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

's film, Day for Night, won the award in 1974. 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. 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. Before the award was created, 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. France is the only country that has submitted a film every year since the creation of the award in 1956 and also the only country which has been nominated at more than half of the occasions where the award was given. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by France for review by the Academy. All submissions were primarily in French, with the notable exceptions of the 1959's winner Black Orpheus, which was a co-production with Brazil and shot in Portuguese; Mustang nominated in 2015, which was shot in Turkish; Emilia Pérez nominated in 2024, which was shot in Spanish and English; and It Was Just an Accident nominated in 2025, which was shot in Persian. == Shortlisted films ==

Every year since 2015, France has announced a list of finalists that varied in number over the years (from 3 to 5 films) before announcing its official Oscar nominee. The following films have been shortlisted by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée: ==Notes==