List of Albanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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Albania has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] since 1996, but only a regular basis since 2008. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. [3] It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since. [4]

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The Albanian submission is decided by a committee appointed by the Albanian Ministry of Culture. [5] Thirteen Albanian films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but none of them has yet been nominated for an Oscar.

Submissions

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 since 1956. [4] The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. [3] The list of the films that have been submitted by Albania for review by the academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony as follows.

Albania's first three films were historical tales set against the backdrop of the Enver Hoxha dictatorship which ruled Albania for over forty years. Bunker and Slogans take place in Albania in the late 1970s while Sadness takes place in 1961 Czechoslovakia. Colonel Bunker is a drama about a soldier tasked by Hoxha to build a network of impossibly elaborate structures ('bunkers') designed to resist a potential foreign invasion. Slogans is a lighter film satirizing the ideological obsessions of the Hoxha regime, and their suffocating influence over the life of a small, rural school. Both films are among the few Albanian films to win awards at international Film Festivals- Bunker won an award at Venice and Slogans was the very first Albanian film to play at Cannes. The Sadness of Mrs. Schneider, a Czech co-production, tells the story of a multi-ethnic group of friends studying cinema in Prague in the 1960s, and their travels around the Czechoslovak countryside.

In 2009, the selection committee originally considered three films. [5] [6] Two of these films were directed by Artan Minarolli. Albania ended up choosing a film set in the post-Communist era for the first time- Minarolli's Alive!- about a modern, young Albanian student who becomes involved with an ancient blood feud after returning to his home village for the funeral of his father.

Although, Albania itself has maintained a low profile in this category, four other countries in the region – Greece, Italy, Macedonia and Switzerland – have each submitted films about Albania and the Albanian diaspora to the Oscars.

Year
(Ceremony)		Film title used in nominationOriginal titleLanguage(s)DirectorResult
1996
(69th) 		Kolonel Bunker Kolonel Bunker Albanian Kujtim Çashku Not nominated
2001
(74th) 		Slogans Parullat Gjergj Xhuvani Not nominated
2008
(81st) 		The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider Trishtimi i zonjës ShnajderAlbanian, Czech Eno Milkani, Piro Milkani Not nominated
2009
(82nd) 		AliveGjallëAlbanian Artan Minarolli Not nominated
2010
(83rd) 		East, West, East [7] Lindje, Perëndim, LindjeAlbanian, Italian, Slovene, Serbian Gjergj Xhuvani Not nominated [8]
2011
(84th) 		Amnesty AmnistiaAlbanian Bujar Alimani Not nominated
2012
(85th) 		Pharmakon [9] Joni Shanaj Not nominated
2013
(86th) 		Agon [10] Albanian, Greek Robert Budina Not nominated
2015
(88th) 		Bota [11] AlbanianIris Elezi, Thomas LogoreciNot nominated
2016
(89th) 		Chromium [12] KromBujar AlimaniNot nominated
2017
(90th) 		Daybreak [13] Dita zë fill Gentian Koçi Not nominated
2019
(92nd) 		The Delegation [14] DelegacioniAlbanian, French Bujar AlimaniNot nominated
2020
(93rd) 		Open Door [15] Derë e hapurAlbanian, ItalianFlorenc PapasNot nominated
2021
(94th) 		Two Lions to Venice [16] Dy Luanë drejt VeneciasAlbanian, ItalianJonid JorgjiNot nominated
2022
(95th) 		A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On [17] Një Filxhan Kafe dhe Këpucë të Reja VeshurAlbanian Gentian Koçi Not nominated
2023
(96th) 		Alexander [18] Albanian, English Ardit SadikuNot nominated

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The category was previously named the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in April 2019, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated. [1] [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Academy announces rules for 92nd Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Academy Announces Rule Changes For 92nd Oscars". Forbes. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  4. 1 2 "History of the Academy Awards – Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  5. 1 2 "Gjalle ne Oscar? Skishte tjeter!". Archived from the original on 12 February 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  6. ↑ Runners-up: A Provincial Chronicle and Lenin and Us. http://www.albaniasite.net/kultura/gjalle-ne-oscar-skishte-tjeter.html [ dead link ]
  7. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (27 September 2010). "Albania looks 'East' for its Oscar choice". Variety. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  8. ↑ "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar® Race". oscars.org. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  9. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (25 September 2012). "Albania to enter 'Pharmakon' for Oscars". Variety . Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  10. ↑ "Albania's Agon selected for the foreign-language film category at the 2014 Oscars". Illyria. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  11. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (21 September 2015). "Oscars: Albania Nominates 'Bota' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  12. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (18 September 2016). "Oscars: Albania Selects 'Chromium' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  13. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (18 September 2017). "Oscars: Albania Selects 'Daybreak' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  14. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (20 September 2019). "Oscars: Albania Selects 'The Delegation' for International Feature Film Category". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  15. ↑ "Njoftim për përzgjedhjen e filmit artistik shqiptar që do të konkurrojë në "International Feature Film" – edicioni 93". Albanian National Center of Cinematography. 26 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  16. ↑ "'Dy Luanë drejt Venecias' nga Jonid Jorgji për Oscars 2022". Kultplus. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  17. ↑ "Shqipëria gati për "Oscars", prezantohet kandidatura e këtij viti". kultplus. 9 September 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  18. ↑ "Filmi "Alexander", i Ardit Sadikut, kandidatura e Shqipërisë për në çmimet Oscar". kultplus. 26 September 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
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