List of Kuwaiti 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 Kuwait for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.

The Cruel Sea is the first feature film ever to be made in one of the GCC countries and Kuwait became the first and thus far only GCC nation to submit a movie to the Academy Awards, in 1972. The Cruel Sea played at the Venice Film Festival and concerns the story of a young man from a poor, pearl diving family who loves a young woman from a merchant family who is betrothed to an elderly man. Six years later, Kuwait submitted The Wedding of Zein, about a pious village idiot who becomes the object of affection of a beautiful local girl. Since 1978, Kuwait has not submitted any more films, making it one of only three participating countries (along with Côte d'Ivoire and Pakistan) that has not submitted films in the past thirty years.