Wim Wenders has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature three times: Buena Vista Social Club in 2000,[11] Pina (film) in 2012 and The Salt of the Earth in 2015.

[citation needed] In 2005 the docudrama The Story of the Weeping Camel was nominated for the Academy Award for The Best Documentary Feature.

[citation needed] In 2017, the comedy Toni Erdmann by producer and director Maren Ade was nominated for the Academy Award for The Best Foreign Language Film.

In 2018, Ades and her co-producer Janine Jackowski, also a HFF alumna, international co-production A Fantastic Woman won this award.

[citation needed] Florian Gallenberger won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short with his film Quiero ser (I want to be...) in 2000.