List of entries for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2000 Academy Awards

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The following 47 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2000 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from France, Nepal, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom. The Oscar went to the Spanish entry Everything about my mother by Pedro Almodóvar .

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Original title	Languages)	Director (s)	Result
Argentina	Manuelita	Manuelita	Spanish	Manuel García Ferré	Not nominated
Belgium	Rosetta	Rosetta	French	Jean-Pierre Dardenne , Luc Dardenne	Not nominated
Bhutan	Game of the Gods - When Buddha discovered football	Phörpa	Tibetan	Khyentse Norbu	Not nominated
Brazil	Orfeu	Orfeu	Portuguese	Carlos Diegues	Not nominated
People's Republic of China	The romance on the yellow river	黄河 绝恋 (Huanghe juelian)	Mandarin	Feng Xiaoning	Not nominated
Denmark	Mifune - Dogma III	Mifunes sidste sang	Danish	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Not nominated
Germany	Aimée & Jaguar	Aimée and Jaguar	German	Max Färberböck	Not nominated
Finland	Häjyt	Häjyt	Finnish	Aleksi Mäkelä	Not nominated
France	Est-Ouest - A love in Russia	Est-Ouest	French, Russian	Regis Wargnier	Nominated
Georgia	Ak tendeba	აქ თენდება (Ak tendeba)	Georgian	Sasa Uruschadze	Not nominated
Greece	On the edge of town	Από την άκρη της πόλης (Apo tin akri tis polis)	Greek , Russian	Constantinos Giannaris	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Ordinary heroes	千言萬語 (Qian yan wan yu)	Cantonese	Ann Hui	Not nominated
India	Earth	अर्थ (Earth)	Hindi , English , Gujarati , Punjabi , Urdu	Deepa Mehta	Not nominated
Indonesia	Sri	Sri	Indonesian	Marselli Sumarno	Not nominated
Iran	The colors of paradise	رنگ خدا (Rang-e khoda)	Persian	Majid Majidi	Not nominated
Iceland	The good lady	Ungfrúin góða og húsið	Icelandic	Guðný Halldórsdóttir	Not nominated
Israel	Yana's friends	החברים של יאנה (Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana)	Hebrew , Russian, English	Arik Kaplu	Not nominated
Italy	Not from this world	Fuori dal mondo	Italian	Giuseppe Piccioni	Not nominated
Japan	Poppoya	鉄 道 員 (Poppoya)	Japanese	Yasuo Furuhata	Not nominated
Canada	Emporte-moi - take me with you	Emporte-moi	French	Léa pool	Not nominated
Colombia	Golpe de estadio	Golpe de estadio	Spanish	Sergio Cabrera	Not nominated
Croatia	Red dust	Crvena prašina	Croatian	Zrinko Ogresta	Not nominated
Lebanon	Autour de la maison rose	Autour de la maison rose	French, Arabic	Joana Hadjithomas , Khalil Joreige	Not nominated
Mexico	No mail for the colonel	El coronel no tiene quien le escriba	Spanish	Arturo Ripstein	Not nominated
Nepal	Himalaya - The childhood of a caravan driver	Himalaya: L'Enfance d'un chef	Tibetan	Eric Valli	Nominated
Netherlands	Madelief: The mark on the table	Madelief, stark in het tafelblad	Dutch	Ineke Houtman	Not nominated
Norway	The prompter	Suffløsen	Norwegian	Hilde Heier	Not nominated
Austria	North edge	North edge	German	Barbara Albert	Not nominated
Peru	The captain and his women's battalion	Pantaleón y las visitadoras	Spanish	Francisco José Lombardi	Not nominated
Philippines	Saranggola	Saranggola	Filipino , Tagalog	Gil Portes	Not nominated
Poland	Pan Tadeusz	Pan Tadeusz	Polish	Andrzej Wajda	Not nominated
Portugal	Os Mutantes - Children of the Night	Os mutantes	Portuguese	Teresa Villaverde	Not nominated
Romania	Faimosul paparazzo	Faimosul paparazzo	Romanian	Nicolae Margineanu	Not nominated
Russia	Moloch	Молох (Moloch)	German	Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov	Not nominated
Sweden	The luck comes tomorrow	Under solen	Swedish	Colin Nutley	Nominated
Switzerland	Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland	Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland	German	Daniel Schmid	Not nominated
Serbia	Belo odelo	Бело одело (Belo odelo)	Serbian	Lazar Ristovski	Not nominated
Slovakia	All my loved ones	Vsichni moji blízcí	Czech	Matej Mináč	Not nominated
Spain	Everything about my mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Spanish	Pedro Almodovar	Won
Tajikistan	Luna papa	Лунный папа (Lunnyj Papa)	Russian	Bakhtiyor Khudoinazarov	Not nominated
Taiwan	Tian ma cha fang	天馬 茶房 (Tian ma cha fang)	Mandarin	Lin Cheng-sheng	Not nominated
Czech Republic	The return of the idiot	Návrat idiota	Czech	Saša Gedeon	Not nominated
Turkey	Salkım Hanımın Taneleri	Salkım Hanımın Taneleri	Turkish	Tomris Giritlioğlu	Not nominated
Hungary	The Lord's Lantern in Budapest	Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten	Hungarian	Miklós Jancsó	Not nominated
Venezuela	Huelepega - The law of the street	Huelepega: Ley de la calle	Spanish	Elia Schneider	Not nominated
Vietnam	Three Seasons	Ba mùa	English, Vietnamese	Tony Bui	Not nominated
United Kingdom	Solomon and Gaenor	Solomon a Gaenor	Welsh , Yiddish	Paul Morrison	Nominated