How many Oscars has Spain won for Best International Feature?

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Reason from the competition. The category has existed for around seventy years with one winner each, and a few dozen countries submit seriously. A country with a strong national cinema but not the dominant one wins every fifteen or twenty years on average, which gives a career total in the low single digits.

The category is also unusual in that countries rather than films are the entrants: each nation submits one title, so a strong film year is wasted if two good films appear at once. That single-submission rule caps how often any country can win regardless of how much good work it produces.

The named list in the explanation spans four decades, which is the more informative shape than the total. Wins clustered in the period when the country's cinema had the most international visibility, and one director accounts for a quarter of them — national award records are usually a handful of individual careers rather than a sustained national performance.