List of Egyptian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Submissions
Table:
Year
(Ceremony)
Film title used in nomination
Original title
Director
Result

1958
(31st)

Cairo Station
باب الحديد
Youssef Chahine

Not Nominated

1959
(32nd)

The Nightingale's Prayer
دعاء الكروان
Henry Barakat

Not Nominated

1960
(33rd)

Teenagers
المراهقات
Ahmed Diaeddin

Not Nominated

1961
(34th)

Love and Faith
وا إسلاماه
Enrico Bomba, Andrew Marton

Not Nominated

1962
(35th)

Chased by the Dogs
اللص والكلاب
Kamal El Sheikh

Not Nominated

1964
(37th)

Mother of the Bride
أم العروسة
Atef Salem

Not Nominated

1965
(38th)

The Impossible
المستحيل
Hussein Kamal

Not Nominated

1966
(39th)

Cairo 30
القاهرة 30
Salah Abu Seif

Not Nominated

1970
(43rd)

The Night of Counting the Years
المومياء
Shadi Abdel Salam

Not Nominated

1971
(44th)

A Woman and a Man
امرأة و رجل
Houssam Eddine Mostafa

Not Nominated

1972
(45th)

My Wife and the Dog
زوجتي و الكلب
Said Marzouk

Not Nominated

1973
(46th)

Empire M
إمبراطورية ميم
Hussein Kamal

Not Nominated

1974
(47th)

Enslaved by the Past

Not Nominated

1975
(48th)

I Want a Solution
أريد حلاً
Said Marzouk

Not Nominated

1976
(49th)

Whom Should We Shoot?
على من نطلق الرصاص
Kamal El Sheikh

Not Nominated

1979
(52nd)

Alexandria... Why?
إسكندرية... ليه؟
Youssef Chahine

Not Nominated

1981
(54th)

People on the Top
أهل القمة
Ali Badrakhan

Not Nominated

1990
(63rd)

Alexandria Again and Forever
اسكندرية كمان وكمان
Youssef Chahine

Not Nominated

1994
(67th)

Land of Dreams
أرض الاحلام
Daoud Abdel Sayed

Not Nominated

1997
(70th)

