List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Year ( Ceremony ) Film title used in nomination Original title Director Result
1956 ( 29th ) Afternoon of the Bulls Tarde de toros Ladislao Vajda Not Nominated
1957 ( 30th ) High Street Calle Mayor Juan Antonio Bardem Not Nominated
1958 ( 31st ) La Venganza La venganza Juan Antonio Bardem Nominated
1960 ( 33rd ) At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon A las cinco de la tarde Juan Antonio Bardem Not Nominated
1961 ( 34th ) Plácido Plácido Luis García Berlanga Nominated
1962 ( 35th ) Dulcinea Dulcinea Vicente Escrivá Not Nominated
1963 ( 36th ) Los Tarantos Los Tarantos Francisco Rovira Beleta Nominated
1964 ( 37th ) The Girl in Mourning La niña de luto Manuel Summers Not Nominated
1965 ( 38th ) La Tía Tula La tía Tula Miguel Picazo Not Nominated
1967 ( 40th ) El amor brujo El amor brujo Francisco Rovira Beleta Nominated
1968 ( 41st ) Spain Again España otra vez Jaime Camino Not Nominated
1969 ( 42nd ) La Celestina La Celestina César Fernández Ardavín Not Nominated
1970 ( 43rd ) Tristana Tristana Luis Buñuel Nominated
1971 ( 44th ) Marta Marta José Antonio Nieves Conde Not Nominated
1972 ( 45th ) My Dearest Senorita Mi querida señorita Jaime de Armiñán Nominated
1973 ( 46th ) Habla , mudita Habla , mudita Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Not Nominated
1974 ( 47th ) La prima Angélica La prima Angélica Carlos Saura Not Nominated
1975 ( 48th ) Poachers Furtivos José Luis Borau Not Nominated
1976 ( 49th ) Raise Ravens Cría cuervos Carlos Saura Not Nominated
1977 ( 50th ) That Obscure Object of Desire Cet obscur objet du désir ( in French ) Ese oscuro objeto del deseo ( in Spanish ) Luis Buñuel Nominated
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 . [ 7 ] 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 ] Before the award was created , the Board of Governors of the Academy voted on a film every year that was considered the best foreign language film released in the United States , and there were no submissions . [ 4 ] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Spain for review by the Academy for the award since its first entry in 1959 .
Spain has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the conception of the award. 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. The award was created for the 1956 Academy Awards, succeeding the non-competitive Honorary Academy Awards which were presented between 1947 and 1955 to the best foreign language films released in the United States. , nineteen Spanish films have been nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, four of which have won the award: Begin the Beguine in 1982, Belle Époque in 1993, All About My Mother in 1999 and The Sea Inside in 2004. Among all countries that have submitted films for the award, Spain ranks third in terms of films that have won the award, behind Italy (ten awards) and France (nine awards) and tied with Japan (four awards), and third in terms of nominees, behind France (thirty-four nominations) and Italy (twenty-seven nominations). Since the 1980s, the Spanish submission has been decided annually by the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (known in English as the Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences or AACCE). Beginning in 2001, the Academy has announced a three-film shortlist before announcing the winning Spanish film. Pedro Almodóvar has represented Spain in the competition seven times, and has achieved two Oscar nominations, including one win (with the result of his latest submission pending). José Luis Garci has represented Spain six times, achieving four nominations and one win. Carlos Saura has represented Spain five times. All submissions were primarily in Spanish language, with the notable exceptions of That Obscure Object of Desire (French and Spanish), Black Bread (Catalan), Flowers (Basque) and Summer 1993 (Catalan).