List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
# List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 62nd 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 62nd Academy Awards, thirty-seven films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Canada, Denmark, France, Puerto Rico and the eventual winner, Cinema Paradiso, from Italy. Burkina Faso and South Africa submitted films for the first time and Puerto Rico was nominated for the first, and to date, only time.

## Submissions

| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Argentina | La Amiga | La Amiga | Spanish, German | Jeanine Meerapfel | Not nominated |
| Austria | The Seventh Continent | Der siebente Kontinent | German | Michael Haneke | Not nominated |
| Belgium | The Sacrament | Het Sacrament | Dutch | Hugo Claus | Not nominated |
| Brazil | Better Days Ahead | Dias Melhores Virão | Brazilian Portuguese | Carlos Diegues | Not nominated |
| Bulgaria | Time of Violence | Време разделно | Bulgarian | Ludmil Staikov | Not nominated |
| Burkina Faso | Yaaba | Yaaba | Mooré | Idrissa Ouedraogo | Not nominated |
| Canada | Jesus of Montreal | Jésus de Montréal | French, English | Denys Arcand | Nominated |
| China | The Birth of New China | 开国大典 | Mandarin | Qiankuan Li | Not nominated |
| Cuba | Supporting Roles | Papeles secundarios | Spanish | Orlando Rojas | Not nominated |
| Czechoslovakia | A Hoof Here, a Hoof There | Kopytem sem, kopytem tam | Czech | Věra Chytilová | Not nominated |
| Denmark | Memories of a Marriage | Danser med Regitze | Danish | Kaspar Rostrup | Nominated |
| France | Camille Claudel | Camille Claudel | French | Bruno Nuytten | Nominated |
| West Germany | Spider's Web | Das Spinnenetz | German | Bernhard Wicki | Not nominated |
| Greece | Landscape in the Mist | Τοπίο στην ομίχλη | Greek | Theo Angelopoulos | Not nominated |
| Hong Kong | Painted Faces | 七小福 | Cantonese | Alex Law | Not nominated |
| Hungary | My 20th Century | Az Én XX. századom | Hungarian | Ildikó Enyedi | Not nominated |
| Iceland | Under the Glacier | Kristnihald undir jökli | Icelandic | Guðný Halldórsdóttir | Not nominated |
| India | Parinda | परिंदा | Hindi | Vidhu Vinod Chopra | Not nominated |
| Indonesia | Tjoet Nja' Dhien | Tjoet Nja' Dhien | Indonesian, Acehnese, Dutch | Eros Djarot | Not nominated |
| Israel | One of Us | אחד משלנו | Hebrew | Uri Barbash | Not nominated |
| Italy | Cinema Paradiso | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Italian, English, Portuguese, Sicilian | Giuseppe Tornatore | Won Academy Award |
| Japan | Rikyu | 利休 | Japanese | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Not nominated |
| Netherlands | Polonaise | Leedvermaak | Dutch | Frans Weisz | Not nominated |
| Norway | A Handful of Time | En håndfull tid | Norwegian | Martin Asphaug | Not nominated |
| Poland | Kornblumenblau | Kornblumenblau | Polish | Leszek Wosiewicz | Not nominated |
| Portugal | The Cannibals | Os Canibais | Portuguese | Manoel de Oliveira | Not nominated |
| Puerto Rico | Santiago, the Story of his New Life | Lo que le pasó a Santiago | Spanish | Jacobo Morales | Nominated |
| Romania | Those Who Pay With Their Lives | Cei care plătesc cu viaţa | Romanian | Șerban Marinescu | Not nominated |
| South Africa | Mapantsula | Mapantsula | Zulu, Afrikaans, Sesotho, English | Oliver Schmitz | Not nominated |
| Soviet Union | Zerograd | Город Зеро | Russian | Karen Shakhnazarov | Not nominated |
| Spain | Love, Hate and Death | Montoyas y Tarantos | Spanish | Vicente Escrivá | Not nominated |
| Sweden | The Women on the Roof | Kvinnor på taket | Swedish | Carl-Gustav Nykvist | Not nominated |
| Switzerland | My Dear Subject | Mon cher sujet | French | Anne-Marie Miéville | Not nominated |
| Taiwan | A City of Sadness | 悲情城市 | Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, Shanghainese | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Not nominated |
| Thailand | The Elephant Keeper | คนเลี้ยงช้าง | Thai | Chatrichalerm Yukol | Not nominated |
| Turkey | Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite | Uçurtmayi Vurmasinlar | Turkish | Tunç Başaran | Not nominated |
| Yugoslavia | Time of the Gypsies | Дом за вешање | Romani, Serbo-Crroatian, Italian, English, German, Macedonian, Slovene | Emir Kusturica | Not nominated |
