List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
The following 37 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 62nd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film which took place in 1990. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Canada, Denmark, France, Puerto Rico and the eventual winner, Cinema Paradiso, from Italy.[1] Burkina Faso and South Africa submitted films for the first time and Puerto Rico was nominated for the first, and to date, only time.
Submissions
Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Language(s) | Original title | Director(s) | Result |
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Argentina | La Amiga | Spanish, German | La Amiga | Jeanine Meerapfel | Not Nominated |
Austria | The Seventh Continent | German | Der Siebente Kontinent | Michael Haneke | Not Nominated |
Belgium | The Sacrament | Dutch | Het Sacrament | Hugo Claus | Not Nominated |
Brazil | Better Days Ahead | Portuguese | Dias Melhores Virão | Carlos Diegues | Not Nominated |
Bulgaria | Time of Violence | Bulgarian | Време на насилие | Ludmil Staikov | Not Nominated |
Burkina Faso | Yaaba | More | Yaaba[2] | Idrissa Ouedraogo | Not Nominated |
Canada | Jesus of Montreal | French | Jésus de Montréal | Denys Arcand | Nominated |
China | The Birth of New China | Chinese | 开国大典 | Qiankuan Li | Not Nominated |
Cuba | Supporting Roles | Spanish | Papeles secundarios | Orlando Rojas | Not Nominated |
Czechoslovakia | A Hoof Here, a Hoof There | Czech | Kopytem sem, kopytem tam | Věra Chytilová | Not Nominated |
Denmark | Memories of a Marriage | Danish | Danser med Regitze | Kaspar Rostrup | Nominated |
France | Camille Claudel | French | Camille Claudel[2] | Bruno Nuytten | Nominated |
West Germany | Spider's Web | German | Das Spinnenetz | Bernhard Wicki | Not Nominated |
Greece | Landscape in the Mist | Greek | Τοπίο στην ομίχλη | Theo Angelopoulos | Not Nominated |
Hong Kong | Painted Faces | Cantonese | 七小福 | Alex Law | Not Nominated |
Hungary | My 20th Century | Hungarian | Az Én XX. századom | Ildikó Enyedi | Not Nominated |
Iceland | Under the Glacier | Icelandic | Kristnihald undir jökli | Guðný Halldórsdóttir | Not Nominated |
India | Parinda | Hindi | परिंदा | Vidhu Vinod Chopra | Not Nominated |
Indonesia | Tjoet Nja' Dhien | Indonesian | Tjoet Nja' Dhien | Eros Djarot | Not Nominated |
Israel | One of Us | Hebrew | אחד משלנו | Uri Barbash | Not Nominated |
Italy | Cinema Paradiso | Italian | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Won Academy Award |
Japan | Rikyu | Japanese | 利休 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Not Nominated |
Netherlands | Polonaise | Dutch | Leedvermaak | Frans Weisz | Not Nominated |
Norway | A Handful of Time | Norwegian | En håndfull tid | Martin Asphaug | Not Nominated |
Poland | Kornblumenblau | Polish | Kornblumenblau[3] | Leszek Wosiewicz | Not Nominated |
Portugal | The Cannibals | Portuguese | Os Canibais | Manoel de Oliveira | Not Nominated |
Puerto Rico | Santiago, the Story of his New Life | Spanish | Lo que le pasó a Santiago | Jacobo Morales | Nominated |
Romania | Those Who Pay With Their Lives | Romanian | Cei care plătesc cu viaţa | Șerban Marinescu | Not Nominated |
South Africa | Mapantsula | Zulu | Mapantsula | Oliver Schmitz | Not Nominated[4] |
Spain | Love, Hate and Death | Spanish | Montoyas y Tarantos | Vicente Escrivá | Not Nominated |
Sweden | The Women on the Roof | Swedish | Kvinnor på taket | Carl-Gustav Nykvist | Not Nominated |
Switzerland | My Dear Subject | French | Mon cher sujet | Anne-Marie Miéville | Not Nominated |
Taiwan | A City of Sadness | Chinese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Shanghainese | 悲情城市 | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Not Nominated |
Thailand | The Elephant Keeper | Thai | คนเลี้ยงช้าง | Chatrichalerm Yukol | Not Nominated |
Turkey | Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite | Turkish | Uçurtmayi Vurmasinlar | Tunç Başaran | Not Nominated |
Soviet Union | Zerograd | Russian | Город Зеро | Karen Shakhnazarov | Not Nominated |
Yugoslavia | Time of the Gypsies | Romany, Serbian | Dom za vešanje | Emir Kusturica | Not Nominated |
References
- ↑ "The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- 1 2 proper name
- ↑ Song name, relevant to plot
- ↑ The South African submission, Mapantsula, was on the 1989 official AMPAS press release, but not on the 2007 updated list. In 1997, the AMPAS press release announced that Paljas had been selected as South Africa's first-ever submission.
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