The Czech Republic has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1994 (after the split of Czechoslovakia in January 1993). However, there were also Czech films submitted by Czechoslovakia before it ceased to exist in 1992.
| Best International Feature Film submissions from the Czech Republic | |
|---|---|
| Highlights | |
| Debut | 1994 |
| Submissions | 32 |
| Nominations | 3 |
| Oscar winners | 1 |
The 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. 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.
As of 2025, three Czech films have been nominated, one of which, Jan Svěrák's Kolya, has won the award. The two other Czech directors to have films accepted as nominees are Jan Hřebejk's Divided We Fall nominated at the 73rd Academy Awards, and Ondřej Trojan's Želary nominated at the 76th Academy Awards.
Prior to becoming a separate state in 1993, the Czech Republic was part of Czechoslovakia, which submitted twenty-three films for Oscar consideration between 1964 and 1991. All films chosen during this era had significant input from actors, directors and crew from the Czech Republic, and some of them won the Academy Award like Closely Watched Trains in 1967 and The Shop on Main Street, a Slovak-language production from 1965.
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. 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. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by the Czech Republic for review by the academy for the award by the year of the submission and the respective Academy Award ceremony.
| Year (Ceremony) | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Director | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 (67th) | Faust | Lekce Faust | Jan Švankmajer | Not nominated |
| 1995 (68th) | Thanks for Every New Morning | Díky za každé nové ráno | Milan Šteindler | Not nominated |
| 1996 (69th) | Kolya | Kolja | Jan Svěrák | Won Academy Award |
| 1997 (70th) | Forgotten Light | Zapomenuté světlo | Vladimír Michálek | Not nominated |
| 1998 (71st) | Sekal Has to Die | Je třeba zabít Sekala | Not nominated | |
| 1999 (72nd) | The Idiot Returns | Návrat idiota | Saša Gedeon | Not nominated |
| 2000 (73rd) | Divided We Fall | Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hřebejk | Nominated |
| 2001 (74th) | Dark Blue World | Tmavomodrý svět | Jan Svěrák | Not nominated |
| 2002 (75th) | Wild Bees | Divoké včely | Bohdan Sláma | Not nominated |
| 2003 (76th) | Želary | Ondřej Trojan | Nominated | |
| 2004 (77th) | Up and Down | Horem pádem | Jan Hřebejk | Not nominated |
| 2005: (78th) | Something Like Happiness | Štěstí | Bohdan Sláma | Not nominated |
| 2006 (79th) | Lunacy | Šílení | Jan Švankmajer | Not nominated |
| 2007 (80th) | I Served the King of England | Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále | Jiří Menzel | Not nominated |
| 2008 (81st) | The Karamazovs | Karamazovi | Petr Zelenka | Not nominated |
| 2009 (82nd) | Protector | Protektor | Marek Najbrt | Not nominated |
| 2010 (83rd) | Kawasaki's Rose | Kawasakiho růže | Jan Hřebejk | Not nominated |
| 2011 (84th) | Alois Nebel | Alois Nebel | Tomáš Luňák | Not nominated |
| 2012 (85th) | In the Shadow | Ve stínu | David Ondříček | Not nominated |
| 2013 (86th) | The Don Juans | Donšajni | Jiří Menzel | Not nominated |
| 2014 (87th) | Fair Play | Andrea Sedláčková | Not nominated | |
| 2015 (88th) | Home Care | Domácí péče | Slávek Horák | Not nominated |
| 2016 (89th) | Lost in Munich | Ztraceni v Mnichově | Petr Zelenka | Not nominated |
| 2017 (90th) | Ice Mother | Bába z ledu | Bohdan Sláma | Not nominated |
| 2018 (91st) | Winter Flies | Všechno bude | Olmo Omerzu | Not nominated |
| 2019 (92nd) | The Painted Bird | Nabarvené ptáče | Václav Marhoul | Made shortlist |
| 2020 (93rd) | Charlatan | Šarlatán | Agnieszka Holland | Made shortlist |
| 2021 (94th) | Zátopek | David Ondříček | Not nominated | |
| 2022 (95th) | Il Boemo | Petr Václav | Not nominated | |
| 2023 (96th) | Brothers | Bratři | Tomáš Mašín | Not nominated |
| 2024 (97th) | Waves | Vlny | Jiří Mádl | Made shortlist |
| 2025 (98th) | I'm Not Everything I Want to Be | Ještě nejsem, kým chci být | Klára Tasovská | Not nominated |
Shortlisted films
| Year | Films |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Bird Atlas · Even Mice Belong in Heaven |
| 2022 | Arvéd · Bethlehem Night · Borders of Love · Buko · The Head of the Tribe · Jan Koller - The Story Of Ordinary Boy · The Last Race · Nightsiren · Ordinary Failures · Princ Mamánek · Shadowplay · Somewhere Over the Chemtrails · Victim |
| 2023 | All About the Little Things · The Ballad of Piargy · The Exhale · Happily Ever After · The Man Who Stood in the Way · Nagano Kids · Restore Point · A Sensitive Person · Snake Gas · Two Words as the Key · We Have Never Been Modern |
| 2004 | Dry Season · The End of the World · Escape to Berlin · The Gardener's Year · Girl America · Hello, Welcome · Her Body · Her Drunken Diary · The Meaning and Mystery of Life · Our Lovely Pig Slaughter · Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light · Waltzing Matilda |
| 2025 | Broken Voices · Caravan |
See also
- List of Czechoslovak submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film
- List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
- Cinema of the Czech Republic
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