List of entries for the best foreign language film for the 2012 Academy Awards

The following 63 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2012 Academy Awards . The titles highlighted were the five films ultimately nominated.

The federal states were able to submit their proposals until October 3, 2011. On October 13th, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced that 63 countries could participate in the shortlist. New Zealand participated in the selection process for the first time. The final nine nominations were announced on January 18, 2012. Six days later, the five ultimately nominated films were announced.

The Oscar finally went to the Iranian entry Nader and Simin - A Separation from Asghar Farhadi .

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Original title	Languages)	Director (s)	Result
Egypt	El Shoq	الشوق	Arabic	Khaled El Hagar	Not nominated
Albania	Amnistia	Amnistia	Albanian	Bujar Alimani	Not nominated
Argentina	Aballay - The man without fear	Aballay, el hombre sin miedo	Spanish	Fernando Spiner	Not nominated
Belgium	Bullhead	Round head	French, Belgian Dutch	Michaël R. Roskam	Nominated
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Belvedere	Belvedere	Bosnian	Ahmed Imamović	Not nominated
Brazil	Elite Squad - In the swamp of corruption	Tropa de Elite 2	Portuguese	José Padilha	Not nominated
Bulgaria	Tilt - The game is over if you give up.	Tilt	Bulgarian	Viktor Chouchkov	Not nominated
Chile	Violeta Parra	Violeta se fue a los cielos	Spanish	Andrés Wood	Not nominated
People's Republic of China	The Flowers of War	金陵 十三 釵 ('Jīnlíng Shísān Chāi')	Mandarin , English , Japanese	Zhang Yimou	Not nominated
Denmark	Superclassico ... my wife wants to get married!	Superclasico	Danish	Ole Christian Madsen	Preselection
Germany	Pina - dance, dance otherwise we are lost	Pina - dance, dance otherwise we are lost	German	Wim Wenders	Preselection
Dominican Republic	La hija natural	La hija natural	Spanish	Leticia Tonos	Not nominated
Estonia	Letters to Angel	Kirjad Inglile	Estonian	Sulev Keedus	Not nominated
Finland	Le Havre	Le Havre	French	Aki Kaurismäki	Not nominated
France	Life is ours	La guerre est déclarée	French	Valérie Donzelli	Not nominated
Georgia	Chantrapas	შანტრაპა	Georgian	Otar Iosseliani	Not nominated
Greece	Attenberg	Attenberg	Greek	Athina Rachel Tsangari	Not nominated
United Kingdom	Patagonia	Patagonia	English, French , Spanish	Marc Evans	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Tao Jie - A Simple Life	桃 姐 (Táo Jiě)	Cantonese	Ann Hui	Not nominated
India	Adaminte Makan Abu	Adaminte Makan Abu	Malayalam	Salim Ahamed	Not nominated
Indonesia	Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah	Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah	Indonesian	Hanny Saputra	Not nominated
Iran	Nader and Simin - A separation	Jodāi-ye Nāder az Simin	Persian	Asghar Farhadi	Won
Ireland	As If I Am Not There	As If I Am Not There	Serbo-Croatian	Juanita Wilson	Not nominated
Iceland	Volcano	Eldfjall	Icelandic	Rúnar Rúnarsson	Not nominated
Israel	Hearat Shulayim	הערת שוליים	Hebrew	Joseph Cedar	Nominated
Italy	Terraferma	Terraferma	Italian	Emanuele Crialese	Not nominated
Japan	Ichimai no hagaki	一枚 の ハ ガ キ (Ichimai no hagaki)	Japanese	Shindo Kaneto	Not nominated
Canada	Monsieur Lazhar	Monsieur Lazhar	French	Philippe Falardeau	Nominated
Kazakhstan	Возвращение в «А»	Возвращение в «А»	Kazakh , Russian	Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky	Not nominated
Colombia	Los Colores de la montaña	Los Colores de la montaña	Spanish	Carlos César Arbeláez	Not nominated
Croatia	72 days	Sedamdeset i dva dana	Croatian , Serbian	Danilo Šerbedžija	Not nominated
Cuba	Habana station	Habana station	Spanish	Ian Padrón	Not nominated
Latvia	Golfa straume zem ledus kalna	Golfa straume zem ledus kalna	Russian	Jevgeņijs Paškevičs	Not nominated
Lebanon	Who knows where	Et Maintenant, On Va Où?	Arabic	Nadine Labaki	Not nominated
Lithuania	Back to your arms	Kai apkabinsiu tave	Lithuanian	Kristijonas Vildžiūnas	Not nominated
Morocco	Omar - A judicial scandal	Omar m'a tuer	French	Roschdy Zem	Preselection
Mexico	Miss Bala	Miss Bala	Spanish	Gerardo Naranjo	Not nominated
New Zealand	The orator	O le tulafale	Samoan	Tusi Tamasese	Not nominated
Netherlands	Sonny Boy - A love in dark times	Sonny Boy	Dutch	Maria Peters	Not nominated
North Macedonia	Punk's Not Dead	Панкот не е мртов (Pankot ne e mrtov)	Macedonian	Vladimir Blazevski	Not nominated
Norway	Happy happy	Sykt lykkelig	Norwegian	Anne Sewitsky	Not nominated
Austria	To breathe	To breathe	German	Karl Markovics	Not nominated
Peru	Miracles come true in October	Octubre	Spanish	Daniel Vega Vidal , Diego Vega Vidal	Not nominated
Philippines	The Woman in the Septic Tank	Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank	Tagalog	Marlon Rivera	Not nominated
Poland	In darkness	W ciemności	Polish	Agnieszka Holland	Nominated
Portugal	José e Pilar	José e Pilar	Portuguese	Miguel Gonçalves Mendes	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	America	America	Spanish	Sonia Fritz	Disqualified
Romania	tomorrow	tomorrow	Romanian	Marian Crisan	Not nominated
Russia	The sun that deceives us - The Exodus	Утомлённые солнцем 2: Предстояние (Utomljonnyje solnzem 2: Predstojanije)	Russian	Nikita Mikhalkov	Not nominated
Sweden	Better days	Svinalangorna	Swedish , Finnish	Pernilla August	Not nominated
Switzerland	Summer games	Giochi d'estate	Italian	Rolando Colla	Not nominated
Serbia	Montevideo, Taste of a Dream	Montevideo, Bog te video: Film 1	Serbian	Dragan Bjelogrlić	Not nominated
Singapore	Tatsumi	Tatsumi	Japanese	Eric Khoo	Not nominated
Slovakia	Gypsies	Cigán	Slovak	Martin Šulík	Not nominated
Slovenia	Silent Sonata	Circus Fantasticus	No	Janez Burger	Disqualified
South Africa	Beauty	Skoonheid	Afrikaans , English	Oliver Hermanus	Not nominated
South Korea	The Front Line - The war never ends	고지 전 (Gojijeon)	Korean , English	Jang Hun	Not nominated
Spain	Pa negre	Pa negre	Catalan	Agustí Villaronga	Not nominated
Taiwan	Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale	賽德克． 巴萊 (Seediq Bale)	Sediq , Japanese, Taiwanese , Mandarin	Wei Te-sheng	Preselection
Thailand	Kon Khon	คน โขน	Thai	Sarunyoo Wongkrachang	Not nominated
Czech Republic	Alois Nebel	Alois Nebel	Czech	Tomáš Luňák	Not nominated
Turkey	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da	Turkish	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Not nominated
Hungary	The Turin horse	A Torinói ló	Hungarian	Béla Tarr , Ágnes Hranitzky	Not nominated
Uruguay	The Silent House	La Casa Muda	Spanish	Gustavo Hernández	Not nominated
Venezuela	The Rumble of the Stones	El rumor de las piedras	Spanish	Alejandro Bellame Palacios	Not nominated
Vietnam	The Prince and the Pagoda Boy	Khát vọng Thăng Long	Vietnamese	Lưu Trọng Ninh	Not nominated

