List of foreign-language films nominated for Academy Awards

This article lists all the foreign language films which have been nominated for or won Academy Awards in any category, not just the International Feature Film category (known before the 2019 awards as Best Foreign Language Film) itself. The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are among the world's oldest and most prestigious film prizes. They were first handed out on May 16, 1929 by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and have been given annually ever since. Even though a separate prize has existed for foreign language films since the 1956 Academy Awards, such films continue to be eligible for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided that they have been commercially released in Los Angeles County, California and that they comply with the special rules governing those categories. The French comedy À Nous la Liberté (1931) was the first foreign language film to be nominated for an Academy Award (Best Art Direction); the German-language Swiss drama Marie-Louise (1944) was the first to actually win one (Best Original Screenplay).

Although a Los Angeles theatrical release is not required for eligibility for the Best International Feature Film Award itself, it is a prerequisite for consideration for Academy Awards in other categories. In the past, this had enabled some foreign language films to receive nominations over multiple years, the most recent case being that of the Italian comedy-drama Amarcord (1973). Because such films were still unreleased in Los Angeles when they were submitted to the Academy, they could only be nominated in the Foreign Language Film category. However, upon their Los Angeles release, they became eligible for other Academy Awards, and often ended up receiving nominations in various categories one year after their initial Foreign Language Film nomination. Presently, such nominations over multiple years are no longer possible since the current rules of the Academy unambiguously state that: "Films nominated for the Best International Feature Film Award shall not be eligible for Academy Awards consideration in any category in any subsequent Awards year." This restriction, however, does not apply to submitted films that were not selected as nominees. The Brazilian film City of God (2002) was thus able to receive four Academy Award nominations for the 2003 Academy Awards, even though it had failed to garner a Foreign Language Film nomination as Brazil's official submission for the 2002 Academy Awards.

Foreign films are not to be confused with foreign language films. A foreign film is a motion picture produced outside the United States, regardless of the language used in its dialogue track. A foreign language film, on the other hand, is a predominantly non-English speaking motion picture, regardless of where it was produced. Although the overwhelming majority of foreign language films are foreign, this is not always the case: in recent years, for instance, several non-English speaking American films such as The Passion of the Christ (2004), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) or Minari (2020) have been nominated for Academy Awards (American films have never been eligible for the Best International Feature Film Award, even if none of the dialogue is in English). Such films are included in this list. On the other hand, foreign films where the majority of the dialogue is in English — such as the Indo-British co-production of Gandhi (1982) — are not taken into account. The article also includes films such as the Japanese anime Spirited Away (2001) that were initially released in their native country in a foreign language but were nominated by the Academy for the English-dubbed version under which they were shown in Los Angeles. The films are grouped by award category, and are arranged chronologically within each category. The years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are always held the following year. The winning films are in bold and in light blue background; the presence of an Oscar statuette indicates the official recipient of the award.

The Best Picture category has existed since the creation of the Academy Awards. Its name has changed several times over the years. When Grand Illusion (1937) was nominated, the name of the category was Outstanding Production; the Best Picture designation has been continuously used since the 1962 Academy Awards. Individual producers have been officially nominated for this award since the 1951 Academy Awards. Previously, the nominations went to the production companies instead.

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Award recipient(s)	Country of production	Language(s)	Notes
1938 (11th)	Grand Illusion	La Grande Illusion	Réalisation d'art cinématographique (production company)	France	French (some parts in German, English, and Russian)	[A]
1969 (42nd)	Z	Z	Jacques Perrin Ahmed Rachedi	France Algeria	French
1972 (45th)	The Emigrants	Utvandrarna	Bengt Forslund	Sweden	Swedish
1973 (46th)	Cries and Whispers	Viskningar och rop	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Swedish
1995 (68th)	Il Postino: The Postman	Il postino	Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori Gaetano Daniele	Italy	Italian (some parts in Spanish)
1998 (71st)	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Elda Ferri Gianluigi Braschi	Italy	Italian (some parts in German and English)
2000 (73rd)	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wòhǔ Cánglóng (pinyin) 臥虎藏龍 (traditional Chinese) 卧虎藏龙 (simplified Chinese)	Bill Kong Hsu Li-kong Ang Lee	Taiwan China Hong Kong United States	Mandarin
2006 (79th)	Babel	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu Jon Kilik Steve Golin	United States Mexico France	English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Japanese Sign Language, Berber languages
	Letters from Iwo Jima	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood Steven Spielberg Robert Lorenz	United States	Japanese (some parts in English)
2012 (85th)	Amour	Amour	Margaret Menegoz Stefan Arndt Veit Heiduschka Michael Katz	Austria France Germany	French
2018 (91st)	Roma	Roma	Gabriela Rodríguez Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico United States	Spanish, Mixtec
2019 (92nd)	Parasite	Gisaengchung 기생충	Kwak Sin-ae Bong Joon-ho	South Korea	Korean
2020 (93rd)	Minari	Minari	Christina Oh	United States	Korean (some parts in English)
2021 (94th)	Drive My Car	Doraibu mai kā ドライブ・マイ・カー	Teruhisa Yamamoto	Japan	Japanese (some parts in English, Korean Sign Language, German, Mandarin, Tagalog, Indonesian, and Korean)
2022 (95th)	All Quiet on the Western Front	Im Westen nichts Neues	Malte Grunert	Germany United States	German (some parts in French)
2023 (96th)	Anatomy of a Fall	Anatomie d'une chute	Marie-Ange Luciani David Thion	France	French, English (some parts in German)
	Past Lives	Past Lives	David Hinojosa Christine Vachon Pamela Koffler	United States South Korea	Korean, English
	The Zone of Interest	The Zone of Interest	James Wilson	United Kingdom Poland United States	German (some parts in Polish and Yiddish)
2024 (97th)	Emilia Pérez	Emilia Pérez	Pascal Caucheteux Jacques Audiard	France Mexico Belgium	Spanish (some parts in English)
	I'm Still Here	Ainda Estou Aqui	Maria Carlota Bruno Rodrigo Teixeira	Brazil	Portuguese

