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

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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] since 1997. The Foreign Language Film 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] As of 2023, eighteen Luxembourgian films have competed for the Oscar, but none have yet been nominated.

Submissions[edit]

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. 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 Luxembourg 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 Languages Director Result
1997
(70th) 		Women Elles French, Portuguese Luís Galvão Teles Not nominated
1998
(71st) 		Back in Trouble Luxembourgish, German Andy Bausch Not nominated
2002
(75th) 		Dead Man's Hand Petites misères French Philippe Boon & Laurent Brandenbourger Not nominated
2003
(76th) 		I Always Wanted to Be a Saint J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte Geneviève Mersch Not nominated
2005
(78th) 		Renart the Fox Le Roman de Renart Thierry Schiel Not nominated
2006
(79th) 		Your Name is Justine Masz na imię Justine Polish, English Franco de Pena Disqualified [4]
2007
(80th) 		Little Secrets Perl oder Pica Luxembourgish Pol Cruchten Not nominated
2008
(81st) 		Nuits d'Arabie French, Arabic, Luxembourgish Paul Kieffer Not nominated
2009
(82nd) 		Refractaire Réfractaire French Nicolas Steil Not nominated
2013
(86th) 		Blind Spot[5] Doudege Wénkel Luxembourgish Christophe Wagner Not nominated
2014
(87th) 		Never Die Young[6] French Pol Cruchten Not nominated
2015
(88th) 		Baby(a)lone[7] Luxembourgish Donato Rotunno Not nominated
2016
(89th) 		Voices from Chernobyl[8] La supplication French Pol Cruchten Not nominated
2017
(90th) 		Barrage[9] Laura Schroeder Not nominated
2018
(91st) 		Gutland[10] Luxembourgish, German Govinda Van Maele Not nominated
2019
(92nd) 		Tel Aviv on Fire[11] תל אביב על האש Hebrew, Arabic Sameh Zoabi Not nominated
2020
(93rd) 		River Tales[12] Cuentos del río Spanish Julie Schroell Not nominated
2021
(94th) 		Io sto bene[13] Italian, French, Luxembourgish Donato Rotunno Not nominated
2022
(95th) 		Icarus[14] Icare French Carlo Vogele Not nominated
2023
(96th) 		The Last Ashes[15] Läif a Séil Luxembourgish Loïc Tanson [lb] Not nominated

Because of Luxembourg's small size, most submitted films were co-productions with neighboring countries.

Two of Luxembourg's early submissions straddled AMPAS nationality guidelines. Helmed by a Portuguese director and set in Lisbon, Women (Elles) was filmed primarily in French, and featured a diverse lead cast from France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, but not Luxembourg. Dead Man's Hand was a minority Luxembourg production, which actually represented Belgium at several film festivals.[16]

In 2006, AMPAS disqualified Your Name is Justine, arguing that Luxembourg did not have sufficient artistic control over the muilti-national film, which was directed by a Poland-based Venezuelan director, set in Germany and Poland, shot mostly in Polish and English but funded primarily by Luxembourg. The film was originally considered to represent Poland, but it failed to make Poland's four-film shortlist that year[17] and it was subsequently selected to represent Luxembourg.

Ever since the controversy of 2006, all of Luxembourg's Oscar submissions have been directed by native-born Luxembourgian directors, with the exception of "Tel Aviv on Fire" in 2019. "Tel Aviv", directed by Sameh Zoabi, a Palestinian director who holds Israeli citizenship, was one of five films shortlisted by Israel but ended up representing Luxembourg when Israel selected Incitement instead. Although set in Israel and the West Bank, "Tel Aviv" was filmed mostly in Luxembourg with a largely locally based crew and was accepted by AMPAS to represent AMPAS.

Of Luxembourg's 18 eligible submissions, two were animated films, and three were documentaries. About half the films were mostly in French, with only five dominantly in the national language, Luxembourgish.

The late Pol Cruchten represented the country three times, more than any other Luxembourgian director.

From 2010 to 2012, Luxembourg's Oscar Selection Committee met each year and announced that the country would not send a film due to a lack of suitable candidates.[18]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  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[edit]

  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. ^ 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. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  4. ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (8 November 2006). "Lux out of 'Name' game". Variety.
  5. ^ ""Doudege Wénkel" aux Oscars". Le Quotidien. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  6. ^ "Harrowing true story from Luxembourg is Oscar hopeful". Luxembourg Wort. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Baby(A)lone is Luxembourg's Oscars hopeful". Cineuropa. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  8. ^ ""Voices from Chernobyl" to represent Luxembourg". Luxemburger Wort. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  9. ^ Bauldry, Jess (8 September 2017). "Drama "Barrage" to represent Lux. at 2018 Oscars". Delano. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  10. ^ Brenton, Hannah (6 September 2018). "Gutland selected as Luxembourg pick for Oscars". Luxembourg Times. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  11. ^ Roxborough, Scott (24 September 2019). "Oscars: Luxembourg Selects 'Tel Aviv on Fire' for International Feature Film Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  12. ^ Schnuer, Cordula (6 October 2020). "Luxembourg picks 2021 Oscar contender". Delano. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Le film "Io sto bene" de Donato Rotunno défendra les couleurs du Luxembourg dans la course aux Oscars 2022". gouvernement.lu. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  14. ^ "ICARE défendra les couleurs du Luxembourg dans la course aux Oscars". L'essential. 23 September 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  15. ^ "Luxembourg selects pick for Oscars race". Luxembourg-times-online. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  16. ^ "Singapore Film Society". Singapore Film Society. Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  17. ^ "'Z odzysku' polskim kandydatem do Oscara". wiadomosci.gazeta.pl. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  18. ^ "Luxembourg sits out Oscar foreign language race". Variety. 20 September 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2023.

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