List of South Korean Academy Award winners and nominees

This list details South Koreans 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 diaspora, or South Korean film production companies.

[1] In the late 2010s, South Korean consecutive entrants Chang-dong's Burning and Joon-ho's Parasite shortlisted the International Feature Film category: The former became the first to make it to the final nine-film shortlist of the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film but it didn't make for the nomination.

Out of eleven non-English international films who have been previously nominated for, Parasite is the first non-English language film ever to win Best Picture, established in 2019/2020; this led to local recognition and global phenomenon at the start of the 2020s, boosted popularity by rising the form of a new wave of South Korean films.

This list contains directors of nominated films, who typically accept the award on behalf of their country.

Christina Oh was nominated for Best Picture category for producing Minari (2020).
Christine Choy , who is half-Korean through her father, was nominated for Best Documentary Feature category.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson was nominated for Best Animated Feature category.
Steven Yeun (pictured in 2016) was nominated for Best Actor category.
Youn Yuh-jung (pictured in 2016) was the second Asian actress to win behind Japanese-American Miyoshi Umeki , and the first Korean to do so.
South Korean-American Lee Isaac Chung was nominated for Best Director category.
South Korean-Canadian Celine Song was nominated for Best Original Screenplay category.
Karen O was nominated for Best Original Song category.