This is a list of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.
For the 69th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 November 1995 and 31 October 1996. The deadline for submissions to the Academy was 1 November 1996. 39 countries submitted films, and 38 were found to be eligible by AMPAS and screened for voters. Albania, Australia and Georgia submitted films for the first time. The five nominees were announced on 11 February 1997.
The Czech Republic won the award for the first time, marking the first win since its dissolution, with Kolya by Jan Svěrák.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Colonel Bunker Kolonel Bunker Albanian, English Kujtim Çashku Hi Cousin! Salut cousin! French, Arabic Merzak Allouache Eva Peron Eva Perón Spanish Juan Carlos Desanzo Floating Life 浮生 Cantonese, English, German Clara Law Hannah German Reinhard Schwabenitzky From Hell to Hell Из ада в ад / З пекла ў пекла German, Russian, Yiddish Dmitriy Astrakhan The Eighth Day Le huitième jour French Jaco Van Dormael Tieta of Agreste Tieta do Agreste Brazilian Portuguese Carlos Diegues Not Me! Sous-sol French Pierre Gang Oedipus Mayor Edipo alcalde Spanish Jorge Alí Triana Nausikaya Nausikaja Croatian, Dalmatian Croatian Vicko Ruić Think of Me Pon tu pensamiento en mí Spanish Kolya Kolja Czech, Slovak, Russian Jan Svěrák Hamsun Danish, Swedish, German, Norwegian, English Jan Troell Drifting Clouds Kauas pilvet karkaavat Finnish, Finland Swedish Aki Kaurismäki Ridicule French, French Sign Language Patrice Leconte A Chef in Love შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი French, Georgian, Russian Nana Jorjadze Deathmaker Der Totmacher German Romuald Karmakar Hu-Du-Men 虎度門 Cantonese Shu Kei Vaska Easoff Haggyállógva, Vászka Russian, Hungarian Péter Gothár Devil's Island Djöflaeyjan Icelandic Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Indian இந்தியன் Tamil S. Shankar Saint Clara קלרה הקדושה Hebrew, Russian, French, English Ari Folman and Ori Sivan My Generation La mia generazione Italian Wilma Labate A Class to Remember II 学校II Japanese Yoji Yamada Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda Spanish Sabina Berman and Isabelle Tardans Long Live the Queen Lang leve de koningin Dutch The Other Side of Sunday Søndagsengler Norwegian Berit Nesheim Dead Sure Segurista Tagalog Tikoy Aguiluz At Full Gallop Cwał Polish, Russian, French, Italian, English Krzysztof Zanussi State of Things Stare de fapt Romanian Stere Gulea Prisoner of the Mountains Кавказский пленник Russian, Chechen, Georgian, Turkish Sergei Bodrov Felix Feliks Slovene, French, Italian, Hungarian, German Božo Šprajc Bwana Spanish, English, German, Bube Imanol Uribe Jerusalem Swedish, English Bille August The Lambs Les agneaux French Tonight Nobody Goes Home 今天不回家 Mandarin, Cantonese Sylvia Chang Gone, Gone Forever Gone Bụi hồng Vietnamese Hồ Quang Minh Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Лепа села лепо горе Bosnian, Serbian, English, German Srđan Dragojević
Notes
Finland submitted Drifting Clouds by Aki Kaurismäki, but it was ejected before the formal review process because Kaurismäki withdrew the film from consideration.
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