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

Pawel Pawlikowski directed Ida (2013), the first film to win the award for Poland.

Poland has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film^{[nb 1]} on a regular basis since 1963. The Oscar is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.^[3] It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since.^[4]

Submissions

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956.^[4] The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award.^[3]

As of 2022^[update], 54 Polish films have been submitted for the award. Thirteen of these submissions resulted in nominations for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, with Ida winning in 2015.^[5] Director Andrzej Wajda represented Poland for a record nine times, and four of his films received nominations, also a record. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Poland for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

Year (Ceremony)	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Director	Result
1963 (36th)	Knife in the Water	Nóż w wodzie	Roman Polanski	Nominated[6]
1964 (37th)	Passenger	Pasażerka	Andrzej Munk & Witold Lesiewicz	Not nominated
1966 (39th)	Pharaoh	Faraon	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Nominated[7]
1968 (41st)	Matthew's Days	Żywot Mateusza	Witold Leszczyński	Not nominated
1969 (42nd)	Everything for Sale	Wszystko na sprzedaż	Andrzej Wajda	Not nominated
1970 (43rd)	The Taste of Black Earth	Sól ziemi czarnej	Kazimierz Kutz	Not nominated
1971 (44th)	Family Life	Życie rodzinne	Krzysztof Zanussi	Not nominated
1972 (45th)	Pearl in the Crown	Perła w koronie	Kazimierz Kutz	Not nominated
1973 (46th)	Copernicus	Kopernik	Ewa Petelska & Czesław Petelski	Not nominated
1974 (47th)	The Deluge	Potop	Jerzy Hoffman	Nominated[8]
1975 (48th)	The Promised Land	Ziemia Obiecana	Andrzej Wajda	Nominated[9]
1976 (49th)	Nights and Days	Noce i dnie	Jerzy Antczak	Nominated[10]
1977 (50th)	Camouflage	Barwy ochronne	Krzysztof Zanussi	Not nominated
1978 (51st)	Death of a President	Śmierć prezydenta	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Not nominated
1979 (52nd)	The Maids of Wilko	Panny z Wilka	Andrzej Wajda	Nominated[11]
1980 (53rd)	Olympics 40	Olimpiada 40	Andrzej Kotkowski	Not nominated
1981 (54th)	Man of Iron	Człowiek z żelaza	Andrzej Wajda	Nominated[12]
1985 (58th)	Yesterday		Radosław Piwowarski	Not nominated
1986 (59th)	Axiliad	Siekierezada	Witold Leszczyński	Not nominated
1987 (60th)	Hero of the Year	Bohater roku	Feliks Falk	Not nominated
1988 (61st)	A Short Film About Love	Krótki film o miłości	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Not nominated
1989 (62nd)	Kornblumenblau	Kornblumenblau	Leszek Wosiewicz	Not nominated
1990 (63rd)	Korczak	Korczak	Andrzej Wajda	Not nominated
1991 (64th)	The Double Life of Véronique	Podwójne życie Weroniki	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Not nominated
1992 (65th)	All That Really Matters	Wszystko, co najważniejsze	Robert Gliński	Not nominated
1993 (66th)	Squadron	Szwadron	Juliusz Machulski	Not nominated
1994 (67th)	Three Colors: White	Trzy kolory. Biały	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Not nominated
1995 (68th)	Crows	Wrony	Dorota Kędzierzawska	Not nominated
1996 (69th)	At Full Gallop	Cwał	Krzysztof Zanussi	Not nominated
1997 (70th)	Love Stories	Historie miłosne	Jerzy Stuhr	Not nominated
1999 (72nd)	Pan Tadeusz	Pan Tadeusz	Andrzej Wajda	Not nominated
2000 (73rd)	Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease	Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową	Krzysztof Zanussi	Not nominated
2001 (74th)	Quo Vadis		Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Not nominated
2002 (75th)	Edi		Piotr Trzaskalski	Not nominated
2003 (76th)	Pornografia		Jan Jakub Kolski	Not nominated
2004 (77th)	The Welts	Pręgi	Magdalena Piekorz	Not nominated
2005 (78th)	The Collector	Komornik	Feliks Falk	Not nominated
2006 (79th)	Retrieval	Z odzysku	Sławomir Fabicki	Not nominated
2007 (80th)	Katyń		Andrzej Wajda	Nominated[13]
2008 (81st)	Tricks	Sztuczki	Andrzej Jakimowski	Not nominated
2009 (82nd)	Reverse	Rewers	Borys Lankosz	Not nominated
2010 (83rd)	All That I Love	Wszystko, co kocham	Jacek Borcuch	Not nominated
2011 (84th)	In Darkness[14][15]	W ciemności	Agnieszka Holland	Nominated[16]
2012 (85th)	80 Million[17]	80 milionów	Waldemar Krzystek	Not nominated
2013 (86th)	Walesa. Man of Hope[18]	Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei	Andrzej Wajda	Not nominated
2014 (87th)	Ida[19]		Paweł Pawlikowski	Won Academy Award[5]
2015 (88th)	11 Minutes[20]	11 minut	Jerzy Skolimowski	Not nominated
2016 (89th)	Afterimage[21]	Powidoki	Andrzej Wajda	Not nominated
2017 (90th)	Spoor[22]	Pokot	Agnieszka Holland	Not nominated
2018 (91st)	Cold War[23]	Zimna wojna	Paweł Pawlikowski	Nominated[24]
2019 (92nd)	Corpus Christi[25]	Boże Ciało	Jan Komasa	Nominated[26]
2020 (93rd)	Never Gonna Snow Again[27]	Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie	Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert	Not nominated
2021 (94th)	Leave No Traces[28]	Żeby nie było śladów	Jan P. Matuszyński	Not nominated
2022 (95th)	EO[29]	Io	Jerzy Skolimowski	Nominated
2023 (96th)	The Peasants[30]	Chłopi	DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman	Not nominated

Shortlisted and Considered Films

• 2020: Clergyman ·The Hater · Kill It and Leave This Town · Supernova · Sweat · 25 Years of Innocence^[31]
• 2021: The Getaway King · Operation Hyacinth · Prime Time^[32]
• 2022: The Balcony Movie · Broad Peak · Filip · Fucking Bornholm · Illusion · Silent Land · Woman on the Roof^[33]
• 2023: Green Border · In the Rearview · Pianoforte · Woman Of...^[34]

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish films

Notes

1. The category was previously named the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in April 2020, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.^[1][2]

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