What book was the first foreign language film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture based on?
11th Academy Awards The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host. This was also the first ceremony in which a foreign language film (Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion") was nominated for Best Picture.
Le Chant du monde (film) Le Chant du monde is a 1965 Italian film directed by Marcel Camus. It is based on the novel "The Song of the World" (Fr. "Le Chant du monde", 1934) by French author Jean Giono.