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This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Romania.

Romanian-born French director Marin Karmitz was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film.

Best Picture

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Best Picture
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1953 John Houseman Julius Caesar Nominated Romanian-born British-American producer and actor.

Best Supporting Actor

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Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1973 John Houseman The Paper Chase Won

Best Supporting Actress

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Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1996 Lauren Bacall The Mirror Has Two Faces Nominated American actress born to Romanian and Belarusian heritage.

Best Adapted Screenplay

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Best Adapted Screenplay
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1973 Robert Towne The Last Detail Nominated American-born of Romanian and Russian descent.
1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Nominated Shared with Michael Austin.
1992 Michael Tolkin The Player Nominated American-born of Romanian-jewish and Ukrainian-jewish descent.

Best Original Screenplay

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Best Original Screenplay
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1974 Robert Towne Chinatown Won Father Romanian jew
1975 Shampoo Nominated Shared with Warren Beatty.

Best Story

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Best Story
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1934 Arthur Caesar[1] Manhattan Melodrama[2] Nominated
1940 Bella and Samuel Spewack My Favorite Wife[3] Nominated
1955 Henri Troyat The Sheep Has Five Legs Nominated

Best International Feature Film

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See also: List of Romanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Best International Feature Film
Year Film Original Title Status Director(s) Notes
2020/21 Collective Colectiv Nominated Alexander Nanau

Best Documentary Feature

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Best Documentary Feature
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1977 Miles Mogulescu Union Maids Nominated Shared with Jim Klein and Julia Reichert.
2020/21 Alexander Nanau
Bianca Oana 		Collective Nominated

Best Production Design

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Best Production Design
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1941 Nathan Juran How Green Was My Valley Won Born in Austrian part of Austro-Hungarian Empire
1946 The Razor's Edge Nominated
1966 Richard Sylbert Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Won Born in Brooklyn, U S
1974 Chinatown Nominated
1975 Shampoo Nominated
1981 Reds Nominated
1984 The Cotton Club Nominated
1990 Dick Tracy Won

Best Live Action Short Film

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Best Live Action Short Film
Year Director Film Status Milestone / Notes
1966 Marin Karmitz Turkey the Bridge[4] Nominated
1974 Julian Chagrin The Concert Nominated (father romanian-jewish)
1976 The Morning Spider Nominated
Andre R. Guttfreund In the Region of Ice Won (mother romanian)

Honorary Award

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Honorary Academy Award
Year Name Notes Milestone
2009 Lauren Bacall "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures." First person of Romanian origin to be awarded an Honorary Academy Award.

Nominations and Winners

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No. of wins No. of nominations
4 22

References

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  1. ^ Arthur Caesar biography
  2. ^ 1935 Oscar Winners and Nominees
  3. ^ 1941 Oscar Winners and Nominees
  4. ^ Marin Karmitz, A Life if Cinema Activism
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