Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 91st Academy Awards held in 2019 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
87 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2018 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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Road to the Oscar ......................................................................................................................
This is an overview of the shortlisted and nominated films as well as the winner in the category Best Foreign Language Film of the 91st Academy Awards.
██ The Winner Film ██
Date of Announcement: 24 February 2019
● MEXICO - Roma - (Director: Alfonso Cuarón)
▓▓ The 5 Nominated Films ▓▓
Date of Announcement: 22 January 2019
● GERMANY - Never Look Away - (Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
● JAPAN - Shoplifters - (Director: Hirokazu Koreeda)
● LEBANON - Capernaum - (Director: Nadine Labaki)
● MEXICO - Roma - (Director: Alfonso Cuarón)
● POLAND - Cold War - (Director: Pawel Pawlikowski)
▒▒ The 9 Shortlisted Films ▒▒
Date of Announcement: 17 December 2018
● COLOMBIA - Birds of Passage - (Director: Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego)
● DENMARK - The Guilty - (Director: Gustav Möller)
● GERMANY - Never Look Away - (Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
● JAPAN - Shoplifters - (Director: Hirokazu Koreeda)
● KAZAKHSTAN - Ayka - (Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy)
● LEBANON - Capernaum - (Director: Nadine Labaki)
● MEXICO - Roma - (Director: Alfonso Cuarón)
● POLAND - Cold War - (Director: Pawel Pawlikowski)
● SOUTH KOREA - Burning - (Director: Lee Chang-dong)
Main Language Distribution ......................................................................................................................
This selection shows all languages which are mainly spoken in more than one of the submitted films for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category during the submission period 2017/2018.
13 films ·····> Spanish
09 films ·····> Arabic
04 films ·····> German
03 films ·····> French
03 films ·····> Mandarin
03 films ·····> Russian
03 films ·····> Serbo-Croatian
02 films ·····> Dutch
02 films ·····> Indonesian
02 films ·····> Italian
02 films ·····> Persian
02 films ·····> Portuguese
Continental Distribution ......................................................................................................................
This selection shows how many countries of the respective continent have submitted a film for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category during the submission period of 2017/2018.
36 submitting countries ·····> Europe
27 submitting countries ·····> Asia
16 submitting countries ·····> America
08 submitting countries ·····> Africa
02 submitting countries ·····> Oceania
Repeatedly Submitted Directors ......................................................................................................................
This selection contains all directors of submitted films for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category during the submission period of 2017/2018 with more than one submission from the past to the deadline at 1 October 2018 and shows how many wins, nominations and shortlistings they received till to this date as well as the times when they were out of the race.
07 times ·····> Carlos Diegues | The Great Mystical Circus | Brazil
07 times ·····> Martin Šulík | The Interpreter | Slovakia
05 times ·····> Nuri Bilge Ceylan | The Wild Pear Tree | Turkey ➜ 1x short
04 times ·····> Ciro Guerra | Birds of Passage | Colombia ➜ 1x nom
04 times ·····> Markus Imhoof | Eldorado | Switzerland ➜ 1x nom
03 times ·····> Rithy Panh | Graves Without a Name | Cambodia ➜ 1x nom
03 times ·····> Mohamed Al-Daradji | The Journey | Iraq
03 times ·····> Aida Begić | Never Leave Me | Bosnia and Herzegovina
03 times ·····> João Botelho | Pilgrimage | Portugal
03 times ·····> Álvaro Brechner | A Twelve-Year Night | Uruguay
03 times ·····> Silvio Caiozzi | And Suddenly the Dawn | Chile
03 times ·····> Ernesto Daranas | Sergio and Sergei | Cuba ➜ 1x out
03 times ·····> Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | Television | Bangladesh
03 times ·····> Nadine Labaki | Capernaum | Lebanon
03 times ·····> Lee Chang-dong | Burning | South Korea
03 times ·····> Janez Burger | Ivan | Slovenia ➜ 1x out
02 times ·····> F. Henckel von Donnersmarck | Never Look Away | Germany ➜ 1x won
02 times ·····> László Nemes | Sunset | Hungary ➜ 1x won
02 times ·····> Pawel Pawlikowski | Cold War | Poland ➜ 1x won
02 times ·····> Abner Benaim | Ruben Blades Is Not My Name | Panama
02 times ·····> Pietra Brettkelly | Yellow is Forbidden | New Zealand
02 times ·····> Sergei Dvortsevoy | Ayka | Kazakhstan
02 times ·····> Benedikt Erlingsson | Woman at War | Iceland
02 times ·····> Matteo Garrone | Dogman | Italy
02 times ·····> Iram Haq | What Will People Say | Norway
02 times ·····> Radu Jude | I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians | Romania
02 times ·····> Nour-Eddine Lakhmari | Burnout | Morocco
02 times ·····> Dante Lam | Operation Red Sea | Hong Kong
02 times ·····> Jamshid Mahmoudi | Rona, Azim’s Mother | Afghanistan
02 times ·····> Arūnas Matelis | Wonderful Losers: A Different World | Lithuania
Note that shortlistings, nominations and the award goes however to the country itself and not to the director. But in 2014 it was announced that now also the name of the winning director is engraved next to the country in the statuette!
