Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winner 2009

- Winner: Japanese film Departures
- Presenters: Liam Neeson and Freida Pinto
- Nominations announced: January 22, 2009
- Award time: February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. PST
- Network: ABC
- Host: Hugh Jackman
- Voted on by members of the Academy Film and Television Arts and Sciences
- Last year's winner: The Counterfeiters (Austria)
- First official winner in 1948: To Monsieur Vincent
- In 1947, before the establishment of the award, the foreign movie Shoe-Shine from Italy received a special award

The Japanese film Departures won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards Ceremony on February 22, 2009. The other nominees were the German film The Baader Meinhof Complex, the French film The Class, the Austrian film Revanche and the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir.
Past Winners
- 2007: The Counterfeiters (Austria)
- 2006: The Lives of Others (Germany)
- 2005: Tsotsi (South Africa)
- 2004: The Sea Inside (Spain)
- 2003: The Barbarian Invasions (Canada)
- 2002: Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
- 2001: No Man's Land (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
- 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan)
- 1999: All About my Mother (Spain)
- 1998: Life Is Beautiful (Italy)
The Nominees
The German film The Baader Meinhof Complex is about the formation and history of the German terrorist group The Red Army Faction. The movie is directed by Uli Edel.
The French film The Class, directed by Laurent Cantet, is about an ethnically diverse class of middle class students in Paris and their teacher, François Marin.
The Japanese film Departures, directed by Yojiro Takita, is about an unemployed cellist who finds a job preparing corpses for cremation.
The Austrian film Revanche is about a man who plans to rob a bank so that his girlfriend can leave her job at a brothel. The man gets to know a local policeman and his wife. The movie is directed by Götz Spielmann.
The Israeli film Waltz with Bashir is an animated movie made as a documentary, directed by Ari Folman. It's about a man from the Israeli army who participated in the 1982 Lebanon War, but has lost his memory of the war. He tries to regain his memory by speaking to other former soldiers.