These countries have only won the Academy Award for the Best International Feature (formerly called Best Foreign Language Film) once. Technically, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Russia have also only won once, but the countries they evolved into as Germany, the Czech Republic, and the Soviet Union have won so they are not included on this list.

Fun Facts:
Italy has won 14 times.
France has won 12 times.
Japan has won 5 times.
Denmark and Spain have won 4 times.

Israel has been nominated 10 times with 0 wins.
Belgium has been nominated 8 times with 0 wins.
Norway and Yugoslavia have been nominated 6 times with 0 wins.
Greece has been nominated 5 times with 0 wins.

The Ivory Coast has only submitted 3 films for consideration and they won 1 time and were nominated 1 time.
Mauritania submitted a film 1 time for consideration and 1 film was nominated.
In the past 6 years 8 countries have submitted films for consideration for the first time; 7 were countries in Africa.
Kuwait last submitted a film for consideration in 1978.

The directors Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini have won 4 times each.
The director Ingmar Bergman has won 3 times.
The directors René Clément, Asghar Farhadi, and Akira Kurosawa have won 2 times each.