# List of Turkish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Turkey has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film on a regular basis since 1989. Prior to that, they also sent a single film (Dry Summer) in the 1960s after it won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The Oscar 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.
Over the years, twenty-eight films have been submitted by Turkey for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Although their 2008 submission Three Monkeys made the nine-film shortlist, no Turkish film has ever achieved an Oscar nomination. Additionally, Switzerland sent two Turkish language films to the competition, including Yol in 1982 which was a fully Turkish production by Turkish director Yilmaz Güney that had to be smuggled into Switzerland for post-production due to political considerations after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état and Journey of Hope, a film about Turkish refugees made by a Swiss director in conjunction with European film companies. Journey of Hope was submitted in 1990 and won the 1991 Oscar representing Switzerland. Over the years, several other European countries have chosen films that were partially set in Turkey and featured large sections in Turkish including Austria (For a Moment, Freedom), France (Mustang), Germany (The Edge of Heaven) and Greece (A Touch of Spice).
Four directors have represented Turkey in the competition more than once: Tunç Başaran, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Semih Kaplanoğlu and Yavuz Turgul.

## 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 Turkey for review by the academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
| Year (Ceremony) | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Director | Result |
| 1964 (37th) | Dry Summer | Susuz Yaz | Metin Erksan | Not nominated |
| 1989 (62nd) | Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite | Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar | Tunç Başaran | Not nominated |
| 1992 (65th) | Piano Piano Kid | Piyano Piyano Bacaksız | Tunç Başaran | Not nominated |
| 1993 (66th) | The Blue Exile | Mavi Sürgün | Erden Kıral | Not nominated |
| 1994 (67th) | Tarzan of Manisa | Manisa Tarzanı | Orhan Oğuz | Not nominated |
| 1997 (70th) | The Bandit | Eşkıya | Yavuz Turgul | Not nominated |
| 1999 (72nd) | Mrs. Salkım's Diamonds | Salkım Hanımın Taneleri | Tomris Giritlioğlu | Not nominated |
| 2000 (73rd) | Run for Money | Kaç Para Kaç | Reha Erdem | Not nominated |
| 2001 (74th) | Big Man, Little Love | Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk | Handan İpekçi | Not nominated |
| 2002 (75th) | 9 | 9 | Ümit Ünal | Not nominated |
| 2003 (76th) | Distant | Uzak | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Not nominated |
| 2005 (78th) | Lovelorn | Gönül Yarası | Yavuz Turgul | Not nominated |
| 2006 (79th) | Ice Cream, I Scream | Dondurmam Gaymak | Yüksel Aksu | Not nominated |
| 2007 (80th) | A Man's Fear of God | Takva | Özer Kızıltan | Not nominated |
| 2008 (81st) | Three Monkeys | Üç Maymun | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Made shortlist |
| 2009 (82nd) | I Saw the Sun | Güneşi Gördüm | Mahsun Kırmızıgül | Not nominated |
| 2010 (83rd) | Honey | Bal | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Not nominated |
| 2011 (84th) | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Not nominated |
| 2012 (85th) | Where the Fire Burns | Ateşin Düştüğü Yer | İsmail Güneş | Not nominated |
| 2013 (86th) | The Dream of a Butterfly | Kelebeğin Rüyası | Yılmaz Erdoğan | Not nominated |
| 2014 (87th) | Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Not nominated |
| 2015 (88th) | Sivas | Sivas | Kaan Müjdeci | Not nominated |
| 2016 (89th) | Cold of Kalandar | Kalandar Soğuğu | Mustafa Kara | Not nominated |
| 2017 (90th) | Ayla: The Daughter of War | Ayla | Can Ulkay | Not nominated |
| 2018 (91st) | The Wild Pear Tree | Ahlat Ağacı | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Not nominated |
| 2019 (92nd) | Commitment | Bağlılık Aslı | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Not nominated |
| 2020 (93rd) | Miracle in Cell No. 7 | 7. Koğuştaki Mucize | Mehmet Ada Öztekin | Not nominated |
| 2021 (94th) | Commitment Hasan | Bağlılık Hasan | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Not nominated |
| 2022 (95th) | Kerr | Kerr | Tayfun Pirselimoğlu | Not nominated |
| 2023 (96th) | About Dry Grasses | Kuru Otlar Üstüne | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Not nominated |
| 2024 (97th) | Life | Hayat | Zeki Demirkubuz | Not nominated |