At the 85th Academy Awards the film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Hero was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 2003 Academy Awards but lost to Nowhere in Africa (Germany).

The winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar is judged less treacly than other recent winners.

The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008.

His 1967 film Vivre pour vivre was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Another Fellini film, Nights of Cabiria would win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the following year.

It was on the Academy Award short-list for the Best Animated Film Oscar in 2009.

Day for Night won Truffaut a Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1973.

The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 2003 Academy Awards.

This was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 64th Academy Awards.