Best International Feature Film

Drivemycar — *Drive My Car*, winner 2021.

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.

When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929 to honor films released in 1927/28, there was no separate category for foreign language films. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These Awards, however, were not handed out on a regular basis (no Award was given in 1953), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year. For the 1956 (29th) Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since then. Unlike other Academy Awards, the Best Foreign Language Film Award is not presented to a specific individual. It is accepted by the winning film's director, but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.

Over the years, the Best International Feature Film Award and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 64 Awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty one have gone to European films, five to Asian films, three to African films and three to films from the Americas. Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini directed four Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award–winning motion pictures during his lifetime, a record that remains unmatched as of 2012 (if Special Awards are taken into account, then Fellini's record is tied by his fellow countryman Vittorio De Sica). The most awarded foreign country is Italy, with 10 awards won, 3 Special Awards and 27 nominations, while Israel is the foreign country to have the most nominations, 10, without winning an award.

The original name of the award was "Best Foreign Language Film". It was changed to it's current name in 2019 as it's original name was considered outdated.

Special/Honorary Awards (1947–1955)[]

20th Academy Awards (1947)

Winner: Shoe-Shine from Italy — Vittorio De Sica
"The high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity."

21st Academy Awards (1948)

Winner: Monsieur Vincent from France — Maurice Cloche
"Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948."

22nd Academy Awards (1949)

Winner: The Bicycle Thief from Italy — Vittorio De Sica
"Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949."

23rd Academy Awards (1950)

Winner: The Walls of Malapaga from France and Italy — René Clément
"Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950."

24th Academy Awards (1951)

Winner: Rashomon from Japan — Akira Kurosawa
"Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951."

25th Academy Awards (1952)

Winner: Forbidden Games from France — René Clément
"Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952."

27th Academy Awards (1954)

Winner: Gate of Hell from Japan — Teinosuke Kinugasa
"Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1954."

28th Academy Awards (1955)

Winner: Samurai, The Legend of Musashi from Japan — Hiroshi Inagaki
"Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955."

Nominations & winners (1956–present)[]

Best International Feature Film By Decade
1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s

29th Academy Awards (1956)

Winner: La Strada from Italy — Federico Fellini (Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, Producers)^[1]
Nominees: The Captain of Kopenick from West Germany — Helmut Käutner (Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel, Producers)^[1]; Gervaise from France — René Clément (Annie Dorfmann, Producer)^[1]; Harp of Burma from Japan — Kon Ichikawa (Masayuki Takagi, Producer)^[1]; Qivitoq from Denmark — Erik Balling (O. Dalsgaard-Olsen, Producer)^[1]

30th Academy Awards (1957)

Winner: The Nights of Cabiria from Italy — Federico Fellini
Nominees: The Devil Came at Night from West Germany — Robert Siodmak; Gates of Paris from France — René Clair; Mother India from India — Mehboob Khan; Nine Lives from Norway — Arne Skouen

31st Academy Awards (1958)

Winner: My Uncle from France — Jacques Tati
Nominees: Arms and the Man from West Germany — Franz Peter Wirth; La Venganza from Spain — Juan Antonio Bardem; The Road a Year Long from Yugoslavia — Giuseppe De Santis; The Usual Unidentified Thieves from Italy — Mario Monicelli

32nd Academy Awards (1959)

Winner: Black Orpheus from France — Marcel Camus
Nominees: The Bridge from West Germany — Bernhard Wicki; The Great War from Italy — Mario Monicelli; Paw from Denmark — Astrid Henning-Jensen; The Village on the River from The Netherlands — Fons Rademakers

1960s

33rd Academy Awards (1960)

Winner: The Virgin Spring from Sweden — Ingmar Bergman
Nominees: Kapo from Italy — Gillo Pontecorvo; La Vérité from France — [[[Henri-Georges Clouzot]]; Macario from Mexico — Roberto Galvaldón; The Ninth Circle from Yugoslavia — France Štiglic

34th Academy Awards (1961)

Winner: Through a Glass Darkly from Sweden — Ingmar Bergman
Nominees: Harry and the Butler from Denmark — Bent Christensen; Immortal Love from Japan — Keisuke Kinoshita; The Important Man from Mexico — Ismael Rodríguez; Placido from Spain — Luis García Berlanga