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature category has existed since 1942.

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Award recipient(s)	Country of production	Language(s)	Notes
1942 (15th)	Moscow Strikes Back	Разгром немецких войск под Москвой (Razgrom Nemetskikh Voysk Pod Moskvoy)	Artkino (distribution company)	Soviet Union	Russian (nominated for its English-dubbed version)
1951 (24th)	Kon-Tiki	Kon-Tiki	Olle Nordemar (producer)	Norway Sweden	Norwegian
1955 (28th)	Heartbreak Ridge	Crèvecœur	René Risacher (producer)	France	French
1956 (29th)	The Silent World	Le Monde du silence	Jacques-Yves Cousteau (director & writer)	France Italy	French
	Where Mountains Float	Hvor bjergene sejler	The Government Film Committee of Denmark	Denmark	Danish, Greenlandic
1957 (30th)	Torero!	Torero!	Manuel Barbachano Ponce	Mexico	Spanish, English
1959 (32nd)	Serengeti Shall Not Die	Serengeti darf nicht sterben	Bernhard Grzimek (director & writer)	West Germany	German
1961 (34th)	Sky Above and Mud Beneath	Le Ciel et la Boue	Arthur Cohn René Lafuite	France Liechtenstein	French
	La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960)	La grande olimpiade	dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade	Italy	Italian
1962 (35th)	Alvorada – Brazil's Changing Face	Alvorada – Aufbruch in Brasilien	Hugo Niebeling	West Germany	German
1963 (36th)	The Link and the Chain	Le Maillon et la Chaîne	Paul de Roubaix	France	French
1964 (37th)	World Without Sun	Le Monde sans soleil	Jacques-Yves Cousteau	France Italy	French
	The Human Dutch	Alleman	Bert Haanstra	Netherlands	Dutch
	Over There, 1914-18	14-18	Jean Aurel	France	French
1965 (38th)	To Die in Madrid	Mourir à Madrid	Frédéric Rossif	France	French (some parts in English)
1966 (39th)	Le Volcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano)	Le Volcan interdit	Haroun Tazieff	France	French
1967 (40th)	The Anderson Platoon	La Section Anderson	Pierre Schoendoerffer	France	French
1969 (42nd)	The Olympics in Mexico	Olimpiada en México	Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada	Mexico	Spanish
1970 (43rd)	Chariots of the Gods	Erinnerungen an die Zukunft	Dr. Harald Reinl	West Germany	German
1971 (44th)	The Sorrow and the Pity	Le Chagrin et la Pitié	Marcel Ophuls	France Switzerland West Germany	French (some parts in German and English)
1972 (45th)	Ape and Super-Ape	Bij de beesten af	Bert Haanstra	Netherlands	Dutch
1973 (46th)	Battle of Berlin	Schlacht um Berlin	Bengt von zur Mühlen	West Germany	German
1974 (47th)	The 81st Blow	Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad המכה ה-81	Jacques Ehrlich David Bergman Haim Gouri	Israel	Yiddish, Hebrew
1978 (51st)	The Lovers' Wind	Le Vent des amoureux	Albert Lamorisse	France Iran	French
1980 (53rd)	The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933–45	Der gelbe Stern – Die Judenverfolgung 1933–1945	Bengt von zur Mühlen Arthur Cohn	West Germany Liechtenstein	German, English, Hebrew
1985 (58th)	Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo	Las madres de la Plaza de Mayo	Susana Blaustein Muñoz Lourdes Portillo	Argentina	Spanish
1986 (59th)	Chile: Hasta Cuando?	Chile: Hasta Cuando?	David Bradbury	Australia United States	Spanish (some parts in English)
1988 (61st)	Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie	Hôtel Terminus	Marcel Ophuls	France West Germany United States	French, German, Spanish, English
1993 (66th)	Children of Fate	Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family	Susan Todd Andrew Young	United States	Italian (some parts in English)
1999 (72nd)	Buena Vista Social Club	Buena Vista Social Club	Wim Wenders Ulrich Felsberg	Germany Cuba France United Kingdom United States	Spanish (some parts in English)
2001 (74th)	Children Underground	Children Underground	Edet Belzberg	United States	Romanian
	Promises	Promises	Justine Shapiro B.Z. Goldberg	United States	Arabic, Hebrew (some parts in English)
2002 (75th)	Winged Migration	Le Peuple migrateur	Jacques Perrin (director & writer)	France Italy Germany Spain Switzerland	French
2003 (76th)	Balseros	Balseros	Carles Bosch Josep Maria Domènech	Spain	Spanish
2004 (77th)	Born into Brothels	Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids	Ross Kauffman Zana Briski	United States	Bengali, English
	The Story of the Weeping Camel	Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel	Luigi Falorni Byambasuren Davaa	Mongolia Germany	Mongolian
2005 (78th)	March of the Penguins	La Marche de l'empereur	Luc Jacquet Yves Darondeau	France	French (some parts in English)
2006 (79th)	Iraq in Fragments	Iraq in Fragments	James Longley John Sinno	United States	Kurdish, Arabic
2007 (80th)	War/Dance	War/Dance	Andrea Nix Fine Sean Fine	United States	Acholi (some parts in English)
2008 (81st)	The Betrayal – Nerakhoon	The Betrayal – Nerakhoon	Ellen Kuras Thavisouk Phrasavath	United States	Lao, English
2009 (82nd)	Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country	Burma VJ - reporter i et lukket land	Anders Østergaard Lise Lense-Møller	Denmark Sweden Norway United Kingdom United States Germany Netherlands Israel Spain Belgium Canada	Burmese, English
	Which Way Home	Which Way Home	Rebecca Cammisa	United States	Spanish, English
2010 (83rd)	Waste Land	Waste Land	Lucy Walker Angus Aynsley	Brazil United Kingdom	Portuguese, English
