List of foreign-language films nominated for Academy Awards
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Original Screenplay category has existed since 1940.

List of foreign-language films nominated for Academy Awards

Section Title: Writing (Original Screenplay)
Table Section Text: The Original Screenplay category has existed since 1940.

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Award recipient(s)	Country of production	Language(s)	Notes

1945 (18th)	Marie-Louise	Marie-Louise	Richard Schweizer	Switzerland Switzerland	Swiss German

1946 (19th)	Open City	Roma, città aperta	Sergio Amidei Federico Fellini	Italy Italy	Italian (Some parts in German) (In this year the category screenplay had both original and adapted screenplays).

1946 (19th)	Children of Paradise	Les Enfants du Paradis	Jacques Prévert	France France	French

1947 (20th)	A Cage of Nightingales	La Cage aux Rossignols	Georges Chaperot René Wheeler	France France	French

1947 (20th)	Shoeshine	Sciuscià	Sergio Amidei Adolfo Franci Cesare Giulio Viola Cesare Zavattini Roberto Rossellini	Italy Italy	Italian

1949 (22nd)	Paisà	Paisà	Alfred Hayes Federico Fellini Sergio Amidei Marcello Pagliero Roberto Rossellini	Italy Italy	Italian

1950 (23rd)	Bitter Rice	Riso amaro	Giuseppe De Santis Carlo Lizzani	Italy Italy	Italian

1954 (27th)	Bread, Love and Dreams	Pane, amore e fantasia	Ettore Maria Margadonna	Italy Italy	Italian

1955 (28th)	Mr. Hulot's Holiday	Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot	Jacques Tati Henri Marquet	France France	French

1955 (28th)	The Sheep Has Five Legs	Le mouton à cinq pattes	Jean Marsan Henri Troyat Jacques Perret Henri Verneuil Raoul Ploquin	France France	French

1956 (29th)	The Red Balloon	Le Ballon rouge	Albert Lamorisse	France France	French

1956 (29th)	La Strada	La strada	Federico Fellini Tullio Pinelli	Italy Italy	Italian

1956 (29th)	Umberto D.	Umberto D.	Cesare Zavattini	Italy Italy	Italian

1956 (29th)	The Proud and the Beautiful	Les orgueilleux	Jean-Paul Sartre	France France Mexico Mexico	French, Spanish

1957 (30th)	I Vitelloni	I vitelloni	Federico Fellini Ennio Flaiano Tullio Pinelli	Italy Italy France France	Italian

1959 (32nd)	The 400 Blows	Les Quatre Cents Coups	François Truffaut Marcel Moussy	France France	French

1959 (32nd)	Wild Strawberries	Smultronstället	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden Sweden	Swedish Latin

1960 (33rd)	Never on Sunday	Pote tin Kyriaki	Jules Dassin	Greece Greece	Greek

1960 (33rd)	Hiroshima Mon Amour	Hiroshima mon amour	Marguerite Duras	France France Japan Japan	French Japanese English

1961 (34th)	Ballad of a Soldier	Баллада о солдате	Valentin Yoshov Grigori Chukhrai	Soviet Union Soviet Union	Russian

1961 (34th)	La Dolce Vita	La dolce vita	Federico Fellini Ennio Flaiano Tullio Pinelli Brunello Rondi	Italy Italy France France	Italian English French German

1961 (34th)	General della Rovere	Il generale della Rovere	Sergio Amidei Diego Fabbri Indro Montanelli	Italy Italy France France	Italian German

1962 (35th)	Divorce Italian Style	Divorzio all'italiana	Ennio de Concini Pietro Germi Alfredo Giannetti	Italy Italy	Italian

1962 (35th)	Last Year at Marienbad	L'Année dernière à Marienbad	Alain Robbe-Grillet	France France	French

1962 (35th)	Through a Glass Darkly	Såsom i en spegel	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden Sweden	Swedish

1963 (36th)	8½	8½	Federico Fellini Ennio Flaiano Tullio Pinelli Brunello Rondi	Italy Italy	Italian English French German

1963 (36th)	The Four Days of Naples	Le quattro giornate di Napoli	Pasquale Festa Campanile Massimo Franciosa Nanni Loy Vasco Pratolini Carlo Bernari	Italy Italy	Italian

1964 (37th)	The Organizer	I compagni	Agenore Incrocci Furio Scarpelli Mario Monicelli	Italy Italy	Italian

1964 (37th)	That Man From Rio	L'Homme de Rio	Jean Paul Rappeneau Ariane Mnouchkine Daniel Boulanger Philippe de Broca	France France Italy Italy	French

