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

Submissions

From the 58 films submitted, 36 of the which were Hindi films (including five Hindustani films, one Urdu film and one Hindi-Tamil bilingual film), three of which received nominations. Ten Tamil films (including one Hindi-Tamil bilingual film), four Malayalam films, three Marathi films, two of each Bengali and Gujarati films and one film of each Assamese and Telugu languages have been submitted.

Since 1984, India has not submitted a film on only one occasion; in 2003, the FFI controversially chose not make an entry as they felt no film would be in a position to compete with films from other nations.

In 2011, the jury of the 58th National Film Awards made a recommendation that the Best Film winners at the annual National Film Awards be chosen as the official entry.

Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray has represented India three times in this competition, the most by any director. As actors Kamal Haasan and Raghubir Yadav have been part of seven films submitted for the consideration—more than any other performer. One of Haasan's directorial effort was also submitted. Aamir Khan has represented India four times as an actor, including once as a director and four times as a producer; Lagaan (2001), which he produced and starred in, received a nomination.

Since the 2010s, the country has failed to submit a number of films considered favorites by critics to a nomination or win, especially: The Lunchbox (2013), RRR (2022) and All We Imagine as Light (2024). RRR went to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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