Azerbaijan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 2007. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 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 2026, Azerbaijan has submitted ten films, but none of them were 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. Azerbaijan was first invited by AMPAS to submit a film in the summer of 2006, and submitted for the first time in 2007.
All the films submitted are primary in Azerbaijani. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Azerbaijan by year, and its respective Academy Awards ceremony:
Year(Ceremony) Film title used in nomination Original title Director Result 2007(80th) Caucasia Qafqaz Farid Gumbatov 2008(81st) Fortress Qala Shamil Najafzadeh 2010(83rd) The Precinct Sahə Ilgar Safat 2012(85th) Buta Buta Ilgar Najaf 2013(86th) Steppe Man Çölçü Shamil Aliyev 2014(87th) Nabat Nabat Elchin Musaoğlu 2017(90th) Pomegranate Orchard Nar bağı Ilgar Najaf 2021(94th) The Island Within Daxildəki Ada 2022(95th) Creators Yaradanlar Shamil Aliyev 2025(98th) Taghiyev: Oil Tağiyev: Neft Zaur Gasimli
See also List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films Cinema of Azerbaijan
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References
External links The Official Academy Awards Database The Motion Picture Credits Database IMDb Academy Awards Page Review of Caucasia