List of submissions to the 57th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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This is a list of submissions to the 57th 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 57th Academy Awards, thirty-two films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Thailand submitted a film for the first time. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from Argentina, Israel, Spain, the USSR and the eventual winner, Dangerous Moves, from Switzerland.[3]

Submissions[edit]

Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Argentina Camila Spanish María Luisa Bemberg Nominated
 Austria Just Behind the Door Dicht hinter der Tür German Mansur Madavi Not nominated
 Brazil Memoirs of Prison Memórias do Cárcere Brazilian Portuguese Nelson Pereira dos Santos Not nominated
 Canada Sonatine French Micheline Lanctôt Not nominated
 China Life 人生 Mandarin Wu Tianming Not nominated
 Colombia A Man of Principle Cóndores no entierran todos los días Spanish Francisco Norden Not nominated
 Czechoslovakia The Millennial Bee Tisícročná včela Slovak, Czech Juraj Jakubisko Not nominated
 Denmark Tukuma Danish Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt Not nominated
 Finland Pessi and Illusia Pessi ja Illusia Finnish Heikki Partanen Not nominated
 France So Long, Stooge Tchao Pantin French Claude Berri Not nominated
 West Germany Man Under Suspicion Morgen in Alabama German Norbert Kückelmann Not nominated
 Hong Kong Homecoming 似水流年 Cantonese, Mandarin Yim Ho Not nominated
 Hungary Yerma Hungarian Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay Not nominated
 Iceland When the Raven Flies Hrafninn flýgur Icelandic Hrafn Gunnlaugsson Not nominated
 India The Gist सारांश Hindi Mahesh Bhatt Not nominated
 Israel Beyond the Walls מאחורי הסורגים Hebrew Uri Barbash Nominated
 Italy Where's Picone? Mi manda Picone Italian Nanni Loy Not nominated
 Japan MacArthur's Children 瀬戸内少年野球団 Japanese Masahiro Shinoda Not nominated
 South Korea Mulleya Mulleya 여인잔혹사 물레야 물레야 Korean Lee Doo-yong Not nominated
 Netherlands Army Brats Schatjes! Dutch Ruud van Hemert Not nominated
 Norway The Chieftain Høvdingen Norwegian Terje Kristiansen Not nominated
 Philippines Of the Flesh Karnal Tagalog, Filipino, English Marilou Diaz-Abaya Not nominated
 Portugal Dead Man's Seat O Lugar do Morto Portuguese António-Pedro Vasconcelos Not nominated
 Romania Glissando Romanian Mircea Daneliuc Not nominated
 Soviet Union Wartime Romance Военно-полевой роман Russian Pyotr Todorovsky Nominated
 Spain Double Feature Sesión continua Spanish José Luis Garci Nominated
 Sweden Åke and His World Åke och hans värld Swedish Allan Edwall Not nominated
 Switzerland Dangerous Moves La Diagonale du fou French Richard Dembo Won Academy Award
 Taiwan Old Mao's Second Spring 老莫的第二个春天 Mandarin You-ning Lee Not nominated
 Thailand The Story of Nampoo น้ำพุ Thai Euthana Mukdasanit Not nominated
 Venezuela The House of Water La casa de agua Spanish Jacobo Penzo Not nominated
 Yugoslavia The End of the War Kraj Rata Serbo-Croatian Dragan Kresoja 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 57th Academy Awards (1985) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 30 October 2013.