List of submissions to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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The following 26 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 53rd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, Hungary, Japan and Spain. The Soviet Union won the award with the film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.[1]
Cameroon, Colombia, Iceland and Portugal all submitted films for the first time. Iceland has submitted a film every year since then, while Cameroon did not submit again until 2017.
Submissions[edit]
Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Language(s) | Original title | Director(s) | Result |
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Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | German | Egon Schiele - Exzesse | Herbert Vesely | Not nominated |
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Bye Bye Brazil | Portuguese | Bye Bye Brazil | Carlos Diegues | Not nominated |
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Our Daughter | French | Notre fille | Daniel Kamwa | Not nominated |
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Good Riddance | French | Les Bons débarras | Francis Mankiewicz | Not nominated |
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The Latin Immigrant | Spanish | El Inmigrante Latino | Gustavo Nieto Roa | Not nominated |
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Love Between the Raindrops | Czech | Lásky mezi kapkami deště | Karel Kachyňa | Not nominated |
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Tulipää | Finnish | Tulipää | Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehto | Not nominated |
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The Last Metro | French | Le Dernier métro | François Truffaut | Nominated |
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The Fiancee | German | Die Verlobte | Günther Rücker and Günter Reisch | Not nominated |
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Fabian | German | Fabian | Wolf Gremm | Not nominated |
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Confidence | Hungarian | Bizalom | István Szabó | Nominated |
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Land and Sons | Icelandic | Land og synir | Ágúst Guðmundsson | Not nominated |
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Payal Ki Jhankaar | Hindi | पायल की झंकार | Satyen Bose | Not nominated |
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The Thin Line | Hebrew | על חבל דק | Michal Bat-Adam | Not nominated |
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A Leap in the Dark | Italian | Salto nel vuoto | Marco Bellocchio | Not nominated |
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Kagemusha | Japanese | 影武者 | Akira Kurosawa | Nominated |
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In for Treatment | Dutch | Opname | Marja Kok and Erik van Zuylen | Not nominated |
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Life and Death | Norwegian | Liv og død | Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam | Not nominated |
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Olympics 40 | Polish | Olimpiada 40 | Andrzej Kotkowski | Not nominated |
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Morning Undersea | Portuguese | Manhã Submersa | Lauro António | Not nominated |
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears | Russian | Москва слезам не верит | Vladimir Menshov | Won Academy Award |
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The Nest | Spanish | El Nido | Jaime de Armiñán | Nominated |
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Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti | Swedish | Herr Puntila och hans dräng Matti | Ralf Långbacka | Not nominated |
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Every Man for Himself | French | Sauve qui peut (la vie) | Jean-Luc Godard | Not nominated |
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The Legend of Six Dynasty | Chinese | 六朝怪談 | Guk-Gam Wong | Not nominated |
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Special Treatment | Serbo-Croatian | Посебан третман | Goran Paskaljević | Not nominated |
References[edit]
- ^ "The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 8 June 2013.