List of submissions to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Introduction Argentine director Juan José Campanella won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for ''The Secret in Their Eyes''.|292x292pxThis 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.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. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.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.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.The official nominees were announced on February 2, 2010.The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was Argentina's ''The Secret in Their Eyes''.
Submissions  Submitting Country  Film Title used in nomination  Original Title  Language(s)  Director(s)  Result   ''Alive!'' ''Gjallë'' Albanian Artan Minarolli   ''London River'' French, English Rachid Bouchareb   ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' ''El secreto de sus ojos'' Spanish Juan José Campanella   ''Autumn of the Magician'' Հրաշագործի աշունը Armenian, English, Italian Ruben Gevorkyants & Vahe Gevorkyants   ''Samson and Delilah'' Walpiri, English Warwick Thornton   ''For a Moment, Freedom'' ''Ein Augenblick Freiheit'' English, Persian, Turkish Arash T. Riahi   ''Beyond the Circle'' বৃত্তের বাইরে Bengali Golam Rabbani Biplob   ''The Misfortunates'' ''De helaasheid der dingen'' Dutch, Flemish Felix van Groeningen   ''Southern Zone'' ''Zona Sur'' Spanish, Aymara Juan Carlos Valdivia   ''Night Guards'' ''Čuvari noći'' Bosnian Namik Kabil   ''Time of Fear'' ''Salve Geral'' Brazilian Portuguese Sergio Rezende   ''The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner'' ''Светът е голям и спасение дебне отвсякъде'' Bulgarian Stephan Komandarev   ''I Killed My Mother'' ''J'ai tué ma mère'' French Xavier Dolan   ''Dawson, Island 10'' ''Dawson, Isla 10'' Spanish Miguel Littin   ''Forever Enthralled'' 梅兰芳 Mandarin  Chen Kaige   ''The Wind Journeys'' ''Los viajes del viento'' Spanish, Palenquero, Wayuunaiki, Ikun Ciro Guerra   ''Donkey'' ''Kenjac'' Croatian Antonio Nuić   ''Fallen Gods'' ''Los Dioses Rotos'' Spanish, Yoruba Ernesto Daranas   ''Protector'' ''Protektor'' Czech, German Marek Najbrt   ''Terribly Happy'' ''Frygtelig lykkelig'' Danish Henrik Ruben Genz   ''December Heat'' ''Detsembrikuumus'' Estonian, Russian, English Asko Kase   ''Letters to Father Jacob'' ''Postia pappi Jaakobille'' Finnish Klaus Härö   ''A Prophet'' ''Un prophète'' French, Arabic, Corsican Jacques Audiard   ''The Other Bank'' გაღმა ნაპირი Georgian, Abkhaz, Russian Giorgi Ovashvili   ''The White Ribbon'' ''Das weiße Band'' German Michael Haneke   ''Slaves in their Bonds'' Οι Σκλάβοι στα Δεσμά τους Greek Adonis Lykouresis   ''Prince of Tears'' 淚王子 Mandarin Yonfan   ''Chameleon'' ''Kaméleon'' Hungarian Krisztina Goda   ''Reykjavík-Rotterdam'' Icelandic Óskar Jónasson   ''Harishchandrachi Factory'' हरिश्चंद्राची फॅक्टरी Marathi Paresh Mokashi   ''Jamila and the President'' ''Jamila dan Sang Presiden'' Indonesian Ratna Sarumpaet   ''About Elly'' درباره الی Persian Asghar Farhadi   ''Ajami'' عجمي / עג'מי Israeli Arabic, Hebrew Yaron Shani & Scandar Copti   ''Baarìa'' Sicilian, Italian Giuseppe Tornatore   ''Nobody to Watch Over Me'' 誰も守ってくれない Japanese Ryoichi Kimizuka   ''Kelin'' ''Келін'' (No dialogue) Ermek Tursunov   ''Vortex'' ''Duburys'' Lithuanian, Russian Gytis Luksas   ''Réfractaire'' French Nicolas Steil   Macedonia ''Wingless'' ''Ocas ještěrky / Созерцание'' Czech Ivo Trajkov   ''Backyard'' ''El Traspatio'' Spanish Carlos Carrera   ''By the Will of Genghis Khan''  ''Тайна Чингис Хаана'' Yakut, Russian Andrei Borissov   ''Casanegra'' كازانيݣرا Moroccan Arabic Nour-Eddine Lakhmari   ''Winter in Wartime'' ''Oorlogswinter'' Dutch, German,English Martin Koolhoven   ''Max Manus'' Norwegian, German Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg   ''The Milk of Sorrow'' ''La teta asustada'' Spanish, Quechua Claudia Llosa   ''Grandpa Is Dead'' ''Ded na si Lolo'' Filipino Soxie Topacio   ''Reverse'' ''Rewers'' Polish Borys Lankosz   ''Doomed Love'' ''Um Amor de Perdição'' Portuguese Mário Barroso   ''Kabo and Platon'' ''Kabo y Platón'' Spanish Edmundo H. Rodríguez   ''Police, Adjective'' ''Politist, adj.'' Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu   ''Ward No. 6'' ''Палата №6'' Russian Aleksandr Gornovsky & Karen Shakhnazarov   ''St. George Shoots the Dragon'' ''Свети Георгије убива аждаху'' Serbian Srdjan Dragojevic   ''Broken Promise'' ''Nedodržaný sľub'' Slovak, Russian Jirí Chlumský   ''Landscape No. 2'' ''Pokrajina Št. 2'' Slovene Vinko Moderndorfer   ''White Wedding'' Afrikaans, Xhosa, Setswana, Zulu, English Jann Turner   ''Mother'' 마더 Korean Bong Joon-ho   ''The Dancer and the Thief'' ''El baile de la victoria'' Spanish Fernando Trueba   ''The Road from Elephant Pass'' අලිමාන්කාඩා Sinhala, Tamil Chandran Rutnam   ''Involuntary'' ''De ofrivilliga'' Swedish Ruben Östlund   ''Home'' French Ursula Meier   ''Cannot Live Without You'' 不能沒有你 Hakka, Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin Leon Dai   ''Best of Times'' ความจำสั้น แต่รักฉันยาว Thai Youngyooth Thongkonthun   ''I Saw the Sun'' ''Güneşi gördüm'' Turkish Mahsun Kırmızıgül   ''Afghan Star'' Dari, Pashto, English Havana Marking   ''Bad Day for Fishing'' ''Mal día para pescar'' Spanish Álvaro Brechner   ''Libertador Morales, El Justiciero'' Efterpi Charalambidis   ''Don't Burn It'' ''Đừng đốt'' Vietnamese Đặng Nhật Minh
Notes *  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. * '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. *  Sri Lanka originally announced that they would send ''Flowers of the Sky''  but ''The Road from Elephant Pass'' was eventually announced to be Sri Lanka's final submission. * 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
External links * Official website of the Academy Awards* 65 Countries in Competition for 2009 Foreign Language Film Oscar