This is a list of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States.[1] The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.[2] Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.[2]
For the 54th Academy Awards , twenty-five films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Italy, Japan, Poland and Switzerland. Hungary won the award with the film Mephisto .[3]
Submissions
Submitting country
Film title used in nomination
Original title
Language(s)
Director(s)
Result
Argentina
The Underground Man
El hombre del subsuelo
Spanish
Nicolás Sarquís
Not nominated
Austria
Der Bockerer
Der Bockerer
German
Franz Antel
Not nominated
Belgium
Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven
French
Jean-Jacques Andrien
Not nominated
Brazil
Pixote
Portuguese
Héctor Babenco
Disqualified[4]
Canada
Les Plouffe
French, English
Gilles Carle
Not nominated
Czechoslovakia
The Divine Emma
Božská Ema
Czech
Jiří Krejčík
Not nominated
Egypt
People on the Top
أهل القمة
Egyptian Arabic
Aly Badrakhan
Not nominated
Finland
Sign of the Beast
Pedon Merkki
Finnish
Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Not nominated
France
Diva
French, English
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Not nominated
West Germany
Lili Marleen
German
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Not nominated
Greece
The Man with the Carnation
Ο άνθρωπος με το γαρίφαλο
Greek
Nikos Tzimas
Not nominated
Hungary
Mephisto
Hungarian , German, English, Esperanto
István Szabó
Won Academy Award
Iceland
Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli
Útlaginn
Icelandic
Ágúst Guðmundsson
Not nominated
Israel
A Thousand Little Kisses
אלף נשיקות קטנות
Hebrew
Mira Recanati
Not nominated
Italy
Three Brothers
Tre fratelli
Italian
Francesco Rosi
Nominated
Japan
Muddy River
泥の川
Japanese
Kōhei Oguri
Nominated
Mexico
Mojado Power
Spanish
Alfonso Arau
Not nominated
Netherlands
Come-Back!
Dutch
Jonne Severijn
Not nominated
Norway
Julia Julia
Norwegian
Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam
Not nominated
Poland
Man of Iron
Człowiek z żelaza
Polish
Andrzej Wajda
Nominated
Soviet Union
O, Sport, You – the Peace!
О спорт, ты - мир!
Russian
Yuri Ozerov
Not nominated
Spain
National Heritage
Patrimonio nacional
Spanish
Luis García Berlanga
Not nominated
Sweden
Children's Island
Barnens ö
Swedish
Kay Pollak
Not nominated
Switzerland
The Boat Is Full
Das Boot ist Voll
German, Swiss German , French
Markus Imhoof
Nominated
Taiwan
If I Were for Real
假如我是真的
Mandarin
Wang Toon
Not nominated
Yugoslavia
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell?
Serbo-Croatian
Emir Kusturica
Not nominated
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