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

1967
(40th)

Le Départ

Le Départ

French

Jerzy Skolimowski

Not Nominated

1969
(42nd)

Palaver

Palaver

Dutch

Emile Degelin

Not Nominated

1970
(43rd)

Peace in the Fields

Paix sur les champs

French

Jacques Boigelot

Nominated[10]

1972
(45th)

The Lonely Killers

Les Tueurs Fous

French

Boris Szulzinger

Not Nominated

1974
(47th)

The Conscript

De loteling

Dutch

Roland Verhavert

Not Nominated

1976
(49th)

High Street

Rue Haute

French

André Ernotte

Not Nominated

1977
(50th)

Rubens

Rubens, schilder en diplomaat

Dutch

Roland Verhavert

Not Nominated

1979
(52nd)

Woman in a Twilight Garden

Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf

Dutch

André Delvaux

Not Nominated

1981
(54th)

Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven

Le Grand paysage d'Alexis Droeven

French

Jean-Jacques Andrien

Not Nominated

1982
(55th)

Minuet

Menuet

Dutch

Lili Rademakers

Not Nominated

1985
(58th)

Dust

Dust

English

Marion Hänsel

Not Nominated

1986
(59th)

Jumping

Springen

Dutch

Jean-Pierre De Decker

Not Nominated

1987
(60th)

The Cruel Embrace

Les noces barbares

French

Marion Hänsel

Not Nominated

1988
(61st)

The Music Teacher

Le maître de musique

French

Gérard Corbiau

Nominated[11]

1989
(62nd)

The Sacrament

Het Sacrament

Dutch

Hugo Claus

Not Nominated

1991
(64th)

Toto the Hero

Toto le héros

French

Jaco Van Dormael

Not Nominated

1992
(65th)

Daens

Daens

Dutch, French

Stijn Coninx

Nominated[12]

1993
(66th)

Just Friends

Just Friends

Dutch, French

Marc-Henri Wajnberg

Not Nominated

1994
(67th)

Farinelli

Farinelli Il Castrato

French, Italian

Gérard Corbiau

Nominated[13]

1995
(68th)

