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34 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the [[64th Academy Awards]] in the category [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]. The five nominated films (highlighted in bold) came from Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy and Sweden.<ref name="Oscars1992">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992 |title=The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=15 September 2015 |work=oscars.org}}</ref> Hong Kong and Iceland received their first-ever nominations, while Czechoslovakia received its final nomination as a unified state.


This is a '''list of submissions to the 64th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.''' The [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] was created in 1956 by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] to honour non-[[English language|English-speaking]] films produced outside the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-06-22 |title=History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622191328/http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history02.html |archive-date=2008-06-22 |access-date=2022-10-09 }}</ref> The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2008-08-09 |title=Rule 14 {{!}} 81st Academy Awards Rules {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=http://www.oscars.org/81academyawards/rules/rule14.html |access-date=2022-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080809165815/http://www.oscars.org/81academyawards/rules/rule14.html |archive-date=2008-08-09 }}</ref> Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.<ref name=":0" />
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[[Germany]] caused a huge controversy when it took the unusual step not to submit any film to the competition. [[Europa, Europa]] by [[Agnieszka Holland]] was one of the pre-selection favorites to win the award. Although the film was made in German and about Germany, the country's National Film Board said that because they considered the film to be a majority-French production, and because the director was Polish, they did not consider it qualified to represent Germany. This is the only time since 1977 that Germany failed to be represented.<ref name="NY Times">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/14/movies/the-talk-of-hollywood-europa-surfaces-in-oscar-angling.html |title=The Talk of Hollywood; 'Europa' Surfaces In Oscar Angling |accessdate=13 September 2015 |work=oscars.org}}</ref> Other countries notable by their absence included Brazil, Egypt, Finland, Greece and Romania.


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For the [[64th Academy Awards]], thirty-four films were submitted in the category [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]. The five nominated films came from Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Sweden and the eventual winner, ''[[Mediterraneo]]'', from Italy.<ref name="Oscars1992">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992 |title=The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners |access-date=15 September 2015 |work=oscars.org}}</ref> Hong Kong and Iceland received their first-ever nominations, while Czechoslovakia received its final nomination as a unified state.
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In spite of a rule requiring films to be in the language of the submitting country, AMPAS decided to accept a submission from the United Kingdom that was mostly in Russian, marking the UK's first-ever participation in the competition.

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AMPAS acknowledged that they had received four submissions from new Eastern European republics- [[Armenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]] and [[Slovenia]]- which had each declared independence in mid-to-late 1991. Since none of the countries had yet been recognized internationally, the films were disqualified and not screened, although representatives from their parent states- the USSR and Yugoslavia- were allowed to compete. AMPAS did not announce the titles, but based on the small size of these republic's film industries at the time it appears certain that Macedonia chose Stole Popov's "Tetoviranje", the most celebrated Yugoslavian film of 1991, and that Croatia, Slovenia and Armenia likely chose family drama "[[Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing|Fragments]]", black comedy "The Cartier Operation" and surreal religious drama "The Voice in the Wilderness" respectively. <ref> Daily News of Los Angeles (CA), December 6, 1991 http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF6145C1FB85540&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM </ref>