The Past
......................................................................................................................
For the submissions of the last years also sorted by submitting countries, the shortlisted and nominated films as well as the Oscar winners in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the past Academy Awards please check the following IMDb lists linked in blue below!
By Year:
2021 | 2020/21 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 | 1979 | 1978 | 1977 | 1976 | 1975 | 1974 | 1973 | 1972 | 1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | 1964 | 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1960 | 1959 | 1958 | 1957 | 1956 | 1955 - 1947
By Country:
Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Argentina | Armenia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | Bangladesh | Belarus | Belgium | Bhutan | Bolivia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Brazil | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso | Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Chad | Chile | China | Colombia | Costa Rica | Croatia | Cuba | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Denmark | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | Egypt | Estonia | Ethiopia | Fiji | Finland | France | Georgia | Germany | Ghana | Greece | Greenland | Guatemala | Haiti | Honduras | Hong Kong | Hungary | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Ivory Coast | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Kosovo | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Latvia | Lebanon | Lesotho | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Malawi | Malta | Mauritania | Malaysia | Mexico | Moldova | Mongolia | Montenegro | Morocco | Mozambique | Nepal | Netherlands | New Zealand | Nicaragua | Niger | Nigeria | North Macedonia | Norway | Pakistan | Palestine | Panama | Paraguay | Peru | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Puerto Rico | Romania | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Senegal | Serbia | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | South Africa | South Korea | Soviet Union | Spain | Sri Lanka | Sudan | Sweden | Switzerland | Syria | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Thailand | Togo | Tunisia | Turkey | Uganda | Ukraine | United Kingdom | Uruguay | Uzbekistan | Venezuela | Vietnam | Yemen | Yugoslavia
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This list is alphabetically sorted by the English country names!
A text will follow. Please have a little patience!
Road to the Oscar ......................................................................................................................
This is an overview of the shortlisted and nominated films as well as the winner in the category Best Foreign Language Film of the 91st Academy Awards.
██ The Winner Film ██
Date of Announcement: 24 February 2019
● MEXICO - Roma - (Director: Alfonso Cuarón)
▓▓ The 5 Nominated Films ▓▓
Date of Announcement: 22 January 2019
● GERMANY - Never Look Away - (Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
● JAPAN - Shoplifters - (Director: Hirokazu Koreeda)
● LEBANON - Capernaum - (Director: Nadine Labaki)
● MEXICO - Roma - (Director: Alfonso Cuarón)
● POLAND - Cold War - (Director: Pawel Pawlikowski)
▒▒ The 9 Shortlisted Films ▒▒
Date of Announcement: 17 December 2018
● COLOMBIA - Birds of Passage - (Director: Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego)
● DENMARK - The Guilty - (Director: Gustav Möller)
● GERMANY - Never Look Away - (Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
● JAPAN - Shoplifters - (Director: Hirokazu Koreeda)
● KAZAKHSTAN - Ayka - (Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy)
● LEBANON - Capernaum - (Director: Nadine Labaki)
● MEXICO - Roma - (Director: Alfonso Cuarón)
● POLAND - Cold War - (Director: Pawel Pawlikowski)
● SOUTH KOREA - Burning - (Director: Lee Chang-dong)
Main Language Distribution ......................................................................................................................
This selection shows all languages which are mainly spoken in more than one of the submitted films for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category during the submission period 2017/2018.
13 films ·····> Spanish
09 films ·····> Arabic
04 films ·····> German
03 films ·····> French
03 films ·····> Mandarin
03 films ·····> Russian
03 films ·····> Serbo-Croatian
02 films ·····> Dutch
02 films ·····> Indonesian
02 films ·····> Italian
02 films ·····> Persian
02 films ·····> Portuguese
Continental Distribution ......................................................................................................................
This selection shows how many countries of the respective continent have submitted a film for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category during the submission period of 2017/2018.
36 submitting countries ·····> Europe
27 submitting countries ·····> Asia
16 submitting countries ·····> America
08 submitting countries ·····> Africa
02 submitting countries ·····> Oceania
Repeatedly Submitted Directors ......................................................................................................................
This selection contains all directors of submitted films for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category during the submission period of 2017/2018 with more than one submission from the past to the deadline at 1 October 2018 and shows how many wins, nominations and shortlistings they received till to this date as well as the times when they were out of the race.
07 times ·····> Carlos Diegues | The Great Mystical Circus | Brazil
07 times ·····> Martin Šulík | The Interpreter | Slovakia
05 times ·····> Nuri Bilge Ceylan | The Wild Pear Tree | Turkey ➜ 1x short
04 times ·····> Ciro Guerra | Birds of Passage | Colombia ➜ 1x nom
04 times ·····> Markus Imhoof | Eldorado | Switzerland ➜ 1x nom
03 times ·····> Rithy Panh | Graves Without a Name | Cambodia ➜ 1x nom
03 times ·····> Mohamed Al-Daradji | The Journey | Iraq
03 times ·····> Aida Begić | Never Leave Me | Bosnia and Herzegovina
03 times ·····> João Botelho | Pilgrimage | Portugal
03 times ·····> Álvaro Brechner | A Twelve-Year Night | Uruguay
03 times ·····> Silvio Caiozzi | And Suddenly the Dawn | Chile
03 times ·····> Ernesto Daranas | Sergio and Sergei | Cuba ➜ 1x out
03 times ·····> Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | Television | Bangladesh
03 times ·····> Nadine Labaki | Capernaum | Lebanon
03 times ·····> Lee Chang-dong | Burning | South Korea
03 times ·····> Janez Burger | Ivan | Slovenia ➜ 1x out
02 times ·····> F. Henckel von Donnersmarck | Never Look Away | Germany ➜ 1x won
02 times ·····> László Nemes | Sunset | Hungary ➜ 1x won
02 times ·····> Pawel Pawlikowski | Cold War | Poland ➜ 1x won
02 times ·····> Abner Benaim | Ruben Blades Is Not My Name | Panama
02 times ·····> Pietra Brettkelly | Yellow is Forbidden | New Zealand
02 times ·····> Sergei Dvortsevoy | Ayka | Kazakhstan
02 times ·····> Benedikt Erlingsson | Woman at War | Iceland
02 times ·····> Matteo Garrone | Dogman | Italy
02 times ·····> Iram Haq | What Will People Say | Norway
02 times ·····> Radu Jude | I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians | Romania
02 times ·····> Nour-Eddine Lakhmari | Burnout | Morocco
02 times ·····> Dante Lam | Operation Red Sea | Hong Kong
02 times ·····> Jamshid Mahmoudi | Rona, Azim’s Mother | Afghanistan
02 times ·····> Arūnas Matelis | Wonderful Losers: A Different World | Lithuania
Note that shortlistings, nominations and the award goes however to the country itself and not to the director. But in 2014 it was announced that now also the name of the winning director is engraved next to the country in the statuette!
The Past
......................................................................................................................
For the submissions of the last years also sorted by submitting countries, the shortlisted and nominated films as well as the Oscar winners in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the past Academy Awards please check the following IMDb lists linked in blue below!
By Year:
2021 | 2020/21 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 | 1979 | 1978 | 1977 | 1976 | 1975 | 1974 | 1973 | 1972 | 1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | 1964 | 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1960 | 1959 | 1958 | 1957 | 1956 | 1955 - 1947
By Country:
Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Argentina | Armenia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | Bangladesh | Belarus | Belgium | Bhutan | Bolivia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Brazil | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso | Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Chad | Chile | China | Colombia | Costa Rica | Croatia | Cuba | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Denmark | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | Egypt | Estonia | Ethiopia | Fiji | Finland | France | Georgia | Germany | Ghana | Greece | Greenland | Guatemala | Haiti | Honduras | Hong Kong | Hungary | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Ivory Coast | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Kosovo | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Latvia | Lebanon | Lesotho | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Malawi | Malta | Mauritania | Malaysia | Mexico | Moldova | Mongolia | Montenegro | Morocco | Mozambique | Nepal | Netherlands | New Zealand | Nicaragua | Niger | Nigeria | North Macedonia | Norway | Pakistan | Palestine | Panama | Paraguay | Peru | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Puerto Rico | Romania | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Senegal | Serbia | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | South Africa | South Korea | Soviet Union | Spain | Sri Lanka | Sudan | Sweden | Switzerland | Syria | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Thailand | Togo | Tunisia | Turkey | Uganda | Ukraine | United Kingdom | Uruguay | Uzbekistan | Venezuela | Vietnam | Yemen | Yugoslavia
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This list is alphabetically sorted by the English country names!
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