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List of Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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Swedish has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] since the inaugural award in 1956. Its selection is handed out annually by representatives from the Guldbagge Awards jury.[3]
As of 2025, three Swedish films have won the award: The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and Fanny and Alexander (1983), all of them were directed by Ingmar Bergman, who represented Sweden a record nine times.
Other prominent directors include Bo Widerberg and Jan Troell, both who have had three of their films nominated.
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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.[5]
Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage was ineligible in 1974 due to previously aired on Swedish television, led to debate about the eligibility by American filmmakers. According to Robert Osborne, the country did not enter in 1975 as a protest.[6] In 1978, however, the country did not submit his film Autumn Sonata and made no entry.[7]
The 1988 winner Pelle the Conqueror was a Swedish-Danish co-production, but was submitted by Denmark.
In 2002 there was a bit of controversy as Sweden's submission Lilja 4-ever had most of its dialogue in Russian and not Swedish.[8] Eventually it was accepted as eligible, but did not receive a nomination.
Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Sweden for review by the Academy for the award by year.
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Shortlisted films
Each year since 2019, the Swedish Oscar selection committee has announced a three-film shortlist prior to announcing the official Swedish Oscar candidate. The following films were shortlisted by Sweden but not selected as the final candidate:
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