The last two years saw the Foreign Language Film Globe winner not nominated for the Oscar
80 films from 49 countries have qualified to be nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the Foreign Language Film category at the 76th Golden Globe Awards.
The Golden Globes do things differently than the Oscars; primarily, they allow more than one film per country to be nominated. Multiple submissions from any country are allowed as long as the films follow the qualification requirements and are screened for the membership as verified by the Foreign Film Committee. This year, Italy has three eligible films (including Dogman, its Oscar submission), Norway has four (including its Oscar submission What Will People Say) and Russia has its hand in no less than six entries (including its Oscar submission Sobibor). India also has six, including its Oscar submission Village Rockstars.
This year, as every year, brings us a handful of films that are not the official Oscar submission for individual countries like Everybody Knows from Spain, Happy as Lazzaro from Italy and Shadow from China. In fact, China has five eligible films yet, amazingly, none of them are its official Oscar submission (Hidden Man).
Although the Golden Globes and the Oscars often see eye to eye, the last two years has seen the winner at the Globes snubbed even for a nomination at the Oscars. Most recently, Germany’s In the Fade was its official Oscar submission, made the shortlist but didn’t make the final five. The Globes nominated it and gave it the win. In 2017, Elle was France’s submission for the Oscar but even was missing from the shortlist. The Globes nominated the film (Globe nominations came out before the Oscar shortlist) and, possibly in a response to the Oscar snub, gave the film – along with actress Isabelle Huppert – a surprise win.
To qualify a film must be a motion picture drama, musical or comedy with at least 51% of the dialogue spoken in a non-English language. Documentaries are not eligible. Animated films – including foreign language ones – are considered in the Animation category. This is wildly different than the rules of decades ago when productions from the UK qualified here a ‘ Foreign Film,’ and we had winners like A Passage to India, Gandhi and Chariots of Fire. The HFPA officially changed the category title from Foreign Film to Foreign Language Film in 1986.
Also, a foreign language film must have been released in their country of origin during the prior 15-month period, from October 1st to December 31st before the awards. Each film must have been screened for active HFPA members.
Golden Globe nominations will be revealed on December 6, 2018 and the winners will be announced in the ceremony on January 6, 2019.
Here are the 80 films in contention for a nomination for Foreign Language Film at the 76th Golden Globe Awards. Titles in bold are official Oscar entries.
Title | Country | Director |
---|---|---|
The 12th Man | Norway | Harald Zwart |
El Angel | Argentina | Ariel Vromen |
Beauty and the Dogs | Tunisia | Kaouther Ben Hania |
Becoming Astrid | Sweden/ Denmark | Pernille Fischer Christensen |
Bliind Spot | Norway | Tuva Novotny |
Birds of Passage | Colombia | Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra |
Border | Sweden | Ali Abbasi |
Burning | South Korea | Lee-Chang Dong |
Butterflies | Turkey | Tolga Karaçelik |
The Cakemaker | Israel | Ofir Raul Graizer |
The Cake General | Sweden | Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson |
Capharnaüm | Lebanon | Nadine Labaki |
The Captain | Germany | Robert Schwentke |
Champions | Spain | Javier Fesser |
Cold War | Poland/ France/UK | Pawel Pawlikowski |
Cowboy’s Heart | Brazil | Gui Pereira |
Crystal Swan | Belarus | Darya Zhuk |
Dogman | Italy | Matteo Garrone |
Dovlatov | Russia | Aleksey German |
Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story | South Africa | Daryne Joshua |
Erik & Erika | Austria | Reinhold Bilgeri |
Euthanizer | Finland | Teemu Nikki |
Everybody Knows | Spain | Asghar Farhadi |
The Fall of the American Empire | Canada | Denys Arcand |
Family First | Canada | Sophie Dupuis |
Happy as Lazzaro | Italy | Alice Rohrwacher |
Girl | Belgium | Lukas Dhont |
The Goalkeeper | Bolivia | Rodrigo Patino |
The Great Buddah + | Taiwan | Hsin-yao Huang |
The Great Mystical Circus | Brazil | Carlos Diegues |
The Guardians | France | Xavier Beauvois |
The Guilty | Denmark | Gustav Möller |
Hamlet | Georgia | Giorgi Megrelishvili |
Heaven Without People | Lebanon | Lucien Bourjeily |
The Heiresses | Paraguay | Marcelo Martinessi |
I Am Not a Witch | UK | Rungano Nyoni |
“I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History As Barbarians” | Romania | Radu Jude |
In Harm’s Way | China | Bille August |
The Journey | Iraq | Mohamed Al Daradji |
Laugh or Die | Finland | Heikki Kujanpää |
Legend of the Demon Cat | China | Kaige Chen |
The Lord Eagle | Russia | Eduard Novikov |
Love Sonia | India | Tabrez Noorani |
The Man Who Surprised Everyone | Russia | Aleksey Chupov, Natalya Merkulova |
Memoir of War | France | Emmanuel Finkiel |
Million Loves in Me | Malaysia | Sampson Yuen |
Museo | Mexico | Alonso Ruizpalacios |
Never Look Away | Germany | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
Night Accident | Kyrgyzstan | Temirbek Birnazarov |
October | India | Shoojit Sircar |
Omnipresent | Bulgaria | Ilian Djevelekov |
On My Skin | Italy | Alessio Cremonini |
Operation Red Sea | Hong Kong/China | Lin Chaoxian |
Padmaavat | India | Sanjay Lella Bhansali |
The Resistance Banker | Netherlands | Joram Lürsen |
The Road Not Taken | China | Gaopeng Tang |
ROMA | Mexico | Alfonso Cuarón |
The River | Kazakhstan | Emir Baigazin |
Shadow | China | Yimou Zhang |
Shoplifters | Japan | Hirokazu Koreeda |
Signal Rock | Philippines | Chito S. Roño |
Sobibor | Russia | Konstantin Khabenskiy |
A Son of Man | Ecuador | Jamaicanoproblem |
Spitak | Armenia/ Russia | Aleksandr Kott |
Sunset | Hungary | László Nemes |
Take It or Leave It | Estonia | Liina Trishkina |
Tevye’s Daughters | Ukraine | Vladimir Lert |
Tumbbad | India | Rahi Anil Barve |
A Twelve-Year Night | Uruguay | Álvaro Brechner |
Utøya – July 22 | Norway | Erik Poppe |
Unforgiven | Russia | Sarik Andreasyan |
Unknown Solder | Finland | Aku Louhimies |
Village Rockstars | India | Rima Das |
Void | Finland | Aleksi Salmenperä |
We Are The Heat | Columbia | Jorge Navas |
The Wild Pear Tree | Turkey | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
The Wedding Ring | Niger | Rahmatou Keïta |
What Will People Say | Norway | Iram Haq |
Woman at War | Iceland | Benedikt Erlingsson |
Yomeddine | Egypt | Abu Bakr Shawky |
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