List of entries for the best foreign language film for the 2019 Academy Awards

Alfonso Cuarón , director of the award-winning film Roma

The list of entries for the best foreign language film for the 2019 Academy Awards tops all the films submitted for the 2019 Academy Awards at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the Best Foreign Language Film category . A total of 87 films were submitted, five fewer than in the previous year. The two countries Malawi and Niger submitted a film for the first time. Were not admitted Temirbek Birnazarovs Night Accident for Kyrgyzstan and Ernesto Daranas ' Sergio and Sergei for Cuba .

The shortlist of nine films was announced on December 17, 2018, the five nominations followed on January 22, 2019. Germany's work without an author was nominated by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , Japan's shoplifters - family ties of Hirokazu Koreeda , Lebanon's Capernaum city Hope by Nadine Labaki , Mexico's Roma by Alfonso Cuarón and Poland's Cold War - The Latitude of Love by Paweł Pawlikowski . Denmark's The Guilty by Gustav Möller , Kazakhstan's Ayka by Sergei Dworzewoi , Colombia's Birds of Passage - The Green Gold of the Wayuu by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, and South Korea's Burning by Lee Chang-dong were not included in the preselection .

The award ceremony took place on February 24, 2019, when Mexico prevailed with Alfonso Cuaróns Roma . It is the country’s first win in this category.

Contributions

Preselection ,   nominated ,   excellent

country	German or international title	Original title	Languages)	Director (s)	Result
Afghanistan	Rona, Azim's mother	رونا مادر عظیم (Rona, Madar-e Azim)	Persian , Dari	Jamshid Mahmoudi	Not nominated
Egypt	Yomeddine	يوم الدين	Arabic	Abu Bakr Shawky	Not nominated
Algeria	Until the end of time	إلى آخر الزمان (Akher Ezaman)	Arabic	Yasmine Chouikh	Not nominated
Argentina	The Angel	El Ángel	Spanish	Luis Ortega	Not nominated
Armenia	Spitak	Spitak	Armenian	Alexander Kott	Not nominated
Australia	Jirga	Jirga	Pashto , English	Benjamin Gilmour	Not nominated
Bangladesh	No Bed of Roses	ডুব (Doob)	Bengali , English	Mostofa Sarwar Farooki	Not nominated
Belgium	Girl	Girl	Dutch , French	Lukas Dhont	Not nominated
Bolivia	The goalkeeper	Muralla	Spanish	Rodrigo Patiño	Not nominated
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Never leave me	Beni Bırakma	Arabic , Turkish	Aida Begic	Not nominated
Brazil	The Great Mystical Circus	O Grande Circo Místico	Portuguese	Cacá Diegues	Not nominated
Bulgaria	Omnipresent	Вездесъщият (Vezdesŭshtiyat)	Bulgarian	Ilian Djevelekov	Not nominated
Chile	And suddenly the dawn	Y de pronto el amanecer	Spanish	Silvio Caiozzi	Not nominated
China	Hidden man	邪 不 压 正	Mandarin	Jiang Wen	Not nominated
Costa Rica	Medea	Medea	Spanish	Alexandra Latishev Salazar	Not nominated
Denmark	The Guilty	The skyldige	Danish	Gustav Möller	Preselection
Germany	Work without an author	Work without an author	German	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Nominated
Dominican Republic	Cocote	Cocote	Spanish	Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias	Not nominated
Ecuador	A Son of Man	Un hijo de hombre	Spanish , English , German , Quechua	Jamaican problem Pablo Aguero	Not nominated
Estonia	Take It or Leave It	Võta või jäta	Estonian	Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo	Not nominated
Finland	Euthanizer	Armomurhaaja	Finnish	Teemu Nikin	Not nominated
France	Memoir of war	La douleur	French	Emmanuel Finkiel	Not nominated
Georgia	Name	ნამე (name)	Georgian	Zaza Khalvashi	Not nominated
Greece	Polyxeni	Πολυξένη	Greek , Turkish	Dora Masklavanou	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Operation Red Sea	红海 行动	Mandarin	Dante Lam	Not nominated
India	Village rock stars	Village rock stars	Assamese	Rima Das	Not nominated
Indonesia	Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts	Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak	Malay	Mouly Surya	Not nominated
Iraq	The Journey	الرحلة	Arabic	Mohamed Al-Daradji	Not nominated
Iran	A moral choice	بدون تاریخ ، بدون امضا (Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza)	Persian	Vahid Jalilvand	Not nominated
Iceland	Against the current	Kona fer í stríð	Icelandic , Spanish , English , Ukrainian	Benedikt Erlingsson	Not nominated
Israel	The Cakemaker	האופה-מברלין	Hebrew , German , English	Ofir Raul Grazier	Not nominated
Italy	Dogman	Dogman	Italian	Matteo Garrone	Not nominated
Japan	Shoplifters - family ties	万 引 き 家族 (Manbiki Kazoku)	Japanese	Hirokazu Koreeda	Nominated
Yemen	10 days before the wedding	10 أيام قبل الزفة	Arabic	Amr Gamal	Not nominated
Cambodia	Graves Without a Name	Les tombeaux sans noms	French , Khmer	Rithy Panh	Not nominated
Canada	Family first	Chien de garde	French	Sophie Dupuis	Not nominated
Kazakhstan	Ayka	Айка	Russian	Sergei Dvorzewoi	Preselection
Kenya	Supa Modo	Supa Modo	Swahili	Likarion Wainaina	Not nominated
Colombia	Birds of Passage - The Wayuu's green gold	Pájaros de verano	Spanish , Wayuu	Cristina Gallego Ciro Guerra	Preselection
Kosovo	The marriage	Martesa	Albanian	Blerta Zeqiri	Not nominated
Croatia	The Eighth Commissioner	Osmi povjerenik	Croatian	Ivan Salaj	Not nominated
Latvia	To Be Continued	Turpinājums	Latvian	Ivars Seleckis	Not nominated
Lebanon	Capernaum - city of hope	کفرناحوم (Capharnaüm)	Arabic	Nadine Labaki	Nominated
Lithuania	Wonderful Losers: A Different World	Nuostabieji Luzeriai. Planeta day care center	Italian , English , Dutch	Arūnas Matelis	Not nominated
Luxembourg	Gutland	Gutland	Luxembourgish , German	Govinda Van Maele	Not nominated
Malawi	The Road to Sunrise	The Road to Sunrise	Chichewa , English	Shemu Joyah	Not nominated
Morocco	burnout	بورن أوت	Arabic , French	Nour-Eddine Lakhmari	Not nominated
