This is a list of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) 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 presented 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.
For the 83rd Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2009 and 30 September 2010. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 1 October 2010. 66 countries submitted films and were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. Ethiopia and Greenland submitted films for the first time. After the 9-film shortlist was announced on 19 January 2011, the five nominees were announced on 25 January 2011.
Denmark won the award for the third time with In a Better World by Susanne Bier.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Black Tulip لاله سیاه Dari, Pashto, English, Arabic, Italian Sonia Nassery Cole East, West, East Albanian, Italian, Slovene, Serbian Gjergj Xhuvani Outside the Law / خارجون عن القانون French, Arabic Rachid Bouchareb Carancho Spanish Pablo Trapero La Pivellina Italian Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel The Precinct Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish Third Person Singular Number Bengali Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Illegal French, Russian, English Olivier Masset-Depasse Cirkus Columbia Bosnian, English Danis Tanović Lula, the Son of Brazil Brazilian Portuguese Fábio Barreto Eastern Plays Bulgarian, Turkish, English Kamen Kalev Incendies French, Arabic, English Denis Villeneuve The Life of Fish Spanish Matías Bize Aftershock Tangshan Mandarin Feng Xiaogang Crab Trap Spanish Of Love and Other Demons Hilda Hidalgo The Blacks Crnci Croatian Goran Devic and Zvonimir Juric Kawasaki's Rose Kawasakiho růže Czech, Swedish, English Jan Hřebejk In a Better World Hævnen Danish, Swedish, English, Arabic, Catalan, Spanish Susanne Bier Messages from the Sea رسائل البحر Arabic Daoud Abdel Sayed The Temptation of St. Tony Püha Tõnu kiusamine Estonian, Russian, English, French, German Veiko Õunpuu The Athlete እትሌቱ Amharic, English, Oromo, Norwegian Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew Steam of Life Miesten vuoro Finnish, Northern Sámi and Mika Hotakainen Of Gods and Men Des hommes et des dieux French, Arabic Xavier Beauvois Street Days ქუჩის დღეები Georgian Levan Koguashvili When We Leave Die Fremde German, Turkish Feo Aladag Dogtooth Κυνόδοντας Greek Yorgos Lanthimos Nuummioq Greenlandic, Danish Torben Bech and Otto Rosing Echoes of the Rainbow 歲月神偷 Cantonese, English, Mandarin, French, Shanghainese Alex Law Bibliothèque Pascal Romanian, Hungarian, English Szabolcs Hajdu Mamma Gogo Mamma Gógó Icelandic Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Peepli [Live] पीपली [लाइव] Hindi, Awadhi, Bundeli Anusha Rizvi How Funny (This Country Is) Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini) Indonesian Deddy Mizwar Farewell Baghdad بدرود بغداد Arabic, English, Persian Mehdi Naderi Son of Babylon ابن بابل Arabic, Central Kurdish Mohamed Al-Daradji The Human Resources Manager שליחותו של הממונה על משאבי אנוש Hebrew, Romanian, English Eran Riklis The First Beautiful Thing La prima cosa bella Italian, Pisano-Livornese Tuscan Paolo Virzì Confessions 告白 Japanese Tetsuya Nakashima Strayed Заблудившийся Russian Akan Satayev The Light Thief Свет-аке Kyrgyz Aktan Arym Kubat Hong Kong Confidential Amaya Cantonese, Japanese, English Māris Martinsons Macedonia Mothers Мајки Macedonian Milčo Mančevski Biutiful Spanish, Mandarin, Wolof Alejandro González Iñárritu Tirza Dutch, English Rudolf van den Berg La Yuma Spanish Florence Jaugey Angel Engelen Norwegian, Swedish Margreth Olin Undertow Contracorriente Spanish Javier Fuentes-León Noy Filipino, Tagalog, English Dondon Santos All That I Love Wszystko, co kocham Polish Jacek Borcuch To Die Like a Man Morrer Como Um Homem Portuguese, German, English João Pedro Rodrigues Lie Miente Spanish Rafi Mercado If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier Romanian Florin Șerban The Edge Край Russian, German Alexei Uchitel Besa Беса Serbian, Albanian, Slovene, German Srđan Karanović The Border Hranica Slovak, Hungarian, Ukrainian 9:06 Slovene Life, Above All Northern Sotho Oliver Schmitz A Barefoot Dream 맨발의 꿈 Korean, Tetum, English Kim Tae-kyun Even the Rain También la lluvia Spanish, South Bolivian Quechua, English Icíar Bollaín Simple Simon I rymden finns inga känslor Swedish The Little Room La petite chambre French and Monga 艋舺 Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin Doze Niu Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ Isan, Thai, Lao Apichatpong Weerasethakul Honey Bal Turkish Semih Kaplanoğlu A Useful Life Spanish Federico Veiroj Brother Hermano Marcel Rasquin
Notes
Taiwan originally submitted Hear Me by , which was deemed to be ineligible since its August 2009 release date meant that it was eligible only for the previous year. Vietnam has submitted four films in the past five years. Their official nominating body, the Vietnam Cinema Administration's International Relations Department, has indicated an interest in participating and has said they have nine eligible films. However, , they had made no official announcement. Cuba, Lithuania, and Luxembourg informed Variety before the deadline that they would not participate in this year's competition.
References
External links Official website of the Academy Awards