List of submissions to the 78th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
October 21, 2023
This is a list of submissions to the 78th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is handed out annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.
For the 78th Academy Awards, sixty-two countries submitted films to the Academy, and fifty-eight of those films were accepted for review by the Academy.[1] The submissions of Austria and Greece were rejected before the formal review process and the submissions of Uruguay and Venezuela did not appear in the final list; meanwhile, those from Bolivia, Netherlands, Singapore and Tajikistan were later disqualified by the Academy. Costa Rica, Iraq and Fiji submitted films for the first time. The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was South Africa's Tsotsi, which was directed by Gavin Hood.
Austria's submission, Caché, was disqualified because the film was completely in French, and not in a language indigenous to Austria.
Bolivia's submission, Say Good Morning to Dad, was disqualified because a print of the film did not arrive at the Academy in time.
Private was originally selected but the Academy informed Italy that the film would be disqualified for not being in Italian. The Italian Academy appealed the decision, but ended up selecting a new film
Nepal elected to send Basain, but due to its release date, it was submitted the following year instead.
The submission of the Netherlands, Bluebird, disqualified because it was too similar to a version previously aired on Dutch television; it was too late to select another Dutch film.
Paradise Now was submitted as coming from "Palestine", which was used on the web page and the official notices of the Academy. It was announced at the awards ceremony as from "the Palestinian Territories".
The Philippines failed to send a film for the first time in ten years; their Film Academy claimed they thought they hadn't been invited after the official invitation failed to reach their new address.
Singapore's submission, Be with Me, was disqualified after its official screening for being mostly in English and not in a Foreign Language
Tajikistan's submission, Sex & Philosophy, was disqualified because a print of the film did not arrive at the Academy in time
Uruguay reportedly selected Álvaro Buela's Alma Mater, but it only ended up sent to the Goya Awards.
Venezuela selected 1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel, but their entry was delayed by a lawsuit and they missed the deadline [3]
^"With National Pride at Stake, Foreign Language Films Compete for Oscar Glory". 16 November 2005.
^. vcrisis.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2005.
October 21, 2023
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This is a list of submissions to the 78th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956 The award is handed out annually by the Academy to a feature length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non English dialogue The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films For the 78th Academy Awards sixty two countries submitted films to the Academy and fifty eight of those films were accepted for review by the Academy 1 The submissions of Austria and Greece were rejected before the formal review process and the submissions of Uruguay and Venezuela did not appear in the final list meanwhile those from Bolivia Netherlands Singapore and Tajikistan were later disqualified by the Academy Costa Rica Iraq and Fiji submitted films for the first time The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was South Africa s Tsotsi which was directed by Gavin Hood Submissions EditSubmitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language s Director s Result nbsp Argentina El Aura Spanish Fabian Bielinsky Not nominated nbsp Austria Cache French Michael Haneke Disqualified nbsp Bangladesh Shyamol Chhaya শ য মল ছ য Bengali Humayun Ahmed Not nominated nbsp Belgium The Child L Enfant French Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne Not nominated nbsp Bolivia Say Good Morning to Dad Di buen dia a papa Spanish Fernando Vargas Disqualified nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina Totally Personal Sasvim licno Serbian English Bosnian Nedzad Begovic Not nominated nbsp Brazil Two Sons of Francisco Dois Filhos de Francisco Brazilian Portuguese Breno Silveira Not nominated nbsp Bulgaria Stolen Eyes Otkradnati ochi Bulgarian Turkish Radoslav Spassov Not nominated nbsp Canada C R A Z Y French Jean Marc Vallee Not nominated nbsp Chile Play Spanish Alicia Scherson Not nominated nbsp China The Promise 无极 Mandarin Chen Kaige Not nominated nbsp Colombia La Sombra del Caminante Spanish Ciro Guerra Not nominated nbsp Costa Rica Caribe Esteban Ramirez Not nominated nbsp Croatia A Wonderful Night in Split Ta divna splitska noc Croatian Serbian English Arsen Anton Ostojic Not nominated nbsp Cuba Viva Cuba Spanish Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti Not nominated nbsp Czech Republic Something Like Happiness Stesti Czech Bohdan Slama Not nominated nbsp Denmark Adam s Apples Adams AEbler Danish Anders Thomas Jensen Not nominated nbsp Estonia Shop of Dreams Stiilipidu Estonian Peeter Urbla Not nominated nbsp Fiji The Land Has Eyes Pear ta ma ʻon maf Rotuman English Vilsoni Hereniko Not nominated nbsp Finland Mother of Mine Aideista parhain Den basta av modrar Finnish Swedish Klaus Haro Not nominated nbsp France Joyeux Noel French German English Christian Carion Nominated nbsp Georgia Tbilisi Tbilisi თბილისი თბილისი Georgian Levan Zakareishvili Not nominated nbsp Germany Sophie Scholl The Final Days Sophie Scholl Die letzten Tage German Marc Rothemund Nominated nbsp Greece Brides 