List of submissions to the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 86th 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 86th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2012 and 30 September 2013. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 1 October 2013. 76 countries submitted films and were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. Moldova, Montenegro and Saudi Arabia submitted films for the first time, while Pakistan made a submission for the first time since 1963. After the 9-film shortlist was announced on 20 December 2013, the five nominees were announced on 16 January 2014.

Italy won the award for the fourteenth time, expanding its own record as the most winning country, with The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Wajma (An Afghan Love Story) وژمه Dari Barmak Akram Agon Albanian, Greek Robert Budina The German Doctor Wakolda Spanish, German, Hebrew Lucía Puenzo The Rocket ບັ້ງໄຟ Lao Kim Mordaunt The Wall Die Wand German Julian Pölsler Steppe Man Çölçü Azerbaijani Television টেলিভিশন Bengali Mostofa Sarwar Farooki The Broken Circle Breakdown Flemish, English, Dutch Felix van Groeningen An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker Epizoda u životu berača željeza Bosnian, Balkan Romani Danis Tanović Neighboring Sounds O Som ao Redor Brazilian Portuguese, English, Mandarin Kleber Mendonça Filho The Colour of the Chameleon Цветът на Хамелеона Bulgarian Emil Hristov The Missing Picture L'image manquante / រូបភាពដែលបាត់បង់ French Rithy Panh Gabrielle Louise Archambault GriGris French, Arabic Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Gloria Spanish, English Sebastián Lelio Back to 1942 一九四二 Mandarin, Central Plains Mandarin, English, Japanese Feng Xiaogang La Playa DC Spanish Juan Andrés Arango Halima's Path Halimin put Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Arsen Anton Ostojić The Don Juans Donšajni Czech Jiří Menzel The Hunt Jagten Danish, English, Polish Thomas Vinterberg Who's the Boss? ¿Quién manda? Spanish Ronni Castillo Porcelain Horse Mejor no hablar (de ciertas cosas) Javier Andrade Winter of Discontent الشتا إللى فات Arabic Ibrahim El Batout Free Range Free Range: Ballaad maailma heakskiitmisest Estonian Veiko Õunpuu Disciple Lärjungen Åland Swedish Renoir French, Italian Gilles Bourdos In Bloom გრძელი ნათელი დღეები Georgian Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß Two Lives Zwei Leben German, Norwegian, English, Russian, Danish Boy Eating the Bird's Food Το Αγόρι Τρώει το Φαγητό του Πουλιού Greek, German Ektoras Lygizos The Grandmaster 一代宗師 Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese Wong Kar-wai The Notebook A nagy füzet Hungarian, German János Szász Of Horses and Men Hross í oss Icelandic, Swedish, English, Spanish, Russian Benedikt Erlingsson The Good Road ધ ગુડ રોડ Gujarati Gyan Correa Sang Kiai Indonesian, Javanese, Arabic, Japanese, English The Past Le Passé / گذشته French, Persian, Italian Asghar Farhadi Bethlehem בית לחם Hebrew, Arabic Yuval Adler The Great Beauty La grande bellezza Italian, Romanesco, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Latin, German, English Paolo Sorrentino The Great Passage 舟を編む Japanese Yuya Ishii The Old Man Шал Kazakh, Russian Ermek Tursunov Mother, I Love You Mammu, es tevi mīlu Latvian Blind Intersections قصة ثواني Arabic Lara Saba Conversations on Serious Topics Pokalbiai rimtomis temomis Lithuanian Giedrė Beinoriūtė Blind Spot Doudege Wénkel Luxembourgish, French Heli Spanish Amat Escalante All God's Children Toti copiii domnului Romanian, Italian, English Ace of Spades: Bad Destiny As pik - loša sudbina Serbian Draško Đurović Horses of God يا خيل الله Arabic, French Nabil Ayouch Soongava: Dance of the Orchids सुनगाभा Nepali, Newar, English Borgman Dutch, English Alex van Warmerdam White Lies Tuakiri Huna Māori, English Dana Rotberg I Am Yours Jeg er din Norwegian, Urdu, Swedish Iram Haq Zinda Bhaag زندہ بھاگ Punjabi, Urdu Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi Omar عمر Arabic, Hebrew Hany Abu-Assad The Cleaner El limpiador Spanish Adrián Saba Transit Filipino, Tagalog, Hebrew, English Hannah Espia Walesa. Man of Hope Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei Polish, Italian Andrzej Wajda Lines of Wellington Linhas de Wellington Portuguese, French, English Valeria Sarmiento Child's Pose Poziţia copilului Romanian Călin Peter Netzer Stalingrad Сталинград Russian, German, Japanese Fedor Bondarchuk Wadjda وجدة Arabic Haifaa al-Mansour Circles Кругови Serbian, German Srdan Golubović Ilo Ilo 爸妈不在家 Singaporean Hokkien, Filipino, Tagalog, Hiligaynon, English, Mandarin Anthony Chen My Dog Killer Môj pes Killer , Czech Mira Fornay Class Enemy Razredni sovražnik Slovene, German Rok Biček Four Corners Afrikaans, Sabela, Tsotsitaal, Kaaps, English Ian Gabriel Juvenile Offender 범죄소년 Korean Kang Yi-kwan 15 Years and One Day 15 años y un día Spanish Gracia Querejeta Eat Sleep Die Äta sova dö Swedish, Montenegrin, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Norwegian, Thai Gabriela Pichler More than Honey German, Swiss German, Mandarin, English, French Markus Imhoof Soul 失魂 Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien Chung Mong-Hong Countdown เคาท์ดาวน์ Thai, English Nattawut Poonpiriya The Butterfly's Dream Kelebeğin Rüyası Turkish Yılmaz Erdoğan Paradjanov Параджанов Ukrainian, Russian Serge Avedikian and Olena Fetisova Metro Manila Filipino, Tagalog, English Sean Ellis Anina Spanish Alfredo Soderguit Breach in the Silence Brecha en el silencio Andrés Eduardo and Luis Alejandro Rodríguez

Notes The Czech Republic originally submitted the cinematic version of the television mini-series Burning Bush by Agnieszka Holland. AMPAS disqualified the film, citing regulations that the film must not have initially appeared on television. The mini-series aired on Czech TV eight months prior to the re-edited version that appeared in cinemas. The Don Juans by Jiří Menzel was submitted in its place. Lebanon initially selected Ghadi by Amin Dora in a two-way race over Blind Intersections by Lara Saba. When the film's release date was moved from 26 September 2013 to 31 October 2013, it no longer met the eligibility dates and Blind Intersections became the official submission from Lebanon. However, Ghadi became Lebanon's submission the following year. Macedonia's Association of Filmmakers had two candidates: Balkan Is Not Dead by and The Piano Room by Igor Ivanov Izi, but it could not recommend either film for submission. In a statement they said "According to the topics treated and the way that they are shown in both films, the commission considers they are not appropriate to be nominated" and "In addition, the committee unanimously decided this year not to [propose] any film." Vietnam's Ministry of Culture assembled an official selection committee and launched an open call for entries. However, on 19 September 2013, the National Cinema Department announced they had no films that are eligible to compete. The only film that applied to represent the country, Blood Letter by Victor Vu was released too early to qualify.

References

External links Official website of the Academy Awards