35th Academy Awards (1962)

Winner: Sundays and Cybele from France — Serge Bourguignon
Nominees: Electra from Greece — Michael Cacoyannis; The Four Days of Naples from Italy — Nanni Loy; Keeper of Promises (The Given Word) from Brazil — Anselmo Duarte; Tlayucan from Mexico — Luis Alcoriza

36th Academy Awards (1963)

Winner: 8½ from Italy — Federico Fellini
Nominees: Knife in the Water from Poland — Roman Polanski; Los Tarantos from Spain — Francisco Rovira Beleta; The Red Lanterns from Greece — Vasilis Georgiadis; Twin Sisters of Kyoto from Japan — Noboru Nakamura

37th Academy Awards (1964)

Winner: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow from Italy — Vittorio De Sica
Nominees: Raven's End from Sweden — Bo Widerberg; Sallah from Israel — Ephraim Kishon; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg from France — Jacques Demy; Woman in the Dunes from Japan — Noboru Nakamura

38th Academy Awards (1965)

Winner: The Shop on Main Street from Czechoslovakia — Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos
Nominees: Blood on the Land from Greece — Vasilis Georgiadis; Dear John from Sweden — Lars-Magnus Lindgren; Kwaidan from Japan — Masaki Kobayashi; Marriage Italian Style from Italy — Vittorio De Sica

39th Academy Awards (1966)

Winner: A Man and a Woman from France — Claude Lelouch
Nominees: The Battle of Algiers from Italy — Gillo Pontecorvo; Loves of a Blonde from Czechoslovakia — Miloš Forman; Pharaoh from Poland — Jerzy Kawalerowicz; Three from Yugoslavia — Aleksandar Patrović

40th Academy Awards (1967)

Winner: Closely Watched Trains from Czechoslovakia — Jiří Menzel
Nominees: El Amor Brujo from Spain — Francisco Rovira Beleta; I Even Met Happy Gypsies from Yugoslavia — Aleksandar Patrović; Live for Life from France — Claude Lelouch; Portrait of Chieko from Japan — Noboru Nakamura

41st Academy Awards (1968)

Winner: War and Peace from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Sergei Bondarchuk
Nominees: The Boys of Paul Street from Hungary — Zoltán Fábri; The Firemen's Ball from Czechoslovakia — Miloš Forman; The Girl with the Pistol from Italy — Mario Monicelli; Stolen Kisses from France — François Truffaut

{{cr | year = 1969 | sequence = 42nd | nominee1 = Ådalen '31 from Sweden — Bo Winderberg | nominee2 = The Battle of Neretva from Yugoslavia — Valejko Bulajić | nominee3 = The Brothers Karamazov from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev, and Mikhail Ulyanov | nominee4 = My Night at Maud's from France — Eric Rohmer^[2] | winner = Z from Algeria — Costa-Gavras

1970s

43rd Academy Awards (1970)

Winner: Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion from Italy — Elio Petri
Nominees: First Love from Switzerland — Maximilian Schell; Hoa-Binh from France — Raoul Coutard; Paix Sur Les Champs from Belgium — Jacques Boigelot; Tristana from Spain — Luis Buñuel

44th Academy Awards (1971)

Winner: The Garden of the Finzi Continis from Italy — Vittorio De Sica
Nominees: Dodes'ka-Den from Japan — Akira Kurosawa; The Emigrants from Sweden — Jan Troell; The Policeman from Israel — Ephraim Kishon; Tchaikovsky from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Igor Talankin

45th Academy Awards (1972)

Winner: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie from France — Luis Buñuel
Nominees: The Dawns Here Are Quiet from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Stanislav Rostotsky; I Love You Rosa from Israel — Moshé Mizrahi; My Dearest Señorita from Spain — Jaime de Armiñán; The New Land from Sweden — Jan Troell

46th Academy Awards (1973)

