Foreign Language Film submissions for 2011 Oscars [updated]

Friday, October 1 at 5pm PT was the deadline to submit entries to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for consideration at the 2011 Academy Awards in the categories of Live Action Short Film, Animated Short Film and Foreign Language Film. For the Foreign Film category, the process is quite convoluted. Each country's Oscar selection committee submits its single choice to the Academy. Eventually this will get whittled down to a short list of 9 contenders on January 20, 2011 before the Academy announces the final 5 nominees with the nominees of every category on January 25. The 83rd Academy Awards take place on February 27, 2011.

This year, there were submissions from 65 countries, the same number as last year. Countries included for the first time were Ethiopia and Greenland, with its first ever film Nuummioq (in spite of the fact that TIFF co-director Cameron Bailey had tweeted that they weren't allowed to submit because Greenland didn't have an official Oscar committee). Some such as Vietnam did not submit this year. Canada's choice of Denis Villeneuve's Incendies is considered a strong choice, and was my favourite film that I saw from this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Other strong contenders include Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's Biutiful from Mexico, Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods and Men from France (winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes), and Thailand's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (winner of the Palme d’Or).

Controversially, Italy selected the comedic La prima cosa bella (The First Beautiful Thing) instead of the critical darling Io sono l'amore (I Am Love) which stars Tilda Swinton speaking fluent Italian and Russian. Curiously, Finland's choice is a documentary, the fine Steam of Life.

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Complete list of Foreign Language Film submission for the 83rd Academy Awards

Albania
East, West, East, directed by Gjergj Xhuvani

Algeria
Outside the Law, directed by Rachid Bouchareb 

Argentina 
Carancho, Pablo Trapero

Austria 
La Pivellina, directed by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel

Azerbaijan 
Precinct, directed by Ilgar Safat

Bangladesh 
Third Person Singular Number, directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki

Belgium
Illegal, directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse

Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Cirkus Columbia, directed by Danis Tanovic

Brazil 
Lula, o filho do Brasil, directed by Fábio Barreto

Bulgaria 
Eastern Plays, directed by Kamen Kalev

Canada 
Incendies, directed by Denis Villeneuve 

Chile 
The Life of Fish, directed by Matías Bize

China 
Aftershock, directed by Feng Xiaogang 

Colombia 
Crab Trap, directed by Oscar Ruíz Navia

Costa Rica 
Of Love and Other Demons, directed by Hilda Hidalgo

Croatia 
The Blacks, directed by Goran Devic and Zvonimir Juric

Czech Republic 
Kawasaki’s Rose, directed by Jan Hrebejk

Denmark 
In a Better World, directed by Susanne Bier

Egypt 
Messages From The Sea, directed by Daoud Abdel Sayed

Estonia 
The Temptation of St. Tony, directed by Veiko Öunpuu

Ethiopia
The Athlete, directed by Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew

Finland 
Steam of Life, directed by Joonas Berghail & Mika Hotakainen

France 
Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois

Georgia
Street Days, directed by Levan Koguashvili

Germany 
When We Leave, directed by Feo Aladag

Greece 
Dogtooth, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Greenland
Nuummioq, directed by Otto Rosing and Torben Bech

Hong Kong 
Echoes of the Rainbow, directed by Alex Law

Hungary 
Bibliteque Pascal, directed by Szabolcs Hajdu

Iceland 
Mamma Gógó, directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

India 
Peepli Live, directed by Anusha Rizvi

Indonesia 
How Funny (This Country Is), directed by Deddy Mizwar

Iran 
Farewell Baghdad, directed by Mehdi Naderi

Iraq 
Son of Babylon, directed by Mohamed Al-Daradji

Israel 
The Human Resources Manager, directed by Eran Riklis

Italy 
The First Beautiful Thing, directed by Paolo Virzì

Japan 
Confessions, directed by Tetsuya Nakashima

Kazakhstan 
Strayed, directed by Akan Satayev

Kyrgyzstan
The Light Thief, directed by Aktan Arym Kubat

Latvia 
Hong Kong Confidential, directed by Maris Martinsons

Macedonia 
Mothers, directed by Milcho Manchevski

Mexico 
Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Netherlands 
Tirza, directed by Rudolph van den Berg

Nicaragua 
Le Yuma, directed by Florence Jaugey

Norway 
Angel, directed by Margreth Olin

Peru 
Undertow, directed by Javier Fuentes-León

Philippines 
Noy, directed by Dondon Santos

Poland 
All That I Love, directed by Jacek Borcuch

Portugal 
To Die Like A Man, directed by João Pedro Rodrigues

Puerto Rico 
Miente, directed by Rafi Mercado

Romania 
If I Want to Whistle…I Whistle, directed by Florin Serban

Russia 
The Edge, directed by Aleksei Uchitel

Serbia 
Besa, directed by Srdjan Karanovic

Slovakia 
The Border, directed by Jaroslav Vojtek

Slovenia
9:06, directed by Igor Sterk

South Africa 
Life, Above All, directed by Oliver Schmitz 

South Korea 
A Barefoot Dream, directed by Tae-gyun Kim

Spain 
Even The Rain, directed by Iciar Bollain

Sweden 
Simple Simon, directed by Andreas Ohman

Switzerland
La petite chambre, directed by Stéphanie Chaut & Véronique Reymond

Taiwan
Monga, directed by Doze Niu

Thailand
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, directed by Apichatpong Weerathesakul

Turkey
Honey, directed by Semih Kaplanoglu

Uruguay
La Vida Util, directed by Federico Veiroj

Venezuela
Hermano, directed by Marcel Rasquin