Updated via press release.
Beverly Hills, CA – Sixty-three countries, including first-time entrant New Zealand, have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards®.
The 2011 submissions are:
| Albania, “Amnesty,” Bujar Alimani, director; |
| Argentina, “Aballay,” Fernando Spiner, director; |
| Austria, “Breathing,” Karl Markovics, director; |
| Belgium, “Bullhead,” Michael R. Roskam, director; |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina,”Belvedere,” Ahmed Imamovic, director; |
| Brazil, “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within,” José Padilha, director; |
| Bulgaria, “Tilt,” Viktor Chouchkov, Jr., director; |
| Canada, “Monsieur Lazhar,” Philippe Falardeau, director; |
| Chile, “Violeta Went to Heaven,” Andrés Wood, director; |
| China, “The Flowers of War,” Zhang Yimou, director; |
| Colombia, “The Colors of the Mountain,” Carlos César Arbeláez, director; |
| Croatia, “72 Days,” Danilo Serbedzija, director; |
| Cuba, “Havanastation,” Ian Padrón, director; |
| Czech Republic,”Alois Nebel,” Tomás Lunák, director; |
| Denmark, “Superclásico,” Ole Christian Madsen, director; |
| Dominican Republic,”Love Child,” Leticia Tonos, director; |
| Egypt, “Lust,” Khaled el Hagar, director; |
| Estonia, “Letters to Angel,” Sulev Keedus, director; |
| Finland, “Le Havre,” Aki Kaurismäki, director; |
| France, “Declaration of War,” Valérie Donzelli, director; |
| Georgia, “Chantrapas,” Otar Iosseliani, director; |
| Germany, “Pina,” Wim Wenders, director; |
| Greece, “Attenberg,” Athina Rachel Tsangari, director; |
| Hong Kong,”A Simple Life,” Ann Hui, director; |
| Hungary, “The Turin Horse,” Béela Tarr, director; |
| Iceland, “Volcano,” Rúnar Rúnarsson, director; |
| India, “Abu, Son of Adam,” Salim Ahamed, director; |
| Indonesia, “Under the Protection of Ka’Bah,” Hanny R. Saputra, director; |
| Iran, “A Separation,” Asghar Farhadi, director; |
| Ireland, “As If I Am Not There,” Juanita Wilson, director; |
| Israel, “Footnote,” Joseph Cedar, director; |
| Italy, “Terraferma,” Emanuele Crialese, director; |
| Japan, “Postcard,” Kaneto Shindo, director; |
| Kazakhstan, “Returning to the ‘A,’” Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, director; |
| Lebanon, “Where Do We Go Now?” Nadine Labaki, director; |
| Lithuania, “Back to Your Arms,” Kristijonas Vildziunas, director; |
| Macedonia, “Punk Is Not Dead,” Vladimir Blazevski, director; |
| Mexico, “Miss Bala,” Gerardo Naranjo, director; |
| Morocco, “Omar Killed Me,” Roschdy Zem, director; |
| Netherlands, “Sonny Boy,” Maria Peters, director; |
| New Zealand,”The Orator,” Tusi Tamasese, director; |
| Norway, “Happy, Happy,” Anne Sewitsky, director; |
| Peru, “October,” Diego Vega and Daniel Vega, directors; |
| Philippines, “The Woman in the Septic Tank,” Marlon N. Rivera, director; |
| Poland, “In Darkness,” Agnieszka Holland, director; |
| Portugal, “José and Pilar,” Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, director; |
| Romania, “Morgen,” Marian Crisan, director; |
| Russia, “Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel,” Nikita Mikhalkov, director; |
| Serbia, “Montevideo: Taste of a Dream,” Dragan Bjelogrlić, director; |
| Singapore, “Tatsumi,” Eric Khoo, director; |
| Slovak Republic,”Gypsy,” Martin Sulík, director; |
| South Africa,”Beauty,” Oliver Hermanus, director; |
| South Korea,”The Front Line,” Jang Hun, director; |
| Spain, “Black Bread,” Agusti Villaronga, director; |
| Sweden, “Beyond,” Pernilla August, director; |
| Switzerland, “Summer Games,” Rolando Colla, director; |
| Taiwan, “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,” Wei Te-sheng, director; |
| Thailand, “Kon Khon,” Sarunyu Wongkrachang, director; |
| Turkey, “Once upon a Time in Anatolia,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director; |
| United Kingdom,”Patagonia,” Marc Evans, director; |
| Uruguay, “The Silent House,” Gustavo Hernández, director; |
| Venezuela, “Rumble of the Stones,” Alejandro Bellame Palacios, director; |
| Vietnam, “The Prince and the Pagoda Boy,” Luu Trong Ninh, director. |
The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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Is this the official list or can more countries be added?
I’m calling it this way:
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Footnote
A Separation
Where Do We Go Now
Le Havre
A SEPARATION ALLLLLLL THE WAY !!!
I THINK IT WILL ALSO GET A NOMINATION FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AND MAYBE A SHOCKER FOR BEST DIRECTOR !
N, that’s never going to happen.
Brazil’s entry is superb Elite squad the enemy within is much better than its predecessor and have nailed a profound analysis of politics and justice system in undeveloped and corrupted countries. It’s a berlinale huge sucess and director jose padilha is set to direct next robocop project in hollywood. Keep an eye on in. At least watch it!!!
I’m predicting
A Seperation
Le Havre
In Darkness
Miss Bala
A Simple Life
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Happy, Happy
Pina
Where Do We Go From Here?
I have seen The Silent House! Very original way of filmaking.
Breathing!
trust me I have seen A Separation, it is truly a brilliant, remarkable film that is beautifully written.
BRAZIL’s Elite Squad: The Enemy within is 100% fresh at Rottentomatoes and #248 at IMDb’s Greatest Movies. I heard it’s Brazilian’s most watched picture ever, even top Avatar in that country.
I’m really excited to watch it, and i see some potential here.
I heard Wagner Moura’s performance as Capital Nascimento is OscarWatchable, some critics are really excited about it, and there’s a supporting role as a pseudocomunist college professor that’s gaining some attention too. At least I remember some considerations about that when I was at berlinale.
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within all the way. A brilliant film and the Academy should really try to redeem itself for not having nominated City of God in 2002.
And Wagner Moura is fantastic too. Whoever get a chance to watch Elite Squad, don’t miss it!
It breaks my heart (in a good way) that you are predicting Le Havre. If Finland gets a nomination, I will cry.
I have – from the very beginning – been predicting that Finland gets in the Top 9. Anything beyond that = dreams.
It’s a small country, Finland. But it’s MY country. I love it.
LE HAVRE
Merci beaucoup!
Would be great to hear someone announce “Punk is not dead” at the Oscar ceremony (entry from Macedonia)!
I deemed Philippines’ “The Woman in the Septic Tank” is Oscar friendly… I’ll include it as the Academy’s often wild pick…
China’s “The Flowers of War” and Iran’s “A Separation” seems lock to me…
Too bad that my country’s ‘Pina’ won’t even make it into the short list. However good the movie may be.
Miss Bala is really good.
WOOOOHOOOO! Ang Babae sa Septic Tank (The Woman in the Septic Tank) is Philippines’ entry! I’m jumping for joy right now!
Well ,Tero, it would be about time that the Academy recognizes a singular talent like Aki Kaurismäki. Denmark (my native country) has won this three times in the last 25 years for two mediocre and one very good film, and Le Havre surely is a good film from a director far superior than Axel, August and Bier. So: Go Finland!:)
“Kon Khon” from Thailand is a piece of s***
Many Thai films are better than this clap one.
Aww, Julian!
Clearly Julian is not your real first name. Is it Pelle (as in Pelle the Conqueror)?
Le Havre will not win, it’s too light. Comedies don’t do well, as we know. But I’d like to see it nominated. Actually, The Man Without a Past was the best of the bunch when it was nominated. No. I am not being patriotic here – it WAS the best, and lost to a mediocre picture.
Yeah, Denmark and Sweden have done very well in FLF, much better than Norway, Finland or Iceland – but we always cheer for each other. I don’t think I’ve ever seen 2 Nordic pictures competing against each other in FLF. Last year I was happy about DK winning, I think Bier made a solid picture.
Do you think you have a good shot this year? I have not seen the Danish entry, only the Finnish and Swedish ones.
If you live in Copenhagen, say hello to Helen Mirren next week
I travel to CPH all the time. Many times a year. My kinda city.
This was the lineup:
Nowhere in Africa (WINNER), The Crime of Father Amaro, Hero, The Man Without a Past, Zus & Zo.
What a poor list of nominees and the worst of them won.
Just checked, 1991 had Iceland and Sweden nominated. 1987 had Denmark and Norway, 1961 had Sweden and Denmark. Those are the only ones.
More about Denmark. I have also spent time in Aarhus, Odense, Roskilde (naturally) and Skive. The latter is actually a weird little town, but I was at a festival. It’s funny that you may travel through the whole country in a few hours, yet you still have about the same population as Finland.
