List of submissions to the 61st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
The following 31 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 61st Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Belgium, Hungary, India, Spain and the eventual winner, Pelle the Conqueror, from Denmark.[1]
The Dutch submission, the thriller The Vanishing, was disqualified by the Oscar committee.[2] AMPAS complained that less than 50% of the dialogue in the film was in Dutch, and that French was the majority language. Although the film was made by the Netherlands with a French-Dutch filmmaker and a mixed cast (mostly Dutch), AMPAS deemed that the film was not suitable to represent the Netherlands. The Netherlands declined to send another film, leaving them unrepresented for the first time since 1972. The Soviet film was filmed in 1967, but was banned for twenty years.
Submissions
Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Language(s) | Original title | Director(s) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Argentina | The Debt | Spanish | La Deuda interna | Miguel Pereira | Not Nominated |
Austria | Undiscovered Country | German | Das Weite Land | Luc Bondy | Not Nominated |
Belgium | The Music Teacher | French | Le Maître de musique | Gérard Corbiau | Nominated |
Brazil | The Story of Fausta | Portuguese | Romance da Empregada | Bruno Barreto | Not Nominated |
Bulgaria | Where Do We Go? | Bulgarian | А сега накъде | Rangel Vulchanov | Not Nominated |
Canada | The Revolving Doors | French | Les portes tournantes | Francis Mankiewicz | Not Nominated |
China | Red Sorghum | Chinese | 红高粱 | Zhang Yimou | Not Nominated |
Cuba | Letters from the Park | Spanish | Cartas del parque | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Not Nominated |
Denmark | Pelle the Conqueror | Danish | Pelle erobreren | Bille August | Won Academy Award |
Dominican Republic | One Way Ticket | Spanish | Un Pasaje de Ida | Agliberto Meléndez | Not Nominated |
France | The Reader | French | La Lectrice | Michel Deville | Not Nominated |
West Germany | Yasemin | German | Yasemin | Hark Bohm | Not Nominated |
Greece | In the Shadow of Fear | Greek | Στη σκιά του τρόμου | Giorgos Karypidis | Not Nominated |
Hungary | Hanussen | Hungarian | Hanussen | István Szabó | Nominated |
Iceland | In the Shadow of the Raven | Icelandic | Í skugga hrafnsins | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Not Nominated |
India | Salaam Bombay! | Hindi | Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | Nominated |
Israel | The Summer of Aviya | Hebrew | הקיץ של אביה | Eli Cohen | Not Nominated |
Italy | The Legend of the Holy Drinker | Italian | La Leggenda del santo bevitore | Ermanno Olmi | Not Nominated |
Japan | Hope and Pain | Japanese | ダウンタウン・ヒーローズ | Yoji Yamada | Not Nominated |
Mexico | The Last Tunnel | Spanish | El Último túnel | Servando González | Not Nominated |
Netherlands | The Vanishing | Dutch, French | Spoorloos | George Sluizer | Disqualified |
Nicaragua | The Ghost of War | Spanish | El Espectro de la guerra | Ramiro Lacayo-Deshon | Not Nominated |
Norway | The Ice Palace | Norwegian | Is-slottet | Per Blom | Not Nominated |
Peru | The Mouth of the Wolf | Spanish | La Boca del lobo | Francisco José Lombardi | Not Nominated |
Poland | A Short Film About Love | Polish | Krótki film o milosci | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Not Nominated |
Portugal | Hard Times | Portuguese | Tempos Difíceis | João Botelho | Not Nominated |
Puerto Rico | Tango Bar | Spanish | Tango Bar | Marcos Zurinaga | Not Nominated |
Spain | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Spanish | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | Pedro Almodóvar | Nominated |
Switzerland | La Méridienne | French | La Méridienne | Jean-François Amiguet | Not Nominated |
Taiwan | My Mother's Teahouse | Chinese | 春秋茶室 | Chen Kunhou | Not Nominated |
Soviet Union | Commissar | Russian | Комиссар | Aleksandr Askoldov | Not Nominated |
Yugoslavia | My Uncle's Legacy | Serbo-Croatian | Život sa stricem | Krsto Papić | Not Nominated |
References
- ↑ "The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ "Nomination Intricacies For Foreign-Film Oscar". New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2015.