List Of Danish Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Since the inaugural award in 1956 Denmark has submitted more than forty films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, eight of which succeeded in getting nominated for the Academy Award: Qivitoq (1958), Paw (1959), Harry and the Butler (1960), Babette's Feast (1987), Pelle the Conqueror (1988), Memories of a Marriage (1989), After the Wedding (2006) and In a Better World (2010). Three Danish movies have won the Oscar: Babette's Feast (1987), Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and In a Better World (2010).
The official Danish submission is selected annually in late summer by the Danish Film Institute
In 1957, Denmark became the first country to send a film with a female director to the Foreign Oscar competition (Annelise Hovmand's Be Dear to Me). Two years later, Astrid Henning-Jensen's Paw became to the first film directed by a woman to receive a nomination in the category.
Between 1998 and 2002, four out of five Danish submissions were made according to the austere Dogme 95 principles. None were nominated and none have been submitted since.
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