List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Danish director Susanne Bier won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for In a Better World .

This is a list of submissions to the 83rd 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 presented 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 was 1 October 2010. The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2009, and 30 September 2010. ^[2] In total, 66 countries submitted films for consideration, including first-time submissions from Greenland and Ethiopia. ^[3]

A shortlist of nine semi-finalists was announced on 19 January 2011. ^[4] The final list of five nominees was announced on 25 January 2011, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. ^{[2] [5]} The Danish entry, In a Better World , was announced as the winner at the 83rd Academy Awards on 27 February 2011. ^[6]

Overview of films submitted to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Submitting Country	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
Afghanistan	The Black Tulip [7]	لاله سیاه	Dari, Pashto, English, Arabic, Italian	Sonia Nassery Cole	Not nominated [8]
Albania	East, West, East [9]	Lindje, Perëndim, Lindje	Albanian, Italian, Slovene, Serbian	Gjergj Xhuvani	Not nominated
Algeria	Hors la Loi [10]	خارجون عن القانون	French, Arabic	Rachid Bouchareb	Nominated [5]
Argentina	Carancho [11]		Spanish	Pablo Trapero	Not nominated
Austria	La Pivellina [12]		Italian	Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel	Not nominated
Azerbaijan	The Precinct [13]	Sahə	Azeri, Russian	Ilgar Safat	Not nominated
Bangladesh	Third Person Singular Number [14]	থার্ড পারসন সিঙ্গুলার নাম্বার	Bengali	Mostofa Sarwar Farooki	Not nominated
Belgium	Illegal [15]	Illègal	French, Russian, English	Olivier Masset-Depasse	Not nominated
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Circus Columbia [16]	Cirkus Columbia	Bosnian, English	Danis Tanović	Not nominated
Brazil	Lula, the Son of Brazil [17]	Lula, o Filho do Brasil	Brazilian Portuguese	Fábio Barreto	Not nominated
Bulgaria	Eastern Plays [18]		Bulgarian, Turkish, English	Kamen Kalev	Not nominated
Canada	Incendies [3]		French, Arabic	Denis Villeneuve	Nominated [5]
Chile	The Life of Fish [19]	La vida de los peces	Spanish	Matías Bize	Not nominated
China	Aftershock [20]	唐山大地震	Mandarin	Feng Xiaogang	Not nominated
Colombia	Crab Trap [21]	El vuelco del cangrejo	Spanish	Oscar Ruíz Navia	Not nominated
Costa Rica	Of Love and Other Demons [22]	Del amor y otros demonios		Hilda Hidalgo	Not nominated
Croatia	The Blacks [23]	Crnci	Croatian	Goran Devic & Zvonimir Juric	Not nominated
Czech Republic	Kawasaki's Rose [24]	Kawasakiho růže	Czech	Jan Hřebejk	Not nominated
Denmark	In a Better World [25]	Hævnen	Danish, Swedish, English, Arabic, Catalan, Spanish	Susanne Bier	Won Academy Award [6]
Egypt	Messages from the Sea [26]	رسائل البحر	Arabic	Daoud Abdel Sayed	Not nominated
Estonia	The Temptation of St. Tony [27]	Püha Tõnu kiusamine	Estonian	Veiko Õunpuu	Not nominated
Ethiopia	The Athlete [3]	Atletu	Amharic, English, Oromo, Norwegian	Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew	Not nominated
Finland	Steam of Life [28]	Miesten vuoro	Finnish	Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen	Not nominated
France	Of Gods and Men [3]	Des hommes et des dieux	French, Arabic	Xavier Beauvois	Not nominated
Georgia	Street Days [29]	ქუჩის დღეები	Georgian	Levan Koguashvili	Not nominated
Germany	When We Leave [3]	Die Fremde	German, Turkish	Feo Aladag	Not nominated
Greece	Dogtooth [30]	Κυνόδοντας	Greek	Yorgos Lanthimos	Nominated [5]
Greenland	Nuummioq [31]		Greenlandic, Danish	Torben Bech, Otto Rosing	Not nominated
Hungary	Bibliothèque Pascal [32]		Romanian, Hungarian, English	Szabolcs Hajdu	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Echoes of the Rainbow [33]	歲月神偷	Cantonese	Alex Law	Not nominated