==Submissions==
==Submissions==
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! Submitting country !! Film title used in nomination !! Original title !! Language(s) !! Director(s) !! Result
! Submitting country !! Film title used in nomination !! Original title !! Language(s) !! Director(s) !! Result
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| {{ALG}} || ''[[Cheb (film)|Cheb]]'' || Cheb || [[French language|French]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]] || [[Rachid Bouchareb]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{ALG}} || colspan="2" | ''[[Cheb (film)|Cheb]]'' || [[French language|French]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]] || [[Rachid Bouchareb]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{ARG}} || ''[[Las Tumbas]]'' || Las Tumbas || [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || [[Javier Torre]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{ARG}} || ''[[The Tombs (film)|The Tombs]]'' || ''Las tumbas''|| [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || Javier Torre || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{ARM}}
| {{AUT}} ||''[[I Love Vienna]]'' || I Love Vienna || [[German language|German]], [[Persian language|Persian]] || [[Houshang Allahyari]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| colspan="2" | ''[[The Voice in the Wilderness]]''
| Armenian
| [[Vigen Chaldranyan]]
| {{no|Not on the final list}}
|-
|-
| {{BEL}} || ''[[Toto the Hero]]'' || Toto le héros || [[French language|French]] || [[Jaco van Dormael]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{AUT}} || colspan="2" | ''[[I Love Vienna]]'' || [[German language|German]], [[English language|English]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Persian language|Persian]], Arabic|| Houchang Allahyari || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{BUL}} || ''[[The Well (1991 film)|The Well]]'' || Кладенецът || [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] || [[Docho Bodzhakov]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{BEL}} || ''[[Toto the Hero]]'' || ''Toto le héros''|| French || [[Jaco Van Dormael]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
|{{BRA}}
| {{CAN}} || ''[[A Bullet in the Head]]''|| A Bullet in the Head || No dialogue || [[Attila Bertalan]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
|''[[A Grande Arte|Exposure]]''
|''A Grande Arte''
|[[Brazilian Portuguese]], English, Spanish
|[[Walter Salles]]
| {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{CHI}} || ''[[The Frontier (film)|La Frontera]]'' || La Frontera || [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || [[Ricardo Larraín]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{BUL}} || ''[[The Well (1991 film)|The Well]]'' || ''Кладенецът''|| [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] || Docho Bodzhakov || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{CHN}} || ''[[The Spring Festival|New Year's Day]]'' || 过年 || [[Mandarin Chinese]] || Huang Jianzhong || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{CAN}} || colspan="2" | ''[[A Bullet in the Head (1990 film)|A Bullet in the Head]]''|| [[Fictional language|Fictional Language]]|| [[Attila Bertalan]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{COL}} || ''[[Confessing to Laura]]'' || Confesión a Laura || [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || [[Jaime Osorio Gómez]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{CHI}} || colspan="2" | ''[[The Frontier (1991 film)|La Frontera]]'' || Spanish || [[Ricardo Larraín]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{CUB}} || ''[[Hello, Hemingway]]'' || Hello, Hemingway || [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || [[Fernando Pérez (director)|Fernando Perez]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{CHN}} || ''[[The Spring Festival]]'' || 过年|| [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] || Huang Jianzhong || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{CSK}} || ''[[The Elementary School]]'' || Obecná skola || [[Czech language|Czech]] || [[Jan Sverák]] || {{good|Nominated}}
| {{COL}} || ''[[Confessing to Laura]]'' || ''Confesión a Laura''|| rowspan="2" | Spanish || Jaime Osorio Gómez || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{DNK}} || ''[[The Great Day on the Beach]]'' || Den Store badedag || [[Danish language|Danish]] || [[Stellan Olsson]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{CUB}} || colspan="2" | ''[[Hello Hemingway]]'' || [[Fernando Pérez (director)|Fernando Perez]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{FRA}} || ''[[Van Gogh (1991 film)|Van Gogh]]'' || Van Gogh || [[French language|French]] || [[Maurice Pialat]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{CSK}} || ''[[The Elementary School]]'' || ''Obecná skola''|| [[Czech language|Czech]] || [[Jan Svěrák]] || {{nom}}
|-
|-
| {{CRO}}
| {{HKG}} || ''[[Raise the Red Lantern]]'' || 大紅燈籠高高掛 || [[Mandarin Chinese]] || [[Zhang Yimou]] || {{good|Nominated}}
| colspan="2" | ''[[Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing]]''
| Croatian
| [[Zrinko Ogresta]]
| {{no|Not on the final list}}
|-
|-
| {{HUN}} || ''[[Brats (1991 film)|Brats]]'' || Félálom || [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] || [[János Rózsa]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{DNK}} || ''[[The Great Day on the Beach]]'' || ''Den store badedag''|| [[Danish language|Danish]] || [[Stellan Olsson]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{ISL}} || ''[[Children of Nature]]'' || Börn náttúrunnar || [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] || [[Friðrik Þór Friðriksson]] || {{good|Nominated}}
| {{FRA}} || colspan="2" | ''[[Van Gogh (1991 film)|Van Gogh]]'' || French || [[Maurice Pialat]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{IND}} || ''[[Henna (film)|Henna]]'' || हिना || [[Hindi]], [[Urdu]] || [[Randhir Kapoor]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{flagcountry|HKG|1959}} || ''[[Raise the Red Lantern]]'' || 大紅燈籠高高掛|| Mandarin || [[Zhang Yimou]] || {{nom}}
|-
|-
