List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees. This list includes Academy Award winners and nominees who have Asian nationality or citizenship, but not descendants of Asian ancestry living abroad. As Asia is a large and diverse region with a massive variety of racial and ethnic groups, this list is not expected to limit itself to the cinematic achievements of those with Far Eastern or Southern Asian nationalities. In the category of Foreign Language Film, this list also includes Asian countries, or films in an Asian language, in addition to films with an Asian director.

This list is current as of the nominees and winners for the 85th Academy Awards which took place on February 24, 2013.

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1986	Ismail Merchant	A Room with a View	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Best Picture
1989	A. Kitman Ho	Born on the Fourth of July	Nominated	Nominated with Oliver Stone
1991		JFK	Nominated	Nominated with Oliver Stone
1992	Ismail Merchant	Howards End	Nominated
1993		The Remains of the Day	Nominated	Tied for third most-nominated Asian, with 4 (including recognition in Live Action Short Film category) Nominated with Mike Nichols, John Calley
1996	Richard Sakai	Jerry Maguire	Nominated	Nominated with James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Cameron Crowe
2000	Ang Lee William Kong Li-Kong Hsu	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2012	Ang Lee	Life of Pi	Nominated	Nominated with Gil Netter and David Womarck

Best Actor

Actor in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Milestone
1956	Yul Brynner	The King and I	King Mongkut of Siam	Won	First Asian to win the Best Actor award. (Yul Brynner was born in Russia and is of Mongolian and Buryat descent.)
1982	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Won	First Best Actor winner of South Asian descent (Father was Indian from Kenya.)
2003		House of Sand and Fog	Massoud Behrani	Nominated	First Asian with multiple Academy award nominations in acting categories

Best Actress

Actress in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Nationality	Film	Role	Status	Milestone
1935	Merle Oberon	Indian	The Dark Angel	Kitty Vane	Nominated	First Asian nominated for any Academy Award, and the first Asian nominated for Best Lead Actress.

Best Supporting Actor

Actor in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Milestone
1957	Sessue Hayakawa	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Saito	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Supporting Actor
1966	Mako	The Sand Pebbles	Po-Han	Nominated
1984	Pat Morita	The Karate Kid	Mr. Miyagi	Nominated	First Asian American (American-born) nominated for Supporting Actor
	Haing S. Ngor	The Killing Fields	Dith Pran	Won	First Asian to win for Supporting Actor Debut performance
1991	Ben Kingsley	Bugsy	Meyer Lansky	Nominated	First Asian with multiple nominations in acting categories
2001		Sexy Beast	Don Logan	Nominated
2003	Ken Watanabe	The Last Samurai	Lord Katsumoto	Nominated

Best Supporting Actress

Actress in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Ethnicity	Film	Role	Status	Milestone
1957	Miyoshi Umeki	Japanese	Sayonara	Katsumi Kelly	Won	First Asian to win for Supporting Actress
1985	Meg Tilly	Chinese	Agnes of God	Sister Agnes	Nominated
1994	Jennifer Tilly	Chinese	Bullets Over Broadway	Olive Neal	Nominated
2003	Shohreh Aghdashloo	Iranian	House of Sand and Fog	Nadereh Behrani	Nominated	First Iranian to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress
2006	Rinko Kikuchi	Japanese	Babel	Chieko Wataya	Nominated	Third actress nominated in category for non-speaking role
2010	Hailee Steinfeld	Filipino	True Grit	Mattie Ross	Nominated	Youngest actress of Asian descent (1/4 Filipino) to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress

Best Director

Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1965	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Woman in the Dunes	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Director Film was nominated in previous year for Foreign Language Film
1985	Akira Kurosawa	Ran	Nominated	Four previous Kurosawa films recognized in Foreign Language Film category
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	The Sixth Sense	Nominated	First Asian American nominated for Director
2000	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2005		Brokeback Mountain	Won	First Asian to win for Director First non-European to win for Director Third nomination for Lee (not including nominations in Foreign Language Film category)
2012		Life of Pi	Won

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1986	Hanif Kureishi	My Beautiful Laundrette	Nominated	First Asian nominated for writing
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	The Sixth Sense	Nominated	First Asian-American nominated for writing First Asian-American nominated for Original Screenplay
2006	Iris Yamashita	Letters from Iwo Jima	Nominated	Nominated with Paul Haggis
2011	Asghar Farhadi	A Separation	Nominated	First time that a screenplay entirely written in an Asian language is nominated for Original Screenplay.

