Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 92nd Academy Awards held in 2020 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best International Feature Film Category
93 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2019 INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR!
The Oscar category Best Foreign Language Film is now referred to as Best International Feature Film! The main focus continues to be on non-English movies from all over the world. An international film is defined as a feature-length motion picture over 40 minutes runtime produced outside the United States of America (USA) with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. Animated and documentary films are permitted. The shortlist for this Academy Awards category is expanding to ten films. Seven of the shortlisted films to be chosen by the Phase I International Feature Film Committee, and the additional three to be voted by the International Feature Film Award Executive Committee. Supplementary information will follow later. Please have a little patience!
Road to the Oscar ......................................................................................................................
This is an overview of the shortlisted and nominated films as well as the winner in the category Best International Feature Film of the 92nd Academy Awards.
██ The Winner Film ██
Date of Announcement: 9 Ferbruary 2020
● SOUTH KOREA - Parasite - (Director: Bong Joon-ho)
▓▓ The 5 Nominated Films ▓▓
Date of Announcement: 13 January 2020
● FRANCE - Les Misérables - (Director: Ladj Ly)
● NORTH MACEDONIA - Honeyland - (Directors: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov)
● POLAND - Corpus Christi - (Director: Jan Komasa)
● SOUTH KOREA - Parasite - (Director: Bong Joon-ho)
● SPAIN - Pain and Glory - (Director: Pedro Almodóvar)
▒▒ The 10 Shortlisted Films ▒▒
Date of Announcement: 16 December 2019
● CZECH REPUBLIC - The Painted Bird - (Director: Václav Marhoul)
● ESTONIA - Truth and Justice - (Director: Tanel Toom)
● FRANCE - Les Misérables - (Director: Ladj Ly)
● HUNGARY - Those Who Remained - (Director: Barnabás Tóth)
● NORTH MACEDONIA - Honeyland - (Directors: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov)
● POLAND - Corpus Christi - (Director: Jan Komasa)
● RUSSIA - Beanpole - (Director: Kantemir Balagov)
● SENEGAL - Atlantics - (Director: Mati Diop)
● SOUTH KOREA - Parasite - (Director: Bong Joon-ho)
● SPAIN - Pain and Glory - (Director: Pedro Almodóvar)
Main Language Distribution ......................................................................................................................
This selection shows all languages which are mainly spoken in more than one of the submitted films for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best International Feature Film category during the submission period 2018/2019.
15 films ·····> Spanish
07 films ·····> Arabic
04 films ·····> Serbo-Croatian
03 films ·····> French
03 films ·····> German
03 films ·····> Mandarin
02 films ·····> Albanian
02 films ·····> Georgian
02 films ·····> Hebrew
02 films ·····> Khmer
02 films ·····> Persian
02 films ·····> Portuguese
02 films ·····> Russian
02 films ·····> Turkish
Continental Distribution ......................................................................................................................
This selection shows how many countries of the respective continent have submitted a film for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best International Feature Film category during the submission period of 2018/2019.
38 submitting countries ·····> Europe
29 submitting countries ·····> Asia
16 submitting countries ·····> America
11 submitting countries ·····> Africa
01 submitting countries ·····> Oceania
Repeatedly Submitted Directors ......................................................................................................................
This selection contains all directors of submitted films for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best International Feature Film category during the submission period of 2018/2019 with more than one submission from the past to the deadline at 1 October 2019 and shows how many wins, nominations and shortlistings they received till to this date as well as the times when they were out of the race.
07 times ·····> Pedro Almodóvar | Pain and Glory | Spain ➜ 1x won, 1x nom, 1x short
03 times ·····> Bujar Alimani | The Delegation | Albania
03 times ·····> Marco Bellocchio | The Traitor | Italy
03 times ·····> José María Cabral | The Projectionist | Dominican Republic
03 times ·····> Andrés Wood | Spider | Chile
02 times ·····> Haifaa Al-Mansour | The Perfect Candidate | Saudi Arabia
02 times ·····> Rodrigo Bellott | I Miss You | Bolivia
02 times ·····> Bong Joon-ho | Parasite | South Korea
02 times ·····> Semih Kaplanoğlu | Commitment | Turkey
02 times ·····> Antonio Nuić | Mali | Croatia
02 times ·····> Garin Nugroho | Leaf on a Pillow | Indonesia
02 times ·····> Corneliu Porumboiu | The Whistlers | Romania
02 times ·····> Sonja Prosenc | History of Love | Slovenia
02 times ·····> Jahmil X.T. Qubeka | Knuckle City | South Africa
02 times ·····> Marko Škop | Let There Be Light | Slovakia
02 times ·····> Audrius Stonys | Bridges of Time | Lithuania
02 times ·····> Elia Suleiman | It Must Be Heaven | Palestine
02 times ·····> Ines Tanović | The Son | Bosnia and Herzegovina
02 times ·····> Dito Tsintsadze | Shindisi | Georgia
02 times ·····> Federico Veiroj | The Moneychanger | Uruguay
Note that shortlistings, nominations and the award goes however to the country itself and not to the director. But in 2014 it was announced that now also the name of the winning director is engraved next to the country in the statuette!