| {{ISR}} || ''[[Beyond the Sea (1991 film)|Beyond the Sea]]'' || מעבר לים || [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] || [[Jacob Goldwasser]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{HUN}} || ''[[Brats (1991 film)|Brats]]'' || ''Félálom''|| [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] || [[János Rózsa]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{ITA}} || ''[[Mediterraneo]]'' || Mediterraneo || [[Italian language|Italian]] [[Greek language|Greek]] || [[Gabriele Salvatores]] || {{won|place=1st|Won Academy Award}}
| {{ISL}} || ''[[Children of Nature]]'' || ''Börn náttúrunnar''|| [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], English|| [[Friðrik Þór Friðriksson]] || {{nom}}
|-
|-
| {{JPN}} || ''[[Rhapsody in August]]'' || 八月の狂詩曲 || [[Japanese language|Japanese]] || [[Akira Kurosawa]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{IND}} || ''[[Henna (film)|Henna]]'' || हिना|| [[Hindi]], [[Urdu]] || [[Randhir Kapoor]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{MEX}} || ''[[Homework (1991 film)|Homework]]'' || La Tarea || [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || [[Jaime Humberto Hermosillo]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{ISR}} || ''[[Beyond the Sea (1991 film)|Beyond the Sea]]'' || מעבר לים|| [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] || Jacob Goldwasser || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{NED}} || ''[[Eline Vere (film)|Eline Vere]]'' || Eline Vere || [[Dutch language|Dutch]] || [[Harry Kumel]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{ITA}} || colspan="2" | ''[[Mediterraneo]]'' || Italian, English, [[Greek language|Greek]]|| [[Gabriele Salvatores]] || {{won|place=1st|Won Academy Award}}
|-
|-
| {{NOR}} || ''[[Frida - Straight from the Heart]]'' || Frida - med hjertet i hånden || [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] || [[Berit Nesheim]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{flagcountry|JPN|1947}} || ''[[Rhapsody in August]]'' || 八月の狂詩曲|| [[Japanese language|Japanese]] || [[Akira Kurosawa]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{PER}} || ''[[Alias La Gringa]]'' || Alias 'La Gringa' || [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || [[Alberto Durant]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{MEX}} || ''[[Homework (1991 film)|Homework]]'' || ''La tarea''|| Spanish || [[Jaime Humberto Hermosillo]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{POL}} || ''[[The Double Life of Veronique]]'' || Podwójne życie Weroniki (La double vie de Véronique) || [[Polish language|Polish]], [[French language|French]] || [[Krzysztof Kieslowski]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{NED}} || colspan="2" | ''[[Eline Vere (film)|Eline Vere]]'' || [[Dutch language|Dutch]] || [[Harry Kümel]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{POR}} || ''[[O Sangue]]'' || O Sangue || [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] || [[Pedro Costa]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{NOR}} || ''[[Frida – Straight from the Heart]]'' || ''Frida - med hjertet i hånden''|| [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] || [[Berit Nesheim]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{ESP}} || ''[[High Heels (film)|High Heels]]'' || Tacones lejanos || [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || [[Pedro Almodóvar]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{PER}} || colspan="2" | ''[[Alias 'La Gringa']]'' || Spanish || Alberto Durant || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{SWE}} || ''[[The Ox (film)|The Ox]]'' || Oxen || [[Swedish language|Swedish]] || [[Sven Nykvist]] || {{good|Nominated}}
| {{POL}} || ''[[The Double Life of Véronique]]'' || ''Podwójne życie Weroniki''|| Polish, French || [[Krzysztof Kieślowski]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{SUI}} || ''[[The Mountain (1991 film)|Der Berg]]'' || Der Berg || [[German language|German]] || [[Markus Imhoof]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{POR}} || ''[[O Sangue]]'' || ''O Sangue''|| [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] || [[Pedro Costa]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{TWN}} || ''[[A Brighter Summer Day]]'' || 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 || [[Mandarin Chinese]] || [[Edward Yang]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{USSR}} || ''[[Get Thee Out]]'' || ''Изыди!''|| [[Russian language|Russian]] || [[Dmitriy Astrakhan]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{USSR}} || ''[[Get Thee Hence]]'' || Изыди! || [[Russian language|Russian]] || [[Dmitry Astrakhan]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{ESP}} || ''[[High Heels (1991 film)|High Heels]]'' || ''Tacones lejanos''|| Spanish || [[Pedro Almodóvar]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{GBR}} || ''[[Lost in Siberia]]'' || Затерянный в Сибири || [[Russian language|Russian]] || [[Alexander Mitta]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{SWE}} || ''[[The Ox (film)|The Ox]]'' || ''Oxen''|| [[Swedish language|Swedish]] || [[Sven Nykvist]] || {{nom}}
|-
|-
| {{VEN}} || ''[[Jericó (film)|Jericó]]'' || Jericó || [[Spanish language|Spanish]] || Luis Alberto Lamata || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{SUI}} || ''[[The Mountain (1991 film)|Der Berg]]'' || ''Der Berg''|| [[Swiss German]]|| [[Markus Imhoof]] || {{notnom}}
|-
|-
| {{YUG}} || ''[[The Original of the Forgery]]'' || Original falsifikata || [[Serbian language|Serbian]] || [[Dragan Kresoja]] || {{nom|Not Nominated}}
| {{TWN}} || ''[[A Brighter Summer Day]]'' || 牯嶺街少年殺人事件|| Mandarin, [[Shanghainese]], [[Taiwanese Hokkien]]|| [[Edward Yang]] || {{notnom}}
|-
| {{GBR}} || ''[[Lost in Siberia]]'' || ''Затерянный в Сибири''|| Russian || [[Alexander Mitta]] || {{notnom}}
|-
| {{flag|Venezuela|1930}} || ''[[Jericho (1991 film)|Jericho]]'' || ''Jericó''|| Spanish || [[Luis Alberto Lamata]] || {{notnom}}
|-
| {{YUG}} || ''[[The Original of the Forgery]]'' || ''Оригинал фалсификата''|| [[Serbian language|Serbian]] || [[Dragan Kresoja]] || {{notnom}}
|}
|}


