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

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François Truffaut's film, Day for Night, won the award in 1974.

France has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] since the conception of the award in 1956. France has been one of the most successful countries in the world in this category, and more than half of their Oscar submissions have achieved Oscar nominations. As of October 2021, France has submitted 66 films for consideration. Of these, 38 have achieved Oscar nominations and nine have won the award, not including Honorary Awards.

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.[3]

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was not created until 1956; however, between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These awards were not competitive, as there were no nominees but simply a winner every year that was voted on by the Board of Governors of the Academy.[4] Three French films received Honorary Awards during this period. For the 1956 Academy Awards, 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.[5]

The French submission is decided annually by the Centre national de la cinématographie, affiliated with the French Ministry of Culture.[6]

Submissions

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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 Foreign Language Film since 1956.[5] The Foreign Language Film Award 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.[3] Before the award was created, the Board of Governors of the Academy voted on a film every year that was considered the best foreign-language film released in the United States, and there were no submissions.[4]

France is the only country that has submitted a film every year since the creation of the award in 1956 and also the only country which has been nominated at more than half of the occasions where the award was given.

Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by France for review by the Academy. All submissions were primarily in French, with the notable exceptions of the winning Portuguese-language Black Orpheus in 1959, which was a co-production with Brazil and Mustang in 2015, which was in Turkish.

