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Submissions for the 80th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for his film The Counterfeiters

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.[1] 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.[1][2] The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.[2]

For the 80th Academy Awards, which were held on February 24, 2008, the Academy invited 95 countries to submit films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[3] Sixty-three countries submitted films to the Academy, the highest number of submissions in the history of the award, including Azerbaijan and Ireland, which submitted films for the first time.[4][5] Several of the submissions were subject to controversy. The Academy determined that initial submissions from Israel and Taiwan did not meet Academy requirements,[6][7] and both countries submitted new films as replacements.[8][9] The British Academy of Film and Television Arts was subject to criticism for not submitting the Scottish Gaelic Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle or the Welsh Calon Gaeth.[10] Bolivia's official submission, Los Andes no creen en Dios, did not appear on the Academy's list of accepted submissions.[11]

Due to a change in the rules made for the 79th Academy Awards,[12] the Academy published a shortlist of nine films on January 15, 2008, prior to the selection of the final five nominees.[13] The Academy engendered controversy with its selections, notably the omission of Romania's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which had won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and France's Persepolis, the winner of the Jury Prize at the same Cannes Film Festival.[14][15][16][17][18] After revealing the shortlist, the Academy released a list of nominees on January 22, 2008.[19] The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was Austria's The Counterfeiters, which was directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.[20]

Submissions

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
Argentina XXY XXY Spanish Lucía Puenzo Not Nominated
Australia The Home Song Stories The Home Song Stories Cantonese, English, Mandarin Tony Ayres Not Nominated
Austria The Counterfeiters Die Fälscher German Stefan Ruzowitzky Won Academy Award
Azerbaijan Caucasia Qafqaz Azerbaijani, Russian Farid Gumbatov Not Nominated
Bangladesh On the Wings of Dreams স্বপ্নডানায় (Swopnodanay) Bengali Golam Rabbany Biplob Not Nominated
Belgium Ben X Ben X Dutch Nic Balthazar Not Nominated
Bolivia Los Andes no creen en Dios[A] Los Andes no creen en Dios Spanish Antonio Eguino Disqualified
Bosnia and Herzegovina It's Hard to be Nice Teško je biti fin Serbo-Croatian Srdan Vuletic Not Nominated
Brazil The Year My Parents Went On Vacation O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias Portuguese Cao Hamburger Made Shortlist
Bulgaria Warden of the Dead Пазачът на мъртвите (Pazachyt na myrtvite) Bulgarian Ilian Simeonov Not Nominated
Canada Days of Darkness L'Âge des ténèbres French Denys Arcand Made Shortlist
Chile Padre Nuestro Padre nuestro Spanish Rodrigo Sepúlveda Not Nominated
China The Knot 云水谣 (Yun shui yao) Mandarin Yin Li Not Nominated
Colombia Satanás Satanás Spanish Andi Baiz Not Nominated
Croatia Armin Armin Serbo-Croatian Ognjen Sviličić Not Nominated
Cuba The Silly Age La Edad de la peseta Spanish Pavel Giroud Not Nominated
Czech Republic I Served the King of England Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále Czech Jiri Menzel Not Nominated
Denmark The Art of Crying Kunsten at græde i kor Danish Peter Schønau Fog Not Nominated
Egypt In the Heliopolis Flat في شقة مصر الجديدة (Fi shaket masr el Gedeeda) Arabic Mohamed Khan Not Nominated
Estonia The Class Klass Estonian Ilmar Raag Not Nominated
Finland A Man's Job Miehen työ Finnish Aleksi Salmenperä Not Nominated
France Persepolis Persepolis French Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi Not Nominated
Georgia The Russian Triangle რუსული სამკუთხედი (Rusuli samkudhedi) Russian Aleko Tsabadze Not Nominated
Germany The Edge of Heaven Auf der anderen Seite German, Turkish Fatih Akin Not Nominated
Greece Eduart Eduart Albanian, German, Greek Angeliki Antoniou Not Nominated
Hong Kong Exiled 放逐 (Fong juk) Cantonese Johnnie To Not Nominated
Hungary Taxidermia Taxidermia Hungarian György Pálfi Not Nominated
Iceland Jar City Mýrin Icelandic Baltasar Kormakur Not Nominated
India Eklavya: The Royal Guard[B] एकलव्य (Eklavya: The Royal Guard) Hindi Vidhu Vinod Chopra Not Nominated
Indonesia Denias, Singing on the Cloud Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan Indonesian John De Rantau Not Nominated
Iran M for Mother میم مثل مادر (Mim Mesle Madar) Persian Rasul Mollagholipour Not Nominated
Iraq Jani Gal Jani Gal Kurdish Jamil Rostami Not Nominated
Ireland Kings Kings Irish, English Tommy Collins Not Nominated
Israel Beaufort[C] בופור (Beaufort) Hebrew Joseph Cedar Nominated
Italy La sconosciuta La sconosciuta Italian Giuseppe Tornatore Made Shortlist
Japan I Just Didn't Do It それでもボクはやってない (Soredemo boku wa yatte nai) Japanese Masayuki Suo Not Nominated
Kazakhstan Mongol Монгол (Mongol) Mongolian Sergei Bodrov Nominated
Lebanon Caramel سكر بنات (Sukkar banat) Arabic, French Nadine Labaki Not Nominated
Luxembourg Little Secrets Perl oder Pica Luxembourgish Pol Cruchten Not Nominated
North Macedonia Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Shadows Сенки (Senki) Macedonian Milčo Mančevski Not Nominated
Mexico Silent Light Stellet licht Plautdietsch Carlos Reygadas Not Nominated
Netherlands Duska Duska Dutch Jos Stelling Not Nominated
Norway Gone with the Woman Tatt av Kvinnen Norwegian Petter Naess Not Nominated
Peru Crossing a Shadow Una sombra al frente Spanish Augusto Tamayo Not Nominated
Philippines Donsol Donsol Bikol, Tagalog Adolfo Alix, Jr. Not Nominated
Poland Katyń Katyń Polish Andrzej Wajda Nominated
Portugal Belle Toujours Belle Toujours French Manoel de Oliveira Not Nominated
Puerto Rico Love Sickness Maldeamores Spanish Mariem Perez, Carlitos Ruiz Not Nominated
Romania 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile Romanian Cristian Mungiu Not Nominated
Russia 12 12 Russian, Chechen Nikita Mikhalkov Nominated
Serbia The Trap Klopka (Клопка) Serbo-Croatian Srdan Golubović Made Shortlist
Singapore 881 881 Mandarin, Hokkien Royston Tan Not Nominated
Slovakia Return of the Storks Návrat bocianov German, Slovak Martin Repka Not Nominated
Slovenia Short Circuits Kratki stiki Slovene Janez Lapajne Not Nominated
South Korea Secret Sunshine 밀양 (Milyang) Korean Lee Chang-dong Not Nominated
Spain The Orphanage El orfanato Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona Not Nominated
Sweden You, the Living Du levande Swedish Roy Andersson Not Nominated
Switzerland Late Bloomers Die Herbstzeitlosen Swiss German Bettina Oberli Not Nominated
Taiwan Island Etude[D] 練習曲 (Liànxí Qǔ) Mandarin, Taiwanese Chen Huai-En Not Nominated
Thailand King of Fire ตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช (Tamnan Somdej Phra Naresuan) Thai Chatrichalerm Yukol Not Nominated
Turkey A Man's Fear of God Takva Turkish Özer Kızıltan Not Nominated
Uruguay The Pope's Toilet El Baño del Papa Spanish Cesar Charlone, Enrique Fernandez Not Nominated
Venezuela Postcards from Leningrad Postales de Leningrado Spanish Mariana Rondon Not Nominated
Vietnam The White Silk Dress Áo lụa Hà Đông Vietnamese Luu Huynh Not Nominated

