List of submissions to the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film

This is a list of submissions to the 92nd Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The International Feature Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. The category was previously called the Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed in April 2019 to Best International Feature Film, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.

For the 92nd Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2018 and 30 September 2019. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 1 October 2019. 94 countries submitted films, and 93 were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. Ghana, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan submitted films for the first time; however, Nigeria's film did not appear on the final list. After the 10-film shortlist was announced on 16 December 2019, the five nominees were announced on 13 January 2020.

South Korea won the award for the first time with Parasite by Bong Joon Ho, which also won Best Picture (becoming the first and only non-English language film to do so), Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and was also nominated for Best Film Editing and Best Production Design.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Hava, Maryam, Ayesha حوا، مریم، عایشه Persian, DariSahraa Karimi The Delegation Delegacioni Albanian, French Papicha بابيشة Arabic, FrenchMounia Meddour Heroic Losers La odisea de los giles SpanishSebastián Borensztein Lengthy Night Էրկեն Կիշեր Armenian Buoyancy Khmer, Thai, IsanRodd Rathjen Joy English, German, Nigerian Pidgin, EdoSudabeh Mortezai Alpha আলফা BengaliNasiruddin Yousuff Debut Дебют RussianAnastasiya Miroshnichenko Our Mothers Nuestras madres SpanishCésar Díaz I Miss You Tu me manques Spanish, English Rodrigo Bellott The Son Sin Bosnian Invisible Life A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão Brazilian Portuguese, GreekKarim Aïnouz Ága Ага Yakut In the Life of Music តន្រ្តីជីវិត Khmer, EnglishCaylee So and Sok Visal Antigone French, English, ArabicSophie Deraspe Spider Araña Spanish, German, Haitian CreoleAndrés Wood Ne Zha 哪吒之魔童降世 Mandarin, Sichuanese Standard Mandarin Jiaozi Monos Spanish, EnglishAlejandro Landes The Awakening of the Ants El despertar de las hormigas Spanish Mali CroatianAntonio Nuić A Translator Un traductor Spanish, RussianRodrigo and Sebastián Barriuso The Painted Bird Nabarvené ptáče Interslavic, Czech, Russian, GermanVáclav Marhoul Queen of Hearts Dronningen Danish, SwedishMay el-Toukhy The Projectionist El proyeccionista SpanishJosé María Cabral The Longest Night La mala noche Poisonous Roses ورد مسموم ArabicFawzi Saleh Truth and Justice Tõde ja õigus EstonianTanel Toom Running Against the Wind የንፋሱ ፍልሚያ AmharicJan Philipp Weyl Stupid Young Heart Hölmö nuori sydän Finnish, SomaliSelma Vilhunen Les Misérables French, BambaraLadj Ly Shindisi შინდისი Georgian, RussianDito Tsintsadze System Crasher Systemsprenger GermanNora Fingscheidt Azali Dagbani, Twi, Ghanaian Pidgin EnglishKwabena Gyansah When Tomatoes Met Wagner Όταν ο Βάγκνερ Συνάντησε τις Ντομάτες Greek, English, French Blood, Passion and Coffee Café con sabor a mi tierra Spanish Carlos Membreño The White Storm 2: Drug Lords 掃毒2天地對決 CantoneseHerman Yau Those Who Remained Akik maradtak Hungarian A White, White Day Hvítur, hvítur dagur IcelandicHlynur Pálmason Gully Boy गली बॉय Hindi, Punjabi, Bambaiya Hindi, English, Hinglish Zoya Akhtar Memories of My Body Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku JavaneseGarin Nugroho Finding Farideh در جستجوی فریده Persian, Dutch, EnglishKourosh Ataee and Azadeh Moussavi Gaza غزة ArabicGarry Keane and Andrew McConnell Incitement ימים נוראים HebrewYaron Zilberman The Traitor Il traditore Italian, Sicilian, Brazilian Portuguese, EnglishMarco Bellocchio Weathering with You 天気の子 JapaneseMakoto Shinkai Kazakh Khanate – Golden Throne Қазақ хандығының – Алтын тесігі Kazakh, Russian Subira Swahili, EnglishRavneet Chadha Zana Albanian Antoneta Kastrati Aurora Аврора Kyrgyz, RussianBekzat Pirmatov The Mover Tēvs Nakts Latvian, Russian, German, Yiddish 1982 Arabic, English, FrenchOualid Mouaness Bridges of Time Laiko tiltai Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, HebrewKristine Briede and Audrius Stonys Tel Aviv on Fire תל אביב על האש Hebrew, ArabicSameh Zoabi M for Malaysia Malay, EnglishDian Lee and Ineza Roussille The Chambermaid La camarista Spanish, FrenchLila Avilés The Steed Хийморь Mongolian, Kazakh, Mandarin, Russian Erdenebileg Ganbold Neverending Past Između dana i noći MontenegrinAndro Martinović Adam آدم Arabic Maryam Touzani Bulbul बुलबुल NepaliBinod Paudel Instinct DutchHalina Reijn Lionheart English, Igbo, HausaGenevieve Nnaji Honeyland Медена земја Balkan Gagauz, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, BosnianTamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov Out Stealing Horses Ut og stjæle hester Norwegian, SwedishHans Petter Moland Laal Kabootar لال کبوتر UrduKamal Khan It Must Be Heaven إن شئت كما في السماء Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Hebrew, Japanese Elia Suleiman Everybody Changes Todos cambiamos SpanishArturo Montenegro Retablo Ayacucho Quechua, SpanishÁlvaro Delgado-Aparicio Verdict Filipino, Tagalog, EnglishRaymund Ribay Gutierrez Corpus Christi Boże Ciało PolishJan Komasa The Domain A Herdade PortugueseTiago Guedes The Whistlers La Gomera Romanian, English, Silbo Gomero, SpanishCorneliu Porumboiu Beanpole Дылда RussianKantemir Balagov The Perfect Candidateالمرشح المثالي ArabicHaifaa al-Mansour Atlantics Atlantique Wolof, French, EnglishMati Diop King Petar of Serbia Краљ Петар Први SerbianPetar Ristovski A Land Imagined 幻土 Mandarin, English, BengaliYeo Siew Hua Let There Be Light Nech je svetlo Slovak, GermanMarko Škop History of Love Zgodovina ljubezni Slovene, EnglishSonja Prosenc Knuckle City XhosaJahmil X.T. Qubeka Parasite 기생충 Korean, EnglishBong Joon-ho Pain and Glory Dolor y gloria Spanish Pedro Almodóvar And Then We Danced და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ Georgian Levan Akin The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Swiss German Dear Ex 誰先愛上他的 Mandarin and Hsu Chih-yen Krasue: Inhuman Kiss แสงกระสือ ThaiSitisiri Mongkolsiri Dear Son ولدي ArabicMohamed Ben Attia Commitment Bağlılık Aslı TurkishSemih Kaplanoğlu Homeward Evge / Додому Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian, Russian, ArabicNariman Aliev The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Chewa, EnglishChiwetel Ejiofor The Moneychanger Así habló el cambista Spanish, Brazilian PortugueseFederico Veiroj Hot Bread Issiq non UzbekUmid Khamdamov Being Impossible Yo, imposible SpanishPatricia Ortega Furie Hai Phượng Vietnamese Lê Văn Kiệt

