List Of Belgian Submissions For Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
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has submitted films for the
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since 1967. The award is handed out annually by the
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to a
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motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-
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dialogue. The "Best Foreign Language Film" category 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. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented a non-competitive Honorary Award for the best foreign language films released in the United States. , seven Belgian films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Of these films, two have been directed by
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: ''
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'' and ''
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''. The five other Belgian directors to have films accepted as nominees are
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, Stijn Coninx,
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,
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and Felix Van Groeningen. Boigelot's ''
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'' was accepted as a nominee at the 43rd Academy Awards, Stijn Coninx's
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was a nominee in 1993, Deruddere's ''
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'' was a nominee at the
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, Roskam's '' Bullhead'' for the 84th and Van Groeningen's ''
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'' for the 86th.


Submissions

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. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via
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to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Belgium for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.


See also

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