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
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]
2024 Flow Won Co-produced by Belgium, Latvia, and France[18]

Best Documentary Film

Year Film Name Result Notes
1967 Le Volcan interdit (The Forbidden Volcano) Haroun Tazieff Nominated[19]
1979 Raoni Jean-Pierre Dutilleux Nominated[20]
2024 Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Johan Grimonprez Nominated[21] Shared with Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety

Best Live Action Short Film

Year Film Name Result Notes
2003 Gridlock (aka Fait d'hiver) Dirk Beliën
Anja Daelemans		 Nominated[22]
2008 Argentine Tangos (aka Tanghi Argentini) Guy Thys
Anja Daelemans		 Nominated[23]
2013 Death of a Shadow Tom Van Avermaet
Ellen De Waele		 Nominated[24]
2020 A Sister Delphine Girard
Jacques-Henri Bronckart		 Nominated[25]

Best Animated Short Film

Year Film Name Result Notes
1987 A Greek Tragedy (aka Een Griekse Tragedie) Nicole van Goethem Won[26][27]
2024 Beautiful Men Nicolas Keppens
Brecht Van Elslande		 Nominated[28]

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.[29]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Year Name Status Notes
1993 Audrey Hepburn Won 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.[30]

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[31]

Nominations and Winners

No. of wins No. of nominations
5 25

See also

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

References

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  9. ^ "The 67th Academy Awards - 1995". Oscars.org. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
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  12. ^ "The Broken Circle Breakdown Nominated for Oscar". Flanders House. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  13. ^ Chini, Maïthé (24 January 2023). "Belgian movie 'Close' nominated for Oscars". The Brussels Times.
  14. ^ "2023 Oscars Nominations: See the Full List". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 24 January 2023.
  15. ^ "The Oscar-Nominated Music of 'Belleville'". NPR. 21 February 2004. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  16. ^ "The 86th Academy Awards - 2014". Oscars.org. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
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  24. ^ "Death of a Shadow nominated for Best Live Action Short Oscar". Flanders Image. 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 14 January 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  25. ^ "Oscars 2020: Belgian thriller joins 'Joker' and 'The Irishman' on nominees list". The Brussel Times. 13 January 2020.
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  30. ^ "Audrey Hepburn's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: 1993 Oscars". YouTube. 2 October 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  31. ^ "Hollywood recognizes Barco for achievements in cinema with Scientific and Engineering Academy Award". www.barco.com. Retrieved 1 March 2024.