--- title: "Which Indian movie was the first to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film?" description: "Which Indian movie was the first to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film?" author: "Amrith Chandran" published: 2025-04-22 updated: 2025-07-04 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/114652/which-indian-movie-was-the-first-to-win-an-oscar-for-best-foreign-language-film category: "movies and award" tags: ["movies"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Which Indian movie was the first to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film? ## Answers ### Answer by Meet Patel The Mother India (1957) movie is [considered as](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156093/what-is-considered-as-more-significant-creating-content-or-building-backlinks) the first [Indian film](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85120/impact-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-indian-film-industry) to be nominated to the [Academy award](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35051/who-is-the-first-woman-to-receive-sahitya-academy-award) in the best foreign language film classification. This was nominated during the 30 th Academy [Awards](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82872/awardees-who-marked-the-history), in 1958. This was a great [milestone](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80656/will-chandrayaan-3-be-a-milestone-for-isro) attained by the movie starring Nargis in a [landmark](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1178/top-4-landmark-judgments-of-the-supreme-court-sc-of-india) role. The nomination was the initial formal acknowledgement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Indian cinema in the category. Mother India was not the [Oscar](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84812/check-the-full-list-of-winners-in-2023-at-oscars-95th-awards-ceremony) awarded in that year, and the award to the best film went to the Nights of Cabiria which was produced in Italy. Nevertheless, even the very fact of nomination is something to brag about to Indian cinema. This was the first time that India had been able to enter the Best Foreign Language Film category contest. It made India its [presence](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12492/how-to-enhance-your-presence-on-facebook) in the world cinema recognition at the summit decades prior to an Indian film serving the award. ## Conclusion The film "Mother India" became the first Oscar nomination of [India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/88167/was-the-partition-of-india-truly-unavoidable) in 1958 in the BF language film. It was not a victory but this nomination was the debut success of Indian films in the [international](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34724/what-is-the-theme-of-the-2018-international-mother-language-day-imld) arena. It proved that Indian films had a fighting chance on the international level before winning an Oscar. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/114652/which-indian-movie-was-the-first-to-win-an-oscar-for-best-foreign-language-film Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.