2011 (84th)	Pina	Pina	Wim Wenders Gian-Piero Ringel	Germany France United Kingdom	German, French, English, Spanish, Croatian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Korean
2012 (85th)	5 Broken Cameras	Khams Kamīrāt Muḥaṭṭamah خمس كاميرات محطمة	Emad Burnat (director, producer & cinematographer) Guy Davidi (director, producer, writer & editor)	Palestine Israel France	Arabic, Hebrew
	The Gatekeepers	The Gatekeepers	Dror Moreh Philippa Kowarsky Estelle Fialon	Israel France	Hebrew, English
2013 (86th)	The Act of Killing	Jagal	Joshua Oppenheimer (director) Signe Byrge Sørensen (producer)	Denmark Norway United Kingdom Indonesia	Indonesian
	The Square	Al-Maydan الميدان	Jehane Noujaim (director & cinematographer) Karim Amer (producer)	Egypt United States	Arabic (some parts in English)
2014 (87th)	The Salt of the Earth	Le Salt de le Earth	Wim Wenders (director, producer & writer) Juliano Ribeiro Salgado (director, writer & cinematographer) David Rosier (producer & writer)	France Brazil Italy	French Portuguese (some parts in English)
	Virunga	Virunga	Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara	Democratic Republic of the Congo United Kingdom	French Swahili (English)
2015 (88th)	Cartel Land	Tierra de Carteles	Matthew Heineman (director & producer) Tom Yellin (producer)	Mexico United States	Spanish (some parts in English)
	The Look of Silence	Senyap	Joshua Oppenheimer (director) Signe Byrge Sørensen (producer)	Denmark Indonesia Finland Norway United Kingdom Israel France United States Germany Netherlands	Indonesian
	Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom	Зима у вогні: Боротьба України за свободу	Evgeny Afineevsky (director & producer) Den Tolmor (producer)	Ukraine United Kingdom United States	Ukrainian Russian (some parts in English)
2016 (89th)	Fire at Sea	Fuocoammare	Gianfranco Rosi (director & producer) Donatella Palermo (producer)	Italy	Italian
2017 (90th)	Faces Places	Visages Villages	Agnès Varda (director) JR (director) Rosalie Varda (producer)	France	French
2018 (91st)	Of Fathers and Sons	Kinder des Kalifats	Talal Derki (director) Ansgar Frerich (producer) Eva Kemme (producer) Tobias N. Siebert (producer)	Germany	Arabic
2019 (92nd)	The Cave	غار	Feras Fayyad (director) Kirstine Barfod (producer) Sigrid Dyekjær (producer)	Syria Denmark	Arabic English
	The Edge of Democracy	Democracia em Vertigem	Petra Costa (director) Joanna Natasegara (producer) Shane Boris (producer) Tiago Pavan (producer)	Brazil	Portuguese English
	For Sama	إلى سماء	Waad Al-Kateab (director and producer) Edward Watts (director)	United Kingdom United States Syria	Arabic
	Honeyland	Медена земја	Ljubomir Stefanov (director) Tamara Kotevska (director) Atanas Georgiev (producer)	North Macedonia	Macedonian Turkish Bosnian
2020 (93rd)	Collective	Colectiv	Alexander Nanau (director and producer) Bianca Oana (producer)	Romania Luxembourg	Romanian
	The Mole Agent	El agente topo	Maite Alberdi (director) Marcela Santibañez (producer)	Chile United States Germany Netherlands Spain	Spanish
2021 (94th)	Ascension	登楼叹	Jessica Kingdon (director and producer) Kira Simon-Kennedy (producer) Nathan Truesdell (producer)	United States	Mandarin English
	Flee	Flugt	Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director) Monica Hellström (producer) Signe Byrge Sørensen (producer)	Denmark United States United Kingdom France Sweden Norway	Danish
	Writing with Fire	Writing with Fire	Sushmit Ghosh (director and producer) Rintu Thomas (director and producer)	India	Hindi
2022 (95th)	A House Made of Splinters	Будинок зі скалок	Simon Lereng Wilmont (director and producer) Monica Hellström (director and producer)	Denmark Ukraine Sweden	Russian Ukrainian
	All That Breathes	All That Breathes	Shaunak Sen (director and producer) Aman Mann (producer) Teddy Leifer (producer)	India United States United Kingdom	Hindi
2023 (96th)	The Eternal Memory	La memoria infinita	Maite Alberdi (director and producer) Juan de Dios Larraín (producer) Pablo Larraín (producer) Rocio Jadue (producer)	Chile	Spanish
	Four Daughters	Les filles d'Olfa	Kaouther Ben Hania (director) Nadim Cheikhrouha (producer)	France Germany Tunisia Saudi Arabia	Arabic
	To Kill a Tiger	To Kill a Tiger	Nisha Pahuja (director and producer) Cornelia Principe (producer) David Oppenheim (producer)	Canada	Hindi
	20 Days in Mariupol	20 днів у Маріуполі	Mstyslav Chernov (director and producer) Michelle Mizner (producer) Raney Aronson-Rath (producer)	Ukraine	Ukrainian English Russian
2024 (97th)	No Other Land	No Other Land	Basel Adra (director and producer) Hamdan Ballal (director and producer) Yuval Abraham (director and producer) Rachel Szor (producer)	Palestine Norway	Arabic English Hebrew
	Porcelain War	Porcelain War	Brendan Bellomo (director) Slava Leontyev (director) Aniela Sidorska (producer) Paula DuPré Pesmen (producer)	Ukraine United States Australia	Ukrainian Russian English
	Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat	Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat	Johan Grimonprez (director and producer) Daan Milius (producer) Rémi Grellety (producer)	Belgium France Netherlands	Dutch Russian English French Arabic
	Black Box Diaries	Black Box Diaries	Shiori Itô (director and producer) Eric Nyari (producer) Hanna Aqvilin (producer)	Japan United States United Kingdom	Japanese English

