This is a list of submissions to the 47th 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 47th Academy Awards, nineteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Argentina, France, Hungary, Italy and Poland.
Italy won for the tenth time with Amarcord by Federico Fellini, which was also nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay in the subsequent ceremony (48th Academy Awards).
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Truce La tregua Spanish Sergio Renán The Conscript De loteling Dutch Roland Verhavert The Scarecrow's Night A Noite do Espantalho Brazilian Portuguese Sérgio Ricardo The Last Summer Последно лято Bulgarian Hristo Hristov Lovers in the Year One Milenci v roce jedna Czech Jaroslav Balík The Olsen Gang's Last Escapade Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter Danish Erik Balling Where Is My Mind? أين عقلي Arabic Atef Salem Lacombe, Lucien French, German Louis Malle One or the Other Einer von uns beiden German Wolfgang Petersen Cats' Play Macskajáték Hungarian Károly Makk Hot Winds गरम हवा Hindi, Urdu M. S. Sathyu Amarcord Italian Federico Fellini The Fossil 化石 Japanese Masaki Kobayashi Calzonzin Inspector Spanish Alfonso Arau Help! The Doctor Is Drowning Help, de dokter verzuipt! Dutch Nikolai van der Heyde The Deluge Potop Polish Jerzy Hoffman The Ferocious One Лютый Russian Tolomush Okeyev La Prima Angelica Spanish Carlos Saura The Middle of the World Le Milieu du monde French Alain Tanner The Dervish and Death Derviš i smrt Serbo-Croatian Zdravko Velimirović
Notes
Japan submitted The Fossil, but the film was not listed on the official list from AMPAS. It appears likely that the film was not screened. The Soviet Union selected The Ferocious One, a film from the Kyrgyz Republic with mostly Russian dialogue.
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences