Oscar Entries 2018

Submissions to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Balarus announced today that Crystal Swan (Хруста́ль) will be their submission to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The film premiered yesterday at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. This is their 3rd submission since the 90's.

Last year, a record number of 92 films were submitted to the Academy. Stay tuned for more submissions for this year as they get announced.

The deadline for submissions is early October 2018. The Academy is scheduled to announce a list of eligible submissions in late October from which nine finalists will be shortlisted in December 2018. The final five nominees will be announced on January 22, 2019. The winner will be announced on February 24, 2019 at the Oscar ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

UPDATE:

Today, October the 8th, the Academy of Motion Pictures announced the 87 submissions. 

Here is the complete list followed by my rating:

• Afghanistan - Rona Azim's Mother
• Algeria - Until the End of Time
• Argentina - El Angel ★★★★★
• Armenia - Spitak ★★
• Australia - Jirga ★★
• Austria - The Waldheim Waltz ★★★★
• Bangladesh - No Bed of Roses ★★
• Belarus - Crystal Swan ★★★
• Belgium - Girl ★★★★
• Bolivia - The Goalkeeper ★
• Bosnia & Herzegovina - Never Leave Me
• Brazil - The Great Mystical Circus ★★
• Bulgaria - Omnipresent ★
• Cambodia - Graves Without a Name
• Canada - Family Ties ★★★
• Chile - And Suddenly the Dawn
• China - Hidden Man ★★★
• Colombia - Birds of Passage ★★★★★
• Costa Rica - Medea
• Croatia - The Eighth Commissioner
• Czech Republic - Winter Flies ★★★
• Denmark - The Guilty ★★★
• Dominican Republic - Cocote ★★★
• Ecuador - A Son of Man
• Egypt - Yomeddine ★★★★
• Estonia - Take It or Leave It ★★★
• Finland - Euthanizer ★★★
• France - Memoir of War ★★★★
• Georgia - Namme ★★★
• Germany - Never Look Away ★★★★★
• Greece - Polyxeni ★★★
• Hong Kong - Operation Red Sea ★
• Hungary - Sunset ★★
• Iceland - Woman at War ★★★
• India - Village Rockstars ★★★
• Indonesia - Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts ★★★
• Iran - No Date, No Signature ★★★★
• Iraq - The Journey ★★
• Israel - The Cakemaker ★★★★
• Italy - Dogman ★★★★★
• Japan - Shoplifters ★★★★★
• Kazakhstan - Ayka ★★★
• Kenya - Supa Modo
• Kosovo - The Marriage ★★
• Latvia - To Be Continued ★★
• Lebanon - Capernaum ★★★★★
• Lithuania - Wonderful Losers: A Different World ★★
• Luxembourg - Gutland ★★★
• Macedonia - Secret Ingredient
• Malawi - The Road to Sunrise
• Mexico - Roma ★★★★★
• Montenegro - Iskra
• Morocco - Burnout
• Nepal - Panchayat ★
• Netherlands - The Resistance Banker ★★
• New Zealand - Yellow is Forbidden
• Niger - The Wedding Ring
• Norway - What Will People Say ★★★★
• Pakistan -  Cake ★★
• Palestine - Ghost Hunting ★
• Panama - Ruben Blades is Not My Name ★★★
• Paraguay - The Heiresses ★★★
• Peru - Eternity ★★★
• Philippines - Signal Rock ★★★
• Poland - Cold War ★★★★
• Portugal - Pilgrimage
• Romania - I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians ★★★
• Russia - Sobibor ★★
• Serbia - Offenders
• Singapore - Buffalo Boys
• Slovenia - Ivan ★★★
• Slovakia - The Interpreter ★★★
• South Africa - Sew the Winter to My Skin
• South Korea - Burning ★★★★★
• Spain - Champions ★★★
• Sweden - Border ★★★
• Switzerland - Eldorado ★★★
• Taiwan - The Great Buddha + ★★★★
• Thailand - Malila: The Farewell Flower ★★★★
• Tunisia - Beauty and the Dogs ★★★
• Turkey - The Wild Pear Tree ★★★★
• Ukraine - Donbass ★★★★
• Uruguay - A Twelve-Year Night ★★★
• United Kingdom - I Am Not a Witch ★★★★
• Venezuela - The Family ★★★
• Vietnam - The Tailor ★★
• Yemen - 10 Days Before the Wedding ★★