List of submissions to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Argentine director Juan José Campanella won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Secret in Their Eyes .

This is a list of submissions to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. 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 every year since the award was created in 1956. ^[1] The award is handed out annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. ^{[1] [2]} The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. ^[2]

The deadline for all countries to send in their submissions is September 30, 2009. The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009. ^[2] For more details on the Academy's submission and nomination process for Best Foreign Language Film, see Rule Fourteen: Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award.

The Academy has received 67 official Oscar submissions, tying the record set in 2008. The submissions from Algeria and Mongolia were disqualified from competing.

A shortlist of nine semi-finalists was announced January 20, 2010. ^[3] The official nominees were announced on February 2, 2010. ^[4] The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was Argentina's The Secret in Their Eyes . ^[5]

Submissions

Submitting Country	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result [6]
Albania	Alive!	Gjallë	Albanian	Artan Minarolli	Not nominated
Algeria	London River [7]		French, English	Rachid Bouchareb	Disqualified
Argentina	The Secret in Their Eyes	El secreto de sus ojos	Spanish	Juan José Campanella	Won Academy Award
Armenia	Autumn of the Magician	Հրաշագործի աշունը	Armenian, English, Italian	Ruben Gevorkyants & Vahe Gevorkyants	Not nominated
Australia	Samson and Delilah		Walpiri, English	Warwick Thornton	Made shortlist
Austria	For a Moment, Freedom	Ein Augenblick Freiheit	English, Persian, Turkish	Arash T. Riahi	Not nominated
Bangladesh	Beyond the Circle	বৃত্তের বাইরে	Bengali	Golam Rabbani Biplob	Not nominated
Belgium	The Misfortunates	De helaasheid der dingen	Dutch, Flemish	Felix van Groeningen	Not nominated
Bolivia	Southern Zone	Zona Sur	Spanish, Aymara	Juan Carlos Valdivia	Not nominated
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Night Guards	Čuvari noći	Bosnian	Namik Kabil	Not nominated
Brazil	Time of Fear	Salve Geral	Brazilian Portuguese	Sergio Rezende	Not nominated
Bulgaria	The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner	Светът е голям и спасение дебне отвсякъде	Bulgarian	Stephan Komandarev	Made shortlist
Canada	I Killed My Mother	J'ai tué ma mère	French	Xavier Dolan	Not nominated
Chile	Dawson, Island 10	Dawson, Isla 10	Spanish	Miguel Littin	Not nominated
China	Forever Enthralled	梅兰芳	Mandarin	Chen Kaige	Not nominated
Colombia	The Wind Journeys	Los viajes del viento	Spanish, Palenquero, Wayuunaiki, Ikun	Ciro Guerra	Not nominated
Croatia	Donkey	Kenjac	Croatian	Antonio Nuić	Not nominated
Cuba	Fallen Gods	Los Dioses Rotos	Spanish, Yoruba	Ernesto Daranas	Not nominated
Czech Republic	Protector	Protektor	Czech, German	Marek Najbrt	Not nominated
Denmark	Terribly Happy	Frygtelig lykkelig	Danish	Henrik Ruben Genz	Not nominated
Estonia	December Heat	Detsembrikuumus	Estonian, Russian, English	Asko Kase	Not nominated
Finland	Letters to Father Jacob	Postia pappi Jaakobille	Finnish	Klaus Härö	Not nominated
France	A Prophet	Un prophète	French, Arabic, Corsican	Jacques Audiard	Nominated
Georgia	The Other Bank	გაღმა ნაპირი	Georgian, Abkhaz, Russian	Giorgi Ovashvili	Not nominated
Germany	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band	German	Michael Haneke	Nominated
Greece	Slaves in their Bonds	Οι Σκλάβοι στα Δεσμά τους	Greek	Adonis Lykouresis	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Prince of Tears	淚王子	Mandarin	Yonfan	Not nominated
Hungary	Chameleon	Kaméleon	Hungarian	Krisztina Goda	Not nominated
Iceland	Reykjavík-Rotterdam		Icelandic	Óskar Jónasson	Not nominated
India	Harishchandrachi Factory	हरिश्चंद्राची फॅक्टरी	Marathi	Paresh Mokashi	Not nominated
Indonesia	Jamila and the President	Jamila dan Sang Presiden	Indonesian	Ratna Sarumpaet	Not nominated
Iran	About Elly	درباره الی	Persian	Asghar Farhadi	Not nominated
Israel	Ajami	عجمي / עג'מי	Israeli Arabic, Hebrew	Yaron Shani & Scandar Copti	Nominated
Italy	Baarìa		Sicilian, Italian	Giuseppe Tornatore	Not nominated
Japan	Nobody to Watch Over Me	誰も守ってくれない	Japanese	Ryoichi Kimizuka	Not nominated
Kazakhstan	Kelin	Келін	(No dialogue)	Ermek Tursunov	Made shortlist
Lithuania	Vortex	Duburys	Lithuanian, Russian	Gytis Luksas	Not nominated
Luxembourg	Réfractaire		French	Nicolas Steil	Not nominated
Macedonia	Wingless	Ocas ještěrky / Созерцание	Czech	Ivo Trajkov	Not nominated
Mexico	Backyard	El Traspatio	Spanish	Carlos Carrera	Not nominated
Mongolia	By the Will of Genghis Khan [8]	Тайна Чингис Хаана	Yakut, Russian	Andrei Borissov	Disqualified
Morocco	Casanegra	كازانيݣرا	Moroccan Arabic	Nour-Eddine Lakhmari	Not nominated
Netherlands	Winter in Wartime	Oorlogswinter	Dutch, German, English	Martin Koolhoven	Made shortlist
Norway	Max Manus		Norwegian, German	Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg	Not nominated
Peru	The Milk of Sorrow	La teta asustada	Spanish, Quechua	Claudia Llosa	Nominated
Philippines	Grandpa Is Dead	Ded na si Lolo	Filipino	Soxie Topacio	Not nominated
Poland	Reverse	Rewers	Polish	Borys Lankosz	Not nominated
Portugal	Doomed Love	Um Amor de Perdição	Portuguese	Mário Barroso	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	Kabo and Platon	Kabo y Platón	Spanish	Edmundo H. Rodríguez	Not nominated
Romania	Police, Adjective	Politist, adj.	Romanian	Corneliu Porumboiu	Not nominated
Russia	Ward No. 6	Палата №6	Russian	Aleksandr Gornovsky & Karen Shakhnazarov	Not nominated
Serbia	St. George Shoots the Dragon	Свети Георгије убива аждаху	Serbian	Srdjan Dragojevic	Not nominated
Slovakia	Broken Promise	Nedodržaný sľub	Slovak, Russian	Jirí Chlumský	Not nominated
Slovenia	Landscape No. 2	Pokrajina Št. 2	Slovene	Vinko Moderndorfer	Not nominated
South Africa	White Wedding		Afrikaans, Xhosa, Setswana, Zulu, English	Jann Turner	Not nominated
South Korea	Mother	마더	Korean	Bong Joon-ho	Not nominated
Spain	The Dancer and the Thief	El baile de la victoria	Spanish	Fernando Trueba	Not nominated
Sri Lanka	The Road from Elephant Pass	අලිමාන්කාඩා	Sinhala, Tamil	Chandran Rutnam	Not nominated
Sweden	Involuntary	De ofrivilliga	Swedish	Ruben Östlund	Not nominated
Switzerland	Home		French	Ursula Meier	Not nominated
Taiwan	Cannot Live Without You	不能沒有你	Hakka, Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin	Leon Dai	Not nominated
Thailand	Best of Times	ความจำสั้น แต่รักฉันยาว	Thai	Youngyooth Thongkonthun	Not nominated
Turkey	I Saw the Sun	Güneşi gördüm	Turkish	Mahsun Kırmızıgül	Not nominated
United Kingdom	Afghan Star		Dari, Pashto, English	Havana Marking	Not nominated
Uruguay	Bad Day for Fishing	Mal día para pescar	Spanish	Álvaro Brechner	Not nominated
Venezuela	Libertador Morales, El Justiciero			Efterpi Charalambidis	Not nominated
Vietnam	Don't Burn It	Đừng đốt	Vietnamese	Đặng Nhật Minh	Not nominated

