List of submissions to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film explained

1994 Best Foreign Language Film submissions
Award1 Type:	Oscar winner
Award1 Winner:	Burnt by the Sun
Award2 Type:	Total submissions
Award2 Winner:	46
Award3 Type:	First-time submissions
Award3 Winner:	7
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This is a list of submissions to the 67th 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 to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States.^[1] The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.^[2] 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.

For the 67th Academy Awards, forty-six films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1994. Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Guatemala, Macedonia and Serbia submitted films to the competition for the first time. Also for the first time, films from both the Czech Republic and Slovakia competed against each other, although neither was nominated. Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski originally had two films in the race when Poland and Switzerland entered two of his Three Colors trilogy. Switzerland's Red was disqualified,^[3] ^[4] however, Poland's White screened alongside the other films, but did not make the final five. It was also the first time that all five of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia all entered the race separately. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Belgium, Cuba, Macedonia, Taiwan and the eventual winner, Burnt by the Sun, from Russia.^[5]

Submissions

Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)
	Automne... Octobre à Alger	French, Arabic	Malik Lakhdar-Hamina
A Shadow You Soon Will Be	Una sombra ya pronto serás	Spanish
I Promise	Ich gelobe	German
Me Ivan, You Abraham	Я — Іван, ты — Абрам	Yiddish, Polish, Belarusian, Russian, Romani
Farinelli	Farinelli, Il Castrato	Italian, French
The Awkward Age	Magarece godine	Bosnian, Serbo-Croatian
Rice People	អ្នកស្រែ	Khmer
Mon Amie Max		French
Amnesia		Spanish
The Strategy of the Snail	La estrategia del caracol	Spanish
	Vukovar se vraća kući	Serbo-Croatian
Strawberry and Chocolate	Fresa y chocolate	Spanish
Lesson Faust	Lekce Faust	Czech, Latin
Carl, My Childhood Symphony	Min fynske barndom	Danish
Land of Dreams	أرض الأحلام	Arabic
Wild Reeds	Les Roseaux sauvages	French
The Promise	Das Versprechen	German
The Silence of Neto	El Silencio de Neto	Spanish
The Day the Sun Turned Cold	天国逆子	Mandarin
Woyzeck		Hungarian
Movie Days	Bíódagar	Icelandic
Bandit Queen	बैन्डिट क्वीन	Hindi
Through the Olive Trees	زیر درختان زیتون	Persian
Sh'Chur	שחור	Hebrew
Lamerica		Italian, Albanian
The Raccoon War	平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ	Japanese
Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid	헐리우드 키드의 생애	Korean
Before the Rain	Пред дождот	Macedonian, Albanian, English
The Beginning and the End	Principio y fin	Spanish
06		Dutch
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die	Ti kniver i hjertet	Norwegian
Without Compassion	Sin compasión	Spanish
Three Colors: White	Trois couleurs: Blanc	Polish, French
Three Palm Trees	Três Palmeiras	Portuguese
Linda Sara		Spanish
Pepe & Fifi	Pepe și Fifi	Romanian
Burnt by the Sun	Утомлённые солнцем	Russian
Angel of Mercy	Andel milosrdenství	Czech, Slovak	Miloslav Luther
Morana		Slovene	Aleš Verbič
Cradle Song	Canción de cuna	Spanish	José Luis Garci
The Last Dance	Sista Dansen	Swedish	Colin Nutley
	Trois Couleurs: Rouge	French	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Eat Drink Man Woman	飲食男女	Mandarin	Ang Lee
Tarzan of Manisa	Manisa Tarzanı	Turkish	Orhan Oğuz
Knocks at My Door	Golpes a mi puerta	Spanish	Alejandro Saderman
Vukovar Poste Restante	Вуковар, једна прича	Serbo-Croatian	Boro Drašković

Notes

Switzerland's Red was disqualified in a controversial Academy ruling which determined that although Red was co-produced by the Swiss national film board and although it took place in Switzerland and featured a largely Swiss cast, it qualified as a majority French, and not Swiss, production. Miramax Films appealed to the Academy to change its mind, but to no avail; Switzerland declined to send another film. However, it was eligible in other categories and received three nominations: Best Director; Best Cinematography and Best Original Screenplay.

References

Weiner . Rex . Foreign-language Oscar race swells to 57 pictures . . 1 December 1994 . web cache . 25 June 2009 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20110111072649/http://www.b-info.com/places/Macedonia/republic/news/94-12/94-12-03.dig . 11 January 2011 .

Notes and References

Web site: 2008-06-22 . History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . https://web.archive.org/web/20080622191328/http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history02.html . 2008-06-22 . 2022-10-09 .
Web site: 2008-08-09 . Rule 14 81st Academy Awards Rules Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . 2022-10-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080809165815/http://www.oscars.org/81academyawards/rules/rule14.html . 9 August 2008 .
Corliss . Richard . December 5, 1994 . CINEMA: When the Judge Is Guilty . Time . dead . May 8, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080306141209/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981958,00.html . 6 March 2008.
Web site: This year's foreign Oscar race reflects a growingly global medium . 1 October 2015 . Hitfix.
Web site: The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners . 26 September 2015 . oscars.org.