Austria has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1961. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which 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.
As of 2026, Austria has been nominated four times and won twice, for The Counterfeiters (2007) and Amour (2012). Submissions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1956. The International Feature Film Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award.
The Counterfeiters (2007), directed by , was the country first winner. Followed by Amour (2012), directed by , which was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.
The country other nominees were: '38 – Vienna Before the Fall (1986) and Revanche (2008).
Great Freedom (2021) and Corsage (2022) advanced to the December shortlists, but were not nominated.
Most Austrian submissions were primarily in German. Austria's 2001 and 2005 submissions were filmed in French, and dubbed into German when they were submitted for consideration to the academy, while a subsequent rule change allowed them to send a third film in French in 2012. Austria's 2009 submission was mostly in Persian and Turkish, and their 2010 and 2023 submissions were in Italian.
Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Austria for review by the academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
Year(Ceremony) Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result 1961(34th) JedermannGerman 1969(42nd) Moss on the Stones Moos auf den Steinen 1977(50th) I Want to Live Ich will leben 1979(52nd) Tales from the Vienna Woods Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald 1980(53rd) Egon Schiele Egon Schiele – ExzesseGerman, English, French 1981(54th) Der BockererGerman 1983(56th) Tramps Die letzte Runde 1984(57th) Just Behind the Door Dicht hinter der Tür Mansur Madavi 1985(58th) Malambo Milan Dor 1986(59th) '38 – Vienna Before the Fall 38 – Auch das war Wien 1987(60th) Welcome in Vienna Wohin und zurück – Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna 1988(61st) Undiscovered Country Das Weite Land 1989(62nd) The Seventh Continent Der siebente Kontinent 1990(63rd) Requiem for Dominic Requiem für Dominik 1991(64th) I Love ViennaGerman, English, Italian, Polish, Persian, Arabic 1992(65th) Benny's VideoGerman 1993(66th) Indien 1994(67th) I Promise Ich gelobe 1995(68th) Ant Street Die Ameisenstraße 1996(69th) Hannah 1997(70th) The Unfish Der Unfisch 1998(71st) The Inheritors Die Siebtelbauern 1999(72nd) Northern Skirts Nordrand 2000(73rd) The Stranger Die Fremde 2001(74th) The Piano Teacher La PianisteFrench, German 2002(75th) GebürtigGerman , Lukas Stepanik 2003(76th) Free Radicals Böse Zellen 2004(77th) AntaresGerman, Croatian, English 2005(78th) CachéFrench 2006(79th) You Bet Your Life Spiele LebenGerman Antonin Svoboda 2007(80th) The Counterfeiters Die FälscherGerman, Russian, English, Hebrew 2008(81st) RevancheGerman, Russian 2009(82nd) For a Moment, Freedom Ein Augenblick FreiheitEnglish, Persian, Turkish 2010(83rd) La PivellinaItalian and Rainer Frimmel 2011(84th) Breathing AtmenGerman 2012(85th) AmourFrench 2013(86th) The Wall Die WandGerman 2014(87th) The Dark Valley Das finstere TalGerman, English 2015(88th) Goodnight Mommy Ich seh, ich sehGerman , Severin Fiala 2016(89th) Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe Vor der Morgenröte 2017(90th) Happy EndFrench, English 2018(91st) The Waldheim Waltz Waldheims WalzerGerman, English, French 2019(92nd) JoyEnglish, German, Nigerian Pidgin 2020(93rd) What We Wanted Was wir wolltenGerman Ulrike Kofler 2021(94th) Great Freedom Große Freiheit Sebastian Meise 2022(95th) CorsageGerman, French, English, Hungarian 2023(96th) VeraItalian and 2024(97th) The Devil's Bath Des Teufels BadGerman Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala 2025(98th) Peacock Pfau – Bin ich echt? Bernhard Wenger 2026(99th)RoseMarkus Schleinzer
See also List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films Cinema of Austria
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External links The Official Academy Awards Database The Motion Picture Credits Database IMDb Academy Awards Page