List of submissions to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 42nd 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 42nd Academy Awards, twenty-four films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominees came from Algeria, France, Sweden, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Algeria, submitting a film for the first time, became the first African country to receive an Oscar nomination in this category.

Algeria won with Z by Costa-Gavras, which also won Best Film Editing, alongside nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Becoming the first African film to win this category.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Z French, Russian, English Costa-Gavras Moss on the Stones Moos auf den Steinen German Georg Lhotsky Palaver Swahili, Dutch, French, English, German, Latin Emile Degelin Antonio das Mortes O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro Brazilian Portuguese Glauber Rocha The Cremator Spalovač mrtvol Czech, Hebrew Juraj Herz Ballad of Carl-Henning Balladen om Carl-Henning Danish Lene Grønlykke and Sven Grønlykke My Night at Maud's Ma Nuit Chez Maud French Éric Rohmer Hunting Scenes from Bavaria Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern German Peter Fleischmann Girls in the Sun Κοριτσια στον Ηλιο Greek Vasilis Georgiadis The Arch 董夫人 Mandarin Tang Shu Shuen The Upthrown Stone Feldobott kő Hungarian Sándor Sára Deiva Magan தெய்வ மகன் Tamil A. C. Tirulokchandar Siege/Matzor מצור Hebrew Gilberto Tofano Fellini Satyricon Italian, Latin Federico Fellini Kuragejima, Legends From a Southern Island 神々の深き欲望 Japanese Shōhei Imamura Monsieur Hawarden Dutch Harry Kümel The Green Wall La muralla verde Spanish Armando Robles Godoy Everything for Sale Wszystko na Sprzedaż Polish Andrzej Wajda A Woman for a Season Răutăciosul adolescent Romanian Gheorghe Vitanidis The Old Jar Craftsman 독짓는 늙은이 Korean Choi Ha-won The Brothers Karamazov Братья Карамазовы Russian Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov La Celestina Spanish César Fernández Ardavín Ådalen 31 Swedish Bo Widerberg Battle of Neretva Bitka na Neretvi Serbo-Croatian Veljko Bulajić

References

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