The Animated Feature Film category has existed since the 2001 Academy Awards. The intended recipient(s) of this award must be designated by those responsible for the production of the film. Agreement on the designated recipient(s) has to be settled prior to the film's submission to the Academy. Unlike other Academy Awards, the Best Animated Feature Film Award therefore does not always go to the same crew member. However, the person(s) to whom it is given must always be "the key creative individual most clearly responsible for the overall achievement or a two-person team with shared and equal directing credit".

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Award recipient(s)	Country of production	Language(s)	Notes
2002 (75th)	Spirited Away	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi 千と千尋の神隠し	Hayao Miyazaki (director & writer)	Japan	Japanese (nominated for its English-dubbed version)
2003 (76th)	The Triplets of Belleville	Les Triplettes de Belleville	Sylvain Chomet (director & writer)	France Belgium Canada United Kingdom	French
2005 (78th)	Howl's Moving Castle	Hauru no ugoku shiro ハウルの動く城	Hayao Miyazaki (director, writer & executive producer)	Japan	Japanese (nominated for its English-dubbed version)
2007 (80th)	Persepolis	Persépolis	Marjane Satrapi Vincent Paronnaud (directors & writers)	France Iran	French (some parts in English, Persian & German)
2010 (83rd)	The Illusionist	L'Illusionniste	Sylvain Chomet (director & writer)	France	French (some parts in English and Gaelic)
2011 (84th)	A Cat in Paris	Une vie de chat	Alain Gaignol (director & writer) Jean-Loup Felicioli (director)	France Belgium Netherlands Switzerland	French
	Chico and Rita	Chico y Rita	Fernando Trueba (director & writer) Javier Mariscal (director)	Spain United Kingdom	Spanish (some parts in English)
2013 (86th)	Ernest & Celestine	Ernest et Célestine	Benjamin Renner (director) Didier Brunner (producer)	France Belgium	French
	The Wind Rises	Kaze tachinu 風立ちぬ	Hayao Miyazaki (director & writer) Toshio Suzuki (producer)	Japan	Japanese
2014 (87th)	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Kaguya-hime no Monogatari かぐや姫の物語	Isao Takahata (director) Yoshiaki Nishimura (producer)	Japan	Japanese
2015 (88th)	Boy and the World	O Menino e o Mundo	Alê Abreu (director)	Brazil	Brazilian Portuguese
	When Marnie Was There	Omoide no Mānī 思い出のマーニー	Hiromasa Yonebayashi (director) Yoshiaki Nishimura (producer)	Japan	Japanese
2016 (89th)	My Life as a Courgette	Ma vie de Courgette	Claude Barras (director) Max Karli (producer)	France Switzerland	French
	The Red Turtle	La Tortue Rouge レッドタートル ある島の物語	Michaël Dudok de Wit (director) Toshio Suzuki (producer)	France Belgium Japan	No dialogue
2018 (91st)	Mirai	Mirai no Mirai 未来のミライ	Mamoru Hosoda (director) Yuichiro Saito (producer)	Japan	Japanese
2019 (92nd)	I Lost My Body	J'ai perdu mon corps	Jérémy Clapin (director) Marc du Pontavice (producer)	France	French
2021 (94th)	Flee	Flugt	Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director) Monica Hellström (producer) Signe Byrge Sørensen (producer)	United States United Kingdom France Sweden Norway Denmark	Danish
2023 (96th)	The Boy and the Heron	Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka 君たちはどう生きるか	Hayao Miyazaki (director) Toshio Suzuki (producer)	Japan	Japanese
2024 (97th)	Flow	Straume	Gints Zilbalodis (director & producer) Matīss Kaža (producer) Ron Dyens (producer) Gregory Zalcman (producer)	Latvia France Belgium	No dialogue

