What are the categories at the Oscars?

The Academy Awards, which are better known as the Oscars, are awarded in a total of 23 categories.

The following table is showing all categories of the film award including the year in which the corresponding Oscar was awarded for the first time.

Note: The original names of some of the categories have changed during the time. Therefore, it could be, that you encounter some other category titles at some place.

Discontinued Categories

Some awards of the film prize were only awarded at some former ceremonies and are now discontinued . These include:

Renamings and differentiations of prize categories that are still existing such as "Best Short Film - Color" (1937-1938), "Best Short Film – Novelty" (1933-1936), "Best Score – Adaptation or Treatment" (1962-1969 and 1973) or "Best Foreign Language Film" (until 2020) versus "Best International Feature Film" (since 2021) are not included in this table.