List of South African submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

List of South African submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

South Africa has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1989. 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 = 2008-08-21] It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which 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 = 2008-08-21]

As of 2008, two South African films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Darrell Roodt's "Yesterday" and Gavin Hood's "Tsotsi".cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4205759.stm|title=Oscars 2005: The Nominees|publisher=BBC|date=2005-01-25|accessdate=2008-08-22] cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4754790.stm|title=Tsotsi takes foreign film Oscar|publisher=BBC|author=Zomorodi, Manoush|date=2006-03-06|accessdate=2008-08-22] Hood's "Tsotsi" won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards, the only South African film to do so.

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. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by South Africa for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

ee also

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

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]


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