Uganda submitted a film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film[nb 1] for the first time in 2022. 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] It 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]

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 Uganda for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony. In 2019, initial reports stated that Uganda had selected Kony: Order from Above as their submission.[5][6] However, the Uganda Oscars Selection Committee said that the film did not meet the minimum qualification requirements for selection and was not submitted.[7] It would have been Uganda's first ever submission to the Oscars.[8]

Year
(Ceremony)		 Film title used in nomination Language(s) Director Result
2022
(95th) 		Tembele[9] Swahili Morris Mugisha Not nominated

See also

Notes

  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the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in April 2019, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Academy announces rules for 92nd Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Academy Announces Rule Changes For 92nd Oscars". Forbes. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Rule Thirteen: Special Rules for the Foreign Language Film Award" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  4. ^ a b "History of the Academy Awards - Page 2". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  5. ^ "Ugandan movie Kony-Orders from Above selected for Oscar Awards". Showbiz Uganda. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Kony Order from Above movie selected for Oscar Awards in a first for Uganda". Softpower. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  7. ^ "Ugandan Film Kony Order From Above rejected by Oscars Committee". Sqoop. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  8. ^ Kozlov, Vladimir. "Oscars: Uganda Selects 'Kony: Order from Above' for International Feature Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Ugandan film "Tembele" selected for the 95th Oscars". Retrieved 12 September 2019.

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