List of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 85th 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 85th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2011 and 30 September 2012. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 1 October 2012. 73 countries submitted films, and 71 were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. Kenya submitted a film for the first time, while Cambodia made a submission for the first time since 1994. After the 9-film shortlist was announced on 21 December 2012, the five nominees were announced on 10 January 2013.

Austria won the award for the second time with Amour by Michael Haneke, which was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress (Emmanuelle Riva).

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Patience Stone سنگ صبور Dari Atiq Rahimi Pharmakon Albanian Joni Shanaj Zabana! زبانة Arabic, French, Standard Algerian Amazigh Saïd Ould Khelifa Clandestine Childhood Infancia clandestina Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese If Only Everyone Եթե բոլորը Armenian, Karabakh Armenian, Russian Lore German, English, Russian Cate Shortland Amour French, English Michael Haneke Buta Azerbaijani Ilgar Najaf Pleasure Boy Komola ঘেটুপুত্র কমলা Bengali, English Humayun Ahmed Our Children À perdre la raison French, Arabic Joachim Lafosse Insurgents Insurgentes Spanish, Aymara, South Bolivian Quechua, Eastern Bolivian Guaraní Jorge Sanjinés Children of Sarajevo Djeca Bosnian Aida Begić O Palhaço Brazilian Portuguese Selton Mello Sneakers Кецове Bulgarian and Ivan Vladimirov Lost Loves ឃ្លាតទៅសែនឆ្ងាយ Khmer Chhay Bora War Witch Rebelle French, Lingala Kim Nguyen No Spanish, English Pablo Larraín Caught in the Web 搜索 Mandarin, Cantonese, English Chen Kaige Spanish, English Vegetarian Cannibal Ljudožder vegetarijanac Croatian Branko Schmidt In the Shadow Ve stínu Czech, German, Polish David Ondříček En kongelig affære Danish, French, English, German Nikolaj Arcel Jaque Mate Spanish José María Cabral Mushrooming Seenelkäik Estonian Toomas Hussar Purge Puhdistus Finnish Antti Jokinen Intouchables French, English Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache Keep Smiling გაიღიმეთ Georgian, Russian Rusudan Chkonia Barbara German Christian Petzold Unfair World Άδικος Κόσμος Greek Filippos Tsitos Inuk Greenlandic, Danish Mike Magidson Life Without Principle 奪命金 Cantonese Johnnie To Just the Wind Csak a szél Hungarian, English, Carpathian Romani Benedek Fliegauf The Deep Djúpið Icelandic Baltasar Kormákur Barfi! बर्फी Hindi Anurag Basu Sang Penari Indonesian, Banyumasan Ifa Isfansyah A Cube of Sugar یک حبه قند Persian Reza Mirkarimi Fill the Void למלא את החלל Hebrew Rama Burshtein Caesar Must Die Cesare deve morire Italian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Barese Apulian, Central-Southern Calabrian, Romanesco Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Our Homeland かぞくのくに Japanese, Korean Yang Yong-hi Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe Жаужүрек мың бала Kazakh, Mongolian Akan Satayev Nairobi Half Life Swahili, English, Sheng, Kikuyu The Empty Home Статья 10. Конституция Кыргызской Республики Пустой дом Kyrgyz, Russian, French Nurbek Egen Golfa straume zem ledus kalna Russian Ramin რამინი Georgian Audrius Stonys Macedonia Трето полувреме Macedonian, German, Bulgarian, Serbian, Judaeo-Spanish, English Darko Mitrevski Bunohan Malay, Kelantan Malay After Lucia Después de Lucía Spanish Michel Franco Death for Sale موت للبيع Arabic Faouzi Bensaïdi Kauwboy Dutch Boudewijn Koole Kon-Tiki Norwegian, English, Danish, German, French, Swedish, Spanish Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg When I Saw You لما شفتك Arabic, English Annemarie Jacir The Bad Intentions Las malas intenciones Spanish, Ayacucho Quechua Bwakaw Tagalog, Filipino, English Jun Lana 80 Million 80 milionów Polish Waldemar Krzystek Blood of My Blood Sangue do Meu Sangue Portuguese João Canijo Beyond the Hills După dealuri Romanian Cristian Mungiu White Tiger Белый тигр Russian, German Karen Shakhnazarov When Day Breaks Кад сване дан Serbian Goran Paskaljević Already Famous 一泡而红 Mandarin, Singaporean Hokkien, Malay, English Michelle Chong Made in Ash Až do mesta Aš Slovak, German, Czech Iveta Grófová Izlet Slovene Nejc Gazvoda Little One Zulu, English Darrell Roodt Pietà 피에타 Korean Kim Ki-duk Blancanieves Blancanieves / Blancaneu No dialogue Pablo Berger Hypnotisören Swedish, Finnish Lasse Hallström French, English Ursula Meier Touch of the Light 逆光飛翔 Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien Headshot ฝนตกขึ้นฟ้า Thai Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Where the Fire Burns Ateşin Düştüğü Yer Turkish The Firecrosser Той, хто пройшов крізь вогонь Ukrainian, Russian, English, Crimean Tatar, German, Mohawk Mykhailo Illienko The Delay La demora Spanish Rodrigo Plá Rock, Paper, Scissors Piedra, papel o tijera Hernán Jabes The Scent of Burning Grass Mùi cỏ cháy Vietnamese

Notes Bolivia's nominating body, the Asociación de Cineastas Bolivianos, proposed submitting Insurgents by Jorge Sanjinés to represent Bolivia, and invited the film's producers to assemble the necessary documents to enter the film in the race. However, citing time restraints, the film's representatives declined to participate. Bolivia had been absent the past two years in large part because no local films fully met all AMPAS requirements. Cuba confirmed that it would not submit a film. Iran's Academy confirmed their participation in the competition on 21 September 2012, noting however that they had considered boycotting the Oscars due to the Innocence of Muslims video on YouTube that originated in the United States, and planned to send a strongly worded letter to that effect. On 24 September, it was announced that Iran's official selection committee had selected A Cube of Sugar by Reza Mirkarimi as the official Iranian submission. On the same day, the head of Iran's government controlled cinema agency called for a boycott of the Oscars and Reuters reported that Iran's Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini had confirmed that Iran would boycott. Luxembourg announced that their national selection committee had met and decided not to send a film. The country last competed in 2009.

References

External links Official website of the Academy Awards