This is a list of submissions to the 48th 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 48th Academy Awards, twenty-one films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland and the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union won for the second time with Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Chronicle of the Years of Fire وقائع سنين الجمر Algerian Arabic, French Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf Nazareno Cruz y el lobo, las palomas y los gritos Spanish, Quechua Leonardo Favio Ogum's Amulet O Amuleto de Ogum Brazilian Portuguese Nelson Pereira dos Santos Orders Les Ordres French Michel Brault Circus in the Circus Cirkus v cirkuse Czech, Russian Oldřich Lipský Per Danish Hans Kristensen I Want a Solution أريد حلاً Egyptian Arabic Said Marzouk India Song French Marguerite Duras Every Man For Himself and God Against All Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle German, English Werner Herzog The Travelling Players Ο Θίασος Greek Theodoros Angelopoulos Adoption Örökbefogadás Hungarian Márta Mészáros My Michael מיכאל שלי Hebrew Dan Wolman Scent of a Woman Profumo di donna Italian Dino Risi Sandakan No. 8 サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 Japanese Kei Kumai Letters from Marusia Actas de Marusia Spanish Miguel Littín Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies Dokter Pulder zaait papavers Dutch Bert Haanstra Land of Promise Ziemia obiecana Polish, German Andrzej Wajda Dersu Uzala Дерсу Узала / デルス·ウザーラ Russian, Mandarin, Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin Akira Kurosawa Poachers Furtivos Spanish José Luis Borau Confrontation Konfrontation Swiss German, German Rolf Lyssy The Day That Shook the World Sarajevski atentat Czech, Serbo-Croatian, English, German Veljko Bulajić
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences