This is a list of submissions to the 32nd 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 32nd Academy Awards, thirteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Netherlands, Pakistan, Hong Kong and Singapore submitted films for the first time. The five nominated films came from Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany.
France won for the fifth time with Black Orpheus by Marcel Camus. Even though the film was shot in Brazil, in Portuguese, and with a large Brazilian cast and crew, it was directed by a French filmmaker and produced by French companies, thus was deemed able to represent France.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Paw Danish Astrid Henning-Jensen Black Orpheus Orfeu Negro Brazilian Portuguese Marcel Camus The Bridge Die Brücke German, English Bernhard Wicki For Better, for Worse 雨過天青 Mandarin Yueh Feng The World of Apu অপুর সংসার Bengali Satyajit Ray The Great War La grande guerra Italian Mario Monicelli Fires on the Plain 野火 Japanese Kon Ichikawa Nazarín Spanish Luis Buñuel The Village on the River Dorp aan de rivier Dutch Fons Rademakers The Day Shall Dawn جاگو ہوا سویرا Urdu, Bengali A. J. Kardar The Kingdom and the Beauty 江山美人 Mandarin Li Han-hsiang The Nightingale's Prayer دعاء الكروان Egyptian Arabic Henry Barakat Train Without a Timetable Vlak bez voznog reda Serbo-Croatian Veljko Bulajić
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences