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This is a list of submissions to the 98th Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The International Feature Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. The category was previously called the Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed in April 2019 to Best International Feature Film, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated. For the 98th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 1 October 2025. 92 countries submitted films, and 86 were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. Madagascar and Papua New Guinea submitted films for the first time, and Haiti resubmitted its film disqualified from last year's list, while Greenland made a submission for the first time since 2012; however, Papua New Guinea's film did not appear on the final list. After the 15-film shortlist was announced on 16 December 2025, the five nominees were announced on 22 January 2026. For the second year in a row, two films nominated for International Feature were also nominated for Best Picture, The Secret Agent (Brazil) and Sentimental Value (Norway), with the latter receiving nine nominations. Norway won the award for the first time with Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, which was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.