The Past
......................................................................................................................
For the submissions of the last years in the Best International Feature Film category, previously known as Best Foreign Language Film category, also sorted by submitting countries, equally for the shortlisted and nominated films as well as the Oscar winners of the past Academy Awards please check the following IMDb lists linked in blue below!
By Year:
2022 | 2021 | 2020/21 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 | 1979 | 1978 | 1977 | 1976 | 1975 | 1974 | 1973 | 1972 | 1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | 1964 | 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1960 | 1959 | 1958 | 1957 | 1956 | 1955 - 1947
By Country:
Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Argentina | Armenia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | Bangladesh | Belarus | Belgium | Bhutan | Bolivia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Brazil | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso | Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Chad | Chile | China | Colombia | Costa Rica | Croatia | Cuba | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Denmark | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | Egypt | Estonia | Ethiopia | Fiji | Finland | France | Georgia | Germany | Ghana | Greece | Greenland | Guatemala | Haiti | Honduras | Hong Kong | Hungary | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Ivory Coast | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Kosovo | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Latvia | Lebanon | Lesotho | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Malawi | Malta | Mauritania | Malaysia | Mexico | Moldova | Mongolia | Montenegro | Morocco | Mozambique | Nepal | Netherlands | New Zealand | Nicaragua | Niger | Nigeria | North Macedonia | Norway | Pakistan | Palestine | Panama | Paraguay | Peru | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Puerto Rico | Romania | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Senegal | Serbia | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | South Africa | South Korea | Soviet Union | Spain | Sri Lanka | Sudan | Sweden | Switzerland | Syria | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Thailand | Togo | Tunisia | Turkey | Uganda | Ukraine | United Kingdom | Uruguay | Uzbekistan | Venezuela | Vietnam | Yemen | Yugoslavia
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This list is alphabetically sorted by the English country names!
The Oscar category Best Foreign Language Film is now referred to as Best International Feature Film! The main focus continues to be on non-English movies from all over the world. An international film is defined as a feature-length motion picture over 40 minutes runtime produced outside the United States of America (USA) with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. Animated and documentary films are permitted. The shortlist for this Academy Awards category is expanding to ten films. Seven of the shortlisted films to be chosen by the Phase I International Feature Film Committee, and the additional three to be voted by the International Feature Film Award Executive Committee. Supplementary information will follow later. Please have a little patience!
Road to the Oscar ......................................................................................................................
This is an overview of the shortlisted and nominated films as well as the winner in the category Best International Feature Film of the 92nd Academy Awards.
██ The Winner Film ██
Date of Announcement: 9 Ferbruary 2020
● SOUTH KOREA - Parasite - (Director: Bong Joon-ho)
▓▓ The 5 Nominated Films ▓▓
Date of Announcement: 13 January 2020
● FRANCE - Les Misérables - (Director: Ladj Ly)
● NORTH MACEDONIA - Honeyland - (Directors: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov)
● POLAND - Corpus Christi - (Director: Jan Komasa)
● SOUTH KOREA - Parasite - (Director: Bong Joon-ho)
● SPAIN - Pain and Glory - (Director: Pedro Almodóvar)
▒▒ The 10 Shortlisted Films ▒▒
Date of Announcement: 16 December 2019
● CZECH REPUBLIC - The Painted Bird - (Director: Václav Marhoul)
● ESTONIA - Truth and Justice - (Director: Tanel Toom)
● FRANCE - Les Misérables - (Director: Ladj Ly)
● HUNGARY - Those Who Remained - (Director: Barnabás Tóth)
● NORTH MACEDONIA - Honeyland - (Directors: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov)
● POLAND - Corpus Christi - (Director: Jan Komasa)
● RUSSIA - Beanpole - (Director: Kantemir Balagov)
● SENEGAL - Atlantics - (Director: Mati Diop)
● SOUTH KOREA - Parasite - (Director: Bong Joon-ho)
● SPAIN - Pain and Glory - (Director: Pedro Almodóvar)
Main Language Distribution ......................................................................................................................
This selection shows all languages which are mainly spoken in more than one of the submitted films for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best International Feature Film category during the submission period 2018/2019.
