Foreign Language Film nominations for 2015 are being determined in two phases.
The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based Academy members, screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and December 14.  The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.
The shortlist will be winnowed down to the category’s five nominees by specially invited committees in New York, Los Angeles and London.  They will spend Friday, January 8, through Sunday, January 10, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.
The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 14, 2016, at 5:30 a.m. PT at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 88th Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre.

Laszlo Nemes' debut feature, SON OF SAUL, is an outstanding success at the Pre-Oscar Awards
- New York National Board of Review (NBR): Best Foreign Film Award
- New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC): Best First Film Award
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA): Best Foreign-Language Film Award
- Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA): Best Foreign-Language Film Award
- New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO): Best Foreign-Language Film Award
- Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA): Best Foreign-Language Film Award
- San Francisco Film Critics Circle (SFFCC): Best Foreign Language Picture Award
- The Village Voice Film Critics Poll: Best Actor Award to Géza Röhrig
- Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA): Best Foreign-Language Film Award

SON OF SAUL has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).