List of submissions to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. 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 every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is handed out annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.

For the 80th Academy Awards, which were held on February 24, 2008, the Academy invited 95 countries to submit films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Sixty-three countries submitted films to the Academy, the highest number of submissions in the history of the award, including Azerbaijan and Ireland, which submitted films for the first time. Several of the submissions were subject to controversy. The Academy determined that initial submissions from Israel and Taiwan did not meet Academy requirements, and both countries submitted new films as replacements. Bolivia's official submission, Los Andes no creen en Dios, did not appear on the Academy's list of accepted submissions.

Due to a change in the rules made for the 79th Academy Awards, the Academy published a shortlist of nine films on January 15, 2008, prior to the selection of the final five nominees. The Academy engendered controversy with its selections, notably the omission of Romania's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which had won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and France's Persepolis, the winner of the Jury Prize at the same Cannes Film Festival. After revealing the shortlist, the Academy released a list of nominees on January 22, 2008.

Austria won the award for the first time with The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
	XXY		Spanish		Template:Notnom
	The Home Song Stories		Cantonese, English, Mandarin		Template:Notnom
	The Counterfeiters	Die Fälscher	German, Russian, English, Hebrew		Won Academy Award
	Caucasia	Qafqaz	Azerbaijani, Russian		Template:Notnom
	On the Wings of Dreams	স্বপ্নডানায়	Bengali		Template:Notnom
	Ben X		Flemish, Dutch		Template:Notnom
	Los Andes no creen en Dios	Los Andes no creen en Dios	Spanish		Disqualified
	It's Hard to be Nice	Teško je biti fin	Bosnian		Template:Notnom
	The Year My Parents Went On Vacation	O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias	Brazilian Portuguese, Yiddish		Template:Shortlisted
	Warden of the Dead	Пазачът на мъртвите	Bulgarian		Template:Notnom
	Days of Darkness	L'Âge des ténèbres	French		Template:Shortlisted
	Padre Nuestro		Spanish, English		Template:Notnom
China	The Knot	云水谣	Mandarin		Template:Notnom
	Satanás		Spanish		Template:Notnom
	Armin		Bosnian, Croatian, German, English		Template:Notnom
	The Silly Age	La Edad de la peseta	Spanish		Template:Notnom
	I Served the King of England	Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále	Czech		Template:Notnom
	The Art of Crying	Kunsten at græde i kor	Danish		Template:Notnom
	In the Heliopolis Flat	في شقة مصر الجديدة	Arabic		Template:Notnom
	The Class	Klass	Estonian		Template:Notnom
	A Man's Job	Miehen työ	Finnish		Template:Notnom
	Persepolis		French, English, Persian, German	, Marjane Satrapi	Template:Notnom
	The Russian Triangle	რუსული სამკუთხედი	Russian		Template:Notnom
	The Edge of Heaven	Auf der anderen Seite	German, Turkish, English		Template:Notnom
	Eduart		Albanian, German, Greek		Template:Notnom
	Exiled	放逐	Cantonese, Mandarin		Template:Notnom
	Taxidermia		Hungarian, English, Russian		Template:Notnom
	Jar City	Mýrin	Icelandic		Template:Notnom
	Eklavya: The Royal Guard	एकलव्य	Hindi		Template:Notnom
	Denias, Singing on the Cloud	Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan	Indonesian, Papuan Malay		Template:Notnom
	M for Mother	میم مثل مادر	Persian		Template:Notnom
Template:Flagcountry	Jani Gal		Kurdish		Template:Notnom
	Kings		Irish, English		Template:Notnom
	Beaufort	בופור	Hebrew		Nominated
	La sconosciuta		Italian		Template:Shortlisted
	I Just Didn't Do It	それでもボクはやってない	Japanese		Template:Notnom
	Mongol	Монгол	Mongolian, Mandarin		Nominated
	Caramel	سكر بنات	Lebanese Arabic, French		Template:Notnom
	Little Secrets	Perl oder Pica	Luxembourgish		Template:Notnom
Template:Flagicon Macedonia	Shadows	Сенки	Macedonian		Template:Notnom
	Silent Light	Stellet licht	Plautdietsch		Template:Notnom
	Duska		Dutch, Russian		Template:Notnom
	Gone with the Woman	Tatt av Kvinnen	Norwegian, English, French		Template:Notnom
	Crossing a Shadow	Una sombra al frente	Spanish		Template:Notnom
	Donsol		Bikol, Tagalog, Filipino		Template:Notnom
	Katyń		Polish, Russian, German		Nominated
	Belle Toujours		French		Template:Notnom
	Love Sickness	Maldeamores	Spanish	, Carlitos Ruiz	Template:Notnom
	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile	Romanian		Template:Notnom
	12		Russian, Chechen		Nominated
Template:Flagcountry	The Trap	Klopka	Serbian		Template:Shortlisted
	881		Mandarin, Hokkien		Template:Notnom
	Return of the Storks	Návrat bocianov	German, Slovak		Template:Notnom
	Short Circuits	Kratki stiki	Slovene		Template:Notnom
Template:Flagcountry	Secret Sunshine	밀양	Korean		Template:Notnom
	The Orphanage	El orfanato	Spanish		Template:Notnom
	You, the Living	Du levande	Swedish		Template:Notnom
	Late Bloomers	Die Herbstzeitlosen	Swiss German		Template:Notnom
	Island Etude	練習曲	Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, English, Lithuanian		Template:Notnom
	King of Fire	ตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช	Thai, Mon, Burmese		Template:Notnom
	A Man's Fear of God	Takva	Turkish		Template:Notnom
	The Pope's Toilet	El Baño del Papa	Spanish	, Enrique Fernandez	Template:Notnom
	Postcards from Leningrad	Postales de Leningrado			Template:Notnom
	The White Silk Dress	Áo lụa Hà Đông	Vietnamese		Template:Notnom

Notes

• Template:Flagicon Bolivia submitted Los Andes no creen en Dios for review by the Academy, but it did not appear on the list of official submissions.
• Template:Flagicon The submission for India, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, was the target of a lawsuit alleging that India's selection committee was tied to the production staff of Eklavya; however, India retained the film as its submission.
• Template:Flagicon The Academy determined that Israel's first submission, The Band's Visit, contained too much English dialogue for the film to meet Academy requirements, and Israel submitted Beaufort as a replacement.
• Template:Flagicon The Academy determined that Taiwan's initial submission, Lust, Caution, had insufficient Taiwanese participation to be considered a valid entry under Academy rules, and Taiwan submitted Island Etude as a replacement.
• Template:Flagicon The British Academy of Film and Television Arts was subject to criticism for not submitting the Scottish Gaelic Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle or the Welsh Calon Gaeth.

References

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External links

• Official website for the 80th Academy Awards