List Of Kuwaiti Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Kuwait is one of a hundred countries that have submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Foreign Language Film 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. Kuwait has submitted two films to the Oscars, most recently in 1978. Both films were dramas directed by Khalid Al-Siddiq. Neither received an Oscar nomination.
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