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List of submissions to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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2009 Best Foreign Language Film submissions
Highlights
Oscar winnerArgentina The Secret in Their Eyes
Total submissions67
First-time submissionsnone
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Juan José Camapanella in 2019
Argentine director Juan José Campanella won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Secret in Their Eyes.

This is a list of submissions to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. 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 every year since the award was created in 1956.[1] The award is handed out annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.[1][2] The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.[2]

The deadline for all countries to send in their submissions is September 30, 2009. The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009.[2] For more details on the Academy's submission and nomination process for Best Foreign Language Film, see Rule Fourteen: Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award.

The Academy has received 67 official Oscar submissions, tying the record set in 2008. The submissions from Algeria and Mongolia were disqualified from competing.

A shortlist of nine semi-finalists was announced January 20, 2010.[3] The official nominees were announced on February 2, 2010.[4] The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was Argentina's The Secret in Their Eyes.[5]

Submissions

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Submitting Country Film Title used in nomination Original Title Language(s) Director(s) Result [6]
 Albania Alive! Gjallë Albanian Artan Minarolli Not nominated
 Algeria London River[7] French, English Rachid Bouchareb Disqualified
 Argentina The Secret in Their Eyes El secreto de sus ojos Spanish Juan José Campanella Won Academy Award
 Armenia Autumn of the Magician Հրաշագործի աշունը Armenian, English, Italian Ruben Gevorkyants & Vahe Gevorkyants Not nominated
 Australia Samson and Delilah Walpiri, English Warwick Thornton Made shortlist
 Austria For a Moment, Freedom Ein Augenblick Freiheit English, Persian, Turkish Arash T. Riahi Not nominated
 Bangladesh Beyond the Circle বৃত্তের বাইরে Bengali Golam Rabbani Biplob Not nominated
 Belgium The Misfortunates De helaasheid der dingen Dutch, Flemish Felix van Groeningen Not nominated
 Bolivia Southern Zone Zona Sur Spanish, Aymara Juan Carlos Valdivia Not nominated
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Night Guards Čuvari noći Bosnian Namik Kabil Not nominated
 Brazil Time of Fear Salve Geral Brazilian Portuguese Sergio Rezende Not nominated
 Bulgaria The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner Светът е голям и спасение дебне отвсякъде Bulgarian Stephan Komandarev Made shortlist
 Canada I Killed My Mother J'ai tué ma mère French Xavier Dolan Not nominated
 Chile Dawson, Island 10 Dawson, Isla 10 Spanish Miguel Littin Not nominated
 China Forever Enthralled 梅兰芳 Mandarin Chen Kaige Not nominated
 Colombia The Wind Journeys Los viajes del viento Spanish, Palenquero, Wayuunaiki, Ikun Ciro Guerra Not nominated
 Croatia Donkey Kenjac Croatian Antonio Nuić Not nominated
 Cuba Fallen Gods Los Dioses Rotos Spanish, Yoruba Ernesto Daranas Not nominated
 Czech Republic Protector Protektor Czech, German Marek Najbrt Not nominated
 Denmark Terribly Happy Frygtelig lykkelig Danish Henrik Ruben Genz Not nominated
 Estonia December Heat Detsembrikuumus Estonian, Russian, English Asko Kase Not nominated
 Finland Letters to Father Jacob Postia pappi Jaakobille Finnish Klaus Härö Not nominated
 France A Prophet Un prophète French, Arabic, Corsican Jacques Audiard Nominated
 Georgia The Other Bank გაღმა ნაპირი Georgian, Abkhaz, Russian Giorgi Ovashvili Not nominated
 Germany The White Ribbon Das weiße Band German Michael Haneke Nominated
 Greece Slaves in their Bonds Οι Σκλάβοι στα Δεσμά τους Greek Adonis Lykouresis Not nominated
 Hong Kong Prince of Tears 淚王子 Mandarin Yonfan Not nominated
 Hungary Chameleon Kaméleon Hungarian Krisztina Goda Not nominated
 Iceland Reykjavík-Rotterdam Icelandic Óskar Jónasson Not nominated
 India Harishchandrachi Factory हरिश्चंद्राची फॅक्टरी Marathi Paresh Mokashi Not nominated
 Indonesia Jamila and the President Jamila dan Sang Presiden Indonesian Ratna Sarumpaet Not nominated
 Iran About Elly درباره الی Persian Asghar Farhadi Not nominated
 Israel Ajami عجمي / עג'מי Israeli Arabic, Hebrew Yaron Shani & Scandar Copti Nominated
 Italy Baarìa Sicilian, Italian Giuseppe Tornatore Not nominated
 Japan Nobody to Watch Over Me 誰も守ってくれない Japanese Ryoichi Kimizuka Not nominated
 Kazakhstan Kelin Келін (No dialogue) Ermek Tursunov Made shortlist
 Lithuania Vortex Duburys Lithuanian, Russian Gytis Luksas Not nominated
 Luxembourg Réfractaire French Nicolas Steil Not nominated
North Macedonia Macedonia Wingless Ocas ještěrky / Созерцание Czech Ivo Trajkov Not nominated
 Mexico Backyard El Traspatio Spanish Carlos Carrera Not nominated
 Mongolia By the Will of Genghis Khan [8] Тайна Чингис Хаана Yakut, Russian Andrei Borissov Disqualified
 Morocco Casanegra كازانيݣرا Moroccan Arabic Nour-Eddine Lakhmari Not nominated
 Netherlands Winter in Wartime Oorlogswinter Dutch, German,
English 		Martin Koolhoven Made shortlist
 Norway Max Manus Norwegian, German Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg Not nominated
 Peru The Milk of Sorrow La teta asustada Spanish, Quechua Claudia Llosa Nominated
 Philippines Grandpa Is Dead Ded na si Lolo Filipino Soxie Topacio Not nominated
 Poland Reverse Rewers Polish Borys Lankosz Not nominated
 Portugal Doomed Love Um Amor de Perdição Portuguese Mário Barroso Not nominated
 Puerto Rico Kabo and Platon Kabo y Platón Spanish Edmundo H. Rodríguez Not nominated
 Romania Police, Adjective Politist, adj. Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu Not nominated
 Russia Ward No. 6 Палата №6 Russian Aleksandr Gornovsky & Karen Shakhnazarov Not nominated
 Serbia St. George Shoots the Dragon Свети Георгије убива аждаху Serbian Srdjan Dragojevic Not nominated
 Slovakia Broken Promise Nedodržaný sľub Slovak, Russian Jirí Chlumský Not nominated
 Slovenia Landscape No. 2 Pokrajina Št. 2 Slovene Vinko Moderndorfer Not nominated
 South Africa White Wedding Afrikaans, Xhosa, Setswana, Zulu, English Jann Turner Not nominated
 South Korea Mother 마더 Korean Bong Joon-ho Not nominated
 Spain The Dancer and the Thief El baile de la victoria Spanish Fernando Trueba Not nominated
 Sri Lanka The Road from Elephant Pass අලිමාන්කාඩා Sinhala, Tamil Chandran Rutnam Not nominated
 Sweden Involuntary De ofrivilliga Swedish Ruben Östlund Not nominated
 Switzerland Home French Ursula Meier Not nominated
 Taiwan Cannot Live Without You 不能沒有你 Hakka, Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin Leon Dai Not nominated
 Thailand Best of Times ความจำสั้น แต่รักฉันยาว Thai Youngyooth Thongkonthun Not nominated
 Turkey I Saw the Sun Güneşi gördüm Turkish Mahsun Kırmızıgül Not nominated
 United Kingdom Afghan Star Dari, Pashto, English Havana Marking Not nominated
 Uruguay Bad Day for Fishing Mal día para pescar Spanish Álvaro Brechner Not nominated
 Venezuela Libertador Morales, El Justiciero Efterpi Charalambidis Not nominated
 Vietnam Don't Burn It Đừng đốt Vietnamese Đặng Nhật Minh Not nominated

