List of Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film



Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film are handed out annually by representatives from the Guldbagge Awards jury.

Sweden has submitted films for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category since the inaugural award in 1956. The Swedes have sent more films than any other country, except for France, Italy, Japan and Spain, and have only failed to submit a film one time in the past thirty years.

16 films from Sweden have been nominated for the Academy Award: The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Raven's End (1964), Dear John (1965), Ådalen '31 (1969), The Emigrants (1971), The New Land (1972), Flight of the Eagle (1982), Fanny and Alexander (1983), The Ox (1991), All Things Fair (1995), Under the Sun (1999), Evil (2003) and As It Is in Heaven (2004), A Man Called Ove (2016), The Square (2017). Three Swedish films have won the Oscar: The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and Fanny and Alexander (1983). All the winners have been directed by Ingmar Bergman, who represented Sweden a record nine times. However, his film Scenes from a Marriage was disqualified in 1974 because it had previously aired on Swedish television. According to Robert Osborne, the country did not enter in 1975 as a protest. In 1978, however, the country did not submit his film Autumn Sonata and made no entry. Other prominent directors include Bo Widerberg and Jan Troell, both who have had three of their films nominated. 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. Eventually it was accepted as eligible, but did not receive a nomination.

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 Sweden for review by the Academy for the award by year.

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:


 * 2023: Paradise Is Burning, Together 99
 * 2022: I Am Zlatan, Nelly & Nadine
 * 2021: Clara Sola, The Emigrants
 * 2020: About Endlessness, I Am Greta
 * 2019: Aniara, The Perfect Patient