# List of submissions to the 46th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 46th 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 46th Academy Awards, twenty films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. East Germany and Finland made their debuts in the competition. The five nominated films came from France, West Germany, Israel, Netherlands and Switzerland.
France won for the ninth time for Day for Night by François Truffaut. The film was also nominated for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Valentina Cortese) in the following year at the 47th Academy Awards.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Brazil | João and the Knife | A Faca e o Rio | Brazilian Portuguese | George Sluizer | Not nominated |
| Czechoslovakia | Days of Betrayal | Dny zrady | Czech | Otakar Vávra | Not nominated |
| Egypt | Empire M | إمبراطورية ميم | Arabic | Hussein Kamal | Not nominated |
| Finland | The Earth Is a Sinful Song | Maa on syntinen laulu | Finnish | Rauni Mollberg | Not nominated |
| France | Day for Night | La Nuit américaine | French | François Truffaut | Won Academy Award |
| East Germany | The Third | Der Dritte | German | Egon Günther | Not nominated |
| West Germany | The Pedestrian | Der Fußgänger | German | Maximilian Schell | Nominated |
| Hungary | Photography | Fotográfia | Hungarian | Pál Zolnay | Not nominated |
| India | Saudagar | सौदागर | Hindi | Sudhendu Roy | Not nominated |
| Israel | The House on Chelouche Street | בית ברחוב שלוש | Hebrew, Egyptian Arabic, Ladino | Moshé Mizrahi | Nominated |
| Japan | Coup d'État | 戒厳令 | Japanese | Yoshishige Yoshida | Not nominated |
| South Korea | Mute Samyong | 비련의 벙어리 삼용 | Korean | Byun Jang-ho | Not nominated |
| Mexico | Reed: Insurgent Mexico | Reed, México insurgente | Spanish | Paul Leduc | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Turkish Delight | Turks fruit | Dutch | Paul Verhoeven | Nominated |
| Poland | Copernicus | Kopernik | Polish | Ewa Petelska and Czesław Petelski | Not nominated |
| Romania | Veronica | Veronica | Romanian | Elisabeta Bostan | Not nominated |
| Soviet Union | Liberation | Освобождение | Russian, German, English, Polish, Italian, French, Serbo-Croatian | Yuri Ozerov | Not nominated |
| Spain | Habla, mudita | Habla, mudita | Spanish | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Not nominated |
| Sweden | Scenes from a Marriage | Scener ur ett äktenskap | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman | Disqualified |
| Switzerland | L'Invitation | L'Invitation | French | Claude Goretta | Nominated |
| Yugoslavia | The Battle of Sutjeska | Sutjeska | Serbo-Croatian, English, German | Stipe Delić | Not nominated |