List of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 54th 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 54th Academy Awards, twenty-five films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Italy, Japan, Poland and Switzerland. Hungary won the award with the film Mephisto.[3]

Submissions edit

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
  Argentina The Underground Man El hombre del subsuelo Spanish Nicolás Sarquís Not nominated
  Austria Der Bockerer Der Bockerer German Franz Antel Not nominated
  Belgium Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven French Jean-Jacques Andrien Not nominated
  Brazil Pixote Portuguese Héctor Babenco Disqualified[4]
  Canada Les Plouffe French, English Gilles Carle Not nominated
  Czechoslovakia The Divine Emma Božská Ema Czech Jiří Krejčík Not nominated
  Egypt People on the Top أهل القمة Egyptian Arabic Aly Badrakhan Not nominated
  Finland Sign of the Beast Pedon Merkki Finnish Jaakko Pakkasvirta Not nominated
  France Diva French, English Jean-Jacques Beineix Not nominated
  West Germany Lili Marleen German Rainer Werner Fassbinder Not nominated
  Greece The Man with the Carnation Ο άνθρωπος με το γαρίφαλο Greek Nikos Tzimas Not nominated
  Hungary Mephisto Hungarian, German, English, Esperanto István Szabó Won Academy Award
  Iceland Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli Útlaginn Icelandic Ágúst Guðmundsson Not nominated
  Israel A Thousand Little Kisses אלף נשיקות קטנות Hebrew Mira Recanati Not nominated
  Italy Three Brothers Tre fratelli Italian Francesco Rosi Nominated
  Japan Muddy River 泥の川 Japanese Kōhei Oguri Nominated
  Mexico Mojado Power Spanish Alfonso Arau Not nominated
  Netherlands Come-Back! Dutch Jonne Severijn Not nominated
  Norway Julia Julia Norwegian Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam Not nominated
  Poland Man of Iron Człowiek z żelaza Polish Andrzej Wajda Nominated
  Soviet Union O, Sport, You – the Peace! О спорт, ты - мир! Russian Yuri Ozerov Not nominated
  Spain National Heritage Patrimonio nacional Spanish Luis García Berlanga Not nominated
  Sweden Children's Island Barnens ö Swedish Kay Pollak Not nominated
  Switzerland The Boat Is Full Das Boot ist Voll German, Swiss German, French Markus Imhoof Nominated
  Taiwan If I Were for Real 假如我是真的 Mandarin Wang Toon Not nominated
  Yugoslavia Do You Remember Dolly Bell? Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell? Serbo-Croatian Emir Kusturica 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 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Nomination Intricacies For Foreign-Film Oscar". New York Times. 21 February 1989. Retrieved 14 September 2023.

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