This is a list of submissions to the 58th 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. 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. 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.
For the 58th Academy Awards, thirty films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from France, Hungary, West Germany and Yugoslavia and Argentina.
Argentina won the award for the first time with The Official Story by Luis Puenzo, which was also nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It became the first Latin American film to win the award.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Official Story La historia oficial Spanish Luis Puenzo Malambo German Milan Dor Dust French, English Marion Hänsel Jacques and November Jacques et novembre French Jean Beaudry and François Bouvier Scalpel, Please Skalpel, prosím Czech Jirí Svoboda Twist and Shout Tro, håb og kærlighed Danish Bille August Three Men and a Cradle Trois hommes et un couffin French Coline Serreau Angry Harvest Bittere Ernte German Agnieszka Holland Colonel Redl Oberst Redl, Redl ezredes German, Hungarian István Szabó Deep Winter Skammdegi Icelandic Þráinn Bertelsson Saagar सागर Hindi Ramesh Sippy When Night Falls עד סוף הלילה Hebrew Eitan Green Macaroni Maccheroni Italian Ettore Scola Gray Sunset 花いちもんめ Japanese Shunya Ito Frida Still Life Frida, naturaleza viva Spanish Paul Leduc The Dream De Dream Dutch, West Frisian Pieter Verhoeff Wives – Ten Years After Hustruer – ti år etter Norwegian Anja Breien The City and the Dogs La ciudad y los perros Spanish Francisco José Lombardi This Is My Country Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim Tagalog, Filipino Lino Brocka Yesterday Polish Radosław Piwowarski Ana Portuguese Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis Ciuleandra Romanian Sergiu Nicolaescu Come and See Иди и смотри, Ідзі і глядзі Russian, Belarusian Elem Klimov Eoudong 어우동 Korean Lee Jang-ho The Witching Hour La hora bruja Spanish Jaime de Armiñán Ronia the Robber's Daughter Ronja Rövardotter Swedish Tage Danielsson Alpine Fire Höhenfeuer Swiss German Fredi M. Murer Kuei-Mei, a Woman 我這樣過了一生 Mandarin Chang Yi Oriana Spanish Fina Torres When Father Was Away on Business Otac na službenom putu Serbo-Croatian Emir Kusturica
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