List of Georgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Georgia has submitted twenty films for Oscar consideration in the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] category since gaining its independence from the USSR in 1991. Georgia received an Oscar nomination for its first-ever submission, A Chef in Love.
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 secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award.[3] This is the list of Georgian submissions for consideration to the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Best Foreign Film category.
Year[e] (Ceremony) | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director | Result |
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1996 (69th) | A Chef in Love | შეყვარებული მზარეულის 1001 რეცეპტი | French, Georgian | Nana Jorjadze | Nominated |
1999 (72nd) | Here Comes the Dawn | აქ თენდება | Georgian | Zaza Urushadze | Not nominated |
2000 (73rd) | 27 Missing Kisses | 27 დაკარგული კოცნა | Georgian, Russian | Nana Jorjadze | Not nominated |
2001 (74th) | Migration of the Angel | ანგელოზის გადაფრენა | Georgian | Nodar Managadze | Not nominated |
2005 (78th) | Tbilisi-Tbilisi | თბილისი-თბილისი | Levan Zaqareishvili | Not nominated | |
2007 (80th) | Russian Triangle | რუსული სამკუთხედი | Russian | Aleko Tsabadze | Not nominated |
2008 (81st) | Mediator | მედიატორი | English, German, Russian | Dito Tsintsadze | Not nominated |
2009 (82nd) | The Other Bank[4] | გაღმა ნაპირი | Georgian, Abkhaz, Russian | George Ovashvili | Not nominated |
2010 (83rd) | Street Days[5] | ქუჩის დღეები | Georgian | Levan Koguashvili | Not nominated[6] |
2011 (84th) | Chantrapas[7] | შანტრაპა | French, Georgian | Otar Iosseliani | Not nominated |
2012 (85th) | Keep Smiling[8] | გაიღიმეთ | Georgian | Rusudan Chkonia | Not nominated |
2013 (86th) | In Bloom[9] | გრძელი ნათელი დღეები | Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß | Not nominated | |
2014 (87th) | Corn Island[10] | სიმინდის კუნძული | Giorgi Ovashvili | Made shortlist[11] | |
2015 (88th) | Moira[12] | მოირა | Levan Tutberidze | Not nominated | |
2016 (89th) | House of Others[13] | სხვისი სახლი | Rusudan Glurjidze | Not nominated | |
2017 (90th) | Scary Mother[14] | საშიში დედა | Ana Urushadze | Not nominated | |
2018 (91st) | Namme[15] | ნამე | Zaza Khalvashi | Not nominated | |
2019 (92nd) | Shindisi[16] | შინდისი | Dito Tsintsadze | Not nominated | |
2020 (93rd) | Beginning[17] | დასაწყისი | Déa Kulumbegashvili | Not nominated | |
2021 (94th) | Brighton 4th[18] | მეოთხე ბრაიტონი | Levan Koguashvili | Not nominated | |
2022 (95th) | A Long Break[19] | დიდი შესვენება | Davit Pirtskhalava | Not nominated | |
2023 (96th) | Citizen Saint[20] | მოქალაქე წმინდანი | Tinatin Kajrishvili | Not nominated |
A Georgian film, Repentance, was nominated by the Soviet Union in 1987. Since achieving independence from the Soviet Union, Georgia has submitted a total of thirteen films since their debut in 1996.
Bittersweet comedies directed by Nana Dzhordzhadze, a Georgian director now based in France, have been submitted twice. A Chef in Love starred French actor Pierre Richard as a renowned French chef who falls in love with a Georgian princess while travelling through the Caucasus in the turbulent 1920s. The film succeeded in getting Georgia's first-ever Oscar nomination. 27 Missing Kisses was a comedy-drama set in a small Georgian village focusing on the love triangle that develops between a pretty teenage girl, the older man with whom she falls in love, and the man's teenage son who loves the girl. Both films were co-productions with France and Pierre Richard also had a supporting role in Kisses. Kisses was considered a dark horse contender for an Oscar nomination, but did not make the final five.
Neither Here Comes the Dawn, a psychological thriller about a politician who flees his wartorn country with his desperately ill child, nor Migration of the Angel, an abstract and allegorical film featuring a number of characters waiting in an underground shopping mail for trains that never seem to come, made a dent on the international film festival circuit. From the same arthouse genre of filmmaking came Tbilisi, Tbilisi, a dark drama about an impoverished, alcoholic filmmaker in the Georgian capital, which was featured at a number of international festivals including Cannes and Stockholm.
In 2007, Georgia selected Russian Triangle, a thriller set in a large unnamed Russian city in which a mixed Russian-Georgian investigator deals with a blind serial killer, Chechen refugees and widespread organized crime. The film won the award for Best CIS/Baltic Film at the 2008 Nika Awards. For the first time, Georgia chose a film which was almost completely in Russian dialogue. In 2008, mystery-thriller Mediator starring an international cast from the UK, Germany, Russia as well as Georgia was selected. It too, was not a Georgian language film.
In 2009, The Other Bank, a film about an ethnic Georgian family separated by the war in Abkhazia, from the young son's point of view, represented Georgia in the foreign film race.
In addition to the films listed above, Georgian director Tengiz Abuladze's Georgian-language drama Repentance was selected to represent the Soviet Union in 1987 to compete for the 1988 Oscar. Although the film received a Golden Globe nomination, it did not make the final five at the Oscars.
A Chef in Love and 27 Missing Kisses were released in English-subtitled versions in some territories.
Notes
- a1 : Each year is linked to an article about that particular year in film history.
- ^ 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]
See also
References
- ^ "Academy announces rules for 92nd Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "Academy Announces Rule Changes For 92nd Oscars". Forbes. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ "ქართული ფილმი 'ოსკარის' მოსაპოვებლად იბრძოლებს" (in Georgian). Rustavi 2. 25 September 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2009.
- ^ "Georgia sends 'Street Days' to the Oscars". Variety. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- ^ "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- ^ Holdsworth, Nick (25 September 2012). "Georgia 'Smiling' for Oscar". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
- ^ "Oscars: Georgia Nominates 'In Bloom' for Foreign Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. 4 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ^ "Oscars: Georgia Nominates 'Corn Island' in Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
- ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Advance in Oscar Race". AMPAS. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ^ Holdsworth, Nick (12 September 2015). "Oscars: Georgia Nominates 'Moira' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ Holdsworth, Nick (9 August 2016). "Oscars: Georgia Selects 'House of Others' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
- ^ Holdsworth, Nick (30 August 2017). "Oscars: Georgia Selects 'Scary Mother' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ "Georgia announces its bid for 2019 Oscars". Vestnik Kavkaza. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ "Georgia's contender film for Oscars will be Shindisi". 1TV. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "Georgia selects Dea Kulumbegashvili's 'Beginning' for Oscar nomination". Trend News Agency. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
- ^ "ოსკარზე საქართველოს სახელით იბრძოლებს ლევან კოღუაშვილის ფილმი "მეოთხე ბრაიტონი"". Radiotavisupleba. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Georgia Selects "A Long Break" as Oscar Candidate". Caucasus Business Week. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ "FNE Oscar Watch 2024: Georgia Selects Citizen Saint as Oscar Candidate". Film New Europe. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
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