List of Venezuelan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1978. 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.
Venezuela has had twenty-nine films accepted by AMPAS for Oscar consideration, but none have yet been nominated for an Academy Award. However, in 2014 the official submission The Liberator was included in the January shortlist along with nine other foreign submissions.
In 2005, their official submission, , did not arrive in time due to a dispute with a rival film, Secuestro Express.
Venezuelan submissions are selected annually by the Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía
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 Venezuela for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.Three Venezuelan directors have been selected multiple times. All Venezuelan submissions have been made in Spanish, apart from the 2015 entry, Gone with the River, which was spoken in Warao.
| Year | Original title | Film title used in nomination | Director | Result | Ref |
| 1978 | El Pez que Fuma | El Pez que Fuma | Román Chalbaud | ||
| 1984 | The House of Water | La casa de Agua | Jacobo Penzo | ||
| 1985 | Oriana | Oriana | Fina Torres | ||
| 1991 | Jericho | Jericho | Luis Alberto Lamata | ||
| 1994 | Golpes a mi Puerta | Knocks at My Door | Alejandro Saderman | ||
| 1995 | Sicario | Sicario | José Ramón Novoa | ||
| 1997 | One Life and Two Trails | Una vida y dos mandados | Alberto Arvelo | ||
| 1998 | Rizo | Loop | Julio Sosa | ||
| 1999 | ' | Huelepega | Elia Schneider | ||
| 2000 | Oro Diablo | Oro Diablo | José Ramón Novoa | ||
| 2001 | Una casa con vista al mar | A House with a View of the Sea | Alberto Aruelo | ||
| 2002 | La pluma del arcángel | The Archangel's Feather | Luis Manzo | ||
| 2003 | Sangrador | Sangrador | Leonardo Henriquez | ||
| 2004 | Punto y Raya | Punto y Raya | Elia Schneider | ||
| 2005 | ' | 1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel | Alfredo Anzola | ||
| 2006 | Maroa: Una Niña de la Calle | Maroa | Solveig Hoogesteijn | ||
| 2007 | Postales de Leningrado | Postcards from Leningrad | Mariana Rondon | ||
| 2008 | El tinte de la fama | The Color of Fame | Alberto Bellame | ||
| 2009 | Libertador Morales, el Justiciero | Libertador Morales, El Justiciero | Efterpi Charalambidis | ||
| 2010 | Hermano | Hermano | Marcel Rasquin | ||
| 2011 | The Rumble of the Stones | El rumor de las piedras | Alejandro Bellame | ||
| 2012 | Rock, Paper, Scissors | Piedra, papel o tijera | Hernán Jabes | ||
| 2013 | Breach in the Silence | Brecha en el silencio | Luis Rodríguez, Andrés Rodríguez | ||
| 2014 | The Liberator | Libertador | Alberto Arvelo | ||
| 2015 | Gone with the River | Dauna. Lo que lleva el río | Mario Crespo | ||
| 2016 | From Afar | Desde allá | Lorenzo Vigas | ||
| 2017 | El Inca | El Inca | Ignacio Castillo Cottin | ||
| 2018 | The Family | La familia | Gustavo Rondón Córdova | ||
| 2019 | Being Impossible | Yo, imposible | Patricia Ortega |