Notes

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  • Netherlands The Netherlands submitted their entry on September 2, but the decision was appealed. Many Netherlands-based producers argued that the submitted film did not meet the AMPAS criteria for eligibility because it was a re-montage. The Netherlands reconvened the Oscar committee on September 21. AMPAS concluded that the entry was in fact ineligible after which Winter in Wartime was entered. In the Dutch press Winter in Wartime producer San Fu Malta lamented that the mistake made his film appear to be second choice. Voicing the sentiment of large sections of the filmsector, he argued that the committee falling under the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science should not have decided upon the Oscar nomination. That should have been done by, for instance, the jury of the Netherlands Film Festival which had the requisite expertise and was free of any conflict of interest.[9][10]
  •  Serbia's Oscar selection committee originally voted to submit Here and There, which is set in Belgrade and New York City and features a mixed American and Serbian cast. After consulting with the Academy, Serbia changed its submission since the film appears to contain more than 50% English dialogue.[11]
  • Sri Lanka Sri Lanka originally announced that they would send Flowers of the Sky [12] but The Road from Elephant Pass was eventually announced to be Sri Lanka's final submission.[13]
  • Thirteen other countries (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Nepal, Palestinian Territories, Singapore, and Ukraine) that submitted films within the three previous years opted not to send a movie for Oscar consideration in 2009.

References

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  1. ^ 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 23 June 2008.
  2. ^ a b c "Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award". Rule Fourteen: Special Rules for the Makeup and Hairstyling Award. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
  3. ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Advance in Oscar Race". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 20 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
  4. ^ "List of Academy Awards Nominations". CNN.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
  5. ^ "Argentina's 'The Secret in Their Eyes' a thriller and thrilling win for Juan Jose Campanella". Los Angeles Times. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  6. ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Advance in Oscar Race | Press Release | The Academy". Oscars.org. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  7. ^ "El Watan :: 2 octobre 2009 :: Cinéma-« London River » de Rachid Bouchareb : Fleuve d'émotions". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009.
  8. ^ "ЯСИА : Новости : Монголия выдвигает "Тайну Чингис Хаана" на "Оскар"". Archived from the original on 4 November 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2009. /
  9. ^ Parool: Toch Oorlogswinter afgevaardigd naar Oscars
  10. ^ Geen Wit Licht maar Oorlogswinter naar Oscars
  11. ^ Petkovic, Vladan (23 September 2009). "Serbia sends Saint George to do battle at the Oscars | News | Screen". Screendaily.com. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  12. ^ "Academy Awards: foreign language entries | Calendar | Screen". Screendaily.com. 18 September 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  13. ^ "Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Headlines". Retrieved 14 October 2009. [dead link]
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