List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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This is a list of submissions to the 56th 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[2]

For the 56th Academy Awards, twenty-six films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Dominican Republic submitted a film for the first time. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Algeria, France, Hungary, Spain and the eventual winner, Fanny and Alexander, from Sweden.[3]

Submissions[edit]

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Algeria The Ball Le Bal No Dialogue Ettore Scola Nominated
 Austria Tramps Die letzte Runde German Peter Patzak Not nominated
 Canada The Tin Flute Bonheur d'occasion French Claude Fournier Not nominated
 China My Memories of Old Beijing 城南旧事 Mandarin Wu Yigong Not nominated
 Czechoslovakia Incomplete Eclipse Neúplné zatmění Czech Jaromil Jireš Not nominated
 Denmark Zappa Danish Bille August Not nominated
 Dominican Republic Guaguasi Spanish Jorge Ulla Not nominated
 France Entre Nous Coup de foudre French Diane Kurys Nominated
 East Germany The Turning Point Der Aufenthalt German Frank Beyer Not nominated
 West Germany A Woman in Flames Die flambierte Frau Robert van Ackeren Not nominated
 Hungary Job's Revolt Jób lázadása Hungarian Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay Nominated
 Iceland The House Húsið Icelandic Egill Eðvarðsson Not nominated
 Israel A Married Couple זוג נשוי Hebrew Yitzhak Yeshurun Not nominated
 Italy And the Ship Sails On E la nave va Italian Federico Fellini Not nominated
 Japan Antarctica 南極物語 Japanese Koreyoshi Kurahara Not nominated
 Mexico Erendira Eréndira Spanish Ruy Guerra Not nominated
 Netherlands The Fourth Man De vierde man Dutch Paul Verhoeven Not nominated
 Peru Maruja in Hell Maruja en el infierno Spanish Francisco José Lombardi Not nominated
 Portugal No Trace of Sin Sem Sombra de Pecado Portuguese José Fonseca e Costa Not nominated
 Romania Return from Hell Întoarcerea din iad Romanian Nicolae Mărgineanu Not nominated
 Soviet Union Vassa Васса Russian Gleb Panfilov Not nominated
 Spain Carmen Spanish Carlos Saura Nominated
 Sweden Fanny and Alexander Fanny och Alexander Swedish, German Ingmar Bergman Won Academy Award
 Switzerland In the White City Dans la ville blanche French. German, Portuguese Alain Tanner Not nominated
 Taiwan Growing Up 小畢的故事 Mandarin Chen Kunhou Not nominated
 Yugoslavia Great Transport Veliki transport Serbo-Croatian Veljko Bulajić Not nominated

References[edit]

  1. ^ "History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 22 June 2008. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Rule 14 | 81st Academy Awards Rules | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 9 August 2008. Archived from the original on 9 August 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  3. ^ "The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 27 October 2013.