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

Submissions

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit a film for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (now Best International Feature Film) since 1956 (before this, it was given as an honorary award from 1947 to 1955). The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films, releasing a shortlist of 10 films in mid-December. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award.

One fifth of Portugal's submissions (8 out of 40) were directed by the prolific Manoel de Oliveira.

All films are mainly in Portuguese, except 2007's French language Belle Toujours.

Shortlisted films

Each year since 2019, the Portuguese Oscar selection committee has announced a shortlist of between four and six films prior to announcing the official Portuguese Oscar candidate. The following films were shortlisted as finalists to represent Portugal in the Best International Feature category at the Oscars:

• 2019: Parque Meyer, Raiva, Variações
• 2020: Listen (disqualified), Mosquito, Patrick
• 2021: The Last Bath, Terra Nova, Nothing Ever Happened, Sombra, O Som Que Desce na Terra
• 2022: Bad Living, Remains of the Wind, Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated, Wolf & Dog
• 2023: Légua, Living Bad, Nayola
• 2024: The Buriti Flower, The Fortunate Ones, Manga d’Terra, O Teu Rosto Será o Último,
• 2025: Dreaming of Lions, The Englishman's Papers, Hanami, Sobrevivientes

Notes

References

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