Destiny
المصير
Youssef Chahine

Not Nominated

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The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events , including the hit musicals South Pacific and Gigi .
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6 , 1959 , to honor the best films of 1958 . The show 's producer , Jerry Wald , started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time . He cut too much material and the ceremony ended 20 minutes early , leaving Jerry Lewis to attempt to fill in the time . Eventually , NBC cut to a re-run of a sports show . The film Gigi won nine Oscars , breaking the previous record of eight ( set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront ) . It would be short-lived , however , as Ben-Hur broke the record with eleven Oscars the following year . Gigi was the last film until The Last Emperor ( 1987 ) to win Best Picture without any acting nominations . It also had the biggest clean sweep at the time , winning all nine of its nominations , a record that would be tied by The Last Emperor . This record was broken in 2003 when The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King won all 11 of its nominations . The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors : Jerry Lewis , Mort Sahl , Tony Randall , Bob Hope , David Niven , and Laurence Olivier . Niven won Best Actor that night , making him the only host in Oscar history to have won an award during the same ceremony .
Cairo Station , also called The Iron Gate ( Arabic : باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd ) , is a 1958 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine . It was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Youssef Chahine ( Arabic : يوسف شاهين ; 25 January 1926 - 27 July 2008 ) was an Egyptian film director . He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death . A winner of the Cannes 50th Anniversary Award ( for lifetime achievement ) , Chahine was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif . A well regarded director with critics , he was often present at film festivals during the earlier decades of his work , Chahine gained his largest international audiences as one of the co-directors of 11'901 September 11 ( 2002 ) .
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events , with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards .
The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony , presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , was held on April 4 , 1960 , and took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre to honor the best films of 1959 . The epic drama Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars , breaking the record of nine set the year before by Gigi . Ben-Hur remained the most honored motion picture in Academy Award history until Titanic equaled the feat in 1997 , followed by The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King in 2003 . Ben-Hur was the third film to win both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor , a feat not repeated until Mystic River in 2004 . Director William Wyler became the third ( and most recent ) person to win more than two Best Director awards ( following Frank Capra and John Ford ) , as well as the only person to direct three Best Picture winners .
The Nightingale 's Prayer ( Arabic : دعاء الكروان , translit . Doaa al-Karawan listen ( help·info ) ) is a classical 1959 Egyptian drama film directed by Henry Barakat and based on a novel by the prominent writer Taha Hussein . It stars Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar . In 1996 , during the Egyptian Cinema centennial , this film was selected one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions . It received an award of recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . It was also entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival .
Henry Barakat ( Arabic : هنري بركات , 11 June 1914 , Cairo - 27 May 1997 , Cairo ) was a well known Egyptian film director . He was born in Shobra , Cairo , to a Christian Greek Melkite father and a Coptic Orthodox Christian mother . His father was a doctor and received the title of Beik by the King for the services he rendered. , He directed some of the most famous films in the Egyptian Cinema .
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events .
The 33rd Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 1960 , were held on April 17 , 1961 , at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica , California . They were hosted by Bob Hope . This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television , which has aired the Academy Awards ever since ( save for the period between 1971 and 1975 , when they were aired on NBC for the first time since the previous year . ) The Apartment was the last black-and-white film to win Best Picture until Schindler 's List ( 1993 ) . Gary Cooper was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to be the year 's recipient of the Academy Honorary Award for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he , as an individual , has gained for the motion picture industry . Cooper was too ill to attend the ceremony , though his condition was not publicly disclosed , save for his family and close friends . At the awards ceremony James Stewart , a close friend of Cooper , accepted the Honorary Oscar on his behalf . Stewart 's emotional speech hinted that something was seriously wrong , and the next day newspapers ran the headline , Gary Cooper has cancer . Less than four weeks later , on May 13 , 1961 , six days after his 60th birthday , Cooper died . Young and rising star Hayley Mills was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to be the year 's recipient of the Academy Juvenile Award for her breakthrough and acclaimed performance in Walt Disney 's production of Pollyanna . Mills became the last recipient of the award , as the Academy retired the award afterwards . From 1963 onward , juvenile actors could officially compete in competitive acting awards with their adult counterparts .
