Entries for the 2026 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each title on this page.
The 98th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 15, 2026 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 1, 2025.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is scheduled to be announced on December 16, 2025, with the final five nominees announced on January 22, 2026.
The 2024 awards saw 89 submissions with the five nominated films comprising Denmark’s The Girl With The Needle, France’s Emilia Perez, Germany’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, Latvia’s Flow and the eventual winner I’m Still Here from Brazil.
Latest submissions
Turkey: One Of The Days When Hemme Dies (Murat Fıratoğlu)
This debut feature premiered at Venice Film Festival’s Horizons strand in 2024 where it won the special jury prize. One Of The Days… follows a tomato harvest worker who, desperately trying to pay off an impending debt, seeks a radical solution. Firatoglu also starred in and produced the film which he funded with debts and loans from family and friends. Turkey has submitted to the Oscars over 30 times and was shortlisted in 2008 for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Three Monkeys. International sales: Luxbox
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