List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 26 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 56th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Algeria, France, Hungary, Spain and the eventual winner, Fanny and Alexander, from Sweden.^[1]

The Dominican Republic submitted a film for the first time.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Algeria	The Ball	none	Le Bal	Ettore Scola	Nominated
Austria	Tramps	German	Die Letzte Runde	Peter Patzak	Not Nominated
Canada	The Tin Flute	French	Bonheur d'occasion	Claude Fournier	Not Nominated
China	My Memories of Old Beijing	Chinese	城南旧事	Wu Yigong	Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia	Incomplete Eclipse	Czech	Neúplné zatmění	Jaromil Jireš	Not Nominated
Denmark	Zappa	Danish	Zappa	Bille August	Not Nominated
Dominican Republic	Guaguasi	Spanish	Guaguasi	Jorge Ulla	Not Nominated
France	Entre Nous	French	Coup de foudre	Diane Kurys	Nominated
East Germany	The Turning Point	German	Der Aufenthalt	Frank Beyer	Not Nominated
West Germany	A Woman in Flames	German	Die Flambierte Frau	Robert van Ackeren	Not Nominated
Hungary	Job's Revolt	Hungarian	Jób lázadása	Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay	Nominated
Iceland	The House	Icelandic	Húsið	Egill Eðvarðsson	Not Nominated
Israel	A Married Couple	Hebrew	זוג נשוי	Yitzhak Yeshurun	Not Nominated
Italy	And the Ship Sails On	Italian	E la nave va	Federico Fellini	Not Nominated
Japan	Antarctica	Japanese	南極物語	Koreyoshi Kurahara	Not Nominated
Mexico	Erendira	Spanish	Eréndira	Ruy Guerra	Not Nominated
Netherlands	The Fourth Man	Dutch	De vierde man	Paul Verhoeven	Not Nominated
Peru	Maruja in Hell	Spanish	Maruja en el infierno	Francisco José Lombardi	Not Nominated
Portugal	No Trace of Sin	Portuguese	Sem Sombra de Pecado	José Fonseca e Costa	Not Nominated
Romania	Return from Hell	Romanian	Intoarcerea din iad	Nicolae Mărgineanu	Not Nominated
Spain	Carmen	Spanish	Carmen	Carlos Saura	Nominated
Sweden	Fanny and Alexander	Swedish	Fanny och Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	Won Academy Award
Switzerland	In the White City	French	Dans la ville blanche	Alain Tanner	Not Nominated
Taiwan	Growing Up	Chinese	小畢的故事	Chen Kunhou	Not Nominated
Soviet Union	Vassa	Russian	Васса	Gleb Panfilov	Not Nominated
Yugoslavia	Great Transport	Serbo-Croatian	Veliki transport	Veljko Bulajić	Not Nominated

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