Most Oscars won – Best Foreign Language Film

Italy has won 13 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, the most recent being Life Is Beautiful (1997) in 1999 at the 71st Academy Awards. 

The Italian films that have won during the history of the Academy Awards have been as follows:
71st Academy Awards: Life is Beautiful (1999)
64th Academy Awards:  Mediterraneo (1991)
62nd Academy Awards: Cinema Paradiso (1989)
47th Academy Awards: Amarcord (1974)
44th Academy Awards: The Garden of the Finzi Continis (1971)
43rd Academy Awards: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
37th Academy Awards: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)
36th Academy Awards: Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963)
30th Academy Awards: The Nights of Cabiria (1957)
29th Academy Awards: La Strada (1956)
23rd Academy Awards: The Walls of Malapaga (1950) – France/Italy
22nd Academy Awards: The Bicycle Thief (1949)
20th Academy Awards: Shoe-Shine  (1947)

Over the years, 92 different countries have submitted films to the competition at least once. In 2001, a record number of 51 entries were received for this category.