List of submissions to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 26 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 53rd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, Hungary, Japan and Spain. The Soviet Union won the award with the film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.

Cameroon, Colombia, Iceland and Portugal all submitted films for the first time. Iceland has submitted a film every year since then, while Cameroon never participated again.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Austria	Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung	German	Egon Schiele - Exzesse	Herbert Vesely	Not Nominated
Brazil	Bye Bye Brazil	Portuguese	Bye Bye Brazil	Carlos Diegues	Not Nominated
Cameroon	Our Daughter	French	Notre fille	Daniel Kamwa	Not Nominated
Canada	Good Riddance	French	Les Bons débarras	Francis Mankiewicz	Not Nominated
Colombia	The Latin Immigrant	Spanish	El Inmigrante latino	Gustavo Nieto Roa	Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia	Love Between the Raindrops	Czech	Lásky mezi kapkami deště	Karel Kachyňa	Not Nominated
Finland	Tulipää	Finnish	Tulipää	Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehto	Not Nominated
France	The Last Metro	French	Le Dernier métro	François Truffaut	Nominated
East Germany	The Fiancee	German	Die Verlobte	Günther Rücker and Günter Reisch	Not Nominated
West Germany	Fabian	German	Fabian	Wolf Gremm	Not Nominated
Hungary	Confidence	Hungarian	Bizalom	István Szabó	Nominated
Iceland	Land and Sons	Icelandic	Land og synir	Ágúst Guðmundsson	Not Nominated
India	Payal Ki Jhankaar	Hindi	पायल की झंकार	Satyen Bose	Not Nominated
Israel	The Thin Line	Hebrew	על חבל דק	Michal Bat-Adam	Not Nominated
Italy	A Leap in the Dark	Italian	Salto nel vuoto	Marco Bellocchio	Not Nominated
Japan	Kagemusha	Japanese	影武者	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
Netherlands	In for Treatment	Dutch	Opname	Marja Kok and Erik van Zuylen	Not Nominated
Norway	Life and Death	Norwegian	Liv og død	Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam	Not Nominated
Poland	Olympics 40	Polish	Olimpiada 40	Andrzej Kotkowski	Not Nominated
Portugal	Morning Undersea	Portuguese	Manhã Submersa	Lauro António	Not Nominated
Spain	The Nest	Spanish	El Nido	Jaime de Armiñán	Nominated
Sweden	Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti	Swedish	Herr Puntila och hans dräng Matti	Ralf Långbacka	Not Nominated
Switzerland	Every Man for Himself	French	Sauve qui peut (la vie)	Jean-Luc Godard	Not Nominated
Taiwan	The Legend of Six Dynasty	Chinese	六朝怪談	Guk-Gam Wong	Not Nominated
Soviet Union	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears	Russian	Москва слезам не верит	Vladimir Menshov	Won Academy Award
Yugoslavia	Special Treatment	Serbo-Croatian	Посебан третман	Goran Paskaljević	Not Nominated

Sources

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