List of submissions to the 76th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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Canadian director Denys Arcand won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Barbarian Invasions.

This is a list of submissions to the 76th 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 76th Academy Awards, fifty-six films were submitted to the academy. Mongolia, Palestine and Sri Lanka submitted a film for the first time. Palestine was excluded from submitting a film the year before, but The academy made an exception in the interests of inclusiveness.[1] The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was Canada's The Barbarian Invasions, which was directed by Denys Arcand.[2]

Submissions[edit]

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Afghanistan Osama أسامة Dari Siddiq Barmak Not nominated
 Argentina Valentín Spanish Alejandro Agresti Not nominated
 Armenia Vodka Lemon Վոդկա լիմոն Armenian, Kurdish, Russian, French Hiner Saleem Not nominated
 Austria Free Radicals Böse Zellen German Barbara Albert Not nominated
 Belgium Sea of Silence Verder dan de maan Dutch Stijn Coninx Not nominated
 Bolivia Sexual Dependency Dependencia sexual Spanish, English Rodrigo Bellott Not nominated
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Fuse Gori vatra Bosnian, Serbian, English Pjer Žalica Not nominated
 Brazil Carandiru Brazilian Portuguese Héctor Babenco Not nominated
 Bulgaria Journey to Jerusalem Пътуване към Йерусалим Bulgarian Ivan Nitchev Not nominated
 Canada The Barbarian Invasions Les Invasions barbares French, English Denys Arcand Won Academy Award[2]
 Chile Los Debutantes Spanish Andrés Waissbluth Not nominated
 China Warriors of Heaven and Earth 天地英雄 Mandarin He Ping Not nominated
 Colombia The First Night La primera noche Spanish Luis Alberto Restrepo Not nominated
 Croatia Witnesses Svjedoci Croatian Vinko Brešan Not nominated
 Cuba Suite Habana No dialogue Fernando Pérez Not nominated
 Czech Republic Želary Czech, Russian, German, English Ondřej Trojan Nominated[3]
 Denmark Reconstruction Danish Christoffer Boe Not nominated
 Egypt Sleepless Nights سهر الليالى Arabic Hany Khalifa Not nominated
 Finland Elina: As If I Wasn't There Elina - Som om jag inte fanns,
Näkymätön Elina		 Swedish, Finnish Klaus Härö Not nominated
 France Bon Voyage French Jean-Paul Rappeneau Not nominated
 Germany Good Bye, Lenin! German Wolfgang Becker Not nominated
 Greece Think It Over Θα το Μετανιώσεις Greek Katerina Evangelakou Not nominated
 Hong Kong Infernal Affairs 無間道 Cantonese Andrew Lau and Alan Mak Not nominated
 Hungary Forest Rengeteg Hungarian Benedek Fliegauf Not nominated
 Iceland Noi the Albino Nói Albínói Icelandic, French Dagur Kári Not nominated
 Indonesia The Stringless Violin Biola tak berdawai Indonesian Sekar Ayu Asmara Not nominated
 Iran Deep Breath نفس عمیق Persian Parviz Shahbazi Not nominated
 Israel Nina's Tragedies האסונות של נינה Hebrew Savi Gabizon Not nominated
 Italy I'm Not Scared Io non ho paura Italian Gabriele Salvatores Not nominated
 Japan The Twilight Samurai たそがれ清兵衛 Japanese Yoji Yamada Nominated[3]
 South Korea Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄 Korean Kim Ki-duk Not nominated
 Lebanon The Kite طيّارة من ورق Arabic Randa Chahal Not nominated
 Luxembourg I Always Wanted to Be a Saint J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte French Geneviève Mersch Not nominated
 Mexico Aro Tolbukhin Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino Spanish Isaac Pierre Racine, Lydia Zimmermann
and Agustí Villaronga		 Not nominated
 Mongolia The Story of the Weeping Camel Ингэний нулимс Mongolian Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni Not nominated
 Nepal Muna Madan मुनामदन Nepali Gyanendra Deuja Not nominated
 Netherlands Twin Sisters De Tweeling Dutch, German Ben Sombogaart Nominated[3]
 Norway Kitchen Stories Salmer fra kjøkkenet Norwegian, Swedish Bent Hamer Not nominated
 Palestine Divine Intervention يد إلهية Arabic, Hebrew, English Elia Suleiman Not nominated
 Peru Paper Dove Paloma de Papel Spanish Fabrizio Aguilar Not nominated
 Philippines Dekada '70 Dekada '70 Filipino Chito S. Roño Not nominated
 Poland Pornography Pornografia Polish Jan Jakub Kolski Not nominated
 Portugal A Talking Picture Um Filme Falado Portuguese, French, Italian,
Greek, English		 Manoel De Oliveira Not nominated
 Russia The Return Возвращение Russian Andrei Zvyagintsev Not nominated
 Serbia and Montenegro The Professional Професионалац Serbian Dušan Kovačević Not nominated
 Slovakia King of Thieves König der Diebe German, Russian Ivan Fíla Not nominated
 Slovenia Spare Parts Rezervni deli Slovene Damjan Kozole Not nominated
 Sri Lanka Mansion by the Lake වෑකන්ද වලව්ව Sinhala Lester James Peries Not nominated
 Spain Soldados de Salamina Spanish, Catalan, French David Trueba Not nominated
 Sweden Evil Ondskan Swedish Mikael Håfström Nominated[3]
 Taiwan Goodbye, Dragon Inn 不散 Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien Tsai Ming-Liang Not nominated
 Thailand Last Life in the Universe เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล Thai, Japanese, English Pen-ek Ratanaruang Not nominated
 Turkey Distant Uzak Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan Not nominated
 Ukraine Mamay Мамай Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar Oles Sanin Not nominated
 Uruguay Seawards Journey El viaje hacia el mar Spanish Guillermo Casanova Not nominated
 Venezuela Sangrador Leonardo Henríquez Not nominated

Notes[edit]

  • Armenia Vodka Lemon was not originally accepted by the academy who said that Armenia had not proven that they had creative control over the film. The film was later accepted and screened alongside all the other films.
  • India The Film Federation of India announced that their selection committee had been unable to find a suitable film to send to the Oscars and so declined to send an entry. This left India out of the race for the first time in over a decade.[4]
  • State of Palestine Palestine had tried to submit a film the year before, but was prevented from doing so by the academy which said that Palestine was not a country and had no recognized Film Board. The academy subsequently changed its mind saying that although Palestine was not a recognized country, they would make "an exception" in the interests of inclusiveness.[1]

References[edit]

General
  • "Record-Breaking 56 Countries in Competition for Oscar" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2003-10-20. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
Specific
  1. ^ a b "Palestinian film joins Oscar race". BBC News. 2003-10-21. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  2. ^ a b Associated Press (3 January 2004). "'Invasions' takes foreign-language Oscar". Today. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d Hernandez, Eugene (27 January 2004). "Nominations Announced for 76th Academy Awards". IndieWire. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  4. ^ "No Indian film at the Oscars - Rediff.com".
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