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

Tunisia has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on an irregular basis since 1995. 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.[1] As of 2018, five Tunisian films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and none of them have been nominated for an Oscar.

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

Year
(Ceremony)		Film title used in nominationOriginal titleLanguage(s)DirectorResult
1995
(68th)		 Le magique Le magique Arabic, French Azdine Melliti Not Nominated
2002
(75th)		 The Magic Box La Boîte magique French, Arabic Ridha Behi Not Nominated
2016
(89th)		 As I Open My Eyes[2] À peine j'ouvre les yeux Tunisian Arabic, French Leyla Bouzid Not on the final list[3]
2017
(90th)		 The Last of Us[4] The Last of Us No dialogue Ala Eddine Slim Not Nominated
2018
(91st)		 Beauty and the Dogs[5] Aala Kaf Ifrit Arabic Kaouther Ben Hania
TBD

Tunisia's first two Oscar submissions were dramas with exceptionally similar plots, both revolving around the influence of cinema on the life of impressionable young Tunisian boys. Le Magique is a semi-autobiographical story, based on the life of director Melliti, in which a young boy is left home alone to watch over the family residence when his impoverished family emigrates to France. The boy discovers the joy of movies at a local cinema and begins to try and re-enact them (sans camera) with his friends. In The Magic Box, a Tunisian director in France is writing a screenplay based on his life as a boy in Tunisia, seen through flashbacks, in which his strict, religious father tried to instill different values in him than his more liberal film-loving uncles. Both films were primarily in French, with some Arabic dialogue.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "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.
  2. ↑ "Officiel : 'A peine j'ouvre les yeux' de Leyla Bouzid représentera la Tunisie aux Oscars 2016". Tuniscope. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "85 Countries In Competition For 2016 Foreign Language Film Oscar". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Oscars : Le CNCI propose "The last of us", le film de Ala Edine Slim - Kapitalis". Kapitalis. 27 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  5. ↑ Kozlov, Vladimir (19 September 2018). "Oscars: Tunisia Selects 'Beauty and the Dogs' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
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