Winner: Day for Night from France — François Truffaut
Nominees: The House on Chelouche Street from Israel — Moshé Mizrahi; L'Invitation from Switzerland — Claude Goretta; The Pedestrian from West Germany — Maximillian Schell; Turkish Delight from The Netherlands — Paul Verhoeven

47th Academy Awards (1974)

Winner: Amarcord from Italy — Federico Fellini
Nominees: Cats' Play from Hungary — Károly Makk; The Deluge from Poland — Jerzy Hoffman; Lacombe, Lucien from France — Louis Malle; The Truce from Argentina — Sergio Renán

48th Academy Awards (1975)

Winner: Dersu Uzala from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Akira Kurosawa
Nominees: Letters from Marusia from Mexico — Miguel Littín; The Promised Land from Poland — Andrzej Wajda; Sandakan No. 8 from Japan — Kei Kumai; Scent of a Woman from Italy — Dino Risi

49th Academy Awards (1976)

Winner: Black and White in Color from Ivory Coast — Jean-Jacques Annaud
Nominees: Cousin, Cousine from France — Jean-Charles Tacchella; Jacob, the Liar from East Germany — Frank Beyer; Nights and Days from Poland — Jerzy Antczak; Seven Beauties from Italy — Lina Wertmüller

50th Academy Awards (1977)

Winner: Madame Rosa from France — Moshé Mizrahi
Nominees: Iphigenia from Greece — Michael Cacoyannis; Operation Thunderbolt from Israel — Menahem Golan; A Special Day from Italy — Ettore Scola; That Obscure Object of Desire from Spain — Luis Buñuel

51st Academy Awards (1978)

Winner: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs from France — Bertrand Blier
Nominees: The Glass Cell from West Germany — Hans W. Geißendörfer; Hungarians from Hungary — Zoltán Fábri; Viva Italia! from Italy — Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, and Ettore Scola; White Bim Black Ear from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Stanislav Rostotsky

52nd Academy Awards (1979)

Winner: The Tin Drum from West Germany — Volker Sclöndorff
Nominees: The Maids of Wilko from Poland — Andrzej Wajda; Mama Turns a Hundred from Spain — Carlos Saura; A Simple Story from France — Claude Sautet; To Forget Venice from Italy — Franco Brusati

1980s

53rd Academy Awards (1980)

Winner: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Vladimir Menshov
Nominees: Confidence from Hungary — István Szabó; Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) from Japan — Akira Kurosawa; The Last Metro from France — François Truffaut; The Nest from Spain — Jaime de Armiñán

54th Academy Awards (1981)

Winner: Mephisto from Hungary — István Szabó
Nominees: The Boat Is Full from Switzerland — Markus Imhoof; Man of Iron from Poland — Andrzej Wajda; Muddy River from Japan — Kôhei Oguri; Three Brothers from Italy — Francesco Rosi

55th Academy Awards (1982)

Winner: Volver a Empezar ('To Begin Again') from Spain — José Luis Garci
Nominees: Alsino and the Condor from Nicaragua — Miguel Littin; Coup de Torchon ('Clean Slate') from France — Bertrand Tavernier; The Flight of the Eagle from Sweden — Jan Troell; Private Life from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Yuli Raizman

56th Academy Awards (1983)

Winner: Fanny & Alexander from Sweden — Ingmar Bergman
Nominees: Carmen from Spain — Carlos Saura; Entre Nous from France — Diane Kurys; Job's Revolt from Hungary — Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay; Le Bal from Algeria — Ettore Scola

57th Academy Awards (1984)

Winner: Dangerous Moves from Switzerland — Richard Dembo
Nominees: Beyond the Walls from Israel — Uri Barbash; Camila from Argentina — María Luisa Bemberg; Double Feature from Spain — José Luis Garci; Wartime Romance from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Pyotr Todorovsky

58th Academy Awards (1985)

Winner: The Official Story from Argentina — Luis Puenzo
Nominees: Angry Harvest from West Germany — Agnieszka Holland; Colonel Redl from Hungary — István Szabó; Three Men and a Cradle from France — Coline Serreau; When Father Was Away on Business from Yugoslavia — Emir Kusturica

59th Academy Awards (1986)

