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

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Best International Feature Film submissions from Greenland
Highlights
Debut2010
Submissions3
Nominationsnone
Oscar winnersnone

Greenland has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] since 2010. The award 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.[3] 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.[4]

Even though Greenland is only a autonomous territory of Denmark, thus not an independent country, AMPAS granted the territory autonomy to submit films for the category, following the same rules granted to Hong Kong.

As of 2025, Greenland has submitted three films, but none of them were nominated.

Submissions

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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.[3]

Greenland submitted a film for the first time in 2010.[5] However, Denmark had submit a Greenlandic film before, Qivitoq – Fjeldgængeren in 1956.[6]

Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Greenland for review by the academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

Year
(Ceremony)		 Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director Result
2010
(83rd) 		Nuummioq[7] Danish, Greenlandic Torben Bech and Otto Rosing Not nominated
2012
(85th) 		Inuk[8] Greenlandic Mike Magidson Not nominated
2025
(98th) 		Walls - Akinni Inuk[9] Sofie Rørdam and Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg Not nominated

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ 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]

References

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  1. ^ "Academy announces rules for 92nd Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Academy Announces Rule Changes For 92nd Oscars". Forbes. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  4. ^ a b "History of the Academy Awards – Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  5. ^ "65 Countries Enter Race for 2010 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  6. ^ "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  7. ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race". oscars.org. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  8. ^ "Greenland seeks an Oscar for celebrated film Inuk". Nunatsiaq Online. NUNATSIAQ NEWS. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  9. ^ "Greenland makes third-ever international feature Oscar entry". ScreenDaily. 22 September 2025. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
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