List of Puerto Rican submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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Puerto Rico is among the one-hundred countries that have submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 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. [1]

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Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.

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In motion picture terminology, feature length is the length of a feature film. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes to be eligible for an Academy Award.

The Puerto Rican nominee is selected by the Corporación de Cine de Puerto Rico. [2] However, the territory is no longer allowed to submit films due the Academy altering its rules to disqualify films from American protectorates. [3]

Submissions

Every year, each country is invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to submit its best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 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. [1]

Secret ballot voting style that makes each vote anonymous

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The following is a list of the films submitted by Puerto Rico in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards. All films were produced in Spanish.

Spanish language Romance language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Spain and the Americas. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.

Year
(Ceremony)		English titleSpanish titleDirectorResult
1986
(59th) 		The Great Party La gran fiesta Marcos Zurinaga Not Nominated
1988
(61st) 		Tango Bar Tango Bar Marcos Zurinaga Not Nominated
1989
(62nd) 		Santiago, the Story of his New Life Lo que le pasó a Santiago Jacobo Morales Nominated
1994
(67th) 		Linda Sara Linda Sara Jacobo Morales Not Nominated
1998
(71st) 		Heroes from Another Country Héroes de Otra Patria Iván Dariel Ortíz Not Nominated
2001
(74th) 		12 Hours 12 horas Raúl Marchand-Sánchez Not Nominated
2005:
(78th) 		Cayo Cayo Vicente Juarbe Not Nominated
2006
(79th) 		Thieves and Liars Ladrones y mentirosos Ricardo Méndez Matta Not Nominated
2007
(80th) 		Maldeamores [4] MaldeamoresMariem Perez & Carlitos RuizNot Nominated
2009
(82nd) 		Kabo & Platon Kabo & Platon Edmundo H. Rodriguez Not Nominated
2010
(83rd) 		Miente Miente Rafi Mercado Not Nominated [5]
2011
(84th) 		America America Sonia Fritz Disqualified [6]

Notes:

The producers of local box-office smash Talento de Barrio protested that they submitted their film for consideration in 2008, but that Puerto Rico's film board chose not to send a film that year. [7]

Since foreign language films produced in the United States are not permitted to compete in this category, Puerto Rican filmmakers were often cited as the only American citizens who are regularly able to compete for the award.

References: IMDB [8] Variety [9]

  1. 1 2 "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Terra - Notícias, esportes, coberturas ao vivo, diversão e estilo de vida". Terra.
  3. ↑ "Oscar rejects". Variety. 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  4. ↑ Runners-up: Angel, Cimarrón, ElClown and Ruido. Source: http://www.terra.com/ocio/articulo/html/oci195684.htm
  5. ↑ "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race". oscars.org. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  6. ↑ "Academy unveils 63 foreign Oscar entries". Variety. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2010.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ Scheib, Ronnie (7 June 2005). "Caribe Movie Review". Variety.

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