List of German proposals for the Oscar nomination in the category of best international film
The list of German proposals for the Oscar nomination in the category of best international film (until 2019 best foreign language film ) is headed by all films submitted for Germany to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the category of best international film .
Every year since 1948, a foreign language film has been honored at the Oscars . From 1948 to 1956, this took place in the form of a special or honorary Oscar. A separate category with five nominations, as in the other regular categories, was created in 1957. Since 2007, a two-stage process has been used to make a preselection from all approved submissions from the eligible countries. A committee made up of members of the Academy nominates nine films to be released on a short list . The five nominations are selected from these proposals.
German films have so far won the Oscar three times in this category. A total of 20 films made it onto the nomination list (eleven times from the reunified Germany, once from the GDR and eight times from the Federal Republic up to 1990). Over 60 films were submitted to the Academy for the German entry category, five of them from the GDR.
Selection process
For the Federal Republic of Germany, the Export Union of German Films, founded in 1954, took over the selection of the Federal German applicant until it was merged into German Films Service + Marketing GmbH in 2004 . This is currently organizing the election of the German Oscar film. It publishes calls to participate for German producers and global distributors and checks their fee-based productions for compliance with the regulations specified by AMPAS.
German Films then calls various professional associations and institutions such as the
- Association of Film Producers ;
- Association of German Film Exporters ;
- AG New German Feature Film Producer ;
- Association of Film Distributors ;
- Main Association of German Film Theaters ;
- Federal Camera Association ;
- Association of German Film Critics ;
- Federal Association of Directing / Federal Association of TV and Film Directors ;
- Film Funding Agency ;
- German Film Academy
to nominate representatives for a nine-member jury, which ultimately selects the Oscar contribution from the submissions of the rights holders.
particularities
1983 : The film Das Boot received nominations in six Oscar categories ( director , camera , adapted screenplay , editing , sound and sound editing ), but was not submitted as a proposal for the Federal Republic, but Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo .
1992 : This year, no German proposal has been received, even though the film Hitler Youth Salomon by Agnieszka Holland a likely candidate would be available, in 1991, each as best foreign language film from the National Board of Review Award and the Golden Globe Award. The selection committee issued an official statement that no German film was of the high quality to be nominated. This was widely criticized and prompted several prominent German filmmakers to write an open letter denouncing the refusal of the selection committee to submit the film. Apparently the committee found the film too controversial because of its delicate subject matter (the story of a Jew who escaped Nazi persecution by disguising himself as an Aryan) and sheds telling light on the post-reunification debates about the Holocaust. It was rumored that members of the selection committee said unofficially that the film was "crap" and "an embarrassment". It was also questioned whether the film would meet the academy's rules, as it was shot largely in Poland and only partially produced with German funding. The producer Brauner and the Polish director Holland then publicly complained about a “German arrogance towards Jewish issues” and a latent xenophobia; the international press reported this largely as anti-Semitism charges. Although the film was not submitted as a German entry, it was screened commercially in Los Angeles County and was therefore eligible for nominations in other categories. One of the leading American film critics, Roger Ebert , described Agnieszka Holland's 1992 Oscar nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category as “rebuke” from the American Oscar jury to the German Academy Committee.
2010 : On August 26, 2009, The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story was submitted as a German applicant for 2010. The German selection committee was ahead of its Austrian counterpart, the Austrian Film Commission (AFC). Originally, the White Ribbon was supposed to be proposed as an Austrian applicant a week later . The submission of the “Austrian” film in “essential functions” by Germany therefore caused displeasure on the part of the AFC, but in the end they accepted the result. The film received two Oscar nominations ( Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography ).
2016 : The film Victoria could not be nominated for the Oscar 2016 in the foreign language category, because half of the dialogues are spoken in English.
German suggestions
German co-productions
The AMPAS rules for this category stipulate that only one film can be proposed per country. National institutions that have been registered with the Academy for the relevant state are eligible to make proposals. In principle, each country involved in a production has the option of submitting the film for its own country - but ultimately only one country is allowed to submit the film.
So far 33 German co-productions have been nominated for the Oscar (8 times as French, 4 times as Hungarian, 3 times as Austrian and Swedish, 2 times as Israeli and Danish, and 1 time as Yugoslav, Swiss , Italian, Icelandic, Finnish, Palestinian, Kazakh, Russian, Chilean and Polish proposal and once as a submission by the Ivory Coast).
Seven of these films (yellow) won an Oscar in this category.
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regulations 92nd Academy Award in the "Best International Feature Film" category. German Films, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
- ^ New York Times, January 14, 1991 [1]
- ↑ New York Times, January 28, 1992 [2]
- ↑ Embarrassment with consequences , Spiegel, January 27, 1992.
- ↑ Ebert, Roger (1993): A 'Silence' sweep? , March 15, 1992
- ↑ "The White Ribbon" is a German Oscar candidate. at Spiegel Online from August 26, 2009
- ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: "The White Ribbon" is a German Oscar candidate. at Welt.de on August 26, 2009
- ↑ Martin Schweighofer (head of the AFC), quoted from: Dominik Kalmazadeh: Haneke reaches for gold for Germany. derStandard.at of August 27, 2009 (accessed on August 30, 2009)