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1999 Best Foreign Language Film submissions
Pedro Almodóvar accepted the Academy Award won by his film for Spain
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Oscar winner	All About My Mother
Total submissions	47
First-time submissions	3
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This is a list of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.

For the 72nd Academy Awards, the Academy invited 75 countries to submit films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1999. Forty-seven countries submitted films to the Academy, surpassing the record set in 1994. The Asian nations of Bhutan, Nepal and Tajikistan submitted films for the first time ever. The nominations were announced on February 15, 2000, and the winner was revealed during the awards presentation held on March 26, 2000. Belgium's submission Rosetta was not nominated, even though it had received the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the previous year. Nepal received its first and so far only nomination for Himalaya: Caravan, a film made in the Tibetan language, which is spoken in parts of Nepal, about the country's disappearing salt-trade system. The four other nominated films came from France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The latter received its nomination for Solomon & Gaenor, the first film made entirely in Welsh and Yiddish.

Spain won the award for the third time with All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
Argentina	Manuelita		Spanish	Manuel García Ferré	Not nominated
Austria	Northern Skirts	Nordrand	German	Barbara Albert	Not nominated
Belgium	Rosetta		French	Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne	Not nominated
Bhutan	The Cup	ཕོར་པ།	Hindi, Tibetan	Khyentse Norbu	Not nominated
Brazil	Orfeu		Brazilian Portuguese	Carlos Diegues	Not nominated
Canada	Set Me Free	Emporte-moi	French	Léa Pool	Not nominated
China	Lover's Grief over the Yellow River	黄河绝恋	Mandarin	Feng Xiaoning	Not nominated
Colombia	Time Out	Golpe de estadio	Spanish	Sergio Cabrera	Not nominated
Croatia	Red Dust	Crvena prašina	Croatian	Zrinko Ogresta	Not nominated
Czech Republic	The Idiot Returns	Návrat idiota	Czech	Saša Gedeon	Not nominated
Denmark	Mifune	Mifunes sidste sang	Danish	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Not nominated
Finland	The Tough Ones	Häjyt	Finnish	Aleksi Mäkelä	Not nominated
France	East-West	Est-Ouest	French, Russian	Régis Wargnier	Nominated
Georgia	Here Comes the Dawn	აქ თენდება	Georgian	Zaza Urushadze	Not nominated
Germany	Aimée & Jaguar	Aimée und Jaguar	German	Max Färberböck	Not nominated
Greece	From the Edge of the City	Από την άκρη της πόλης	Greek, Russian	Constantinos Giannaris	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Ordinary Heroes	千言萬語	Cantonese	Ann Hui	Not nominated
Hungary	The Lord's Lantern in Budapest	Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten	Hungarian	Miklós Jancsó	Not nominated
Iceland	The Honour of the House	Ungfrúin góða og húsið	Icelandic	Guðný Halldórsdóttir	Not nominated
India	Earth	अर्थ	Hindi, English, Parsee, Punjabi, Urdu	Deepa Mehta	Not nominated
Indonesia	Sri		Indonesian	Marselli Sumarno	Not nominated
Iran	The Colours of Paradise	رنگ خدا	Persian	Majid Majidi	Not nominated
Israel	Yana's Friends	החברים של יאנה	Hebrew, Russian, English	Arik Kaplun	Not nominated
Italy	Not of this World	Fuori dal mondo	Italian	Giuseppe Piccioni	Not nominated
Japan	Railroad Man	鉄道員	Japanese	Yasuo Furuhata	Not nominated
Lebanon	Around the Pink House	البيت الزهري	French, Arabic	Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige	Not nominated
Mexico	El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba	El coronel no tiene quien le escriba	Spanish	Arturo Ripstein	Not nominated
Nepal	Caravan	हिमालय	Dolpo, Nepali, German	Éric Valli	Nominated
Netherlands	Scratches in the Table	Madelief, krassen in het tafelblad	Dutch	Ineke Houtman	Not nominated
Norway	The Prompter	Suffløsen	Norwegian	Hilde Heier	Not nominated
Peru	Captain Pantoja and the Special Services	Pantaleón y las visitadoras	Spanish	Francisco J. Lombardi	Not nominated
Philippines	The Kite	Saranggola	Filipino, Tagalog	Gil Portes	Not nominated
Poland	Pan Tadeusz	Pan Tadeusz	Polish	Andrzej Wajda	Not nominated
Portugal	The Mutants	Os Mutantes	Portuguese	Teresa Villaverde	Not nominated
Romania	The Famous Paparazzo	Faimosul paparazzo	Romanian	Nicolae Mărgineanu	Not nominated
Russia	Moloch	Молох	German	Alexander Sokurov	Not nominated
Slovakia	All My Loved Ones	Vsichni moji blízcí	Czech	Matej Mináč	Not nominated
Spain	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Spanish, Catalan, English	Pedro Almodóvar	Won Academy Award
Sweden	Under the Sun	Under solen	Swedish	Colin Nutley	Nominated
Switzerland	Beresina, or The Last Days of Switzerland	Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz	Swiss German	Daniel Schmid	Not nominated
Tajikistan	Luna Papa	Лунный папа	Russian	Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov	Not nominated
Taiwan	March of Happiness	天馬茶房	Taiwanese Hokkien, Japanese, Mandarin, Shanghainese	Lin Cheng-sheng	Not nominated
Turkey	Mrs. Salkim's Diamonds	Salkım Hanımın Taneleri	Turkish	Tomris Giritlioğlu	Not nominated
United Kingdom	Solomon and Gaenor	Solomon a Gaenor	Welsh, Yiddish, English	Paul Morrison	Nominated
Venezuela	Glue Sniffer	Huelepega: Ley de la calle	Spanish	Elia Schneider	Not nominated
Vietnam	Three Seasons	Ba mùa	English, Vietnamese	Tony Bui	Not nominated
Yugoslavia	The White Suit	Бело одело	Serbian	Lazar Ristovski	Not nominated

References

General

• "Record 47 Countries In Oscar Contention" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-11-22. Retrieved August 20, 2008.

Specific

1. "History of the Academy Awards - Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on June 22, 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2008.
2. ^ "Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on August 9, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
3. "Academy Invites 75 Countries to Submit Their Best Pictures for Foreign Language Film Oscar" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-08-02. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
4. "Nov 1 is Oscar Entry Deadline for Foreign Language and Short Films" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-10-22. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
5. ^ Feiwell, Jill (November 22, 1999). "Record 47 foreign pix vie for Oscar". Variety. PMC. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
6. "Voting Schedule Set for 72nd Academy Awards" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1999-07-28. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
7. "Rosetta wins Cannes prize". BBC News. BBC. May 23, 1999. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
8. "Nepal's first ever Oscar nomination". BBC News. BBC. 2000-02-16. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
9. ^ "2000 Academy Award winners and nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 1, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
10. Thomas, Rebecca (2000-03-17). "Wising up to Solomon". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
11. Nichols 2011, p. 42
12. "What the winners said". BBC News. BBC. March 28, 2000. Retrieved August 20, 2008.

Bibliography

• Nichols, William J. (2011). Transatlantic Mysteries: Crime, Culture, and Capital in the "Noir Novels" of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Lanham, Maryland, United States: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1611480405.

• Submissions for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award (by year)