I have been keeping track of all of the Foreign Language Oscar submissions in my “The Contenders” section of the site and today the official list of sixty-five films from sixty-six countries was unveiled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 83rd Academy Awards. On January 20, 2011 a shortlist of nine contenders will be announced prior to the naming of the nominees on January 25, 2011.
I have included the complete list directly below, which includes first-time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland. The only film that was originally thought to be under consideration, but didn’t show up on the Academy’s final list was Afghanistan’s entry, Black Tulip, directed by Sonia Nassery Cole. IMDb doesn’t list a release date for the film, which means it may not have met the release requirements in time.
I have linked each film to their corresponding IMDb page for those films not included in the RopeofSilicon database if you wish to get more information on any of the films listed.
Afghanistan to France
- Afghanistan, Black Tulip (dir. Sonia Nassery Cole)
- Albania, East, West, East: The Final Sprint (dir. Gjergj Xhuvani)
- Algeria, Outside the Law (dir. Rachid Bouchareb)
- Argentina, Carancho (dir. Pablo Trapero)
- Austria, La Pivellina (dir. Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel)
- Azerbaijan, The Precinct (dir. Ilgar Safat)
- Bangladesh, Third Person Singular Number (dir. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki)
- Belgium, Illegal (dir. Olivier Masset-Depasse)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cirkus Columbia (dir. Danis Tanovic)
- Brazil, Lula, the Son of Brazil (dir. Fábio Barreto)
- Bulgaria, Eastern Plays (dir. Kamen Kalev)
- Canada, Incendies (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
- Chile, The Life of Fish (dir. MatÃas Bize)
- China, Aftershock (dir. Feng Xiaogang)
- Colombia, Crab Trap (dir. Oscar RuÃz Navia)
- Costa Rica, Of Love and Other Demons (dir. Hilda Hidalgo)
- Croatia, The Blacks (dir. Goran Devic and Zvonimir Juric)
- Czech Republic, Kawasaki’s Rose (dir. Jan Hrebejk)
- Denmark, In a Better World (dir. Susanne Bier)
- Egypt, Messages from the Sea (dir. Daoud Abdel Sayed)
- Estonia, The Temptation of St. Tony (dir. Veiko Õunpuu)
- Ethiopia, The Athlete (dir. Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew)
- Finland, Steam of Life (dir. Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen)
- France, Of Gods and Men (dir. Xavier Beauvois)
Georgia to Morocco
- Georgia, Street Days (dir. Levan Koguashvili)
- Germany, When We Leave (dir. Feo Aladag)
- Greece, Dogtooth (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Greenland, Nuummloq (dir. Torben Bech and Otto Rosing)
- Hong Kong, Echoes of the Rainbow (dir. Alex Law)
- Hungary, Bibliothèque Pascal (dir. Szabolcs Hajdu)
- Iceland, Mamma Gógó (dir. Friðrik Þór Friðriksson)
- India, Peepli Live (dir. Anusha Rizvi)
- Indonesia, How Funny (This Country Is) (dir. Deddy Mizwar)
- Iran, Farewell Baghdad (dir. Mehdi Naderi)
- Iraq, Son of Babylon (dir. Mohamed Al Daradji)
- Israel, The Human Resources Manager (dir. Eran Riklis)
- Italy, The First Beautiful Thing (dir. Paolo Virzì)
- Japan, Confessions (dir. Tetsuya Nakashima)
- Kazakhstan, Strayed (dir. Akan Satayev)
- Korea, A Barefoot Dream (dir. Kim Tae-gyun)
- Kyrgyzstan, The Light Thief (dir.Aktan Abdykalykov)
- Latvia, Hong Kong Confidential (dir. Maris Martinsons)
- Macedonia, Mothers (dir. Milcho Manchevski)
- Mexico, Biutiful (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Netherlands to Venezuela
- Netherlands, Tirza (dir. Rudolf van den Berg)
- Nicaragua, La Yuma (dir. Florence Jaugey)
- Norway, Angel (dir. Margreth Olin)
- Peru, Undertow (dir. Javier Fuentes-León)
- Philippines, Noy (dir. Dondon Santos)
- Poland, All That I Love (dir. Jacek Borcuch)
- Portugal, To Die Like A Man (dir. João Pedro Rodrigues)
- Romania, If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (dir. Florin Serban)
- Russia, The Edge (dir. Alexei Uchitel)
- Serbia, Solemn Promise (dir. Srdjan Karanovic)
- Slovakia, The Border (dir. Jaroslav Vojtek)
- Slovenia, 9:06 (dir. Igor Sterk)
- South Africa, Life, Above All (dir. Oliver Schmitz)
- Spain, Even the Rain (dir. IcÃar BollaÃn)
- Sweden, Simple Simon (dir. Andreas Öhman)
- Switzerland, La petite chambre (dir. Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond)
- Taiwan, Monga (dir. Doze Niu)
- Thailand, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Turkey, Honey (dir. Semih Kaplanoglu)
- Uruguay, A Useful Life (dir. Federico Veiroj)
- Venezuela, Hermano (dir. Marcel Rasquin)
You can keep up to date on all of the important Oscar related news in RopeofSilicon’s “The Contenders” section. As we move closer into November, Oscar related news is going to begin heating up, including far more regular Oscar prediction updates so stay tuned.
