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List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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Mexico has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] since 1957. 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.[3] The award was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since.[4]

Alfonso Cuarón directed Roma (2018), Mexico's first film to win the award.

Mexico has submitted fifty-four films for Oscar consideration over the years, and nine Mexican films have been nominated by the Academy for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Arturo Ripstein has represented Mexico five times—more than any other Mexican director—although he has never received an Oscar nomination. Roma became the first Mexican film to win.[5]

The Mexican nominee is selected annually by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. The selection committee holds separate votes to decide which film goes to the Oscars and, in a separate vote, which film goes to the Spanish Goya Awards.

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

All Mexican submissions were exclusively in Spanish with two exceptions: their 2007 submission, Silent Light, which was exclusively in the Plautdietsch dialect of Low German; as well as their 2018 submission, Roma, which is partially in Spanish as well as partially in Mixtec.

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Shortlisted Films

Every year since 2007, Mexico has announced a list of finalists that varied in number over the years (from 5 to 20 films) before announcing its official Oscar nominee. The following films have been shortlisted by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences:

2007 Bad Habits · Eréndira Ikikunari · Never on Sunday · Under the Same Moon[32]
2008 Burn the Bridges · Cochochi · Cumbia Connection · Déficit · Familia tortuga · Lake Tahoe · Nonna's Trip · Two Embraces · Used Parts · The Zone[33]
2009 The Bastards · The Desert Within · I'm Gonna Explode · The Inheritors · Nora's Will · Rudo y Cursi · Under the Salt[34]
2010 Abel · Alamar · The Attempt Dossier · Chicogrande · Daniel & Ana · The Good Herbs · Meet the Head of Juan Pérez · Northless · Vaho[35][36]
2011 180° · El baile de San Juan · Bitten Bullet · Days of Grace · Flores en el desierto · Middle of the World · One Long Wall for Cecilia · Round Trip · Siete instantes · We Are What We Are[37]
2012 Between Us · Colosio: El asesinato · The Fantastic World of Juan Orol · Pastorela · Post Tenebras Lux · The Tiniest Place[38]
2013 The Amazing Catfish · Apasionado Pancho Villa · La cebra · Cinco de mayo: La batalla · The Dream of Lu · The Golden Dream · Instructions Not Included · Miradas múltiples · Las paredes hablan · The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas · The Prize · Tlatelolco, verano del 68 · Tooth for a Tooth · She Doesn't Want to Sleep Alone[39]
2014 Disrupted · Eufrosina's Revolution · González: falsos profetas · Güeros · Guten Tag, Ramón · H2Omx · The Incident · Inercia · The Last Call · Mi amiga Bety · My Universe in Lower Case · Orphans · Paradise · The Perfect Dictatorship · Perfect Obedience · Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border · ¿Qué sueñan las cabras? · The Tears · Volando bajo · Workers[40]
2015 Echo of the Mountain · Eddie Reynolds y los ángeles de acero · Elvira I Will Give You My Life But I'm Using It · Four Moons · Gloria · Happy Times · Lonely Stars · One for the Road · Perpetual Sadness · A Separate Wind · The Thin Yellow Line · Time Suspended · Una última y nos vamos[41]
2016 The 4th Company · 7:19 · The Alien · Being or Not Being · Carmin Tropical · The Chosen Ones · The Dead · Epitaph · El Jeremías · Made in Bangkok · El más buscado · A Monster with a Thousand Heads · Panamerican Machinery · We Are Mari Pepa · You're Killing Me Susana[42]
2017 All of Me · April's Daughter · Beauties of the Night · Bleak Street · The Dance of the Memory · I Dream in Another Language · The Man Who Saw Too Much · Nocturno · Plaza de la soledad · The Pleasure Is Mine · Purasangre · The Untamed · Warehoused · We Are the Flesh[43]
2018 The Angel in the Clock · El Buquinista · El club de los insomnes · The Darkness · Devil's Freedom · The Eternal Feminine · Everything Else · The Gaze of the Sea · Museum · The Night Guard · Tigers Are Not Afraid · Time Share[44]
2019 Belzebuth · Chicuarotes · Eight Out of Ten · Esmeralda's Twilight · The Good Girls · The Mongolian Conspiracy · Olimpia · Ready to Mingle · This Is Tomas[45]
2020 Guie'dani's Navel · I Carry You with Me · New Order · This Is Not Berlin · Workforce[46]
2021 A Cop Movie · Devil Between the Legs · Identifying Features · Los lobos · Tragic Jungle[28]
2022 The Box · The Hole in the Fence · Nudo Mixteco · Presencias[47][48]
2023 The Great Seduction · Huesera: The Bone Woman · Noise · ¡Que viva México! · Where the Tracks End[49]

See also

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    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]

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