List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Italy has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since the conception of the award. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.cite web | title = Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award|publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | url = http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule14.html | accessdate = 2008-06-18]

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was not created until 1956; however, between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These awards were not competitive, as there were no nominees but simply a winner every year that was voted on by the Board of Governors of the Academy.cite web | title = History of the Academy Awards - Page 1| publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | url = http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history01.html | accessdate = 2008-06-18] Three Italian films received Honorary Awards during this period. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since.cite web | title = History of the Academy Awards - Page 2| publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | url = http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history02.html | accessdate = 2008-06-18]

As of 2008, twenty-seven Italian films have been nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ten films have won the award.cite web|url=http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117856491.html?nav=history|title=Best Foreign Film|publisher="Variety"|author="Variety" Staff|date=2007-03-01|accessdate=2008-07-13] Among all countries that have submitted films for the award, Italy ranks first in terms of films that have won the award, followed by France (nine awards) and Spain (four awards), and second in terms of nominees, behind France (thirty-four nominations) and ahead of Spain (nineteen nominations). [cite web | title = Foreign Language Film Facts | publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | url = http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/forlangfacts.html | date=2008-03-08 | accessdate = 2008-06-18] The only Italian directors to win multiple awards are Federico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica. Fellini received four awards for "La Strada", "Nights of Cabiria", "8½", and "Amarcord", the most in the history of the Academy, and had three other films submitted, although none of them were accepted as nominees.cite web|url=http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/federico-fellini/1212054/awards|title=Federico Fellini - Awards|publisher=Moviefone|accessdate=2008-06-18] De Sica received two Honorary Awards prior to the conception of the formal award for "Shoeshine" and "The Bicycle Thief" and two actual Academy Awards for "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" and "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis", and had one other film, "Marriage Italian-Style", accepted as a nominee.cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0DA1239F932A15751C0A96F948260|title=Nomination Intricacies For Foreign-Film Oscar|publisher="New York Times"|author=Harmetz, Aljean|date=1989-02-21|accessdate=2008-06-18] cite web|url=http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=5911&mp=a|title=The Bicycle Thief (1949) - Awards & Nominations|publisher=MSN|accessdate=2008-06-18] cite web|url=http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/vittorio-de-sica/1281536/main|title=Vittorio De Sica - Awards|publisher=Moviefone|accessdate=2008-06-18]

ubmissions

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Before the award was created, the Board of Governors of the Academy voted on a film every year that was considered the best foreign language film released in the United States, and there were no submissions. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Italy for review by the Academy for the award since its conception.

ee also

*List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
*List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
*Cinema of Italy

References

External links

* [http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/ The Official Academy Awards Database]
* [http://www.oscars.org/impc_site2/index.html The Motion Picture Credits Database]
* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/ IMDb Academy Awards Page]