The Production Design category, formerly named Best Art Direction until 2012, has existed since the creation of the Academy Awards. Until 1939, only one award was given. From 1940 until 1966, two awards were given, one for black-and-white films, the other for color films. The two awards were briefly merged at the 1957 and 1958 Academy Awards, and were permanently combined once again in a single category starting 1967. All the foreign language films that were nominated for the Art Direction Award between 1940 and 1966 received their nomination in the Black-and-White category, with the exception of Juliet of the Spirits (1965), which was nominated in the Color category.

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Award recipient(s)	Country of production	Language(s)	Notes
1932 (5th)	À Nous la Liberté	À nous la liberté	Lazare Meerson	France	French	[A]
1951 (24th)	La Ronde	La Ronde	D'Eaubonne	France	French	[A]
1952 (25th)	Rashomon	Rashômon 羅生門	Matsuyama (art direction) H. Motsumoto (set decoration)	Japan	Japanese	[D]
1954 (27th)	Le Plaisir	Le Plaisir	Max Ophüls	France	French	[A]
1956 (29th)	Seven Samurai	Shichinin no samurai 七人の侍	Matsuyama (nominated as Takashi Matsuyama)	Japan	Japanese
1961 (34th)	La Dolce Vita	La dolce vita	Piero Gherardi	Italy	Italian (some parts in English, French & German)
1963 (36th)	Federico Fellini's 8½	8½	Piero Gherardi	Italy	Italian (some parts in English, French & German)
1966 (39th)	The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Il Vangelo secondo Matteo	Luigi Scaccianoce	Italy France	Italian
	Juliet of the Spirits	Giulietta degli spiriti	Piero Gherardi	Italy France Germany (West)	Italian
	Is Paris Burning?	Paris brûle-t-il?	Willy Holt Marc Frederix Pierre Guffroy	France United States	French, German (some parts), English (some parts)
1968 (41st)	War and Peace	Voyna i mir Война и мир	Mikhail Bogdanov Gennady Myasnikov (art direction) G. Koshelev V. Uvarov (set decoration)	Soviet Union	Russian
1980 (53rd)	Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)	Kagemusha 影武者	Yoshirō Muraki	Japan	Japanese
1982 (55th)	La Traviata	La Traviata	Franco Zeffirelli (art direction) Gianni Quaranta (set decoration)	Italy France	Italian
1983 (56th)	Fanny and Alexander	Fanny och Alexander	Anna Asp	Sweden France Germany (West)	Swedish (some parts in German, Yiddish & English)
1985 (58th)	Ran	Ran 乱	Yoshirō Muraki Shinobu Muraki (art direction)	Japan	Japanese
1990 (63rd)	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	Ezio Frigerio (art direction) Jacques Rouxel (set decoration)	France	French
2000 (73rd)	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wòhǔ Cánglóng (pinyin) 臥虎藏龍 (traditional Chinese) 卧虎藏龙 (simplified Chinese)	Tim Yip	Taiwan China Hong Kong United States	Mandarin
2001 (74th)	Amélie	Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain	Aline Bonetto (art direction) Marie-Laure Valla (set decoration)	France Germany	French
2004 (77th)	A Very Long Engagement	Un long dimanche de fiançailles	Aline Bonetto (art direction)	France United States	French (some parts in German)
2006 (79th)	Pan's Labyrinth	El laberinto del fauno	Eugenio Caballero (art direction) Pilar Revuelta (set decoration)	Spain Mexico	Spanish
2018 (91st)	Roma	Roma	Eugenio Caballero (art direction) Bárbara Enríquez (set decoration)	Mexico United States	Spanish, Mixtec
2019 (92nd)	Parasite	기생충	Lee Ha-Joon (production design) Cho Won-woo (set decoration)	South Korea	Korean
2022 (95th)	All Quiet on the Western Front	Im Westen nichts Neues(German)	Christian M. Goldbeck (production design) Ernestine Hipper (set decoration)	Germany United States	German (some parts in French)

