List of Mexican Academy Award winners and nominees

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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

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!Academy Awards

!Title

!Year

rowspan="5" |Alfonso Cuarón

| rowspan="10" |5

| Best Director

| rowspan="2" |Gravity

| rowspan="2" |2013

Best Film Editing
Best Director

| rowspan="3" |Roma

| rowspan="3" |2018

Best Cinematography
Best Foreign Language Film
rowspan="5" |Alejandro González Iñárritu

|Special Achievement

|Flesh and Sand

|2017

Best Director

|The Revenant

|2015

Best Picture

| rowspan="3" |Birdman

| rowspan="3" |2014

Best Director
Best Original Screenplay
rowspan="3" |Emmanuel Lubezki

| rowspan="6" |3

| rowspan="3" |Best Cinematography

|The Revenant

|2015

Birdman

|2014

Gravity

|2013

rowspan="3" |Guillermo del Toro

|Best Picture

| rowspan="2" |The Shape of Water

| rowspan="2" |2017

Best Director
Best Animated Picture

|Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

|2022

rowspan="2" |Anthony Quinn

| rowspan="6" | 2

| rowspan="2" |Best Supporting Actor

|Lust for Life

|1956

Viva Zapata!

|1952

rowspan="2" |Emile Kuri

| rowspan="2" |Best Production Design

|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

|1954

The Heiress

|1949

rowspan="2" |Manuel Arango

|Best Documentary (Short Subject)

| rowspan="2" |Sentinels of Silence

| rowspan="2" |1971

Best Live Action Short Film
Lupita Nyong'o

| rowspan=8" |1

|Best Supporting Actress

|12 Years a Slave

|2013

Guillermo Navarro

|Best Cinematography

| rowspan="2" |El Laberinto del Fauno

| rowspan="2" |2006

Eugenio Caballero

| rowspan="3" |Best Production Design

Brigitte Broch

|Moulin Rouge!

|2001

Edward Carrere

|Camelot

|1967

Jaime Baksht

|rowspan="3" |Best Sound

|rowspan="3" |Sound of Metal

|rowspan="3" |2020

Michelle Couttolenc
Carlos Cortés

Special Achievement

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2017Alejandro González IñárrituFlesh and Sand{{won|Recipient}}First Mexican to receive this award.

Best Picture

This list focuses on Mexican-born producers.

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2006Alejandro González IñárrituBabel{{Nominated}}Shared with Steve Golin and Jon Kilik.
2013Alfonso CuarónGravity{{nominated}}Shared with David Heyman.
2014rowspan=2|Alejandro González IñárrituBirdman{{won}}Shared with John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole.
2015The Revenant{{nominated}}Shared with Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon.
2017Guillermo del ToroThe Shape of Water{{won}}Shared with J. Miles Dale.
2018Alfonso CuarónRoma{{nom}}Shared with Gabriela Rodriguez.
2021Guillermo del ToroNightmare Alley{{nom}}Shared with J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper.

Best Director

This list focuses on Mexican-born directors.

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2006

| Alejandro González Iñárritu

| Babel

| {{nom}}

| First Mexican to be nominated for Best Director.

2013

| Alfonso Cuarón

| Gravity

| {{won}}

| First Mexican and Latin American to win Best Director.

2014

|rowspan=2|Alejandro González Iñárritu

| Birdman{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Forbes |date=2015-02-23 |title='Birdman' gana 4 premios Oscar; Iñárritu, mejor director |url=https://www.forbes.com.mx/birdman-gana-4-premios-oscar-inarritu-mejor-director/ |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=Forbes México |language=es-MX}}

| {{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.

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1957rowspan=2|Anthony QuinnWild Is the Wind{{nom}}
1964Zorba the Greek{{nom}}
2012Demián BichirA Better Life{{nom}}

=Supporting=

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| colspan=5 align=center | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

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! width="75" |Year

!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1952rowspan=2|Anthony QuinnViva Zapata!{{won}}
1956Lust for Life{{won}}First Mexican-born actor to win two Oscars in the same category.

Best Actress

This list focuses on Mexican-born actresses.

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2002

| Salma Hayek

| Frida

| {{nom}}

| First Mexican actress to be nominated for Best Leading Actress.

2018

| Yalitza Aparicio

| Roma

| {{nom}}

| Debut performance.
First Indigenous Latin American (Indigenous Mexican) to be nominated in any category.

