List of submissions to the 40th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 16 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 40th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from France, Japan, Spain, Yugoslavia and the eventual winner, Czechoslovakia. The winner, Jiří Menzel's Closely Watched Trains, was a wry comedy about a young man working at a village railway station during Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Belgium and Peru submitted films to the competition for the first time.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Belgium	Le départ	French	Le départ	Jerzy Skolimowski	Not Nominated
Brazil	Case of the Naves Brothers	Portuguese	O Caso dos Irmãos Naves	Luis Sérgio Person	Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia	Closely Watched Trains	Czech, German	Ostře sledované vlaky	Jiří Menzel	Won Academy Award
Denmark	Once There Was a War	Danish	Der var engang en krig	Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt	Not Nominated
France	Live for Life	French	Vivre pour Vivre	Claude Lelouch	Nominated
West Germany	Tattoo	German	Tätowierung	Johannes Schaaf	Not Nominated
Hungary	Father	Hungarian	Apa	István Szabó	Not Nominated
India	The Last Letter	Hindi	Aakhri Khat	Chetan Anand	Not Nominated
Italy	China is Near	Italian	La Cina è vicina	Marco Bellocchio	Not Nominated
Japan	Portrait of Chieko	Japanese	智恵子抄	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
Mexico	The Adolescents	Spanish	Los Adolescentes	Abel Salazar	Not Nominated
Peru	No Stars in the Jungle	Spanish	En la selva no hay estrellas	Armando Robles Godoy	Not Nominated
Philippines	Because of a Flower	Tagalog	Dahil sa isang bulaklak	Luis Nepomuceno	Not Nominated
Spain	El Amor Brujo	Spanish	El Amor Brujo	Francisco Rovira Beleta	Nominated
Sweden	Here's Your Life	Swedish	Här har du ditt liv	Jan Troell	Not Nominated
Yugoslavia	I Even Met Happy Gypsies	Romany, Serbian	Skupljaci perja	Aleksandar Petrović	Nominated

Sources

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