List of submissions to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 20 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 44th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Israel, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the USSR. The Oscar went to The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a drama about an aristocratic Jewish family in Italy.^[1] France, which received 27 nominations between 1957 and 1991, failed to receive an Oscar nomination for only the fourth time since the inauguration of the Foreign Language Film award.

Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa gained his first nomination for the award (although he had received an honorary award at the 24th Academy Awards in 1951 for Rashomon) for Dodes'ka-den, a film which was a critical and commercial failure in his native Japan.

Bulgaria and Canada submitted films for consideration for the first time.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Brazil	Pra Quem Fica, Tchau	Portuguese	Pra Quem Fica, Tchau	Reginaldo Faria	Not Nominated
Bulgaria	Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles	Bulgarian	Таралежите се раждат без бодли	Dimitar Petrov	Not Nominated
Canada	Mon oncle Antoine	French	Mon oncle Antoine	Claude Jutra	Not Nominated
Denmark	The Missing Clerk	Danish	Forsvundne fuldmægtig	Gert Fredholm	Not Nominated
Egypt	A Woman and a Man	Arabic	امرأة و رجل	Houssam Eddine Mostafa	Not Nominated
France	Ramparts of Clay	French	Remparts d'argile	Jean-Louis Bertucelli	Not Nominated
West Germany	The Castle	German	Das Schloß	Rudolf Noelte	Not Nominated
Hungary	Love	Hungarian	Szerelem	Károly Makk	Not Nominated
India	Reshma Aur Shera	Hindi	रेशमा और शेरा	Sunil Dutt	Not Nominated
Israel	The Policeman	Hebrew	Ha-Shoter Azulai	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated
Italy	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Italian	Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini	Vittorio De Sica	Won Academy Award
Japan	Dodes'ka-den	Japanese	どですかでん	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
Mexico	El Topo	Spanish	El Topo	Alejandro Jodorowsky	Not Nominated
Netherlands	Mira	Dutch	Mira	Fons Rademakers	Not Nominated
Poland	Family Life	Polish	Życie rodzinne	Krzysztof Zanussi	Not Nominated
Romania	The Last Crusade	Romanian	Mihai Viteazul	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Not Nominated
Spain	Marta	Spanish	...dopo di che, uccide il maschio e lo divora	José Antonio Nieves Conde	Not Nominated
Sweden	The Emigrants	Swedish	Utvandrarna	Jan Troell	Nominated
Soviet Union	Tchaikovsky	Russian	Чайкoвский	Igor Talankin	Nominated
Yugoslavia	Black Seed	Macedonian	Црно семе	Kiril Cenevski	Not Nominated

References

Sources

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