 Although the award is commonly referred to simply as the Foreign Film Oscar in newspaper articles and on the Internet, such a designation is misleading, since a film's nationality matters much less than its language.Although a film has to be non-American in order to be nominated for the award, it also has to be in a language other than English.Foreign films where the majority of the dialogue is in English cannot qualify for the International Feature Film Award, and the Academy has usually applied this requirement very seriously by disqualifying films containing too much English dialogue, the most recent case being that of the Nigerian film "Lionheart" (2019), despite English being the official language of Nigeria.