This is a list of submissions to the 36th 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 36th Academy Awards, fourteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Poland and the Soviet Union submitted films to the competition for the first time. Pakistan didn't submit a film again until 2013 with Zinda Bhaag being submitted. The five nominated films came from Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland and Spain.

Italy won for the sixth time with 8½ by Federico Fellini, which also won Best Costume Design – Black-and-White, alongside nominations for Best Director, Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen and Best Art Direction – Black-and-White.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Le Feu Follet French Louis Malle The Red Lanterns Τα κόκκινα φανάρια Greek Vasilis Georgiadis The Love Eterne 梁山伯与祝英台 Mandarin Li Han-hsiang Metropolis মহানগর Bengali Satyajit Ray 8½ Otto e mezzo Italian Federico Fellini Twin Sisters of Kyoto 古都 Japanese Noboru Nakamura The Paper Man El hombre de papel Spanish, Italian Ismael Rodríguez Like Two Drops of Water Als twee druppels water Dutch Fons Rademakers The Veil گھونگھٹ Urdu Khurshid Anwar Knife in the Water Nóż w Wodzie Polish Roman Polanski My Name Is Ivan Ива́ново Де́тство Russian Andrei Tarkovsky Los Tarantos Spanish Francisco Rovira Beleta The Silence Tystnaden Swedish Ingmar Bergman Kozara Козара Serbo-Croatian Veljko Bulajić

References

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