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, twenty Spanish films have been nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, four of which have won the award: "Begin the Beguine" in 1982, "Belle Époque" in 1993, "All About My Mother" in 1999 and "The Sea Inside" in 2004. Among all countries that have submitted films for the award, Spain ranks third in terms of films that have won the award, behind Italy (ten awards) and France (nine awards) and tied with Japan (four awards), and third in terms of nominees, behind France (thirty-four nominations) and Italy (twenty-seven nominations).