With 11 wins and 34 nominations, which country holds the record for most honors in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars (as of 2009)?
"Vittorio De Sica). The most awarded foreign country is Italy, with 14 awards won (including three Special Awards) and 28 nominations, while France is the foreign country with the largest number of nominations (37 for 12 wins, including three Special Awards). Israel is the foreign country with the largest number of nominations (10) without winning an award, while Portugal has the largest number of submissions (34) without a nomination. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929, no foreign language film was honored. During the early post-war era (1947–1955), eight foreign language films received Special or Honorary Awards."
"nominees ""Apocalypto"", ""The Kite Runner"", and ""In the Land of Blood and Honey"". Note that since the 1987 change in the criteria for this award, its eligibility criteria have been considerably broader than those for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. American films have never been eligible for this award, and even non-U.S. films had to have principal dialogue in a native (non-English) language of the submitting country until 2006. Before 1974, the award was given only infrequently, and with several films being jointly honoured per year. The most honored country in this category is United Kingdom, with"
"the submitting country as a whole. Over the years, the Best Foreign Language Film Award and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the sixty-eight awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty-six have gone to European films, five to Asian films, four to films from the Americas and three to African films. Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini directed four Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award–winning motion pictures during his lifetime, a record that remains unmatched (if Special Awards are taken into account, then Fellini's record is tied by his countryman"
"seven films honored. The most honoured countries after 1987 are Spain and France. Like the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this award does not require that an eligible film be released in the United States. The official rules for the award state that submitted films must be at least 70 minutes in length and have at least 51% of their dialogue in a language other than English, and that they be ""first released in their country of origin during the 14-months period from November 1 to December 31, prior to the Awards"". Films that were not released in"
"the past forty years: 1977's ""Annie Hall"", 1992's ""Unforgiven"", 1993's ""Schindler's List"", 2004's ""Million Dollar Baby"", 2009's ""The Hurt Locker"", 2015's ""Spotlight"" and 2016's ""Moonlight"". Five other winners did receive the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: ""Z"", ""Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie"" (""The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie""), ""La nuit américaine"" (""Day for Night""), ""Préparez vos mouchoirs"" (""Get Out Your Handkerchiefs""), and ""Amour"". The NSFC is also the American representative of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), which comprises the national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world. The society has published"
"but ineligible for Best Foreign Language Film, as it was an American production); and ""Amour"" (French, 2012). Only nine films wholly financed outside the United States have won Best Picture, eight of which were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom. Those films being: ""Hamlet"" (1948), ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""A Man for All Seasons"" (1966), ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981), ""Gandhi"" (1982), ""The Last Emperor"" (1987), ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), and ""The King's Speech"" (2010). The ninth film, ""The Artist"", (2011) was financed by France. Other points of contention include genres (or styles in case of animation) of film"
"to the 81st Academy Awards as Japan's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film award. Although eleven previous Japanese films had won Academy Awards in other categories, such as Best Animated Feature or Best Costume Design, the as-yet unattained Best Foreign Language Film award was highly coveted in the Japanese film industry. ""Departures"" was not expected to win, owing to strong competition from the Israeli and French submissions (Ari Folman's ""Waltz with Bashir"" and Laurent Cantet's ""The Class"", respectively), but was ultimately the victor at the February 2009 ceremony. This was considered a surprise by several film critics, and ""The"
"ineligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film regardless of the language of their dialogue track. This fact also included films produced in U.S. overseas possessions. However, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States and used to be eligible due to Puerto Ricans having had American citizenship since 1917. Their best success in this award was receiving a nomination for ""Santiago, the Story of his New Life"" (1989). However, , the Academy decided not to allow submissions from the territory anymore. Every country is invited to submit what it considers its best film"
"for Best Foreign Language Film. An earlier Palestinian film, ""Divine Intervention"" (2002), had controversially failed to gain admission to the competition, allegedly because films nominated for this award must be put forward by the government of their country, and Palestine's status as a sovereign state is disputed. However, since entities such as Puerto Rico, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been submitting entries for years although they are not sovereign states with full United Nations representation, accusations of a double standard were made. ""Paradise Now"" was submitted to the Academy and to the Golden Globes as a film from 'Palestine'. It"
"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. Frank Capra became the first person to win three Best Director awards, to be followed by John Ford (who would go on to win four) and William Wyler. This was the first of only two times in Oscar history that three of the four acting awards were"
"nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit. If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number."" One point of contention with the award is the lack of consideration of non-English language films for Best Picture. Only nine foreign language films have been nominated in the category: ""Grand Illusion"" (French, 1938); ""Z"" (French, 1969); ""The Emigrants"" (Swedish, 1972); ""Cries and Whispers"" (Swedish, 1973); """" (Italian/Spanish, 1995); ""Life Is Beautiful"" (Italian, 1998); ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); ""Letters from Iwo Jima"" (Japanese, 2006,"
"awards. 29th Academy Awards During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as a Special Achievement Award or as a Best Picture nominee (as in 1938). The first winner in this new category was Federico Fellini's ""La Strada"" with Anthony Quinn and a second nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Its win would help spur an interest in foreign-language films. Another Fellini film, ""Nights of Cabiria"" would win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the following year. This was also the first year that all of the"
"their own limitations, and nothing about those of world cinema"". Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor films released in 1927/28, there was no separate category for foreign language films. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented"
"to win an Academy Award, surpassing the 431-minute long ""War and Peace,"" which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. Following the five-part documentary's win, new Academy rules barred any ""multi-part or limited series"" from being eligible for documentary categories. With Casey Affleck winning the Oscar for Best Actor, him and his older brother, Ben Affleck, became the 16th pair of siblings to win Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Viola Davis became the first black person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting with her Oscar, Emmy, and"
"29th Academy Awards During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as a Special Achievement Award or as a Best Picture nominee (as in 1938). The first winner in this new category was Federico Fellini's ""La Strada"" with Anthony Quinn and a second nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Its win would help spur an interest in foreign-language films. Another Fellini film, ""Nights of Cabiria"" would win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the following year. This was also the first year that all of the five"
"bronze medal winner in the Documentary category of the immediately previous Student Academy Awards is also eligible. For example, the 2009 Best Picture winner, ""The Hurt Locker"", was actually first released in 2008, but did not qualify for the 2008 awards as it did not play its Oscar-qualifying run in Los Angeles until mid-2009, thus qualifying for the 2009 awards. Foreign films must include English subtitles, and each country can submit only one film per year. Rule 2 states that a film must be feature-length, defined as a minimum of 40 minutes, except for short-subject awards, and it must exist"
"of a guest country of honor, which presents the best of that country's film, music and culture. By way of special delegates who offer conferences, workshops, retrospectives, as well as present their country's industry; this cultural exchange reinforces the relationships between the creators of both nations while promoting artistic co-production. In previous years Canada, Spain, Germany, Brazil, France, the U.S.A., India, the U.K., Argentina and South Korea have all been Spotlight Countries. For the fifteenth edition of the festival ( 2012) the Netherlands was their most honored guests. World-recognized film institutions that have participated in the past include: Cannes Film"
"the first third-generation Oscar winner in history. For the first time in Academy Awards history, all lead acting nominees were born in the United States. Argentina's ""The Official Story"" became the first Latin American film to win the Best Foreign Language Film category. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 18 films had multiple nominations: The following three films won multiple awards: The following individuals, in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. Determined to revive interest surrounding the awards and reverse declining ratings, the Academy hired Stanley Donen"
"Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor films released in 1927/28, there was no separate category for foreign language films. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in"
"Award for Best Foreign Language Film, even though they were both nominated for (and, in the case of ""Letters from Iwo Jima"", won) the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which does not have similar nationality restrictions. The nationality restrictions also differ from the practice of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for their analogous award for Best Film Not in the English Language. While BAFTA Award eligibility requires a commercial release in the United Kingdom, that body does not impose a nationality restriction. As known, all films produced inside the United States have been"
"Mungiu later said the omission and subsequent furor brought the picture substantial publicity, and that the experience taught him that critics and festival juries have differing tastes from the Academy. Following the Academy Award controversy, the Academy reformed its methodology of choosing Best Foreign Language Film nominees, allowing a committee of approximately 20 members to name three favourite candidates, balancing out a shortlist composed by a second committee made up of hundreds of voters. Steven Zeitchik of ""The Los Angeles Times"" remarked the nominees of 2011 reflected the change, displaying unorthodox and challenging subject matter such as youth violence (""In"
"Was Chile's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2009, won the Golden Tulip - Best Film at the Istanbul International Film Festival. Won two of its three nominations at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema for the Best Actor and for the FEISAL Award. Won Best Actor at the Cinemanila International Film Festival Won two prizes at the Havana Film Festival, Best Actor and the Grand Coral - First Prize. Received a Special Mention in the Ibero-American Competition of the Miami Film Festival. Won a KNF Award at"
"simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year. Moreover, its ten nominations were the most for a foreign language film. With four wins, the film tied with ""Fanny and Alexander"" as the most awarded foreign language films in Academy Awards history. By virtue of his brother's Best Supporting Actor nomination for 1988's ""Running on Empty"", Best Supporting actor nominee Joaquin Phoenix and River became the first pair of brothers to earn acting nominations. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 20 films received multiple nominations: The"
"previous ceremonies had always been held in the month of April. ""Of Good Report"" received the most nominations with 13; ""The Forgotten Kingdom"" and ""Potomanto"" came in second with 9. Danny Glover presented the ""Best Film"" award to the film ""Of Good Report"". The AMAA winners for 2014 will be part of AFA's cinema project in East Africa. Since the 9th Edition of the awards, there has been subaudible public uproar regarding the host country of the 10th landmark ceremony as it was rumoured that South Africa has been bidding to host the event for quite sometime. AMAA officials didn't"
"(2004), and ""Der Baader Meinhof Komplex"" (2008) have enjoyed international success. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film went to the German production ""Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)"" in 1979, to ""Nowhere in Africa"" in 2002, and to ""Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)"" in 2007. Among the most famous German actors are Marlene Dietrich, Klaus Kinski, Hanna Schygulla, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jürgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann, Til Schweiger and Daniel Brühl. The Berlin Film Festival, held annually since 1951, is one of the world's foremost film festivals. An international jury places emphasis on representing films from all over"
"the Best Foreign Film category for the 84th Academy Awards. It was chosen over 15 others by the Film Federation of India (FFI) to represent the country for the award. ""Adaminte Makan Abu"" is the second Malayalam film (the first one being ""Guru"") to be submitted for the Oscars. Salim Ahamed was burdened heavily with promoting it in the United States for the Oscar jury. According to Ahamed, promotional events such as showing the film in the US (including at least six showings for the jury members) would be necessary to get support for the nomination. Ahamed also stated that"
"National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best film of the year. In the past 40 years, the Society only agreed with the Academy Award for Best Picture seven times: ""Annie Hall"" (1977), ""Unforgiven"" (1992), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009), ""Spotlight"" (2015), and ""Moonlight"" (2016). Five others have received the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: ""Z"", ""Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the"
"Rome's being dubbed """"Hollywood on the Tiber"""". More than 3,000 productions have been made on its lot, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it, from some cinema classics to recent rewarded features (such as ""Roman Holiday"", ""Ben-Hur"", ""Cleopatra"", ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""The English Patient"", ""The Passion of the Christ"", and ""Gangs of New York""). Italy is the most awarded country at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, with 14 awards won, 3 Special Awards and 31 nominations. , Italian films have also won 12 Palmes d'Or (the second-most of any country),"
"more than 5000 film awards. In 2009, Norman McLaren's ""Neighbours"" was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme, listing the most significant documentary heritage collections in the world. The NFB has received more than 90 Genie Awards, including a Special Achievement Genie in 1989 for its 50th anniversary. The following is an incomplete list: ""Winners"": ""Nominated"": The National Film Board of Canada has received 12 Academy Awards to date. It has received 74 Oscar nominations, more than any film organization in the world outside Hollywood. The first-ever Oscar for documentary went to the NFB production, ""Churchill's Island"". In 1989,"
"and The Hollywood Reporter in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2018. HFF alumni have been nominated or have received an Academy Award. Wim Wenders has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature three times: Buena Vista Social Club in 2000, Pina (film) in 2012 and The Salt of the Earth in 2015. Caroline Link was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997 with her film Beyond Silence and won the Academy Award for Nowhere in Africa in 2003. In 2005 the docudrama The Story of the Weeping Camel was nominated for the Academy"
"often tango performers such as Libertad Lamarque, Floren Delbene, Tito Lusiardo, Tita Merello, Roberto Escalada, and Hugo del Carril. More recent films from the ""New Wave"" of cinema since the 1980s have achieved worldwide recognition, such as ""The Official Story"" (Best foreign film oscar in 1986), ""Man Facing Southeast"", ""A Place in the World"", ""Nine Queens"", ""Son of the Bride"", ""The Motorcycle Diaries"", ""Blessed by Fire"", ""The Secret in Their Eyes"", winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ""Wild Tales"". Although rarely rivaling Hollywood productions in popularity, local films are released weekly, and widely followed"
"Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2009, the film won ""Best Foreign Language Film"" awards from the Austin Film Critics Association, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards, the Florida Film Critics Circle Awards, the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards (2nd place for Best Foreign Language Film), and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards. The film's cinematographer, Adriano Goldman, won the Cinematography award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival, the film won a Best Actor award (for Edgar Flores), as well as a Best Directorial Debut and FIPRESCI Prize for Fukunaga."
"Atlas"" (2012). The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (""Oscar"") went to the German production ""Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)"" in 1979, to ""Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa)"" in 2002, and to ""Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)"" in 2007. Various Germans won an ""Oscar"" award for their performances in other films. The annual European Film Awards ceremony is held every other year in Berlin, home of the European Film Academy. The Berlin International Film Festival, known as ""Berlinale"", awarding the ""Golden Bear"" and held annually since 1951, is one of the world's leading film festivals."