The Cinematography category has existed since the creation of the Academy Awards. Until 1938, only one award was given. From 1939 until 1966, two awards were given, one for black-and-white films, the other for color films. The two awards were briefly merged at the 1957 Academy Awards, and were permanently combined once again in a single category starting 1967. However, since foreign language films were not nominated for the Cinematography Award prior to the 1966 Academy Awards, they were unaffected by the splits and mergers that took place in this category.

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Award recipient(s)	Country of production	Language(s)	Notes
1966 (39th)	Is Paris Burning?	Paris brûle-t-il?	Marcel Grignon	France United States	French, German (some parts), English (some parts)
1973 (46th)	Cries and Whispers	Viskningar och rop	Sven Nykvist	Sweden	Swedish
1982 (55th)	Das Boot	Das Boot	Jost Vacano	Germany (West)	German (some parts in French & English)
1983 (56th)	Fanny and Alexander	Fanny och Alexander	Sven Nykvist	Sweden France Germany (West)	Swedish (some parts in German, Yiddish & English)
1985 (58th)	Ran	Ran 乱	Takao Saito Masaharu Ueda Asakazu Nakai	Japan	Japanese
1993 (66th)	Farewell My Concubine	Bàwáng Bié Jī (pinyin) 霸王別姬 (traditional Chinese) 霸王别姬 (simplified Chinese)	Gu Changwei	China Hong Kong	Mandarin
1994 (67th)	Red	Trois Couleurs: Rouge	Piotr Sobocinski	France Switzerland Poland	French
1995 (68th)	Shanghai Triad	Yáo a yáo, yáo dào wàipó qiáo (pinyin) 摇啊摇，摇到外婆橋 (traditional Chinese) 摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥 (simplified Chinese)	Lü Yue	China	Mandarin
2000 (73rd)	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wòhǔ Cánglóng (pinyin) 臥虎藏龍 (traditional Chinese) 卧虎藏龙 (simplified Chinese)	Peter Pau	Taiwan China Hong Kong United States	Mandarin
	Malèna	Malena	Lajos Koltai	Italy	Italian (some parts in Sicilian, English & Latin)
2001 (74th)	Amélie	Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain	Bruno Delbonnel	France Germany	French
2003 (76th)	City of God	Cidade de Deus	César Charlone	Brazil France United States	Brazilian Portuguese
2004 (77th)	House of Flying Daggers	Shí miàn mái fú (pinyin) 十面埋伏 (Chinese)	Zhao Xiaoding	China Hong Kong	Mandarin
	The Passion of the Christ	The Passion of the Christ	Caleb Deschanel	United States	Aramaic (some parts in Latin & Hebrew)
	A Very Long Engagement	Un long dimanche de fiançailles	Bruno Delbonnel	France United States	French (some parts in German)
2006 (79th)	Pan's Labyrinth	El laberinto del fauno	Guillermo Navarro	Spain Mexico	Spanish
2007 (80th)	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Le Scaphandre et le Papillon	Janusz Kamiński	France United States	French
2009 (82nd)	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band	Christian Berger	Germany	German
2013 (86th)	The Grandmaster	Jat Doi Zung Si (pinyin) 一代宗師 (Chinese)	Philippe Le Sourd	Hong Kong China	Mandarin Cantonese Japanese
2014 (87th)	Ida	Ida	Łukasz Żal Ryszard Lenczewski	Poland Denmark	Polish
2018 (91st)	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Łukasz Żal	Poland	Polish
	Never Look Away	Werk ohne Autor	Caleb Deschanel	Germany	German
	Roma	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico	Spanish, Mixtec
2022 (95th)	All Quiet on the Western Front	Im Westen nichts Neues(German)	James Friend	Germany United States	German (some parts in French)
	Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths	Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades	Darius Khondji	Mexico	Spanish (some parts in English)
2023 (96th)	El Conde	El Conde	Edward Lachman	Chile	Spanish, English, French
2024 (97th)	Emilia Pérez	Emilia Pérez	Paul Guilhaume	France Mexico Belgium	Spanish

