List of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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. 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 54th Academy Awards, twenty-five films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Italy, Japan, Poland and Switzerland.

Although Pixote was accepted as the Brazilian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film it was later disqualified since it was test marketed in Brazil before the allowable date.

Hungary won for the first time with Mephisto by István Szabó.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Underground Man El hombre del subsuelo Spanish Nicolás Sarquís Der Bockerer Der Bockerer German Franz Antel Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven French Jean-Jacques Andrien Pixote Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco Portuguese Héctor Babenco Les Plouffe French, English Gilles Carle The Divine Emma Božská Ema Czech Jiří Krejčík People on the Top أهل القمة Egyptian Arabic Aly Badrakhan Sign of the Beast Pedon Merkki Finnish Jaakko Pakkasvirta Diva French, English Jean-Jacques Beineix Lili Marleen German Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Man with the Carnation Ο άνθρωπος με το γαρίφαλο Greek Nikos Tzimas Mephisto Hungarian, German, English, Esperanto István Szabó Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli Útlaginn Icelandic Ágúst Guðmundsson A Thousand Little Kisses אלף נשיקות קטנות Hebrew Mira Recanati Three Brothers Tre fratelli Italian Francesco Rosi Muddy River 泥の川 Japanese Kōhei Oguri Mojado Power Spanish Alfonso Arau Come-Back! Dutch Jonne Severijn Julia Julia Norwegian Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam Man of Iron Człowiek z żelaza Polish Andrzej Wajda O, Sport, You – the Peace! О спорт, ты - мир! Russian Yuri Ozerov National Heritage Patrimonio nacional Spanish Luis García Berlanga Children's Island Barnens ö Swedish Kay Pollak The Boat Is Full Das Boot ist Voll German, Swiss German, French Markus Imhoof If I Were for Real 假如我是真的 Mandarin Wang Toon Do You Remember Dolly Bell? Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell? Serbo-Croatian Emir Kusturica

References

Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences