List of submissions to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 33rd 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 33rd Academy Awards, twelve films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Brazil submitted a film to the competition for the first time. The five nominated films came from France, Italy, Mexico, Sweden and Yugoslavia.

Sweden won for the first time with The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman, which was also nominated for Best Costume Design, Black and White.

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Death Commands Brigandage A Morte Comanda o Cangaço Brazilian Portuguese Carlos Coimbra & Walter Guimarães Motta La Vérité French Henri-Georges Clouzot Faust German Peter Gorski The Enchanting Shadow 倩女幽魂 Mandarin Li Han-hsiang The Great Moghul मुग़ल-ए आज़म / مغلِ اعظم Hindi, Urdu K. Asif Kapò Italian Gillo Pontecorvo Late Autumn 秋日和 Japanese Yasujirō Ozu Macario Spanish Roberto Gavaldón At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon A las cinco de la tarde Juan Antonio Bardem The Virgin Spring Jungfrukällan Swedish Ingmar Bergman Teenagers المراهقات Arabic Ahmed Diaeddin The Ninth Circle Deveti krug Serbo-Croatian France Štiglic

References

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