This is a list of submissions to the 56th 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 56th Academy Awards, twenty-six films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Dominican Republic submitted a film for the first time. The five nominated films came from Algeria, France, Hungary, Spain and Sweden.
Sweden won the award for the third time with Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman, which also won Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design, alongside nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Le Bal Le Bal No Dialogue Ettore Scola Tramps Die letzte Runde German Peter Patzak The Tin Flute Bonheur d'occasion French Claude Fournier My Memories of Old Beijing 城南旧事 Mandarin Wu Yigong Incomplete Eclipse Neúplné zatmění Czech Jaromil Jireš Zappa Danish Bille August Guaguasi Spanish Jorge Ulla Entre Nous Coup de foudre French Diane Kurys The Turning Point Der Aufenthalt German Frank Beyer A Woman in Flames Die flambierte Frau Robert van Ackeren Job's Revolt Jób lázadása Hungarian Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay The House Húsið Icelandic Egill Eðvarðsson A Married Couple זוג נשוי Hebrew Yitzhak Yeshurun And the Ship Sails On E la nave va Italian Federico Fellini Antarctica 南極物語 JapaneseKoreyoshi Kurahara Erendira Eréndira Spanish, Portuguese Ruy Guerra The Fourth Man De vierde man Dutch Paul Verhoeven Maruja in Hell Maruja en el infierno Spanish Francisco José Lombardi No Trace of Sin Sem Sombra de Pecado Portuguese José Fonseca e Costa Return from Hell Întoarcerea din iad Romanian Nicolae Mărgineanu Vassa Васса Russian Gleb Panfilov Carmen Spanish Carlos Saura Fanny and Alexander Fanny och Alexander Swedish, German Ingmar Bergman In the White City Dans la ville blanche French, German, Portuguese Alain Tanner Growing Up 小畢的故事 Mandarin Chen Kunhou Great Transport Veliki transport Serbo-Croatian Veljko Bulajić
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