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 96th Academy Awards ceremony held on 10 March 2024.
Best Actress Year Name Film Result Notes 1954Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday Hepburn was a Belgian-born English actress. First Belgian-born actress to be nominated for Best Actress. 1955 Sabrina 1960 The Nun's Story 1962 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1968 Wait Until Dark
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.
Best International Feature Film
Year Film Language Result1971Peace in the Fields French 1989 The Music Teacher 1993 Daens Dutch/French 1995 Farinelli Italian/French 2001 Everybody's Famous! Dutch 2012 Bullhead 2014 The Broken Circle Breakdown 2023 Close French/Dutch
Best Animated Feature Film Year Film Result Notes 2004 The Triplets of Belleville Co-produced by Belgium, France, UK and Canada 2014 Ernest & Celestine Co-produced by Belgium, France and Luxembourg 2015 Song of the Sea Co-produced by Belgium, Ireland, Denmark, France and Luxembourg 2017 The Red Turtle Co-produced by Belgium, France and Japan2024Flow Co-produced by Belgium, Latvia, and France
Best Documentary Film Year Film Name Result Notes 1967 Le Volcan interdit (The Forbidden Volcano) Haroun Tazieff 1979 Raoni Jean-Pierre Dutilleux 2024Soundtrack to a Coup d'EtatJohan Grimonprez Shared with Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety
Best Live Action Short Film Year Film Name Result Notes2003 Gridlock (aka Fait d'hiver) Dirk BeliënAnja Daelemans 2008 Argentine Tangos (aka Tanghi Argentini) Guy ThysAnja Daelemans 2013 Death of a Shadow Tom Van AvermaetEllen De Waele 2020A Sister Delphine GirardJacques-Henri Bronckart
Best Animated Short Film Year Film Name Result Notes 1987 A Greek Tragedy (aka Een Griekse Tragedie) Nicole van Goethem 2024Beautiful MenNicolas KeppensBrecht Van Elslande
Best Cinematography Year Film Name Result Notes1981TessGhislain Cloquet Ghislain Cloquet was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924 and became a French citizen in 1940.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Year Name Status Notes1993 Audrey Hepburn Hepburn died on January 20, 1993. On March 29, 1993, she received the award posthumously, which was voted for prior to her death. It was accepted on her behalf by her son, Sean Ferrer.
Scientific and Engineering Academy Award Year Category Name Result Notes2024Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical AwardsWouter D’Oosterlinck, Goran Stojmenovik and Peter Janssens for the development of the Barco RGB laser projector
Nominations and Winners No. of winsNo. of nominations 5 25
See also
Cinema of Belgium List of Belgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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