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

Argentina has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1974. 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 = 2008-06-19] The award was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which 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 = 2008-06-19]

As of 2008, five Argentine films have been accepted by the Academy as nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and one film, Luis Puenzo's "The Official Story", has won it.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 = 2008-06-19] cite web|url=http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/luis-puenzo/1867315/awards|title=Luis Puenzo - Awards|publisher=Moviefone|accessdate=2008-06-19] Three Argentine directors have had multiple films submitted to the Academy for review: María Luisa Bemberg, Marcelo Piñeyro, and Daniel Burman. Of these three directors, only Bemberg has had a film accepted as a nominee; her "Camila" was accepted as a nominee for the 56th Academy Awards.cite web|url=http://mlc.uconn.edu/collections/videos/spanish.html|title=MCL: Collections|publisher=University of Connecticut|accessdate=2008-06-19] Among all the countries that have received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Argentina is one of two Spanish-speaking countries that have done so, the other being Spain (four awards).

ubmissions

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. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Argentina for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

ee also

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

References

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]