Teenagers ( Arabic : المراهقات , translit . El morahekate ) is a 1961 Egyptian drama film directed by Ahmed Diaeddin . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Ahmed Diaa Eddine ( 1912-1976 ) was an Egyptian film director . He directed over 30 films and studied at the Leonardo da Vinci Institute in Cairo .
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events , with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards .
The 34th Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 1961 , were held on April 9 , 1962 , at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica , California . They were hosted by Bob Hope ; this was the 13th time Hope hosted the Oscars . Legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini received his first Best Director nomination for his film La Dolce Vita , though the movie itself failed to garner a nomination for Best Picture . Sophia Loren became the first thespian to win an acting Oscar for a non-English-speaking role as well as only the seventh person ever to win the Best Actress for a film with singular nomination , a feat that would n't occur again until 1989 , when Jodie Foster won Best Actress for her performance in The Accused .
Oh Islam ( Arabic : وا اسلاماه , translit . Wa Islamah , and also released as Love and Faith ) is a 1961 Egyptian drama film directed by Enrico Bomba and Andrew Marton . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . The film was the first Egyptian film to be screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival .
Enrico Bomba ( born 2 August 1922 ) is an Italian producer , director and screen writer . He was born in Amatrice , Province of Rieti .
Andrew Marton ( born Endre Marton ; 26 January 1904 - 7 January 1992 ) was a Hungarian-American film director . In his career , he directed 39 films and television programs , and worked on 16 as a second unit director , including the chariot race in Ben Hur ( 1959 ) .
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events , with Lawrence of Arabia the year 's top-grossing film as well as winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture .
The 35th Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 1962 , were held on April 8 , 1963 , at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica , California , hosted by Frank Sinatra .
Chased by the Dogs or The Thief and the Dogs ( Arabic : اللص والكلاب , translit . El less wal kilab ) is a 1962 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh , based on the novel The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz . It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival . The film was also selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 35th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Kamal El Sheikh ( Arabic : كمال الشيخ ; 2 February 1919 - 2 January 2004 ) was an Egyptian film director . He directed 28 films between 1952 and 1987 .
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events , including two highly successful musical films , My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins .
The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964 . For the first time , an award was presented in the field of makeup . The Best Picture winner of 1964 , director George Cukor 's My Fair Lady , was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady . The musical had run for many years on the stage in both NYC and London . Audrey Hepburn , the female lead of the film , was controversially not nominated for Best Actress . The unpopularity of her replacing Julie Andrews - who had originated the role on Broadway and , coincidentally , the Best Actress winner of the year for Mary Poppins - as well as the revelation that the majority of her singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon ( which was n't approved by Hepburn herself ) were seen as the main reasons for the snub . The ceremony was produced by MGM 's Joe Pasternak and hosted , for the 14th time , by Bob Hope . The awards show was a star-studded one , including an appearance by Judy Garland , who sang a medley of Cole Porter songs in tribute to the composer , who had died in October 1964 . This event marked the first time that more than two films had received ten or more nominations ( repeated at the 50th and 92nd Academy Awards ) , and the only time in Oscar history that three films got twelve or more nominations : Becket and My Fair Lady each received twelve , while Mary Poppins received thirteen . It was also the first year since the inception of the Supporting Actor and Actress categories wherein all four acting Oscars were won by non-American performers ; this would be repeated at the 80th Academy Awards .
Mother of the Bride ( Arabic : أم العروسة , translit . Omm el aroussa ) is a 1963 Egyptian comedy film directed by Atef Salem . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Atef Salem ( Egyptian Arabic : عاطف سالم ; 23 July 1927 - 30 July 2002 ) was an Egyptian film director . He directed 32 films between 1954 and 2001 . Many of his films were scripted by the novelist Naguib Mahfouz . His 1967 film Khan el khalili was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival .
The year 1965 in film involved some significant events , with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office .
The 38th Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 1965 , were held on April 18 , 1966 , at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica , California . They were hosted by Bob Hope . The ceremony was broadcast on the ABC network and was the first to be broadcast live in color . The two most nominated films were The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago , each with ten nominations and five wins . The winner of Best Picture was 20th Century Fox 's and Robert Wise 's The Sound of Music , adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Broadway musical . Both movies are in the top 10 inflation-adjusted commercially successful films ever made , and both would appear 33 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the twentieth century . The Sound of Music was the first Best Picture winner without a screenwriting nomination since Hamlet ; it would be the last until Titanic at the 70th Academy Awards . Othello became the third film ( of four to date ) to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture . Lynda Bird Johnson , daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson , attended the Academy Awards presentation and was escorted by actor George Hamilton .
