Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
has submitted films 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 ...
since 1993. The award 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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* English language
* English people
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dialogue.
The Slovak submission is decided annually by the
Slovak Film and Television Academy (''Slovenská filmová a televízna akadémia''). , twenty-four Slovak films have been submitted for consideration, none of which have been nominated for an Oscar. Seven of these have been directed by Martin Šulík.
Until 1993, the Slovak Republic was a constituent republic within
Czechoslovakia
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, and Czech and Slovaks routinely collaborated on national productions. ''
The Shop on Main Street
''The Shop on Main Street'' ( Czech/ Slovak: ''Obchod na korze''; in the UK ''The Shop on the High Street'') is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak State.
The film was written by Ladislav G ...
,'' which won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1966 for Czechoslovakia, was a
Slovak-language production. It was also the first Czechoslovak film ever to be nominated for an Oscar. ''
The Assistant'' (1982) and ''
The Millennial Bee'' (1983) were also Slovak films submitted by Czechoslovakia for the Oscars.
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 the Slovak Republic for review by the Academy for the award by the year of the submission and the respective Academy Award ceremony.
Most films were at least partially in Slovak, although ''All My Loved Ones'' was primarily in
Czech
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and ''Return of the Storks'' and ''King of Thieves'' had much of their dialogue in
German
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.
In 2008 the producers of
Bathory protested the decision of the Slovak Academy not to consider their film, the most expensive in Slovak history, for an Oscar nomination. The Slovak Academy said the multi-national production, which was filmed in Slovak- and English-language versions, did not qualify as a majority-Slovak production, in part because none of the lead cast came from Slovakia. The Academy instead chose documentary ''Blind Loves'' from a shortlist of four films.
See also
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List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
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People
* List (surname)
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* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
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Cinema of Slovakia
Notes
References
External links
The Official Academy Awards DatabaseIMDb Academy Awards Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Slovak Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
Academy Award
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