List of submissions to the 78th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
The following 63 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 78th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (release at the country of origin October 2004 - September 2005, ceremony March 2006).
Costa Rica, Iraq and Fiji submitted films for the first time.
Submissions
Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
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El Aura | Spanish | Fabián Bielinsky | Not Nominated |
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Caché[1] | French | Michael Haneke | Disqualified |
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Shyamol Chhaya | Bangla | Humayun Ahmed | Not Nominated |
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The Child | French | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Not Nominated |
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Say Good Morning to Dad[2] | Spanish | Fernando Vargas | Disqualified |
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Totally Personal | Serbo-Croatian | Nedžad Begović | Not Nominated |
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Two Sons of Francisco | Portuguese | Breno Silveira | Not Nominated |
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Stolen Eyes | Bulgarian, Turkish | Radoslav Spassov | Not Nominated |
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C.R.A.Z.Y. | French | Jean-Marc Vallée | Not Nominated |
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Play | Spanish | Alicia Scherson | Not Nominated |
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The Promise | Mandarin | Chen Kaige | Not Nominated |
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La Sombra del Caminante | Spanish | Ciro Guerra | Not Nominated |
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Caribe | Spanish | Esteban Ramírez | Not Nominated |
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A Wonderful Night in Split | Serbo-Croatian | Arsen Anton Ostojić | Not Nominated |
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Viva Cuba | Spanish | Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti | Not Nominated |
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Something Like Happiness | Czech | Bohdan Sláma | Not Nominated |
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Adam's Apples | Danish | Anders Thomas Jensen | Not Nominated |
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Shop of Dreams | Estonian | Peeter Urbla | Not Nominated |
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The Land Has Eyes | Rotuman | Vilsoni Hereniko | Not Nominated |
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Mother of Mine | Swedish, Finnish | Klaus Härö | Not Nominated |
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Joyeux Noël | French, German, English | Christian Carion | Nominated |
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Tbilisi-Tbilisi | Georgian | Levan Zakareishvili | Not Nominated |
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Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | German | Marc Rothemund | Nominated |
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Nyfes [3] | English | Pantelis Voulgaris | Disqualified |
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Perhaps Love | Mandarin, Cantonese | Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Not Nominated |
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Fateless | Hungarian, German | Lajos Koltai | Not Nominated |
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Ahead of Time | Icelandic | Ágúst Guðmundsson | Not Nominated |
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Paheli | Hindi | Amol Palekar | Not Nominated |
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Gie | Indonesian | Riri Raza | Not Nominated |
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So Close, So Far | Persian | Reza Mir Karimi | Not Nominated |
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Requiem of Snow | Kurdish | Jamil Rostami | Not Nominated |
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What a Wonderful Place | Hebrew, Russian, Tagalog, English |
Eyal Halfon | Not Nominated |
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Don't Tell[4] | Italian | Cristina Comencini | Nominated |
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Blood and Bones | Japanese, Korean | Yoichi Sai | Not Nominated |
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Welcome to Dongmakgol | Korean | Park Kwang-hyun | Not Nominated |
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Renart the Fox | French | Thierry Schiel | Not Nominated |
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Al otro lado | Spanish, Arabic | Gustavo Loza | Not Nominated |
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The Cave of the Yellow Dog | Mongolian | Byambasuren Davaa | Not Nominated |
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Bluebird[5] | Dutch | Mijke de Jong | Disqualified |
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Kissed by Winter | Norwegian | Sara Johnsen | Not Nominated |
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Paradise Now[6] | Arabic, English | Hany Abu-Assad | Nominated |
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Días de Santiago | Spanish | Josué Méndez | Not Nominated |
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The Collector | Polish | Feliks Falk | Not Nominated |
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Noite Escura | Portuguese, Russian | João Canijo | Not Nominated |
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Cayo | Spanish | Vicente Juarbe | Not Nominated |
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Romanian | Cristi Puiu | Not Nominated |
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The Italian | Russian | Andrei Kravchuk | Not Nominated |
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Midwinter Night's Dream | Serbo-Croatian | Goran Paskaljević | Not Nominated |
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Be with Me[7] | English, Hokkien, Mandarin, Cantonese |
Eric Khoo | Disqualified |
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The City of the Sun | Slovak, Czech | Martin Šulík | Not Nominated |
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The Ruins | Slovene | Janez Burger | Not Nominated |
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Tsotsi | Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English |
Gavin Hood | Won Academy Award |
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Obaba | Spanish | Montxo Armendáriz | Not Nominated |
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Zozo | Swedish, Arabic | Josef Fares | Not Nominated |
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Tout un Hiver sans Feu | French, Albanian | Greg Zglinski | Not Nominated |
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The Wayward Cloud | Mandarin | Tsai Ming-liang | Not Nominated |
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Sex & Philosophy[2] | Tajik | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Disqualified |
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The Tin Mine | Thai | Jira Maligool | Not Nominated |
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Lovelorn | Turkish | Yavuz Turgul | Not Nominated |
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Alma Mater | Spanish | Álvaro Buela | Not on final list |
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1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel | Spanish | Alfredo Anzola | Disqualified |
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The Buffalo Boy | Vietnamese | Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh | Not Nominated |
Failed submissions
In addition to the above, Venezuela selected 1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel, but their entry was delayed by a lawsuit and they missed the deadline [8] Uruguay reportedly selected Álvaro Buela's Alma Mater, but it only ended up sent to the Goya Awards. Both films were chosen by their respective national film boards, and should be considered as their countries' national Foreign Film submissions.
Nepal elected to send Basain, but due to its release date, it was submitted the following year instead.
The Philippines failed to send a film for the first time in ten years; their Film Academy claimed they thought they hadn't been invited after the official invitation failed to reach their new address. Among the other countries which were officially invited to submit a film, but did not, were Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia, Ecuador, Egypt, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malaysia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Notes
- ↑ disqualified because the film was completely in French, and not in a language indigenous to Austria
- 1 2 disqualified because a print of the film did not arrive at the Academy in time
- ↑ http://www.indiewire.com/article/with_national_pride_at_stake_foreign_language_films_compete_for_oscar_glory/
- ↑ Private was originally selected but the Academy informed Italy that the film would be disqualified for not being in Italian. The Italian Academy appealed the decision, but ended up selecting a new film
- ↑ disqualified because it was too similar to a version previously aired on Dutch television; it was too late to select another Dutch film
- ↑ Paradise Now was submitted as coming from "Palestine," which was used on the web page and the official notices of the Academy. It was announced at the awards ceremony as from "the Palestinian territories" .
- ↑ disqualified after its official screening for being mostly in English and not in a Foreign Language
- ↑ http://vcrisis.com/index.php?content=pr/200511020640
References
- "58 Countries Vying for 2005 Foreign Language Film Oscar" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2005-10-25. Retrieved 2008-08-22.