More foreign-language movies have been submitted to this year's Oscar awards then ever before.

Movies from a record 58 countries are in contention for this year's foreign-language Academy Award, including the first entries ever from Iraq, Costa Rica and Fiji.

The previous record was 56 films for the 2003 Oscars. Each country is allowed to submit one film.

Iraq's entry is director Jamil Rostami's "Requiem of Snow," a drama set amid a drought. From Costa Rica comes director Esteban Ramirez's "Caribe," about oil development that threatens a tropical paradise. Fiji has submitted Vilsoni Hereniko's "The Land Has Eyes," about a South Pacific outcast who fights her village's self-righteous traditionalists. . . . . .Full Story