List of submissions to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 24 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 42nd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from Algeria, France, Sweden, the USSR and Yugoslavia.

Algeria, submitting a film for the first time, became the first African country to receive an Oscar nomination in this category. Algeria ending up winning the award (for the only time) for the political thriller Z, a co-production with France.^[1]

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Algeria	Z	French	Z	Costa-Gavras	Won Academy Award
Austria	Moss on the Stones	German	Moos auf den Steinen	Georg Lhotsky	Not Nominated
Belgium	Palaver	Dutch	Palaver	Emile Degelin	Not Nominated
Brazil	Antonio das Mortes	Portuguese	O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro	Glauber Rocha	Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia	The Cremator	Czech	Spalovač mrtvol	Juraj Herz	Not Nominated
Denmark	Ballad of Carl-Henning	Danish	Balladen om Carl-Henning	Lene Grønlykke and Sven Grønlykke	Not Nominated
France	My Night at Maud's	French	Ma Nuit Chez Maud	Éric Rohmer	Nominated
West Germany	Hunting Scenes from Bavaria	German	Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern	Peter Fleischmann	Not Nominated
Greece	Girls in the Sun	Greek	Κοριτσια στον Ηλιο	Vasilis Georgiadis	Not Nominated
Hong Kong	The Arch	Chinese	董夫人	Tang Shu Shuen	Not Nominated
Hungary	The Upthrown Stone	Hungarian	Feldobott kő	Sándor Sára	Not Nominated
India	Deiva Magan	Tamil	தெய்வ மகன்	A. C. Tirulokchandar	Not Nominated
Israel	Siege/Matzor	Hebrew	מצור	Gilberto Tofano	Not Nominated
Italy	Fellini Satyricon	Italian	Fellini Satyricon	Federico Fellini	Not Nominated
Japan	Kuragejima, Legends From a Southern Island	Japanese	神々の深き欲望	Shōhei Imamura	Not Nominated
South Korea	The Old Craftsman of Jar	Korean	독 짓는 늙은이	Choi Ha-won	Not Nominated
Netherlands	Monsieur Hawarden	Dutch	Monsieur Hawarden	Harry Kümel	Not Nominated
Peru	The Green Wall	Spanish	La muralla verde	Armando Robles Godoy	Not Nominated
Poland	Everything for Sale	Polish	Wszystko na sprzedaz	Andrzej Wajda	Not Nominated
Romania	A Woman for a Season	Romanian	Răutăciosul adolescent	Gheorghe Vitanidis	Not Nominated
Spain	La Celestina	Spanish	La Celestina	César Fernández Ardavín	Not Nominated
Sweden	Ådalen 31	Swedish	Ådalen '31	Bo Widerberg	Nominated
Soviet Union	The Brothers Karamazov	Russian	Братья Карамазовы	Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov	Nominated
Yugoslavia	Battle of Neretva	Serbian	Bitka na Neretvi	Veljko Bulajić	Nominated

References

Sources

• Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences