List of Austrian Oscar winners
The Oscar (actually Academy Award of Merit , German honorary award of the academy) has been given annually to filmmakers by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1929 . It is considered the most important award of its kind. The year indicates the year of the award.
At the Oscar awards, Austrian filmmakers have been nominated 113 times and awarded one of the coveted trophies 37 times. Of the 20 Oscar winners from Austria, all except Maximilian Schell , Stefan Ruzowitzky , Christoph Waltz and Michael Haneke had emigrated to the United States , most of which they were also citizens of. Most of them were Jews, which, due to the spread of National Socialism in Europe from 1933, was also the reason for many of them to emigrate.
The most frequently awarded Oscar was Billy Wilder , who won six Oscars and an honorary Oscar for his life's work. The most frequently nominated was the film composer Max Steiner , who missed a total of 21 times between 1935 and 1956, but also won three Oscars. Erich von Stroheim , Josef von Sternberg and Otto Preminger were nominated but never awarded . Fritz Lang received no nominations .
In 2009 rematch by Götz Spielmann in the category of foreign-language Best Picture nomination. In previous years, had Darwin's Nightmare (2006) by Hubert Sauper in the category Best Documentary , Copy Shop (2002) by Virgil Widrich as Best Short Film and 38 - That was Vienna (1987) by Wolfgang luck in the category Best Foreign Language Film received nominations . In 2013 Michael Haneke's film Love was nominated in five categories. Love is only the eighth non-English language film to be nominated in the main Best Picture category. Furthermore, Haneke was nominated in the category Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, the French protagonist Emmanuelle Riva in the category Best Actress.
list
The following is a list of all Oscar winners from Austria: Here those people are listed as Austrians who were born in Austria or who were German-speaking “ old Austrians ”. Accordingly, you can find the Galicia- born, German-speaking, raised Billy Wilder , but not the Hungarian-speaking, Budapest-born Michael Curtiz . The list is sorted by the year of the award:
- 1. 1935 : Max Steiner - The Informer ( best film music )
- 2. 1936 : Erich W. Korngold - Anthony Adverse (best film music)
- 3. 1937 : Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur ( Best Actor )
- 4. 1938 : Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola ( Best Supporting Actor )
- 5. 1938: Karl Freund - The Good Earth ( Best Cinematography )
- 6. 1939 : Erich W. Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood (best film score)
- 7. 1942 : Nathan Juran - How Green Was My Valley ( best production design )
- 8. 1943 : George Froeschel - Mrs. Miniver ( Best Adapted Screenplay )
- 9. 1943: Max Steiner - Now Voyager (best film music)
- 10. 1945 : Max Steiner - Since You Went Away (best film music)
- 11. 1946 : Billy Wilder - Lost Weekend ( Best Director )
- 12. 1946: Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend (Best Adapted Screenplay)
- 13. 1950 : Harry Horner - The Heiress (Best Production Design (black and white))
- 14. 1951 : Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard (Best Original Screenplay)
- 15. 1952 : John Alton - An American in Paris (Best Cinematography, Color)
- 16. 1952 : Fred Zinnemann - Benjy ( best documentary short film )
- 17. 1954 : Walter Reisch - Titanic ( Best Original Screenplay )
- 18. 1954: Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity (Best Director)
- 19. 1955 : Sam Spiegel - The fist in the neck ( best film )
- 20. 1958 : Sam Spiegel - The Bridge on the Kwai (best film)
- 21. 1959 : Frederick Loewe - Gigi ( Best Song )
- 22nd 1961 : Ernest Gold - Exodus (best film score (drama))
- 23rd 1961: Billy Wilder - The Apartment (best film)
- 24th 1961: Billy Wilder - The Apartment (Best Director)
- 25th 1961: Billy Wilder - The Apartment (Best Original Screenplay)
- 26. 1962 : Harry Horner - The Hustler (best production design (black and white))
- 27. 1962: Maximilian Schell - The Judgment of Nuremberg (Best Actor)
- 28th 1963 : Sam Spiegel - Lawrence of Arabia (best film)
- 29th 1964 : Sam Spiegel ( Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award )
- 30. 1967 : Fred Zinnemann - A man for every season (best director)
- 31. 1967: Fred Zinnemann - A man for every season (best film)
- 32nd 1979 : Peter Zinner - The Deer Hunter ( best editing )
- 33. 1988 : Billy Wilder (Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
- 34. 2008 : Die Fälscher ( Best Foreign Language Film ), Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
- 35th 2010 : Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds ( Best Supporting Actor )
- 36th 2013 : Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained ( Best Supporting Actor )
- 37th 2013 : Liebe ( Best Foreign Language Film ), Director: Michael Haneke
See also
- Cinema and film in Austria - review article
- List of Austrian proposals for the Oscar nomination in the category of best foreign language film
literature
- Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (eds.): Departure into the Unknown.
- Volume 1: Austrian filmmakers who emigrated before 1945.
- Volume 2: Lexicon, Tributes, Testimonials. Waspennest, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85458-503-9 .
- Hans-Jürgen Kubiak : The Oscar Films. The best films from 1927/28 to 2004; the best non-English language films from 1947 to 2004; the best animated films from 2001 to 2004. Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-386-6 .
