List of countries by number of Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
Won the award or one of its Special/Honorary predecessors
Nominated for the award
United States (ineligible for competition)
This is a list of countries by number of Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film before 2020), a table showing the total number of submissions, nominations, and awards of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film received by each country. It follows Academy convention by not grouping the tally of extinct countries with that of their successor states. As of 2023[update], at least one film has been submitted by 135 countries. Of this number, 63 countries have received a nomination,[a] with 29 countries ultimately winning the Oscar.
Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film tally by country[edit]
| Submitting country | Number of winning films |
Number of nominated films |
Number of submitted films |
First submitted |
Last submitted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Italy[b]
|
14 | 33 | 70 | 1947 | 2023 |
 France[c]
|
12 | 41 | 71 | 1948 | 2023 |
 Japan[d]
|
5 | 18 | 70 | 1951 | 2023 |
 Spain
|
4 | 21 | 66 | 1956 | 2023 |
 Denmark
|
4 | 14 | 61 | 1956 | 2023 |
 Sweden
|
3 | 16 | 63 | 1956 | 2023 |
 Germany[e]
|
3 | 13 | 33 | 1990 | 2023 |
 Soviet Union[f]
|
3 | 9 | 24 | 1963 | 1991 |
 Netherlands
|
3 | 7 | 56 | 1959 | 2023 |
 Hungary
|
2 | 10 | 59 | 1965 | 2023 |
 Argentina
|
2 | 8 | 50 | 1961 | 2023 |
 Czechoslovakia[g]
|
2 | 6 | 23 | 1964 | 1991 |
 Switzerland
|
2 | 5 | 51 | 1961 | 2023 |
 Austria
|
2 | 4 | 47 | 1961 | 2023 |
 Iran
|
2 | 3 | 29 | 1977 | 2023 |
 Poland
|
1 | 13 | 55 | 1963 | 2023 |
 Mexico
|
1 | 9 | 56 | 1957 | 2023 |
| West Germany[e]
|
1 | 8 | 31 | 1956 | 1989 |
 Canada
|
1 | 7 | 49 | 1971 | 2023 |
 Russia[f]
|
1 | 7 | 29 | 1992 | 2021 |
 Algeria
|
1 | 5 | 24 | 1969 | 2022 |
 Taiwan
|
1 | 3 | 49 | 1957 | 2023 |
| Czech Republic[g]
|
1 | 3 | 30 | 1994 | 2023 |
 United Kingdom[h]
|
1 | 3 | 20 | 1991 | 2023 |
 Chile
|
1 | 2 | 28 | 1990 | 2023 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina[i]
|
1 | 2 | 23 | 1994 | 2023 |
 South Africa
|
1 | 2 | 19 | 1989 | 2023 |
 South Korea
|
1 | 1 | 36 | 1962 | 2023 |
 Ivory Coast
|
1 | 1 | 3 | 1976 | 2020 |
 Israel
|
0 | 10 | 56 | 1964 | 2023 |
 Belgium
|
0 | 8 | 48 | 1967 | 2023 |
 Norway
|
0 | 6 | 45 | 1957 | 2023 |
 Yugoslavia[i]
|
0 | 6 | 29 | 1958 | 1991 |
 Greece
|
0 | 5 | 43 | 1957 | 2023 |
 Brazil
|
0 | 4 | 53 | 1960 | 2023 |
 India
|
0 | 3 | 56 | 1957 | 2023 |
 Hong Kong
|
0 | 3 | 42 | 1959 | 2023 |
 China
|
0 | 2 | 37 | 1979 | 2023 |
 North Macedonia[i]
|
0 | 2 | 20 | 1994 | 2023 |
 Lebanon
|
0 | 2 | 19 | 1978[1] | 2022 |
 Palestine[j]
|
0 | 2 | 16 | 2003 | 2023 |
 Iceland
|
0 | 1 | 44 | 1980 | 2023 |
 Romania
|
0 | 1 | 39 | 1966 | 2023 |
 Finland
|
0 | 1 | 37 | 1973 | 2023 |
 Colombia
|
0 | 1 | 32 | 1980 | 2023 |
 Peru
|
0 | 1 | 30 | 1967 | 2023 |
 Cuba
|
0 | 1 | 23 | 1978 | 2023 |
 Uruguay
|
0 | 1[a] | 23 | 1992 | 2023 |
 Georgia[f]
|
0 | 1 | 22 | 1996 | 2023 |
 Estonia[f]
|
0 | 1 | 21 | 1992 | 2023 |
 Vietnam
|
0 | 1 | 20 | 1993 | 2023 |
 Kazakhstan[f]
|
0 | 1 | 17 | 1992 | 2022 |
 Australia
|
0 | 1 | 16 | 1996 | 2023 |
 Nepal
|
0 | 1 | 13 | 1999 | 2023 |
 Puerto Rico[k]
|
0 | 1 | 12 | 1986 | 2011 |
 Cambodia
|
0 | 1 | 11 | 1994 | 2022 |
 Ireland
|
0 | 1 | 10 | 2007 | 2023 |
 Tunisia
|
0 | 1 | 10 | 1995 | 2023 |
 Jordan
|
0 | 1 | 7 | 2008 | 2023 |
 East Germany[e]
|
0 | 1 | 5 | 1973 | 1983 |
 Bhutan
|
0 | 1 | 3 | 1999 | 2023 |
 Nicaragua
|
0 | 1 | 3 | 1982 | 2010 |
 Mauritania
|
0 | 1 | 1 | 2014 | 2014 |
 Portugal
|
0 | 0 | 40 | 1980 | 2023 |
 Egypt[l]
|
0 | 0 | 37 | 1958 | 2023 |
 Bulgaria
|
0 | 0 | 34 | 1971 | 2023 |
 Philippines
|
0 | 0 | 34 | 1953 | 2023 |
 Croatia
|
0 | 0 | 33 | 1992 | 2023 |
 Venezuela
|
0 | 0 | 33 | 1978 | 2023 |