Iceland	Mamma Gogo [34]	Mamma Gógó	Icelandic	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	Not nominated
India	Peepli [Live] [35]	पीपली लाइव	Hindi	Anusha Rizvi	Not nominated
Indonesia	How Funny (This Country Is) [36]	Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini)	Indonesian	Deddy Mizwar	Not nominated
Iran	Farewell Baghdad [3]	بدرود بغداد	Arabic, English, Persian	Mehdi Naderi	Not nominated
Iraq	Son of Babylon [37]	ابن بابل	Arabic, Kurdish	Mohamed Al-Daradji	Not nominated
Israel	The Human Resources Manager [38]	שליחותו של הממונה על משאבי אנוש	Hebrew, Romanian, English	Eran Riklis	Not nominated
Italy	La Prima Cosa Bella [39]		Italian	Paolo Virzì	Not nominated
Japan	Confessions [40]	告白	Japanese	Tetsuya Nakashima	Made shortlist [4]
Kazakhstan	Strayed [41]	Заблудившийся	Russian	Akan Satayev	Not nominated
Kyrgyzstan	The Light Thief [31]	Свет-аке	Kyrgyz	Aktan Arym Kubat	Not nominated
Latvia	Hong Kong Confidential [42]	Amaya	Cantonese, Japanese, English	Māris Martinsons	Not nominated
Macedonia	Mothers [43]	Мајки	Macedonian	Milčo Mančevski	Not nominated
Mexico	Biutiful [44]		Spanish, Mandarin, Wolof	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated [5]
Netherlands	Tirza [45]		Dutch, English	Rudolf van den Berg	Not nominated
Nicaragua	La Yuma [46]		Spanish	Florence Jaugey	Not nominated
Norway	Angel [47]	Engelen	Norwegian	Margreth Olin	Not nominated
Peru	Undertow [48]	Contracorriente	Spanish	Javier Fuentes-León	Not nominated
Philippines	Noy [49]	Noy	Filipino, English	Dondon Santos	Not nominated
Poland	All That I Love [50]	Wszystko, co kocham	Polish	Jacek Borcuch	Not nominated
Portugal	To Die Like a Man [51]	Morrer Como Um Homem	Portuguese	João Pedro Rodrigues	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	Miente [52]		Spanish	Rafi Mercado	Not nominated
Romania	If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle [53]	Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier	Romanian	Florin Șerban	Not nominated
Russia	The Edge [54]	Край	Russian	Alexei Uchitel	Not nominated
Serbia	Besa [55]	Беса	Serbian, Albanian	Srđan Karanović	Not nominated
Slovakia	Hranica [56]		Slovak, Hungarian	Jaroslav Vojtek	Not nominated
Slovenia	9:06 [56]		Slovene	Igor Sterk	Not nominated
South Africa	Life, Above All [3]		Northern Sotho	Oliver Schmitz	Made shortlist [4]
South Korea	A Barefoot Dream [3]	맨발의 꿈	Korean, Tetum	Kim Tae-kyun	Not nominated
Spain	Even the Rain [57]	También la lluvia	Spanish, Quechua, English	Icíar Bollaín	Made shortlist [4]
Sweden	Simple Simon [58]	I rymden finns inga känslor	Swedish	Andreas Öhman	Made shortlist [4]
Switzerland	La petite chambre [59]		French	Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond	Not nominated
Taiwan	Monga [60]	艋舺	Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien	Doze Niu	Not nominated
Thailand	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [61]	ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ	Thai	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Not nominated
Turkey	Bal [61]		Turkish	Semih Kaplanoglu	Not nominated
Uruguay	A Useful Life [61]	La vida útil	Spanish	Federico Veiroj	Not nominated
Venezuela	Hermano [62]			Marcel Rasquin	Not nominated

Notes

• Vietnam has submitted four films in the past five years. Their official nominating body, the Vietnam Cinema Administration's International Relations Department, has indicated an interest in participating and has said they have nine eligible films. However, as of 5 October 2010 ^[update] , they had made no official announcement. ^[63]
• Taiwan originally chose Hear Me, which was deemed to be ineligible since its August 2009 release date meant that it was eligible only for the previous year. ^[64]
• Cuba, Lithuania, and Luxembourg informed Variety before the deadline that they would not participate in this year's competition. ^[65]

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External links

• Official website of the Academy Awards