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List Of Submissions To The 56th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 56th 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 56th Academy Awards, twenty-six films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Dominican Republic submitted a film for the first time. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Algeria, France, Hungary, Spain and the eventual winner, ''Fanny and Alexander ''Fanny and Alexander'' ( sv, Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.80th Academy Awards – Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award . . Retrieved November 2, 2007. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guaguasi
''Guaguasi'' is a 1983 Dominican war comedy-drama film directed by Jorge Ulla. The film was selected as the Dominican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Orestes Matacena as Guaguasi * Marilyn Pupo as Marina * Raimundo Hidalgo-Gato as Moya * Marco Santiago as Raul * Rolando Barral as Cmndt. Jorge Montiel * Clara Hernandez as Isabel * Jose Bahamonde as Flor * Oswaldo Calvo as Col. Acosta * Mercedes Enriquez as Elisa See also * List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Dominican submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Dominican Republic is among the one-hundred countries that have submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Married Couple (1983 Film)
''A Married Couple'' ( he, זוג נשוי) is a 1983 Israeli drama film directed by Yitzhak Yeshurun. The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Zivit Abramson * Amnon Dankner * Miri Fabian * Ruth Harlap * Avi Kleinberger * Yaron London See also * List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Israel has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1964. Despite its relatively small film-making industry, ten Israeli films have been nominated for the Foreign Language Oscar, placing it in the Top Ten m ... References External links * 1983 films 1983 drama films Israeli drama films 1980s Hebrew-language films {{1980s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egill Eðvarðsson
Egil or Egill is a masculine given name derived from Old Norse. It may refer to: Characters * Egil (Hymiskvida), farmer in the poem ''Hymiskvida'' * Egil, brother of Volund, hero of Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga * Egil One-Hand, hero from the Icelandic saga ''Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana'' * Ongentheow, also known as Egil Places * Eğil, a district of Diyarbakır Province, south eastern Turkey * Egil Peak, Sverdrup Mountains, Antarctica Other uses * Egil (given name) *Electrical Generation and Integrated Lighting Systems Engineer, NASA flight controller See also *'' Alt for Egil'', a 2004 Norwegian musical film directed by Tore Rygh, starring Kristoffer Joner and Trond Høvik *Egil's Saga ''Egill's Saga'' or ''Egil's saga'' ( non, Egils saga ; ) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald. The saga spans the years ..., 13th century Ic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House (1983 Film)
''The House'' ( is, Húsið and ''Husid'') is the 1983 Icelandic mystery horror film directed by Egill Eðvarðsson. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Róbert Arnfinnsson * Þóra Borg * Borgar Garðarsson * Jóhann Sigurðsson * Helgi Skúlason as The medium * Árni Tryggvason * Helga Ragnheiður Óskarsdóttir as Girl with violin * Lilja Þórisdóttir as Bjorg (as Lilja Thorisdottir) See also * List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Icelandic submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Iceland has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1981. The first film to be sent to AMPAS by Iceland was '' Land and Sons'' which was released in Iceland in 1980. Since then, Iceland has sent in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barna Kabay
Barna Kabay (born 15 August 1948, Budapest) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian film director, screenwriter and film producer. His film ''The Revolt of Job'' (1983), which he co-directed with Imre Gyöngyössy, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Selected filmography * ''Job's Revolt'' (1983) * ''Yerma (1984 film), Yerma'' (1984) External links * 1948 births Living people Hungarian film directors Hungarian screenwriters Male screenwriters Hungarian male writers Hungarian film producers {{Hungary-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre Gyöngyössy