 Serbia
|
0 | 0 | 30 | 1994 | 2023 |
 Thailand
|
0 | 0 | 30 | 1984 | 2023 |
 Turkey
|
0 | 0 | 30 | 1964 | 2023 |
 Slovakia
|
0 | 0 | 27 | 1993 | 2023 |
 Slovenia
|
0 | 0 | 27 | 1993 | 2023 |
 Indonesia
|
0 | 0 | 25 | 1987 | 2023 |
 Bangladesh
|
0 | 0 | 19 | 2002 | 2022 |
 Luxembourg
|
0 | 0 | 19 | 1997 | 2023 |
 Morocco
|
0 | 0 | 19 | 1977 | 2023 |
 Singapore
|
0 | 0 | 17 | 1959 | 2023 |
 Albania
|
0 | 0 | 16 | 1996 | 2023 |
 Bolivia
|
0 | 0 | 16 | 1995 | 2023 |
 Dominican Republic
|
0 | 0 | 16 | 1983 | 2023 |
 Kyrgyzstan
|
0 | 0 | 16 | 1998 | 2023 |
 Lithuania
|
0 | 0 | 16 | 2006 | 2023 |
 Ukraine
|
0 | 0 | 16 | 1997 | 2023 |
 Latvia
|
0 | 0 | 15 | 1992 | 2023 |
 Afghanistan
|
0 | 0 | 14 | 2002 | 2019 |
 Armenia
|
0 | 0 | 13 | 2001 | 2023 |
 Costa Rica
|
0 | 0 | 12 | 2005 | 2023 |
 Iraq
|
0 | 0 | 12 | 2005 | 2023 |
 Pakistan
|
0 | 0 | 12 | 1959 | 2023 |
 Ecuador
|
0 | 0 | 11 | 2000 | 2022 |
 Montenegro
|
0 | 0 | 10 | 2013 | 2023 |
 Panama
|
0 | 0 | 10 | 2014 | 2023 |
 Azerbaijan
|
0 | 0 | 9 | 2007 | 2022 |
 Kosovo
|
0 | 0 | 9 | 2014 | 2022 |
 Kenya
|
0 | 0 | 8 | 2012 | 2023 |
 Malaysia
|
0 | 0 | 8 | 2004 | 2023 |
 Mongolia
|
0 | 0 | 8 | 2003 | 2023 |
 New Zealand
|
0 | 0 | 7 | 2011 | 2022 |
 Paraguay
|
0 | 0 | 7 | 2015 | 2023 |
 Saudi Arabia
|
0 | 0 | 7 | 2013 | 2023 |
 Cameroon
|
0 | 0 | 6 | 1980 | 2023 |
 Belarus
|
0 | 0 | 5 | 1994 | 2020 |
 Senegal
|
0 | 0 | 5 | 2017 | 2023 |
 Ethiopia
|
0 | 0 | 4 | 2010 | 2019 |
 Guatemala
|
0 | 0 | 4 | 1994 | 2022 |
 Moldova
|
0 | 0 | 4 | 2013 | 2023 |
 Chad
|
0 | 0 | 3 | 2002 | 2021 |
 Honduras
|
0 | 0 | 3 | 2017 | 2020 |
 Malta
|
0 | 0 | 3 | 2014 | 2022 |
 Nigeria
|
0 | 0 | 3 | 2019 | 2023 |
 Tajikistan
|
0 | 0 | 3 | 1999 | 2023 |
 Yemen
|
0 | 0 | 3 | 2016 | 2023 |
 Burkina Faso
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 1989 | 2023 |
 Greenland
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2010 | 2012 |
 Haiti
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2017 | 2021 |
 Kuwait
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 1972 | 1978 |
 Malawi
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2018 | 2021 |
 Sri Lanka
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2003 | 2009 |
 Sudan
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2020 | 2023 |
 Tanzania
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2001 | 2022 |
 Uzbekistan
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2019 | 2021 |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1997 | 1997 |
 Fiji
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2005 | 2005 |
 Ghana
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
 Laos
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2017 | 2017 |
 Lesotho
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2020 | 2020 |
 Mozambique
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2017 | 2017 |
 Namibia
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2023 | 2023 |
 Niger
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2018 | 2018 |
 Somalia
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2021 | 2021 |
 Suriname
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2020 | 2020 |
 Syria[l]
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2017 | 2017 |
 Uganda
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2022 | 2022 |
Notes[edit]
Submitted films include disqualified entries, except those resubmitted, so as to not count twice.
- ^ a b Includes a disqualified nomination for Uruguay. After nominations were announced in 1992, information came to light showing that A Place in the World (1992) was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.
- ^ Italy's tally includes two Special Awards for Shoe-Shine (1946) and The Bicycle Thief (1948), as well as an Honorary Award shared with France for The Walls of Malapaga (1949).