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Adapted From	Status	Milestone
2000	Hui-Ling Wang Kuo Jung Tsai	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Crane-Iron Pentalogy, by Wang Dulu	Nominated	Nominated with James Schamus. First time that a screenplay written in an Asian language is nominated in any writing category.

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1938	James Wong Howe	Algiers	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Cinematography
1940		Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Nominated
1942		Kings Row	Nominated
1943		Air Force	Nominated	Nominated with Elmer Dyer, Charles A. Marshall
		The North Star	Nominated
1955		The Rose Tattoo	Won	First Asian to win for Cinematography
1958		The Old Man and the Sea	Nominated
1963		Hud	Won	First Asian to win two Academy Awards
1966		Seconds	Nominated
1970	Osami Furuya Sinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	Nominated with Charles F. Wheeler
1975	James Wong Howe	Funny Lady	Nominated	Most-nominated Asian, with 10
1985	Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai	Ran	Nominated
1993	Gu Changwei	Farewell My Concubine	Nominated
1995	Lü Yue	Shanghai Triad	Nominated
1996	Darius Khondji	Evita	Nominated
2000	Peter Pau	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won
2004	Zhao Xiaoding	House of Flying Daggers	Nominated
2010	Matthew Libatique	Black Swan	Nominated

Best Film Editing

Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1975	Richard Chew	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Film Editing Nominated with Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn
1977		Star Wars	Won	First Asian to win for Film Editing Shared win with Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas
1992	Kant Pan	The Crying Game	Nominated
1999	Tariq Anwar	American Beauty	Nominated
2010		The King's Speech	Nominated
2015	Tom Cross	Whiplash	Won	First Vietnamese American to win

Best Art Direction

Art Direction
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1952	So Matsuyama H. Motsumoto	Rashomon	Nominated	First Asians to be nominated for Art Direction (black-and-white)
1956	Albert Nozaki	The Ten Commandments	Nominated	Nominated with Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer (color)
	So Matsuyama	Seven Samurai	Nominated	(black-and-white)
1969	George B. Chan	Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	Nominated with Robert F. Boyle, Edward G. Boyle, Carl Biddiscombe
1970	Yoshirō Muraki Taizoh Kawashima	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated	Nominated with Jack Martin Smith, Richard Day, Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockette, Carl Biddiscombe
1980	Yoshiro Muraki	Kagemusha	Nominated
1985	Yoshiro Muraki Shinobu Muraki	Ran	Nominated	Yoshiro Muraki ties for third most-nominated Asian, with 4 (including recognition in Costume Design category)
2000	Timmy Yip	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won	First Asian to win for Art Direction
2008	James J. Murakami	Changeling	Nominated	Nominated with Gary Fettis

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1954	Sanzo Wada	Gate of Hell	Won	First Asian to win for Costume Design (color)
1955	Tadaoto Kainosho	Ugetsu	Nominated	(black-and-white)
1956	Kohei Ezaki	Seven Samurai	Nominated	(black-and-white)
1961	Yoshirō Muraki	Yojimbo	Nominated
1982	Bhanu Athaiya	Gandhi	Won	Nominated with John Mollo, Bhanu Athaiya is the first Indian to win an Oscar.
1985	Emi Wada	Ran	Won
1992	Eiko Ishioka	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won
2000	Timmy Yip	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Nominated
2006	Yee Chung-Man	Curse of the Golden Flower	Nominated
2012	Eiko Ishioka	Mirror Mirror	Nominated	posthumous nomination
2013	William Chang Suk Ping	The Grandmaster	Nominated

Best Makeup

Makeup
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
2006	Kazuhiro Tsuji	Click	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Makeup Nominated with Bill Corso
2007		Norbit	Nominated	Nominated with Rick Baker

Best Music, Original Score

Original Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1966	Toshiro Mayuzumi	The Bible	Nominated	First Asian nominated for music
1983	Ravi Shankar	Gandhi	Nominated	First Asian nominated for both Oscar and Grammy Awards Shared with George Fenton
1987	Ryuichi Sakamoto Cong Su	The Last Emperor	Won	First Asians to win for music Shared win with David Byrne
2000	Tan Dun	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Won
2008	A.R. Rahman	Slumdog Millionaire	Won	Third Asian to win two Academy Awards. First Asian to win two Oscars in the same year. First Asian to receive three Oscar nominations in the same year.
2010		127 Hours	Nominated	First Asian to receive multiple nominations in this category.

