List of German 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.

Surname	year	Film or other service	category	swell
Emil Jannings	1929	His last command (and the way of all flesh )	Best Actor
Hanns Kraly	1930	The Patriot (1928)	Best adapted script
Luise Rainer	1937	The great Ziegfeld	Best main actress
Luise Rainer (2)	1938	The good earth	Best main actress
Karl friend	1938	The good earth	Best camera
Ernst Lubitsch	1946	For excellent performance	Honorary Oscar
Alfred Young	1948	Black Narcissus	Best production design
Franz Wachsmann	1951	Twilight Boulevard	Best film score
Franz Wachsmann (2)	1952	A place in the Sun	Best film score
Karl Freund (2)	1955	Multicam system (camera system)	Oscar for technical merit
André Previn	1959	Gigi	Best film score
Bernhard Grzimek	1960	Serengeti must not die	Best documentary
André Previn (2)	1960	Porgy and Bess	Best film score
André Previn (3)	1964	The girl Irma la Douce	Best film score
Walter Lassally	1965	Alexis Sorbas	Best camera
André Previn (4)	1965	My fair lady	Best film score
Rolf Zehetbauer	1972	Cabaret	Best production design
Hans Jürgen Kiebach	1972	Cabaret	Best production design
Herbert Strabel	1972	Cabaret	Best production design
Erich Kaestner	1974	Arriflex 35 (camera)	Science and development
Joachim Gerb	1974	Arriflex 35 (camera)	Science and development
Volker Schlöndorff	1980	The Tin Drum	Best foreign language film
August Arnold	1983	Arriflex 35 (camera)	Academy Award of Merit
Erich Kaestner (2)	1983	Arriflex 35 (camera)	Academy Award of Merit
Willi Burth	1987	No Rewind film plates	Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Wolfgang Becker	1988	Butterflies	Student Oscar
Wolfgang Lauenstein	1990	balance	Best animated short film
Christoph Lauenstein	1990	balance	Best animated short film
Georg Thoma	1992	Fluid damping for Sachtler tripod heads	Science and development
Erich Kaestner (3)	1993	Life's work	Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Pepe Danquart	1994	Dodger	Best short film
Katja von Garnier	1994	Make up!	Student Oscar
Hans Zimmer	1995	The Lion King	Best film score
Peter Denz	1996	Flicker-free video camera
Tyron Montgomery	1997	Quest	Best animated short film
Thomas Stellmach	1997	Quest	Best animated short film
Volker Engel	1997	Independence Day	Best visual effects
Raymond Boy	1997	A simple job	Student Oscar
Thorsten Schmidt	1998	castling	Student Oscar
Marc-Andreas Bochert	1999	Change	Student Oscar
Florian Gallenberger	2000	Quiero Ser	Student Oscar
Florian Gallenberger (2)	2001	Quiero Ser	Best short film
Caroline Link	2003	nowhere in Africa	Best foreign language film
Florian Baxmeyer	2003	The red jacket	Student Oscar
Horst Burbulla	2005	Telescopic camera crane	Academy Award of Merit
Ulrike Grote	2005	The outlier	Student Oscar
Udo Schauss, Hildegard Ebbesmeier, Nicole Wemken, Michael Anderer	2006	LA crash	Oscar for technical merit , Jos. Schneider Optical Works
Florian Kainz	2006		Oscar for Technical Merit- OpenEXR graphic file format
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	2007	The Lives of Others	Best foreign language film
Toke Constantin Hebbeln	2007	Never Sea	Student Oscar
Jochen Alexander Freydank	2009	Toy land	Best short film
Christoph Waltz	2010	Inglourious Basterds	Best supporting actor
Christoph Waltz (2)	2013	Django Unchained	Best supporting actor
Johannes Saam	2014	Deep Image Compositing	Oscar for technical merit
Dirk Wilutzky	2015	Citizenfour	Best documentary
Gerd Nefzer	2018	Blade Runner 2049	Best visual effects

See also

• List of German proposals for the Oscar nomination in the category of best foreign language film

Web links

• Map of Germany "Oscar winners" from ZEITmagazin, February 26, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SZ, January 12, 2010
2. ↑ Listed by faz.net until 2007
3. ↑ Database of the Academy ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Science, Technical Oscar Winners Announced. In: LA Times. March 9, 1992.
5. ^ Report in the ZEIT
6. ↑ List of the Internet Movie Database
7. ^ The 79th Scientific & Technical Awards 2006
8. ↑ press release