Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. [1]
As of 2023, 27 foreign language films have won Academy Awards outside the Best International Feature Film category. The foreign language films with the most awards are Sweden's Fanny and Alexander, Taiwan's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, South Korea’s Parasite, and Germany’s All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards each, including the Academy Award for Best International Feature ...
Over the years, the Best International Feature Film Award and its predecessors have been given predominantly to European films: out of the seventy-seven awards handed out by the academy since 1947 to foreign language films, sixty have gone to European films, [2] nine to Asian films, [3] five to films from the Americas and three to African films.
This is a list of countries by number of Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film before 2020), a table showing the total number of submissions, nominations, and awards of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film received by each country. It follows Academy convention by not grouping ...
This category includes all 77 films which won either the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film or one of its predecessor awards. Although this category is designed for film titles and not individuals, an exception is made for a single film, the initial winner in competition, La Strada (which was released in Italy in 1954 and became Italy's entry at the 29th Academy Awards in March 1957 ...
Year where all four acting winners had the oldest average age . 1981 with an average age of 70.5 years old. [29] Henry Fonda (aged 77) Katharine Hepburn (72) John Gielgud (77) Maureen Stapleton (56) Year where all four acting winners had the youngest average age. 1961 with a combined average age of just under 29 years old. Maximilian Schell ...
The two categories were fused into Best Foreign Language Film in 1973, now rewarding any non-American films regardless of language; this was reversed in 1986 when it was renamed to Best Foreign Language Film, although this last change also made American films in non-English language eligible, such as winners Letters from Iwo Jima and Minari.
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.