Luxembourg has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1997. The Foreign Language Film award 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.
As of 2026, Luxembourg ha submitted twenty films, but none of them have been nominated.
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 International Feature Film since 1956. The International Feature Film 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.
Because of Luxembourg's small size, most submitted films were co-productions with neighboring countries. Pol Cruchten is the most submitted filmmaker, representing the country three times.
In 2006, AMPAS disqualified Your Name is Justine, arguing that Luxembourg did not have sufficient artistic control over the multi-national film, which was directed by a Poland-based Venezuelan filmmaker, set in Germany and Poland, shot mostly in Polish and English but funded primarily by Luxembourg. The film was originally considered to represent Poland, but it failed to make Poland's four-film shortlist that year and it was subsequently selected to represent Luxembourg.
From 2010 to 2012, Luxembourg's Selection Committee met each year and announced that the country would not send a film due to a lack of suitable candidates.
Ever since the controversy of 2006, all of Luxembourg's Oscar submissions have been directed by native-born Luxembourgish directors, with the exception of Tel Aviv on Fire (2019) directed by Sameh Zoabi, a Palestinian filmmaker who holds Israeli citizenship, which was also one of five films shortlisted by Israel. Although set in Israel and the West Bank, it was filmed mostly in Luxembourg with a largely locally based crew.
Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Luxembourg 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 Language(s) Director(s) Result 1997(70th) Women Elles French, Portuguese Luís Galvão Teles 1998(71st) Back in Trouble Luxembourgish, German 2002(75th) Dead Man's Hand Petites misères French Philippe Boon & Laurent Brandenbourger 2003(76th) I Always Wanted to Be a Saint J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte 2005(78th) Renart the Fox Le Roman de Renart Thierry Schiel 2006(79th) Your Name is Justine Masz na imię Justine Polish, English 2007(80th) Little Secrets Perl oder Pica Luxembourgish 2008(81st) Nuits d'Arabie French, Arabic, Luxembourgish Paul Kieffer 2009(82nd) Refractaire Réfractaire French Nicolas Steil 2013(86th) Blind Spot Doudege Wénkel Luxembourgish Christophe Wagner 2014(87th) Never Die Young French 2015(88th) Baby(a)lone Luxembourgish Donato Rotunno 2016(89th) Voices from Chernobyl La supplication French 2017(90th) Barrage 2018(91st) Gutland Luxembourgish, German 2019(92nd) Tel Aviv on Fire תל אביב על האש Hebrew, Arabic 2020(93rd) River Tales Cuentos del río Spanish Julie Schroell 2021(94th) Io sto bene Italian, French, Luxembourgish Donato Rotunno 2022(95th) Icarus Icare French Carlo Vogele 2023(96th) The Last Ashes Läif a Séil Luxembourgish 2025(98th) Breathing Underwater Hors d’haleine French, Luxembourgish, Spanish Eric Lamhène 2026(99th) Child French, English Cyrus Neshvad
See also List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films Cinema of Luxembourg
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References
External links The Official Academy Awards Database The Motion Picture Credits Database IMDb Academy Awards Page