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

Macedonia has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1994. 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 = 2008-07-04] It 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 = 2008-07-04]

As of 2008, one Macedonian film, Milčo Mančevski's "Before the Rain", has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and no Macedonian film has won the award.cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/583627.html|title=It's been a long wait for `Before the Rain'|publisher="The Miami Herald"|author=Rodriguez, Rene|date=2008-06-27|accessdate=2008-07-04] Another of Mančevski's films, "Shadows", was submitted to the Academy for the 80th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.cite web|url=http://oscars.movies.yahoo.com/news/iw/20071018/1355.html|title=A Record 63 Countries Vying For Best Foreign-Language Oscar Nod|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|date=2007-10-17|accessdate=2008-07-04] cite web|url=http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117979064.html?nav=news&categoryid=1982&cs=1|title=Oscar's foreign film race heats up|publisher="Variety"|author=Gaydos, Steven|coauthors=McCarthy, Libby|date=2008-01-15|accessdate=2008-07-04]

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 Macedonia for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

ee also

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

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]