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

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Australia has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1996. 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 2014, eight Australian films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and none of them have been nominated for an Oscar.

The Australian nominee is selected by a committee of Australian industry professionals convened and selected by Screen Australia.

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 Australia for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

Year
(Ceremony)		 Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director Result
1996
(69th) 		Floating Life Floating Life Cantonese, English, German Clara Law Not Nominated
2001
(74th) 		La Spagnola La Spagnola Spanish, English, Italian Steve Jacobs Not Nominated
2006
(79th) 		Ten Canoes Ten Canoes Yolngu Matha, Gunwinggu,
English 		Rolf de Heer Not Nominated
2007
(80th) 		The Home Song Stories The Home Song Stories Cantonese, English, Mandarin Tony Ayres Not Nominated
2009
(82nd) 		Samson and Delilah[3] Samson and Delilah Warlpiri, English Warwick Thornton Made January Shortlist
2012
(85th) 		Lore[4] Lore German Cate Shortland Not Nominated
2013
(86th) 		The Rocket[5] The Rocket Lao Kim Mordaunt Not Nominated
2014
(87th) 		Charlie's Country[6] Charlie's Country Yolngu Matha Rolf de Heer
TBD

As an English-speaking country, Australia only infrequently sends movies to the Oscars. Three of their five submissions have been stories of the lives and stories of immigrants to Australia. Their first submission, Floating Life is a drama about Cantonese immigrants from Hong Kong who reunite with their daughter who moved there several years before. Their second submission, La Spagnola is a black comedy about a pregnant Spanish immigrant who is deserted by her husband after arriving in Australia. Their most recent submission, The Home Song Stories is about a Chinese woman from Shanghai who moves to Australia with her two children after marrying an Australian citizen. Both Clara Law and Tony Ayres were born in Macau and became naturalized Australian citizens.

Australia's 2006 and 2009 submissions were stories of Australia's indigenous Aborigine community. Ten Canoes was the first feature film made primarily in the languages of Australian aborigines.[7] The film, set before the arrival of white Australian settlers, tells a story within a story, about what happens when a young man falls for one of the brides of the local chief. Samson & Delilah, the first Australian film to make an Oscar shortlist, won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2009, and focused on teenaged Aboriginal couple on the run.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  2. ^ a b "History of the Academy Awards - Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
  3. ^ Runner-up: Van Diemen's Land, directed by Jonathan auf der Heide. Source: http://www.screendaily.com/awards/academy-awards/academy-awards-news/australia-selects-samson-for-foreign-language-oscar/5006233.article
  4. ^ "Australian film Lore up for an Oscar". Vogue. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Australian film The Rocket has a shot at the Oscars". The Australian. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Oscars: Australia Selects 'Charlie's Country' for Foreign-Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  7. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466399/trivia

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