List of Luxembourgish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1997. The Foreign Language Film 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.[1] As of 2016, thirteen Luxembourgian films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but none have yet been nominated for an Academy Award.
Submissions
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.[1] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Luxembourg for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
Year (Ceremony) | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Languages | Director | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1997 (70th) |
Women | Elles | French, Portuguese | Teles, Luís GalvãoLuís Galvão Teles | Not Nominated |
1998 (71st) |
Back in Trouble | Back in Trouble | Lëtzebuergesch, German | Bausch, AndyAndy Bausch | Not Nominated |
2002 (75th) |
Dead Man's Hand | Petites misères | French | Boon, PhilippePhilippe Boon & Laurent Brandenbourger | Not Nominated |
2003 (76th) |
I Always Wanted to Be a Saint | J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte | French | Mersch, GenevièveGeneviève Mersch | Not Nominated |
2005 (78th) |
Renart the Fox | Le Roman de Renart | French | Schiel, ThierryThierry Schiel | Not Nominated |
2006 (79th) |
Your Name is Justine | Your Name is Justine | Polish, English | de Pena, FrancoFranco de Pena | Disqualified [2] |
2007 (80th) |
Little Secrets | Perl oder Pica | Lëtzebuergesch | Cruchten, PolPol Cruchten | Not Nominated |
2008 (81st) |
Nuits d'Arabie | Nuits d'Arabie | French, Arabic | Kieffer, PaulPaul Kieffer | Not Nominated |
2009 (82nd) |
Refractaire | Réfractaire | French | Steil, NicolasNicolas Steil | Not Nominated |
2013 (86th) |
Blind Spot[3] | Doudege Wénkel | Luxembourgish | Wagner, ChristopheChristophe Wagner | Not Nominated |
2014 (87th) |
Never Die Young[4] | Never Die Young | French | Cruchten, PolPol Cruchten | Not Nominated |
2015 (88th) |
Baby(a)lone[5] | Baby(a)lone | Luxembourgish | Rotunno, DonatoDonato Rotunno | Not Nominated |
2016 (89th) |
Voices from Chernobyl[6] | La supplication | French | Cruchten, PolPol Cruchten | TBD |
Because of Luxembourg's small size, many of the submitted films were co-productions with neighboring countries. AMPAS disqualified Your Name is Justine in 2006, arguing that Luxembourg did not have sufficient artistic control over the muilti-national film, which was directed by a Poland-based Venezuelan director, set in Germany and Poland, funded primarily by Luxembourg, and shot mostly in Polish and English. The film was originally considered to represent Poland, but it did not make Poland's four-film shortlist [7] and it was subsequently selected to represent Luxembourg.
Luxembourg's first submission, Elles also straddled the nationality guidelines. Directed by a Portuguese and set in Lisbon, the film was primarily in French, and featured a diverse lead cast from France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA, but not Luxembourg. Dead Man's Hand was a minority Luxembourg production, which actually represented Belgium at several film festivals.[8] All other films were directed by native-born Luxembourgian directors.
Of Luxembourg's nine accepted submissions, two were light comedies (1998 and 2002), two were contemporary dramas (1997 and 2003) one was an animated film (2005), one was a thriller (2008,) one was a crime drama (2013,) and two were period dramas set in the 1940s (2009) and 1960s (2007).
See also
- List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
- Cinema of Luxembourg
References
- 1 2 "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
- ↑ Goodfellow, Melanie (2006-11-08). "Lux out of 'Name' game". Variety.
- ↑ ""Doudege Wénkel" aux Oscars". Le Quotidien. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
- ↑ "Harrowing true story from Luxembourg is Oscar hopeful". Luxembourg Wort. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ↑ "Baby(A)lone is Luxembourg's Oscars hopeful". Cineuropa. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- ↑ ""Voices from Chernobyl" to represent Luxembourg". Luxemburger Wort. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ↑ http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,55670,3642251.html
- ↑ http://www.sfs.org.sg/event.php?id=79