# List of submissions to the 57th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 57th 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 57th Academy Awards, thirty-two films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Thailand submitted a film for the first time. The five nominated films came from Argentina, Israel, Spain, Soviet Union and Switzerland.
Switzerland won for the first time with Dangerous Moves by Richard Dembo.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Argentina | Camila | Camila | Spanish | María Luisa Bemberg | Nominated |
| Austria | Just Behind the Door | Dicht hinter der Tür | German | Mansur Madavi | Not nominated |
| Brazil | Memoirs of Prison | Memórias do Cárcere | Brazilian Portuguese | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Not nominated |
| Canada | Sonatine | Sonatine | French | Micheline Lanctôt | Not nominated |
| China | Life | 人生 | Mandarin | Wu Tianming | Not nominated |
| Colombia | A Man of Principle | Cóndores no entierran todos los días | Spanish | Francisco Norden | Not nominated |
| Czechoslovakia | The Millennial Bee | Tisícročná včela | Slovak, Czech | Juraj Jakubisko | Not nominated |
| Denmark | Tukuma | Tukuma | Danish | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Not nominated |
| Finland | Pessi and Illusia | Pessi ja Illusia | Finnish | Heikki Partanen | Not nominated |
| France | So Long, Stooge | Tchao Pantin | French | Claude Berri | Not nominated |
| West Germany | Man Under Suspicion | Morgen in Alabama | German | Norbert Kückelmann | Not nominated |
| Hong Kong | Homecoming | 似水流年 | Cantonese, Mandarin | Yim Ho | Not nominated |
| Hungary | Yerma | Yerma | Hungarian | Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay | Not nominated |
| Iceland | When the Raven Flies | Hrafninn flýgur | Icelandic | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Not nominated |
| India | The Gist | सारांश | Hindi | Mahesh Bhatt | Not nominated |
| Israel | Beyond the Walls | מאחורי הסורגים | Hebrew | Uri Barbash | Nominated |
| Italy | Where's Picone? | Mi manda Picone | Italian | Nanni Loy | Not nominated |
| Japan | MacArthur's Children | 瀬戸内少年野球団 | Japanese | Masahiro Shinoda | Not nominated |
| South Korea | Mulleya Mulleya | 여인잔혹사 물레야 물레야 | Korean | Lee Doo-yong | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Army Brats | Schatjes! | Dutch | Ruud van Hemert | Not nominated |
| Norway | The Chieftain | Høvdingen | Norwegian | Terje Kristiansen | Not nominated |
| Philippines | Of the Flesh | Karnal | Tagalog, Filipino, English | Marilou Diaz-Abaya | Not nominated |
| Portugal | Dead Man's Seat | O Lugar do Morto | Portuguese | António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Not nominated |
| Romania | Glissando | Glissando | Romanian | Mircea Daneliuc | Not nominated |
| Soviet Union | Wartime Romance | Военно-полевой роман | Russian | Pyotr Todorovsky | Nominated |
| Spain | Double Feature | Sesión continua | Spanish | José Luis Garci | Nominated |
| Sweden | Åke and His World | Åke och hans värld | Swedish | Allan Edwall | Not nominated |
| Switzerland | Dangerous Moves | La Diagonale du fou | French | Richard Dembo | Won Academy Award |
| Taiwan | Old Mao's Second Spring | 老莫的第二个春天 | Mandarin | You-ning Lee | Not nominated |
| Thailand | The Story of Nampoo | น้ำพุ | Thai | Euthana Mukdasanit | Not nominated |
| Venezuela | The House of Water | La casa de agua | Spanish | Jacobo Penzo | Not nominated |
| Yugoslavia | The End of the War | Kraj Rata | Serbo-Croatian | Dragan Kresoja | Not nominated |