List of submissions to the 34th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 34th 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 34th Academy Awards, thirteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Argentina, Austria and Switzerland submitted films for the first time. France and Italy both failed to be nominated for the first time since the introduction of the competitive award. The five nominated films came from Denmark, Japan, Mexico, Spain and Sweden.

Sweden and Ingmar Bergman won for a second year in a row with Through a Glass Darkly, which was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay in the subsequent ceremony (35th Academy Awards).

Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Summer Skin Piel de verano Spanish Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Jedermann German Gottfried Reinhardt Harry and the Butler Harry og kammertjeneren Danish Bent Christensen Love and Faith وا إسلاماه Arabic Enrico Bomba & Andrew Marton Last Year at Marienbad L'Année dernière à Marienbad French Alain Resnais The Miracle of Father Malachia Das Wunder des Malachias German Bernhard Wicki Stree स्त्री Hindi Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram The Night La Notte Italian Michelangelo Antonioni Immortal Love 永遠の人 Japanese Keisuke Kinoshita The Important Man Ánimas Trujano Spanish Ismael Rodríguez The Moises Padilla Story Tagalog, Filipino Gerardo de León Plácido Spanish Luis García Berlanga Through a Glass Darkly Såsom i en spegel Swedish Ingmar Bergman The Shadows Grow Longer Die Schatten werden länger German Ladislao Vajda

References

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