Manneken Pis

Manneken Pis

Dutch

Frank Van Passel

Not Nominated

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The year 1967 in film involved some significant events . It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film , with revolutionary films highlighting the change , including : Bonnie and Clyde , The Graduate , Guess Who 's Coming to Dinner , Cool Hand Luke , The Dirty Dozen , In Cold Blood , In the Heat of the Night , The Jungle Book and You Only Live Twice .
The 40th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1967 . Originally scheduled for April 8 , 1968 , the awards were postponed to two days later , April 10 , 1968 , because of the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony . Due to the increasing rarity of black and white feature films , the awards for cinematography , art direction and costume design were combined into single categories rather than a distinction between color and monochrome . The Best Picture nominees were an eclectic group of films reflecting the chaos of their era . The event was the first one since the 1948 awards show to feature film clips from the Best Picture nominated films . This year 's nominations also marked the first time that three different films were nominated for the Top Five Academy Awards : Best Picture , Director , Actor , Actress and Screenplay . The three films were Bonnie and Clyde , The Graduate and Guess Who 's Coming to Dinner . However , the winner of Best Picture was producer Walter Mirisch and director Norman Jewison 's thriller/mystery film , In the Heat of the Night ( with seven nominations and five wins - Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Screenplay , Best Film Editing and Best Sound ) . The Graduate is , as of the 91st Academy Awards , the last film to win Best Director and nothing else . Due to an all-out push by Academy President Gregory Peck , 18 of the 20 acting nominees were present at the ceremony . Only Katharine Hepburn and the late Spencer Tracy , who was nominated posthumously , were missing .
The Departure ( French : Le Départ ) is a 1967 Belgian comedy film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski . It stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as a car-obsessed young man trying to get possession of a Porsche for a race . The film won the Golden Bear at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival . The film was also selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
French ( le français [ lə fʁɑ̃sɛ ] or la langue française [ la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz ] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family . It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire , as did all Romance languages . French evolved from Gallo-Romance , the spoken Latin in Gaul , and more specifically in Northern Gaul . Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl - languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium , which French ( Francien ) has largely supplanted . French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic ) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders . Today , owing to France 's past overseas expansion , there are numerous French-based creole languages , most notably Haitian Creole . A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French . French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents , most of which are members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie ( OIF ) , the community of 84 countries which share the official use or teaching of French . It is spoken as a first language ( in descending order of the number of speakers ) in France , the Canadian provinces of Quebec , Ontario and New Brunswick as well as other Francophone regions , Belgium ( Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region ) , western Switzerland ( cantons of Bern , Fribourg , Geneva , Jura , Neuchâtel , Vaud , Valais ) , Monaco , partly in Luxembourg , the states of Louisiana , Maine , New Hampshire and Vermont in the United States , and in northwestern Italy ( region of Aosta Valley ) , and by various communities elsewhere . In 2015 , approximately 40% of the francophone population ( including L2 and partial speakers ) lived in Europe , 35% in sub-Saharan Africa , 15% in North Africa and the Middle East , 8% in the Americas , and 1% in Asia and Oceania . French is the fourth most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union . Of Europeans who speak other languages natively , approximately one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language .
Jerzy Skolimowski ( Polish : [ jɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi ] , born 5 May 1938 ) is a Polish film director , screenwriter , dramatist and actor . A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź , Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol ( The Menacing Eye ) . In 1967 he was awarded Golden Bear for his film Le départ . His most famous film is Deep End ( 1970 ) , starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown . He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative , expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films . He recently returned to Poland , and to film making as a writer and director , after a 17-year hiatus with Cztery noce z Anną ( Four Nights with Anna ) in 2008 . He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival .
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events , with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy , a film rated X , winning the Academy Award for Best Picture .
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7 , 1970 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . For the second year in a row , there was no official host . Awards were presented by seventeen Friends of Oscar : Bob Hope , John Wayne , Barbra Streisand , Fred Astaire , Jon Voight , Myrna Loy , Clint Eastwood , Raquel Welch , Candice Bergen , James Earl Jones , Katharine Ross , Cliff Robertson , Ali MacGraw , Barbara McNair , Elliott Gould , Claudia Cardinale , and Elizabeth Taylor . This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience , but only outside North America . Mexico and Brazil were the sole countries to broadcast the event live . This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies , according to Nielsen ratings . Midnight Cowboy became the first - and so far , the only - X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture . Its rating has since been downgraded to R. The previous year had seen the only G-rated film to win Best Picture , Carol Reed 's Oliver ! . They Shoot Horses , Do n't They ? set an Oscar record by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture . This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards wherein none of the four acting winners had appeared in Best Picture nominees , as well as the first time where every acting nomination , as well as every major nominated film , was in color .
