List of Iranian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Asghar Farhadi, director of A Separation (2011), the first Iranian film to receive the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Iran has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film regularly since 1994. Prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Imperial Iran sent a single film in 1977.

Iran has submitted a total of twenty-four films for Oscar consideration and three films, Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven and Asghar Farhadi's A Separation and The Salesman, have received an Oscar nomination. Of the three films, A Separation and The Salesman won the award. Five of the submitted films were directed by Majidi and four of them were made by Farhadi. Bahman Ghobadi and Reza Mirkarimi were each chosen to represent Iran at the Oscars on two occasions.

On 24 September 2012, the film A Cube of Sugar was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.[1] However, on the same day the head of Iran's government controlled cinema agency called for a boycott of the Oscars due to the Innocence of Muslims video on YouTube that originated in the United States.[2] Reuters reported that Iran's Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini had confirmed that Iran would boycott.[3]

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.[4]

The Iranian nominee is selected each fall by a committee appointed by the Farabi Cinematic Foundation.[5] Despite poor relations with the United States, Iran has participated in the US-based competition since 1994, missing only one year. They attempted to withdraw their 1995 submission The White Balloon after sending it to Hollywood, but AMPAS refused to accept the withdrawal.[6]

All selected films were primarily in Persian, except for Ghobadi's two Kurdish language films and Farhadi's The Past which was in French.

Also in six occasions, films made by Iranian directors represented other countries: I Love Vienna/Austria, Persepolis/ France, For a Moment, Freedom/Austria, Baba Joon/Israel, Under the Shadow/UK and Border/Sweden.

Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Iran for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

Year
(Ceremony)		 Film title used in nomination Persian title Director Result
1977
(50th)		 The Cycle دايره مينا Dariush Mehrjui Not Nominated
1994
(67th)		 Through the Olive Trees زیر درختان زیتون Abbas Kiarostami Not Nominated
1995
(68th)		 The White Balloon بادکنک سفید Jafar Panahi Not Nominated
1997
(70th)		 Gabbeh گبه Mohsen Makhmalbaf Not Nominated
1998
(71st)		 Children of Heaven بچه های آسمان Majid Majidi Nominated
1999
(72nd)		 The Color of Paradise رنگ خدا Majid Majidi Not Nominated
2000
(73rd)		 A Time for Drunken Horses زمانی برای مستی اسب‌ها Bahman Ghobadi Not Nominated
2001
(74th)		 Baran باران Majid Majidi Not Nominated
2002
(75th)		 I'm Taraneh, 15 من ترانه 15 سال دارم Rasul Sadrameli Not Nominated
2003
(76th)		 Deep Breath نفس عمیق Parviz Shahbazi Not Nominated
2004
(77th)		 Turtles Can Fly لاک‌پشت‌ها هم پرواز می‌کنند Bahman Ghobadi Not Nominated
2005
(78th)		 So Close, So Far خیلی دور خیلی نزدیک Reza Mirkarimi Not Nominated
2006
(79th)		 Café Transit کافه ترانزیت Kambuzia Partovi Not Nominated
2007
(80th)		 M for Mother میم مثل مادر Rasul Mollagholipour Not Nominated
2008
(81st)		 The Song of Sparrows آواز گنجشکها Majid Majidi Not Nominated
2009
(82nd)		 About Elly... ...درباره الی Asghar Farhadi Not Nominated
2010
(83rd)		 Farewell Baghdad[7] بدرود بغداد Mehdi Naderi Not Nominated[8]
2011
(84th)		 A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین Asghar Farhadi Won Academy Award[9]
2013
(86th)		 The Past[10] گذشته Asghar Farhadi Not Nominated
2014
(87th)		 Today[11] امروز Reza Mirkarimi Not Nominated
2015
(88th)		 Muhammad: The Messenger of God[12] محمد رسول‌الله Majid Majidi Not Nominated
2016
(89th)		 The Salesman[13] فروشنده Asghar Farhadi Won Academy Award[14][15]
2017
(90th)		 Breath[16] نفس Narges Abyar Not Nominated
2018
(91st)		 No Date, No Signature[17] بدون تاریخ، بدون امض Vahid Jalilvand
TBD

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Iran Selects Nominee for 2013 Oscars". presstv.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Iran to write to Academy over anti-Islam film". Tehran Times. 21 September 2012. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
  3. ↑ "Iran Oscars Boycott". Reuters. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "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 2013-08-26.
  5. ↑ http://www.payvand.com/news/08/sep/1299.html
  6. ↑ "Iran Requests Academy Not to Consider Its Film Entry". Highbeam. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "Iran announces Oscar nominee". PressTV. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
  8. ↑ "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  9. ↑ "Iran's "A Separation" wins best foreign language Oscar". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "Iran selects 'The Past' for 2014 Academy Award submission". PressTV. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  11. ↑ "Oscars: Iran Selects 'Today' for Foreign-Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  12. ↑ Vivarelli, Nick (28 September 2015). "Iran Picks Rise of Islam Epic 'Muhammad: The Messenger of God' for Foreign-Language Oscar". Variety. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  13. ↑ "Oscars: Iran Selects Asghar Farhadi's 'The Salesman' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. 17 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  14. ↑ "Oscars 2017: The full nominations". BBC News. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  15. ↑ Bhushan, Nyay (27 February 2017). "The Salesman wins best foreign language Oscar". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  16. ↑ "Iran Selects 'Breath' as Official Submission to Academy Awards". IFP News. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  17. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (15 September 2018). "Oscars: Iran Selects 'No Date, No Signature' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
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