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This is a list of submissions to the 29th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States.[1] That year, AMPAS asked individual countries to submit their best films of the year for the inaugural Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. In previous years, the Foreign Language Oscar had not been a regular award, and there were no nominees – a winner was simply announced at the Oscar ceremony. The award has since been handed out annually, and countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.[2]
For the 29th Academy Awards only, the nominations were credited both to the submitting country and to the films' producers; in all later years, only the country has been credited as the nominee, rather than a producer or director. Eight films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and five of these were selected as Oscar nominees. The inaugural winner, Italy's La Strada, was announced at the Oscar ceremony, which took place on March 27, 1957.[3]
Submissions
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Qivitoq | Qivitoq - Fjeldgængeren | Danish, Greenlandic | O. Dalsgaard-Olsen | Erik Balling | Nominated |
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Gervaise | French | Annie Dorfmann | René Clément | Nominated | |
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The Captain of Köpenick | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | German | Gyula Trebitsch, Walter Koppel | Helmut Käutner | Nominated |
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La Strada | Italian | Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti | Federico Fellini | Won Academy Award | |
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The Burmese Harp | ビルマの竪琴 | Japanese, English, Burmese | Masayuki Takagi | Kon Ichikawa | Nominated |
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Child of Sorrow | Anak dalita | Tagalog, Filipino, English | Lamberto V. Avellana | Not nominated | |
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Afternoon of the Bulls | Tarde de toros | Spanish | Ladislao Vajda | Not nominated | |
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The Staffan Stolle Story | Ratataa | Swedish | Hasse Ekman | Not nominated |
References
[edit]- ^ "History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 2008-06-22. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
- ^ "Rule 14 | 81st Academy Awards Rules | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 2008-08-09. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
- ^ "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-24.