# List of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 54th 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 54th Academy Awards, twenty-five films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Italy, Japan, Poland and Switzerland.
Hungary won for the first time with Mephisto by István Szabó.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Argentina | The Underground Man | El hombre del subsuelo | Spanish | Nicolás Sarquís | Not nominated |
| Austria | Der Bockerer | Der Bockerer | German | Franz Antel | Not nominated |
| Belgium | Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven | Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven | French | Jean-Jacques Andrien | Not nominated |
| Brazil | Pixote | Pixote | Portuguese | Héctor Babenco | Disqualified |
| Canada | Les Plouffe | Les Plouffe | French, English | Gilles Carle | Not nominated |
| Czechoslovakia | The Divine Emma | Božská Ema | Czech | Jiří Krejčík | Not nominated |
| Egypt | People on the Top | أهل القمة | Egyptian Arabic | Aly Badrakhan | Not nominated |
| Finland | Sign of the Beast | Pedon Merkki | Finnish | Jaakko Pakkasvirta | Not nominated |
| France | Diva | Diva | French, English | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Not nominated |
| West Germany | Lili Marleen | Lili Marleen | German | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Not nominated |
| Greece | The Man with the Carnation | Ο άνθρωπος με το γαρίφαλο | Greek | Nikos Tzimas | Not nominated |
| Hungary | Mephisto | Mephisto | Hungarian, German, English, Esperanto | István Szabó | Won Academy Award |
| Iceland | Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli | Útlaginn | Icelandic | Ágúst Guðmundsson | Not nominated |
| Israel | A Thousand Little Kisses | אלף נשיקות קטנות | Hebrew | Mira Recanati | Not nominated |
| Italy | Three Brothers | Tre fratelli | Italian | Francesco Rosi | Nominated |
| Japan | Muddy River | 泥の川 | Japanese | Kōhei Oguri | Nominated |
| Mexico | Mojado Power | Mojado Power | Spanish | Alfonso Arau | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Come-Back! | Come-Back! | Dutch | Jonne Severijn | Not nominated |
| Norway | Julia Julia | Julia Julia | Norwegian | Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam | Not nominated |
| Poland | Man of Iron | Człowiek z żelaza | Polish | Andrzej Wajda | Nominated |
| Soviet Union | O, Sport, You – the Peace! | О спорт, ты - мир! | Russian | Yuri Ozerov | Not nominated |
| Spain | National Heritage | Patrimonio nacional | Spanish | Luis García Berlanga | Not nominated |
| Sweden | Children's Island | Barnens ö | Swedish | Kay Pollak | Not nominated |
| Switzerland | The Boat Is Full | Das Boot ist Voll | German, Swiss German, French | Markus Imhoof | Nominated |
| Taiwan | If I Were for Real | 假如我是真的 | Mandarin | Wang Toon | Not nominated |
| Yugoslavia | Do You Remember Dolly Bell? | Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell? | Serbo-Croatian | Emir Kusturica | Not nominated |