- ^ France's tally includes a Special Award for Monsieur Vincent (1947) as well as two Honorary Awards: one for Forbidden Games (1952) and one shared with Italy for The Walls of Malapaga (1949).
- ^ Japan's tally includes three Honorary Awards.
- ^ a b c East Germany received its only nomination in 1976, and West Germany was nominated for the last time in 1985. The two countries formally reunited on October 3, 1990. Reunified Germany has received twelve nominations since then, three of which have resulted in a successful win.
- ^ a b c d e The Soviet Union, which received all of its nominations for Russian-language films, was nominated for the last time in 1984 and was formally dissolved on December 26, 1991. Russia, Georgia, Estonia and Kazakhstan are the only post-Soviet states to have been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award.
- ^ a b Czechoslovakia was nominated for the first time in 1965 for a Slovak-language film. Its five other nominations, the last of which occurred in 1991, were received for Czech-language films. The formerly Communist country formally split into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic on January 1, 1993. Since then, only the Czech Republic has been able to get nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.
- ^ The United Kingdom has a very small tally even though it has a prolific film industry. This is due to the fact that the overwhelming majority of British films are in English and are thus ineligible for competition in the Foreign Language Film category. Two of the three British films nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award have been Welsh-language films.
- ^ a b c Yugoslavia was nominated for the first time in 1958 for an Italian-language film. Its five other nominations, the last of which occurred in 1985, were received for Serbo-Croatian-language films. The formerly Communist country gradually disintegrated at the beginning of the 1990s. North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the only post-Yugoslav states to have been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award.
- ^ Paradise Now (2005) was initially nominated as a submission from "Palestine" and presented as such on the official Academy website. However, following protests from pro-Israeli groups in the United States, the Academy decided to designate it as a submission from the Palestinian Authority, a move that was decried by the film's director Hany Abu-Assad. During the awards ceremony, the film was eventually announced by presenter Will Smith as a submission from the Palestinian Territories.
- ^ Although films produced inside the United States are not eligible for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, those produced in U.S. overseas possessions are. Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, was thus able to receive a nomination for What Happened to Santiago (1989).[2] However, this rule was changed in 2011 barring Puerto Rican submissions.[3]
- ^ a b From 1966 until 1971, the United Arab Republic made submissions. In 1961, the union between Egypt and Syria was dissolved.
Submissions by year[edit]
See also[edit]
- Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film
- List of Academy Award–winning foreign-language films (in categories other than the International Feature Film category itself)
References[edit]
- General
- "Foreign Language Film Facts". Academy Awards Database. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
- Specific
- ^ "The 51ST Academy Awards, 1979". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "Lo Que Le Paso a Santiago (1989) - Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2008.
- ^ Puerto Rico queda excluido de la carrera por el Oscar; El Nuevo Día (October 5, 2011)
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