List of Singaporean submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Singapore has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 2005, although they submitted a film while still being a British colony in 1959. The award, first established at the 28th Academy Awards ceremony, is handed out annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The academy selection committee reviews all the submitted films, and secret ballot voting is used to determine the five nominees.

As of 2026, Singapore has submitted twenty films, but none of them were nominated.

Submissions The country first submission took place shortly after its independence from the United Kingdom and Malaysia, with The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) directed by . But the country entered in 46-years hiatus, returning only in 2005. Since then, it has been submitting films regularly for the category.

Filmmakers Eric Khoo and Anthony Chen had each four films submitted. Although Khoo's Be with Me (2005) was disqualified for having more than 50% of its dialogue in English.

Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Singapore 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 1959(32nd) The Kingdom and the Beauty 江山美人 Mandarin 2005(78th) Be with Me English, Cantonese, Mandarin and HokkienFilm is mostly dialogue-less Disqualified after its official Oscar screening for containing more than 50% English dialogue 2007(80th) 881 Mandarin, Hokkien and English 2008(81st) My Magic Tamil 2011(84th) Tatsumi Japanese 2012(85th) Already Famous 一泡而红 Mandarin 2013(86th) Ilo Ilo 爸妈不在家 2014(87th) My Beloved Dearest Sayang Disayang Malay Sanif Olek 2015(88th) 7 Letters Malay, Hokkien, Mandarin, Malayalam, English Boo Junfeng, Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, K. Rajagopal, Tan Pin Pin, Royston Tan,Kelvin Tong 2016(89th) Apprentice Malay, English Boo Junfeng 2017(90th) Pop Aye Thai Kirsten Tan 2018(91st) Buffalo Boys Indonesian, English Mike Wiluan 2019(92nd) A Land Imagined 幻土 Mandarin, English, Bengali Yeo Siew Hua 2020(93rd) Wet Season 热带雨 Mandarin, English, Hokkien Anthony Chen 2021(94th) Precious Is the Night 今宵多珍重 Mandarin Wayne Peng 2022(95th) Ajoomma 花路阿朱妈 Mandarin, Korean, English He Shuming 2023(96th) The Breaking Ice 燃冬 Mandarin, Korean Anthony Chen 2024(97th) La Luna Malay M. Raihan Halim 2025(98th) Stranger Eyes 默視錄 Mandarin, English, Singaporean Hokkien Yeo Siew Hua 2026(99th) We Are All Strangers 我们不是陌生人 Anthony Chen

List of Singaporean submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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