Year
(Ceremony)		 Film title used in nomination Original title Director(s) Result
1948
(21st) 		Monsieur Vincent Maurice Cloche Won Honorary Award
1950
(23rd) 		The Walls of Malapaga Au-delà des grilles René Clément Won Honorary Award
1952
(25th) 		Forbidden Games Jeux interdits Won Honorary Award
1956
(29th) 		Gervaise Nominated[7]
1957
(30th) 		Gates of Paris Porte des Lilas René Clair Nominated[8]
1958
(31st) 		My Uncle Mon Oncle Jacques Tati Won Academy Award[9]
1959
(32nd) 		Black Orpheus Orfeu Negro Marcel Camus Won Academy Award[10]
1960
(33rd) 		La Vérité Henri-Georges Clouzot Nominated[11]
1961
(34th) 		Last Year at Marienbad L'année dernière à Marienbad Alain Resnais Not nominated
1962
(35th) 		Sundays and Cybèle Les dimanches de ville d'Avray Serge Bourguignon Won Academy Award[12]
1963
(36th) 		The Fire Within Le feu follet Louis Malle Not nominated
1964
(37th) 		The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Les Parapluies de Cherbourg Jacques Demy Nominated[13]
1965
(38th) 		Pierrot le Fou Jean-Luc Godard Not nominated
1966
(39th) 		A Man and a Woman Un homme et une femme Claude Lelouch Won Academy Award[14]
1967
(40th) 		Live for Life Vivre Pour Vivre Claude Lelouch Nominated[15]
1968
(41st) 		Stolen Kisses Baisers volés François Truffaut Nominated[16]
1969
(42nd) 		My Night with Maud Ma nuit chez Maud Éric Rohmer Nominated[17]
1970
(43rd) 		Hoa-Binh Raoul Coutard Nominated[18]
1971
(44th) 		Ramparts of Clay Remparts d'argile Jean-Louis Bertuccelli Not nominated
1972
(45th) 		The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie Luis Buñuel Won Academy Award[19]
1973
(46th) 		Day for Night La Nuit américaine François Truffaut Won Academy Award[20]
1974
(47th) 		Lacombe, Lucien Louis Malle Nominated[21]
1975
(48th) 		India Song Marguerite Duras Not nominated
1976
(49th) 		Cousin, cousine Jean-Charles Tacchella Nominated[22]
1977
(50th) 		Madame Rosa La Vie devant soi Moshé Mizrahi Won Academy Award[23]
1978
(51st) 		Get Out Your Handkerchiefs Préparez vos mouchoirs Bertrand Blier Won Academy Award[24]
1979
(52nd) 		A Simple Story Une histoire simple Claude Sautet Nominated[25]
1980
(53rd) 		The Last Metro Le Dernier Métro François Truffaut Nominated[26]
1981
(54th) 		Diva Jean-Jacques Beineix Not nominated
1982
(55th) 		Coup de Torchon Bertrand Tavernier Nominated[27]
1983
(56th) 		Entre Nous Coup de foudre Diane Kurys Nominated[28]
1984
(57th) 		So Long, Stooge Tchao Pantin Claude Berri Not nominated
1985
(58th) 		Three Men and a Cradle Trois hommes et un couffin Coline Serreau Nominated[29]
1986
(59th) 		Betty Blue 37°2 le matin Jean-Jacques Beineix Nominated[28]
1987
(60th) 		Au revoir les enfants Louis Malle Nominated[30]
1988
(61st) 		The Reader La Lectrice Michel Deville Not nominated
1989
(62nd) 		Camille Claudel Bruno Nuytten Nominated[31]
1990
(63rd) 		Cyrano de Bergerac Jean-Paul Rappeneau Nominated[32]
1991
(64th) 		Van Gogh Maurice Pialat Not nominated
1992
(65th) 		Indochine Régis Wargnier Won Academy Award[33]
1993
(66th) 		Germinal Claude Berri Not nominated
1994
(67th) 		Wild Reeds Les roseaux sauvages André Téchiné Not nominated
1995
(68th) 		French Twist Gazon maudit Josiane Balasko Not nominated
1996
(69th) 		Ridicule Patrice Leconte Nominated[34]
1997
(70th) 		Western Manuel Poirier Not nominated
1998
(71st) 		The Dreamlife of Angels La vie rêvée des anges Erick Zonca Not nominated
1999
(72nd) 		East/West Est-Ouest [A] Régis Wargnier Nominated[35]
2000
(73rd) 		The Taste of Others Le goût des autres Agnès Jaoui Nominated[36]
2001
(74th) 		Amélie Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain Jean-Pierre Jeunet Nominated[37]
2002
(75th) 		8 Women 8 femmes François Ozon Not nominated
2003
(76th) 		Bon Voyage Jean-Paul Rappeneau Not nominated
2004
(77th) 		The Chorus Les Choristes Christophe Barratier Nominated[38]
2005
(78th) 		Joyeux Noël Christian Carion Nominated[39]
2006
(79th) 		Avenue Montaigne Fauteuils d'orchestre Danièle Thompson Made shortlist
2007
(80th) 		Persepolis[nb 2] Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi Not nominated
2008
(81st) 		The Class Entre les murs Laurent Cantet Nominated[40]
2009
(82nd) 		A Prophet Un prophète Jacques Audiard Nominated[41]
2010
(83rd) 		Of Gods and Men[42] Des hommes et des dieux Xavier Beauvois Not nominated[43]
2011
(84th) 		Declaration of War[44] La Guerre est déclarée Valérie Donzelli Not nominated
2012
(85th) 		The Intouchables[45] Intouchables Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache Made shortlist[46]
2013
(86th) 		Renoir[47] Gilles Bourdos Not nominated
2014
(87th) 		Saint Laurent[48] Bertrand Bonello Not nominated
2015
(88th) 		Mustang[49] Deniz Gamze Ergüven Nominated[50]
2016
(89th) 		Elle[51] Paul Verhoeven Not nominated
2017
(90th) 		BPM (Beats per Minute)[52] 120 battements par minute Robin Campillo Not nominated
2018
(91st) 		Memoir of War[53] La douleur Emmanuel Finkiel Not nominated
2019
(92nd) 		Les Misérables[54] Ladj Ly Nominated[55]
2020
(93rd) 		Two of Us[56] Deux Filippo Meneghetti Made shortlist[57]
2021
(94th) 		Titane[58] Julia Ducournau Not nominated
2022
(95th) 		Saint Omer[59] Alice Diop Made shortlist
2023
(96th) 		The Taste of Things La Passion de Dodin Bouffant Tran Anh Hung Made shortlist

Shortlisted films

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Every year since 2015, France has announced a list of finalists that varied in number over the years (from 3 to 5 films) before announcing its official Oscar nominee. The following films have been shortlisted by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée:

2015 Dheepan · Marguerite · The Measure of a Man · Summertime[60]
2016 Cézanne and I · Frantz · The Innocents[61]
2017 Barbara · Redoubtable[62]
2018 Climax · Custody · The Four Sisters · Lady J[63]
2019 Portrait of a Lady on Fire · Proxima[64]
2020 Cuties · DNA · Gagarine · Summer of 85[65]
2021 BAC Nord · Happening[66]
2022 Full Time · Paris Memories · One Fine Morning · The Worst Ones[67]
2023 Anatomy of a Fall · The Animal Kingdom · On the Wandering Paths · Sons of Ramses[68]

Notes

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  • A Russian title: Восток-Запад
  1. ^ The category was previously named the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in April 2019, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.[1][2]
  2. ^ Persepolis was not nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, but was nominated for Best Animated Feature.

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