The
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the
United States
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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to a
feature-length
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motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-
English
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dialogue.
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.
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
submitted a film for the
Academy Award for Best International Feature 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 ...
for the first time in 2010.
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Denmark
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did submit a Greenlandic film, ''
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1956
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Submissions
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 Greenland for review by the academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
See also
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List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
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List of Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Notes
References
External links
The Official Academy Awards DatabaseIMDb Academy Awards Page
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Greenland
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Lists of films by country of production