List of submissions to the 48th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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This is a list of submissions to the 48th 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 48th Academy Awards, twenty-one 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, Mexico, Poland and the Soviet Union, which won the award for a second time, for Japanese co-production Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa.[3]

Submissions[edit]

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Algeria Chronicle of the Years of Fire وقائع سنين الجمر Algerian Arabic, French Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Not nominated
 Argentina Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf Nazareno Cruz y el lobo, las palomas y los gritos Spanish, Quechua Leonardo Favio Not nominated
 Brazil Ogum's Amulet O Amuleto de Ogum Brazilian Portuguese Nelson Pereira dos Santos Not nominated
 Canada Orders Les Ordres French Michel Brault Not nominated
 Czechoslovakia Circus in the Circus Cirkus v cirkuse Czech, Russian Oldřich Lipský Not nominated
 Denmark Per Danish Hans Kristensen Not nominated
 Egypt I Want a Solution أريد حلاً Egyptian Arabic Said Marzouk Not nominated
 France India Song French Marguerite Duras Not nominated
 West Germany Every Man For Himself and God Against All Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle German, English Werner Herzog Not nominated
 Greece The Travelling Players Ο Θίασος Greek Theodoros Angelopoulos Not nominated
 Hungary Adoption Örökbefogadás Hungarian Márta Mészáros Not nominated
 Israel My Michael מיכאל שלי Hebrew Dan Wolman Not nominated
 Italy Scent of a Woman Profumo di donna Italian Dino Risi Nominated
 Japan Sandakan No. 8 サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 Japanese Kei Kumai Nominated
 Mexico Letters from Marusia Actas de Marusia Spanish Miguel Littín Nominated
 Netherlands Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies Dokter Pulder zaait papavers Dutch Bert Haanstra Not nominated
 Poland Land of Promise Ziemia obiecana Polish, German Andrzej Wajda Nominated
 Soviet Union Dersu Uzala Дерсу Узала / デルス·ウザーラ Russian, Mandarin, Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin Akira Kurosawa Won Academy Award
 Spain Poachers Furtivos Spanish José Luis Borau Not nominated
 Switzerland Confrontation Konfrontation Swiss German, German Rolf Lyssy Not nominated
 Yugoslavia The Day That Shook the World Sarajevski atentat Czech, Serbo-Croatian, English, German Veljko Bulajić 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 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 18 March 2012.

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