2 Nyfes Greek English Pantelis Voulgaris Disqualified nbsp Hong Kong Perhaps Love 如果 愛 Cantonese Mandarin Peter Ho Sun Chan Not nominated nbsp Hungary Fateless Sorstalansag Hungarian German English Lajos Koltai Not nominated nbsp Iceland Ahead of Time I takt vid timann Icelandic Agust Gudmundsson Not nominated nbsp India Paheli पह ल Hindi Amol Palekar Not nominated nbsp Indonesia Gie Indonesian Riri Riza Not nominated nbsp Iran So Close So Far خیلی دور خیلی نزدیک Persian Reza Mir Karimi Not nominated nbsp Iraq Requiem of Snow شیوەنی بەفر Kurdish Jamil Rostami Not nominated nbsp Israel What a Wonderful Place איזה מקום נפלא Hebrew Russian Filipino Tagalog English Eyal Halfon Not nominated nbsp Italy Don t Tell La bestia nel cuore Italian English Cristina Comencini Nominated nbsp Japan Blood and Bones 血と骨 Japanese Korean Yoichi Sai Not nominated nbsp South Korea Welcome to Dongmakgol 웰컴 투 동막골 Korean Park Kwang hyun Not nominated nbsp Luxembourg Renart the Fox Le Roman de Renart French Thierry Schiel Not nominated nbsp Mexico Al otro lado Spanish Arabic Gustavo Loza Not nominated nbsp Mongolia The Cave of the Yellow Dog Shar nohojn tam Mongolian Byambasuren Davaa Not nominated nbsp Netherlands Bluebird Dutch Mijke de Jong Disqualified nbsp Norway Kissed by Winter Vinterkyss Norwegian Swedish English Sara Johnsen Not nominated nbsp Palestine Paradise Now الجن ة الآن Palestinian Arabic English Hany Abu Assad Nominated nbsp Peru Days of Santiago Dias de Santiago Spanish Josue Mendez Not nominated nbsp Poland The Collector Komornik Polish Feliks Falk Not nominated nbsp Portugal Noite Escura Portuguese Russian Joao Canijo Not nominated nbsp Puerto Rico Cayo Spanish Vicente Juarbe Not nominated nbsp Romania The Death of Mr Lazarescu Moartea domnului Lăzărescu Romanian Cristi Puiu Not nominated nbsp Russia The Italian Italyanec Russian Italian English Andrei Kravchuk Not nominated nbsp Serbia and Montenegro Midwinter Night s Dream San zimske noћi Serbian Goran Paskaljevic Not nominated nbsp Singapore Be with Me English Hokkien Mandarin Cantonese Eric Khoo Disqualified nbsp Slovakia The City of the Sun Slnecny stat Slovak Czech Martin Sulik Not nominated nbsp Slovenia Ruins Rusevine Slovene Janez Burger Not nominated nbsp South Africa Tsotsi Setswana Zulu Sesotho Xhosa Afrikaans English Gavin Hood Won Academy Award nbsp Spain Obaba Spanish Montxo Armendariz Not nominated nbsp Sweden Zozo Swedish Arabic Josef Fares Not nominated nbsp Switzerland Tout un Hiver sans Feu French Albanian Greg Zglinski Not nominated nbsp Taiwan The Wayward Cloud 天邊一朵雲 Mandarin Tsai Ming liang Not nominated nbsp Tajikistan Sex amp Philosophy Ҷins va falsafa Russian Tajik Mohsen Makhmalbaf Disqualified nbsp Thailand The Tin Mine mha ly ehmuxngaer Thai Jira Maligool Not nominated nbsp Turkey Lovelorn Gonul Yarasi Turkish Yavuz Turgul Not nominated nbsp Uruguay Alma Mater Spanish Alvaro Buela Not on the final list nbsp Venezuela 1888 The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel 1888 El Extraordinario Viaje de la Santa Isabel Alfredo Anzola Disqualified nbsp Vietnam The Buffalo Boy Mua len trau Vietnamese Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh Not nominatedNotes Edit nbsp Austria s submission Cache was disqualified because the film was completely in French and not in a language indigenous to Austria nbsp Bolivia s submission Say Good Morning to Dad was disqualified because a print of the film did not arrive at the Academy in time nbsp Private was originally selected but the Academy informed Italy that the film would be disqualified for not being in Italian The Italian Academy appealed the decision but ended up selecting a new film nbsp Nepal elected to send Basain but due to its release date it was submitted the following year instead nbsp The submission of the Netherlands Bluebird disqualified because it was too similar to a version previously aired on Dutch television it was too late to select another Dutch film nbsp Paradise Now was submitted as coming from Palestine which was used on the web page and the official notices of the Academy It was announced at the awards ceremony as from the Palestinian Territories nbsp The Philippines failed to send a film for the first time in ten years their Film Academy claimed they thought they hadn t been invited after the official invitation failed to reach their new address nbsp Singapore s submission Be with Me was disqualified after its official screening for being mostly in English and not in a Foreign Language nbsp Tajikistan s submission Sex amp Philosophy was disqualified because a print of the film did not arrive at the Academy in time nbsp Uruguay reportedly selected Alvaro Buela s Alma Mater but it only ended up sent to the Goya Awards nbsp Venezuela selected 1888 The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel but their entry was delayed by a lawsuit and they missed the deadline 3 Among the other countries which were officially invited to submit a film but did not were Afghanistan Algeria Australia Ecuador Egypt Lebanon Macedonia Malaysia Ukraine and the United Kingdom References Edit 58 Countries Vying for 2005 Foreign Language Film Oscar Press release Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 25 October 2005 Archived from the original on 24 December 2007 Retrieved 23 September 2008 With National Pride at Stake Foreign Language Films Compete for Oscar Glory 16 November 2005 Secuestro Express director sued in Venezuela Business News vcrisis com Archived from the original on 3 November 2005 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of submissions to the 78th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film amp oldid 1161903658, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
