# List of submissions to the 64th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 64th 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 64th Academy Awards, thirty-four films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films came from Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Sweden and Italy. Hong Kong and Iceland received their first-ever nominations, while Czechoslovakia received its final nomination as a unified state.
Italy won the award for the twelfth time with Mediterraneo by Gabriele Salvatores.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Algeria | Cheb | Cheb | French, Arabic | Rachid Bouchareb | Not nominated |
| Argentina | The Tombs | Las tumbas | Spanish | Javier Torre | Not nominated |
| Armenia | The Voice in the Wilderness | The Voice in the Wilderness | Armenian | Vigen Chaldranyan | Not on the final list |
| Austria | I Love Vienna | I Love Vienna | German, English, Italian, Polish, Persian, Arabic | Houchang Allahyari | Not nominated |
| Belgium | Toto the Hero | Toto le héros | French | Jaco Van Dormael | Not nominated |
| Brazil | Exposure | A Grande Arte | Brazilian Portuguese, English, Spanish | Walter Salles | Not nominated |
| Bulgaria | The Well | Кладенецът | Bulgarian | Docho Bodzhakov | Not nominated |
| Canada | A Bullet in the Head | A Bullet in the Head | Fictional Language | Attila Bertalan | Not nominated |
| Chile | La Frontera | La Frontera | Spanish | Ricardo Larraín | Not nominated |
| China | The Spring Festival | 过年 | Mandarin | Huang Jianzhong | Not nominated |
| Colombia | Confessing to Laura | Confesión a Laura | Spanish | Jaime Osorio Gómez | Not nominated |
| Cuba | Hello Hemingway | Hello Hemingway | Spanish | Fernando Perez | Not nominated |
| Czechoslovakia | The Elementary School | Obecná skola | Czech | Jan Svěrák | Nominated |
| Croatia | Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing | Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing | Croatian | Zrinko Ogresta | Not on the final list |
| Denmark | The Great Day on the Beach | Den store badedag | Danish | Stellan Olsson | Not nominated |
| France | Van Gogh | Van Gogh | French | Maurice Pialat | Not nominated |
| Hong Kong | Raise the Red Lantern | 大紅燈籠高高掛 | Mandarin | Zhang Yimou | Nominated |
| Hungary | Brats | Félálom | Hungarian | János Rózsa | Not nominated |
| Iceland | Children of Nature | Börn náttúrunnar | Icelandic, English | Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Nominated |
| India | Henna | हिना | Hindi, Urdu | Randhir Kapoor | Not nominated |
| Israel | Beyond the Sea | מעבר לים | Hebrew | Jacob Goldwasser | Not nominated |
| Italy | Mediterraneo | Mediterraneo | Italian, English, Greek | Gabriele Salvatores | Won Academy Award |
| Japan | Rhapsody in August | 八月の狂詩曲 | Japanese | Akira Kurosawa | Not nominated |
| Mexico | Homework | La tarea | Spanish | Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Eline Vere | Eline Vere | Dutch | Harry Kümel | Not nominated |
| Norway | Frida – Straight from the Heart | Frida - med hjertet i hånden | Norwegian | Berit Nesheim | Not nominated |
| Peru | Alias 'La Gringa' | Alias 'La Gringa' | Spanish | Alberto Durant | Not nominated |
| Poland | The Double Life of Véronique | Podwójne życie Weroniki | Polish, French | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Not nominated |
| Portugal | O Sangue | O Sangue | Portuguese | Pedro Costa | Not nominated |
| Soviet Union | Get Thee Out | Изыди! | Russian | Dmitriy Astrakhan | Not nominated |
| Spain | High Heels | Tacones lejanos | Spanish | Pedro Almodóvar | Not nominated |
| Sweden | The Ox | Oxen | Swedish | Sven Nykvist | Nominated |
| Switzerland | Der Berg | Der Berg | Swiss German | Markus Imhoof | Not nominated |
| Taiwan | A Brighter Summer Day | 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 | Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese Hokkien | Edward Yang | Not nominated |
| United Kingdom | Lost in Siberia | Затерянный в Сибири | Russian | Alexander Mitta | Not nominated |
| Venezuela | Jericho | Jericó | Spanish | Luis Alberto Lamata | Not nominated |
| Yugoslavia | The Original of the Forgery | Оригинал фалсификата | Serbian | Dragan Kresoja | Not nominated |