arriaga	Babel	Nominated
2006	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

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

Cinema of Mexico
Actors Directors Films (A–Z) Cinematographers Editors Producers Screenwriters
Films by year	1896–1919 1920s 1930s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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
Category

List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees

List of winners

Special Achievement

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Leading

Supporting

Best Actress

Leading

Supporting

Best Production Design

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Short Subject

Best Film Editing

Best Foreign Language Film

Best Live Action Short Film

Best Makeup

Best Original Score

Best Sound

Editing

Mixing

Best Writing (Screenplay)

Adapted

Original

Best Visual Effects

See also