List_of_South_African_submissions_for_the_Academy_Award_for_Best_International_Feature_Film
List of South African submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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South Africa has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] since 1989. 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.[3] 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.[4]
Two South African films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Darrell Roodt's Yesterday and Gavin Hood's Tsotsi.[5][6] Hood's Tsotsi won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards, being the only South African film to do so.[6]