List of submissions to the 76th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
The following 56 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 76th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film which took place in 2004. The bolded titles were the five nominated films.
Films were submitted by Mongolia, Palestine and Sri Lanka for the first time. 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]
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. [2] Also notable by their first absence in over ten years was Switzerland (though they were disqualified in 1994).
Submissions
Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
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![]() | Osama | أسامة | Dari | Siddiq Barmak | Not Nominated |
![]() | Valentín | Valentín | Spanish | Alejandro Agresti | Not Nominated |
![]() | Vodka Lemon[3] | Vodka Lemon | Kurdish, Russian, Armenian | Hiner Saleem | Not Nominated |
![]() | Free Radicals | Böse Zellen | German | Barbara Albert | Not Nominated |
![]() | Sea of Silence | Verder dan de maan | Dutch | Stijn Coninx | Not Nominated |
![]() | Sexual Dependency | Dependencia Sexual | Spanish, English | Rodrigo Bellott | Not Nominated |
![]() | Fuse | Gori vatra | Serbo-Croatian | Pjer Žalica | Not Nominated |
![]() | Carandiru | Carandiru | Portuguese | Héctor Babenco | Not Nominated |
![]() | Journey to Jerusalem | Пътуване към Йерусалим | Bulgarian | Ivan Nitchev | Not Nominated |
![]() | The Barbarian Invasions | Les Invasions barbares | French | Denys Arcand | Won Academy Award |
![]() | Los Debutantes | Los Debutantes | Spanish | Andrés Waissbluth | Not Nominated |
![]() | Warriors of Heaven and Earth | 天地英雄 | Mandarin | He Ping | Not Nominated |
![]() | The First Night | La Primera Noche | Spanish | Luis Alberto Restrepo | Not Nominated |
![]() | Witnesses | Svjedoci | Serbo-Croatian | Vinko Brešan | Not Nominated |
![]() | Suite Habana | Suite Habana | No dialogue | Fernando Pérez | Not Nominated |
![]() | Želary | Želary | Czech | Ondřej Trojan | Nominated |
![]() | Reconstruction | Reconstruction | Danish | Christoffer Boe | Not Nominated |
![]() | Sleepless Nights | سهر الليالى | Arabic | Hany Khalifa | Not Nominated |
![]() | Elina: As If I Wasn't There | Elina - Som om jag inte fanns (Swedish) Näkymätön Elina (Finnish) | Swedish, Finnish | Klaus Härö | Not Nominated |
![]() | Bon Voyage | Bon Voyage | French | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Not Nominated |
![]() | Good Bye, Lenin! | Good Bye, Lenin! | German | Wolfgang Becker | Not Nominated |
![]() | Think It Over | Θα το Μετανιώσεις | Greek | Katerina Evangelakou | Not Nominated |
![]() | Infernal Affairs | 無間道 | Cantonese | Andrew Lau and Alan Mak | Not Nominated |
![]() | Forest | Rengeteg | Hungarian | Benedek Fliegauf | Not Nominated |
![]() | Noi the Albino | Nói Albínói | Icelandic | Dagur Kári | Not Nominated |
![]() | The Stringless Violin | Biola tak berdawai | Indonesian | Sekar Ayu Asmara | Not Nominated |
![]() | Deep Breath | نفس عمیق | Persian | Kambuzia Partovi | Not Nominated |
![]() | Nina's Tragedies | האסונות של נינה | Hebrew | Savi Gabizon | Not Nominated |
![]() | I'm Not Scared | Io non ho paura | Italian | Gabriele Salvatores | Not Nominated |
![]() | The Twilight Samurai | たそがれ清兵衛 | Japanese | Yoji Yamada | Nominated |
![]() | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄 | Korean | Kim Ki-duk | Not Nominated |
![]() | The Kite | Le Cerf-Volant (French) طيّارة من ورق (Arabic) | Arabic | Randa Chahal | Not Nominated |
![]() | I Always Wanted To Be a Saint | J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte | French | Geneviève Mersch | Not Nominated |
![]() | Aro Tolbukhin | Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino | Spanish | Isaac Pierre Racine, Lydia Zimmermann and Agustí Villaronga | Not Nominated |
![]() | The Story of the Weeping Camel | Ингэний нулимс | Mongolian | Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni | Not Nominated |
![]() | Muna Madan | मुनामदन | Nepal | Gyanendra Bahadur Deuja | Not Nominated |
![]() | Twin Sisters | De Tweeling | Dutch, German | Ben Sombogaart | Nominated |
![]() | Kitchen Stories | Salmer fra kjøkkenet | Norwegian, Swedish | Bent Hamer | Not Nominated |
![]() | Divine Intervention | يد إلهية | Arabic, Hebrew | Elia Suleiman | Not Nominated |
![]() | Paper Dove | Paloma de Papel | Spanish | Fabrizio Aguilar | Not Nominated |
![]() | Dekada '70 | Dekada '70 | Filipino | Chito S. Roño | Not Nominated |
![]() | Pornography | Pornografia | Polish | Jan Jakub Kolski | Not Nominated |
![]() | A Talking Picture | Um Filme Falado | Portuguese, French, Italian, Greek, English | Manoel De Oliveira | Not Nominated |
![]() | The Return | Возвращение | Russian | Andrei Zvyagintsev | Not Nominated |
![]() | The Professional | Професионалац | Serbian | Dušan Kovačević | Not Nominated |
![]() | King of Thieves | König der Diebe | German, Russian | Ivan Fíla | Not Nominated |
![]() | Spare Parts | Rezervni deli | Slovene | Damjan Kozole | Not Nominated |
![]() | Mansion by the Lake | Wekande Walauwa | Sinhala | Lester James Peries | Not Nominated |
![]() | Soldados de Salamina | Soldados de Salamina | Spanish | David Trueba | Not Nominated |
![]() | Evil | Ondskan | Swedish | Mikael Håfström | Nominated |
![]() | Goodbye, Dragon Inn | 不散 | Mandarin, Taiwanese | Tsai Ming-Liang | Not Nominated |
![]() | Last Life in the Universe | เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล | Thai | Pen-ek Ratanaruang | Not Nominated |
![]() | Distant | Uzak | Turkish | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Not Nominated |
![]() | Mamay | Мамай | Ukrainian | Oles Sanin | Not Nominated |
![]() | Seawards Journey | El Viaje hacia el mar | Spanish | Guillermo Casanova | Not Nominated |
![]() | Sangrador | Sangrador | Spanish | Leonardo Henríquez | Not Nominated |
Notes
- ↑ "Palestinian film joins Oscar race". BBC News. 2003-10-21. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
- ↑ http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/sep/26oscar.htm
- ↑ 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.
References
- "Record-Breaking 56 Countries in Competition for Oscar" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2003-10-20. Retrieved 2008-08-22.