This is a list of submissions to the 43rd 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 43rd Academy Awards, thirteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Italy ended up winning the award for crime drama Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion.[3]

Submissions

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Belgium Paix sur les champs French Jacques Boigelot Nominated
 Brazil Mortal Sin Pecado Mortal Brazilian Portuguese Miguel Faria Jr. Not nominated
 Denmark Re.: Lone Ang.: Lone Danish Franz Ernst Not nominated
 Egypt The Night of Counting the Years المومياء Classical Arabic Shadi Abdel Salam Not nominated
 France Hoa-Binh Vietnamese, French, English, Cantonese Raoul Coutard Nominated
 West Germany o.k. German Michael Verhoeven Not nominated
 Hungary Lovefilm Szerelmesfilm Hungarian István Szabó Not nominated
 Italy Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto Italian Elio Petri Won Academy Award
 Japan The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan 無頼漢 Japanese Masahiro Shinoda Not nominated
 Poland The Taste of Black Earth Sól ziemi czarnej Polish Kazimierz Kutz Not nominated
 Spain Tristana Spanish Luis Buñuel Nominated
 Sweden A Swedish Love Story En Kärlekshistoria Swedish Roy Andersson Not nominated
 Switzerland First Love Erste Liebe French, German Maximilian Schell Nominated

References

  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 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 26 November 2011.

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