List of Cambodian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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Cambodia is one of the one hundred currently existing nations that has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, with their first submission announced in 1994 to compete for the 1995 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Cambodia became the sixth South East Asian country to enter the competition, after the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. To date, Cambodia has submitted seven films.

Cambodia Southeast Asian sovereign state

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is 181,035 square kilometres in area, bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest.

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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. [1] 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. [2] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Cambodia for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

Secret ballot voting style that makes each vote anonymous

The secret ballot, also known as Australian ballot, is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous, forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying. The system is one means of achieving the goal of political privacy.

Year
(Ceremony)		Film title used in nominationOriginal titleDirectorResult
1994
(67th) 		Rice People អ្នកស្រែ
(Neak Sre)		 Rithy Panh Not Nominated
2012
(85th) 		Lost Loves [3] ឃ្លាតទៅសែនឆ្ងាយ Chhay Bora Not Nominated
2013
(86th) 		The Missing Picture [4] L'image manquante Rithy Panh Nominated [5]
2015
(88th) 		The Last Reel [6] ដុំហ្វីលចុងក្រោយ Kulikar Sotho Not Nominated
2016
(89th) 		Before the Fall [7] មុនពេលបែកបាក់ Ian White Not Nominated
2017
(90th) 		First They Killed My Father [8] មុនដំបូងខ្មែរក្រហមសម្លាប់ប៉ារបស់ខ្ Angelina Jolie Not Nominated
2018
(91st) 		Graves Without a Name [9] ផ្នូរគ្មានឈ្មោះ (Les tombeaux sans noms) Rithy Panh Not Nominated

Cambodia's first Oscar submission, The Rice People, is a Khmer language drama by Cambodia's leading international director Rithy Panh, about a family of women struggling to survive after the death of the family patriarch from a foot infection. The story takes place several years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, and is one of the few Cambodian dramas to be released internationally. The film played in competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was released on DVD in the United States and other countries.

Khmer language Language spoken in Cambodia

Khmer or Cambodian is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia. With approximately 16 million speakers, it is the second most widely spoken Austroasiatic language. Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through Hinduism and Buddhism. The more colloquial registers have influenced, and have been influenced by, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and Cham, all of which, due to geographical proximity and long-term cultural contact, form a sprachbund in peninsular Southeast Asia. It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon–Khmer family, predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese, due to Old Khmer being the language of the historical empires of Chenla, Angkor and, presumably, their earlier predecessor state, Funan.

Rithy Panh Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter

Rithy Panh is a Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter.

Khmer Rouge followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia

The Khmer Rouge was the name popularly given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name had originally been used in the 1950s by Norodom Sihanouk as a blanket term for the Cambodian left.

The Rice People screened along films from 44 other countries from around the world for the Academy Award's Foreign Film Committee but ultimately failed to win an Oscar nomination. Cambodia submitted its second film, Lost Loves , for the 85th Academy Awards.

Lost Loves is a 2010 Cambodian drama film directed by Chhay Bora and based on real events. It is the first Cambodian film in more than 20 years to deal with facts during the Khmer Rouge era. Lost Loves was selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. It is only the second Cambodian film to be listed for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. The film made its premiere at the 2010 Cambodia International Film Festival

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References

  1. ↑ "History of the Academy Awards - Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2008.
  2. ↑ 80th Academy Awards - Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award Archived 12 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Last accessed on 2 November 2007.
  3. ↑ "Cambodia makes first Oscars submission in 18 years". Screendaily. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  4. ↑ "2014 Oscar Predictions: Best Foreign Language Film". IndieWire. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Oscars: Main nominations 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Brzeski, Patrick (21 September 2015). "Oscars: Cambodia Selects 'The Last Reel' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Kilday, Gregg (11 October 2016). "Oscars: 85 Foreign-Language Film Contenders Unveiled by Academy". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  8. ↑ Frater, Patrick (18 September 2017). "Cambodia Sets Angelina Jolie's 'Father' as Oscar Contender". Variety. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  9. ↑ Pond, Steve (14 September 2018). "'Roma' Enters Oscar Foreign-Language Race, Becomes the Instant Favorite". The Wrap. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
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