List of submissions to the 50th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 24 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 50th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, Greece, Israel, Italy and Spain. France won the award for Madame Rosa,^[1] a drama by an Israeli director about Madame Rosa, a retired prostitute and Holocaust survivor in Paris.

Iran, Morocco and Venezuela entered the competition for the first time.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Argentina	What Does Fall Mean?	Spanish	¿Qué es el otoño?	Daniel Portela and David José Kohon	Not Nominated
Austria	I Want to Live	German	Ich will leben	Jörg A. Eggers	Not Nominated
Belgium	Rubens	Dutch	Rubens, schilder en diplomaat	Roland Verhavert	Not Nominated
Brazil	Tent of Miracles	Portuguese	Tenda dos Milagres	Nelson Pereira dos Santos	Not Nominated
Canada	J.A. Martin Photographer	French	J.A. Martin photographe	Jean Beaudin	Not Nominated
Denmark	Boys	Danish	Drenge	Nils Malmros	Not Nominated
France	Madame Rosa	French	La Vie devant soi	Moshé Mizrahi	Won Academy Award
East Germany	Mom, I Am Alive	German	Mama, ich lebe	Konrad Wolf	Not Nominated
West Germany	The American Friend	German	Der Amerikanische Freund	Wim Wenders	Not Nominated
Greece	Iphigenia	Greek	Ἰφιγένεια	Michael Cacoyannis	Nominated
Hungary	A Strange Role	Hungarian	Herkulesfürdöi emlék	Pál Sándor	Not Nominated
India	Manthan	Hindi	मंथन	Shyam Benegal	Not Nominated
Iran	The Cycle	Persian	دايره مينا	Dariush Mehrjui	Not Nominated
Israel	Operation Thunderbolt	Hebrew, English	מבצע יונתן	Menahem Golan	Nominated
Italy	A Special Day	Italian	Una Giornata particolare	Ettore Scola	Nominated
Japan	Mt. Hakkoda	Japanese	八甲田山	Shiro Moritani	Not Nominated
Mexico	Pafnucio Santo	Spanish	Pafnucio Santo	Rafael Corkidi	Not Nominated
Morocco	Blood Wedding	French	Noces de sang	Souheil Ben-Barka	Not Nominated
Netherlands	Soldier of Orange	Dutch	Soldaat van Oranje	Paul Verhoeven	Not Nominated
Poland	Camouflage	Polish	Barwy ochronne	Krzysztof Zanussi	Not Nominated
Spain	That Obscure Object of Desire	French, Spanish	Ese oscuro objeto del deseo	Luis Buñuel	Nominated
Sweden	The Man on the Roof	Swedish	Mannen på taket	Bo Widerberg	Not Nominated
Soviet Union	The Ascent	Russian	Восхождение	Larisa Shepitko	Not Nominated
Venezuela	The Fish That Smokes	Spanish	El Pez que fuma	Román Chalbaud	Not Nominated

References

Sources

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