I can read Danish fairly well, cause I know Swedish. But if you talk to me in your native tongue, I am completely lost (but so are the Swedes).
I live in Turku (do you know that city?), but moving to Helsinki next month.
Doesn’t Slovenia have an entry: Silent Sonata?
Tero: Skive?? Really? My girlfriend is from Skive! A weird little town, indeed…
What have you been doing in Denmark, I wonder?
I’m from Aarhus, but am currently living in Buenos Aires. Yes, life is great…:)
The Man Without A Past is a masterful film, and yes, it should have won that year!
Denmark’s contribution this year is Superclasico is a tame comedy which takes place in Buenos Aires (hence the title), of all places…and Buenos Aires is the real star of the movie, the movie itself is “nothing to write home about” (a Danish expression). Really formulaic and not very funny. Paprika Steen (from last years’ acclaimed Applause, as well as Festen) stars and she is a formidable actress, but this is a so so performance in a so so movie. I was really surprised that the Danish committee chose to submit this movie, maybe because they thought we needed to submit something very different from last year, you should never try to repeat the winning formula, that must have been the sentiment behind that decision.
and no, my real name is not julian, but it is not pelle either…;)
Well, you know my favourite band is Mew. I have been following their tours. Seen them live over 30 times.
Ahh, well, yes, they are a great band:) I’ve been following them as well since their first album on a small Danish record company. Saw one of their very first shows in 1997, probably. 20 people attended that show. Since then, quite “a lot of water has run down the river” (another poor translation of a Danish expression, can’t help myself, I miss Denmark suddenly!;))
“Am I Wry? No” is one of the best Danish indie songs ever, for the record…
Yeah, and Comforting Sounds is like another Danish anthem.
”This was the lineup:
Nowhere in Africa (WINNER), The Crime of Father Amaro, Hero, The Man Without a Past, Zus & Zo.”
City of God is better than all those 5 combined. One of the worst mistakes of all time in this category.
I’ll join the choir for Elite Squad 2. It’s actually better than the great first one and for this movie, José Padilha was chosen to direct the Robocop remake. My guess is it will be hard to make them watch it seriously, as it’s a sequel and not much talked about, but the ones that do will put it in their ballots.
Is it bad that I was disapointed by Elite Squad 2?
I have a someone in my class from Denmark… I saw her before this weekend at the bus and she said that she was having an exhibition in Denmark this week (or maybe longer, I can’t remember)….
This category always surprises, in both good and bad ways. Lets wait until January to see who makes it to the top 9. Then it will be clearer.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/oscar-63-films-in-competition-for-foreign-language-film-academy-award/
A good read. Le Havre was the first picture to be screened. Maybe a bad thing, or good.
I don’t know if this is important, but apparently Le Havre was named Best Film at Chicago Film Festival.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111015/FILMFESTIVALS04/111019987
I hope the amazing ELITE SQUAD 2 get a nomination.
Sweden’s ‘Beyond’ (dir. Pernilla August) was named the Best Nordic Film 2011.
http://www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/news_story.php?cid=3012&sid=10&ptid=4
The Award was presented today in Copenhagen by actress Helen Mirren.
“José and Pilar” is a superb documentary! One of my favorite movies ever. The love story of the portuguese Nobel, José Saramago and his wife, Pilar. Truly amazing. Go Portugal!
And the oscar goes to………….
And the oscar goes from…………
Portugal, with José & Pilar!
Ok, come on speaking seriously.
In ny opinion, i think than “Jose & Pilar” merits win the oscar prize cause is a very speacial film/documentary.
Ok, I’m Portuguese, but i’m not so patriotic to promove any filme that I don’t like.
No, I think everyone should watch the documentary, cause is a very beatifull life that someone knows. José Saramago and Pilar del Río opend their house to us. OpEning doors, they passed to be our.
Who hasn’t watch the film must to see it. Its a strong love and a strongs lives to be shared.
We would like win the oscar, cause it was the supreme prized, the suprime homage to a very beatifull love. If you want, “José & Pilar” is a standard of love and great life.
I’ve only seen three of the candidates, but the one which has most impressed me is France’s “La guerre est déclarée.”
As portuguese and a big fan of José Saramago, i loved to watch the movie “Jose&Pilar”. Its a love story, a real one in a writter world.
Why don’t you see it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkxyTc9BbkU
After the Nobel we want the Oscar!!!
Once upon a Time in Anatolia , Nuri Bilge Ceylan film ıs veryy veryyy bestt beautiful
number oneeee