This is a list of submissions to the 60th 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 60th Academy Awards, thirty films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The critically acclaimed Wings of Desire, by Wim Wenders, submitted by West Germany, wasn't nominated, despite being one of the favourites. Indonesia submitted a film for the first time, and Cuba submitted a film for the first time in a decade. The Soviet Union submitted a film in Georgian (which was produced in 1984, but banned until 1987), India chose a film in Tamil, and Norway selected the first-ever film made in Northern Sami. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, Italy, Norway, Spain, and the eventual winner, Babette's Feast, from Denmark. ^[3]

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
Argentina	Man Facing Southeast	Hombre mirando al sudeste	Spanish	Eliseo Subiela	Not nominated
Austria	Welcome in Vienna	Wohin und zurück – Welcome in Vienna	German	Axel Corti	Not nominated
Belgium	The Cruel Embrace	Les Noces barbares	French	Marion Hänsel	Not nominated
Brazil	Subway to the Stars	Um Trem para as Estrelas	Brazilian Portuguese	Carlos Diegues	Not nominated
Canada	Night Zoo	Un zoo la nuit	French	Jean-Claude Lauzon	Not nominated
China	Hibiscus Town	芙蓉镇	Mandarin	Xie Jin	Not nominated
Cuba	A Successful Man	Un hombre de éxito	Spanish	Humberto Solás	Not nominated
Czechoslovakia	Forbidden Dreams	Smrt krásných srnců	Czech	Karel Kachyňa	Not nominated
Denmark	Babette's Feast	Babettes gæstebud	Danish, Swedish, French	Gabriel Axel	Won Academy Award
Finland	The Snow Queen	Lumikuningatar	Finnish	Päivi Hartzell	Not nominated
France	Au revoir les enfants		French, German	Louis Malle	Nominated
West Germany	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin	German, English, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish	Wim Wenders	Not nominated
Greece	Theofilos	Θεόφιλος	Greek	Lakis Papastathis	Not nominated
Hungary	Diary for My Lovers	Napló szerelmeimnek	Hungarian	Márta Mészáros	Not nominated
Iceland	White Whales	Skytturnar	Icelandic	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	Not nominated
India	Nayakan	நாயகன்	Tamil	Mani Ratnam	Not nominated
Indonesia	Nagabonar		Indonesian	M.T. Risyaf	Not nominated
Israel	I Don't Give a Damn	לא שם זין	Hebrew	Shmuel Imberman	Not nominated
Italy	The Family	La famiglia	Italian	Ettore Scola	Nominated
Japan	Zegen	女衒	Japanese	Shohei Imamura	Not nominated
Mexico	Living Is What Matters	Lo que importa es vivir	Spanish	Luis Alcoriza	Not nominated
Netherlands	Count Your Blessings	Van geluk gesproken	Dutch	Pieter Verhoeff	Not nominated
Norway	Pathfinder	Ofelaš, Veiviseren	Northern Sámi	Nils Gaup	Nominated
Poland	Hero of the Year	Bohater roku	Polish	Feliks Falk	Not nominated
Soviet Union	Repentance	მონანიება	Georgian	Tengiz Abuladze	Not nominated
Spain	Course Completed	Asignatura aprobada	Spanish	José Luis Garci	Nominated
Sweden	Hip Hip Hurrah!	Hip Hip Hurra!	Swedish, Danish	Kjell Grede	Not nominated
Switzerland	If the Sun Never Returns	Si le soleil ne revenait pas	French	Claude Goretta	Not nominated
Taiwan	Osmanthus Alley	桂花巷	Mandarin	Chen Kunhou	Not nominated
Yugoslavia	Reflections	Već viđeno	Serbo-Croatian, Esperanto	Goran Marković	Not nominated

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