This is a list of submissions to the 46th 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 46th Academy Awards, twenty films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. East Germany and Finland made their debuts in the competition. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, West Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and Switzerland. France won the Oscar for the second year in a row for Day for Night.[3]

Submissions

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Brazil João and the Knife A Faca e o Rio Brazilian Portuguese George Sluizer Not nominated
 Czechoslovakia Days of Betrayal Dny zrady Czech Otakar Vávra Not nominated
 Egypt Empire M إمبراطورية ميم Arabic Hussein Kamal Not nominated
 Finland The Earth Is a Sinful Song Maa on syntinen laulu Finnish Rauni Mollberg Not nominated
 France Day for Night La Nuit américaine French François Truffaut Won Academy Award
 East Germany The Third Der Dritte German Egon Günther Not nominated
 West Germany The Pedestrian Der Fußgänger Maximilian Schell Nominated
 Hungary Photography Fotográfia Hungarian Pál Zolnay Not nominated
 India Saudagar सौदागर Hindi Sudhendu Roy Not nominated
 Israel The House on Chelouche Street בית ברחוב שלוש Hebrew, Egyptian Arabic, Ladino Moshé Mizrahi Nominated
 Japan Coup d'État 戒厳令 Japanese Yoshishige Yoshida Not nominated
 South Korea Mute Samyong 비련의 벙어리 삼용 Korean Byun Jang-ho Not nominated
 Mexico Reed: Insurgent Mexico Reed, México insurgente Spanish Paul Leduc Not nominated
 Netherlands Turkish Delight Turks fruit Dutch Paul Verhoeven Nominated
 Poland Copernicus Kopernik Polish Ewa Petelska and Czesław Petelski Not nominated
 Romania Veronica Romanian Elisabeta Bostan Not nominated
 Soviet Union Liberation Освобождение Russian, German, English, Polish, Italian, French, Serbo-Croatian Yuri Ozerov Not nominated
 Spain Habla, mudita Spanish Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Not nominated
 Sweden Scenes from a Marriage Scener ur ett äktenskap Swedish Ingmar Bergman Disqualified
 Switzerland L'Invitation French Claude Goretta Nominated
 Yugoslavia The Battle of Sutjeska Sutjeska Serbo-Croatian, English, German Stipe Delić Not nominated

Notes

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 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
  4. ^ a b Gates, Anita (15 January 1995). "There Are Movies, And Then There Are Movies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.

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