Winner: The Assault from The Netherlands — Fons Rademakers
Nominees: Betty Blue from France — Jean-Jacques Beineix; The Decline of the American Empire from Canada — Denys Arcand; My Sweet Little Village from Czechoslovakia — Jiří Menzel; '38' from Austria — Wolfgang Glück

60th Academy Awards (1987)

Winner: Babette's Feast from Denmark — Gabriel Axel
Nominees: Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) from France — Louis Malle; Course Completed from Spain — José Luis Garci; The Family from Italy — Ettore Scola; Pathfinder from Norway — Nils Gaup

61st Academy Awards (1988)

Winner: Pelle the Conqueror from Denmark — Bille August
Nominees: Hanussen from Hungary — István Szabó; The Music Teacher from Belgium — Gérard Corbiau; Salaam Bombay! from India — Mira Nair; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown from Spain — Pedro Almodóvar

62nd Academy Awards (1989)

Winner: Cinema Paradiso from Italy — Giuseppe Tornatore
Nominees: Camille Claudel from France — Bruno Nuytten; Jesus of Montreal from Canada — Denys Arcand; Waltzing Regitze from Denmark — Kaspar Rostrup; What Happened to Santiago from Puerto Rico — Jacobo Morales

1990s

63rd Academy Awards (1990)

Winner: Journey of Hope from Switzerland — Xavier Koller
Nominees: Cyrano de Bergerac from France — Jean-Paul Rappeneau; Ju Dou from People's Republic of China — Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang; The Nasty Girl from Germany — Michael Verhoeven; Open Doors from Italy — Gianni Amelio

64th Academy Awards (1991)

Winner: Mediterraneo from Italy — Gabriele Salvatores
Nominees: Children of Nature from Iceland — Friðrik Þór Friðriksson; The Elementary School from Czechoslovakia — Jan Svěrák; The Ox from Sweden — Sven Nykvist; Raise the Red Lantern from Hong Kong — Zhang Yimou

65th Academy Awards (1992)

Winner: Indochine from France — Régis Wargnier
Nominees: Close to Eden from Russia — Nikita Mikhalkov; Daens from Belgium — Stijn Coninx; A Place in the World from Uruguay — Adolfo Aristarain^[3]; Schtonk! from Germany — Helmut Dietl

66th Academy Awards (1993)

Winner: Belle Epoque from Spain — Fernando Trueba
Nominees: Farewell My Concubine from Hong Kong — Chen Kaige; Hedd Wyn from United Kingdom — Paul Turner; The Scent of Green Papaya from Vietnam — Trần Anh Hùng; The Wedding Banquet from Taiwan — Ang Lee

67th Academy Awards (1994)

Winner: Burnt by the Sun from Russia — Nikita Mikhalkov
Nominees: Before the Rain from Macedonia — Milčo Mančevski; Eat Drink Man Woman from Taiwan — Ang Lee; Farinelli: Il Castrato from Belgium — Gérard Corbiau; Strawberry and Chocolate from Cuba — Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío

68th Academy Awards (1995)

Winner: Antonia's Line from The Netherlands — Marleen Gorris
Nominees: All Things Fair from Sweden — Bo Winderberg; Dust of Life from Algeria — Rachid Bouchareb; O Quatrilho from Brazil — Fábio Barreto; The Star Maker from Italy — Giuseppe Tornatore

69th Academy Awards (1996)

Winner: Kolya from Czech Republic — Jan Svěrák
Nominees: A Chef in Love from Georgia — Nana Dzhordzhadze; The Other Side of Sunday from Norway — Berit Nesheim; Prisoner of the Mountains from Russia — Sergei Bodrov; Ridicule from France — Patrice Leconte

70th Academy Awards (1997)

Winner: Character from The Netherlands — Mike van Diem
Nominees: Beyond Silence from Germany — Caroline Link; Four Days in September from Brazil — Bruno Barreto; Secrets of the Heart from Spain — Montxo Armendáriz; The Thief from Russia — Pavel Chukhraj

71st Academy Awards (1998)

Winner: Life is Beautiful from Italy — Roberto Benigni
Nominees: Central Station from Brazil — Walter Salles; Children of Heaven from Iran — Majid Majidi; The Grandfather from Spain — José Luis Garci; Tango from Argentina — Carlos Saura

