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The Kingdom of Thailand has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1984,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thailand's 18 Oscar picks: It's all about culture )〕 when it became the second independent nation in Southeast Asia to join the competition, after the Philippines. The award is given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the Academy Awards )〕 Over the years, Thailand has submitted eighteen films to AMPAS for Oscar consideration but thus far no Thai candidate has received an Oscar nomination. Four submissions were directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol, a member of the Thai nobility, and four were directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. ==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. Thai Oscar submissions are selected annually by the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand. All submissions were made in Thai. The selection committee of the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand generally has chosen movies that highlight key moments in Thai history or important social issues. * Thailand's five earliest submissions all dealt with contemporary social problems included ''Nam Poo'' (drug abuse), ''The Elephant Keeper'' (environmentalism and illegal logging), ''Song of the Chaophraya'' (prostitution and rural migration to Bangkok), ''Once Upon A Time'' (child poverty) and ''Daughter 2'' (AIDS). * Four Thai submissions were fact-based period dramas - ''King Naresuan Part 2'' was a lavish costume drama set in the sixteenth century about one of Thailand's most distinguished kings; ''The Overture'' tells the life story of one of Thailand's greatest classical musicians from the 1880s until the 1940s; ''The Tin Mine'' is about a spoiled rich kid who ends up working in the titular mine in Southern Thailand in the years following World War II; ''The Moonhunter'' followed a band of controversial, leftist rebels in the 1970s. * Three Thai submissions were fast-paced thrillers, two of which incorporated strong elements of Buddhism and karma into their plots, namely ''Who is Running?'' and ''Ahimsa...Stop to Run''. Also submitted was ''6ixtynin9'', about a recently laid-off woman who finds a huge cache of stolen money. * Two submissions were romantic comedy-dramas that were box office hits domestically. ''Love of Siam'' featured a gay teen romance, and ''Best of Times'' featured two potential couples, one in their 20s and one in their 60s. * Also submitted were a bittersweet genre-bending musical-comedy-drama-romance (''Monrak Transistor'' in 2002) and a surreal, arty drama in Japanese, English and Thai (''Last Life in the Universe'' in 2003). 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 Thai 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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