This is a list of submissions to the 60th 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. 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. 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.
For the 60th Academy Awards, thirty films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The critically acclaimed Wings of Desire, by Wim Wenders, submitted by West Germany, wasn't nominated, despite being one of the favorites. Indonesia submitted a film for the first time, and Cuba submitted a film for the first time in a decade. The Soviet Union submitted a film in Georgian (which was produced in 1984, but banned until 1987), India chose a film in Tamil, and Norway selected the first-ever film made in Northern Sami. The five nominated films came from France, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Denmark.
Denmark won for the first time with Babette's Feast by Gabriel Axel.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result Man Facing Southeast Hombre mirando al sudeste Spanish Eliseo Subiela Welcome in Vienna Wohin und zurück – Welcome in Vienna German Axel Corti The Cruel Embrace Les Noces barbares French Marion Hänsel Subway to the Stars Um Trem para as Estrelas Brazilian Portuguese Carlos Diegues Night Zoo Un zoo la nuit French Jean-Claude Lauzon Hibiscus Town 芙蓉镇Mandarin Xie Jin A Successful Man Un hombre de éxito Spanish Humberto Solás Forbidden Dreams Smrt krásných srnců Czech Karel Kachyňa Babette's Feast Babettes gæstebudDanish, Swedish, French Gabriel Axel The Snow Queen Lumikuningatar Finnish Päivi Hartzell Au revoir les enfants French, German Louis Malle Wings of Desire Der Himmel über BerlinGerman, English, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish Wim Wenders Theofilos Θεόφιλος Greek Lakis Papastathis Diary for My Lovers Napló szerelmeimnek Hungarian, Russian Márta Mészáros White Whales Skytturnar Icelandic Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Nayakan நாயகன் Tamil Mani Ratnam Nagabonar Indonesian M.T. Risyaf I Don't Give a Damn לא שם זין Hebrew Shmuel Imberman The Family La famiglia Italian Ettore Scola Zegen 女衒 Japanese Shohei Imamura Living Is What Matters Lo que importa es vivir Spanish Luis Alcoriza Count Your Blessings Van geluk gesproken Dutch Pieter Verhoeff Pathfinder Ofelaš, VeiviserenNorthern Sámi Nils Gaup Hero of the Year Bohater roku Polish Feliks Falk Repentance მონანიება Georgian Tengiz Abuladze Course Completed Asignatura aprobada Spanish José Luis Garci Hip Hip Hurrah! Hip Hip Hurra!Swedish, Danish Kjell Grede If the Sun Never Returns Si le soleil ne revenait pas French Claude Goretta Osmanthus Alley 桂花巷 Mandarin Chen Kunhou Reflections Već viđeno Serbo-Croatian, Esperanto Goran Marković
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