=Supporting=

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| colspan=5 align=center | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

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! width="75" |Year

!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1954

| Katy Jurado

| Broken Lance

| {{nom}}

| First Mexican and Hispanic actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

2006

| Adriana Barraza

| Babel

| {{nom}}

|

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

| {{nom}}

|

Best Animated Feature Film

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

style="text-align: center" | 2021

| Carlos López Estrada{{Cite web |date=2022-03-27 |title=Carlos López Estrada… feliz, emocionado (y sí con mucha presión) por el Oscar |url=https://www.quien.com/espectaculos/2022/03/26/carlos-lopez-feliz-emocionado-mucha-presion-oscar |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=Quién |language=es}}

| Raya and the Last Dragon

| {{nom}}

| Shared with Don Hall, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho.

2022

|Guillermo del Toro

|Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

| {{won}}

|Shared with Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley.

Best Cinematography

This list focuses on Mexican-born cinematographers.

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1964Gabriel FigueroaThe Night of the Iguana{{nom}}
1975John A. AlonzoChinatown{{nom}}First American-born Latino to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
1995rowspan=3|Emmanuel LubezkiA Little Princess{{nom}}
1999Sleepy Hollow{{nom}}
rowspan="2"|2005The New World{{nom}}
Rodrigo PrietoBrokeback Mountain{{nom}}
rowspan="2"|2006Emmanuel LubezkiChildren of Men{{nom}}
Guillermo NavarroPan's Labyrinth{{won}}Original title: El laberinto del fauno
2011rowspan=4|Emmanuel LubezkiThe Tree of Life{{nom}}
2013Gravity{{won}}
2014Birdman{{won}}
2015The 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 be nominated and to win an Academy Award in any category.
2016Rodrigo PrietoSilence{{nom}}
2018Alfonso CuarónRoma{{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.
2019rowspan=2| Rodrigo PrietoThe Irishman{{nom}}
2023Killers of the Flower Moon{{nom}}

Best Costume Design

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2019Mayes C. RubeoJojo Rabbit{{nom}}First Mexican and Latin American costume designer to be nominated for Best Costume Design.{{cite web|url=https://iqlatino.org/2020/mayes-rubeo-is-the-first-latina-to-be-nominated-for-the-oscars-for-the-best-costume-design/#:~:text=el%20Siglo%20XXI-,Mayes%20Rubeo%20is%20the%20first%20Latina%20to%20be%20nominated%20for,for%20the%20Best%20Costume%20Design&text=The%202020%20Oscars%20awards%20were,Little%20Women%20(Greta%20Gerwig).|title=Mayes Rubeo is the first Latina to be nominated for the Oscars for the Best Costume Design|website=IQ Latino|date=February 14, 2020|access-date=March 25, 2021}}

Best Documentary Feature

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

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!width="250"|Name

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1957Torero!Manuel Barbachano Ponce{{nom}}
1969The Olympics in MexicoAlberto Isaac{{nom}}
1985

| The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

|Lourdes Portillo

{{nom}}

|Shared with Susana Blaustein Muñoz.

2001PromisesCarlos Bolado{{nom}}Shared with B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro.

Best Documentary Short Subject

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

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!width="250"|Name

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1971Sentinels of SilenceManuel 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.

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2006

|rowspan=2|Alfonso Cuarón

| Children of Men

| {{nom}}

| Shared with Alex Rodriguez.

2013

| Gravity

| {{won}}

| Shared with Mark Sanger.

Best International Feature Film

{{Main|List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film}}

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

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!width="250"|Film

!width="250"|Director

!width="100"|Status

!width="500"|Milestone / Notes

1960

| Macario

| Roberto Gavaldón

| {{nom}}

| First Latin American and Mexican film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

1961

| The Important Man

| Ismael Rodríguez

| {{nom}}

| Original title: Ánimas Trujano

1962

| The Pearl of Tlayucan

| Luis Alcoriza

| {{nom}}

| Original title: Tlayucan

1975

| Letters from Marusia

| Miguel Littín

| {{nom}}

| Original title: Actas de Marusia

2000

| Love's a Bitch

| Alejandro González Iñárritu

| {{nom}}

| Original title: Amores Perros

2002

| The Crime of Father Amaro

| Carlos Carrera

| {{nom}}

| Original title: El Crimen del Padre Amaro

2006

| Pan's Labyrinth

| Guillermo del Toro

| {{nom}}

| Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno
The film was nominated for five other Academy Awards, and won three of them: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup.

2010

| Biutiful

| Alejandro González Iñárritu

| {{nom}}

| Second nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

2018

| Roma

| Alfonso Cuarón

| {{won}}

| First Mexican film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film and 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.

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!width="250"|Name

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1971Sentinels of SilenceManuel 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.
1996De tripas, corazónAntonio Urrutia{{nom}}
2022Le pupilleAlfonso Cuarón{{nom}}Shared with Alice Rohrwacher

Best Makeup

This list focuses on Mexican-born makeup artists.