Palaver is a 1969 Belgian fantasy film directed by Emile Degelin . The film was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Dutch ( Nederlands ( help·info ) ) is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people as a first language and 5 million people as a second language , constituting the majority of people in the Netherlands ( where it is the sole official language countrywide ) and Belgium ( as one of three official languages ) . It is the third-most-widely spoken Germanic language , after its close relatives English and German . Outside the Low Countries , it is the native language of the majority of the population of Suriname where it also holds an official status , as it does in Aruba , Curaçao and Sint Maarten , which are constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean . Historical linguistic minorities on the verge of extinction remain in parts of France and Germany , and in Indonesia , [ n 1 ] while up to half a million native speakers may reside in the United States , Canada and Australia combined . [ n 2 ] The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have evolved into Afrikaans , a mutually intelligible daughter language [ n 3 ] which is spoken to some degree by at least 16 million people , mainly in South Africa and Namibia . [ n 4 ] Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English [ n 5 ] and is colloquially said to be roughly in between them . [ n 6 ] Dutch , like English , has not undergone the High German consonant shift , does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker , has largely abandoned the use of the subjunctive , and has levelled much of its morphology , including most of its case system . [ n 7 ] Features shared with German include the survival of two to three grammatical genders - albeit with few grammatical consequences [ n 8 ] - as well as the use of modal particles , final-obstruent devoicing , and a similar word order . [ n 9 ] Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates slightly more Romance loans than German but far fewer than English . [ n 10 ] As with German , the vocabulary of Dutch also has strong similarities with the continental Scandinavian languages , but is not mutually intelligible in text or speech with any of them .
Emile Degelin ( 16 July 1926 - 20 May 2017 ) was a Belgian film director and novelist , the director of If the Wind Frightens You His 1963 film Life and Death in Flanders was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival . His 1969 film Palaver was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival . His final film , De ooggetuige , won the audience prize at the Ghent Film Festival in 1995 . He is seen as one of the pioneers and founders of the Belgian film . Degelin died on 20 May 2017 at his home in Kessel-Lo , a borough of Leuven , Belgium .
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 .
Peace in the Fields ( French : Paix sur les champs ) is a 1970 French-language Belgian film directed by Jacques Boigelot and based on the eponymous novel by Marie Gevers . It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .
Jacques Boigelot is a Belgian film director and screenwriter . He was for many years the head of the French Belgian television film department . His film Paix sur les champs ( 1970 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .
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 .
The Lonely Killers ( French : Les tueurs fous ) is a 1972 Belgian crime film directed by Boris Szulzinger . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Boris Szulzinger is a Belgian author , filmmaker and film producer . He is known for The Lonely Killers ( 1972 ) and Tarzoon : Shame of the Jungle ( 1975 , directed with Picha ) . He was the founder of the group Cinédit with Boris Lehman .
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 Conscript ( Dutch : De loteling ) is a 1974 Belgian drama film directed by Roland Verhavert , based on the eponymous novel by Hendrik Conscience . It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival . It was also selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 47th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Roland Verhavert ( 1 May 1927 - 26 July 2014 ) was a Belgian film director . He directed 44 films between 1955 and 1993 . He co-directed the 1955 film Seagulls Die in the Harbour , which was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival . His 1974 film The Conscript was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival . Verhavert died of a heart attack aged 87 in July 2014 .
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 .
High Street ( French : Rue Haute ) is a 1976 Belgian drama film directed by André Ernotte . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
André Ernotte ( 3 June 1943 - 8 March 1999 ) was a Belgian film director and screenwriter .
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events .
The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California on April 3 , 1978 . The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope , who hosted the awards for the nineteenth and last time . Two of the year 's biggest winners were Star Wars , which swept the technical categories by winning 6 out of its 10 nominations and a Special Achievement for Sound Effects Editing , and Annie Hall , winning 4 out of 5 nominations , including Best Picture , Best Actress and Best Director . The awards show was also notable for a very politically charged acceptance speech by Vanessa Redgrave . The Turning Point set the record for the most nominations without a win ( 11 ) , previously held by Peyton Place and The Little Foxes , which each had 9 nominations with no wins . This record , later tied by The Color Purple , still stands as of 2018 [ update ] . Annie Hall was the last Best Picture winner to be nominated for just five awards until The Departed 29 years later in 2006 . Jason Robards became the fourth actor to win back-to-back Oscars , following Luise Rainer , Spencer Tracy , and Katharine Hepburn . For the only time to date , both Best Actor and Best Actress winners won for roles in two different romantic comedies . This event marked the second of three times that more than two films had received ten or more nominations ( after the 37th and before the 92nd Academy Awards ) . The animated opening sequence , as well as promos for the Awards show , were designed by British graphic designer Harry Marks , who outsourced the animated sequences to Robert Abel and Associates . Marks also designed animated sequences for the top nominated categories , which were n't used for the final telecast .
