India has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film) since 1957, a year after the incorporation of the category.
India has sent more than fifty films to the competition. Most of India's submissions were Hindi films (including Hindustani films), three of which received nominations. Tamil films were submitted by the committee on nine occasions. Three submissions were Marathi films, three Malayalam films, two were Bengali films,one movie from Telugu film, Gujarati film and Assamese film each.
Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray has represented India three times in this competition, the most by any director.
3 films that are nominated in Best Foreign Language Film category: Mother India, Salaam Bombay & Lagaan