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2008Mike ElizaldeHellboy II: The Golden Army{{nom}}

Best Original Score

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!width="200"|Name

!width="175"|Film

! width="75" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

style="text-align: center"| 1970

| Bill Melendez

| A Boy Named Charlie Brown

| {{nom}}

| The category was Best Music, Original Song Score.
Shared with Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter, Alan Shean, and Vince Guaraldi.

Best Production Design

This list focuses on Mexican-born art directors/production designers and set decorators.

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!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1942rowspan="2" |Emile KuriSilver Queen{{nom}}Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese descent.
rowspan="2" | 1949The Heiress{{won}}
Edward Carrere

|Adventures of Don Juan

{{nom}}Shared with Lyle Reifsnider.
1952

| rowspan="3" |Emile Kuri

Carrie{{nom}}
rowspan=2| 195420,000 Leagues Under the Sea{{won}}
Executive Suite{{nom}}
1959John DeCuirThe Big Fisherman{{nom}}
1960

|Edward Carrere

|Sunrise at Campobello

{{nom}}Shared with George James Hopkins.
rowspan=2|1961

| Emile Kuri

The Absent-Minded Professor{{nom}}
Fernando Carrere

| The Children's Hour

| {{nom}}

|

1963John DeCuirCleopatra{{won}}
1964Emile KuriMary Poppins{{nom}}
rowspan=2|1967

| Edward Carrere

| Camelot

{{won}}Shared with John Truscott and John W. Brown.
rowspan=2|John DeCuirThe Taming of the Shrew{{nom}}
1969Hello, Dolly!{{won}}
1971

|Emile Kuri

Bedknobs and Broomsticks{{nom}}
1996rowspan=2 | Brigitte BrochRomeo + Juliet{{nom}}rowspan="2" | German-born Mexican art director.
Shared with Catherine Martin.
2001Moulin Rouge!{{won}}
2002Felipe Fernández del Paso
Hania Robledo
Frida{{nom}}
2006Eugenio CaballeroPan's Labyrinth{{won}}Original title: El laberinto del fauno
Shared with Pilar Revuelta.
2018Eugenio Caballero
Bárbara Enríquez
Roma{{nom}}

Best Sound

This list focuses on Mexican-born sound editors and mixers.

Prior to the 93rd Academy Awards, the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2020/04/oscars-major-changes-academy-awards-coronavirus-1202919950/ |title=Oscars Keeping Show Date But Make Big News As Academy Lightens Eligibility Rules, Combines Sound Categories, Ends DVD Screeners and More |last=Hammond |first=Pete |date=April 28, 2020 |website=Deadline Hollywood }}

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80"|Category

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2006Fernando Cámara{{Cite web |title=FERNANDO CAMARA IS NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR FOR SOUND {{!}} London Film School |url=https://lfs.org.uk/content/fernando-camara-nominated-oscar-sound |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=lfs.org.uk}}Apocalypto

| rowspan="2" |Mixing

{{nom}}
2012José Antonio GarcíaArgo{{nom}}
2014rowspan=2|Martin HernándezBirdman

| rowspan="2" |Editing

{{nom}}Shared with Aaron Glascock.
2015The Revenant{{nom}}Shared with Lon Bender.
rowspan=2|2018José Antonio Garcíarowspan=2|RomaMixing{{nom}}Shared with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan.
Sergio DíazEditing{{nom}}Shared with Skip Lievsay.
2020Jaime Baksht
Michelle Couttolenc
Carlos Cortés
Sound of MetalSound{{won}}Shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh.

Best Writing (Screenplay)

This list focuses on Mexican-born writers.

=Adapted=

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!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2006Alfonso CuarónChildren of Men{{nom}}Shared with Hawk Otsby, Timothy J. Sexton and Mark Fergus.

=Original=

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| colspan=5 align=center | Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

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!width="200"|Name

!width="300"|Film

! width="75" |Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

2002Alfonso Cuarón
Carlos Cuarón
And Your Mother Too{{nom}}Original title: Y Tu Mamá También
rowspan="2"|2006Guillermo ArriagaBabel{{nom}}
Guillermo del ToroPan's Labyrinth{{nom}}Original title: El Laberinto del Fauno
2014Alejandro González IñárrituBirdman{{won}}Shared with Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo.
2017Guillermo del ToroThe Shape of Water{{nom}}Shared with Vanessa Taylor.
Story by Guillermo del Toro.
2018Alfonso CuarónRoma{{Nominated}}

Best Visual Effects

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! width="75" |Year

!width="300"|Name

!width="250"|Film

! width="80"|Status

!width="450"|Milestone / Notes

1947

| Paul Lerpae

| Unconquered

| {{nom}}

| Mexican born-American special effects artist.

See also

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