List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film

[
] :L: The film received its 1969 nomination under the title "My Night with Maud". It had no US distributor at the time. When it was released in Los Angeles on April 15, 1970, it became eligible for consideration for Academy Awards in other categories, and received a 1970 nomination for Writing under the title "My Night at Maud's". Today, the latter title is the most commonly used when referring to the film in the English-speaking world.:M: Originally released under the title "La Victoire en chantant", the film was reissued in France under the title "Noirs et Blancs en couleurs" (a literal French translation of its English title "Black and White in Color") following its 1976 Academy Award win. [cite web | title = L'avis de la Fnac sur "La Victoire en chantant" | publisher = Fnac | url = http://video.fnac.com/a1685006/La-Victoire-en-chantant-Jean-Carmet-DVD-Zone-2 | accessdate = 2008-09-02] :N: Although films produced inside the United States are ineligible for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, those produced in U.S. overseas possessions are not. Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, was thus able to receive a nomination for "What Happened to Santiago" (1989). [cite journal | title = "Lo Que Le Paso a Santiago" (1989) - Awards | journal = The New York Times | url = http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/142537/Lo-Que-Le-Paso-a-Santiago/awards | accessdate = 2008-09-03] :O: This is not an official nomination. After nominations were announced, information came to light that showed that "A Place in the World" (1992) was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot. [cite journal | last = Marx | first = Andy | title = Acad rejects 'World' | journal = Variety | date = 26 February 1993 | url = http://www.variety.com/article/VR104362.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | accessdate = 2008-09-03] :P: "Paradise Now" (2005) was initially nominated as a submission from Palestine and presented as such on the [http://www.oscars.org/78academyawards/nomswins.html official Academy website] . However, following protests from pro-Israeli groups in the United States, the Academy decided to designate it as a submission from the Palestinian Authority, a move that was decried by the film's director Hany Abu-Assad. During the awards ceremony, the film was eventually announced by presenter Will Smith as a submission from the Palestinian Territories.