This is a list of submissions to the 51st 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 51st Academy Awards, nineteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Cuba and Lebanon submitted films for consideration for the first time. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, West Germany, Hungary, Italy and the USSR. France won the award with the comedy, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs,[3] starring Gérard Depardieu as a husband who finds a new lover for his depressed wife.
Submitting country |
Film title used in nomination |
Original title |
Language(s) |
Director(s) |
Result
|
Brazil |
The Lyre of Delight |
A Lira do Delírio |
Brazilian Portuguese |
Walter Lima Jr.
|
Not nominated
|
Cuba |
The Recourse to the Method / Viva el Presidente |
El recurso del método |
Spanish |
Miguel Littín
|
Not nominated
|
Czechoslovakia |
Dinner for Adele / Nick Carter in Prague |
Adéla ještě nevečeřela |
Czech |
Oldřich Lipský
|
Not nominated
|
Denmark |
Me and Charly |
Mig og Charly |
Danish |
Morten Arnfred and Henning Kristiansen
|
Not nominated
|
France |
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs |
Préparez vos mouchoirs |
French |
Bertrand Blier
|
Won Academy Award
|
West Germany |
The Glass Cell |
Die Gläserne Zelle |
German |
Hans W. Geißendörfer
|
Nominated
|
Hungary |
Hungarians |
Magyarok |
Hungarian |
Zoltán Fábri
|
Nominated
|
India |
The Chess Players |
शतरंज के खिलाड़ी |
Hindi, Urdu, English |
Satyajit Ray
|
Not nominated
|
Israel |
Lemon Popsicle |
אסקימו לימון |
Hebrew |
Boaz Davidson
|
Not nominated
|
Italy |
Viva Italia! |
I nuovi mostri |
Italian |
Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli
|
Nominated
|
Japan |
Empire of Passion |
愛の亡霊 |
Japanese |
Nagisa Oshima
|
Not nominated
|
Kuwait |
The Wedding of Zein |
عرس الزين |
Arabic |
Khalid Al Siddiq
|
Not nominated
|
Lebanon |
Promise of Love |
Սիրո Խոստումը |
Armenian, English, French |
Sarky Mouradian
|
Not nominated
|
Mexico |
The Place Without Limits |
El lugar sin límites |
Spanish |
Arturo Ripstein
|
Not nominated
|
Netherlands |
Pastorale 1943 |
Dutch |
Wim Verstappen
|
Not nominated
|
Poland |
Death of a President |
Smierc prezydenta |
Polish |
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
|
Not nominated
|
Soviet Union |
White Bim Black Ear |
Белый Бим Черное ухо |
Russian |
Stanislav Rostotsky
|
Nominated
|
Spain |
Somnambulists |
Sonámbulos |
Spanish |
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
|
Not nominated
|
Yugoslavia |
Occupation in 26 Pictures |
Okupacija u 26 slika |
Serbo-Croatian, Italian, German, Russian, French, Latin |
Lordan Zafranović
|
Not nominated
|