Imre Gyöngyössy (25 February 1930 – 1 May 1994) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His film '' The Revolt of Job'' (1983), which he co-directed with Barna Kabay, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Gyöngyössy said that he intended the film "as a message not only between generations but between nations". Selected filmography * '' Job's Revolt'' (1983) * ''Yerma ''Yerma'' is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934 and first performed that same year. García Lorca describes the play as "a tragic poem." The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rura ...'' (1984) References External links * Hungarian film directors Male screenwriters Hungarian male writers People educated at the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma 1930 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters {{Hungary-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Revolt Of Job
''The Revolt of Job'' ( hu, Jób lázadása) is a 1983 Hungarian film directed by Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Lackó is a Hungarian orphan whom a Jewish couple adopts. He lives with the family until the Nazis take the parents away. Hungary, 1943. An elderly Jewish couple, Jób and Róza, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child (Lackó) to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary. Attending the film's opening in New York City, Gyöngyössy said that he intended the movie "as a message not only between generations but between nations". Cast * Ferenc Zenthe (Jób) * Hédi Temessy (Róza) * Péter Rudolf (Jani) * Léticia Cano (Ilka) * István Verebes (Rabbi hangja) * László Gálffi (Cirkuszos) * Gábor Fehér (Lackó) * Nóra Görbe (Ilka hangja) * András Ambrus (Ügyvéd) * Sándor Oszter (Árvaház igazgatója) * Péter Blaskó (Fiatal szomszéd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Van Ackeren
Robert van Ackeren (born 22 December 1946) is a German movie director, actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ..., producer, writer and cinematographer. Filmography (director) * ''Blondie's Number One'' (1971) * '' The Sensuous Three'' (1972) * '' The Last Word'' (1975) * ''Belcanto oder Darf eine Nutte schluchzen?'' (1977) * ' (1978, TV film) * ' (1980) * ' (1980) * '' A Woman in Flames'' (1983) * ' (1988) * ''The True Story About Men and Women'' (1992) * ' (2007) External links imdb page* http://www.deutsches-filmhaus.de/bio_reg/a_bio_regiss/ackeren_bio.htm (in German) Living people 1946 births Film people from Berlin {{Germany-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman In Flames (film)
''A Woman in Flames'' (Die flambierte Frau, literally "The Flambéed Woman") is a German drama film from 1983, directed by Robert van Ackeren, starring Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, and Hanns Zischler. The film was selected as the West German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Plot Eva, an upper class housewife, becomes frustrated and leaves her arrogant husband. She is drawn to the idea of becoming a call girl. With the aid of a prostitute named Yvonne, Eva learns the basics and then they both set out looking for janes and johns together. She meets a charming man who she falls in love with and comes to his house late at night for a romantic tryst. He turns out to be a gigolo. Consequently, they move into his penthouse, which is large enough for both of them to offer their services separately. Then slowly Eva enters the world of sad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Beyer
Frank Paul Beyer (; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film '' Trace of Stones'' was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling SED. His 1975 film '' Jacob the Liar'' was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 until his death he mostly directed television films. Biography Early life and career Frank Beyer was born as Frank Paul Beyer in Nobitz in Thuringia, Germany, to Paul Beyer, a clerk, and Charlotte Beyer, a sales clerk. He had a brother, Hermann Beyer (born 30 May 1943) who should have become a successful actor. After the Machtergreifung of the Nazi Party in 1933 his father, a social democrat lost his job and was unemployed for several years. In 1942 he was drafted for military servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Turning Point (1983 Film)
''The Turning Point'' (also screened with the English name ''Held for Questioning''; ) is a 1983 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren and Klaus Piontek. The film is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Hermann Kant, which was based on Kant's own experience as a prisoner of war in Poland. The film tells the story of a German prisoner of war at the end of World War II who is wrongly accused of being a war criminal. The film was controversial upon release as Polish commentators criticized that the film showed the Polish army wrongly accusing someone of war crimes. Nevertheless, the film was successful and won several awards and was the East German official submission to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Plot In October 1945 the 19-year-old German prisoner of war, Mark Niebuhr (Sylvester Groth) arrives together with other prisoners at a train station in Warsaw. A Polish woman waiting for her train at the stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
