List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 72nd 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]

1999 Best Foreign Language Film submissions
Pedro Almodóvar accepted the Academy Award won by his film for Spain
Highlights
Oscar winnerSpain All About My Mother
Total submissions47
First-time submissions3
← 1998 · List · 2000 →

For the 72nd Academy Awards, the Academy invited 75 countries to submit films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[3] The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1999.[4] Forty-seven countries submitted films to the Academy, surpassing the record set in 1994.[5] The Asian nations of Bhutan, Nepal and Tajikistan submitted films for the first time ever.[5] The nominations were announced on February 15, 2000, and the winner was revealed during the awards presentation held on March 26, 2000.[6] Belgium's submission Rosetta was not nominated, even though it had received the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the previous year.[7] Nepal received its first and so far only nomination for Himalaya: Caravan, a film made in the Tibetan language, which is spoken in parts of Nepal, about the country's disappearing salt-trade system.[8] The four other nominated films came from France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.[9] The latter received its nomination for Solomon & Gaenor, the first film made entirely in Welsh and Yiddish.[10]

Spain won the award for the third time with All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar.[9][11][12]

Submissions

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Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
  Argentina Manuelita Spanish Manuel García Ferré Not nominated
  Austria Northern Skirts Nordrand German Barbara Albert Not nominated
  Belgium Rosetta French Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne Not nominated
  Bhutan The Cup ཕོར་པ། Hindi, Tibetan Khyentse Norbu Not nominated
  Brazil Orfeu Brazilian Portuguese Carlos Diegues Not nominated
  Canada Set Me Free Emporte-moi French Léa Pool Not nominated
  China Lover's Grief over the Yellow River 黄河绝恋 Mandarin Feng Xiaoning Not nominated
  Colombia Time Out Golpe de estadio Spanish Sergio Cabrera Not nominated
  Croatia Red Dust Crvena prašina Croatian Zrinko Ogresta Not nominated
  Czech Republic The Idiot Returns Návrat idiota Czech Saša Gedeon Not nominated
  Denmark Mifune Mifunes sidste sang Danish Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Not nominated
  Finland The Tough Ones Häjyt Finnish Aleksi Mäkelä Not nominated
  France East-West Est-Ouest French, Russian Régis Wargnier Nominated
  Georgia Here Comes the Dawn აქ თენდება Georgian Zaza Urushadze Not nominated
  Germany Aimée & Jaguar Aimée und Jaguar German Max Färberböck Not nominated
  Greece From the Edge of the City Από την άκρη της πόλης Greek, Russian Constantinos Giannaris Not nominated
  Hong Kong Ordinary Heroes 千言萬語 Cantonese Ann Hui Not nominated
  Hungary The Lord's Lantern in Budapest Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten Hungarian Miklós Jancsó Not nominated
  Iceland The Honour of the House Ungfrúin góða og húsið Icelandic Guðný Halldórsdóttir Not nominated
  India Earth अर्थ Hindi, English, Parsee, Punjabi, Urdu Deepa Mehta Not nominated
  Indonesia Sri Indonesian Marselli Sumarno Not nominated
  Iran The Colours of Paradise رنگ خدا Persian Majid Majidi Not nominated
  Israel Yana's Friends החברים של יאנה Hebrew, Russian, English Arik Kaplun Not nominated
  Italy Not of this World Fuori dal mondo Italian Giuseppe Piccioni Not nominated
  Japan Railroad Man 鉄道員 Japanese Yasuo Furuhata Not nominated
  Lebanon Around the Pink House البيت الزهري French, Arabic Joana Hadjithomas
Khalil Joreige
Not nominated
  Mexico El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba El coronel no tiene quien le escriba Spanish Arturo Ripstein Not nominated
  Nepal Caravan हिमालय Dolpo, Nepali, German Éric Valli Nominated
  Netherlands Scratches in the Table Madelief, krassen in het tafelblad Dutch Ineke Houtman Not nominated
  Norway The Prompter Suffløsen Norwegian Hilde Heier Not nominated
  Peru Captain Pantoja and the Special Services Pantaleón y las visitadoras Spanish Francisco J. Lombardi Not nominated
  Philippines The Kite Saranggola Filipino, Tagalog Gil Portes Not nominated
  Poland Pan Tadeusz Pan Tadeusz Polish Andrzej Wajda Not nominated
  Portugal The Mutants Os Mutantes Portuguese Teresa Villaverde Not nominated
  Romania The Famous Paparazzo Faimosul paparazzo Romanian Nicolae Mărgineanu Not nominated
  Russia Moloch Молох German Alexander Sokurov Not nominated
  Slovakia All My Loved Ones Vsichni moji blízcí Czech Matej Mináč Not nominated
  Spain All About My Mother Todo sobre mi madre Spanish, Catalan, English Pedro Almodóvar Won Academy Award
  Sweden Under the Sun Under solen Swedish Colin Nutley Nominated
  Switzerland Beresina, or The Last Days of Switzerland Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz Swiss German Daniel Schmid Not nominated
  Tajikistan Luna Papa Лунный папа Russian Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov Not nominated
  Taiwan March of Happiness 天馬茶房 Taiwanese Hokkien, Japanese, Mandarin, Shanghainese Lin Cheng-sheng Not nominated
  Turkey Mrs. Salkim's Diamonds Salkım Hanımın Taneleri Turkish Tomris Giritlioğlu Not nominated
  United Kingdom Solomon and Gaenor Solomon a Gaenor Welsh, Yiddish, English Paul Morrison Nominated
  Venezuela Glue Sniffer Huelepega: Ley de la calle Spanish Elia Schneider Not nominated
  Vietnam Three Seasons Ba mùa English, Vietnamese Tony Bui Not nominated
  Yugoslavia The White Suit Бело одело Serbian Lazar Ristovski Not nominated

References

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General
  • "Record 47 Countries In Oscar Contention" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-11-22. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
Specific
  1. ^ "History of the Academy Awards - Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on June 22, 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on August 9, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  3. ^ "Academy Invites 75 Countries to Submit Their Best Pictures for Foreign Language Film Oscar" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-08-02. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
  4. ^ "Nov 1 is Oscar Entry Deadline for Foreign Language and Short Films" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-10-22. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
  5. ^ a b Feiwell, Jill (November 22, 1999). "Record 47 foreign pix vie for Oscar". Variety. PMC. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  6. ^ "Voting Schedule Set for 72nd Academy Awards" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-07-28. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  7. ^ "Rosetta wins Cannes prize". BBC News. BBC. May 23, 1999. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  8. ^ "Nepal's first ever Oscar nomination". BBC News. BBC. 2000-02-16. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  9. ^ a b "2000 Academy Award winners and nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 1, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  10. ^ Thomas, Rebecca (2000-03-17). "Wising up to Solomon". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
  11. ^ Nichols 2011, p. 42
  12. ^ "What the winners said". BBC News. BBC. March 28, 2000. Retrieved August 20, 2008.

Bibliography

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  • Nichols, William J. (2011). Transatlantic Mysteries: Crime, Culture, and Capital in the "Noir Novels" of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Lanham, Maryland, United States: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1611480405.