additional

• Luxembourg did not submit an entry for the third time in a row
• The Ukraine had indeed formed a committee, but no post considered to be sufficient according to the criteria of AMPAS.
• Albania originally submitted The Forgiveness of Blood (Falja e Gjakut) . Bujar Alimani , the director of Amnistia, protested against this , because the film was made by an American director and with the support of an American crew. Eventually the AMPAS disqualified the entry and Alimani's film was submitted instead.
• Puerto Rico , which has been participating in the foreign-language Oscars since 1986, tried to submit a contribution, but failed because of the regulations. As of this year, AMPAS banned films from countries that belonged to US territory from the competition.
• The Dominican Republic submitted its La Huja Natural contribution too late, but was nevertheless considered.
• Slovenia's entry Silent Sonata was disqualified because the Slovenian Filmmakers' Organization failed to submit the film due to a misunderstanding.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Indiewire Staff: Foreign Language and Short Film Entries Due October 3 For 2011 Oscars. In: IndieWire. September 27, 2011, accessed on September 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 'The Orator' Named New Zealand's First Foreign-Language Oscar Entry. In: The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 3, 2019 . 
3. ^ 9 Foreign Language Films Vie for Oscar. In: Comingsoon.net. Retrieved December 21, 2012, September 3, 2019 (American English). 
4. ↑ Oscars 2012: Winners in full . February 27, 2012 ( bbc.com [accessed September 7, 2019]).
5. ^ Ian Mundell: Belgium to enter 'Rundskop' in Oscar race. In: Variety. September 16, 2011, accessed September 7, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Факти ICTV | Оскар залишився без українських фільмів. In: ФАКТИ. September 23, 2011, accessed September 7, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Nick Holdsworth, Nick Holdsworth: Albanian Oscar entry disqualified. In: Variety. October 9, 2011, accessed September 7, 2019 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Anna Marie de la Fuente: Oscar rejects Puerto Rico's foreign-lingo film entry. In: Variety. October 7, 2011, accessed June 7, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Slovenija iz boja za oskarja izpadla, ker smo movie pozabili prijaviti. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (Slovenian).