The Japanese movie "Drive My Car" has won the 2022 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

This year's Academy Awards were announced in a Hollywood ceremony on Sunday.

After receiving the award, the film's director, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, said in English, "Oh, you're the Oscar."

The director went on to thank his actors and those who were involved in the film, adding in Japanese, "We've won this!"

The movie is based on a short story by Japanese author Murakami Haruki.

It depicts a stage actor and director who comes to terms with his late wife's secrets through interaction with a woman assigned as his chauffeur.

"Drive My Car" is the first Japanese film to win the prize since 2009 when "Okuribito," or "Departures" won the Oscar in the category then known as Best Foreign Language Film.

"Drive My Car" had also been nominated for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.

The film won the best Screenplay Award at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

It also won this year's Golden Globe award for Best Picture in the non-English language category.