== References ==
==Notes==

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* {{Flagicon|GER}} Germany caused controversy when it took the unusual step not to submit any film to the competition. ''[[Europa, Europa]]'' by [[Agnieszka Holland]] was one of the pre-selection favorites to win the award. Although the film was made in German and about Germany, the country's National Film Board said that because they considered the film to be a majority-French production, and because the director was Polish, they did not consider it qualified to represent Germany. This is the only time since 1977 that Germany failed to be represented.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weinraub |first=Bernard |date=1992-01-14 |title=The Talk of Hollywood; 'Europa' Surfaces In Oscar Angling |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/14/movies/the-talk-of-hollywood-europa-surfaces-in-oscar-angling.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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* {{Flagicon|GBR}} In spite of a rule requiring films to be in the language of the submitting country, AMPAS decided to accept a submission from the United Kingdom that was mostly in Russian, marking the UK's first-ever participation in the competition.
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* AMPAS acknowledged that they had received four submissions from new Eastern European republics, [[Armenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]] and [[Slovenia]], which had each declared independence in mid-to-late 1991. Since none of the countries had yet been recognized internationally, the films were disqualified and not screened, although representatives from their parent states - the USSR and Yugoslavia - were allowed to compete. AMPAS did not announce the titles, but based on the small size of these republic's film industries at the time it appears certain that Macedonia chose Stole Popov's ''Tetoviranje'', the most celebrated Yugoslavian film of 1991, and that Croatia, Slovenia and Armenia likely chose family drama ''[[Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing|Fragments]]'', black comedy ''The Cartier Operation'' and surreal religious drama ''The Voice in the Wilderness'' respectively.<ref name="Daily News">{{Cite web |title=Daily News of Los Angeles (CA), December 6, 1991 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF6145C1FB85540&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |access-date=13 September 2015 |work=Daily News of Los Angeles}}</ref>
* Other countries notable by their absence included Egypt, Finland, Greece and Romania.

==References==
{{reflist}}


{{Academy Award for Best Foreign Film submissions}}
{{Academy Award for Best Foreign Film submissions}}

Latest revision as of 19:04, 14 September 2023

This is a list of submissions to the 64th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States.[1] The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.[2] Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.[2]

For the 64th Academy Awards, thirty-four films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Sweden and the eventual winner, Mediterraneo, from Italy.[3] Hong Kong and Iceland received their first-ever nominations, while Czechoslovakia received its final nomination as a unified state.

