List of submissions to the 46th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 20 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 46th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film which took place in 1974. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, West Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and Switzerland. France won the Oscar for the second year in a row for Day for Night.^[1]

East Germany and Finland made their debuts in the competition.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Brazil	John, the Knife and the River	Portuguese	A Faca E o Rio	George Sluizer	Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia	Days of Betrayal	Czech	Dny zrady	Otakar Vávra	Not Nominated
Egypt	Empire M	Arabic	إمبراطورية ميم	Hussein Kamal	Not Nominated
Finland	The Earth Is a Sinful Song	Finnish	Maa on syntinen laulu	Rauni Mollberg	Not Nominated
France	Day for Night	French	La Nuit américaine	François Truffaut	Won Academy Award
East Germany	The Third	German	Der Dritte	Egon Günther	Not Nominated
West Germany	The Pedestrian	German	Der Fußgänger	Maximilian Schell	Nominated
Hungary	Photography	Hungarian	Fotográfia	Pál Zolnay	Not Nominated
India	Saudagar	Hindi	सौदागर	Sudhendu Roy	Not Nominated
Israel	The House on Chelouche Street	Hebrew	בית ברחוב שלוש	Moshé Mizrahi	Nominated
Japan	Coup d'État	Japanese	戒厳令	Yoshishige Yoshida	Not Nominated
South Korea	Mute Samyong	Korean	비련의 벙어리 삼용	Byun Jang-ho	Not Nominated
Mexico	Reed: Insurgent Mexico	Spanish	Reed, México insurgente	Paul Leduc	Not Nominated
Netherlands	Turkish Delight	Dutch	Turks fruit	Paul Verhoeven	Nominated
Poland	Copernicus	Polish	Kopernik	Ewa Petelska and Czesław Petelski	Not Nominated
Romania	Veronica	Romanian	Veronica	Elisabeta Bostan	Not Nominated
Spain	Habla, mudita	Spanish	Habla, mudita	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Not Nominated
Switzerland	L'Invitation	French	L'Invitation	Claude Goretta	Nominated
Soviet Union	Liberation	Russian	Освобождение	Yuri Ozerov	Not Nominated
Yugoslavia	The Battle of Sutjeska	Serbo-Croatian	Sutjeska	Stipe Delić	Not Nominated

References

Sources

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