List of submissions to the 71st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film explained
| 1998 Best Foreign Language Film submissions |
| Award1 Type: | Oscar winner |
| Award1 Winner: |  Life Is Beautiful |
| Award2 Type: | Total submissions |
| Award2 Winner: | 45 |
| Award3 Type: | First-time submissions |
| Award3 Winner: | 1 |
| Previous: | 1997 |
| Main: | List |
| Next: | 1999 |
This is a list of submissions to the 71st 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 71st Academy Awards, the Academy invited 73 countries to submit films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[3] The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1998. Forty-five countries submitted films to the Academy.[4] The five nominated films came from Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Spain and the eventual winner, Life Is Beautiful, from Italy.[5] Kyrgyzstan submitted a film for the first time, meanwhile, Lebanon and Morocco both returned to the competition after a 20-year absence.
Submissions
| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
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| Tango | Tango, no me dejes nunca | Spanish | Carlos Saura | |
| The Inheritors | Die Siebtelbauern | German | Stefan Ruzowitzky | |
| Rosie | Dutch | Patrice Toye | |
| Central Station | Central do Brasil | Brazilian Portuguese | Walter Salles | |
| August 32nd on Earth | Un 32 Août sur Terre | French, English | Denis Villeneuve | |
| Genghis Khan | 一代天骄成吉思汗 | Mandarin, Mongolian | Sai Fu & Lisi Mai | |
| La vendedora de rosas | Spanish | Víctor Gaviria | |
| Transatlantic | Transatlantik | Croatian | Mladen Juran | |
| Sekal Has to Die | Je třeba zabít Sekala | Czech | Vladimír Michálek | |
| The Celebration | Festen | Danish, English | Thomas Vinterberg | |
| A Summer by the River | Kuningasjätkä | Finnish | Markku Pölönen | |
| The Dreamlife of Angels | La vie rêvée des anges | French | Erick Zonca | |
| Run Lola Run | Lola rennt | German | Tom Tykwer | |
| Eternity and a Day | Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα | Greek | Theo Angelopoulos | |
| Made in Hong Kong | 香港製造 | Cantonese | Fruit Chan | |
| Gypsy Lore | Romani kris - Cigánytörvény | Hungarian, German | Bence Gyöngyössy | |
| Count Me Out | Stikkfrí | Icelandic | Ari Kristinsson | |
| Jeans | ஜீன்ஸ் | Tamil | S. Shankar | |
| Leaf on a Pillow | Daun di atas bantal | Indonesian | Garin Nugroho | |
| Children of Heaven | بچه هاي آسمان | Persian | Majid Majidi | |
| Circus Palestine | קרקס פלשתינה | Hebrew, Arabic, Russian | Eyal Halfon | |
| Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Italian | Roberto Benigni | |
 | Begging for Love | 愛を乞う人 | Japanese | Hideyuki Hirayama | |
| Beshkempir | Бешкемпир | Kyrgyz | Aktan Abdykalykov | |
| West Beyrouth | غرب بيروت | Arabic | Ziad Doueiri | |
| Back in Trouble | Luxembourgish, German | Andy Bausch | |
| Goodbye, 20th Century! | Збогум на дваесеттиот век! | Macedonian | Darko Mitrevski & Aleksandar Popovski | |
| Un embrujo | Un embrujo | Spanish | Carlos Carrera | |
| Mektoub | مكتوب | Arabic | Nabil Ayouch | |
| The Polish Bride | De Poolse bruid | Dutch, Polish | Karim Traidia | |
| Only Clouds Move the Stars | Bare skyer beveger stjernene | Norwegian | Torun Lian | |
| In the Navel of the Sea | Sa Pusod ng Dagat | Tagalog, Filipino | Marilou Diaz-Abaya | |
| Anxiety | Inquietude | Portuguese | Manoel de Oliveira | |
| Heroes from Another Country | Heroes de otra patria | Spanish | Iván Dariel Ortíz | |
| Terminus Paradise | Terminus Paradis | Romanian | Lucian Pintilie | |
| The Barber of Siberia | Сибирский цирюльник | Russian, English | Nikita Mikhalkov | |
 | The Powder Keg | Буре барута | Serbian | Goran Paskaljević | |
| Rivers of Babylon | Slovak | Vlado Balco | |
| The Grandfather | El Abuelo | Spanish | José Luis Garci | |
| Show Me Love | Fucking Åmål | Swedish | Lukas Moodysson | |
| War in the Highlands | La Guerre dans le Haut Pays | French | Francis Reusser | |
| Flowers of Shanghai | 海上花 | Mandarin | Hou Hsiao-hsien | |
| Who Is Running? | ท้าฟ้าลิขิต | Thai | Oxide Pang Chun | |
| Chameleon | Cameleon | Welsh | Ceri Sherlock | |
| Loop | Rizo | Spanish | Julio Sosa Pietri | | |
Notes
- Russia's submission, The Barber of Siberia, was withdrawn when a print of the just-finished film was unable to be sent to Los Angeles in time.
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 . 9 August 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080809165815/http://www.oscars.org/81academyawards/rules/rule14.html . dead .
- Web site: Hernandez . Eugene . 2008-08-12 . Academy Seeking Foreign Language Oscar Submissions . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070228160830/http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_980812_briefsOscarSubm.html . 28 February 2007 . 2008-08-25 . indieWire.
- Web site: [//www.oscars.org/pressreleases/98.11.19.html 45 Countries Submit Films for Oscar Consideration ]. . 19 November 1998 . 20 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/19990219094343/http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/98.11.19.html . 19 February 1999 . dead .
- Web site: The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners . 20 October 2015 . oscars.org.