The Impossible ( Arabic : المستحيل , translit . El mustahil ) is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Hussein Kamal . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Hussein Kamal ( Arabic : حسين كمال ) ( 17 August 1932 - 24 March 2003 ) was an Egyptian television , film and theatre director . He is considered to be an important director of traditional Egyptian cinema . One of his most famous films is Chitchat on the Nile ( 1971 ) , a critique of the decadence of Egyptian society during the Nasser era . His 1972 film Empire M was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival in 1973 .
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events . A Man for All Seasons won six Academy Awards , including Best Picture .
The 39th Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 1966 , were held on April 10 , 1967 , at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica , California . They were hosted by Bob Hope . Only two of the Best Picture nominees were nominated for Best Director : A Man for All Seasons and Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Both were adaptations of stage dramas .
Cairo 30 ( Arabic : القاهرة 30 , translit . Al-Qāhira 30 ) is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Salāḥ Abu Seif , and based on Naguib Mahfouz 's 1945 novel Modern Cairo . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominée .
Salah Abu Seif ( Arabic : صلاح أبو سيف , Ṣalāḥ Abū Sayf ) ( May 10 , 1915 - June 23 , 1996 ) was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors , and is considered to be the godfather of Neorealist cinema in Egypt . Many of the 41 films he directed are considered Egyptian classics . His film Bidaya wa nihaya ( 1960 ) was the first adaptation a novel by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz . He is sometimes credited as Salah Abu Saif , Salah Abou Seif or Salah Abouseif . In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival .
The year 1970 in film involved some significant events .
The 43rd Academy Awards ceremony , presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , was held on April 15 , 1971 , and took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to honor the best films of 1970 . The Awards presentation , hosting duties were handled by 34 Friends of Oscar and broadcast by NBC for the first time in 11 years . It was during this ceremony that George C. Scott became the first actor to reject an Oscar , claiming that the Academy Awards were a two-hour meat parade , a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons . With her Best Supporting Actress win , Helen Hayes became the first performer to win Oscars in both lead and supporting categories ( having won Best Actress 38 years before for The Sin of Madelon Claudet ) . She also has the record of having the biggest gap between acting wins . The documentary film Woodstock garnered three Oscar nominations , making it the most nominated documentary film in Oscar history . This was the only time since the 2nd Academy Awards that all five nominees for Best Actress were first-time nominees , as well as the last time that either lead acting category had all new nominees . Also , this was the first time since the 7th Academy Awards in which none of the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actor had a previous nomination in that category .
The Night of Counting the Years , also released in Arabic as The Mummy ( Arabic : Al-Mummia المومياء ) , is a 1969 Egyptian film and the only feature film directed by Shadi Abdel Salam . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 43rd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Shadi Abdel Salam ( Arabic : شادي عبد السلام ) was an Egyptian film director , screenwriter and costume and set designer . Born in Alexandria on 15 March 1930 , Shadi graduated from Victoria College , Alexandria , 1948 , and then moved to England to study theater arts from 1949 to 1950 . He then joined faculty of fine arts in Cairo where he graduated as an architect in 1955 . He worked as assistant to the artistic architect , Ramsis W. Wassef , 1957 , and designed the decorations and costumes of some of the most famous historical Egyptian films among which are ; Wa Islamah , Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din , Almaz wa Abdu El Hamouly . He worked as a historical consultant and supervisor of the decoration , costumes and accessories sections of the Polish film , Pharaoh , directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz . He also directed the long drama film entitled The Night of Counting the Years ( Al-Momiaa ) , 1968-1969 , and he received many film awards for this work . [ citation needed ] Also directed the Ancient Egyptian short drama film entitled The Eloquent Peasant . [ citation needed ] Notably , he once worked as the Director of the Ministry of Culture Center for experimental films in 1970 . [ citation needed ] He also wrote the scenario of the long drama film entitled Ikhnatoun and finalized the relevant designs from 1974-1985 [ citation needed ] . He has taught at the Cinema Higher Institute of Egypt in the Departments of Decorations , Costumes and Film Direction from 1963-1969 . [ citation needed ] He died on 8 October 1986 .
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events .
