List of Russian Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film - Submissions

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. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Russia, and the Soviet Union for review by the Academy since 1968. All Soviet and Russian submissions were filmed mostly in Russian except for 1987's Georgian language Repentance.

Among the submissions were two films that sat on the shelf for several years awaiting approval from Soviet censors (1987–1988), a Japanese co-production (1975), a documentary (1981), a horror movie about vampires (2004), a Russian film dubbed into German (1999) and a slew of historical dramas.

Russia

Soviet Union

During Soviet times, all the constituent republics were joined as one nation, and it was routine for productions to have cast and crew from throughout the country. However, each republic had its own film studios, and the "Republic of Production" indicates the republic of the film studio that produced the film.