72nd Academy Awards (1999)

Winner: All about My Mother from Spain — Pedro Almodóvar
Nominees: Caravan from Nepal — Eric Valli; East-West from France — Régis Wargnier; Solomon and Gaenor from United Kingdom — Paul Morrison; Under the Sun from Sweden — Colin Nutley

2000s

73rd Academy Awards (2000)

Winner: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from Taiwan — Ang Lee
Nominees: Amores Perros from Mexico — Alejandro González Iñárritu; Divided We Fall from Czech Republic — Jan Hřebejk; Everybody Famous! from Belgium — Dominique Deruddere; The Taste of Others from France — Agnès Jaoui

74th Academy Awards (2001)

Winner: No Man's Land from Bosnia & Herzegovina — Danis Tanović
Nominees: Amélie from France — Jean-Pierre Jeunet; Elling from Norway — Petter Næss; Lagaan from India — Ashutosh Gowariker; Son of the Bride from Argentina — Juan J. Campanella

75th Academy Awards (2002)

Winner: Nowhere in Africa from Germany — Caroline Link
Nominees: El Crimen del Padre Amaro from Mexico — Carlos Carrera; Hero from People's Republic of China — Zhang Yimou; The Man without a Past from Finland — Aki Kaurismäki; Zus & Zo from The Netherlands — Paula van der Oest

76th Academy Awards (2003)

Winner: The Barbarian Invasions from Canada — Denys Arcand
Nominees: Evil from Sweden — Mikael Håfström; The Twilight Samurai from Japan — Yoji Yamada; Twin Sisters from The Netherlands — Ben Sombogaart; Želary from Czech Republic — Ondřej Trojan

77th Academy Awards (2004)

Winner: The Sea Inside from Spain — Alejandro Amenábar
Nominees: As It Is in Heaven from Sweden — Kay Pollak; Veer-Zaara from India — Yash Chopra; Downfall from Germany — Oliver Hirschbiegel; Yesterday from South Africa — Darrell Roodt

78th Academy Awards (2005)

Winner: Tsotsi from South Africa — Gavin Hood
Nominees: Don't Tell from Italy — Christina Comencini; Joyeux Noël from France — Christian Carion; Paradise Now from The Palestinian Territories — Hany Abu-Assad; Sophie Scholl - The Final Days from Germany — Marc Rothemund

79th Academy Awards (2006)

Winner: The Lives of Others from Germany — Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Nominees: After the Wedding from Denmark — Susanne Bier; Days of Glory (Indigènes) from Algeria — Rachid Bouchareb; Pan's Labyrinth from Mexico — Guillermo del Toro; Water from Canada — Deepa Mehta

80th Academy Awards (2007)

Winner: The Counterfeiters from Austria — Stefan Ruzowitzky
Nominees: 12 from Russia — Nikita Mikhalkov; Beaufort from Israel — Joseph Cedar; Katyn from Poland — Andrzej Wajda; Mongol from Kazakhstan — Sergei Bodrov

81st Academy Awards (2008)

Winner: Departures from Japan — Yojiro Takita
Nominees: The Baader Meinhof Complex from Germany — Uri Edel; The Class from France — Laurent Cantet; Revanche from Austria — Götz Spielmann; Waltz With Bashir from Israel — Ari Folman

82nd Academy Awards (2009)

Winner: The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina — Juan José Campanella
Nominees: Ajami from Israel — Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani; The Milk of Sorrow from Peru — Claudia Llosa; A Prophet from France — Jacques Audiard; The White Ribbon from Germany — Michael Haneke

2010s

83rd Academy Awards (2010)

Winner: In a Better World from Denmark — Susanne Bier
Nominees: Biutiful from Mexico — Alejandro González Iñárritu; Dogtooth from Greece — Yorgos Lanthimos; Incendies from Canada — Denis Villeneuve; Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) from Algeria — Rachid Bouchareb

84th Academy Awards (2011)

Winner: A Separation from Iran — Asghar Farhadi
Nominees: Bullhead from Belgium — Michael R. Roskam; Footnote from Israel — Joseph Cedar; In Darkness from Poland — Agnieszka Holland; Monsieur Lazhar from Canada — Philippe Falardeau

85th Academy Awards (2012)

Winner: Amour from Austria — Michael Haneke
Nominees: Kon-Tiki from Norway — Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg; No from Chile — Pablo Larraín; A Royal Affair from Denmark — Nikolaj Arcel; War Witch from Canada — Kim Nguyen

86th Academy Awards (2013)

Winner: The Great Beauty from Italy — Paolo Sorrentino
Nominees: The Broken Circle Breakdown from Belgium — Felix Van Groeningen; The Hunt from Denmark — Thomas Vinterberg; The Missing Picture from Cambodia — Rithy Panh; Omar from Palestine — Hany Abu-Assad

87th Academy Awards (2014)

Winner: Ida from Poland — Pawel Pawlikowski
Nominees: Leviathan from Russia — Andrey Zvyagintsev; Tangerines from Estonia — Zaza Urushadze; Timbuktu from Mauritania — Abderrahmane Sissako; Wild Tales from Argentina — Damián Szifrón

88th Academy Awards (2015)

Winner: Son of Saul from Hungary — László Nemes
Nominees: Embrace of the Serpent from Colombia — Ciro Guerra; Mustang from France — Deniz Gamze Ergüven; Theeb from Jordan — Naji Abu Nowar; A War from Denmark — Tobias Lindholm

89th Academy Awards (2016)

Winner: The Salesman from Iran — Asghar Farhadi
Nominees: Land of Mine from Denmark — Martin Zandvliet; A Man Called Ove from Sweden — Hannes Holm; {{{nominee3}}}; Tanna from Australia — Bentley Dean, Martin Butler; Toni Erdmann from Germany — Maren Ade

90th Academy Awards (2017)

Winner: A Fantastic Woman from Chile — Sebastián Lelio
Nominees: The Insult from Lebanon — Ziad Doueiri; Loveless from Russia — Andrey Zvyagintsev; On Body and Soul from Hungary — Ildiko Enyedi; The Square (2017) from Sweden — Ruben Ostlund

91st Academy Awards (2018)

Winner: Roma from Mexico — Alfonso Cuarón
Nominees: Capernaum from Lebanon — Nadine Labaki; Cold War from Poland — Pawel Pawlikowski; Never Look Away from Germany — Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Shoplifters from Japan — Hirokazu Koreeda

92nd Academy Awards (2019)

Winner: Parasite from South Korea — directed by Bong Joon-ho
Nominees: Corpus Christi from Poland — directed by Jan Komasa; Honeyland from North Macedonia — directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov; Les Misérables (2019) from France — directed by Ladj Ly; Pain and Glory from Spain — directed by Pedro Almodóvar

2020s

93rd Academy Awards (2020)

Winner: Another Round from Denmark — directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Nominees: Better Days from Hong Kong — directed by Derek Tsang; Collective from Romania — directed by Alexander Nanau; The Man Who Sold His Skin from Tunisia — directed by Kaouther Ben Hania; Quo Vadis, Aida? from Bosnia and Herzegovina — directed by Jasmila Žabnić

94th Academy Awards (2021)

Winner: Drive My Car from Japan — directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Nominees: Flee from Denmark — directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen; The Hand of God from Italy — directed by Paolo Sorrentino; Lunanna: A Yak in the Classroom from Bhutan — directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji; The Worst Person in the World from Norway — directed by Joachim Trier

Notes[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 For the 29th Academy Awards, the name(s) of the producer(s) were included in the nomination for the Foreign Language Film category.
↑ This film received its 1969 nomination under the title My Night with Maud. It had no US distributor at the time.
↑ THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. After nominations were announced, information came to light that showed that this film was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.

[29th-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 For the 29th Academy Awards, the name(s) of the producer(s) were included in the nomination for the Foreign Language Film category.

[2] This film received its 1969 nomination under the title My Night with Maud. It had no US distributor at the time.

[3] THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. After nominations were announced, information came to light that showed that this film was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.

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