List of Japanese Academy Award winners and nominees

List of Japanese Academy Award winners and nominees

Hayao Miyazaki (pictured in 2012) has won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature category.
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Picture 0 1 Director 0 3 Supporting Actor 0 4 Supporting Actress 1 2 Adapted Screenplay 0 1 Animated Feature 2 9 Animated Short Film 1 5 International Feature Film 5 18 Cinematography 0 2 Production Design 0 6 Costume Design 3 7 Makeup and Hairstyling 2 5 Original Score 1 2 Original Song 0 1 Visual Effects 1 1 Honorary Award 2 2
Totals[a]
Wins	18
Nominations	56
Note ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

This list details Japanese working in the film industry who have been nominated for, or won, Academy Awards (also known as Oscars). These include artists and filmmakers, both naturalized and international co-citizenship, or Japanese film production companies are awarded or honored by the Academy.

In the 1950s, just as after the second World War ended prior in five years, Akira Kurosawa was recognized by the Academy for his contribution as a writer/director of Rashomon (1951), which was received Best Foreign Language Film, and again in 1954 and 1955, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi also won the same category; it wasn't established yet as competitive until 1956; Departures (2008) and Drive My Car (2021) ultimately won that category in competitive, making it the most wins and nominations of any Asian countries.

In addition of Japanese people aside from Best Foreign Language Film category, these were the first-time winners for each respective categories: Sanzō Wada is the first Japanese and Asian to be nominated for and to win Best Costume Design in 1954, Miyoshi Umeki is the first Japanese and Asian to be nominated for and to win Best Supporting Actress in 1957, Ryuichi Sakamoto is the first Japanese and Asian to win Best Original Score in 1987, Hayao Miyazaki is the first Japanese and Asian animator to be nominated for and to win Best Animated Feature in 2002, Kunio Katō is the first Japanese to win Best Animated Short Film in 2008, Kazu Hiro is the first and only Japanese to be nominated for and to win Best Makeup and Hairstyling between 2006 and 2017, and Takashi Yamazaki and his Shirogumi crew (consists Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima) were the first Japanese crew to be nominated for and to win Best Visual Effects in 2023.

As of 2024, Miyazaki and Hiro are the only two-time competitive winners for their respective categories.

Drive My Car is the first Japanese film to be nominated the Academy Award for Best Picture.