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

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Four of Eric Khoo's films had been submitted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Three were not nominated, while his first submission, Be With Me, was disqualified.

Singapore has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] on a fairly regular basis since 2005, although they submitted a film while still being a British colony in 1959. The award is handed out annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.[3] The academy selection committee reviews all the submitted films, and secret ballot voting is used to determine the five nominees.

As of 2021, a total of fifteen films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but none has yet received an Oscar nomination. The director whose films have been submitted the most is Eric Khoo, although none had been nominated; one was disqualified for being more than 50% in English and not in a Foreign Language.[4] Two other submissions were large-scale musicals: the 1959 musical-drama The Kingdom and the Beauty, as well as the 2007 881.

List of submissions

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Year
(Ceremony)		 Film title used
in nomination		 Original title Language(s) Director Result
1959
(32nd) 		The Kingdom and the Beauty 江山美人 Mandarin Li Han-hsiang Not nominated
2005
(78th) 		Be With Me[5] English, Cantonese,
Mandarin, and Hokkien[6] 		Eric Khoo Disqualified[7]
2007
(80th) 		881[8] Mandarin, Hokkien,
and English 		Royston Tan Not nominated
2008
(81st) 		My Magic[9] Tamil Eric Khoo Not nominated
2011
(84th) 		Tatsumi[10] Japanese Not nominated
2012
(85th) 		Already Famous[11] 一泡而红 Mandarin Michelle Chong Not nominated
2013
(86th) 		Ilo Ilo[12] 爸妈不在家 Anthony Chen Not nominated
2014
(87th) 		My Beloved Dearest[13][14][15] Sayang Disayang Malay Sanif Olek Not nominated
2015
(88th) 		7 Letters[16] Malay, Hokkien, Mandarin,
Malayalam, English 		Junfeng Boo, Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, K Rajagopal,
Pin Pin Tan, Royston Tan, Kelvin Tong 		Not nominated
2016
(89th) 		Apprentice[17] Malay, English Boo Junfeng Not nominated
2017
(90th) 		Pop Aye[18] Thai Kirsten Tan Not nominated
2018
(91st) 		Buffalo Boys[19] Indonesian, English Mike Wiluan Not nominated
2019
(92nd) 		A Land Imagined[20] 幻土 Mandarin, English, Bengali Yeo Siew Hua Not nominated
2020
(93rd) 		Wet Season[21] 热带雨 Mandarin, English, Hokkien Anthony Chen Not nominated
2021
(94th) 		Precious Is the Night[22][23] 今宵多珍重 Mandarin Wayne Peng Not nominated
2022
(95th) 		Ajoomma[24] 花路阿朱妈 Mandarin, Korean, English He Shuming Not nominated
2023
(96th) 		The Breaking Ice[25] 燃冬 Mandarin, Korean Anthony Chen Not nominated

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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  1. ^ "Academy announces rules for 92nd Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Academy Announces Rule Changes For 92nd Oscars". Forbes. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  4. ^ Koehler, Robert (21 December 2005). "Foreign Oscar pix lost in translation". Variety. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  5. ^ Lui, John (7 December 2015). "No bias in voting for Oscars". The Straits Times. Singapore Press Holdings. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  6. ^ Film is mostly dialogue-less
  7. ^ Disqualified after its official Oscar screening for containing more than 50% English dialogue
  8. ^ "881 for Singapore's Submission for the 80th Academy Awards". Infocomm Media Development Authority. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Eric Khoo's "My Magic" is Singapore's submission to the Academy Awards". Infocomm Media Development Authority. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  10. ^ "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
  11. ^ "Already Famous is Singapore's entry for Best Foreign Film Oscar". Her World. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Ilo Ilo is Singapore entry to Oscars". AsiaOne. 7 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  13. ^ "Oscars: Singapore Selects 'Sayang Disayang' as Foreign-Language Candidate". The Hollywood Reporter. 28 September 2014. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  14. ^ "Singapore Selects 'Sayang Disayang' as Oscar Contender". 29 September 2014. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  15. ^ "#MoviesMusicPlaysFilmFestivalsConcerts: Oscars 2015: "Sayang Disayang"". Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  16. ^ Chan, Boon (8 October 2015). "7 Letters is Singapore's entry to the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category". The Straits Times. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  17. ^ Blair, Gavin J. (15 September 2016). "Oscars: Singapore Selects 'Apprentice' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  18. ^ Frater, Patrick (24 September 2017). "Singapore Picks 'Pop Aye' for Foreign-Language Oscar Contention". Variety. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  19. ^ Frater, Patrick (4 September 2018). "'Buffalo Boys' Selected by Singapore for Foreign-Language Oscar Campaign". Variety. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  20. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (27 September 2019). "Singapore Sends Locarno Winner 'A Land Imagined' to the Oscars". Variety. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  21. ^ Frater, Patrick (12 October 2020). "Singapore Selects 'Wet Season' for Oscars Contention". Variety. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  22. ^ "Precious Is The Night is Singapore's Oscar entry in 2022". The Straits Times. 27 October 2021.
  23. ^ "Oscars Race: Singapore Selects 'Precious is the Night' as Awards Contender". Variety. 27 October 2021.
  24. ^ "Ajoomma selected as Singapore's entry to the 2023 Oscars". The Straits Times. 4 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  25. ^ Patrick Brzeski (28 September 2023). "Singapore Picks Anthony Chen's The Breaking Ice to Compete at Oscars 2024". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
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