# List of submissions to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 42nd 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 42nd Academy Awards, twenty-four films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominees came from Algeria, France, Sweden, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Algeria, submitting a film for the first time, became the first African country to receive an Oscar nomination in this category.
Algeria won with Z by Costa-Gavras, which also won Best Film Editing, alongside nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Becoming the first African film to win this category.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| Algeria | Z | Z | French, Russian, English | Costa-Gavras | Won Academy Award |
| Austria | Moss on the Stones | Moos auf den Steinen | German | Georg Lhotsky | Not nominated |
| Belgium | Palaver | Palaver | Swahili, Dutch, French, English, German, Latin | Emile Degelin | Not nominated |
| Brazil | Antonio das Mortes | O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro | Brazilian Portuguese | Glauber Rocha | Not nominated |
| Czechoslovakia | The Cremator | Spalovač mrtvol | Czech, Hebrew | Juraj Herz | Not nominated |
| Denmark | Ballad of Carl-Henning | Balladen om Carl-Henning | Danish | Lene Grønlykke and Sven Grønlykke | Not nominated |
| France | My Night at Maud's | Ma Nuit Chez Maud | French | Éric Rohmer | Nominated |
| West Germany | Hunting Scenes from Bavaria | Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern | German | Peter Fleischmann | Not nominated |
| Greece | Girls in the Sun | Κοριτσια στον Ηλιο | Greek | Vasilis Georgiadis | Not nominated |
| Hong Kong | The Arch | 董夫人 | Mandarin | Tang Shu Shuen | Not nominated |
| Hungary | The Upthrown Stone | Feldobott kő | Hungarian | Sándor Sára | Not nominated |
| India | Deiva Magan | தெய்வ மகன் | Tamil | A. C. Tirulokchandar | Not nominated |
| Israel | Siege/Matzor | מצור | Hebrew | Gilberto Tofano | Not nominated |
| Italy | Fellini Satyricon | Fellini Satyricon | Italian, Latin | Federico Fellini | Not nominated |
| Japan | Kuragejima, Legends From a Southern Island | 神々の深き欲望 | Japanese | Shōhei Imamura | Not nominated |
| South Korea | The Old Craftsman of Jar | 독짓는 늙은이 | Korean | Choi Ha-won | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Monsieur Hawarden | Monsieur Hawarden | Dutch | Harry Kümel | Not nominated |
| Peru | The Green Wall | La muralla verde | Spanish | Armando Robles Godoy | Not nominated |
| Poland | Everything for Sale | Wszystko na sprzedaz | Polish | Andrzej Wajda | Not nominated |
| Romania | A Woman for a Season | Răutăciosul adolescent | Romanian | Gheorghe Vitanidis | Not nominated |
| Soviet Union | The Brothers Karamazov | Братья Карамазовы | Russian | Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov | Nominated |
| Spain | La Celestina | La Celestina | Spanish | César Fernández Ardavín | Not nominated |
| Sweden | Ådalen 31 | Ådalen 31 | Swedish | Bo Widerberg | Nominated |
| Yugoslavia | Battle of Neretva | Bitka na Neretvi | Serbo-Croatian | Veljko Bulajić | Nominated |