List of submissions to the 38th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 38th 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 38th Academy Awards, fifteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Hungary submitted a film to the competition for the first time. The five nominated films came from Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Japan and Sweden.

Czechoslovakia won for the first time with The Shop on Main Street by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, which was also nominated for Best Actress (Ida Kamińska) in the subsequent ceremony (39th Academy Awards). With its win, Czechoslovakia became the first Eastern Bloc country to win an Academy Award, during the peak of the Cold War.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Pajarito Gómez Pajarito Gómez Spanish Rodolfo Kuhn Sao Paulo Incorporated São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima Brazilian PortugueseLuis Sérgio Person The Shop on Main Street Obchod na korze Slovak, Yiddish Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos Gertrud Danish Carl Theodor Dreyer The Impossible المستحيل Arabic Hussein Kamal Pierrot le Fou French, English Jean-Luc Godard It German Ulrich Schamoni Blood on the Land Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο Greek Vasilis Georgiadis Twenty Hours Húsz óra Hungarian Zoltán Fábri Guide गाइड Hindi Vijay Anand The Glass Cage קלאב הזחוחית French, Hebrew Philippe Arthuys & Jean-Louis Levi-Alvarès Marriage Italian-Style Matrimonio all'italiana Italian, Neapolitan Vittorio De Sica Kwaidan 怪談 Japanese Masaki Kobayashi Always Further On Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos) Spanish, Rarámuri Luis Alcoriza La Tía Tula Spanish Miguel Picazo Dear John Käre John Swedish Lars-Magnus Lindgren

References

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