List of submissions to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
# List of submissions to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 44th 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 44th Academy Awards, twenty films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Bulgaria and Canada submitted films for consideration for the first time. Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa gained his first nomination for the award (although he had received an honorary award at the 24th Academy Awards in 1951 for Rashomon) for Dodes'ka-den, a film which was a critical and commercial failure in his native Japan. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Israel, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the USSR. The Oscar went to The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a drama about an aristocratic Jewish family in Italy. France, which received 27 nominations between 1957 and 1991, failed to receive an Oscar nomination for only the fourth time since the inauguration of the Foreign Language Film award.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brazil | Pra Quem Fica, Tchau | Pra Quem Fica, Tchau | Brazilian Portuguese | Reginaldo Faria | Not nominated |
| Bulgaria | Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles | Таралежите се раждат без бодли | Bulgarian | Dimitar Petrov | Not nominated |
| Canada | Mon oncle Antoine | Mon oncle Antoine | French | Claude Jutra | Not nominated |
| Denmark | The Missing Clerk | Forsvundne fuldmægtig | Danish | Gert Fredholm | Not nominated |
| Egypt | A Woman and a Man | امرأة و رجل | Arabic | Houssam Eddine Mostafa | Not nominated |
| France | Ramparts of Clay | Remparts d'argile | French, Arabic | Jean-Louis Bertuccelli | Not nominated |
| West Germany | The Castle | Das Schloß | German | Rudolf Noelte | Not nominated |
| Hungary | Love | Szerelem | Hungarian | Károly Makk | Not nominated |
| India | Reshma Aur Shera | रेशमा और शेरा | Hindi | Sunil Dutt | Not nominated |
| Israel | The Policeman | השוטר אזולאי | Hebrew | Ephraim Kishon | Nominated |
| Italy | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini | Italian | Vittorio De Sica | Won Academy Award |
| Japan | Dodes'ka-den | どですかでん | Japanese | Akira Kurosawa | Nominated |
| Mexico | El Topo | El Topo | Spanish | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Mira | Mira | Dutch | Fons Rademakers | Not nominated |
| Poland | Family Life | Życie rodzinne | Polish | Krzysztof Zanussi | Not nominated |
| Romania | The Last Crusade | Mihai Viteazul | Romanian | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Not nominated |
| Soviet Union | Tchaikovsky | Чайкoвский | Russian | Igor Talankin | Nominated |
| Spain | Marta | Marta | Spanish | José Antonio Nieves Conde | Not nominated |
| Sweden | The Emigrants | Utvandrarna | Swedish | Jan Troell | Nominated |
| Yugoslavia | Black Seed | Црно семе | Macedonian | Kiril Cenevski | Not nominated |