Notes

• The Netherlands submitted their entry on September 2, but the decision was appealed. Many Netherlands-based producers argued that the submitted film did not meet the AMPAS criteria for eligibility because it was a re-montage. The Netherlands reconvened the Oscar committee on September 21. AMPAS concluded that the entry was in fact ineligible after which Winter in Wartime was entered. In the Dutch press Winter in Wartime producer San Fu Malta lamented that the mistake made his film appear to be second choice. Voicing the sentiment of large sections of the filmsector, he argued that the committee falling under the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science should not have decided upon the Oscar nomination. That should have been done by, for instance, the jury of the Netherlands Film Festival which had the requisite expertise and was free of any conflict of interest. ^{[9] [10]}
•   Serbia's Oscar selection committee originally voted to submit Here and There, which is set in Belgrade and New York City and features a mixed American and Serbian cast. After consulting with the Academy, Serbia changed its submission since the film appears to contain more than 50% English dialogue. ^[11]
• Sri Lanka originally announced that they would send Flowers of the Sky ^[12] but The Road from Elephant Pass was eventually announced to be Sri Lanka's final submission. ^[13]
• Thirteen other countries (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Nepal, Palestinian Territories, Singapore, and Ukraine) that submitted films within the three previous years opted not to send a movie for Oscar consideration in 2009.

References

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3. "9 Foreign Language Films Advance in Oscar Race". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 20 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
4. "List of Academy Awards Nominations". CNN.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
5. "Argentina's 'The Secret in Their Eyes' a thriller and thrilling win for Juan Jose Campanella". Los Angeles Times . 8 March 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
6. "9 Foreign Language Films Advance in Oscar Race | Press Release | The Academy". Oscars.org. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
7. "El Watan :: 2 octobre 2009 :: Cinéma-« London River » de Rachid Bouchareb : Fleuve d'émotions". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009.
8. "ЯСИА : Новости : Монголия выдвигает "Тайну Чингис Хаана" на "Оскар"". Archived from the original on 4 November 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2009. /
9. Parool: Toch Oorlogswinter afgevaardigd naar Oscars
10. Geen Wit Licht maar Oorlogswinter naar Oscars
11. Petkovic, Vladan (23 September 2009). "Serbia sends Saint George to do battle at the Oscars | News | Screen". Screendaily.com. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
12. "Academy Awards: foreign language entries | Calendar | Screen". Screendaily.com. 18 September 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
13. "Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Headlines" . Retrieved 14 October 2009.^{[ dead link ]}

External links

• Official website of the Academy Awards
• 65 Countries in Competition for 2009 Foreign Language Film Oscar