This is a list of submissions to the 43rd 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 43rd Academy Awards, thirteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
Italy won for the eighth time with Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Elio Petri, which was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the subsequent year (44th Academy Awards).
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Paix sur les champs French Jacques Boigelot Mortal Sin Pecado Mortal Brazilian Portuguese Miguel Faria Jr. Re.: Lone Ang.: Lone Danish Franz Ernst The Night of Counting the Years المومياء Classical Arabic Shadi Abdel Salam Hoa-Binh Vietnamese, French, English, Cantonese Raoul Coutard o.k. German Michael Verhoeven Lovefilm Szerelmesfilm Hungarian István Szabó Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto Italian Elio Petri The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan 無頼漢 Japanese Masahiro Shinoda Salt of the Black Earth Sól ziemi czarnej Polish Kazimierz Kutz Tristana Spanish Luis Buñuel A Swedish Love Story En Kärlekshistoria Swedish Roy Andersson First Love Erste Liebe French, German Maximilian Schell
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences