List of Hungarian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees born in Hungary or as Hungarians according to Hungarian nationality law-people who hold Hungarian citizenship acquired by descent from a Hungarian parent or by naturalisation.

Best Actor in a Leading Role
"*"=US-born

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
"*"= US-born

Best Documentary (Long Subject)
* = US-born

Best Original Screenplay
* = US-born

Technical and scientific
* = US-born

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
This list focuses on recipients of Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Academy Award Nominations and Winners of US-born Hungarians

 * 1. Paul Newman: 3 AA
 * 2. Tony Curtis: nom 1958
 * 3. George Cukor AA/ 5 nom

Half:
 * 1. Goldie Hawn (mother)
 * 2. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
 * 3. Jamie Lee Curtis
 * 4. Ernest Tidyman (mother)
 * 5. Ernest Gold (both parents half-hungarian jewish)
 * 6. Chuck Gaspar AA/2nom
 * 7. Adrien Brody (mother)
 * 8. Steven Bognar AA/2nom

Quarter:
 * 1. King Vidor: 1AA/5 nom
 * 2. Jerry Goldsmith (maternal grandmother: Schwartz)
 * 3. Joaquin Phoenix (grandmother)
 * 4. River Phoenix (grandmother)
 * 5. Phyllis Nagy (grandfather)

Unknown:
 * 1. Robert Pirosh AA/2 nom
 * 2. Joan Horvath: nom 1969
 * 3.Tamásy:
 * 4. Bill Kovacs: Scientifical
 * 5. Robert Orban: AA:1992:Scientifical
 * 6. Paul Mezey
 * 7. Christopher Jon Horvath: AA: 2024:Scientifical

All with hungarian family names. Sometimes included in hungarian related lists, but degree of hungarian ancestry not confirmed. Probably around 1/4, and most probably never fully. Some hungarians have changed names: Darling Curtiz Curtis

Academy Award Nominations and Winners of elswere born Hungarians
Raquel Weisz (father hungarian): 1 AA Leslie Howard: 2 nom
 * UK:

Borsos (father): 1 nom
 * Australia:

Max Steiner (hungarian-jewish father) 3AA
 * Austria:

Branko Lustig (hungarian-jewish): 2 AA Tibor Madjar: 1 AA
 * Yugoslavia(in former Kingdom of Hungary and ethnic hungarian region of Vojvodina):

1. Attila T. Áfra: 1 AA 2. Robert Dornhelm: 1 nom
 * Romania (in former Kingdom of Hungary and ethnic hungarian region of Transsylvania):

Bolváry 1 AA
 * France:

Ivan Reitman (hungarian-jewish): 1 nom
 * Czechoslovakia (in former Kingdom of Hungary and ethnic hungarian region of Slovakia)


 * Sweden: Mikael Håfström (hungarian mother) 1 nom