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23 unusual facts about Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film


Aszparuh

The film was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Bent Hamer

His 2003 film Kitchen Stories screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Betty Blue

The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, as well as winning a César Award for Best Poster.

Blood of My Blood

The film was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Deathmaker

It was chosen as Germany's official submission to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.

Derek de Lint

In 1986 he played the role of Anton Steenwijk in The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.

Fabian Hinrichs

He is probably the best known for his performance as Hans Scholl in Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Gerardo de León

His 1961 film The Moises Padilla Story was selected as the Philippine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Joachim Rønning

His 2012 film Kon-Tiki was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.

John de Rantau

His film Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan (Denias, Singing on the Cloud) was Indonesia's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but not nominated.

Karl Francis

The film opened the Hay Sony Film Festival 2008 and was submitted as the UK nominee for the category of Best Foreign Language Film for the 82nd Academy Awards; though it failed to be selected for the final five nominees.

King and the Clown

The film was chosen as South Korea's official submission for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

This film was chosen by the Korea Film Council-appointed committee as South Korea's submission for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Mahanagar

The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Nia Dinata

Two of the films she direct have been submitted to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Otto Plaschkes

On Valentine's day 2005, Plaschkes, as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, had just attended a West End screening of Kay Pollak's As It Is in Heaven, which had been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film.

Our Homeland

The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Ramparts of Clay

The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Ratna Sarumpaet

This film was submitted to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film but not nominated.

Shirley Stoler

The film, the success of which depended a great deal on her, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 1976, and garnered Wertmüller nominations as Best Director (a first for a woman) and Best Original Screenplay, and Stoler's co-star Giannini a nod as Best Actor.

Snow Prince

Snow Prince is Kundo Koyama's second work, after his work on the Departures, which won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 81st Academy Awards.

The Cave of the Yellow Dog

The film was submitted as Mongolia's contender for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Vasanthabalan

It was shortlisted for India's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.


Adam Bakri

Adam Bakri is an actor best known for playing lead role in Hany Abu-Assad's film Omar which made the 86th Academy Awards's shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film.

Arsen Anton Ostojić

Three of his feature films were Croatia's submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (A Wonderful Night in Split in 2004, No One's Son in 2008 and Halima's Path in 2012), although none received a nomination.

Atiq Rahimi

The film, starring Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, was selected as the Afghan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

Bumm Bumm Bole

The film is an authorized adaptation of the 1997 Iranian film Children of Heaven which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the same year.

Cine Animadores

The film got very good to decent reviews by critics and was submitted as a nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002.

Gyula Trebitsch

He was nominated in 1956 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film along with Walter Koppel for their film The Captain of Kopenick.

Henckel von Donnersmarck

In 2007 the family name was all over the news when director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for his spy drama The Lives of Others.

Olaf Dalsgaard-Olsen

Olaf Dalsgaard-Olsen is a Danish film producer who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956 for his film Qivitoq.

Ole Christian Madsen

His 2011 film SuperClásico has been shortlisted as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.

Pablo Berger

In 2012 he premiered his third film Blancanieves (Snow White), which was the Spanish representative of the Academy Awards in 2013, in the category of Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Pina Pellicer

Macario was the first Mexican production to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but ultimately lost out to Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring.

Rie Miyazawa

Then in 2002, she starred alongside Hiroyuki Sanada in Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai), the year's hit movie that won numerous awards at home, including ones for the lead actors, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film.

Rodrigo Plá

His 2012 film The Delay was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Salim Ahamed

It was also chosen as India's official entry to be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for the 84th Academy Awards.

Salomon Smolianoff

In the film The Counterfeiters based on Adolf Burger's memoirs (which film received a foreign-language Oscar for Austria in 2008), the character is renamed Salomon "Salli" Sorowitsch.

Sonderaktion Krakau

It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards ceremony.

Veľká Lomnica

Adolf Burger (born 1917), a Jewish The Holocaust survivor and writer, whose memoirs were made into an Oscar winning movie

Vicko Ruić

His directorial debut, Nausikaya (1996), which Ruić also wrote and produced, was the first Croatian independent film, and was Croatia's submission to the 69th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Walter Koppel

He was nominated in 1956 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film along with Gyula Trebitsch for their film The Captain of Kopenick.

Yoji Yamada

His movies have won the Best Picture award at the Japanese Academy Awards four times: in 1977 for The Yellow Handkerchief, in 1991 for My Sons, in 1993 for A Class to Remember, and in 2002 for The Twilight Samurai, which was nominated for the 76th Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film.

Zénaïde Rossi

She most notably played the role of Madame Lajoie in François Truffaut's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film winner, Day for Night (1973) (originally billed as La Nuit américaine, France) for which Truffaut was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.