List of submissions to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submissions

List of submissions to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Section Title: Submissions
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Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result

Algeria	The Last Image	French	La Dernière image	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Not Nominated

Argentina	Tangos, the Exile of Gardel	Spanish, French	Tangos, el exilio de Gardel	Fernando Solanas	Not Nominated

Austria	'38 – Vienna Before the Fall	German	38 – Auch das war Wien	Wolfgang Glück	Nominated

Belgium	Jumping	Dutch	Springen	Jean-Pierre De Decker	Not Nominated

Brazil	The Hour of the Star	Portuguese	A Hora da Estrela	Suzana Amaral	Not Nominated

Canada	The Decline of the American Empire	French	Le Déclin de l'empire américain	Denys Arcand	Nominated

China	Dr. Sun Yat-sen	Chinese	孙中山	Ding Yinnan	Not Nominated

Colombia	Time to Die	Spanish	Tiempo de morir	Jorge Alí Triana	Not Nominated

Czechoslovakia	My Sweet Little Village	Czech	Vesnicko má stredisková	Jiří Menzel	Nominated

Denmark	The Dark Side of the Moon	Danish	Manden i månen	Erik Clausen	Not Nominated

Finland	The Unknown Soldier	Finnish	Tuntematon sotilas	Rauni Mollberg	Not Nominated

France	Betty Blue	French	37°2 le matin	Jean-Jacques Beineix	Nominated

West Germany	Men...	German	Männer...	Doris Dörrie	Not Nominated

Hungary	Cat City	Hungarian	Macskafogó	Béla Ternovszk	Not Nominated

Iceland	The Beast	Icelandic	Eins og skepnan deyr	Hilmar Oddsson	Not Nominated

India	The Pearl	Telugu	Swati Mutyam	Kasinathuni Viswanath	Not Nominated

Israel	Avanti Popolo	Arabic, Hebrew	אוונטי פופלו	Rafi Bukai	Not Nominated

Italy	Summer Night	Italian	Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico	Lina Wertmüller	Not Nominated

Japan	Final Take	Japanese	キネマの転地	Yôji Yamada	Not Nominated

South Korea	Eunuch	Korean	내시	Doo-yong Lee	Not Nominated

Mexico	The Realm of Fortune	Spanish	El imperio de la fortuna	Arturo Ripstein	Not Nominated

Netherlands	The Assault	Dutch, German	De Aanslag	Fons Rademakers	Won Academy Award

Norway	Hard Asphalt	Norwegian	Hard Asfalt	Sølve Skagen	Not Nominated

Poland	Axiliad	Polish	Siekierezada	Witold Leszczyński	Not Nominated

Puerto Rico	La Gran Fiesta	Spanish	La Gran Fiesta	Marcos Zurinaga	Not Nominated

Romania	The Last Assault	Romanian	Noi, cei din linia întîi	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Not Nominated

Spain	Half of Heaven	Spanish	La Mitad del cielo	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Not Nominated

Sweden	The Sacrifice	Swedish, French	Offret	Andrei Tarkovsky	Not Nominated

Switzerland	Tanner	Swiss German	Der Schwarze Tanner	Xavier Koller	Not Nominated

Taiwan	The Heroic Pioneers	Chinese	唐山过台湾	Li Hsing	Not Nominated

Soviet Union	The Wild Pigeon	Russian	Чужая белая и рябой	Sergei Solovyov	Not Nominated

Yugoslavia	Happy New Year '49	Macedonian, Serbian	Среќна Нова '49	Stole Popov	Not Nominated

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Suzana Amaral's The Hour of the Star was a Submission to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Suzana Amaral´s The Hour of the Star was submitted to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Suzana Amaral's The Hour of the Star was submitted to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

final_sentence: Suzana Amaral's The Hour of the Star was a Submission to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
final_sentence: Suzana Amaral´s The Hour of the Star was submitted to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
final_sentence: Suzana Amaral's The Hour of the Star was submitted to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.