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

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this was changed in April 2019 to Best International Feature Film, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.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 and Best Production Design.