List of submissions to the 51st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 19 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 51st Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, West Germany, Hungary, Italy and the USSR. France won the award with the comedy, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs,^[1] starring Gérard Depardieu as a husband who finds a new lover for his depressed wife.

Cuba and Lebanon submitted films for consideration for the first time.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Brazil	The Lyre of Delight	Portuguese	A Lira do Delírio	Walter Lima Jr.	Not Nominated
Cuba	Viva el Presidente	Spanish	El Recurso del método	Miguel Littín	Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia	Nick Carter in Prague	Czech	Adéla ještě nevečeřela	Oldřich Lipský	Not Nominated
Denmark	Me and Charly	Danish	Mig og Charly	Morten Arnfred and Henning Kristiansen	Not Nominated
France	Get Out Your Handkerchiefs	French	Préparez vos mouchoirs	Bertrand Blier	Won Academy Award
West Germany	The Glass Cell	German	Die Gläserne Zelle	Hans W. Geißendörfer	Nominated
Hungary	Hungarians	Hungarian	Magyarok	Zoltán Fábri	Nominated
India	The Chess Players	Hindi, Urdu	Shatranj Ke Khilari शतरंज के खिलाड़ी	Satyajit Ray	Not Nominated
Israel	Lemon Popsicle	Hebrew	אסקימו לימון	Boaz Davidson	Not Nominated
Italy	Viva Italia!	Italian	I Nuovi mostri	Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli	Nominated
Japan	Empire of Passion	Japanese	愛の亡霊	Nagisa Oshima	Not Nominated
Kuwait	The Wedding of Zein	Arabic	عرس الزين	Khalid Al Siddiq	Not Nominated
Lebanon	Promise of Love	Armenian	Սիրո Խոստումը	Sarky Mouradian	Not Nominated
Mexico	The Place Without Limits	Spanish	El Lugar sin límites	Arturo Ripstein	Not Nominated
Netherlands	Pastorale 1943	Dutch	Pastorale 1943	Wim Verstappen	Not Nominated
Poland	Death of a President	Polish	Smierc prezydenta	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Not Nominated
Soviet Union	White Bim Black Ear	Russian	Белый Бим Черное ухо	Stanislav Rostotsky	Nominated
Yugoslavia	Occupation in 26 Pictures	Croatian, Italian	Okupacija u 26 slika	Lordan Zafranović	Not Nominated
Spain	Somnambulists	Spanish	Sonámbulos	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Not Nominated

References

Sources

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