North Macedonia	Secret Ingredient	Исцелител (Iscelitel)	Macedonian	Gjorce Stavreski	Not nominated
Mexico	Roma	Roma	Spanish , Mixtec	Alfonso Cuarón	Excellent
Montenegro	Iskra	Iskra	Serbian	Gojko Berkuljan	Not nominated
New Zealand	Yellow Is Forbidden	Yellow Is Forbidden	Chinese	Pietra Brettkelly	Not nominated
Nepal	Panchayat	पंचायत	Nepali	Shivam Adhikari	Not nominated
Netherlands	The Resistance Banker	Banker from het Verzet	Dutch	Joram Lürsen	Not nominated
Niger	The wedding ring	Zin'naariya!	Zarma , Hausa , Fulfulde	Rahmatou Keïta	Not nominated
Norway	What will people say	Hva vil folk si	Norwegian , Urdu	Iram Haq	Not nominated
Austria	Waldheim's waltz	Waldheim's waltz	German , English , French	Ruth Beckermann	Not nominated
Palestine	Ghost hunting	إصطياد اشباح (Istiyad ashbah)	Arabic , English	Raed Andoni	Not nominated
Paraguay	The heiresses	Las herederas	Spanish	Marcelo Martinessi	Not nominated
Panama	Ruben Blades Is Not My Name	Yo No Me Llamo Rubén Blades	Spanish , English	Abner Benaim	Not nominated
Pakistan	cake	کیک	Urdu	Asim Abbasi	Not nominated
Peru	Eternity	Wiñaypacha	Aymara	Oscar Catacora	Not nominated
Philippines	Signal rock	Signal rock	Filipino	Chito S. Roño	Not nominated
Poland	Cold War - The latitude of love	Zimna wojna	Polish	Paweł Pawlikowski	Nominated
Portugal	Pilgrimage	Peregrinação	Portuguese , Japanese , Chinese , Latin , Malay	João Botelho	Not nominated
Romania	I don't care if we go down in history as barbarians	Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari	Romanian	Radu Jew	Not nominated
Russia	Sobibor	Собибор	Russian , German , Polish , Yiddish	Konstantin Khabensky	Not nominated
Sweden	Border	Gräns	Swedish	Ali Abbasi	Not nominated
Switzerland	Eldorado	Eldorado	German	Markus Imhoof	Not nominated
Serbia	Offenders	Izgrednici	Serbian	Dejan Zečević	Not nominated
Slovakia	Interpreter	Tlmočník	German , Slovak , Russian	Martin Šulík	Not nominated
Slovenia	Ivan	Ivan	Slovenian , Italian	Janez Burger	Not nominated
Singapore	Buffalo Boys	Buffalo Boys	Indonesian , English	Mike Wiluan	Not nominated
Spain	We are champions	Campeones	Spanish	Javier Fesser	Not nominated
South Africa	Sew the Winter to My Skin	Sew the Winter to My Skin	Afrikaans , Xhosa , English	Jahmil XT Qubeka	Not nominated
South Korea	Burning	버닝 (beoning)	Korean	Lee Chang-dong	Preselection
Taiwan	The Great Buddha	大 佛普拉斯	Taiwanese , Mandarin , English	Huang Hsin-yao	Not nominated
Thailand	Malila: The Farewell Flower	มะลิ ลา (Malila)	Thai	Anucha Boonyawatana	Not nominated
Czech Republic	Winter fleece	Všechno booth	Czech	Olmo Omerzu	Not nominated
Tunisia	Beauty and the Dogs	على كف عفريت (Aala Kaf Ifrit)	Arabic	Kaouther Ben Hania	Not nominated
Turkey	The Wild Pear Tree	Ahlat Agacı	Turkish	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Not nominated
Ukraine	Donbass	Донбас	Russian , Ukrainian	Sergei Loznitsa	Not nominated
Hungary	Sunset	Napszállta	Hungarian	László Nemes	Not nominated
Uruguay	A Twelve-Year Night	La noche de 12 años	Spanish	Álvaro calculator	Not nominated
United Kingdom	I am not a witch	I am not a witch	English , Bemba	Rungano Nyoni	Not nominated
Belarus	Crystal Swan	Хрусталь	Russian , English	Darya Zhuk	Not nominated
Venezuela	The Family	La familia	Spanish	Gustavo Rondón Córdova	Not nominated
Vietnam	The Tailor	Cô Ba Sài Gón	Vietnamese	Trần Bửu Lộc Nguyễn Lê Phương Khanh	Not nominated

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 87 Countries in Competition for 2018 Foreign Language Film Oscar . In: Oscars.org . October 8, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
2. ↑ Фильм о мигрантке из Кыргызстана вошел в лонг-лист на премию "Оскар" ( Russian ) In: Kaktus.media . October 10, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
3. ^ La Academia Rechaza a la cubana "Sergio & Sergei" for the Oscar extranjero, donde "Roma" es favorita ( Spanish ) In: Noticine.com . October 9, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Nancy Tartaglione: Oscars' Foreign Language Film Shortlist Sets Nine Contenders: 'Roma', 'Cold War', 'Burning' & More But No 'Girl', 'Border' . In: Deadline.com . December 17, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
5. ^ Georg Szalai: Oscars: Alfonso Cuaron's 'Roma' Wins Mexico Its First Foreign-Language Honor . In: HollywoodReporter.com . February 24, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2019.