Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: O lenei tusiga o loʻo lisiina ai ata tifaga uma mai fafo na filifilia mo pe manumalo i le Academy Awards i isi vaega nai lo le International Feature Film vaega (iloa i luma o le 2019 faʻailoga o le Best Foreign Language Film) lava ia. O le Academy Awards, lea e lauiloa o le Oscars, o se tasi lea o faailoga e sili ona leva ma taʻutaʻua i le lalolagi. Na muamua tuuina atu i le aso 16 o Me, 1929 e le US-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ma ua tuuina atu i tausaga taʻitasi talu mai lena taimi. E ui lava sa iai se faailoga faapitoa mo ata tifaga i gagana ese talu mai le
I le 1956 Academy Awards, o na ata tifaga o loo faaauau pea ona agavaa mo le Academy Awards i isi vaega, e aofia ai le Ata Sili, pe afai ua faamatuu atu faapisinisi i Los Angeles County, Kalefonia ma ua latou usitaia tulafono faapitoa e pulea ai na vaega. O le ata malie Farani "À Nous la Liberté" (1931) o le ata tifaga muamua lea i se gagana ese na filifilia mo se Academy Award; o le ata tifaga Suiselani i le gagana Siamani "Marie-Louise" (1944) o le muamua lea na manumalo ai.