Rubens ( Dutch : Rubens , schilder en diplomaat ) is a 1977 Belgian drama film directed by Roland Verhavert . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
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 .
Woman Between Wolf and Dog ( Dutch : Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf , French : Femme entre chien et loup ) is a 1979 Belgian-French drama film directed by André Delvaux . It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association ( UCC ) . The film was also selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
André , Baron Delvaux ( French : [ dɛlvo ] ; 21 March 1926 - 4 October 2002 ) was a Belgian film director and widely regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema . Born in Heverlee , he died in Valencia , Spain . after giving a speech at the World Arts Meeting . He received the Magritte Honorary Award at the Magritte Awards 2011 .
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 .
Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven is a 1981 Belgian drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Andrien . It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention . It also received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association ( UCC ) . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Jean-Jacques Andrien ( born 1 June 1944 ) is a Belgian film director . Le Monde deem his film Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven ( 1981 ) , to be the first great Film of a Walloon cinema This film addresses two problems ; the first is that of Belgium 's region , site of a bitter conflict between Flemish and Walloon inhabitants , and the second that of a dramatic changes that have affected the agricultural world . The film was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention .
The following is an overview of events in 1982 in film , including the highest-grossing films , award ceremonies and festivals , a list of films released and notable deaths .
The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11 , 1983 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion , Los Angeles . The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli , Dudley Moore , Richard Pryor , and Walter Matthau . The awards were dominated by the Best Picture winner Gandhi , which won eight awards out of its eleven nominations . Jessica Lange became the first performer in four decades to receive nominations in both acting categories in the same year , ultimately winning Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie . Meryl Streep won her first Best Actress award . She had been nominated the year before for The French Lieutenant 's Woman and would be nominated for a record seventeen times in the following decades . Louis Gossett Jr. became the first African-American actor to win Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the tough and principled drill sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman . This marked the first of 28 consecutive years where a Barbara Walters interview special aired before the ceremony . Walters had previously aired an interview special in 1981 and , in subsequent years , her special aired prior to the Academy 's formal broadcast of celebrities walking the red carpet . It was also the only time George C. Scott attended an Oscars ceremony .
Menuet is a 1982 Belgian-Dutch drama film directed by Lili Rademakers . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
The following is an overview of events in 1985 in film , including the highest-grossing films , award ceremonies and festivals , a list of films released and notable deaths .
The 58th Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , took place on March 24 , 1986 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 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 Oscars ) in 23 categories honoring films released in 1985 . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Stanley Donen and directed by Marty Pasetta . Actors Alan Alda , Jane Fonda , and Robin Williams co-hosted the show . Fonda hosted the gala for the second time , having previously been a co-host of the 49th ceremony held in 1977 . Meanwhile , this was Alda and Williams 's first Oscars hosting stint . Eight days earlier , in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California , on March 16 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Macdonald Carey . Out of Africa won seven awards including Best Picture . Other winners included Cocoon and Witness with two awards , and Kiss of the Spider Woman , The Trip to Bountiful , Prizzi 's Honor , The Official Story , Broken Rainbow , Witness to War : Dr. Charlie Clements , Molly 's Pilgrim , Anna & Bella , White Nights , Back to the Future , Mask and Ran with one .
Dust is a 1985 film directed by Marion Hänsel based on the J. M. Coetzee novel In the Heart of the Country . The film was shot in Spain and is a French-Belgian production . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . It won the Silver Lion prize , awarded to the best first or second major work by a director , at the 1985 Venice Film Festival . The jury recognised Jane Birkin 's performance as amongst the best of the year , but decided not to award a best actress prize because all of the actresses they judged to have made the best performances were in films that won major awards .
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca . It is named after the Angles , one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name , as England . Both names derive from Anglia , a peninsula in the Baltic Sea . The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon , and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages , particularly Norse ( a North Germanic language ) , and to a greater extent by Latin and French . English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years . The earliest forms of English , a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic ) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century , are collectively called Old English . Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England ; this was a period in which the language was influenced by French . Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London , the printing of the King James Bible and the start of the Great Vowel Shift . Modern English has been spreading around the world since the 17th century by the worldwide influence of the British Empire and the United States . Through all types of printed and electronic media of these countries , English has become the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions and professional contexts such as science , navigation and law . English is the largest language by number of speakers , and the third most-spoken native language in the world , after Standard Chinese and Spanish . It is the most widely learned second language and is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states .
Marion Hänsel ( born 12 February 1949 ) is a Belgian film director , producer , actress and screenwriter . Her film Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival .
The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film , including the highest-grossing films , award ceremonies and festivals , a list of films released and notable deaths .
The 59th Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , took place on March 30 , 1987 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 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 Oscars ) in 23 categories honoring films released in 1986 . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and directed by Marty Pasetta . Actors Chevy Chase , Paul Hogan , and Goldie Hawn co-hosted the show . Hawn hosted the gala for the second time , having previously been a co-host of the 48th ceremony held in 1976 . Meanwhile , this was Chase and Hogan 's first Oscars hosting stint . Eight days earlier , in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California , on March 22 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Catherine Hicks . Platoon won four awards including Best Picture . Other winners included Hannah and Her Sisters and A Room with a View with three awards , Aliens with two awards , and Artie Shaw : Time Is All You 've Got , The Assault , Children of a Lesser God , The Color of Money , Down and Out in America , The Fly , A Greek Tragedy , The Mission , Precious Images , Round Midnight , Top Gun , and Women - for America , for the World with one .
Jumping ( Dutch : Springen ) is a 1986 Belgian comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre De Decker . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film , including the highest-grossing films , award ceremonies and festivals , a list of films released and notable deaths . Paramount Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1987 .
The 60th Academy Awards ceremony , presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , took place on April 11 , 1988 , 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 Oscars ) in 22 categories honoring films released in 1987 . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and directed by Marty Pasetta . Actor Chevy Chase hosted the show for the second consecutive year . Two weeks earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California , on March 27 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Shirley Jones . The Last Emperor won nine awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Bernardo Bertolucci . For their performances in Moonstruck , Cher and Olympia Dukakis won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress , respectively . Michael Douglas won Best Actor for his role in Wall Street ; Sean Connery won Best Supporting Actor for The Untouchables . The telecast garnered 42.2 million viewers in the United States . As of 2020 [ update ] , this is the most recent Academy Awards ceremony to take place in April .
The Cruel Embrace ( French : Les Noces barbares ) is a 1987 Belgian drama film directed by Marion Hänsel . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film , including the highest-grossing films , award ceremonies and festivals , a list of films released and notable deaths . Rain Man was awarded the Academy Award for Best Picture , marking one of the few instances where the top-grossing film of the year was also the winner of such an award that year .
The 61st Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , honored the best films of 1988 , and took place on Wednesday , March 29 , 1989 , 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 Oscars ) in 23 categories . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Allan Carr and directed by Jeff Margolis . Ten days earlier , in a ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills , California , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Angie Dickinson . Rain Man won four awards , including the Best Picture . Other winners included Who Framed Roger Rabbit , also four wins ( three competitive and one special ) ; Dangerous Liaisons , with three awards ; and The Accused , The Accidental Tourist , A Fish Called Wanda , The Appointments of Dennis Jennings , Beetlejuice , Bird , Hôtel Terminus : The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie , The Milagro Beanfield War , Mississippi Burning , Pelle the Conqueror , Tin Toy , Working Girl , and You Do n't Have to Die with one each . The telecast garnered almost 43 million viewers in the United States , the highest since the 56th ceremony in 1984 .
The Music Teacher ( French : Le maître de musique ) is a 1988 Belgian film directed and co-written by Gérard Corbiau . The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards .
Gérard Corbiau ( French : [ kɔʁbjo ] ; born 19 September 1941 ) is a Belgian film director . Corbiau was born in Brussels , Belgium . He is best known for his costume dramas about music , Le maître de musique ( 1987 ) , Farinelli ( 1994 ) and Le roi danse ( 2000 ) . Two of them ( Le maître de musique and Farinelli ) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . He lives in Belgium and is working on several projects .
The year 1989 involved many significant films .
The 62nd Academy Awards ceremony , presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , honored the best films of 1989 and took place on March 26 , 1990 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 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 Oscars ) in 23 categories . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis . Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the first time . Three weeks earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California on March 3 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Richard Dysart and Diane Ladd . Driving Miss Daisy won four awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy , the oldest person at the time to win a competitive acting Oscar . Other winners included Glory with three awards , Born on the Fourth of July , The Little Mermaid , and My Left Foot with two , and The Abyss , Balance , Batman , Cinema Paradiso , Common Threads : Stories from the Quilt , Dead Poets Society , Henry V , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , The Johnstown Flood , and Work Experience with one . The telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the United States .
The Sacrament ( Dutch : Het sacrament ) is a 1989 Belgian comedy film directed by Belgian author Hugo Claus . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival . The film is based on Claus ' own novel Omtrent Deedee and his play Interieur . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus ( Dutch pronunciation : [ ˈɦyɣoː ˈklʌu̯s ] ; 5 April 1929 - 19 March 2008 ) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms . Claus ' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama , the novel , and poetry ; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director . He wrote primarily in Dutch , although he also wrote some poetry in English . His death by euthanasia , which is legal in Belgium , led to considerable controversy .
The year 1991 in film involved some significant events .
The 64th Academy Awards ceremony , presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , honored the best films of 1991 in the United States and took place on March 30 , 1992 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST . During the ceremony , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as Oscars ) in 23 categories . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis . Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the third consecutive year . Three weeks earlier , in a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 7 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Tom Hanks . The Silence of the Lambs won five awards including Best Picture . Other winners included Terminator 2 : Judgment Day with four awards , Beauty and the Beast , Bugsy , and JFK with two , and City Slickers , Deadly Deception : General Electric , Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment , The Fisher King , In the Shadow of the Stars , Manipulation , Mediterraneo , Session Man , and Thelma & Louise with one . The telecast garnered more than 44 million viewers in the United States .
Toto the Hero ( French : Toto le Héros ) is a 1991 Belgian film ( co-produced with France and Germany ) by Belgian film director and screenwriter Jaco Van Dormael . It won the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Jaco Van Dormael ( born 9 February 1957 ) is a Belgian film director , screenwriter and playwright . His films especially focus on a respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities . Van Dormael spent his childhood travelling around Europe , before going on to study filmmaking at the INSAS in Brussels , where he wrote and directed his first short film , Maedeli la brèche ( 1981 ) , which received the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the Student Academy Awards . Van Dormael 's feature debut , Toto le héros ( 1991 ) , won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . Five years later , Le huitième jour ( 1996 ) played at Cannes , where his two leading actors , Daniel Auteuil and Pascal Duquenne , were jointly awarded the prize for Best Actor . His third feature film , Mr. Nobody ( 2009 ) , won six Magritte Awards , including Best Film and Best Director .
The year 1992 in film involved many significant film releases .
The 65th Academy Awards ceremony , presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , honored films released in 1992 in the United States and took place on March 29 , 1993 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 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 Oscars ) in 23 categories . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis . Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the fourth consecutive year . In related events , during a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 6 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Sharon Stone . Unforgiven won four Oscars including Best Picture , Best Director for Clint Eastwood , and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman . Al Pacino and Emma Thompson won lead acting honors for Scent of a Woman and Howards End , respectively . Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny . The telecast garnered 45.7 million viewers in the United States .
Daens is a 1992 Belgian period drama film directed by Stijn Coninx , after a novel by Louis Paul Boon . This 1992 drama starring Jan Decleir , Gérard Desarthe , Antje de Boeck and Michael Pas , tells the true story of Adolf Daens , a Catholic priest in Aalst who strives to improve the miserable working conditions in the local factories . It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992 . In 2008 the film 's screenplay was adapted into a stage musical .
Stijn , Baron Coninx ( born 21 February 1957 ) is a Belgian film director .
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films , including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park , The Fugitive and The Firm . ( For more about films in foreign languages , check sources in those languages . ) Walt Disney Studios celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1993 .
The 66th Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21 , 1994 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 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 Oscars ) in 23 categories . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis . Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the first time . Nearly a month earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California on February 26 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Laura Dern . Schindler 's List won seven awards , including Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Spielberg . Other winners included Jurassic Park and The Piano with three awards each , Philadelphia with two awards , and The Age of Innocence , Belle Epoque , Defending Our Lives , The Fugitive , I Am a Promise : The Children of Stanton Elementary School , Mrs. Doubtfire , Schwarzfahrer and The Wrong Trousers with one . The telecast was watched by more than 46 million viewers in the United States .
Just Friends is a 1993 Belgian-Dutch film . It was directed and produced by Marc-Henri Wajnberg , written by Pierre Sterckx and Alexandre Wajnberg , and starred Josse De Pauw , Ann-Gisel Glass , Charles Berling , and Sylvie Milhaud . Set in Antwerp , Just Friends is about the jazz scene in the 1950s . The film received the André Cavens Award and won three Joseph Plateau Awards , including Best Film and Best Director for Wajnberg . It was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards . The music was written and supervised by Michel Herr and featured saxophonist Archie Shepp .
Marc-Henri Wajnberg is a Belgian film director born in 1953 . He is also a screenwriter , an actor and the co-founder and CEO of Wajnbrosse Productions . His productions are eclectic , overall he has made 2800 very short films - including the famous collection Clapman broadcast worldwide during years . His short film , Le Réveil ( The Alarm Clock ) starring Jean-Claude Dreyfus was awarded in Cannes and received 22 awards around the world . He directed and produced numerous documentaries including Oscar Niemeyer , An architect committed to his century , and Evgueni Khaldei , photographer under Stalin which were awarded in several international film festivals . He coproduced a Lars Von Trier movie , The Five Obstructions , and directed two long features ; Just Friends ( 1995 ) and Kinshasa Kids ( 2012 ) which premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival . His films have amassed over 70 international awards .
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 .
Farinelli is a 1994 internationally co-produced biographical drama film directed by Gérard Corbiau and starring Stefano Dionisi , Enrico Lo Verso , Elsa Zylberstein and Jeroen Krabbé . It centers on the life and career of the 18th-century Italian opera singer Carlo Broschi , known as Farinelli , considered the greatest castrato singer of all time ; as well as his relationship with his brother , composer Riccardo Broschi .
Italian ( italiano [ itaˈljaːno ] ( listen ) or lingua italiana [ ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna ] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family . Italian descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire and , together with Sardinian , is by most measures the closest language to it of the Romance languages . Italian is an official language in Italy , Switzerland ( where it is the first language in Canton Ticino and in the districts of Moesa and Bernina in Canton Graubünden ) , San Marino and Vatican City . It has an official minority status in western Istria ( Croatia and Slovenia ) . It formerly had official status in Albania , Malta , Monaco , Montenegro ( Kotor ) and Greece ( Ionian Islands and Dodecanese ) , and is generally understood in Corsica ( due to its close relation with the Tuscan-influenced local language ) and Savoie . It also used to be an official language in the former Italian East Africa and Italian North Africa , where it still plays a significant role in various sectors . Italian is also spoken by large expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia . Italian is included under the languages covered by the European Charter for Regional or Minority languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Romania , although Italian is neither a co-official nor a protected language in these countries . Many speakers of Italian are native bilinguals of both Italian ( either in its standard form or regional varieties ) and other regional languages . Italian is a major European language , being one of the official languages of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and one of the working languages of the Council of Europe . It is the fourth most widely spoken first language in the European Union with 69 million native speakers ( 13% of the EU population ) and it is spoken as a second language by 16 million EU citizens ( 3% ) . Including Italian speakers in non-EU European countries ( such as Switzerland and Albania ) and on other continents , the total number of speakers is around 90 million .
This is a list of films released in 1995 . The highly anticipated sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance was the year 's biggest box-office hit , and Braveheart won the Academy Award for Best Picture .
The 68th Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , honored the best films of 1995 in the United States and took place on March 25 , 1996 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 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 Oscars ) in 24 categories . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Quincy Jones and directed by Jeff Margolis . Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the second time , having previously presided over the 66th ceremony in 1994 . Three weeks earlier , in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills , California , on March 2 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Richard Dreyfuss . Braveheart won five awards , including Best Director for Mel Gibson and Best Picture . Other winners included Apollo 13 , Pocahontas , Restoration and The Usual Suspects with two awards , and Anne Frank Remembered , Antonia 's Line , Babe , A Close Shave , Dead Man Walking , Il Postino : The Postman , Leaving Las Vegas , Lieberman in Love , Mighty Aphrodite , One Survivor Remembers and Sense and Sensibility with one . The telecast garnered almost 45 million viewers in the United States .
Manneken Pis is a 1995 Belgian comedy-drama film directed by Frank Van Passel and written by Christophe Dirickx . It premiered in May 1995 at the Cannes Film Festival . It received the André Cavens Award for Best Film and four awards at the Joseph Plateau Awards . The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Frank Van Passel ( born 23 June 1964 ) is a Belgian film director and producer . In 1995 , he made his directorial film debut with Manneken Pis , which premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and won the Mercedes-Benz Award , Grand Golden Rail , Award of the Youth and the Prix Guillermo del Toro . The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film and four awards at the Joseph Plateau Awards . Van Passel 's next film , Villa des Roses ( 2002 ) , was adapted from the 1913 novella of the same name by Belgian writer Willem Elsschot . The film starred Julie Delpy , Shaun Dingwall and Shirley Henderson . It won Best Feature at the Hollywood Film Festival and was nominated for three awards at the British Independent Film Awards . His TV-series received numerous awards , including a Special Commendation Prix d'Europe and the FIPA D'OR Grand Prize in Biarritz for The Emperor of Taste and the TV-critics Award and De HA ! van Humo for Terug naar Oosterdonk . He is co-founder of Caviar , a production company with offices in Brussels , Antwerp , Los Angeles , Paris , Amsterdam , London and Prague .