List of Singaporean submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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Four of Eric Khoo's films had been submitted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Three were not nominated, while his first submission, Be With Me, was disqualified.

Singapore has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] on a fairly regular basis since 2005, although they submitted a film while still being a British colony in 1959. The award is handed out annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.[3] The Academy selection committee reviews all the submitted films, and secret ballot voting is used to determine the five nominees.

As of 2020, a total of fourteen films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but none has yet received an Oscar nomination. The director whose films have been submitted the most is Eric Khoo, although none had been nominated; one was disqualified for being more than 50% in English and not in a Foreign Language.[4] Two other submissions were large-scale musicals: the 1959 musical-drama The Kingdom and the Beauty, as well as the 2007 881.

List of submissions[]

Year
(Ceremony)		 Film title used
in nomination		 Original title Language(s) Director Result
1959
(32nd) 		The Kingdom and the Beauty Jiang shan mei ren(江山美人) Mandarin Chinese Li Han-hsiang Not Nominated
2005
(78th) 		Be With Me[5] Be With Me English, Cantonese,
Mandarin and Hokkien[6] 		Eric Khoo Disqualified[7]
2007
(80th) 		881[8] 881 Mandarin, Hokkien
and English 		Royston Tan Not Nominated
2008
(81st) 		My Magic[9] My Magic Tamil Eric Khoo Not Nominated
2011
(84th) 		Tatsumi[10] Tatsumi Japanese Eric Khoo Not Nominated
2012
(85th) 		Already Famous[11] Yi Pao Er Hong(一泡而红) Chinese Michelle Chong Not Nominated
2013
(86th) 		Ilo Ilo[12] 爸妈不在家 Chinese Anthony Chen Not Nominated
2014
(87th) 		My Beloved Dearest[13][14][15] Sayang Disayang Malay (both Malaysian and Indonesian) Not Nominated
2015
(88th) 		7 Letters[16] 7 Letters Malay, Hokkien, Mandarin,
Malayalam, English 		Junfeng Boo, Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, K Rajagopal,
Pin Pin Tan, Royston Tan, Kelvin Tong 		Not Nominated
2016
(89th) 		Apprentice[17] Apprentice Malay, English Boo Junfeng Not Nominated
2017
(90th) 		Pop Aye[18] Pop Aye Thai Kirsten Tan Not Nominated
2018
(91st) 		Buffalo Boys[19] Buffalo Boys Indonesian, English Not Nominated
2019
(92nd) 		A Land Imagined[20] A Land Imagined Mandarin, English, Bengali Not Nominated
2020
(93rd) 		Wet Season[21] Wet Season (热带雨) Mandarin, English, Hokkien Anthony Chen Not Nominated

See also[]

  • List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
  • List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
  • Cinema of Singapore

Notes[]

  1. ^ The category was previously named the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in April 2019, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.[1][2]

References[]

  1. ^ "Academy announces rules for 92nd Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Academy Announces Rule Changes For 92nd Oscars". Forbes. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  4. ^ Koehler, Robert. "Foreign Oscar pix lost in translation". Variety. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  5. ^ Lui, John. "No bias in voting for Oscars". Straits Times. Singapore Press Holdings. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  6. ^ Film is mostly dialogue-less
  7. ^ Disqualified after its official Oscar screening for containing more than 50% English dialogue
  8. ^ "881 for Singapore's Submission for the 80th Academy Awards". Infocomm Media Development Authority. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Eric Khoo's "My Magic" is Singapore's submission to the Academy Awards". Infocomm Media Development Authority. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  10. ^ "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 21 May 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
  11. ^ "Already Famous is Singapore's entry for Best Foreign Film Oscar". Her World. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Ilo Ilo is Singapore entry to Oscars". Asia One. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  13. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2021.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ^ Chan, Boon (8 October 2015). "7 Letters is Singapore's entry to the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category". Straits Times. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  17. ^ Blair, Gavin J. (15 September 2016). "Oscars: Singapore Selects 'Apprentice' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  18. ^ Frater, Patrick (24 September 2017). "Singapore Picks 'Pop Aye' for Foreign-Language Oscar Contention". Variety. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  19. ^ Frater, Patrick (4 September 2018). "'Buffalo Boys' Selected by Singapore for Foreign-Language Oscar Campaign". Variety. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  20. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (27 September 2019). "Singapore Sends Locarno Winner 'A Land Imagined' to the Oscars". Variety. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  21. ^ Frater, Patrick (12 October 2020). "Singapore Selects 'Wet Season' for Oscars Contention". Variety. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

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