List of submissions to the 64th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 64th 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 64th Academy Awards, thirty-four films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Sweden and the eventual winner, Mediterraneo, from Italy.[3] Hong Kong and Iceland received their first-ever nominations, while Czechoslovakia received its final nomination as a unified state.
Submissions
Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
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Algeria | Cheb | French, Arabic | Rachid Bouchareb | Not nominated | |
Argentina | The Tombs | Las tumbas | Spanish | Javier Torre | Not nominated |
Armenia | The Voice in the Wilderness | Armenian | Vigen Chaldranyan | Not on the final list | |
Austria | I Love Vienna | German, English, Italian, Polish, Persian, Arabic | Houchang Allahyari | Not nominated | |
Belgium | Toto the Hero | Toto le héros | French | Jaco Van Dormael | Not nominated |
Brazil | Exposure | A Grande Arte | Brazilian Portuguese, English, Spanish | Walter Salles | Not nominated |
Bulgaria | The Well | Кладенецът | Bulgarian | Docho Bodzhakov | Not nominated |
Canada | A Bullet in the Head | Fictional Language | Attila Bertalan | Not nominated | |
Chile | La Frontera | Spanish | Ricardo Larraín | Not nominated | |
China | The Spring Festival | 过年 | Mandarin | Huang Jianzhong | Not nominated |
Colombia | Confessing to Laura | Confesión a Laura | Spanish | Jaime Osorio Gómez | Not nominated |
Cuba | Hello Hemingway | Fernando Perez | Not nominated | ||
Czechoslovakia | The Elementary School | Obecná skola | Czech | Jan Svěrák | Nominated |
Croatia | Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing | Croatian | Zrinko Ogresta | Not on the final list | |
Denmark | The Great Day on the Beach | Den store badedag | Danish | Stellan Olsson | Not nominated |
France | Van Gogh | French | Maurice Pialat | Not nominated | |
Hong Kong | Raise the Red Lantern | 大紅燈籠高高掛 | Mandarin | Zhang Yimou | Nominated |
Hungary | Brats | Félálom | Hungarian | János Rózsa | Not nominated |
Iceland | Children of Nature | Börn náttúrunnar | Icelandic, English | Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Nominated |
India | Henna | हिना | Hindi, Urdu | Randhir Kapoor | Not nominated |
Israel | Beyond the Sea | מעבר לים | Hebrew | Jacob Goldwasser | Not nominated |
Italy | Mediterraneo | Italian, English, Greek | Gabriele Salvatores | Won Academy Award | |
Japan | Rhapsody in August | 八月の狂詩曲 | Japanese | Akira Kurosawa | Not nominated |
Mexico | Homework | La tarea | Spanish | Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Not nominated |
Netherlands | Eline Vere | Dutch | Harry Kümel | Not nominated | |
Norway | Frida – Straight from the Heart | Frida - med hjertet i hånden | Norwegian | Berit Nesheim | Not nominated |
Peru | Alias 'La Gringa' | Spanish | Alberto Durant | Not nominated | |
Poland | The Double Life of Véronique | Podwójne życie Weroniki | Polish, French | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Not nominated |
Portugal | O Sangue | O Sangue | Portuguese | Pedro Costa | Not nominated |
Soviet Union | Get Thee Out | Изыди! | Russian | Dmitriy Astrakhan | Not nominated |
Spain | High Heels | Tacones lejanos | Spanish | Pedro Almodóvar | Not nominated |
Sweden | The Ox | Oxen | Swedish | Sven Nykvist | Nominated |
Switzerland | Der Berg | Der Berg | Swiss German | Markus Imhoof | Not nominated |
Taiwan | A Brighter Summer Day | 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 | Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese Hokkien | Edward Yang | Not nominated |
United Kingdom | Lost in Siberia | Затерянный в Сибири | Russian | Alexander Mitta | Not nominated |
Venezuela | Jericho | Jericó | Spanish | Luis Alberto Lamata | Not nominated |
Yugoslavia | The Original of the Forgery | Оригинал фалсификата | Serbian | Dragan Kresoja | Not nominated |
Notes
- Germany caused controversy when it took the unusual step not to submit any film to the competition. Europa, Europa by Agnieszka Holland was one of the pre-selection favorites to win the award. Although the film was made in German and about Germany, the country's National Film Board said that because they considered the film to be a majority-French production, and because the director was Polish, they did not consider it qualified to represent Germany. This is the only time since 1977 that Germany failed to be represented.[4]
- In spite of a rule requiring films to be in the language of the submitting country, AMPAS decided to accept a submission from the United Kingdom that was mostly in Russian, marking the UK's first-ever participation in the competition.
- AMPAS acknowledged that they had received four submissions from new Eastern European republics, Armenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia, which had each declared independence in mid-to-late 1991. Since none of the countries had yet been recognized internationally, the films were disqualified and not screened, although representatives from their parent states - the USSR and Yugoslavia - were allowed to compete. AMPAS did not announce the titles, but based on the small size of these republic's film industries at the time it appears certain that Macedonia chose Stole Popov's Tetoviranje, the most celebrated Yugoslavian film of 1991, and that Croatia, Slovenia and Armenia likely chose family drama Fragments, black comedy The Cartier Operation and surreal religious drama The Voice in the Wilderness respectively.[5]
- Other countries notable by their absence included Egypt, Finland, Greece and Romania.
References
- ^ "History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 2008-06-22. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
- ^ a b "Rule 14 | 81st Academy Awards Rules | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 2008-08-09. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
- ^ "The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ Weinraub, Bernard (1992-01-14). "The Talk of Hollywood; 'Europa' Surfaces In Oscar Angling". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
- ^ "Daily News of Los Angeles (CA), December 6, 1991". Daily News of Los Angeles. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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