List of Canadian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Canada has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1971. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.[1] It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since.[2]
As of 2011, five Canadian films have been nominated including one winner for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Of these films, three have been directed by Denys Arcand: Jesus of Montreal, The Decline of the American Empire and its sequel, The Barbarian Invasions — the winner at the 76th Academy Awards.[3] Arcand's Days of Darkness was shortlisted for the Oscar, but was not nominated. The other Canadian directors to have their films nominated are Deepa Mehta for Water and Denis Villeneuve for Incendies, respectively nominated at the 79th and 83rd Academy Awards.[4][5] Mehta is a citizen of Canada who was born and raised in India.
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[edit] Submissions
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 since 1956.[2] The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award.[1] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Canada for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony. With two exceptions (2001's Inuktitut Atanarjuat and 2005's Hindi Water), all submissions were Québécois films. All of these were in French, except for A Bullet in the Head which contained no dialogue.
[edit] See also
- List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
- Cinema of Canada
- Cinema of Quebec
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule14.html. Retrieved 2008-09-15.[dead link]
- ^ a b "History of the Academy Awards - Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history02.html. Retrieved 2009-01-15.[dead link]
- ^ "Denys Arcand - Awards". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/79862/Denys-Arcand/awards. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
- ^ "Deepa Mehta - Awards". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/192088/Deepa-Mehta/awards. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
- ^ a b "Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
- ^ "Canada picks 'Incendies' to vie for Oscar". hollywoodreporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i164dab495458bd2bb6e4fc7db250065e. Retrieved 2010-09-29.[dead link]
- ^ "Monsieur Lazhar is Canada's Oscar selection". The Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/Monsieur+Lazhar+Canada+Oscar+selection/5441000/story.html. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
- ^ "Oscars 2012: Nominees in full". BBC News. 2012-01-24. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16700124. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
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