The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10 , 1972 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes , Alan King , Sammy Davis Jr. , and Jack Lemmon . One of the highlights of the evening was the appearance of Betty Grable , battling cancer at the time , who made one of her last public appearances . She appeared along with one of her leading men from the 1940s , singer Dick Haymes , to present the musical scoring awards . Grable died the following year . This was the first time in the history of the Awards in which the nominees were shown on superimposed pictures while being announced .
A Woman and a Man ( Arabic : امرأة و رجل , translit . Arabic : Imra'ah wa ragoul ) is a 1971 Egyptian drama film directed by Houssam Eddine Mostafa . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
The year 1972 in film involved several significant cinematic events including the release of Francis Ford Coppola 's Academy Award-winning film , The Godfather .
The 45th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday , March 27 , 1973 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California , honoring the best films of 1972 . The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett , Michael Caine , Charlton Heston , and Rock Hudson . The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando 's boycott of the Oscars and his sending of Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he would not show up to collect his Best Actor award for The Godfather , and by Charlie Chaplin 's only competitive Oscar win for Best Original Dramatic Score for his 20-year-old film Limelight , which was eligible because it did not screen in Los Angeles until 1972 . Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972 . Cabaret , Bob Fosse 's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical , set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture . Best Picture winner The Godfather received only three Academy Awards . This year was the first time that two African American women received nominations for Best Actress . This was also the first year when all the Oscar winners were brought out on stage at the end of the ceremony .
My Wife and the Dog ( Arabic : زوجتي و الكلب , translit . Zawgaty Wal Kalb ) is a 1971 Egyptian drama film directed by Said Marzouk . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events .
The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday , April 2 , 1974 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds , Diana Ross , John Huston , and David Niven . The Sting won 7 awards , including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill . The Exorcist and The Way We Were were the only other films to win multiple awards .
Empire M ( Arabic : إمبراطورية ميم , translit . Emberatoriet meem ) is a 1972 Egyptian drama film directed by Hussein Kamal . The film was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival in 1973 . It was also selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 46th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events .
The 47th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday , April 8 , 1975 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope , Shirley MacLaine , Sammy Davis Jr. , and Frank Sinatra . This was the last year NBC aired the ceremonies before ABC secured broadcasting rights , which they still hold to this day . The success of The Godfather Part II was notable ; it received twice as many Oscars as its predecessor ( six ) and duplicated its feat of three Best Supporting Actor nominations ( as of the 90th Academy Awards , the last film to receive three nominations in a single acting category ) . Between the two of them , father and son Carmine and Francis Ford Coppola won four awards , with Carmine winning for Best Original Dramatic Score ( with Nino Rota ) and Francis for Picture , Director , and Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material ( with Mario Puzo ) . This was the only Oscars where all nominees in one category were released by the same studio : all five Best Costume Design nominations were for films released by Paramount Pictures .
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events , with Steven Spielberg 's thriller Jaws topping the box office .
The 48th Academy Awards were presented Monday , March 29 , 1976 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau , Robert Shaw , George Segal , Goldie Hawn and Gene Kelly . This year , ABC took over broadcast rights from NBC and continues to broadcast them today . The recent previous editions had been held on Tuesday night . ( NBC 's coverage of the NCAA championship basketball game aired opposite the ceremony ; during the presentation of the Best Film Editing award , the winner was jokingly announced ( by presenter Elliott Gould ) as Indiana , 86-68 ; the undefeated Indiana Hoosiers had won the NCAA title that night in Philadelphia . The following year , the two events were again on the same night . ) Miloš Forman 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest made a clean sweep of the major categories : Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Actress , Best Director and Best Screenplay ( Adapted ) . It was the second of three films to date to accomplish the sweep , following It Happened One Night in 1934 and preceding The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 . French actress Isabelle Adjani received her first nomination for Best Actress this year , making Adjani , 20 at the time , the youngest actress to be nominated in the leading actress category , breaking the record set by 22-year-old Elizabeth Hartman in 1965 . This record would later be surpassed by 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2004 , and again in 2013 by nine-year old Quvenzhané Wallis . Adjani also presented the Best Film Editing award that night along with Gould who delivered the Indiana joke during the presentation . At age 80 , George Burns became the oldest acting and Best Supporting Actor awardee ( as well as the final person to receive an acting award born in the nineteenth century ) , a record that stood until Jessica Tandy won Best Actress in 1989 .
I Want a Solution ( Arabic : أريد حلاً , translit . Oridu hallan ) is a 1975 Egyptian drama film directed by Said Marzouk . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . The film criticized the laws governing marriage and divorce in Egypt . The script was written by Said Marzouk and Faten Hamama . The film is inspired by a true story and it is Marzouk 's third feature film .
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events , such as Alfred Hitchcock 's final film .
The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday , March 28 , 1977 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor , Ellen Burstyn , Jane Fonda , and Warren Beatty . This Academy Awards ceremony is notable for Peter Finch becoming the first posthumous winner of an Oscar for acting , a feat matched only by fellow Australian Heath Ledger 32 years later ; Finch had suffered a fatal heart attack in mid-January . Beatrice Straight set another record by becoming the actor with the shortest performance ever in a film to win an acting Oscar , with only five minutes and two seconds of screen-time in Network . Network , along with All the President 's Men , were the two biggest champs of the ceremony with four Oscars each , but Best Picture and Best Director ultimately went to Rocky . Piper Laurie was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Carrie ( 1976 ) , her first role since her Best Actress-nominated performance in The Hustler ( 1961 ) , thus being nominated for two consecutive roles , fifteen years apart . Network became the second film ( after A Streetcar Named Desire ) to win three acting Oscars , and the last , as of the 90th Academy Awards , to receive five acting nominations . It was also the eleventh of fifteen films ( to date ) to receive nominations in all four acting categories . This year 's Academy Awards is also notable for the first ever female nominee for Best Director , Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties . Barbra Streisand received her second Academy Award , composing music for the love theme Evergreen , the first woman to be honored as a composer , and as of the 90th Academy Awards , the only person to win Academy Awards for both acting and songwriting . No honorary awards were given this year . ABC had the Oscars from 1960-70 and had regained them for 1976 .
Whom Should We Shoot ? ( Arabic : على مَن نطلق الرَصاص؟ , translit . ` Alā mann Notlīq Ar-rasās , IPA [ ʕælɑ : mʌn nʊtˤlq ərəsˤʌs ] ) is a 1975 Egyptian drama film directed by Kamal El Sheikh . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominée .
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events .
The 52nd Academy Awards were presented April 14 , 1980 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson who , in noting the long duration of the production , joked that President Jimmy Carter was working hard for their release from the ceremonies , a clear reference to the Iranian hostage crisis . Among the nominees for Best Supporting Actor were 8 year-old Justin Henry - the youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee ever - and 79-year-old Melvyn Douglas . This was the largest age difference between two competing actors in Oscar history until 2013 . Their age difference was partially the reason why Douglas did not attend the Oscars that night , despite winning the award . Henry was nominated for Kramer vs. Kramer , which out of its eight other nominations , finished with five awards , including Best Picture , Best Director for Robert Benton , and Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman .
Alexandria . Why ? ( Egyptian Arabic : إسكندرية ليه , translit . Iskanderija . lih ? ) is a 1979 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine . It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival , where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Priz . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . The film portraits the early life of the director in his home city , Alexandria .
The following is an overview of events in 1981 in film , including the highest-grossing films , award ceremonies and festivals , a list of films released and notable deaths .
The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29 , 1982 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson . Chariots of Fire was the surprise winner ( with a leading 12 nominations , Reds had been expected to win ) of the Best Picture Oscar . It was the first time in 13 years that a British film won the Academy 's top honor . The next year 's winner , Gandhi , was also a British production . Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar this year , as Best Actor for On Golden Pond . At 76 years of age , Fonda became the oldest winner in the Best Actor category in Academy history . The only other nomination he received in his career was Best Actor for his performance in The Grapes of Wrath 41 years earlier - a record gap between acting nominations . His co-star , Katharine Hepburn , won her fourth Best Actress award , extending her own record for the most Best Actress wins by any actress . This year 's nominations also marked the second time ( after 1967 ) that three different films were nominated for the Big Five Academy Awards : Best Picture , Director , Actor , Actress , and Screenplay . The three films were On Golden Pond , Atlantic City and Reds . However , none of them won the Best Picture prize , losing to Chariots of Fire .
People on the Top ( Arabic : أهل القمة , translit . Ahl el qema ) is a 1981 Egyptian drama film directed by Ali Badrakhan . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Ali Badrakhan is an Egyptian film director and screenwriter , son of the Ahmed Badrakhan . He worked as assistant to Fatin Abdel Wahab in Land of Hypocrisy in 1968 , and with Youssef Chahine in the films Selection in 1971 and The Sparrow in 1974 ; his first movie was The Love That Was ( 1973 ) by Soad Hosny . Badrakhan collaborated with Naguib Mahfouz , Salah Jahin , and Ahmed Zaky .
