Submissions for the 59th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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The following 32 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 59th Academy Awards
in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France and the Netherlands (the winner). Austria was nominated for the first time and Puerto Rico submitted a film for consideration for the first time.
59th Academy Awards
The 59th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan....
in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France and the Netherlands (the winner). Austria was nominated for the first time and Puerto Rico submitted a film for consideration for the first time.
| Country | Film title used in nomination | Language | Original title | Director | IMDB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Image | La Dernière image | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is an Algerian film director. He is best known for his 1975 film Chronicle of the Years of Embers. He is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Arabic cinema.- Biography :... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091385/ | ||
| Tangos: The Exile of Gardel | Tangos, el exilio de Gardel | Fernando E. Solanas | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090125/ | ||
| .38 38 – Auch das war Wien 38 – Auch das war Wien is a 1987 Austrian-West German co-production directed by Wolfgang Glück. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The title is literally translated as '38 - That, too, was Vienna', but it is also known in English as '38 - Vienna Before the Fall.... |
38 | Wolfgang Glück Wolfgang Glück Wolfgang Glück is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His film 38 – Auch das war Wien was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-External links:... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090554/ | ||
| Jumping | Springen | Jean-Pierre De Decker | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184915/ | ||
| The Hour of the Star Hour of the Star Hour of the Star is a Brazilian film directed by Suzana Amaral and released in 1985. The film is an adaptation of a book by Clarice Lispector with the same name... |
A Hora da Estrela | Suzana Amaral Suzana Amaral Suzana Amaral is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She had eight children when she entered film school. In 1976 she entered NYU to further her desire to make films.... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089297/ | ||
| The Decline of the American Empire | Le Déclin de l'empire américain | Denys Arcand Denys Arcand Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090985/ | ||
| Sun Yat-Sen | 陵中山 | Ding Yinnan | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348143/ | ||
| A Time to Die | Tiempo de morir | Jorge Alí Triana | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090173/ | ||
| My Sweet Little Village My Sweet Little Village My Sweet Little Village is a 1985 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel. In 1987 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. At the 1986 Montreal World Film Festival, it won the Special Jury Award and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. At the Paris Film Festival in 1987... |
Vesnicko má stredisková | Jirí Menzel Jirí Menzel Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090257/ | ||
| The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure... |
Manden i månen | Erik Clausen | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122602/ | ||
| The Unknown Soldier The Unknown Soldier (1985 film) The Unknown Soldier is a Finnish 1985 film directed by Rauni Mollberg. It is a remake of the 1955 film of the same title, directed by Edvin Laine and based on the best selling Finnish novel by the same name written by Väinö Linna. Mollberg used young and unknown actors, many of them now famous,... |
Tuntematon sotilas | Rauni Mollberg Rauni Mollberg Rauni Mollberg was a Finnish film director who directed movies and TV movies.In 1963 Mollberg directed movies for YLE. He directed a version of The Unknown Soldier in 1985, 30 years after Edvin Laine directed the original version of it. Mollberg's movie's plot was same as Laine's movie... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090215/ | ||
| Betty Blue | 37°2 le matin | Jean-Jacques Beineix Jean-Jacques Beineix -Biography:In 1964, Jean-Jacques Beineix started his career as Jean Becker's assistant director on the famous French TV series, Les saintes chéries until the end of 1967. Then, in 1970 he worked for Claude Berri and in 1971 for Claude Zidi. In 1977, he directed his first short movie Le Chien de M.... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090563/ | ||
| Men... | Männer... | Doris Dörrie Doris Dörrie Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.-Life and work:Dörrie completed her secondary education at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in film studies, in the drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089656/ | ||
| Cat City Cat City Cat City is a 1986 Hungarian animated film, directed by Béla Ternovszky and written by József Nepp. The title Cat City was used in the United States distribution... |
Macskafogó | Béla Ternovszk | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179955/ | ||
| The Beast | Eins og skepnan deyr | Hilmar Oddsson | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269185/ | ||
| The Pearl | Swathi Muthyam | K. Vishwanath | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090109/ | ||
| Avanti Popolo | אוונטי פופלו | Rafi Bukai | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090677/ | ||
| Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil | Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico | Lina Wertmüller Lina Wertmüller Lina Wertmüller is an Italian film writer and director of aristocratic Swiss descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with the film Seven Beauties.-Biography:... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093650/ | ||
| Final Take Final Take is a 1986 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. It was Japan's submission to the 59th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:*Cinema of Japan... |
キネマの転地 | Yôji Yamada Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy .... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093348/ | ||
| Eunuch | 내시 | Doo-yong Lee | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342810/ | ||
| The Realm of Fortune | El Imperio de la fortuna | Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091261/ | ||
| The Assault The Assault (film) The Assault is a 1986 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Harry Mulisch. The film was directed and produced by Fons Rademakers... |
De Aanslag | Fons Rademakers | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090576/ | ||
| Hard Asphalt | Hard Asfalt | Sølve Skagen | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091171/ | ||
| Axiliad | Siekierezada | Witold Leszczyński Witold Leszczyński Witold Leszczyński was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1959 and 2001.-Filmography:* Requiem * Koloss * Siekierezada * Konopielka... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093968/ | ||
| La Gran Fiesta La Gran Fiesta La Gran Fiesta is a 1985 Puerto Rican film, written and directed by Marcos Zurinaga, based on a story by Ana Lydia Vega.... |
La Gran Fiesta | Marcos Zurinaga Marcos Zurinaga Marcos Zurinaga is a cinematographer born and raised in Puerto Rico. Among the several movies that he has directed is "La Gran Fiesta", a movie about the last grand party at the old "Casino de Puerto Rico" building in Old San Juan before it was turned over to military use as the United States was... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122578/ | ||
| The Last Assault | Noi, cei din linia întîi | Sergiu Nicolaescu Sergiu Nicolaescu Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu is a Romanian film director, actor and politician. He is best known for his historical films, such as Mihai Viteazul , Dacii , Razboiul Independenţei , as well as for his series of... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126544/ | ||
| Half of Heaven | La Mitad del cielo | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragó | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091531/ | ||
| The Sacrifice The Sacrifice The Sacrifice is a 1986 film, and the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it.-Synopsis:... |
Offret | Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century.... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091670/ | ||
| Tanner | (Swiss German) | Der Schwarze Tanner | Xavier Koller Xavier Koller Xavier Koller is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. His film Journey of Hope won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143860/ | |
| The Heroic Pioneers | 唐山过台湾 | Shing Lee | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220587/ | ||
| The Wild Pigeon | Чужая белая и рябой | Sergei Solovyov Sergei Solovyov Sergei Alexandrovich Solovyov is a Russian director, producer, writer and actor. He was awarded by the Russian SFSR People's Artist title.-Biography:... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090845/ | ||
| Happy New Year '49 | Среќна Нова ’49 | Stole Popov Stole Popov -Biography:Stole Popov born August 20, 1950 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.Graduated film directing at the Academy of Theatre, Film & Television in Belgrade.... |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188206/ |