This is a list of submissions to the 39th 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 39th Academy Awards, nineteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Romania submitted a film to the competition for the first time. The five nominated films came from Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Poland and Yugoslavia.

France won for the seventh time with A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch, which also won for Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen, alongside nomination for Best Director and Best Actress (Anouk Aimée).

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Loves of a Blonde Lásky jedné plavovlásky Czech Miloš Forman Hunger Sult Swedish, Norwegian, Danish Henning Carlsen Cairo 30 القاهرة 30 Arabic Salah Abu Seif A Man and a Woman Un homme et une femme French Claude Lelouch Young Törless Der junge Törless German Volker Schlöndorff Queen of Clubs Ντάμα σπαθί Greek Giorgos Skalenakis Come Drink with Me 大醉俠 Mandarin, Cantonese King Hu The Round-Up Szegénylegények Hungarian Miklós Jancsó Amrapali आम्रपाली Hindi Lekh Tandon The Flying Matchmaker שני קוני למל Hebrew Israel Becker The Battle of Algiers La Battaglia di Algeri French, Arabic Gillo Pontecorvo Koto 湖の琴 Japanese Tomotaka Tasaka Black Wind Viento negro Spanish Servando González Pharaoh Faraon Polish Jerzy Kawalerowicz The Uprising Răscoala Romanian Mircea Mureșan Rice 쌀 Korean Shin Sang-ok Persona Swedish Ingmar Bergman The Silent Wife 哑女情深 Mandarin Hsing Lee Three Tri Serbo-Croatian Aleksandar Petrović

References

Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences