This is a list of submissions to the 59th 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.
Puerto Rico submitted a film for consideration for the first time. For the 59th Academy Awards, thirty-two films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France and Netherlands. Austria and Canada were nominated for the first time.
Netherlands won the award for the first time with The Assault by Harry Mulisch.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Last Image La dernière image French Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Tangos, the Exile of Gardel Tangos, el exilio de Gardel Spanish, French Fernando Solanas 38 38 – Auch das war Wien German Wolfgang Glück Jumping Springen Dutch Jean-Pierre De Decker The Hour of the Star A Hora da Estrela Brazilian Portuguese Suzana Amaral The Decline of the American Empire Le Déclin de l'empire américain French, English Denys Arcand Dr. Sun Yat-sen 孙中山 Mandarin Ding Yinnan Time to Die Tiempo de morir Spanish Jorge Alí Triana My Sweet Little Village Vesnicko má stredisková Czech Jiří Menzel The Dark Side of the Moon Manden i månen Danish Erik Clausen The Unknown Soldier Tuntematon sotilas Finnish Rauni Mollberg Betty Blue 37°2 le matin French Jean-Jacques Beineix Men... Männer... German Doris Dörrie Cat City Macskafogó Hungarian Béla Ternovszk The Beast Eins og skepnan deyr Icelandic Hilmar Oddsson The Pearl சிப்பிக்குள் முத்து Telugu K. Viswanath Avanti Popolo אוונטי פופלו Hebrew, Arabic, English Rafi Bukai Summer Night Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico Italian Lina Wertmüller Final Take キネマの天地 Japanese Yōji Yamada The Realm of Fortune El imperio de la fortuna Spanish Arturo Ripstein The Assault De aanslag Dutch, English, German Fons Rademakers Hard Asphalt Hard asfalt Norwegian Sølve Skagen Axiliad Siekierezada Polish Witold Leszczyński La Gran Fiesta Spanish Marcos Zurinaga The Last Assault Noi, cei din linia întîi Romanian Sergiu Nicolaescu The Wild Pigeon Чужая белая и рябой Russian Sergei Solovyov Eunuch 내시 Korean Doo-yong Lee Half of Heaven La mitad del cielo Spanish Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón The Sacrifice Offret Swedish, English, French Andrei Tarkovsky Tanner Der Schwarze Tanner Swiss German Xavier Koller The Heroic Pioneers 唐山过台湾 Mandarin Li Hsing Happy New Year '49 Среќна Нова '49 Macedonian, Serbian Stole Popov
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