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Singapore has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on a fairly regular basis since 2005. Singapore also submitted a single film while a British colony in 1959. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 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. As of 2015, a total of nine films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but none has yet received an Oscar nomination. ==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 Singapore for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony. Three of the submissions - ''Be With Me'', ''My Magic'', and ''Tatsumi'' were directed by Eric Khoo. Both films were among the first Singaporean films featured at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. ''Be With Me'' features four interconnected stories, with virtually no spoken dialogue. The majority of the story is told in English subtitles reflecting the thoughts of the deaf and blind lead actress, Theresa Chan. It was accepted by AMPAS as the official entry from Singapore but subsequently disqualified for being more than 50% in English and not in a Foreign Language. ''My Magic'' tells the story of the relationship between an alcoholic Indo-Singaporean magician and his young son. Two other submissions were large-scale musicals. In 1959, Colonial Singapore sent musical-drama ''The Kingdom and the Beauty'', set in Imperial China. Directed by a Hong Kong based-Mainland Chinese director and produced by the famed Hong Kong Shaw Brothers film studio, there was minimal Singaporean input in the film-making. Nearly fifty years later, independent Singapore sent ''881'', a candy-colored musical-comedy-drama about a pair of Singaporean sisters who aspire to become champions at traditional Singaporean getai. This "uniquely Singaporean" film became the highest grossing Singaporean film of 2007 〔Source: Singapore Film Commission〕 and was released commercially in Japan but it won few awards overseas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Singaporean submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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