Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (India's official entry)

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The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (India's official entry) is the designation given each year to the film selected by India as its official submission to compete for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

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instanceOf Indian film industry practice
national film award submission process
appliesToAward Academy Award for Best International Feature Film NERFINISHED
categoryRenamedTo Best International Feature Film
coordinatedBy Film Federation of India NERFINISHED
country India
currentAwardName Academy Award for Best International Feature Film NERFINISHED
eligibilityScope feature-length films
films produced outside the United States
formerAwardName Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED
includesFilmsInLanguages Bengali GENERATED
Hindi GENERATED
Malayalam GENERATED
Marathi GENERATED
Tamil GENERATED
Telugu GENERATED
other Indian languages GENERATED
industryContext Bollywood NERFINISHED
Indian regional cinema
languageRequirement primarily non-English dialogue
notableEarlySubmission Mother India GENERATED
notableEarlySubmissionYear 1957 GENERATED
notableNominatedSubmission Lagaan GENERATED
Mother India GENERATED
Salaam Bombay! GENERATED
notableNominatedSubmissionYear 1957 GENERATED
1988 GENERATED
2001 GENERATED
numberOfSubmissionsPerYear one film GENERATED
organizerCountry India NERFINISHED
purpose to select India’s official submission to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
relatedProcess final recommendation to the Academy
national call for entries
screening by selection committee
renamingEffectiveFromCeremony 92nd Academy Awards NERFINISHED
renamingEffectiveFromYear 2020
selectionBody Film Federation of India NERFINISHED
selectionCriteria artistic merit
international appeal
technical quality
selectionFrequency annual
selectionMethod committee-based selection
startDecade 1950s
submissionDestination Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles NERFINISHED
submissionType official national submission
targetAwardingBody Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences NERFINISHED
targetOrganization Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences NERFINISHED

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Rang De Basanti nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (India's official entry)