This is a list of submissions to the 45th 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 45th Academy Awards, twenty-two films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Kuwait submitted a film for the first time. The five nominated films came from France, Israel, Spain, Sweden and the Soviet Union.
France won the eighth time with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Luis Buñuel, which was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Lonely Killers Les tueurs fous French Boris Szulzinger How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês Portuguese, French, Tupi Nelson Pereira dos Santos The Goat Horn Козият рог Bulgarian Metodi Andonov The True Nature of Bernadette La Vraie Nature de Bernadette French Gilles Carle Oh, to Be on the Bandwagon! Man sku være noget ved musikken Danish Henning Carlsen My Wife and the Dog زوجتي و الكلب Arabic Said Marzouk The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie French, Spanish Luis Buñuel Trotta German Johannes Schaaf Present Indicative Jelenidő Hungarian Péter Bacsó Uphaar उपहार Hindi Sudhendu Roy I Love You Rosa אני אוהב אותך רוזה Hebrew Moshé Mizrahi Roma Italian, German, English, French, Latin, Spanish Federico Fellini Under the Flag of the Rising Sun 軍旗はためく下に Japanese Kinji Fukasaku The Cruel Sea فيلم بس يابحر Arabic Khalid Al Siddiq Mirage Espejismo Spanish Armando Robles Godoy Pearl in the Crown Perla w koronie Polish Kazimierz Kutz The Dawns Here Are Quiet А зори здесь тихие Russian, German Stanislav Rostotsky My Dearest Senorita Mi querida señorita Spanish Jaime de Armiñán The New Land Nybyggarna Swedish Jan Troell La Salamandre French Alain Tanner Execution in Autumn 秋決 Mandarin Li Hsing The Master and Margaret Majstor i Margarita Serbo-Croatian, Italian Aleksandar Petrović
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences