List of Thai submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Kingdom of Thailand has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1984, when it became the second independent nation in Southeast Asia to join the competition, after the Philippines. The award is given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.^[1]

Over the years, Thailand has submitted eighteen films to AMPAS for Oscar consideration but thus far no Thai candidate has received an Oscar nomination. Four submissions were directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol, a member of the Thai nobility, and three were directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang.

Submissions

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956.^[1] The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award.

Thai Oscar submissions are selected annually by the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand. All submissions were made in Thai.

Year (Ceremony)	English Title	Thai title	Director	IMDB
1957-1983	No submissions
1984	Story of Nam Poo	น้ำพุ	Euthana Mukdasanit	[1]
1985-1988	No submissions
1989	The Elephant Keeper	คนเลี้ยงช้าง	Chatrichalerm Yukol	[2]
1990	Song of the Chaophraya	น้องเมีย	Chatrichalerm Yukol	[3]
1991-1994	No submissions
1995	Once Upon A Time...This Morning	กาลครั้งหนึ่ง เมื่อเช้านี้	Bhandit Rittakol	[4]
1996	no submission
1997	Daughter 2[2]	เสียดาย 2	Chatrichalerm Yukol	[5]
1998	Who Is Running?[3]	ท้าฟ้าลิขิต	Oxide Pang	[6]
1999	no submission
2000	6ixtynin9[4]	เรื่องตลก 69	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang	[7]
2001	The Moonhunter[5]	14 ตุลา สงครามประชาชน	Bhandit Rittakol	[8]
2002	Monrak Transistor	มนต์รักทรานซิสเตอร์	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang	[9]
2003	Last Life in the Universe[6]	เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang	[10]
2004	The Overture[7]	โหมโรง	Itthisoontorn Vichailak	[11]
2005	The Tin Mine [8]	มหา’ลัย เหมืองแร่	Jira Maligool	[12]
2006	Ahimsa...Stop to Run[9]	อหิงสา จิ๊กโก๋ มีกรรม	Kittikorn Liasirikun	[13]
2007	King Naresuan Part II: Reclamation of Sovereignty (as King of Fire)[10]	ตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช ตอนประกาศอิสรภาพ	Chatrichalerm Yukol	[14]
2008	Love of Siam [11]	รักแห่งสยาม	Chookiat Sakveerakul	[15]
2009	Best of Times	ความจำสั้น แต่รักฉันยาว	Youngyooth Thongkonthun	[16]
2010	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	[17]
2011	Kon Khon[12][13]	คนโขน	Sarunyu Wongkrachang

The selection committee of the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand generally has chosen movies that highlight key moments in Thai history or important social issues.

• Thailand's five earliest submissions all dealt with contemporary social problems included Nam Poo (drug abuse), The Elephant Keeper (environmentalism and illegal logging), Song of the Chaophraya (prostitution and rural migration to Bangkok), Once Upon A Time (child poverty) and Daughter 2 (AIDS).

• Four Thai submissions were fact-based period dramas - King Naresuan Part 2 was a lavish costume drama set in the sixteenth century about one of Thailand's most distinguished kings; The Overture tells the life story of one of Thailand's greatest classical musicians from the 1880s until the 1940s; The Tin Mine is about a spoiled rich kid who ends up working in the titular mine in Southern Thailand in the years following World War II; The Moonhunter followed a band of controversial, leftist rebels in the 1970s.

• Three Thai submissions were fast-paced thrillers, two of which incorporated strong elements of Buddhism and karma into their plots, namely Who is Running? and Ahimsa...Stop to Run. Also submitted was 6ixtynin9, about a recently laid-off woman who finds a huge cache of stolen money.

• Two submissions were romantic comedy-dramas that were box office hits domestically. Love of Siam featured a gay teen romance, and Best of Times featured two potential couples, one in their 20s and one in their 60s.

• Also submitted were a bittersweet genre-bending musical-comedy-drama-romance (Monrak Transistor in 2002) and a surreal, arty drama in Japanese, English and Thai (Last Life in the Universe in 2003).

See also

• Cinema of Thailand
• List of Thai films

References

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