This is a list of submissions to the 49th 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 49th Academy Awards, twenty-four films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Japan failed to submit a film, for the first and only time, while East Germany received its only nomination ever for Jacob the Liar. The five nominated films came from the Ivory Coast, East Germany, France, Italy and Poland.
Ivory Coast won for the first time with Black and White in Color by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic Los muchachos de antes no usaban arsénico Spanish José A. Martínez Suárez High Street Rue Haute French André Ernotte Xica Xica da Silva Brazilian Portuguese Carlos Diegues One Silver Piece Jeden Stříbrný Czech Jaroslav Balík The Olsen Gang Sees Red Olsen-banden ser rødt Danish Erik Balling Whom Should We Shoot? على من نطلق الرصاص Arabic Kamal El Sheikh Cousin, Cousine French Jean-Charles Tacchella Jacob the Liar Jakob der Lügner German Frank Beyer The Clown Ansichten eines Clowns Vojtěch Jasný The Last Tempest 瀛台泣血 Mandarin Han Hsiang Li The Fifth Seal Az ötödik pecsét Hungarian Zoltán Fábri Seven Beauties Pasqualino Settebellezze Italian Lina Wertmüller Black and White in Color Noirs et blancs en couleur French, English Jean-Jacques Annaud Length of War Longitud de guerra Spanish Gonzalo Martínez Ortega Max Havelaar Max Havelaar of de koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche handelsmaatschappij Dutch, Indonesian Fons Rademakers Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon Tagalog, Filipino, English, Spanish Eddie Romero Nights and Days Noce i dnie Polish Jerzy Antczak The Doom Osânda Romanian Sergiu Nicolaescu They Fought For Their Motherland Они сражались за родину Russian Sergei Bondarchuk Raise Ravens Cría cuervos Spanish Carlos Saura City of My Dreams Mina drömmars stad Swedish Ingvar Skogsberg Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 French Alain Tanner Eight Hundred Heroes 八百壮士 Mandarin Ting Shan-hsi The Rat Savior Izbavitelj Serbo-Croatian Krsto Papić
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences