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Over the years, the Best International Feature Film and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 74 awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty-seven have gone to European films, nine to Asian films, five to films from the Americas and three to African films.
2019 91st Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Submissions. The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2017 and 30 September 2018. The deadline for submissions was 1 October 2018, with the Academy announcing a list of eligible films on 8 October.
The 91st Academy Awards | 2019. Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. Sunday, February 24, 2019. Honoring movies released in 2018.
This article lists all the foreign language films which have been nominated for or won Academy Awards in any category, not just the International Feature Film category (known before the 2019 awards as Best Foreign Language Film) itself.
YearFilm Title Used In NominationOriginal TitleAward Recipient (s)2023 (96th)The Zone of InterestJames Wilson2023 (96th)Past LivesDavid Hinojosa Christine Vachon Pamela ...2023 (96th)Anatomie d'une chute (French)Marie-Ange Luciani David Thion2022 (95th)Im Westen nichts Neues (German)- THR Staff
- 'Rona Azim's Mother' DIRECTOR Jamshid Mahmoudi. The second Afghan Oscar entry in three years from the Iran-based Mahmoudi brothers (Navid Mahmoudi produces), this drama follows an Afghan refugee working as a janitor in Tehran who is trying to help smuggle his mother into Germany.
- 'Until the End of Time' DIRECTOR Yasmine Chouikh. Fifty years and 20 submissions after Costa-Gavras won the Oscar for Z, Algeria selected Chouikh's unlikely romance about a woman mourning the loss of her husband who sparks a new friendship — and possibly more — with a gravedigger.
- 'The Angel' DIRECTOR Luis Ortega. The Angel centers on Argentina's infamous serial killer, Carlos Robledo Puch, who in the 1970s committed 11 murders before the age of 20.
- 'Spitak' DIRECTOR Alexander Kott. The Russian filmmaker's drama focuses on the 1988 earthquake in Armenia and is based on eyewitness accounts. Armenian-American singer-songwriter Serj Tankian composed the score.
The foreign language films with the most awards are Sweden's Fanny and Alexander, Taiwan's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, South Korea’s Parasite, and Germany’s All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards each, including the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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