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

Malaysia is one of more than a hundred countries that have sent films to compete for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film^{[nb 1]} since 2004. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 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]

As of 2021^[update], a total of seven films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but has yet to be received an Oscar nomination. The Princess of Mount Ledang was the first film to be submitted in 2003, since then no other films that was submitted until 2012, a film directed by Dain Said Bunohan was sent to compete, but it failed to set out as the nominee.

For the 88th Academy Awards, Men Who Save the World was decided by National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS) to be submitted, affiliated with Malaysian Ministry of Communications and Multimedia.^[4]

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

List of submitted films
Year (Ceremony)	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Director	Result
2004 (77th)	The Princess of Mount Ledang	Puteri Gunung Ledang	Saw Teong Hin	Not nominated
2012 (85th)	Bunohan^[5]		Dain Said	Not nominated
2015 (88th)	Men Who Save the World^[6]	Lelaki Harapan Dunia	Liew Seng Tat	Not nominated
2016 (89th)	Beautiful Pain^[7]	Redha	Tunku Mona Riza	Not nominated
2019 (92nd)	M for Malaysia^[8]		Dian Lee, Ineza Roussille	Not nominated
2020 (93rd)	Roh^[9]		Emir Ezwan	Not nominated
2021 (94th)	Hail, Driver!^[10]	Prebet Sapu	Muzzamer Rahman	Not nominated
2023 (96th)	Tiger Stripes^[11]		Amanda Nell Eu	Not nominated

Notes

^ 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]