List of submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 84th 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 84th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2011. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 3 October 2011. 65 countries submitted films, and 63 were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. New Zealand submitted a film for the first time. After the 9-film shortlist was announced on 18 January 2012, the five nominees were announced on 24 January 2012.

Iran won the award for the first time with A Separation by Asghar Farhadi, which was also nominated for Original Screenplay.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Amnesty Amnistia Albanian Aballay Aballay, el hombre sin miedo Spanish Breathing Atmen Viennese German, German, English Karl Markovics Bullhead Rundskop Truiens Limburgish, Dutch, French, West Flemish Michaël R. Roskam Belvedere Bosnian Ahmed Imamović Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro Brazilian Portuguese José Padilha Tilt Тилт Bulgarian, German Monsieur Lazhar French, English, Arabic Philippe Falardeau Violeta Went to Heaven Violeta se fue a los cielos Spanish, French, Polish Andrés Wood The Flowers of War 金陵十三釵 Mandarin, Nanjingese, Shanghainese, Suzhounese, Cantonese, English, Japanese Zhang Yimou The Colors of the Mountain Los colores de la montaña Spanish Carlos César Arbeláez 72 Days Sedamdeset i dva dana Croatian, Serbian Danilo Šerbedžija Havanastation Habanastation Spanish Alois Nebel Czech, Russian, German Tomáš Luňák SuperClásico Danish, Spanish, English Ole Christian Madsen Love Child La hija natural Spanish Leticia Tonos Lust الشوق Arabic Khaled El Hagar Letters to Angel Kirjad Inglile Estonian, Arabic, English Sulev Keedus Le Havre French Aki Kaurismäki Declaration of War La guerre est déclarée Valérie Donzelli Chantrapas Also verified with Georgian National Film Centre შანტრაპა Georgian, French, Russian Otar Iosseliani Pina Pina – Tanzt, tanzt sonst sind wir verloren German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Korean, Spanish Wim Wenders Attenberg Greek, English, French Athina Rachel Tsangari A Simple Life 桃姐 Cantonese, English, Mandarin Ann Hui The Turin Horse A Torinói ló Hungarian, German Béla Tarr Volcano Eldfjall Icelandic Rúnar Rúnarsson Abu, Son of Adam ആദാമിന്റെ മകൻ അബു Malayalam Salim Ahamed Under the Protection of Ka'Bah Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah Indonesian, Arabic, Minangkabau Hanny Saputra A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین Persian Asghar Farhadi As If I Am Not There Као да ме нема Bosnian, Serbian, German, English Juanita Wilson Footnote הערת שוליים Hebrew Joseph Cedar Terraferma Italian, Sicilian, Amharic Emanuele Crialese Postcard 一枚のハガキ Japanese Kaneto Shindō Returning to the 'A' Возвращение в «А» Russian, Kazakh, Persian Egor Konchalovsky Where Do We Go Now? وهلّأ لوين؟ Arabic, English, Russian Nadine Labaki Back to Your Arms Kai apkabinsiu tave Lithuanian, Russian, German, English Macedonia Punk's Not Dead Панкот не е мртов Macedonian, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian Vladimir Blaževski Miss Bala Spanish, English Omar Killed Me Omar m'a tuer French, Arabic Roschdy Zem Sonny Boy Dutch, German, English Maria Peters The Orator O le Tulāfale Samoan Tusi Tamasese Happy, Happy Sykt lykkelig Norwegian, Danish, German Anne Sewitsky October Octubre Spanish Daniel and Diego Vega Vidal The Woman in the Septic Tank Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank Filipino, Tagalog, English Marlon Rivera In Darkness W ciemności Polish, German, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew, Bałak Agnieszka Holland José and Pilar José e Pilar Portuguese, Spanish Miguel Gonçalves Mendes America Spanish, English Morgen Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus Утомлённые солнцем 2: Цитадель Russian, German Nikita Mikhalkov Montevideo, God Bless You! Монтевидео, Бог те видео Serbian, Bulgarian, French Dragan Bjelogrlić Tatsumi 辰巳 Japanese Eric Khoo Gypsy Cigán Slovak, Carpathian Romani Martin Šulík Silent Sonata Circus Fantasticus No dialogue Janez Burger Beauty Skoonheid Afrikaans, English Oliver Hermanus The Front Line 고지전 Korean, English Jang Hoon Black Bread Pa negre Catalan, Spanish Agustí Villaronga Beyond Svinalängorna Swedish, Finnish Pernilla August Summer Games Giochi d'estate Italian, French Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Seediq Bale / 賽德克·巴萊 Seediq, Japanese, Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin Wei Te-sheng Kon Khon คนโขน Thai Sarunyu Wongkrachang Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan Patagonia Welsh, Patagonian Welsh, Spanish, English, Polish Marc Evans The Silent House La casa muda Spanish Gustavo Hernández The Rumble of the Stones El rumor de las piedras Alejandro Bellame Palacios The Prince and the Pagoda Boy Khát vọng Thăng Long Vietnamese

Notes Albania originally submitted The Forgiveness of Blood by Joshua Marston, but it was rejected due to protest of , the director of Amnesty. He argued that The Forgiveness of Blood shouldn't be eligible to represent Albania due to its American director and key American crew members. AMPAS disqualified it and Albania instead submitted Alimani's film. The Dominican Republic submitted Love Child by Leticia Tonos. It was initially rejected because of the country's failure to submit the names of its selection committee members on time, but they appealed and won. Latvia initially selected Return of Sergeant Lapins by , but it was not submitted due to technical reasons. Luxembourg announced that they had no eligible films, and would not be participating in the competition this year. Puerto Rico, which had been invited to participate in the Foreign Oscar race since 1986, originally submitted America by , but was rejected because of a new rule that doesn't allow films from US territories to compete in the Foreign Language Film category. The Puerto Rico Film Commission, which selects the Puerto Rican Oscar nominee, appealed to AMPAS to change its mind, citing its previous Oscar nomination in the category and the presence of non-independent territories like Greenland, Hong Kong and Palestine, but AMPAS refused to change its mind. Slovenia originally submitted Silent Sonata by Janez Burger, but was disqualified because the Society of Slovene Filmmakers neglected to officially submit the entry in time because of a misunderstanding within the organization. Therefore, it wasn't included in the final list of entries. Ukraine announced that they had convened an Oscar selection committee, but decided that no Ukrainian film met all the AMPAS requirements, meaning that they did not submit a film for the third year in a row.

References

External links Official website of the Academy Awards