List of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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This is a list of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. 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 69th Academy Awards, thirty-nine films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1996.[3] Albania and Georgia submitted films for the first time, as did Australia which submitted the multilingual Floating Life in Cantonese, English and German. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Norway and Russia. Czech Republic won the Oscar for its drama Kolya.[4]

Submissions[edit]

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Albania Kolonel Bunker Albanian Kujtim Çashku Not nominated
 Algeria Hi Cousin! Salut cousin! French, Arabic Merzak Allouache Not nominated
 Argentina Eva Peron Eva Perón Spanish Juan Carlos Desanzo Not nominated
 Australia Floating Life 浮生 Cantonese, English, German Clara Law Not nominated
 Austria Hannah German Reinhard Schwabenitzky Not nominated
 Belarus From Hell to Hell Из ада в ад German, Russian, Yiddish Dmitriy Astrakhan Not nominated
 Belgium The Eighth Day Le huitième jour French Jaco Van Dormael Not nominated
 Brazil Tieta of Agreste Tieta do Agreste Brazilian Portuguese Carlos Diegues Not nominated
 Canada Not Me! Sous-Sol French Pierre Gang Not nominated
 Colombia Oedipus Mayor Edipo Alcalde Spanish Jorge Alí Triana Not nominated
 Croatia Nausikaya Serbo-Croatian Vicko Ruić Not nominated
 Cuba Think of Me Pon tu pensamiento en mí Spanish Arturo Sotto Díaz Not nominated
 Czech Republic Kolya Kolja Czech, Slovak, Russian Jan Svěrák Won Academy Award
 Denmark Hamsun Danish, Swedish, German, Norwegian Jan Troell Not nominated
 Finland Drifting Clouds Kauas pilvet karkaavat Finnish Aki Kaurismäki Withdrawn
 France Ridicule French Patrice Leconte Nominated
 Georgia A Chef in Love შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი French, Georgian, Russian Nana Jorjadze Nominated
 Germany Deathmaker Der Totmacher German Romuald Karmakar Not nominated
 Hong Kong Hu-Du-Men 虎度門 Cantonese Shu Kei Not nominated
 Hungary Vaska Easoff Haggyállógva Vászka Hungarian Péter Gothár Not nominated
 Iceland Devil's Island Djöflaeyjan Icelandic Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Not nominated
 India Indian இந்தியன் Tamil S. Shankar Not nominated
 Israel Saint Clara קלרה הקדושה Hebrew, Russian, French, English Ari Folman & Ori Sivan Not nominated
 Italy My Generation Mia Generazione Italian Wilma Labate Not nominated
 Japan Gakko II 学校II Japanese Yoji Yamada Not nominated
 Mexico Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda Spanish Sabina Berman & Isabelle Tardans Not nominated
 Netherlands Long Live the Queen Lang leve de koningin Dutch Esmé Lammers Not nominated
 Norway The Other Side of Sunday Søndagsengler Norwegian Berit Nesheim Nominated
 Philippines Dead Sure Segurista Tagalog Tikoy Aguiluz Not nominated
 Poland At Full Gallop Cwal Polish Krzysztof Zanussi Not nominated
 Romania State of Things Stare de Fapt Romanian Stere Gulea Not nominated
 Russia Prisoner of the Mountains Кавказский пленник Russian Sergei Bodrov Nominated
 Slovenia Felix Feliks Slovene Božo Šprajc Not nominated
 Spain Bwana Spanish, English, German Imanol Uribe Not nominated
 Sweden Jerusalem Swedish Bille August Not nominated
 Switzerland Les Agneaux French Marcel Schüpbach Not nominated
 Taiwan Tonight Nobody Goes Home 今天不回家 Mandarin Sylvia Chang Not nominated
 Vietnam Gone, Gone Forever Gone Bụi Hồng Vietnamese Hồ Quang Minh Not nominated
 Yugoslavia Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Лепа села лепо горе Bosnian, Serbian, English Srđan Dragojević Not nominated

Notes[edit]

  • Finland Finland's submission, Drifting Clouds, was withdrawn by the director before official screenings began, therefore, it did not compete.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 22 June 2008. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Rule 14 | 81st Academy Awards Rules | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 9 August 2008. Archived from the original on 9 August 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  3. ^ "39 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 13 November 1996. Archived from the original on 9 February 1999. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  4. ^ "The 69th Academy Awards (1997) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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