Submissions[edit]

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Algeria Cheb French, Arabic Rachid Bouchareb Not nominated
 Argentina The Tombs Las tumbas Spanish Javier Torre Not nominated
 Armenia The Voice in the Wilderness Armenian Vigen Chaldranyan Not on the final list
 Austria I Love Vienna German, English, Italian, Polish, Persian, Arabic Houchang Allahyari Not nominated
 Belgium Toto the Hero Toto le héros French Jaco Van Dormael Not nominated
 Brazil Exposure A Grande Arte Brazilian Portuguese, English, Spanish Walter Salles Not nominated
 Bulgaria The Well Кладенецът Bulgarian Docho Bodzhakov Not nominated
 Canada A Bullet in the Head Fictional Language Attila Bertalan Not nominated
 Chile La Frontera Spanish Ricardo Larraín Not nominated
 China The Spring Festival 过年 Mandarin Huang Jianzhong Not nominated
 Colombia Confessing to Laura Confesión a Laura Spanish Jaime Osorio Gómez Not nominated
 Cuba Hello Hemingway Fernando Perez Not nominated
 Czechoslovakia The Elementary School Obecná skola Czech Jan Svěrák Nominated
 Croatia Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing Croatian Zrinko Ogresta Not on the final list
 Denmark The Great Day on the Beach Den store badedag Danish Stellan Olsson Not nominated
 France Van Gogh French Maurice Pialat Not nominated
 Hong Kong Raise the Red Lantern 大紅燈籠高高掛 Mandarin Zhang Yimou Nominated
 Hungary Brats Félálom Hungarian János Rózsa Not nominated
 Iceland Children of Nature Börn náttúrunnar Icelandic, English Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Nominated
 India Henna हिना Hindi, Urdu Randhir Kapoor Not nominated
 Israel Beyond the Sea מעבר לים Hebrew Jacob Goldwasser Not nominated
 Italy Mediterraneo Italian, English, Greek Gabriele Salvatores Won Academy Award
 Japan Rhapsody in August 八月の狂詩曲 Japanese Akira Kurosawa Not nominated
 Mexico Homework La tarea Spanish Jaime Humberto Hermosillo Not nominated
 Netherlands Eline Vere Dutch Harry Kümel Not nominated
 Norway Frida – Straight from the Heart Frida - med hjertet i hånden Norwegian Berit Nesheim Not nominated
 Peru Alias 'La Gringa' Spanish Alberto Durant Not nominated
 Poland The Double Life of Véronique Podwójne życie Weroniki Polish, French Krzysztof Kieślowski Not nominated
 Portugal O Sangue O Sangue Portuguese Pedro Costa Not nominated
 Soviet Union Get Thee Out Изыди! Russian Dmitriy Astrakhan Not nominated
 Spain High Heels Tacones lejanos Spanish Pedro Almodóvar Not nominated
 Sweden The Ox Oxen Swedish Sven Nykvist Nominated
 Switzerland Der Berg Der Berg Swiss German Markus Imhoof Not nominated
 Taiwan A Brighter Summer Day 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese Hokkien Edward Yang Not nominated
 United Kingdom Lost in Siberia Затерянный в Сибири Russian Alexander Mitta Not nominated
 Venezuela Jericho Jericó Spanish Luis Alberto Lamata Not nominated
 Yugoslavia The Original of the Forgery Оригинал фалсификата Serbian Dragan Kresoja Not nominated

Notes[edit]

  • Germany Germany caused controversy when it took the unusual step not to submit any film to the competition. Europa, Europa by Agnieszka Holland was one of the pre-selection favorites to win the award. Although the film was made in German and about Germany, the country's National Film Board said that because they considered the film to be a majority-French production, and because the director was Polish, they did not consider it qualified to represent Germany. This is the only time since 1977 that Germany failed to be represented.[4]
  • United Kingdom In spite of a rule requiring films to be in the language of the submitting country, AMPAS decided to accept a submission from the United Kingdom that was mostly in Russian, marking the UK's first-ever participation in the competition.
  • AMPAS acknowledged that they had received four submissions from new Eastern European republics, Armenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia, which had each declared independence in mid-to-late 1991. Since none of the countries had yet been recognized internationally, the films were disqualified and not screened, although representatives from their parent states - the USSR and Yugoslavia - were allowed to compete. AMPAS did not announce the titles, but based on the small size of these republic's film industries at the time it appears certain that Macedonia chose Stole Popov's Tetoviranje, the most celebrated Yugoslavian film of 1991, and that Croatia, Slovenia and Armenia likely chose family drama Fragments, black comedy The Cartier Operation and surreal religious drama The Voice in the Wilderness respectively.[5]
  • Other countries notable by their absence included Egypt, Finland, Greece and Romania.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 2008-06-22. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  2. ^ a b "Rule 14 | 81st Academy Awards Rules | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 2008-08-09. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  3. ^ "The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  4. ^ Weinraub, Bernard (1992-01-14). "The Talk of Hollywood; 'Europa' Surfaces In Oscar Angling". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  5. ^ "Daily News of Los Angeles (CA), December 6, 1991". Daily News of Los Angeles. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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