List of Slovenian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Slovenia has submitted films for the
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since 1993, but has not yet won an award. Slovenia's 2008 submission, '' Rooster's Breakfast'', became the highest-grossing Slovenian film of all time. Before 1993, Slovenia was a republic within
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...
. In 1961, a film shot in
Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...
and representing
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...
('' The Ninth Circle'') became the first and only film directed by a Slovenian to be nominated for an Oscar.


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
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to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Slovenia for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.


See also

* List of Yugoslavian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film *
List of Slovenian films This is a list of notable films produced in Slovenia or the predecessor countries on its territory. Slovenia declared its independence from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991. Slovene language, Slovene-language films produced in Yugoslavia before this d ...


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The Official Academy Awards DatabaseIMDb Academy Awards Page
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