List of submissions to the 36th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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This is a list of submissions to the 36th 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 36th Academy Awards, fourteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Poland and the USSR submitted films to the competition for the first time. Pakistan didn't submit a film again until 2013 with Zinda Bhaag being submitted. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland and Spain. Italy won the award for Federico Fellini's film 8½.[3]

Submissions[edit]

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 France Le Feu Follet French Louis Malle Not nominated
 Greece The Red Lanterns Τα κόκκινα φανάρια Greek Vasilis Georgiadis Nominated
 Hong Kong The Love Eterne 梁山伯与祝英台 Mandarin Li Han-hsiang Not nominated
 India Metropolis মহানগর Bengali Satyajit Ray Not nominated
 Italy 8½ Otto e mezzo Italian Federico Fellini Won Academy Award
 Japan Twin Sisters of Kyoto 古都 Japanese Noboru Nakamura Nominated
 Mexico The Paper Man El hombre de papel Spanish Ismael Rodríguez Not nominated
 Netherlands Like Two Drops of Water Als twee druppels water Dutch Fons Rademakers Not nominated
 Pakistan The Veil گھونگھٹ Urdu Khurshid Anwar Not nominated
 Poland Knife in the Water Nóz w wodzie Polish Roman Polanski Nominated
 Soviet Union My Name Is Ivan Иваново детство Russian Andrei Tarkovsky Not nominated
 Spain Los Tarantos Spanish Francisco Rovira Beleta Nominated
 Sweden The Silence Tystnaden Swedish Ingmar Bergman Not nominated
 Yugoslavia Kozara Козара Serbo-Croatian Veljko Bulajić Not nominated

References[edit]

  1. ^ "History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 2008-06-22. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  2. ^ a b "Rule 14 | 81st Academy Awards Rules | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 2008-08-09. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  3. ^ "The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-03.

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