Notes Afghanistan submitted Hava, Maryam, Ayesha by Sahraa Karimi, but it was not on the final list because questions were raised over the legitimacy of the national committee that submitted it. Austria submitted Joy by Sudabeh Mortezai, but it was disqualified in November 2019, with the Academy stating that the film had too much of its dialogue in English. The filmmakers disputed the disqualification, arguing that dialogue in Nigerian Pidgin was unintelligible to English speakers without subtitles, and should be counted separately from standard English. Because standard English constituted less than 50% of the film's dialogue, the film should be eligible. The Academy stood by its initial decision. However, they changed the rules to allow films in Pidgin English the following year. Nigeria submitted Lionheart by Genevieve Nnaji, its first-ever Oscar submission. It was disqualified in November 2019 as only 11 minutes of its 95-minute runtime featured non-English language dialogue, in violation of the Academy's rule that an entry's "original dialogue track as well as the completed picture must be predominantly in a language or languages other than English." Director Ava DuVernay criticized the Academy's rule and the film's disqualification saying, "English is the official language of Nigeria. Are you barring the country from ever competing for an Oscar in its official language?" The Academy's International Feature Film executive committee chairman Larry Karaszewski said the rules were clearly communicated to the submitting international committees. He commented, "If you're submitting for something as important as an Academy Award, I would think you should look at the rules." The Nigerian selection committee responded, "Going forward, the committee intends to submit films which are predominantly foreign language — non-English recording dialogue." Initial reports stated that Uganda had selected Kony: Order from Above by Steve T. Ayeny as their first-ever Oscar submission. However, the Uganda Oscars Selection Committee said that the film did not meet the minimum qualification requirements for selection and was not submitted.

References

External links Official website of the Academy Awards