This is a list of submissions to the 52nd 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 52nd Academy Awards, twenty-three films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. China submitted a film for the first time. The five nominated films came from France, Italy, Poland, Spain.
West Germany won for the first time with The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Island La isla Spanish Alejandro Doria Tales from the Vienna Woods Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald GermanMaximilian Schell Woman in a Twilight Garden Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf DutchAndré Delvaux The Barrier Бариерата Bulgarian Christo Christov A Scream from Silence Mourir à tue-tête French Anne Claire Poirier Effendi 阿凡提 Mandarin Lang Xiao Those Wonderful Men With A Crank Báječní muži s klikou CzechJiří Menzel Johnny Larsen Danish Morten Arnfred Alexandria... Why? إسكندرية... ليه؟ Arabic Youssef Chahine A Simple Story Une histoire simple French, English Claude Sautet The Tin Drum Die Blechtrommel German Volker Schlöndorff Raining in the Mountain 空山灵雨 Mandarin King Hu Angi Vera Hungarian Pál Gábor Moments רגעים Hebrew, French Michal Bat-Adam To Forget Venice Dimenticare Venezia Italian Franco Brusati Gassan 月山 Japanese Tetsutaro Murano A Woman Like Eve Een Vrouw als Eva Dutch, English Nouchka van Brakel The Maids of Wilko Panny z Wilka Polish Andrzej Wajda Autumn Marathon Осенний марафон Russian Georgiy Daneliya Mama Turns A Hundred Mamá cumple cien años Spanish Carlos Saura A Respectable Life Ett anständigt liv Swedish Stefan Jarl Les petites fugues French Yves Yersin The Man to Destroy Čovjek koga treba ubiti Serbo-Croatian Veljko Bulajić
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences