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List of submissions to the 78th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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2005 Best Foreign Language Film submissions
Highlights
Oscar winnerSouth Africa Tsotsi
Total submissions63
First-time submissions3
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This is a list of submissions to the 78th 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. 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. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.

For the 78th Academy Awards, sixty-two countries submitted films to the Academy, and fifty-eight of those films were accepted for review by the Academy.[1] The submissions of Austria and Greece were rejected before the formal review process and the submissions of Uruguay and Venezuela did not appear in the final list; meanwhile, those from Bolivia, Netherlands, Singapore and Tajikistan were later disqualified by the Academy. Costa Rica, Iraq and Fiji submitted films for the first time.

South Africa won the award for the first time with Tsotsi by Gavin Hood.

Submissions

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Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Argentina El Aura Spanish Fabián Bielinsky Not nominated
 Austria Caché French Michael Haneke Disqualified
 Bangladesh Shyamol Chhaya শ্যামল ছায়া Bengali Humayun Ahmed Not nominated
 Belgium The Child L'Enfant French Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Not nominated
 Bolivia Say Good Morning to Dad Di buen día a papá Spanish Fernando Vargas Disqualified
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Totally Personal Sasvim lično Serbian, English, Bosnian Nedžad Begović Not nominated
 Brazil Two Sons of Francisco Dois Filhos de Francisco Brazilian Portuguese Breno Silveira Not nominated
 Bulgaria Stolen Eyes Откраднати очи Bulgarian, Turkish Radoslav Spassov Not nominated
 Canada C.R.A.Z.Y. French Jean-Marc Vallée Not nominated
 Chile Play Spanish Alicia Scherson Not nominated
 China The Promise 无极 Mandarin Chen Kaige Not nominated
 Colombia La Sombra del Caminante Spanish Ciro Guerra Not nominated
 Costa Rica Caribe Esteban Ramírez Not nominated
 Croatia A Wonderful Night in Split Ta divna splitska noć Croatian, Serbian, English Arsen Anton Ostojić Not nominated
 Cuba Viva Cuba Spanish Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti Not nominated
 Czech Republic Something Like Happiness Štěstí Czech Bohdan Sláma Not nominated
 Denmark Adam's Apples Adams Æbler Danish Anders Thomas Jensen Not nominated
 Estonia Shop of Dreams Stiilipidu Estonian Peeter Urbla Not nominated
 Fiji The Land Has Eyes Pear ta ma ʻon maf Rotuman, English Vilsoni Hereniko Not nominated
 Finland Mother of Mine Äideistä parhain / Den bästa av mödrar Finnish, Swedish Klaus Härö Not nominated
 France Joyeux Noël French, German, English Christian Carion Nominated
 Georgia Tbilisi-Tbilisi თბილისი-თბილისი Georgian Levan Zakareishvili Not nominated
 Germany Sophie Scholl – The Final Days Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage German Marc Rothemund Nominated
 Greece Brides[2] Νύφες Greek, English Pantelis Voulgaris Disqualified
 Hong Kong Perhaps Love 如果·愛 Cantonese, Mandarin Peter Ho-Sun Chan Not nominated
 Hungary Fateless Sorstalanság Hungarian, German, English Lajos Koltai Not nominated
 Iceland Ahead of Time Í takt við tímann Icelandic Ágúst Guðmundsson Not nominated
 India Paheli पहेली Hindi Amol Palekar Not nominated
 Indonesia Gie Indonesian Riri Riza Not nominated
 Iran So Close, So Far خیلی دور، خیلی نزدیک Persian Reza Mir Karimi Not nominated
 Iraq Requiem of Snow شیوەنی بەفر Kurdish Jamil Rostami Not nominated
 Israel What a Wonderful Place איזה מקום נפלא Hebrew, Russian,
Filipino, Tagalog, English
Eyal Halfon Not nominated
 Italy Don't Tell La bestia nel cuore Italian, English Cristina Comencini Nominated
 Japan Blood and Bones 血と骨 Japanese, Korean Yoichi Sai Not nominated
 South Korea Welcome to Dongmakgol 웰컴 투 동막골 Korean Park Kwang-hyun Not nominated
 Luxembourg Renart the Fox Le Roman de Renart French Thierry Schiel Not nominated
 Mexico Al otro lado Spanish, Arabic Gustavo Loza Not nominated
 Mongolia The Cave of the Yellow Dog Шар нохойн там Mongolian Byambasuren Davaa Not nominated
 Netherlands Bluebird Dutch Mijke de Jong Disqualified
 Norway Kissed by Winter Vinterkyss Norwegian, Swedish, English Sara Johnsen Not nominated
 Palestine Paradise Now الجنّة الآن Palestinian Arabic, English Hany Abu-Assad Nominated
 Peru Days of Santiago Días de Santiago Spanish Josué Méndez Not nominated
 Poland The Collector Komornik Polish Feliks Falk Not nominated
 Portugal Noite Escura Portuguese, Russian João Canijo Not nominated
 Puerto Rico Cayo Spanish Vicente Juarbe Not nominated
 Romania The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Moartea domnului Lăzărescu Romanian Cristi Puiu Not nominated
 Russia The Italian Итальянец Russian, Italian, English Andrei Kravchuk Not nominated
 Serbia and Montenegro Midwinter Night's Dream Сан зимске ноћи Serbian Goran Paskaljević Not nominated
 Singapore Be with Me English, Hokkien,
Mandarin, Cantonese
Eric Khoo Disqualified
 Slovakia The City of the Sun Slnečný štát Slovak, Czech Martin Šulík Not nominated
 Slovenia Ruins Ruševine Slovene Janez Burger Not nominated
 South Africa Tsotsi Setswana, Zulu, Sesotho, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English Gavin Hood Won Academy Award
 Spain Obaba Spanish Montxo Armendáriz Not nominated
 Sweden Zozo Swedish, Arabic Josef Fares Not nominated
 Switzerland Tout un Hiver sans Feu French, Albanian Greg Zglinski Not nominated
 Taiwan The Wayward Cloud 天邊一朵雲 Mandarin Tsai Ming-liang Not nominated
 Tajikistan Sex & Philosophy Ҷинс ва фалсафа Russian, Tajik Mohsen Makhmalbaf Disqualified
 Thailand The Tin Mine มหา’ลัย เหมืองแร่ Thai Jira Maligool Not nominated
 Turkey Lovelorn Gönül Yarası Turkish Yavuz Turgul Not nominated
 Uruguay Alma Mater Spanish Álvaro Buela Not on the final list
 Venezuela 1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel 1888: El Extraordinario Viaje de la Santa Isabel Alfredo Anzola Disqualified
 Vietnam The Buffalo Boy Mùa len trâu Vietnamese Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh Not nominated

Notes

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  • Austria Austria's submission, Caché, was disqualified because the film was completely in French, and not in a language indigenous to Austria.
  • Bolivia Bolivia's submission, Say Good Morning to Dad, was disqualified because a print of the film did not arrive at the Academy in time.
  • Italy Private was originally selected but the Academy informed Italy that the film would be disqualified for not being in Italian. The Italian Academy appealed the decision, but ended up selecting a new film
  • Nepal Nepal elected to send Basain, but due to its release date, it was submitted the following year instead.
  • Netherlands The submission of the Netherlands, Bluebird, disqualified because it was too similar to a version previously aired on Dutch television; it was too late to select another Dutch film.
  • State of Palestine Paradise Now was submitted as coming from "Palestine", which was used on the web page and the official notices of the Academy. It was announced at the awards ceremony as from "the Palestinian Territories".
  • Philippines The Philippines failed to send a film for the first time in ten years; their Film Academy claimed they thought they hadn't been invited after the official invitation failed to reach their new address.
  • Singapore Singapore's submission, Be with Me, was disqualified after its official screening for being mostly in English and not in a Foreign Language
  • Tajikistan Tajikistan's submission, Sex & Philosophy, was disqualified because a print of the film did not arrive at the Academy in time
  • Uruguay Uruguay reportedly selected Álvaro Buela's Alma Mater, but it only ended up sent to the Goya Awards.
  • Venezuela Venezuela selected 1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel, but their entry was delayed by a lawsuit and they missed the deadline [3]
  • Among the other countries which were officially invited to submit a film, but did not, were Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia, Ecuador, Egypt, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malaysia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

References

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  1. ^ "58 Countries Vying for 2005 Foreign Language Film Oscar" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 25 October 2005. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 23 September 2008.
  2. ^ "With National Pride at Stake, Foreign Language Films Compete for Oscar Glory". 16 November 2005.
  3. ^ "Secuestro Express director sued in Venezuela | Business News". vcrisis.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2005.