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List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States.[1] The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.[2] Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.[2]
For the 72nd Academy Awards, the Academy invited 75 countries to submit films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[3] The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1999.[4] Forty-seven countries submitted films to the Academy, surpassing the record set in 1994.[5] The Asian nations of Bhutan, Nepal and Tajikistan submitted films for the first time ever.[5] The nominations were announced on February 15, 2000, and the winner was revealed during the awards presentation held on March 26, 2000.[6] Belgium's submission Rosetta was not nominated, even though it had received the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the previous year.[7] Nepal received its first and so far only nomination for Caravan, a film made in the Tibetan language, which is spoken in parts of Nepal, about the country's now disappearing salt-trade system.[8] The four other nominated films came from France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.[9] The latter received its nomination for Solomon and Gaenor, the first film made entirely in Welsh and Yiddish.[10] Spain eventually won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother.[9] It was the country's third win after Volver a Empezar (To Begin Again) in 1982 and Belle Époque in 1993.[11] Almodóvar dedicated the award to the Spanish people and to Spain, and had to be dragged from the stage after an overlong speech in which he thanked numerous saints and relatives.[12]
Submissions[]
Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
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Manuelita | Manuelita | Spanish | Manuel García Ferré | Not Nominated |
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Northern Skirts | Nordrand | German | Barbara Albert | Not Nominated |
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Rosetta | Rosetta | French | Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Not Nominated |
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The Cup | Phörpa | Tibetan | Khyentse Norbu | Not Nominated |
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Orfeu | Orfeu | Portuguese | Carlos Diegues | Not Nominated |
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Set Me Free | Emporte-moi | French | Léa Pool | Not Nominated |
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Lover's Grief over the Yellow River | Huanghe juelian (黄河绝恋) | Mandarin | Feng Xiaoning | Not Nominated |
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Time Out | Golpe de estadio | Spanish | Sergio Cabrera | Not Nominated |
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Red Dust | Crvena prašina | Croatian | Zrinko Ogresta | Not Nominated |
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The Idiot Returns | Návrat idiota | Czech | Saša Gedeon | Not Nominated |
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Mifune | Mifunes sidste sang | Danish | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Not Nominated |
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The Tough Ones | Häjyt | Finnish | Aleksi Mäkelä | Not Nominated |
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East-West | Est-Ouest | French, Russian | Régis Wargnier | Nominated |
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Here Comes the Dawn | Ak tendeba (აქ თენდება) | Georgian | Zaza Urushadze | Not Nominated |
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Aimée & Jaguar | Aimée und Jaguar | German | Max Färberböck | Not Nominated |
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From the Edge of the City | Apo tin akri tis polis (Από την άκρη της πόλης) | Greek, Russian | Constantinos Giannaris | Not Nominated |
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Ordinary Heroes | Qian yan wan yu (千言萬語) | Cantonese | Ann Hui | Not Nominated |
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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest | Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten | Hungarian | Miklós Jancsó | Not Nominated |
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The Honour of the House | Ungfrúin góða og húsið | Icelandic | Guðný Halldórsdóttir | Not Nominated |
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Earth | Earth (अर्थ) | Hindi, English, Parsee, Punjabi, Urdu | Deepa Mehta | Not Nominated |
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Sri | Sri | Indonesian | Marselli Sumarno | Not Nominated |
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The Colours of Paradise | Rang-e khoda (رنگ خدا) | Persian | Majid Majidi | Not Nominated |
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Yana's Friends | Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana (החברים של יאנה) | Hebrew, Russian, English | Not Nominated | |
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Not of this World | Fuori dal mondo | Italian | Giuseppe Piccioni | Not Nominated |
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Railroad Man | Poppoya (鉄道員) | Japanese | Yasuo Furuhata | Not Nominated |
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Around the Pink House | Autour de la maison rose (البيت الزهري) | French, Arabic | Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige |
Not Nominated |
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El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba | El coronel no tiene quien le escriba | Spanish | Arturo Ripstein | Not Nominated |
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Caravan | Himalaya (हिमालय) | Tibetan | Éric Valli | Nominated |
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Scratches in the Table | Madelief, krassen in het tafelblad | Dutch | Not Nominated | |
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The Prompter | Suffløsen | Norwegian | Not Nominated | |
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Services | Pantaleón y las visitadoras | Spanish | Francisco J. Lombardi | Not Nominated |
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The Kite | Saranggola | Filipino, Tagalog | Gil Portes | Not Nominated |
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Pan Tadeusz | Pan Tadeusz | Polish | Andrzej Wajda | Not Nominated |
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The Mutants | Os Mutantes | Portuguese | Teresa Villaverde | Not Nominated |
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The Famous Paparazzo | Faimosul paparazzo | Romanian | Nicolae Margineanu | Not Nominated |
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Moloch | Molokh (Молох) | German | Alexander Sokurov | Not Nominated |
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The White Suit | Belo odelo (Бело одело) | Serbian | Lazar Ristovski | Not Nominated |
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All My Loved Ones | Vsichni moji blízcí | Czech | Matej Mináč | Not Nominated |
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All About My Mother | Todo sobre mi madre | Spanish | Pedro Almodóvar | Won Academy Award |
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Under the Sun | Under solen | Swedish | Colin Nutley | Nominated |
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Beresina, or The Last Days of Switzerland | Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz | German | Daniel Schmid | Not Nominated |
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Luna Papa | Luna Papa (Лунный папа) | Russian | Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov | Not Nominated |
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March of Happiness | Tian ma cha fang (天馬茶房) | Mandarin | Lin Cheng-sheng | Not Nominated |
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Mrs. Salkim's Diamonds | Salkım Hanımın Taneleri | Turkish | Tomris Giritlioğlu | Not Nominated |
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Solomon and Gaenor | Solomon a Gaenor | Welsh, Yiddish | Paul Morrison | Nominated |
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Glue Sniffer | Huelepega: Ley de la calle | Spanish | Not Nominated | |
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Three Seasons | Ba mùa | English, Vietnamese | Tony Bui | Not Nominated |
See also[]
- List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
- 72nd Academy Awards nominees and winners
- List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
References[]
- General
- "Record 47 Countries In Oscar Contention" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-11-22. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
- Specific
- ^ "History of the Academy Awards - Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on June 22, 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on August 9, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
- ^ "Academy Invites 75 Countries to Submit Their Best Pictures for Foreign Language Film Oscar" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-08-02. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
- ^ "Nov 1 is Oscar Entry Deadline for Foreign Language and Short Films" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-10-22. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Feiwell, Jill (November 22, 1999). "Record 47 foreign pix vie for Oscar". Variety. PMC. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
- ^ "Voting Schedule Set for 72nd Academy Awards" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-07-28. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
- ^ "Rosetta wins Cannes prize". BBC News. BBC. May 23, 1999. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
- ^ "Nepal's first ever Oscar nomination". BBC News. BBC. 2000-02-16. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "2000 Academy Award winners and nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 1, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
- ^ Thomas, Rebecca (2000-03-17). "Wising up to Solomon". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
- ^ Nichols 2011, p. 42
- ^ "What the winners said". BBC News. BBC. March 28, 2000. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
Bibliography[]
- Nichols, William J. (2011). Transatlantic Mysteries: Crime, Culture, and Capital in the "Noir Novels" of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Lanham, Maryland, United States: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1611480405.
- Submissions for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award (by year)