Best Music, Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Milestone
2000	Tan Dun	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	"A Love Before Time"	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Original Song Nominated with Jorge Calandrelli, James Schamus
2008	A.R. Rahman M.I.A.	Slumdog Millionaire	"O Saya"	Nominated	Rahman is first Asian nominated twice in same category for same film. Rahman is first Asian to receive three Oscar nominations in same year. M.I.A. is first Asian nominated for Oscar and Grammy Awards in same year.
	A.R. Rahman Gulzar	Slumdog Millionaire	"Jai Ho"	Won	First Asian winner in the Original Song category. Rahman is third Asian to win two Academy Awards. Rahman is first Asian to win two Oscars in same year.
2010	A.R. Rahman	127 Hours	"If I Rise"	Nominated	Nominated with Rollo Armstrong and Dido
2012	Bombay Jayashri	Life of Pi	"Pi's Lullaby"	Nominated	Nominated with Mychael Danna
2013	Robert Lopez	Frozen	"Let It Go"	Won	First Asian-American (of Filipino descent) to win Best Original Song. Nominated with Kristen Anderson-Lopez
	Karen O	Her	"The Moon Song"	Nominated	Nominated with Spike Jonze

Best Sound or Sound Mixing

Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
2008	Resul Pookutty	Slumdog Millionaire	Won	First and only Asian to win for Sound Mixing. Shared nomination with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke.

Best Sound Editing

Sound Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
2006	Kami Asgar	Apocalypto	Nominated	First and only Asian nominated for Sound Editing

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1977	Gregory Jein	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Visual Effects Nominated with Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Richard Yuricich
1992	Doug Chiang	Death Becomes Her	Won	First Asian to win for Visual Effects Shared win with Ken Ralston, Douglas Smythe, Tom Woodruff Jr.
1996	Habib Zargarpour	Twister	Nominated	Nominated with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier and Henry LaBounta
1999	Jerome Chen	Stuart Little	Nominated	Nominated with John Dykstra, Henry F. Anderson III, Eric Allard
2000	Habib Zargarpour	The Perfect Storm	Nominated	Nominated with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier, Walt Conti

Best Animated Feature

Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
2002	Hayao Miyazaki	Spirited Away	Won	First Asian to win Animated Feature
2005		Howl's Moving Castle	Nominated
2007	Marjane Satrapi	Persepolis	Nominated	Shared nomination with Vincent Paronnaud
2011	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	Kung Fu Panda 2	Nominated	Also the first woman of any ethnicity to solely direct a major Hollywood animated feature film.
2013	Hayao Miyazaki Toshio Suzuki	The Wind Rises	Nominated
2014	Isao Takahata Yoshiaki Nishimura	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Nominated

Best Foreign Language Film

Foreign Language Film
Year	Country	Film	Director	Status	Milestone
1951	Japan	Rashômon 羅生門	Akira Kurosawa	Won	Special Honorary Award
1954		Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) 地獄門	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Won	Special Honorary Award
1955		Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto 宮本武蔵	Hiroshi Inagaki	Won	Special Honorary Award
1956		Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) ビルマの竪琴	Masayuki Takagi	Nominated	First Asian country nominated for competitive award in category
1957	India	Mother India (Bharat Mata) भारत माता	Mehboob Khan	Nominated	First Asian musical film nominated in category First South Asian country nominated in category
1961	Japan	Immortal Love (Eien no hito) 永遠の人	Keisuke Kinoshita	Nominated
1963		Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Koto) 古都	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
1964		Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) 砂の女	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Nominated
	Israel	Sallah Shabati סאלח שבתי	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated
1965	Japan	Kwaidan 怪談	Masaki Kobayashi	Nominated
1967		Portrait of Chieko (Chieko-sho) 智恵子抄	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
1971	Israel	The Policeman השוטר אזולאי	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated
	Japan	Dodes'ka-Den どですかでん	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
1972	Israel	I Love You Rosa (Ani Ohev Otach Rosa) אני אוהב אותך רוזה	Moshé Mizrahi	Nominated
1973		The House on Chelouche Street הבית ברחוב שלוש	Moshé Mizrahi	Nominated
1975	Soviet Union	Dersu Uzala Дерсу Узала	Akira Kurosawa	Won	Second Asian to win two Academy Awards Siberian-set Russian-language film
	Japan	Sandakan No. 8 (Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo) サンダカン八番娼館 望郷	Kei Kumai	Nominated
1977	Israel	Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan) מבצע יונתן	Menahem Golan	Nominated
1980	Japan	Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) 影武者	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated	Fourth Kurosawa film nominated or awarded in Foreign Language Film category
1981		Muddy River (film) (Doro no kawa) 泥の河	Kohei Oguri	Nominated
1984	Israel	Beyond the Walls (e'Ahorei Hasoragim) מאחורי הסורגים	Uri Barbash and Rudy Cohen	Nominated
1988	India	Salaam Bombay! सलाम बॉम्बे	Mira Nair	Nominated
1990	China	Jú Dòu 菊豆	Zhang Yimou Yang Fengliang	Nominated
1991	Hong Kong	Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà) 大紅燈籠高高掛	Zhang Yimou	Nominated
1993		Farewell My Concubine (Bàwáng Bié Jī) 霸王別姬	Chen Kaige	Nominated
	Vietnam	The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi đu đủ xanh)	Anh Hung Tran	Nominated
	Taiwan	The Wedding Banquet (Xǐyàn) 喜宴	Ang Lee	Nominated
1994		Eat Drink Man Woman (yǐn shí nán nǚ) 飲食男女	Ang Lee	Nominated
1996	Georgia	A Chef in Love (Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti) შეყვარებული მზარეულის 1001 რეცეპტი	Nana Dzhordzhadze	Nominated
1998	Iran	Children of Heaven (Bacheha-Ye aseman) بچه های آسمان	Majid Majidi	Nominated
1999	Nepal	Himalaya(हिमालय)	Eric Valli	Nominated	First Nepalese film to be nominated in Best Foreign Language Film category.
2000	Taiwan	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wòhǔ Cánglóng) 臥虎藏龍	Ang Lee	Won	First Asian country to win competitive award in category
2001	India	Lagaan लगान	Ashutosh Gowariker	Nominated
2002	China	Hero (Yīngxióng) 英雄	Zhang Yimou	Nominated
2003	Japan	The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) たそがれ清兵衛	Yoji Yamada	Nominated
2005	Palestine	Paradise Now الجنّة الآن	Hany Abu-Assad	Nominated
2006	Canada	Water वाटर	Deepa Mehta	Nominated	Indo-Canadian Hindi-language film
2007	Israel	Beaufort בופור	Joseph Cedar	Nominated
	Kazakhstan	Mongol Монгол	Sergei Bodrov	Nominated	Mongolian-language film
2008	Israel	Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) ואלס עם באשיר	Ari Folman	Nominated
	Japan	Departures (Okuribito) おくりびと	Yojiro Takita	Won	4th most-winning country of all time with 4 awards. 5th most-nominated country with 12 competitive nominations. Most winning and nominated Asian country.
2009	Israel	Ajami عجمي עג'מי	Yaron Shani Scandar Copti	Nominated
2011		Footnote	Joseph Cedar	Nominated
	Iran	A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین	Asghar Farhadi	Won
2013	Palestine	Omar	Hany Abu-Assad	Nominated
	Cambodia	The Missing Picture	Rithy Panh	Nominated

Best Documentary Feature

Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1985	Steven Okazaki	Unfinished Business	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Documentary Feature
1988	Rene Tajima-Pena Christine Choy	Who Killed Vincent Chin?	Nominated
1990	Mark Mori	Building Bombs	Nominated	Nominated with Susan Robinson
1994	Freida Lee Mock	Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision	Won	First Asian to win for Documentary Feature Shared win with Terry Sanders
2004	Byambasuren Davaa	The Story of the Weeping Camel	Nominated	Shared nomination with Luigi Falorni
2008	Thavisouk Phrasavath	The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)	Nominated	Shared nomination with Ellen Kuras
2010	Audrey Marrs	Inside Job	Won	Audrey Marrs is half-Japanese, and the sole other co-producer on the film alongside director/co-producer Charles Ferguson
2013	Jehane Noujaim Karim Amer	The Square	Nominated
2014	Joanna Natasegara	Virunga	Nominated	Nominated as Producer; Shares nomination with director, Orlando von Einsiedel

