List of Academy Award–winning foreign-language films

The Academy defines a foreign language film as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.

[2] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma received ten Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, the highest number of nominations ever garnered for a foreign language film.

[1] Before the competitive award was created in 1956, the Board of Governors of the Academy voted on a film every year that was considered the best foreign language film released in the United States, and there were no submissions.

[6] Films that are eligible for the Best International Feature Film category are able to compete for other Academy Awards if they had been commercially released in Los Angeles County and fulfill the requirements of the categories they are participating in.

Roma won the award because it was a co-production of United States and Mexico.