This is a list of submissions to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non- English-speaking films produced outside the United States. ^[1] The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. ^[2] Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. ^[2]

For the 59th Academy Awards, thirty-two films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France and the eventual winner, The Assault, from the Netherlands. ^[3] Austria and Canada were nominated for the first time and Puerto Rico submitted a film for consideration for the first time.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
Algeria	The Last Image	La dernière image	French	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Not nominated
Argentina	Tangos, the Exile of Gardel	Tangos, el exilio de Gardel	Spanish, French	Fernando Solanas	Not nominated
Austria	'38 – Vienna Before the Fall	38 – Auch das war Wien	German	Wolfgang Glück	Nominated
Belgium	Jumping	Springen	Dutch	Jean-Pierre De Decker	Not nominated
Brazil	The Hour of the Star	A Hora da Estrela	Brazilian Portuguese	Suzana Amaral	Not nominated
Canada	The Decline of the American Empire	Le Déclin de l'empire américain	French, English	Denys Arcand	Nominated
China	Dr. Sun Yat-sen	孙中山	Mandarin	Ding Yinnan	Not nominated
Colombia	Time to Die	Tiempo de morir	Spanish	Jorge Alí Triana	Not nominated
Czechoslovakia	My Sweet Little Village	Vesnicko má stredisková	Czech	Jiří Menzel	Nominated
Denmark	The Dark Side of the Moon	Manden i månen	Danish	Erik Clausen	Not nominated
Finland	The Unknown Soldier	Tuntematon sotilas	Finnish	Rauni Mollberg	Not nominated
France	Betty Blue	37°2 le matin	French	Jean-Jacques Beineix	Nominated
West Germany	Men...	Männer...	German	Doris Dörrie	Not nominated
Hungary	Cat City	Macskafogó	Hungarian	Béla Ternovszk	Not nominated
Iceland	The Beast	Eins og skepnan deyr	Icelandic	Hilmar Oddsson	Not nominated
India	The Pearl	சிப்பிக்குள் முத்து	Telugu	K. Viswanath	Not nominated
Israel	Avanti Popolo	אוונטי פופלו	Hebrew, Arabic, English	Rafi Bukai	Not nominated
Italy	Summer Night	Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico	Italian	Lina Wertmüller	Not nominated
Japan	Final Take	キネマの天地	Japanese	Yōji Yamada	Not nominated
South Korea	Eunuch	내시	Korean	Doo-yong Lee	Not nominated
Mexico	The Realm of Fortune	El imperio de la fortuna	Spanish	Arturo Ripstein	Not nominated
Netherlands	The Assault	De aanslag	Dutch, English, German	Fons Rademakers	Won Academy Award
Norway	Hard Asphalt	Hard asfalt	Norwegian	Sølve Skagen	Not nominated
Poland	Axiliad	Siekierezada	Polish	Witold Leszczyński	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	La Gran Fiesta		Spanish	Marcos Zurinaga	Not nominated
Romania	The Last Assault	Noi, cei din linia întîi	Romanian	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Not nominated
Soviet Union	The Wild Pigeon	Чужая белая и рябой	Russian	Sergei Solovyov	Not nominated
Spain	Half of Heaven	La mitad del cielo	Spanish	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Not nominated
Sweden	The Sacrifice	Offret	Swedish, English, French	Andrei Tarkovsky	Not nominated
Switzerland	Tanner	Der Schwarze Tanner	Swiss German	Xavier Koller	Not nominated
Taiwan	The Heroic Pioneers	唐山过台湾	Mandarin	Li Hsing	Not nominated
Yugoslavia	Happy New Year '49	Среќна Нова '49	Macedonian, Serbian	Stole Popov	Not nominated

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