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

Azerbaijan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, with the first submission made in 2007. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 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 = 2008-08-21] 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 = 2008-08-21] As of 2008, one Azerbaijani film, "Caucasia", has been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 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=2008-08-22] 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=2008-08-22]

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

Azerbaijan was first invited by AMPAS to submit a film in the Best Foreign Language Film category in the summer of 2006, and they submitted for the first and thus far only time in 2007. The submitted film, "Caucasia" by Farid Gumbatov, is the story of an old woman leaving her war-torn Caucasian homeland for Russia, aboard a train. It competed against 62 other films but failed to garner an Oscar nomination.

ee also

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

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]