Wikipedia:Today's featured list/June 23, 2014
Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film date back to 1957. The Film Federation of India (FFI) appoints a committee to choose one entry as India's official submission to the Oscars. India's first entry, a Hindi film called Mother India, came close to winning the award, but lost to the Italian film Nights of Cabiria by one vote. As of 2013, only three films have made it to the final shortlist—the other two being Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Lagaan (2001). Since 1984, India has submitted entries for every year except 2003, when the members of the FFI decided not to send an entry as they felt no film was competent enough. Most of the submissions have been Hindi films, while Tamil films have been the next most common with eight. Three films directed by Satyajit Ray were sent to the competition, while Kamal Haasan (pictured) has starred in more films that entered the competition than any other actor. To date, 46 films have been sent by India, with the most recent entry being the Gujarati film The Good Road for the 86th Academy Awards. (Full list...)