The Costume Design category has existed since the 1948 Academy Awards. Until 1966, two awards were given, one for black-and-white films, the other for color films. The two awards were briefly merged at the 1957 and 1958 Academy Awards, and were permanently combined once again in a single category starting 1967. All the foreign language films that were nominated for the Costume Design Award between 1948 and 1966 received their nomination in the Black-and-White category, with the exception of Gate of Hell (1953) and Juliet of the Spirits (1965), which were nominated in the Color category.

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Award recipient(s)	Country of production	Language(s)	Notes
1954 (27th)	The Earrings of Madame de...	Madame de...	Georges Annenkov Rosine Delamare	France	French	[A]
	Gate of Hell	Jigokumon 地獄門	Sanzo Wada	Japan	Japanese	[F]
1955 (28th)	Ugetsu	Ugetsu monogatari 雨月物語	Tadaoto Kainosho	Japan	Japanese	[A]
1956 (29th)	Seven Samurai	Shichinin no samurai 七人の侍	Kohei Ezaki	Japan	Japanese
1960 (33rd)	Never on Sunday	Pote tin Kyriaki	Denny Vachlioti	Greece United States	Greek (some parts in English)
	The Virgin Spring	Jungfrukällan	Marik Vos	Sweden	Swedish (some parts in German)
1961 (34th)	La Dolce Vita	La dolce vita	Piero Gherardi	Italy	Italian (some parts in English, French & German)
	Yojimbo	Yojimbo 用心棒	Yoshirō Muraki	Japan	Japanese
1963 (36th)	Federico Fellini's 8½	8⁠1/2⁠	Piero Gherardi	Italy	Italian (some parts in English, French & German)
	The Leopard	Il gattopardo	Piero Tosi	Italy	Italian
1966 (39th)	The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Il Vangelo secondo Matteo	Danilo Donati	Italy France	Italian
	The Mandrake	The Mandrake	Danilo Donati	Italy France	Italian
	Juliet of the Spirits	Giulietta degli spiriti	Piero Gherardi	Italy France Germany (West)	Italian
1973 (46th)	Cries and Whispers	Viskningar och rop	Marik Vos	Sweden	Swedish
	Ludwig	Ludwig	Piero Tosi	Italy France Germany (West)	Italian (some parts in German & French)
1975 (48th)	The Magic Flute	Trollflöjten	Henny Noremark Karin Erskine	Sweden	Swedish
1976 (49th)	Fellini's Casanova	Il Casanova di Federico Fellini	Danilo Donati	Italy United States	Italian (Some parts in French, German, English, Czech, Latin & Hungarian)
1979 (52nd)	La Cage aux Folles	La Cage aux folles	Piero Tosi Ambra Danon	France	French
1982 (55th)	La Traviata	La Traviata	Piero Tosi	Italy France	Italian
1983 (56th)	Fanny and Alexander	Fanny och Alexander	Marik Vos	Sweden France Germany (West)	Swedish (some parts in German, Yiddish & English)
	The Return of Martin Guerre	Le Retour de Martin Guerre	Anne-Marie Marchand	France	French
1985 (58th)	Ran	Ran 乱	Emi Wada	Japan	Japanese
1986 (59th)	Otello	Otello	Anna Anni Maurizio Millenotti	Italy	Italian
1990 (63rd)	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	Franca Squarciapino	France	French
1991 (64th)	Madame Bovary	Madame Bovary	Corinne Jorry	France	French
1994 (67th)	Queen Margot	La Reine Margot	Moidele Bickel	France	French (some parts in Italian)
2000 (73rd)	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wòhǔ Cánglóng (pinyin) 臥虎藏龍 (traditional Chinese) 卧虎藏龙 (simplified Chinese)	Timmy Yip	Taiwan China Hong Kong United States	Mandarin
2006 (79th)	Curse of the Golden Flower	Mǎnchéng Jìndài Huángjīnjiǎ (pinyin) 滿城盡帶黃金甲 (traditional Chinese) 满城尽带黄金甲 (simplified Chinese)	Yee Chung-Man	China Hong Kong	Mandarin
2007 (80th)	La Vie en rose	La Môme	Marit Allen	France United Kingdom Czech Republic	French (some parts in English)
2009 (82nd)	Coco Before Chanel	Coco avant Chanel	Catherine Leterrier	France	French
2010 (83rd)	I Am Love	Io sono l'amore	Antonella Cannarozzi	Italy	Italian
2013 (86th)	The Grandmaster	Jat Doi Zung Si (pinyin) 一代宗師 (Chinese)	William Chang	Hong Kong China	Mandarin Cantonese Japanese
2020 (93rd)	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	Massimo Cantini Parrini	Italy France United Kingdom	Italian

The Directing category has existed since the creation of the Academy Awards. Lina Wertmüller's nomination for Seven Beauties (1976) made her the first-ever woman to be nominated for the Directing Award.