See also

  • List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
  • 80th Academy Awards nominees and winners
  • List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films

Notes

  • A Bolivia submitted Los Andes no creen en Dios for review by the Academy, but it did not appear on the list of official submissions.[11]
  • B The submission for India, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, was the target of a lawsuit alleging that India's selection committee was tied to the production staff of Eklavya; however, India retained the film as its submission.[21]
  • C The Academy determined that Israel's first submission, The Band's Visit, contained too much English dialogue for the film to meet Academy requirements,[6][7] and Israel submitted Beaufort as a replacement.[9]
  • D The Academy determined that Taiwan's initial submission, Lust, Caution, had insufficient Taiwanese participation to be considered a valid entry under Academy rules, and Taiwan submitted Island Etude as a replacement.[8]

References

General
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Specific
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  2. ^ a b "Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2008-03-14. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
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  6. ^ a b Kershner, Isabel (2007-10-31). "The Band's Visit". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  7. ^ a b Jaafar, Ali (2007-10-12). "Oscar deems 'Band's Visit' ineligible". Variety. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  8. ^ a b Lee, Min (2007-10-19). "Taiwan drops 'Lust, Caution' as Oscar entry". The China Post. Archived from the original on 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  9. ^ a b Uni, Assaf (2008-01-22). "Israeli film Beaufort nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Film". Haaretz. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  10. ^ Dawtrey, Adam (2007-10-04). "BAFTA attacked over Oscars". Variety. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  11. ^ a b Orellana, Ruddy (2007-12-13). "110 mil personas vieron el último filme de Eguino". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). Archived from the original on December 15, 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  12. ^ "Rules Change for Foreign-Language Oscar". San Francisco Chronicle. 2006-07-01. Archived from the original on 2020-04-04. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  13. ^ "Nine Foreign Language Films Advance in 2007 Oscar Race". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2008-01-15. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  14. ^ Gaydos, Steven; McCarthy, Libby (2008-01-15). "Oscar's foreign film race heats up". Variety. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  15. ^ "Oscar-snubbed '4 Months' rivets". The Washington Post. 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  16. ^ Kenny, Glenn (2008-01-17). "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days". Premiere. Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  17. ^ Goodman, Dean (2008-01-22). "Acclaimed films miss out on foreign-Oscar bid". Reuters. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  18. ^ Collett-White, Mike (2008-02-22). "Snubs, omissions taint Oscar foreign film award". Yahoo! Movies. Archived from the original on 2008-02-28. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  19. ^ "Nominations – 80th Annual Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2008-01-22. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  20. ^ Pearson, Ryan (2008-02-25). "Austria's 'Counterfeiters' Wins Oscar". Fox News. Archived from the original on 2008-04-08. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  21. ^ "India Retains 'Eklavya: The Royal Guard' as Official Oscar Entry". Voice of America. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2008-06-23.

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