# List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 66th 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 66th Academy Awards, thirty-five films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy had initially invited 57 countries to send their best films, and the submission deadline was set on November 22, 1993. While the rules were basically unchanged, the applications for the 66th Academy Awards included a new form requesting information about the nationalities of the film's creative team, due to the controversy that had led to the disqualification of A Place in the World at the 65th Academy Awards.
The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Hong Kong, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. It was the first time that the majority of the nominees in this category came from outside Europe (it happened again in 1998, 2006, 2011 and 2018) and is the only time when there have been three Asian nominees. Vietnam made history by becoming the first Southeast Asian country ever to be nominated in this category (until Cambodia first nomination in 2014).
Spain won the award for the second time for Belle Époque by Fernando Trueba.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Argentina | Gatica, el mono | Gatica, el mono | Spanish | Leonardo Favio | Not nominated |
| Austria | Indien | Indien | German | Paul Harather | Not nominated |
| Belgium | Just Friends | Just Friends | Dutch, French | Marc-Henri Wajnberg | Not nominated |
| Bulgaria | Canary Season | Сезонът на канарчетата | Bulgarian | Evgeni Mihailov | Not nominated |
| Canada | The Sex of the Stars | Le sexe des étoiles | French | Paule Baillargeon | Not nominated |
| Chile | Johnny 100 Pesos | Johnny cien pesos | Spanish | Gustavo Graef Marino | Not nominated |
| China | Country Teachers | 凤凰琴 | Mandarin | He Qun | Not nominated |
| Croatia | Countess Dora | Kontesa Dora | Serbo-Croatian | Zvonimir Berković | Not nominated |
| Denmark | Black Harvest | Sort høst | Danish | Anders Refn | Not nominated |
| Finland | Ripa Hits the Skids | Ripa ruostuu | Finnish | Christian Lindblad | Not nominated |
| France | Germinal | Germinal | French | Claude Berri | Not nominated |
| Germany | Justiz | Justiz | German | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Not nominated |
| Hong Kong | Farewell My Concubine | 霸王別姬 | Mandarin | Chen Kaige | Nominated |
| Hungary | We Never Die | Sose halunk meg | Hungarian | Róbert Koltai | Not nominated |
| Iceland | The Sacred Mound | Hin helgu vé | Icelandic | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Not nominated |
| India | Rudaali | रुदाली | Hindi | Kalpana Lajmi | Not nominated |
| Israel | Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein | נקמתו של איציק פינקלשטיין | Hebrew | Enrique Rottenberg | Not nominated |
| Italy | The Great Pumpkin | Il grande cocomero | Italian | Francesca Archibugi | Not nominated |
| Japan | Madadayo | まあだだよ | Japanese | Akira Kurosawa | Not nominated |
| Mexico | Cronos | Cronos | Spanish, English | Guillermo del Toro | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Little Blond Death | De Kleine blonde dood | Dutch | Jean van de Velde | Not nominated |
| Norway | The Telegraphist | Telegrafisten | Norwegian | Erik Gustavson | Not nominated |
| Peru | Report on Death | Reportaje a la muerte | Spanish | Danny Gavidia | Not nominated |
| Poland | Squadron | Szwadron | Polish | Juliusz Machulski | Not nominated |
| Portugal | Abraham's Valley | Vale Abraão | Portuguese | Manoel de Oliveira | Not nominated |
| Romania | The Conjugal Bed | Patul conjugal | Romanian | Mircea Daneliuc | Not nominated |
| Slovakia | Everything I Like | Všetko čo mám rád | Slovak | Martin Šulík | Not nominated |
| Slovenia | When I Close My Eyes | Ko zaprem oči | Slovene | Franci Slak | Not nominated |
| Spain | Belle Époque | Belle Époque | Spanish | Fernando Trueba | Won Academy Award |
| Sweden | The Slingshot | Kådisbellan | Swedish | Åke Sandgren | Not nominated |
| Switzerland | The Diary of Lady M | Le journal de Lady M | French | Alain Tanner | Not nominated |
| Taiwan | The Wedding Banquet | 喜宴 | Mandarin, English | Ang Lee | Nominated |
| Turkey | The Blue Exile | Mavi Sürgün | Turkish | Erden Kıral | Not nominated |
| United Kingdom | Hedd Wyn | Hedd Wyn | Welsh, English | Paul Turner | Nominated |
| Vietnam | The Scent of Green Papaya | Mùi đu đủ xanh | Vietnamese | Tran Anh Hung | Nominated |