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]
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.[4] 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.[3] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by South Africa for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
^The category was previously named the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in April 2019, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.[1][2]