# List of submissions to the 76th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 76th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is handed out annually by the academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.
For the 76th Academy Awards, fifty-six films were submitted to the academy. Mongolia, Palestine and Sri Lanka submitted a film for the first time. Palestine was excluded from submitting a film the year before, but the academy made an exception in the interests of inclusiveness.
Canada won the award for the first time with The Barbarian Invasions by Denys Arcand, which was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Afghanistan | Osama | أسامة | Dari | Siddiq Barmak | Not nominated |
| Argentina | Valentín | Valentín | Spanish | Alejandro Agresti | Not nominated |
| Armenia | Vodka Lemon | Վոդկա լիմոն | Armenian, Kurdish, Russian, French | Hiner Saleem | Not nominated |
| Austria | Free Radicals | Böse Zellen | German | Barbara Albert | Not nominated |
| Belgium | Sea of Silence | Verder dan de maan | Dutch | Stijn Coninx | Not nominated |
| Bolivia | Sexual Dependency | Dependencia sexual | Spanish, English | Rodrigo Bellott | Not nominated |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Fuse | Gori vatra | Bosnian, Serbian, English | Pjer Žalica | Not nominated |
| Brazil | Carandiru | Carandiru | Brazilian Portuguese | Héctor Babenco | Not nominated |
| Bulgaria | Journey to Jerusalem | Пътуване към Йерусалим | Bulgarian | Ivan Nitchev | Not nominated |
| Canada | The Barbarian Invasions | Les Invasions barbares | French, English | Denys Arcand | Won Academy Award |
| Chile | Los Debutantes | Los Debutantes | Spanish | Andrés Waissbluth | Not nominated |
| China | Warriors of Heaven and Earth | 天地英雄 | Mandarin | He Ping | Not nominated |
| Colombia | The First Night | La primera noche | Spanish | Luis Alberto Restrepo | Not nominated |
| Croatia | Witnesses | Svjedoci | Croatian | Vinko Brešan | Not nominated |
| Cuba | Suite Habana | Suite Habana | No dialogue | Fernando Pérez | Not nominated |
| Czech Republic | Želary | Želary | Czech, Russian, German, English | Ondřej Trojan | Nominated |
| Denmark | Reconstruction | Reconstruction | Danish | Christoffer Boe | Not nominated |
| Egypt | Sleepless Nights | سهر الليالى | Arabic | Hany Khalifa | Not nominated |
| Finland | Elina: As If I Wasn't There | Elina - Som om jag inte fanns, Näkymätön Elina | Swedish, Finnish | Klaus Härö | Not nominated |
| France | Bon Voyage | Bon Voyage | French | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Not nominated |
| Germany | Good Bye, Lenin! | Good Bye, Lenin! | German | Wolfgang Becker | Not nominated |
| Greece | Think It Over | Θα το Μετανιώσεις | Greek | Katerina Evangelakou | Not nominated |
| Hong Kong | Infernal Affairs | 無間道 | Cantonese | Andrew Lau and Alan Mak | Not nominated |
| Hungary | Forest | Rengeteg | Hungarian | Benedek Fliegauf | Not nominated |
| Iceland | Noi the Albino | Nói Albínói | Icelandic, French | Dagur Kári | Not nominated |
| Indonesia | The Stringless Violin | Biola tak berdawai | Indonesian | Sekar Ayu Asmara | Not nominated |
| Iran | Deep Breath | نفس عمیق | Persian | Parviz Shahbazi | Not nominated |
| Israel | Nina's Tragedies | האסונות של נינה | Hebrew | Savi Gabizon | Not nominated |
| Italy | I'm Not Scared | Io non ho paura | Italian | Gabriele Salvatores | Not nominated |
| Japan | The Twilight Samurai | たそがれ清兵衛 | Japanese | Yoji Yamada | Nominated |
| South Korea | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄 | Korean | Kim Ki-duk | Not nominated |
| Lebanon | The Kite | طيّارة من ورق | Arabic | Randa Chahal | Not nominated |
| Luxembourg | I Always Wanted to Be a Saint | J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte | French | Geneviève Mersch | Not nominated |
| Mexico | Aro Tolbukhin | Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino | Spanish | Isaac Pierre Racine, Lydia Zimmermann and Agustí Villaronga | Not nominated |
| Mongolia | The Story of the Weeping Camel | Ингэний нулимс | Mongolian | Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni | Not nominated |
| Nepal | Muna Madan | मुनामदन | Nepali | Gyanendra Deuja | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Twin Sisters | De Tweeling | Dutch, German | Ben Sombogaart | Nominated |
| Norway | Kitchen Stories | Salmer fra kjøkkenet | Norwegian, Swedish | Bent Hamer | Not nominated |
| Palestine | Divine Intervention | يد إلهية | Arabic, Hebrew, English | Elia Suleiman | Not nominated |
| Peru | Paper Dove | Paloma de Papel | Spanish | Fabrizio Aguilar | Not nominated |
| Philippines | Dekada '70 | Dekada '70 | Filipino | Chito S. Roño | Not nominated |
| Poland | Pornography | Pornografia | Polish | Jan Jakub Kolski | Not nominated |
| Portugal | A Talking Picture | Um Filme Falado | Portuguese, French, Italian, Greek, English | Manoel De Oliveira | Not nominated |
| Russia | The Return | Возвращение | Russian | Andrei Zvyagintsev | Not nominated |
| Serbia and Montenegro | The Professional | Професионалац | Serbian | Dušan Kovačević | Not nominated |
| Slovakia | King of Thieves | König der Diebe | German, Russian | Ivan Fíla | Not nominated |
| Slovenia | Spare Parts | Rezervni deli | Slovene | Damjan Kozole | Not nominated |
| Sri Lanka | Mansion by the Lake | වෑකන්ද වලව්ව | Sinhala | Lester James Peries | Not nominated |
| Spain | Soldados de Salamina | Soldados de Salamina | Spanish, Catalan, French | David Trueba | Not nominated |
| Sweden | Evil | Ondskan | Swedish | Mikael Håfström | Nominated |
| Taiwan | Goodbye, Dragon Inn | 不散 | Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien | Tsai Ming-Liang | Not nominated |
| Thailand | Last Life in the Universe | เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล | Thai, Japanese, English | Pen-ek Ratanaruang | Not nominated |
| Turkey | Distant | Uzak | Turkish | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Not nominated |
| Ukraine | Mamay | Мамай | Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar | Oles Sanin | Not nominated |
| Uruguay | Seawards Journey | El viaje hacia el mar | Spanish | Guillermo Casanova | Not nominated |
| Venezuela | Sangrador | Sangrador | Spanish | Leonardo Henríquez | Not nominated |