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Oct
03
2006

Foreign Language Oscar Submissions

Posted by Kurt Halfyard at 6:31am.

Posted in Random Geek Talk .

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Of all the awards given out at Hollywoods big back-patting pageant, the two more interesting ones are for the best original screenplay and best foreign language film. Things are a while off for the former. For the latter, due to the number and nature of all submissions and complexity of the submission rules, the deadline for countries to submit their eligible film was October 2, 2006. I haven’t seen the official big list, but most of them are out there at this point.

There are some very large-scale films nominated this year, mainly from Asia, including King and the Clown, The Banquet, Curse of the Golden Flower, but also Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Fyodr Bondarchuk’s The Ninth Company. My guess would be the battle of the Spanish language films Pan’s vs. Volver, but I never call this award correctly.

Below is the nearly complete list of submitted films.

Algeria - Indigènes (Days of Glory)

Argentina - Family Law

Australia - Ten Canoes

Austria - You Bet Your Life

Bangladesh - Nirontor

Belgium - Someone Else’s Happiness

Bosnia - Grbavica

Brazil - Movies, Aspirin, and Vultures

Bulgaria - Monkeys in Winter

Canada - Water

Chile - En La Cama (The Bed)

China - Curse of the Golden Flower

Colombia - Soñar no cuesta nada

Croatia - Libertas

Cuba — El Benny

Czech Republic — Šílení (Lunacy)

Denmark - After the Wedding

Egypt - The Yacoubian Building

Finland - Lights in the Dusk

France - Fauteuils d’orchestre (Orchestra Seats; aka Avenue Montaigne)

Germany - The Lives of Others

Greece - Chariton’s Choir

Hong Kong - The Banquet

Hungary - White Palms

Iceland - Children

India - Rang de Basati

Indonesia - Love for Share

Iran - Café Transit

Iraq - Half Moon

Italy - Nuovomondo (Golden Door)

Israel — Adama Meshuga’at (Sweet Mud)

Japan -Hula Girls

(South) Korea - The King and the Clown

Kyrgyzstan - The Wedding Chest

Luxembourg - My Name is Justine

Macedonia - Contact

Mexico - Pan’s Labyrinth

Morocco - Moroccan Symphony

Netherlands - Zwartboek (Black Book)

Norway - Reprise

Peru - Madeinusa

Phillipines - The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

Poland -Z odzysku (Retreival)

Puerto Rico - Thieves and Liars

Romania - How I Spent the End of the World

Russia - The Ninth Company

Serbia - Tomorrow Morning

Slovenia -Gravehopping

Spain - Volver

Sweden - Falkenberg Farewell

Switzerland -Vitus

Taiwan - Blue Cha-Cha

Thailand - Invisible Waves

Turkey - Dondurmam Gaymak (Ice Cream, I Scream)

Venezuela - Maroa

Vietnam - Chuyen cua Pao (Pao’s Story)

If you would like to know more go to TheFilmExperience.net who have compiled photos, links and loads of information all in one place.

**UPDATED 2006/10/05** Thanks to the fine folks in the comment section who keep sending these in.

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Reader Comments

  1. Thinaran 10/03/2006 @ 7:34am

    Norway - Reprise

    (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0827517/)

  2. Kurt 10/03/2006 @ 8:10am

    Thanks. Added.

  3. Papigiulio 10/03/2006 @ 8:47am

    Huh im sorry maybe im geographically incompetent, but isn’t Hong Kong in China? So China is sending in 2 movies?

    Anywho, lots of Dutch people say Zwartbook has a good chance. But we’ll see.

  4. Ling Ling 10/03/2006 @ 8:52am

    Polish movie title shall be “Z odzysku” separately. These are two words.

  5. Kurt 10/03/2006 @ 9:27am

    Ling Ling - Fixed, when I cut and pasted the title, I assumed a formatting error...now I feel so provincial…

    As to the Hong Kong + China = 2 submissions for one country: Do not even begin to try to understand the byzantine rules and regulations (although I’m sure there is a wikipedia entry on the subject) of the Foreign Language Film submission process. Your head will hurt afterwards.

  6. Swarez 10/03/2006 @ 10:55am

    Awwww. You showed my poster.

  7. akistou 10/03/2006 @ 11:39am

    Portugal - Alice

    (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459072/)

  8. Rudy J. 10/03/2006 @ 3:11pm

    I’d love to see Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Invisible Waves make the nominations.

  9. Kött 10/04/2006 @ 3:10am

    Swedens nomination is Farväl Falkenberg (Falkenberg Farewell),

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0855805/

  10. AD 10/04/2006 @ 6:56am

    Also announced as official:

    Argentina - Family Law

    Bangladesh - Nirontor

    Bulgaria - Monkeys in Winter

    Croatia - Libertas

    Indonesia - Love for Share

    Iran - Café Transit

    Iraq - Half Moon

    Kyrgyzstan - The Wedding Chest

    Morocco - Moroccan Symphony

    Puerto Rico - Thieves and Liars

    Serbia - Tomorrow Morning

    Taiwan - Blue Cha-Cha

    Official list should be out in about two weeks. Some countries just send their movies without making a public announcement; others get disqualified.

    Oscar Foreign Film board generally has shown that they hate Asian movies....China has the best chance from the region, but I see Germany as the eventual winner.

  11. Wise Kwai 10/06/2006 @ 10:16am

    Five Star wouldn’t let Thailand submit Invisible Waves (likely because there’s hardly any Thai spoken in it), so the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand is going with Ahimsa ... Stop to Run.

  12. fel 10/23/2006 @ 3:43pm

    I’m from Brazil, Movies aspirins and vultures is a nice submision, not a huge hit here in Brazil. Thats why I was so suprised with the submision. The Brazilian movie agency normaly submit movies with major box ofice.

    Still, M.A.V. is a good movie, somehow diferent from recent Brazilian productions.

  13. fel 10/23/2006 @ 3:53pm

    About Hong Kong, they still have some independence over china in some aspects.

    ALso HK movies are in cantonese and chinese are in mandarin. I guess....

  14. H 11/10/2006 @ 10:24pm

    Volver is an early favorite. Asian films are A list movies. The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros and The curse of the Golden Flowers are both good movies.

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