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Award recipient	Country of production	Language(s)	Notes
1960 (33rd)	Never on Sunday	Pote tin Kyriaki	Jules Dassin	Greece United States	Greek (some parts in English)
1961 (34th)	La Dolce Vita	La dolce vita	Federico Fellini	Italy	Italian (some parts in English, French & German)
1962 (35th)	Divorce Italian Style	Divorzio all'italiana	Pietro Germi	Italy	Italian
1963 (36th)	Federico Fellini's 8½	8½	Federico Fellini	Italy	Italian (some parts in English, French & German)
1965 (38th)	Woman in the Dunes	Suna no onna 砂の女	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Japan	Japanese
1966 (39th)	A Man and a Woman	Un homme et une femme	Claude Lelouch	France	French
1968 (41st)	The Battle of Algiers	La battaglia di Algeri (Italian) La Bataille d'Alger (French)	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy Algeria	French (some parts in Arabic, Italian & English)
1969 (42nd)	Z	Z	Costa-Gavras	France Algeria	French
1970 (43rd)	Fellini Satyricon	Satyricon	Federico Fellini	Italy France	Italian (some parts in Latin)
1972 (45th)	The Emigrants	Utvandrarna	Jan Troell	Sweden	Swedish
1973 (46th)	Cries and Whispers	Viskningar och rop	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Swedish
1974 (47th)	Day for Night	La Nuit américaine	François Truffaut	France Italy	French (some parts in English)
1975 (48th)	Amarcord	Amarcord	Federico Fellini	Italy	Italian (some parts in Romagnolo)
1976 (49th)	Face to Face	Ansikte mot ansikte	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Swedish
	Seven Beauties	Pasqualino Settebellezze	Lina Wertmüller	Italy	Italian
1979 (52nd)	La Cage aux Folles	La Cage aux folles	Édouard Molinaro	France	French
1982 (55th)	Das Boot	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen	Germany (West)	German (some parts in French & English)
1983 (56th)	Fanny and Alexander	Fanny och Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden France Germany (West)	Swedish (some parts in German, Yiddish & English)
1985 (58th)	Ran	Ran 乱	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	Japanese
1987 (60th)	My Life as a Dog	Mitt liv som hund	Lasse Hallström	Sweden	Swedish
1994 (67th)	Red	Trois Couleurs: Rouge	Krzysztof Kieślowski	France Switzerland Poland	French
1995 (68th)	Il Postino: The Postman	Il postino	Michael Radford	Italy	Italian (some parts in Spanish)
1998 (71st)	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni	Italy	Italian (some parts in German & English)
2000 (73rd)	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wòhǔ Cánglóng (pinyin) 臥虎藏龍 (traditional Chinese) 卧虎藏龙 (simplified Chinese)	Ang Lee	Taiwan China Hong Kong United States	Mandarin
2002 (75th)	Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	Spanish
2003 (76th)	City of God	Cidade de Deus	Fernando Meirelles	Brazil France United States	Brazilian Portuguese
2006 (79th)	Letters from Iwo Jima	Letters from Iwo Jima (English) Iô-Jima kara no tegami 硫黄島からの手紙 (Japanese)	Clint Eastwood	United States	Japanese (some parts in English)
	Babel	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu	United States Mexico France	English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Japanese Sign language, Berber languages
2007 (80th)	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Le Scaphandre et le Papillon	Julian Schnabel	France United States	French
2012 (85th)	Amour	Amour	Michael Haneke	Austria France Germany	French
2018 (91st)	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland	Polish
	Roma	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico	Spanish Mixtec
2019 (92nd)	Parasite	기생충	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea	Korean
2020 (93rd)	Minari	미나리	Lee Isaac Chung	United States	Korean (some parts in English)
	Another Round	Druk (Danish) En runda till (Swedish)	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark Netherlands Sweden	Danish
2021 (94th)	Drive My Car	Doraibu mai kā ドライブ・マイ・カー (Japanese)	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan	Japanese (some parts in English, Korean Sign Language, German, Mandarin, Tagalog, Indonesian, and Korean)
2023 (96th)	Anatomy of a Fall	Anatomie d'une chute (French)	Justine Triet	France	French, English (some parts in German)
	The Zone of Interest	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	United States United Kingdom Poland	German (some parts in Polish and Yiddish)
2024 (97th)	Emilia Pérez	Emilia Pérez	Jacques Audiard	France Mexico Belgium	Spanish