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

The Netherlands has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1959. 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 = 2008-07-29] The award was created for the 1956 Academy Awards, succeeding the non-competitive Honorary Academy Awards which were presented between 1947 and 1955 to the best foreign language films released in the United States.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 = 2008-07-29]

As of 2008, seven Dutch films have been nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, three of which have won the award: "The Assault" in 1987, "Antonia's Line" in 1966 and "Character" in 1998.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] Two Dutch submissions were disqualified: "The Vanishing" in 1989 because more than half of the film was spoken in French and "Bluebird" in 2006 because it had aired on television.cite news|url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/330677/oscar_shoots_down_dutch_bluebird/|title=Oscar shoots down Dutch 'Bluebird'|accessdate=2008-07-29|date=2005-12-14|publisher=redOrbit|first=Ab|last=Zagt]

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.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 = 2008-07-30] 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 the Netherlands for review by the Academy for the award since its first entry in 1959.

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 Netherlands

Notes

:A: "The Vanishing" was disqualified because the Academy determined that there was too much French dialogue in the film to meet the requirements. Although the film was produced in the Netherlands by French-Dutch filmmaker and a mostly Dutch cast, AMPAS deemed that the film was unsuitable to represent the Netherlands. The Dutch declined to send another film, leaving them unrepresented for the first time since 1972.:B: "Bluebird" was rejected by the Academy because the film previously aired on Dutch television. The Academy was not persuaded by the fact that the film had been newly edited for cinema since the broadcasting, stating "there was not enough difference between the two versions." Because of the late notification the Netherlands hasn't been able to submit a new entry.

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]