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List of Canadian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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Denys Arcand, director of The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the first Canadian film to receive the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Canada has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] 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.[3] 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.[4]

The process of choosing the submission is administered by Telefilm Canada.

As of 2021, seven 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, nominated at the 62nd Academy Awards; The Decline of the American Empire, nominated at the 59th Academy Awards; and its sequel, The Barbarian Invasions, which was the winner at the 76th Academy Awards.[5] Arcand's Days of Darkness was shortlisted for the Oscar, but was not nominated. The other four Canadian directors to have their films nominated are Deepa Mehta for Water at the 79th Academy Awards,[6] Denis Villeneuve for Incendies at the 83rd Academy Awards,[7] Philippe Falardeau for Monsieur Lazhar at the 84th Academy Awards,[8] and Kim Nguyen for War Witch at the 85th Academy Awards.[9]

Of the 47 films selected to date as Canada's submission to the Academy Awards, 18 of them have also won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture.

Submissions

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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.[4] 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.[3] 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 was spoken entirely in an invented language.[10] Other French-language submissions have featured a substantial amount of Inuktitut (The Necessities of Life), Lingala (War Witch), Yiddish (Felix and Meira),[11] and Mohawk and Algonquin (Hochelaga, Land of Souls).[12]

For the 93rd Academy Awards, Canada's original submission was Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy, but the film was disqualified in December 2020 for containing too much dialogue in English.[13]

Year
(Ceremony)		 Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director Result
1971
(44th) 		Mon oncle Antoine French Claude Jutra Not nominated
1972
(45th) 		The True Nature of Bernadette La Vraie Nature de Bernadette Gilles Carle Not nominated
1975
(48th) 		Orders Les Ordres Michel Brault Not nominated
1977
(50th) 		J.A. Martin Photographer J.A. Martin photographe Jean Beaudin Not nominated
1979
(52nd) 		A Scream from Silence Mourir à tue-tête Anne Claire Poirier Not nominated
1980
(53rd) 		Good Riddance Les Bons débarras Francis Mankiewicz Not nominated
1981
(54th) 		The Plouffe Family Les Plouffe French, English Gilles Carle Not nominated
1982
(55th) 		Wild Flowers Les fleurs sauvages French Jean Pierre Lefebvre Not nominated
1983
(56th) 		The Tin Flute Bonheur d'occasion Claude Fournier Not nominated
1984
(57th) 		Sonatine Micheline Lanctôt Not nominated
1985
(58th) 		Jacques and November Jacques et novembre François Bouvier and Jean Beaudry Not nominated
1986
(59th) 		The Decline of the American Empire Le Déclin de l'empire américain French, English Denys Arcand Nominated[14]
1987
(60th) 		Night Zoo Un zoo la nuit French Jean-Claude Lauzon Not nominated
1988
(61st) 		The Revolving Doors Les portes tournantes Francis Mankiewicz Not nominated
1989
(62nd) 		Jesus of Montreal Jésus de Montréal French, English Denys Arcand Nominated[15]
1990
(63rd) 		An Imaginary Tale[16] Une histoire inventée French André Forcier Not nominated
1991
(64th) 		A Bullet in the Head[17] Fictional language Attila Bertalan Not nominated
1992
(65th) 		Léolo[18] French Jean-Claude Lauzon Not nominated
1993
(66th) 		The Sex of the Stars[19] Le sexe des étoiles Paule Baillargeon Not nominated
1994
(67th) 		My Friend Max Mon Amie Max Michel Brault Not nominated
1995
(68th) 		The Confessional[20] Le Confessional Robert Lepage Not nominated
1996
(69th) 		Not Me![21] Sous-Sol Pierre Gang Not nominated
1997
(70th) 		Cosmos[22] Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand,
Marie-Julie Dallaire, Arto Paragamian,
André Turpin, Denis Villeneuve 		Not nominated
1998
(71st) 		August 32nd on Earth[23] Un 32 Août sur Terre French, English Denis Villeneuve Not nominated
1999
(72nd) 		Set Me Free[24] Emporte-moi French Léa Pool Not nominated
2000
(73rd) 		Maelström[25] Denis Villeneuve Not nominated
2001
(74th) 		Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner[11] Atanarjuat Inuktitut Zacharias Kunuk Not nominated
2002
(75th) 		Un crabe dans la tête[26] Un crabe dans la tête French André Turpin Not nominated
2003
(76th) 		The Barbarian Invasions Les Invasions barbares French, English Denys Arcand Won Academy Award[27]
2004
(77th) 		Far Side of the Moon[28] La face cachée de la lune French Robert Lepage Not nominated
2005
(78th) 		C.R.A.Z.Y.[29] Jean-Marc Vallée Not nominated
2006
(79th) 		Water Hindi, English Deepa Mehta Nominated[6]
2007
(80th) 		Days of Darkness L'Âge des ténèbres French Denys Arcand Made shortlist[30]
2008
(81st) 		The Necessities of Life Ce qu'il faut pour vivre, Inuujjutiksaq French, Inuktitut Benoît Pilon Made shortlist[31]
2009
(82nd) 		I Killed My Mother[32] J'ai tué ma mère French Xavier Dolan Not nominated
2010
(83rd) 		Incendies[33] French, Arabic Denis Villeneuve Nominated[7]
2011
(84th) 		Monsieur Lazhar[34] Philippe Falardeau Nominated[35]
2012
(85th) 		War Witch[36] Rebelle French, Lingala Kim Nguyen Nominated[37]
2013
(86th) 		Gabrielle[38] French Louise Archambault Not nominated
2014
(87th) 		Mommy[39] Xavier Dolan Not nominated
2015
(88th) 		Felix and Meira[40] Félix et Meira French, Yiddish, English Maxime Giroux Not nominated
2016
(89th) 		It's Only the End of the World[41] Juste la fin du monde French Xavier Dolan Made shortlist[42]
2017
(90th) 		Hochelaga, Land of Souls[43] Hochelaga terre des âmes French, English, Mohawk, Algonquin François Girard Not nominated
2018
(91st) 		Family First[44] Chien de garde French Sophie Dupuis Not nominated
2019
(92nd) 		Antigone[45] French, English, Arabic Sophie Deraspe Not nominated
2020
(93rd) 		14 Days, 12 Nights[46] 14 jours, 12 nuits French Jean-Philippe Duval Not nominated
2021
(94th) 		Drunken Birds[47] Les Oiseaux ivres French, Spanish Ivan Grbovic Not nominated
2022
(95th) 		Eternal Spring[48] 長春 Mandarin, English Jason Loftus Not nominated
2023
(96th) 		Rojek[49] Kurdish, English, Arabic, French, German Zaynê Akyol Not nominated
2024
(97th) 		Universal Language[50] Une langue universelle French, Persian Matthew Rankin Pending

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The category was previously named the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in April 2019, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.[1][2]

References

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