The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film has been given biannually since 1951.
 As of 2022, the two-committee system has been reinstated with an "International Feature Film Preliminary Committee" that shortlists fifteen films and an "International Feature Film Nominating Committee" that narrows down the final five nominees
By contrast, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is awarded to the director and producerthat award's rules specifically state that the nomination and award is presented to the director or if "a producer equally shared the creative input with the director, both names may be submitted