Best Documentary Short Subject

Documentary Short Subject
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1979	K.K. Kapil	An Encounter with Faces	Nominated
1982	Freida Lee Mock	To Live or Let Die	Nominated
1983	Arthur Dong	Sewing Woman	Nominated
1984	Paul T.K. Lin	The Children of Soong Ching Ling	Nominated	Nominated with Gary Bush
1988	Lise Yasui	Family Gathering	Nominated	Nominated with Ann Tegnell
1990	Freida Lee Mock	Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember	Nominated	Nominated with Terry Sanders
	Steven Okazaki	Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo	Won	First Asian to win for Documentary Short Subject
1995	Freida Lee Mock	Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper	Nominated	Nominated with Terry Sanders
1996	Jessica Yu	Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien	Won
1998	Keiko Ibi	The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years	Won
	Shui-Bo Wang	Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square	Nominated	Nominated with Donald McWilliams
2001	Freida Lee Mock Jessica Sanders	Sing!	Nominated	Mock becomes second most-nominated Asian, with 5 (including recognition in Documentary Feature category) Mother/daughter team
2005	Steven Okazaki	The Mushroom Club	Nominated	Third nomination for Okazaki (including recognition in Documentary Feature category)
2006	Ruby Yang	The Blood of Yingzhou District	Won	Shared win with Thomas Lennon
2008	Steven Okazaki	The Conscience of Nhem En	Nominated	Fourth nomination for Okazaki (including recognition in Documentary Feature category)
2010	Ruby Yang	The Warriors of Qiugang	Nominated	Shared nomination with Thomas Lennon
2011	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	Saving Face	Won	Shared nomination with Daniel Junge. First Pakistani filmmaker nominated for an Oscar.
2013	Sara Ishaq	Karama Has No Walls	Nominated

Best Short Film, Animated

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1968	Jimmy Murakami	The Magic Pear Tree	Nominated	First Asian nominated for Animated Short Film
1977	Ishu Patel	Bead Game	Nominated
1984		Paradise	Nominated
2002	Koji Yamamura	Mt. Head	Nominated
2004	Sejong Park	Birthday Boy	Nominated	Nominated with Andrew Gregory
2008	Kunio Kato	La Maison En Petits Cubes	Won	First Asian to win Animated Short Film
2008	Emud Mokhberi	Oktapodi	Nominated
2010	Shaun Tan	The Lost Thing	Won	Shared with Andrew Ruhemann
2011	Minkyu Lee	Adam and Dog	Nominated
2013	Shuhei Morita	Possessions	Nominated
2014	Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi	The Dam Keeper	Nominated

Best Short Film, Live Action

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone
1960	Ismail Merchant	The Creation of Woman	Nominated	First Asian nominated in any short film category First Asian nominated for Live Action Short Film Nominated with Charles F. Schwep
1977	Yuki Yoshida	I'll Find a Way	Nominated	Nominated with Beverly Shaffer
1982	Michael Toshiyuki Uno	The Silence	Nominated	Nominated with Joseph Benson
1997	Chris Tashima	Visas and Virtue	Won	First Asian to win for Live Action Short Film Nominated with Chris Donahue
2001	Shameela Bakhsh	Speed for Thespians	Nominated	Nominated with Kalman Apple
2004	Ashvin Kumar	Little Terrorist	Nominated
	Taika Waititi	Two Cars, One Night	Nominated	Nominated with Ainsley Gardiner
2005	Pia Clemente	Our Time is Up	Nominated	Nominated with Rob Pearlstein
2013	Baldwin Li	The Voorman Problem	Nominated	Nominated with Mark Gill
2014	Hu Wei	Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)	Nominated	Nominated as Director; Shares nomination with producer, Julien Ferét
	Talkhon Hamzavi	Parvaneh	Nominated	Nominated as Director; Shares nomination with producer, Stefan Eichenberger

Non-Competitive Awards

Non-Competitive Awards
Year	Name	Award
1989	Akira Kurosawa	Honorary Academy Award For cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.
1991	Satyajit Ray	Honorary Academy Award For his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures and for his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.
2004	Takuo Miyagishima	Gordon E. Sawyer Award
2014	Hayao Miyazaki	Honorary Academy Award

See also

• List of African Academy Award winners and nominees