1965 (38th)	Casanova 70	Casanova '70	Agenore Incrocci Furio Scarpelli Mario Monicelli Tonino Guerra Giorgio Salvioni Suso Cecchi D'Amico	Italy Italy	Italian

1965 (38th)	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg	Jacques Demy	France France	French

1966 (39th)	A Man and a Woman	Un homme et une femme	Claude Lelouch	France France	French

1967 (40th)	The War is Over	La guerre est finie	Jorge Semprún	France France	French

1968 (41st)	The Battle of Algiers	La battaglia di Algeri	Franco Solinas Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy Italy Algeria Algeria	French Arabic

1969 (42nd)	The Damned	La caduta degli dei	Nicola Badalucco Enrico Medioli Luchino Visconti	Italy Italy Germany Germany (West)	Italian German

1970 (43rd)	My Night at Maud's	Ma nuit chez Maud	Éric Rohmer	France France	French

1971 (44th)	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto	Elio Petri Ugo Pirro	Italy Italy	Italian

1972 (45th)	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel Jean-Claude Carrière	France France Italy Italy Spain Spain	French (Some parts in Spanish)

1972 (45th)	Murmur of the Heart	Le souffle au coeur	Louis Malle	France France Italy Italy Germany Germany (West)	French

1973 (46th)	Cries and Whispers	Viskningar och rop	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden Sweden	Swedish

1974 (47th)	Day for Night	La Nuit américaine	François Truffaut Jean-Louis Richard Suzanne Schiffman	France France Italy Italy	French (some parts in English)

1975 (48th)	Amarcord	Amarcord	Federico Fellini Tonino Guerra	Italy Italy	Italian (some parts in Romagnolo)

1975 (48th)	And Now My Love	Toute une vie	Claude Lelouch Pierre Uytterhoeven	France France Italy Italy	French (some parts in English)

1976 (49th)	Cousin, Cousine	Cousin cousine	Jean-Charles Tacchella Daniele Thompson	France France	French

1976 (49th)	Seven Beauties	Pasqualino Settebellezze	Lina Wertmüller	Italy Italy	Italian (some parts in German)

1978 (51st)	Autumn Sonata	Höstsonaten	Ingmar Bergman	France France West Germany Germany (West) Sweden Sweden	Swedish (some parts in English)

1980 (53rd)	Mon Oncle D'Amerique	Mon oncle d'Amérique	Jean Gruault	France France	French

1983 (56th)	Fanny and Alexander	Fanny och Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden Sweden France France West Germany Germany (West)	Swedish (some parts in German, Yiddish & English)

1984 (57th)	El Norte	El Norte	Gregory Nava Anna Thomas	United States United States United Kingdom United Kingdom	Spanish (some parts in Maya & English)

1985 (58th)	The Official Story	La historia oficial	Aida Bortnik Luis Puenzo	Argentina Argentina	Spanish (some parts in English)

1987 (60th)	Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children)	Au revoir, les enfants	Louis Malle	France France Germany Germany (West)	French (some parts in German & English)

1994 (67th)	Red	Trois Couleurs: Rouge	Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz	France France Switzerland Switzerland Poland Poland	French

1998 (71st)	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni Vincenzo Cerami	Italy Italy	Italian (some parts in German & English)

2001 (74th)	Amélie	Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain	Jean-Pierre Jeunet Guillaume Laurant	France France Germany Germany	French

2002 (75th)	Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain Spain	Spanish

2002 (75th)	Y Tu Mamá También	Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón Carlos Cuarón	Mexico Mexico	Spanish

2003 (76th)	The Barbarian Invasions	Les Invasions barbares	Denys Arcand	Canada Canada France France	French (some parts in English)

2006 (79th)	Letters from Iwo Jima	Letters from Iwo Jima (English) Iô-Jima kara no tegami 硫黄島からの手紙 (Japanese)	Paul Haggis Iris Yamashita	United States United States	Japanese (some parts in English)

2006 (79th)	Pan's Labyrinth	El laberinto del fauno	Guillermo del Toro	Spain Spain Mexico Mexico	Spanish

2006 (79th)	Babel	Babel	Guillermo Arriaga	United States United States Mexico Mexico France France	English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Japanese Sign language, Berber languages

2011 (84th)	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین (Jodái-e Náder az Simin)	Asghar Farhadi	Iran Iran	Persian

2012 (85th)	Amour	Amour	Michael Haneke	Austria Austria France France Germany Germany	French

2018 (91st)	Roma	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico Mexico	Spanish

Sentence(s)

The film, A Separation, was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Screenplay.

final_sentence: The film, A Separation, was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Screenplay.