This is a list of French Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of French actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Academy Award (The Oscars). This list is current as of the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held on March 10, 2024.
Best Actor Leading Year Winner Title Status Milestone / Notes 1929 Maurice Chevalier The Big Pond First French actor to be nominated for Best Actor. 1930 The Love Parade 1937 Charles Boyer Maria Walewska 1938 Algiers 1944 Gaslight 1961 Fanny Most Academy Award nominations – 4 nominations for Best Actor. 1987 Max Von Sydow Pelle the Conqueror Von Sydow was a Swedish born actor who acquired the French citizenship in 2002. 1990 Gérard Depardieu Cyrano de Bergerac First actor to be nominated for a French-speaking role. 2011 Jean Dujardin The Artist First French actor to win Best Actor. 2017 Timothée Chalamet Call Me by Your Name Chalamet is a French-American actor born in the United States. At age 22, it made him the third-youngest Best Actor nominee. 2024 A Complete Unknown 2025 Marty Supreme
Supporting YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 2011 Max Von Sydow Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Best Actress Leading Year Winner Film Status Milestone / Notes 1934 Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night French-born American actress.First French actress to be nominated and win Best Actress. 1935 Private Worlds First French actress to receive more than one Academy Award nomination. 1944 Since You Went Away Most Academy Award nominations – 3 nominations for Best Actress. 1953 Leslie Caron Lili 1959 Simone Signoret Room at the Top Second French actress to win Best Actress. 1963 Leslie Caron Second French actress to receive more than one nomination – 2 nominations for Best Actress. 1965 Simone Signoret Ship of Fools Third French actress to receive more than one nomination. 1966 Anouk Aimée First actress to be nominated for a French-speaking role. 1975 Isabelle Adjani Second actress to be nominated for a French-speaking role. 1976 Marie-Christine Barrault Cousin, cousine 1989 Isabelle Adjani Camille Claudel Fourth French actress to receive more than one nomination – 2 nominations for Best Actress.The first to be nominated for two French-speaking roles. 1992 Catherine Deneuve Indochine 2000 Juliette Binoche Chocolat First and only French actress to be nominated for both Leading and Supporting categories.Fifth French actress to receive more than one nomination. 2008 Marion Cotillard First actress to win for a French-speaking role.Third French actress to win Best Actress. 2012 Emmanuelle Riva Amour Oldest Best Actress nominee in the history. 2014 Marion Cotillard Two Days, One Night Sixth French actress to receive more than one nomination, the second to be nominated for two French-speaking roles and the first to be nominated for a Belgian film. 2016 Isabelle Huppert Elle
Supporting YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 1952 Colette Marchand Moulin Rouge First French actress to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. 1964 Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress. 1966 Jocelyne LaGarde Hawaii As a Tahitian, LaGarde was the first indigenous person to be nominated in any acting category. 1996 Juliette Binoche 2011 Bérénice Bejo Bejo is a French-Argentine actress born in Argentina.
Best Animated Feature This list focuses on French-born directors and producers.
YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 2003 Sylvain Chomet 2007 Vincent ParonnaudMarjane Satrapi Persepolis Satrapi was born in Iran. 2010 Sylvain Chomet 2011 Alain GagnolJean-Loup Felicioli A Cat in Paris 2013 Pierre Coffin Despicable Me 2 Shared with Chris Renaud & Chris Meledandri Didier BrunnerBenjamin Renner Ernest & Celestine 2019 Jérémy ClapinMarc du Pontavice I Lost My Body 2021 Charlotte De La Gournerie Flee Shared with Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, & Signe Byrge Sørensen.2024Ron DyensFlow Shared with Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, and Gregory Zalcman2025Ugo BienvenuFélix de GivrySophie MasArco Shared with Natalie PortmanMaïlys ValladeLiane-Cho HanHenri MagalonLittle Amélie or the Character of Rain Shared with Nidia Santiago
Best Production Design This list focuses on French-born art directors and set decorators.
YearNameTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 1931 Lazare Meerson À Nous la Liberté Meerson was a Russian-born French and English film art director. 1951 Jean d'Eaubonne La Ronde 1952 Marcel Vertès Moulin Rouge Shared with Paul Sheriff 1954 Max Ophüls Le Plaisir Ophüls was a German-born French. 1960 Alexandre Trauner The Apartment Nominated with Edward G. Boyle. 1962 Léon BarsacqGabriel Béchir The Longest Day Shared with Ted Haworth and Vincent Korda 1964 Raphaël Bretton Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Shared with William Glasgow. 1966 Marc FrédérixPierre Guffroy Is Paris Burning? Nominated with Willy Holt. 1969Raphaël Bretton Hello, Dolly! Shared with John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, and George James Hopkins. 1970 Pierre-Louis Thévenet Patton Shared with Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, and Antonio Mateos. 1972Raphaël Bretton The Poseidon Adventure Shared with William J. Creber. 1974 The Towering Inferno Shared with William J. Creber, and Ward Preston. 1975 Alexandre Trauner The Man Who Would Be King Nominated with Tony Inglis, and Peter James. 1980Pierre Guffroy Tess Nominated with Jack Stephens. 1988 Gérard James Dangerous Liaisons Shared with Stuart Craig 1990 Jacques Rouxel Cyrano de Bergerac Nominated with Ezio Frigerio. 1996 Philippe Turlure Evita Nominated with Brian Morris. 2000 Françoise Benoît-FrescoJean Rabasse Vatel 2001 Aline BonettoMarie-Laure Valla Amélie 2004Aline Bonetto 2011 Anne SeibelHélène Dubreuil Midnight in Paris
Best Cinematography This list focuses on French-born cinematographers.
YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 1939 Georges Périnal The Four Feathers Shared with Osmond Borradaile. 1940 The Thief of Bagdad First French cinematographer to win Best Cinematography.First French cinematographer to receive more than one Academy Award nomination. 1953 Henri Alekan Roman Holiday Shared with Franz Planer. Joseph C. Brun Martin Luther 1962 Jean BourgoinWalter Wottitz The Longest Day 1966 Marcel Grignon Is Paris Burning? 1980 Ghislain Cloquet Tess Cloquet was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. 1990 Philippe Rousselot Henry & June 1992 Robert Fraisse The Lover 1996 Darius Khondji Evita Khondji is an Iranian-French cinematographer. 2001 Bruno Delbonnel Amélie 2004 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2011 Guillaume Schiffman The Artist 2013 Philippe Le Sourd The Grandmaster Bruno Delbonnel Inside Llewyn Davis 2017 Darkest Hour 2021The Tragedy of Macbeth Sixth nomination. 2022 Darius Khondji Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 2024Paul GuilhaumeEmilia Pérez 2025 Darius Khondji Marty Supreme
Best Costume Design This list focuses on French-born costume designers.
YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 1950 Jean Louis Born Yesterday 1952 Affair in Trinidad Marcel Vertès Moulin Rouge Vertès was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian origins. 1953Jean Louis From Here to Eternity 1954 It Should Happen to You A Star Is Born Shared with Mary Ann Nyberg, and Irene Sharaff. Rosine Delamare The Earrings of Madame de… Shared with Yury Annenkov. Christian Dior Terminal Station 1955Jean Louis Queen Bee 1956 The Solid Gold Cadillac 1957 Hubert de Givenchy Funny Face Shared with Edith Head.Jean Louis Pal Joey 1958 Bell, book, and candle 1961 Back Street Judgment at Nuremberg 1965 Ship of Fools Shared with Bill Thomas. 1966 Gambit 1967 Thoroughly Modern Millie 1979 Albert Wolsky All That Jazz Wolsky is a French-born American costume designer. 1980 Jean-Pierre Dorléac Somewhere in Time 1982 Albert Wolsky Sophie's Choice 1983 Anne-Marie Marchand 1985Albert Wolsky 1991 Bugsy Corinne Jorry Madame Bovary 1992Albert Wolsky Toys 2007Albert Wolsky Across the Universe 2008 Revolutionary Road 2009 Catherine Leterrier Coco Before Chanel 2016 Madeline Fontaine Jackie
Best Makeup and Hairstyling This list focuses on French-born makeup artist.
YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 1990 Jean-Pierre Eychenne Cyrano de Bergerac Shared with Michèle Burke. 2007 Didier Lavergne La Vie en Rose Shared with Jan Archibald.2024Julia Floch CarbonelEmmanuel JanvierJean-Christophe SpadacciniEmilia Pérez Pierre-Oliver PersinStéphanie GuillonMarilyne ScarselliThe Substance
Best Director YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 1945 Jean Renoir 1966 Claude Lelouch 1969 Costa-Gavras Z Costa-Gavras is a Greek-French director born in Greece. 1974 Roman Polanski Chinatown Polanski is a French-Polish director born in France. François Truffaut Day for Night 1979 Edouard Molinaro 1980 Roman Polanski Tess 1981 Louis Malle Atlantic City 1984 Roland Joffé The Killing Fields Joffé is an English-French director born in the United Kingdom. 1986 The Mission 2002 Roman Polanski 2005 George Clooney Good Night, and Good Luck 2011 Michel Hazanavicius 2016 Damien Chazelle La La Land Chazelle is a French-American director born in the United States.Youngest winner in Best Director category. 2023 Justine Triet Anatomy of a Fall Triet is the first French woman to be nominated for Best Director. 2024 Jacques Audiard Emilia Pérez Coralie Fargeat The Substance
Best Documentary Feature This list focuses on French-born producers/directors.
YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 1955René Risacher Crèvecoeur 1956 Jacques-Yves Cousteau The Silent World 1961René Lafuite Sky Above and Mud Beneath Shared with Arthur Cohn. 1963Paul de Roubaix The Link and the Chain 1964 Jean Aurel 14-18 Aurel was a Romanian-born French film director and scriptwriter.Jacques-Yves Cousteau World Without Sun 1965 Frédéric Rossif To Die in Madrid 1966 Haroun Tazieff Le Volcan interdit 1967 Pierre Schoendoerffer The Anderson Platoon 1969Bernard Chevry Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life 1971 Marcel Ophüls The Sorrow and the Pity 1978 Albert Lamorisse The Lovers' Wind Michel Gast Raoni Shared with Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Barry Hugh Williams. 1979 Jacques Bobet Going the Distance Shared with Paul Cowan. 1988Marcel Ophüls Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 2001 Jean-Xavier de LestradeDenis Poncet Murder on a Sunday Morning 2002 Jacques Perrin Winged Migration 2005 Yves DarondeauLuc Jacquet March of the Penguins 2014 Mathilde Bonnefoy Citizenfour Shared with Laura Poitras and Dirk Wilutzky.David Rosier The Salt of the Earth Shared with Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. 2016Rémi Grellety I Am Not Your Negro Shared with Raoul Peck and Hébert Peck. 2017 Agnès VardaJRRosalie Varda Faces Places Oldest competitive Oscar nominee.2024Rémi GrelletySoundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Shared with Johan Grimonprez and Daan Milius
Best Editing This list focuses on French-born film editors.
YearWinnerTitleStatus Milestone / Notes 1969 Françoise Bonnot Z 1989 Noëlle Boisson The Bear 2002 Hervé de Luze 2006 Álex Rodríguez Children of Men Rodríguez is a French-born Mexican editor.Nominated with Alfonso Cuarón. 2007 Juliette Welfling 2011 Anne-Sophie BionMichel Hazanavicius 2020 Frédéric Thoraval Promising Young Woman Thoraval is a French-American film editor.Yorgos LamprinosThe Father Lamprimos is a Greek-French film editor. 2023 Laurent Sénéchal Anatomy of a Fall 2024 Juliette Welfling Emilia Pérez
Best Picture This list focuses on French-born producers.