List of Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film on a regular basis since 1963. 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.
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., 55 Polish films have been submitted for the award. Twelve of these submissions resulted in nominations for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, with Ida winning in 2015. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Poland for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
| Year | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Director | Result |
| 1963 | Knife in the Water | Nóż w wodzie | ||
| 1964 | Passenger | Pasażerka | Andrzej Munk & Witold Lesiewicz | |
| 1966 | Pharaoh | Faraon | ||
| 1968 | Matthew's Days | Żywot Mateusza | ||
| 1969 | Everything for Sale | Wszystko na sprzedaż | ||
| 1970 | The Taste of Black Earth | Sól ziemi czarnej | ||
| 1971 | Family Life | Życie rodzinne | ||
| 1972 | Pearl in the Crown | Perła w koronie | ||
| 1973 | Copernicus | Kopernik | Ewa Petelska & Czesław Petelski | |
| 1974 | The Deluge | Potop | ||
| 1975 | The Promised Land | Ziemia Obiecana | ||
| 1976 | Nights and Days | Noce i dnie | ||
| 1977 | Camouflage | Barwy ochronne | ||
| 1978 | Death of a President | Śmierć prezydenta | ||
| 1979 | The Maids of Wilko | Panny z Wilka | ||
| 1980 | Olympics 40 | Olimpiada 40 | ||
| 1981 | Man of Iron | Człowiek z żelaza | ||
| 1985 | Yesterday | Yesterday | ||
| 1986 | Axiliad | Siekierezada | ||
| 1987 | Hero of the Year | Bohater roku | ||
| 1988 | A Short Film About Love | Krótki film o miłości | ||
| 1989 | Kornblumenblau | Kornblumenblau | ||
| 1990 | Korczak | Korczak | ||
| 1991 | The Double Life of Véronique | Podwójne życie Weroniki | ||
| 1992 | All That Really Matters | Wszystko, co najważniejsze | ||
| 1993 | Squadron | Szwadron | ||
| 1994 | Trzy kolory. Biały | |||
| 1995 | Crows | Wrony | ||
| 1996 | At Full Gallop | Cwał | ||
| 1997 | Love Stories | Historie miłosne | ||
| 1999 | Pan Tadeusz | Pan Tadeusz | ||
| 2000 | Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease | Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową | ||
| 2001 | Quo Vadis | Quo Vadis | ||
| 2002 | Edi | Edi | ||
| 2003 | Pornografia | Pornografia | Jan Jakub Kolski | |
| 2004 | The Welts | Pręgi | ||
| 2005 | The Collector | Komornik | ||
| 2006 | Retrieval | Z odzysku | ||
| 2007 | Katyń | Katyń | ||
| 2008 | Tricks | Sztuczki | ||
| 2009 | Reverse | Rewers | ||
| 2010 | All That I Love | Wszystko, co kocham | ||
| 2011 | In Darkness | W ciemności | ||
| 2012 | 80 Million | 80 milionów | ||
| 2013 | Walesa. Man of Hope | Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei | ||
| 2014 | Ida | Ida | ||
| 2015 | 11 Minutes | 11 minut | ||
| 2016 | Afterimage | Powidoki | ||
| 2017 | Spoor | Pokot | ||
| 2018 | Cold War | Zimna wojna | ||
| 2019 | Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało |