Since the inaugural award in 1956, Denmark has submitted fifty-nine films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, [lower-alpha 1] fourteen of which succeeded in getting nominated for the Academy Award: Qivitoq (1958), Paw (1959), Harry and the Butler (1960), Babette's Feast (1987), Pelle the Conqueror (1988), Memories of a Marriage (1989), After the Wedding (2006), In a Better World (2010), A Royal Affair (2012), The Hunt (2013), A War (2015), Land Of Mine (2016), Another Round (2020) and Flee (2021). Four Danish films have won the Oscar: Babette's Feast (1987), Pelle the Conqueror (1988), In a Better World (2010) and Another Round (2020).
The official Danish submission is selected annually in late summer by the Danish Film Institute [3]
In 1957, Denmark became the first country to send a film with a female director to the Foreign Oscar competition (Annelise Hovmand's Be Dear to Me ). Two years later, Astrid Henning-Jensen's Paw became to the first film directed by a woman to receive a nomination in the category.
Between 1998 and 2002, four out of five Danish submissions were made according to the austere Dogme 95 principles. None were nominated and none have been submitted since.
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. 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. [4] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Denmark for review by the Academy for the award by year.
Each year since 2010, the Danish Film Institute has announced a three-film shortlist prior to announcing the official Danish Oscar candidate. The following films were shortlisted by Denmark but not selected as the final candidate:
Year | Films |
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2010 | R · Submarino |
2011 | A Family · A Funny Man |
2012 | Love Is All You Need , The Passion of Marie |
2013 | The Act of Killing , Northwest |
2014 | Someone You Love , Speed Walking |
2015 | The Look of Silence , Men & Chicken |
2016 | The Commune , Walk with Me |
2017 | Darkland , Word of God |
2018 | A Fortunate Man , Winter Brothers |
2019 | Before the Frost , Daniel |
2020 | A Perfectly Normal Family , Enforcement |
2021 | Margrete: Queen of the North , The Shadow in My Eye |
2022 | As in Heaven, Forever |
2023 | Apolonia, Apolonia · Before It Ends [32] |
2024 | Echo of You · Sons [33] |