List of Belgian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Belgian Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the films and performances of Belgian actors and actresses that have either been nominated for, or have won an Academy Award (The Oscars). This list is current as of the 95th Academy Awards ceremony held on 12 March 2023.

Best Actress

Year	Name	Film	Result	Notes
1954	Audrey Hepburn	Roman Holiday	Won[1]	Hepburn was a Belgian-born English actress.[2] First Belgian-born actress to be nominated for Best Actress.
1955		Sabrina	Nominated[3]
1960		The Nun's Story	Nominated[3]
1962		Breakfast at Tiffany's	Nominated[3]
1968		Wait Until Dark	Nominated[3]

Note: With her Best Actress nomination for the 2014 Belgian film Two Days, One Night, French actress Marion Cotillard became the first actor to be nominated for an Academy Award for a Belgian film.^[4][5]

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Belgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Year	Film	Language	Result
1971	Peace in the Fields	French	Nominated[6]
1989	The Music Teacher		Nominated[7]
1993	Daens	Dutch/French	Nominated[8]
1995	Farinelli	Italian/French	Nominated[9]
2001	Everybody's Famous!	Dutch	Nominated[10]
2012	Bullhead		Nominated[11]
2014	The Broken Circle Breakdown		Nominated[12]
2023	Close	French/Dutch	Nominated[13][14]

Best Animated Feature Film

Year	Film	Result	Notes
2004	The Triplets of Belleville	Nominated	Co-produced by Belgium, France, UK and Canada[15]
2014	Ernest & Celestine	Nominated	Co-produced by Belgium, France and Luxembourg[16]
2015	Song of the Sea	Nominated	Co-produced by Belgium, Ireland, Denmark, France and Luxembourg[5]
2017	The Red Turtle	Nominated	Co-produced by Belgium, France and Japan[17]

Best Documentary Film

Year	Film	Name	Result	Notes
1967	Le Volcan interdit (The Forbidden Volcano)	Haroun Tazieff	Nominated[18]
1979	Raoni	Jean-Pierre Dutilleux	Nominated[19]

Best Live Action Short Film

Year	Film	Name	Result	Notes
2003	Gridlock (aka Fait d'hiver)	Dirk Beliën Anja Daelemans	Nominated[20]
2008	Argentine Tangos (aka Tanghi Argentini)	Guy Thys Anja Daelemans	Nominated[21]
2013	Death of a Shadow	Tom Van Avermaet Ellen De Waele	Nominated[22]
2020	A Sister	Delphine Girard Jacques-Henri Bronckart	Nominated[23]

Best Animated Short Film

Year	Film	Name	Result	Notes
1987	A Greek Tragedy (aka Een Griekse Tragedie)	Nicole van Goethem	Won[24][25]

Best Cinematography

Year	Film	Name	Result	Notes
1981	Tess	Ghislain Cloquet	Won	Ghislain Cloquet was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924 and became a French citizen in 1940.[26]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Year	Name	Status	Notes
1993	Audrey Hepburn	Won	Hepburn died on January 20, 1993. On March 29, 1993, she received posthumously the award, which was voted for prior to her death. It was accepted on her behalf by her son, Sean Ferrer.[27]

Scientific and Engineering Academy Award

Year	Category	Name	Result	Notes
2024	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards	Wouter D’Oosterlinck, Goran Stojmenovik and Peter Janssens	Won	for the development of the Barco RGB laser projector[28]

Nominations and Winners

No. of wins	No. of nominations
4	25

See also

• Cinema of Belgium
• List of Belgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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