List of submissions to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 67th 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 67th Academy Awards, forty-six films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1994. Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Guatemala, Macedonia and Serbia submitted films to the competition for the first time. Also for the first time, films from both the Czech Republic and Slovakia competed against each other, although neither was nominated. Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski originally had two films in the race when Poland and Switzerland entered two of his Three Colors trilogy. Switzerland's Red was disqualified, ^{[3] [4]} however, Poland's White screened alongside the other films, but did not make the final five. It was also the first time that all five of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia all entered the race separately. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Belgium, Cuba, Macedonia, Taiwan and the eventual winner, Burnt by the Sun , from Russia. ^[5]

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
Algeria	Autumn: October in Algiers	Automne... Octobre à Alger	French, Arabic	Malik Lakhdar-Hamina	Not nominated
Argentina	A Shadow You Soon Will Be	Una sombra ya pronto serás	Spanish	Héctor Olivera	Not nominated
Austria	I Promise	Ich gelobe	German	Wolfgang Murnberger	Not nominated
Belarus	Me Ivan, You Abraham	Я — Іван, ты — Абрам (Ya - Ivan, Ty - Abram)	Yiddish, Polish, Belarusian, Russian, Romani	Yolande Zauberman	Not nominated
Belgium	Farinelli	Farinelli, Il Castrato	Italian, French	Gérard Corbiau	Nominated
Bosnia and Herzegovina	The Awkward Age	Magarece godine	Bosnian, Serbo-Croatian	Nenad Dizdarević	Not nominated
Cambodia	Rice People	អ្នកស្រែ (Neak sre)	Khmer	Rithy Panh	Not nominated
Canada	Mon Amie Max	Mon Amie Max	French	Michel Brault	Not nominated
Chile	Amnesia	Amnesia	Spanish	Gonzalo Justiniano	Not nominated
Colombia	The Strategy of the Snail	La estrategia del caracol	Spanish	Sergio Cabrera	Not nominated
Croatia	Vukovar: The Way Home	Vukovar se vraća kući	Serbo-Croatian	Branko Schmidt	Not nominated
Cuba	Strawberry and Chocolate	Fresa y chocolate	Spanish	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabío	Nominated
Czech Republic	Lesson Faust	Lekce Faust	Czech, Latin	Jan Švankmajer	Not nominated
Denmark	Carl, My Childhood Symphony	Min fynske barndom	Danish	Erik Clausen	Not nominated
Egypt	Land of Dreams	أرض الأحلام (Ard el ahlam)	Arabic	Daoud Abdel Sayed	Not nominated
France	Wild Reeds	Les Roseaux sauvages	French	André Téchiné	Not nominated
Germany	The Promise	Das Versprechen	German	Margarethe von Trotta	Not nominated
Guatemala	The Silence of Neto	El Silencio de Neto	Spanish	Luis Argueta	Not nominated
Hong Kong	The Day the Sun Turned Cold	天国逆子 (Tiānguó nìzǐ)	Mandarin	Yim Ho	Not nominated
Hungary	Woyzeck	Woyzeck	Hungarian	János Szász	Not nominated
Iceland	Movie Days	Bíódagar	Icelandic	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	Not nominated
India	Bandit Queen	बैन्डिट क्वीन (Bandit Queen)	Hindi	Shekhar Kapur	Not nominated
Iran	Through the Olive Trees	زیر درختان زیتون (Zīr-e Derakhtān-e Zeytūn)	Persian	Abbas Kiarostami	Not nominated
Israel	Sh'Chur	שחור (Sh'Chur)	Hebrew	Shmuel Hasfari	Not nominated
Italy	Lamerica	Lamerica	Italian, Albanian	Gianni Amelio	Not nominated
Japan	The Raccoon War	平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ (Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko)	Japanese	Isao Takahata	Not nominated
South Korea	Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid	헐리우드 키드의 생애 (Hollywood Kid Eu Saeng-ae)	Korean	Chung Ji-young	Not nominated
Macedonia	Before the Rain	Пред дождот (Pred doždot)	Macedonian, Albanian, English	Milcho Manchevski	Nominated
Mexico	The Beginning and the End	Principio y fin	Spanish	Arturo Ripstein	Not nominated
Netherlands	06	06	Dutch	Theo van Gogh	Not nominated
Norway	Cross My Heart and Hope to Die	Ti kniver i hjertet	Norwegian	Marius Holst	Not nominated
Peru	Without Compassion	Sin compasión	Spanish	Francisco José Lombardi	Not nominated
Poland	Three Colors: White	Trzy kolory. Biały, Trois couleurs: Blanc	Polish, French	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Not nominated
Portugal	Three Palm Trees	Três Palmeiras	Portuguese	João Botelho	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	Linda Sara	Linda Sara	Spanish	Jacobo Morales	Not nominated
Romania	Pepe & Fifi	Pepe și Fifi	Romanian	Dan Pița	Not nominated
Russia	Burnt by the Sun	Утомлённые солнцем (Utomlyonnye solntsem)	Russian	Nikita Mikhalkov	Won Academy Award
Slovakia	Angel of Mercy	Andel milosrdenství	Czech, Slovak	Miloslav Luther	Not nominated
Slovenia	Morana	Morana	Slovene	Aleš Verbič	Not nominated
Spain	Cradle Song	Canción de cuna	Spanish	José Luis Garci	Not nominated
Sweden	The Last Dance	Sista Dansen	Swedish	Colin Nutley	Not nominated
Switzerland	Three Colors: Red	Trois Couleurs: Rouge	French	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Disqualified
Taiwan	Eat Drink Man Woman	飲食男女 (Yǐn shí nán nǚ)	Mandarin	Ang Lee	Nominated
Turkey	Tarzan of Manisa	Manisa Tarzanı	Turkish	Orhan Oğuz	Not nominated
Venezuela	Knocks at My Door	Golpes a mi puerta	Spanish	Alejandro Saderman	Not nominated
FR Yugoslavia	Vukovar Poste Restante	Вуковар, једна прича (Vukovar, jedna priča)	Serbo-Croatian	Boro Drašković	Not nominated

Notes

• Switzerland's Red was disqualified in a controversial Academy ruling which determined that although Red was co-produced by the Swiss national film board and although it took place in Switzerland and featured a largely Swiss cast, it qualified as a majority French, and not Swiss, production. ^{[3] [4]} Miramax Films appealed to the Academy to change its mind, but to no avail; Switzerland declined to send another film. However, it was eligible in other categories and received three nominations: Best Director; Best Cinematography and Best Original Screenplay.

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