This is a list of submissions to the 57th 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 57th Academy Awards, thirty-two films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Thailand submitted a film for the first time. The five nominated films came from Argentina, Israel, Spain, Soviet Union and Switzerland.
Switzerland won for the first time with Dangerous Moves by Richard Dembo.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Camila Spanish María Luisa Bemberg Just Behind the Door Dicht hinter der Tür German Mansur Madavi Memoirs of Prison Memórias do Cárcere Brazilian PortugueseNelson Pereira dos Santos Sonatine French Micheline Lanctôt Life 人生 Mandarin Wu Tianming A Man of Principle Cóndores no entierran todos los días Spanish Francisco Norden The Millennial Bee Tisícročná včela Slovak, Czech Juraj Jakubisko Tukuma Danish Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt Pessi and Illusia Pessi ja Illusia Finnish Heikki Partanen So Long, Stooge Tchao Pantin French Claude Berri Man Under Suspicion Morgen in Alabama German Norbert Kückelmann Homecoming 似水流年 Cantonese, Mandarin Yim Ho Yerma Hungarian Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay When the Raven Flies Hrafninn flýgur Icelandic Hrafn Gunnlaugsson The Gist सारांश Hindi Mahesh Bhatt Beyond the Walls מאחורי הסורגים Hebrew Uri Barbash Where's Picone? Mi manda Picone Italian Nanni Loy MacArthur's Children 瀬戸内少年野球団 Japanese Masahiro Shinoda Army Brats Schatjes! Dutch Ruud van Hemert The Chieftain Høvdingen Norwegian Terje Kristiansen Of the Flesh Karnal Tagalog, Filipino, English Marilou Diaz-Abaya Dead Man's Seat O Lugar do Morto Portuguese António-Pedro Vasconcelos Glissando Romanian Mircea Daneliuc Wartime Romance Военно-полевой роман Russian Pyotr Todorovsky Mulleya Mulleya 여인잔혹사 물레야 물레야 Korean Lee Doo-yong Double Feature Sesión continua Spanish José Luis Garci Åke and His World Åke och hans värld Swedish Allan Edwall Dangerous Moves La Diagonale du fou French Richard Dembo Old Mao's Second Spring 老莫的第二个春天 Mandarin You-ning Lee The Story of Nampoo น้ำพุ Thai Euthana Mukdasanit The House of Water La casa de agua Spanish Jacobo Penzo The End of the War Kraj Rata Serbo-Croatian Dragan Kresoja
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