# List of submissions to the 45th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 45th 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. 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. 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.
For the 45th Academy Awards, twenty-two films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Kuwait submitted a film for the first time. The five nominated films came from France, Israel, Spain, Sweden and the Soviet Union.
France won the eighth time with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Luis Buñuel, which was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Belgium | The Lonely Killers | Les tueurs fous | French | Boris Szulzinger | Not nominated |
| Brazil | How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman | Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês | Portuguese, French, Tupi | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Not nominated |
| Bulgaria | The Goat Horn | Козият рог | Bulgarian | Metodi Andonov | Not nominated |
| Canada | The True Nature of Bernadette | La Vraie Nature de Bernadette | French | Gilles Carle | Not nominated |
| Denmark | Oh, to Be on the Bandwagon! | Man sku være noget ved musikken | Danish | Henning Carlsen | Not nominated |
| Egypt | My Wife and the Dog | زوجتي و الكلب | Arabic | Said Marzouk | Not nominated |
| France | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie | French, Spanish | Luis Buñuel | Won Academy Award |
| West Germany | Trotta | Trotta | German | Johannes Schaaf | Not nominated |
| Hungary | Present Indicative | Jelenidő | Hungarian | Péter Bacsó | Not nominated |
| India | Uphaar | उपहार | Hindi | Sudhendu Roy | Not nominated |
| Israel | I Love You Rosa | אני אוהב אותך רוזה | Hebrew | Moshé Mizrahi | Nominated |
| Italy | Roma | Roma | Italian, German, English, French, Latin, Spanish | Federico Fellini | Not nominated |
| Japan | Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | 軍旗はためく下に | Japanese | Kinji Fukasaku | Not nominated |
| Kuwait | The Cruel Sea | فيلم بس يابحر | Arabic | Khalid Al Siddiq | Not nominated |
| Peru | Mirage | Espejismo | Spanish | Armando Robles Godoy | Not nominated |
| Poland | Pearl in the Crown | Perla w koronie | Polish | Kazimierz Kutz | Not nominated |
| Soviet Union | The Dawns Here Are Quiet | А зори здесь тихие | Russian, German | Stanislav Rostotsky | Nominated |
| Spain | My Dearest Senorita | Mi querida señorita | Spanish | Jaime de Armiñán | Nominated |
| Sweden | The New Land | Nybyggarna | Swedish | Jan Troell | Nominated |
| Switzerland | La Salamandre | La Salamandre | French | Alain Tanner | Not nominated |
| Taiwan | Execution in Autumn | 秋決 | Mandarin | Li Hsing | Not nominated |
| Yugoslavia | The Master and Margaret | Majstor i Margarita | Serbo-Croatian, Italian | Aleksandar Petrović | Not nominated |