List of South African submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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South Africa has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] since 1989. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.[3] It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since.[4]
Two South African films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Darrell Roodt’s Yesterday and Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi.[5][6] Hood’s Tsotsi won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards, being the only South African film to do so.[6]
Submissions[edit]
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 since 1956.[4] The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award.[3] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by South Africa for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
| Year (Ceremony) |
Film title | Language(s) | Director | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 (62nd) |
Mapantsula [7][8] | Zulu, Afrikaans, Sesotho, English | Oliver Schmitz | Not nominated |
| 1997 (70th) |
Paljas | Afrikaans | Katinka Heyns | Not nominated |
| 2004 (77th) |
Yesterday | Zulu | Darrell Roodt | Nominated |
| 2005 (78th) |
Tsotsi | Sesotho, Tswana, Afrikaans, English | Gavin Hood | Won Academy Award |
| 2008 (81st) |
Jerusalema | Sesotho, English, Tsotsitaal | Ralph Ziman | Not nominated |
| 2009 (82nd) |
White Wedding | Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English | Jann Turner | Not nominated |
| 2010 (83rd) |
Life, Above All | Northern Sotho | Oliver Schmitz | Made shortlist[9] |
| 2011 (84th) |
Beauty[10] | Afrikaans | Oliver Hermanus | Not nominated |
| 2012 (85th) |
Little One[11] | Zulu | Darrell Roodt | Not nominated |
| 2013 (86th) |
Four Corners[12] | Afrikaans | Ian Gabriel | Not nominated |
| 2014 (87th) |
Elelwani[13] | Venda | Ntshavheni wa Luruli | Not nominated |
| 2015 (88th) |
The Two of Us[14] | Zulu | Ernest Nkosi | Not nominated |
| 2016 (89th) |
Call Me Thief[15] | Afrikaans | Daryne Joshua | Not nominated |
| 2017 (90th) |
The Wound[16] | Xhosa | John Trengove | Made shortlist[17] |
| 2018 (91st) |
Sew the Winter to My Skin[18] | Afrikaans, Xhosa, English | Jahmil X.T. Qubeka | Not nominated |
| 2019 (92nd) |
Knuckle City[19] | Xhosa | Jahmil X.T. Qubeka | Not nominated |
| 2020 (93rd) |
Toorbos[20] | Afrikaans | Rene van Rooyen | Not nominated |
| 2021 (94th) |
Barakat[21] | Afrikaans, English | Amy Jephta | Not nominated |
See also[edit]
- ^ The category was previously named the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in April 2019, after the Academy deemed the word “Foreign” to be outdated.[1][2]
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