The year 1990 in film involved many significant events as shown below . Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990 .
The 63rd Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , took place on March 25 , 1991 , at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST . During the ceremony , Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as the Oscars ) were presented in 23 categories . The ceremony , which was televised in the United States on ABC , was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis . Actor Billy Crystal hosted for the second consecutive year . Three weeks earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California on March 2 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Geena Davis . Dances with Wolves won seven awards including Best Picture . Other winners included Dick Tracy with three awards , Ghost with two awards , and American Dream , Creature Comforts , Cyrano de Bergerac , Days of Waiting , Goodfellas , The Hunt for Red October , Journey of Hope , The Lunch Date , Misery , Reversal of Fortune , and Total Recall with one . The telecast garnered nearly 43 million viewers in the United States .
Alexandria Again and Forever ( Egyptian Arabic : إسكندرية كمان وكمان , translit . Iskandria Kaman wa Kaman , French : Alexandrie Encore et Toujours ) is the final entry in a trilogy of films by director Youssef Chahine . This 104-minute-long film is mainly in Arabic , with English-language subtitles . It was preceded by the films Alexandra.Why ? ( 1978 ) and An Egyptian Story ( 1982 ) . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . Following a violent outburst with Amr , his favorite actor , the director Yehia Eskandarany ( Youssef Chahine ) is forced to scrutinize his entire career under scrutiny . Nothing looks familiar any longer . His country and African cinema he loves so much , also looks strange . Little by little , while remembering his first film with Amr , Yehia traces the infiltration of the influential petro-dollar into the Egyptian cinema industry . But was it really money that caused the rift between him and Amr ? Or was it the strikingly beautiful Nadia ?
This is a list of films released in 1994 . The top worldwide grosser was The Lion King , becoming the highest-grossing Walt Disney Feature Animation film of all-time , although it was slightly overtaken at the North American domestic box office by Forrest Gump , which won the Academy Award for Best Picture . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated its 70th Anniversary in 1994 .
The 67th Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) took place on March 27 , 1995 , at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST . During the ceremony , AMPAS presented Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as the Oscars ) in 23 categories honoring the films released in 1994 . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Gilbert Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis . Comedian David Letterman hosted the show for the first time . Three weeks earlier in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills , California on March 4 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jamie Lee Curtis . Forrest Gump won six awards , including Best Picture . Other winners included Ed Wood , The Lion King , and Speed with two awards , and The Adventures of Priscilla , Queen of the Desert , Blue Sky , Bob 's Birthday , Bullets over Broadway , Burnt by the Sun , Franz Kafka 's It 's a Wonderful Life , Legends of the Fall , The Madness of King George , Maya Lin : A Strong Clear Vision , Pulp Fiction , A Time for Justice and Trevor with one . The telecast garnered more than 48 million viewers in the United States , making it the most watched Oscars telecast since the 55th Academy Awards in 1983 .
Land of Dreams ( Arabic : أرض الاحلام , Ard el ahlam ) is a 1993 Egyptian comedy film directed by Daoud Abdel Sayed . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Daoud Abdel Sayed ( Arabic : داود عبد السيد pronounced [ dæˈwuːd ʕæbdesˈsæjjed ] ) is an Egyptian director and screenwriter . He was born in Cairo in 1946 . He started as the assistant of Youssef Chahine in The Land . He made several critically acclaimed films , and won several international awards notably for The Land of Fear which was produced in 1999 .
The year 1997 in film involved many significant films , including Titanic , and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks .
The 70th Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , took place on March 23 , 1998 , at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST . During the show , AMPAS presented Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as Oscars ) in 24 categories honoring films released in 1997 . The ceremony , which was televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Louis J. Horvitz . Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the sixth time . He first presided over the 62nd ceremony held in 1990 , and he had hosted the previous year 's gala . Nearly a month earlier in an event held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills , California on February 28 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Ashley Judd . Titanic won a record-tying eleven awards including Best Director for James Cameron and Best Picture . Other winners included As Good as It Gets , Good Will Hunting and L.A . Confidential with two awards , and The Full Monty , Geri 's Game , Karakter , The Long Way Home , Visas and Virtue , Men in Black and A Story of Healing with one . The telecast garnered more than 57 million viewers in the United States , making it the most watched Oscars broadcast in history .
Destiny ( Arabic : المصير , translit . Al-massir ) is a 1997 French-Egyptian historical drama film directed by Youssef Chahine . It was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival . The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . The film is about Averroes , a 12th-century philosopher from Andalusia who would be known as the most important commentator on Aristotle .