List of submissions to the 47th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
# List of submissions to the 47th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 47th 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 47th Academy Awards, nineteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Argentina, France, Hungary, Italy and Poland. Italy won the Oscar for Federico Fellini's slice-of-life comedy-drama, Amarcord.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Argentina | The Truce | La tregua | Spanish | Sergio Renán | Nominated |
| Belgium | The Conscript | De loteling | Dutch | Roland Verhavert | Not nominated |
| Brazil | The Scarecrow's Night | A Noite do Espantalho | Brazilian Portuguese | Sérgio Ricardo | Not nominated |
| Bulgaria | The Last Summer | Последно лято | Bulgarian | Hristo Hristov | Not nominated |
| Czechoslovakia | Lovers in the Year One | Milenci v roce jedna | Czech | Jaroslav Balík | Not nominated |
| Denmark | The Olsen Gang's Last Escapade | Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter | Danish | Erik Balling | Not nominated |
| Egypt | Where Is My Mind? | أين عقلي | Arabic | Atef Salem | Not nominated |
| France | Lacombe, Lucien | Lacombe, Lucien | French, German | Louis Malle | Nominated |
| West Germany | One or the Other | Einer von uns beiden | German | Wolfgang Petersen | Not nominated |
| Hungary | Cats' Play | Macskajáték | Hungarian | Károly Makk | Nominated |
| India | Hot Winds | गरम हवा | Hindi, Urdu | M. S. Sathyu | Not nominated |
| Italy | Amarcord | Amarcord | Italian | Federico Fellini | Won Academy Award |
| Japan | The Fossil | 化石 | Japanese | Masaki Kobayashi | Not nominated |
| Mexico | Calzonzin Inspector | Calzonzin Inspector | Spanish | Alfonso Arau | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Help! The Doctor Is Drowning | Help, de dokter verzuipt! | Dutch | Nikolai van der Heyde | Not nominated |
| Poland | The Deluge | Potop | Polish | Jerzy Hoffman | Nominated |
| Soviet Union | The Ferocious One | Лютый | Russian | Tolomush Okeyev | Not nominated |
| Spain | La Prima Angelica | La Prima Angelica | Spanish | Carlos Saura | Not nominated |
| Switzerland | The Middle of the World | Le Milieu du monde | French | Alain Tanner | Not nominated |
| Yugoslavia | The Dervish and Death | Derviš i smrt | Serbo-Croatian | Zdravko Velimirović | Not nominated |
