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

The Czech Republic 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 = 2008-06-29] 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 = 2008-06-29]

As of 2008, three Czech films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, one of which, Jan Svěrák's "Kolya", has won the award.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 = 2008-06-29] cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9704/04/kolya.review/|title=Child actor shines in Oscar-winning 'Kolya'|publisher=CNN|author=Tatara, Paul|date=1997-04-04|accessdate=2008-06-29] Another of Svěrák's films, "Dark Blue World", was submitted to the Academy for the 74th Academy Awards, but not accepted as a nominee.cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/74academyawards/flfs.html|title=74th Academy Awards - Foreign Language Film Symposium|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|accessdate=2008-06-29] The two other Czech directors to have films accepted as nominees are Jan Hřebejk and Ondřej Trojan. Hřebejk's "Divided We Fall" was accepted as a nominee for the 73rd Academy Awards, but his submission for the 77th Academy Awards, "Up and Down", was not.cite web|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/oscar2001/2001-03-22-other-oscars.htm|title=Your guide to 'other' Oscar nominees|publisher="USA Today"|author=Seiler, Andy|date=2001-03-22|accessdate=2008-06-29] Trojan's "Želary" was a nominee for the 76th Academy Awards.cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/movies/20040128oscarlist0128p7.asp|title=Oscar nominees list|publisher="Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"|date=2004-01-28|accessdate=2008-06-29]

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 the Czech Republic for review by the Academy for the award by the year of the submission and the respective Academy Award 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 the Czech Republic

References

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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]