Lithuania has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 2006 . 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, Lithuania has submitted nineteen films for the category, but none of them were nominated.

Submissions Though they have been invited to submit a film by AMPAS regularly since achieving independence in the early 1990s, Lithuania has started to submit films for consideration in 2006. The documentary short Before Flying Back to Earth (2006) was the country first submission. With a 52-minute running time, it is one of the few documentaries and few non-feature-length films ever to be submitted in the category, but it was not nominated.

Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Lithuania 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 Director Result 2006(79th) Before Flying Back to Earth Prieš parskrendant į žemę 2008(81st) Loss Nereikalingi žmonės 2009(82nd) Vortex Duburys Gytis Lukšas 2011(84th) Back to Your Arms Kai apkabinsiu tave Kristijonas Vildžiūnas 2012(85th) Ramin 2013(86th) Conversations on Serious Topics Pokalbiai rimtomis temomis 2014(87th) The Gambler Lošėjas Ignas Jonynas 2015(88th) The Summer of Sangailė Sangailės vasara Alantė Kavaitė 2016(89th) Seneca's Day Senekos diena Kristijonas Vildziunas 2017(90th) Frost Šerkšnas Šarūnas Bartas 2018(90th) Wonderful Losers: A Different World Nuostabieji Luzeriai. Kita planeta Arūnas Matelis 2019(92nd) Bridges of Time Laiko tiltai Kristine Briede, Audrius Stonys 2020(93rd) Nova Lituania Karolis Kaupinis 2021(94th) Isaac Izaokas Jurgis Matulevičius 2022(95th) Pilgrims Piligrimai Laurynas Bareiša 2023(96th) Slow Tu man nieko neprimeni Marija Kavtaradzė 2024(97th) Drowning Dry Sesės Laurynas Bareiša 2025(98th) The Southern Chronicles Pietinia Kronikas Ignas Miškinis 2026(99th) How to Divorce During the War Skyrybos karo metu Andrius Blaževičius

See also

List of countries by number of Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film Cinema of Lithuania

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