This is a list of submissions to the 53rd 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 53rd Academy Awards, twenty-six films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Cameroon, Colombia, Iceland and Portugal all submitted films for the first time. Iceland has submitted a film every year since then, while Cameroon did not submit again until 2017. The five nominated films came from France, Hungary, Japan and Spain.
The Soviet Union won for the third time with the Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears by Vladimir Menshov.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung Egon Schiele - Exzesse German, English, French Herbert Vesely Bye Bye Brazil Bye Bye Brasil Brazilian Portuguese Carlos Diegues Our Daughter Notre fille French Daniel Kamwa Good Riddance Les Bons débarras Francis Mankiewicz The Latin Immigrant El inmigrante latino Spanish Gustavo Nieto Roa Love Between the Raindrops Lásky mezi kapkami deště Czech Karel Kachyňa Tulipää Finnish Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehto The Last Metro Le Dernier Métro French François Truffaut The Fiancee Die Verlobte German Günther Rücker and Günter Reisch Fabian Wolf Gremm Confidence Bizalom Hungarian, German István Szabó Land and Sons Land og synir Icelandic Ágúst Guðmundsson Payal Ki Jhankaar पायल की झंकार Hindi Satyen Bose The Thin Line על חבל דק Hebrew Michal Bat-Adam A Leap in the Dark Salto nel vuoto Italian Marco Bellocchio Kagemusha 影武者 Japanese Akira Kurosawa In for Treatment Opname Dutch Marja Kok and Erik van Zuylen Life and Death Liv og død Norwegian Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam Olympics 40 Olimpiada 40 Polish Andrzej Kotkowski Morning Undersea Manhã Submersa Portuguese Lauro António Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears Москва слезам не верит Russian Vladimir Menshov The Nest El nido Spanish Jaime de Armiñán Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti Herr Puntila och hans dräng Matti Swedish Ralf Långbacka Every Man for Himself Sauve qui peut (la vie) French Jean-Luc Godard The Legend of Six Dynasty 六朝怪談 Mandarin Guk-Gam Wong Special Treatment Poseban tretman Serbo-Croatian Goran Paskaljević
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences