Which country has won fourteen (14) Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film?

Italy has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since the conception of the award. 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.

As of 2016, Italy has nominated twenty-eight (28) films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; fourteen (14) of the films have won the award. Among all countries that have submitted films for the award, Italy ranks first in terms of films that have won the award, followed by France (nine awards) and Spain (four awards).

The only Italian directors to win multiple awards are Federico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica. Fellini received four (4) awards for La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8½, and Amarcord; this is the most wins by a director in the history of the Academy in this category. Also, he had three other films submitted, although none of them were accepted as nominees. De Sica received two Honorary Awards prior to the conception of the formal award for Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief. De Sica obtained two actual Academy Awards for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. He had one other film, Marriage Italian-Style, accepted as a nominee.