15 films ·····> Spanish
07 films ·····> Arabic
04 films ·····> Serbo-Croatian
03 films ·····> French
03 films ·····> German
03 films ·····> Mandarin
02 films ·····> Albanian
02 films ·····> Georgian
02 films ·····> Hebrew
02 films ·····> Khmer
02 films ·····> Persian
02 films ·····> Portuguese
02 films ·····> Russian
02 films ·····> Turkish
Continental Distribution ......................................................................................................................
This selection shows how many countries of the respective continent have submitted a film for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best International Feature Film category during the submission period of 2018/2019.
38 submitting countries ·····> Europe
29 submitting countries ·····> Asia
16 submitting countries ·····> America
11 submitting countries ·····> Africa
01 submitting countries ·····> Oceania
Repeatedly Submitted Directors ......................................................................................................................
This selection contains all directors of submitted films for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best International Feature Film category during the submission period of 2018/2019 with more than one submission from the past to the deadline at 1 October 2019 and shows how many wins, nominations and shortlistings they received till to this date as well as the times when they were out of the race.
07 times ·····> Pedro Almodóvar | Pain and Glory | Spain ➜ 1x won, 1x nom, 1x short
03 times ·····> Bujar Alimani | The Delegation | Albania
03 times ·····> Marco Bellocchio | The Traitor | Italy
03 times ·····> José María Cabral | The Projectionist | Dominican Republic
03 times ·····> Andrés Wood | Spider | Chile
02 times ·····> Haifaa Al-Mansour | The Perfect Candidate | Saudi Arabia
02 times ·····> Rodrigo Bellott | I Miss You | Bolivia
02 times ·····> Bong Joon-ho | Parasite | South Korea
02 times ·····> Semih Kaplanoğlu | Commitment | Turkey
02 times ·····> Antonio Nuić | Mali | Croatia
02 times ·····> Garin Nugroho | Leaf on a Pillow | Indonesia
02 times ·····> Corneliu Porumboiu | The Whistlers | Romania
02 times ·····> Sonja Prosenc | History of Love | Slovenia
02 times ·····> Jahmil X.T. Qubeka | Knuckle City | South Africa
02 times ·····> Marko Škop | Let There Be Light | Slovakia
02 times ·····> Audrius Stonys | Bridges of Time | Lithuania
02 times ·····> Elia Suleiman | It Must Be Heaven | Palestine
02 times ·····> Ines Tanović | The Son | Bosnia and Herzegovina
02 times ·····> Dito Tsintsadze | Shindisi | Georgia
02 times ·····> Federico Veiroj | The Moneychanger | Uruguay
Note that shortlistings, nominations and the award goes however to the country itself and not to the director. But in 2014 it was announced that now also the name of the winning director is engraved next to the country in the statuette!
The Past
......................................................................................................................
For the submissions of the last years in the Best International Feature Film category, previously known as Best Foreign Language Film category, also sorted by submitting countries, equally for the shortlisted and nominated films as well as the Oscar winners of the past Academy Awards please check the following IMDb lists linked in blue below!
By Year:
2022 | 2021 | 2020/21 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 | 1979 | 1978 | 1977 | 1976 | 1975 | 1974 | 1973 | 1972 | 1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | 1964 | 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1960 | 1959 | 1958 | 1957 | 1956 | 1955 - 1947
By Country:
Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Argentina | Armenia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | Bangladesh | Belarus | Belgium | Bhutan | Bolivia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Brazil | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso | Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Chad | Chile | China | Colombia | Costa Rica | Croatia | Cuba | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Denmark | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | Egypt | Estonia | Ethiopia | Fiji | Finland | France | Georgia | Germany | Ghana | Greece | Greenland | Guatemala | Haiti | Honduras | Hong Kong | Hungary | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Ivory Coast | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Kosovo | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Latvia | Lebanon | Lesotho | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Malawi | Malta | Mauritania | Malaysia | Mexico | Moldova | Mongolia | Montenegro | Morocco | Mozambique | Nepal | Netherlands | New Zealand | Nicaragua | Niger | Nigeria | North Macedonia | Norway | Pakistan | Palestine | Panama | Paraguay | Peru | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Puerto Rico | Romania | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Senegal | Serbia | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | South Africa | South Korea | Soviet Union | Spain | Sri Lanka | Sudan | Sweden | Switzerland | Syria | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Thailand | Togo | Tunisia | Turkey | Uganda | Ukraine | United Kingdom | Uruguay | Uzbekistan | Venezuela | Vietnam | Yemen | Yugoslavia
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This list is alphabetically sorted by the English country names!
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