What follows is a statistical chart regarding Oscar's Foreign Film category. This chart should not be seen as an indication of which countries have the best cinema. It's purely a reference sheet regarding the various countries and their Oscar snagging aptitude, a talent that is decidedly different than producing masterpieces though there is occasional overlap.
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Last Updated September
19th, 2009
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10
Most Popular Oscar Countries *of the Past 20 Years* 1990 - 2009 Oscar nominations and wins (in bold) below Links go to their Netflix page ~ Program yourself an international film festival. |
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#1 FRANCE 10 noms / 1 win  |
#2 GERMANY 9 noms / 2 wins  |
#4 SPAIN 5 noms / 3 wins  |
#3 ITALY 5 noms / 2 wins  |
#5 RUSSIA 5 noms / 1 win  |
Cyrano
de Bergerac (90) Indochine (92) Ridicule (96) East-West (99) The Taste of Others (00) Amélie (01) The Chorus (04) Joyeux Noël (05) The Class (08) Un Prophete (09) |
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Nasty Girl (90) Schtonk! (92) Beyond Silence (97) Nowhere in Africa (02) Downfall (04) Sophie Scholl (05) The Lives of Others (06) Baader Meinhof Complex (08) The White Ribbon (09) |
Belle
Epoque (93) Secrets of the Heart (97) The Grandfather (98) All About My Mother (99) The Sea Inside (04) |
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#6 SWEDEN 5 noms / 0 wins  |
#7
THE NETHERLANDS 4 noms / 2 wins  |
#8 CZECH REPUBLIC 4 noms / 1 win  |
#9 TAIWAN 3 noms / 1 win  |
#10 MEXICO,
BELGIUM, BRAZIL and ISRAEL |
Wedding
Banquet (93) All were directed by Ang Lee |
Who will break the tie? |
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| Japan, Canada, Austria and South Africa have all received two nominations and one win in the past twenty years (1990-2009). | ||||
Good
Luck Charms 1990 - 2009 movie stars that bode well for your chances in this category |
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Oleg
Menshikov Russian appears in 1 winner and 2 nominees (Burnt by the Sun, Prisoner of the Mountains, East-West) |
Gong
Li
Chinese appears in 3 nominees (Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine) |
Penélope
Cruz Spanish appears in 2 winners (Belle Epoque, All About My Mother) |
5
way tie all appearing in 1 winner and 1 nominee Ricardo Darín Argentinian (The Secret in Their Eyes, Son of the Bride), Catherine Deneuve French (Indochine, East-West), Juliane Köhler German (Nowhere in Africa, Downfall), Zdenek Sverák Czech (The Elementary School, Kolya) and Betty Schuurman Dutch (Character, Twin Sisters) |
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runners
up: Bruno
Ganz (Swiss), Johan Widerberg (Swedish) and Gael Garcia Bernal (Mexican)
all appeared in 2 nominees during the past 20 years |
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In Order of Most Nominations, then Wins
(if you see an error below, please notify me )8 14 22 25 PERU
Good Luck Charms 1947 - 2008
Stars that have appeared in the most foreign film nominees and winners
since the Academy began to recognize foreign films
Beloved Foreign Auteurs (1947-2009)
International directors who have won the most Oscar love over the years while working outside of the English language.
ITALY
(1920-1993)
12 nominations | Honorary Oscar
plus
Foreign Film Winners
and Foreign Film Nominees
Fellini was recognized in writing, directing and producing. ___ of his films have been nominated for Best Foreign Language FilmIngmar Bergman
SWEDEN
(1918-2007)
9 nominations | Irving Thalberg Award
plus
3 Foreign Film Nominees (all of them won) and 1 Best Picture nominee (Cries & Whispers... which was not nominated for foreign film)Like Fellini, Bergman was been recognized in writing, directing and producing. Persona, arguably his greatest film, received zero Oscar nominations... despite their general appreciation of his work.
Akira Kurosawa
JAPAN
(1910-1998)1 nomination | Honorary Oscar
plus
2 Foreign Film Nominees (+ 1 honorary winner before there was a category)Kurosawa's sole regular Oscar nomination came from directing Ran (1985)
Pedro Almodovar
SPAIN
(born in 1949)
2 nominations | 1 Screenplay Oscar
plus
2 Foreign Film Nominations (1 win)Spain's greatest filmmaker since Bunuel doesn't actually have much luck in the foreign film category. Spain has a complicated relationship with him and doesn't submit his films often to represent them. But Oscar voters his work.
Jan Troell
SWEDEN
(born in 1931)
2 nominations
plus
3 Foreign Film Nominees (1 of them, The Emigrants, was also a Best Picture nominee)Troell's greatest Oscar success was The Emigrants (1971) during a period where Oscar really loved Scandinavian work. It received 4 nominations the year after it received (and lost) a Foreign Film nomination. They later changed the rules and now if you open after your foreign film nomination in the US you are not eligible for regular nominations. This year in 2010 that makes France's Un Prophete ineligible for any more awardage
Countries that regularly submit
that have not been nominated.
(not a complete list)
that have not been nominated
(not a complete list)Bulgaria
Chile
Colombia
Croatia
Korea
Luxembourg
Mongolia
Portugal
(I believe Portugal holds the record of most submissions without a nomination)
Romania
Serbia
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Thailand
Turkey
Venezuela
Albania
Armenia
Australia
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Chad
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Indonesia
Iraq
Kyrgyzstan
Malaysia
Morocco
Sinagpore
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Tunisia
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