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

References

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ Goodfellow, Melanie (2006-11-08). "Lux out of 'Name' game". Variety.
  3. ↑ ""Doudege Wénkel" aux Oscars". Le Quotidien. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  4. ↑ "Harrowing true story from Luxembourg is Oscar hopeful". Luxembourg Wort. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Baby(A)lone is Luxembourg's Oscars hopeful". Cineuropa. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  6. ↑ ""Voices from Chernobyl" to represent Luxembourg". Luxemburger Wort. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  7. ↑ http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,55670,3642251.html
  8. ↑ http://www.sfs.org.sg/event.php?id=79

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