List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 37 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 62nd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film which took place in 1990. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Canada, Denmark, France, Puerto Rico and the eventual winner, Cinema Paradiso, from Italy.^[1] Burkina Faso and South Africa submitted films for the first time and Puerto Rico was nominated for the first, and to date, only time.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Argentina	La Amiga	Spanish, German	La Amiga	Jeanine Meerapfel	Not Nominated
Austria	The Seventh Continent	German	Der Siebente Kontinent	Michael Haneke	Not Nominated
Belgium	The Sacrament	Dutch	Het Sacrament	Hugo Claus	Not Nominated
Brazil	Better Days Ahead	Portuguese	Dias Melhores Virão	Carlos Diegues	Not Nominated
Bulgaria	Time of Violence	Bulgarian	Време на насилие	Ludmil Staikov	Not Nominated
Burkina Faso	Yaaba	More	Yaaba^[2]	Idrissa Ouedraogo	Not Nominated
Canada	Jesus of Montreal	French	Jésus de Montréal	Denys Arcand	Nominated
China	The Birth of New China	Chinese	开国大典	Qiankuan Li	Not Nominated
Cuba	Supporting Roles	Spanish	Papeles secundarios	Orlando Rojas	Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia	A Hoof Here, a Hoof There	Czech	Kopytem sem, kopytem tam	Věra Chytilová	Not Nominated
Denmark	Memories of a Marriage	Danish	Danser med Regitze	Kaspar Rostrup	Nominated
France	Camille Claudel	French	Camille Claudel^[2]	Bruno Nuytten	Nominated
West Germany	Spider's Web	German	Das Spinnenetz	Bernhard Wicki	Not Nominated
Greece	Landscape in the Mist	Greek	Τοπίο στην ομίχλη	Theo Angelopoulos	Not Nominated
Hong Kong	Painted Faces	Cantonese	七小福	Alex Law	Not Nominated
Hungary	My 20th Century	Hungarian	Az Én XX. századom	Ildikó Enyedi	Not Nominated
Iceland	Under the Glacier	Icelandic	Kristnihald undir jökli	Guðný Halldórsdóttir	Not Nominated
India	Parinda	Hindi	परिंदा	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Not Nominated
Indonesia	Tjoet Nja' Dhien	Indonesian	Tjoet Nja' Dhien	Eros Djarot	Not Nominated
Israel	One of Us	Hebrew	אחד משלנו	Uri Barbash	Not Nominated
Italy	Cinema Paradiso	Italian	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Won Academy Award
Japan	Rikyu	Japanese	利休	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Not Nominated
Netherlands	Polonaise	Dutch	Leedvermaak	Frans Weisz	Not Nominated
Norway	A Handful of Time	Norwegian	En håndfull tid	Martin Asphaug	Not Nominated
Poland	Kornblumenblau	Polish	Kornblumenblau^[3]	Leszek Wosiewicz	Not Nominated
Portugal	The Cannibals	Portuguese	Os Canibais	Manoel de Oliveira	Not Nominated
Puerto Rico	Santiago, the Story of his New Life	Spanish	Lo que le pasó a Santiago	Jacobo Morales	Nominated
Romania	Those Who Pay With Their Lives	Romanian	Cei care plătesc cu viaţa	Șerban Marinescu	Not Nominated
South Africa	Mapantsula	Zulu	Mapantsula	Oliver Schmitz	Not Nominated^[4]
Spain	Love, Hate and Death	Spanish	Montoyas y Tarantos	Vicente Escrivá	Not Nominated
Sweden	The Women on the Roof	Swedish	Kvinnor på taket	Carl-Gustav Nykvist	Not Nominated
Switzerland	My Dear Subject	French	Mon cher sujet	Anne-Marie Miéville	Not Nominated
Taiwan	A City of Sadness	Chinese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Shanghainese	悲情城市	Hou Hsiao-Hsien	Not Nominated
Thailand	The Elephant Keeper	Thai	คนเลี้ยงช้าง	Chatrichalerm Yukol	Not Nominated
Turkey	Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite	Turkish	Uçurtmayi Vurmasinlar	Tunç Başaran	Not Nominated
Soviet Union	Zerograd	Russian	Город Зеро	Karen Shakhnazarov	Not Nominated
Yugoslavia	Time of the Gypsies	Romany, Serbian	Dom za vešanje	Emir Kusturica	Not Nominated

References

↑ "The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
1 2 proper name
↑ Song name, relevant to plot
↑ The South African submission, Mapantsula, was on the 1989 official AMPAS press release, but not on the 2007 updated list. In 1997, the AMPAS press release announced that Paljas had been selected as South Africa's first-ever submission.

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film submissions

Award winners and nominees (by country)

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