List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since the conception of the award. The 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.cite web | title = Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award|publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | url = http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule14.html | accessdate = 2008-06-10]

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was not created until 1956; however, between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These awards were not competitive, as there were no nominees but simply a winner every year that was voted on by the Board of Governors of the Academy.cite web | title = History of the Academy Awards - Page 1| publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | url = http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history01.html | accessdate = 2008-06-10] Three Japanese films were recipients of Honorary Awards during this period. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since.cite web | title = History of the Academy Awards - Page 2| publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | url = http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history02.html | accessdate = 2008-06-10]

As of 2008, eleven Japanese films have been nominees for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but no Japanese film has won the award.cite web|url=http://www.international.ucla.edu/eas/statistics/asian-oscar.htm|title=List of Asian films nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|publisher=University of California, Los Angeles|accessdate=2008-06-11] cite web|url=http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117856491.html?nav=history|title=Best Foreign Film|publisher="Variety"|author="Variety" Staff|date=2007-03-01|accessdate=2008-07-13] The only Japanese directors to have multiple films be nominated for the award are Akira Kurosawa and Noboru Nakamura. Kurosawa received an Honorary Award prior to the conception of the formal award for his work on "Rashomon" and the actual Academy Award for "Dersu Uzala" (submitted for the former Soviet Union), and had four other films submitted, with two of them accepted as nominees.cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9809/07/kurosawa/|title=Film world mourns loss of 'giant' Akira Kurosawa|publisher=CNN|author=Kamimura, Marina|date=1998-09-07|accessdate=2008-06-11] cite web|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/98309/Akira-Kurosawa/awards|title=Akira Kurosawa - Awards|publisher="New York Times"|accessdate=2008-06-11] Notably, Kurosawa's 1985 film "Ran" was deliberately not nominated by the Japanese film industry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film due to the poor perception he had among Japanese filmmakers at the time.cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/asktheexpert/answers.html|title=Great Performances . Kurosawa . Ask the Experts Q & A|publisher=PBS|author=Prince, Stephen|accessdate=2008-06-25] Nakamura had two films, "Twin Sisters of Kyoto" and "Portrait of Chieko", submitted as nominees for the award.cite web|url=http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/noboru-nakamura/1922456/main|title=Noboru Nakamura - Awards|publisher=Moviefone|accessdate=2008-06-11] Among all the countries that have submitted films for the award, Japan ranks fifth in terms of total nominees, behind Sweden (fourteen nominees) and ahead of the former Soviet Union (nine nominees). [cite web | title = Foreign Language Film Facts | publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | url = http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/forlangfacts.html | date=2008-03-08 | accessdate = 2008-06-11]

ubmissions

Every year, each country is invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to submit its best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 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. Before the award was created, the Board of Governors of the Academy voted on a film every year that was considered the best foreign language film released in the United States, and there were no submissions. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Japan for review by the Academy for the award since its conception.

ee also

*List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
*List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
*Cinema of Japan

References

;General
*cite web|url=http://www.eiren.org/academy/data.html|title=List of Japanese films submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|language=Japanese|publisher=Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan|accessdate=2008-06-16

;Specific

External links

* [http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/ The Official Academy Awards Database]
* [http://www.oscars.org/impc_site2/index.html The Motion Picture Credits Database]
* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/ IMDb Academy Awards Page]