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List of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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1981 Best Foreign Language Film submissions
Highlights
Oscar winnerHungary Mephisto
Total submissions25
First-time submissionsnone
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This is a list of submissions to the 54th 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[2]

For the 54th Academy Awards, twenty-five films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Italy, Japan, Poland and Switzerland. Hungary won the award with the film Mephisto.[3]

Submissions

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Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result
 Argentina The Underground Man El hombre del subsuelo Spanish Nicolás Sarquís Not nominated
 Austria Der Bockerer Der Bockerer German Franz Antel Not nominated
 Belgium Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven French Jean-Jacques Andrien Not nominated
 Brazil Pixote Portuguese Héctor Babenco Disqualified[4]
 Canada Les Plouffe French, English Gilles Carle Not nominated
 Czechoslovakia The Divine Emma Božská Ema Czech Jiří Krejčík Not nominated
 Egypt People on the Top أهل القمة Egyptian Arabic Aly Badrakhan Not nominated
 Finland Sign of the Beast Pedon Merkki Finnish Jaakko Pakkasvirta Not nominated
 France Diva French, English Jean-Jacques Beineix Not nominated
 West Germany Lili Marleen German Rainer Werner Fassbinder Not nominated
 Greece The Man with the Carnation Ο άνθρωπος με το γαρίφαλο Greek Nikos Tzimas Not nominated
 Hungary Mephisto Hungarian, German, English, Esperanto István Szabó Won Academy Award
 Iceland Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli Útlaginn Icelandic Ágúst Guðmundsson Not nominated
 Israel A Thousand Little Kisses אלף נשיקות קטנות Hebrew Mira Recanati Not nominated
 Italy Three Brothers Tre fratelli Italian Francesco Rosi Nominated
 Japan Muddy River 泥の川 Japanese Kōhei Oguri Nominated
 Mexico Mojado Power Spanish Alfonso Arau Not nominated
 Netherlands Come-Back! Dutch Jonne Severijn Not nominated
 Norway Julia Julia Norwegian Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam Not nominated
 Poland Man of Iron Człowiek z żelaza Polish Andrzej Wajda Nominated
 Soviet Union O, Sport, You – the Peace! О спорт, ты - мир! Russian Yuri Ozerov Not nominated
 Spain National Heritage Patrimonio nacional Spanish Luis García Berlanga Not nominated
 Sweden Children's Island Barnens ö Swedish Kay Pollak Not nominated
 Switzerland The Boat Is Full Das Boot ist Voll German, Swiss German, French Markus Imhoof Nominated
 Taiwan If I Were for Real 假如我是真的 Mandarin Wang Toon Not nominated
 Yugoslavia Do You Remember Dolly Bell? Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell? Serbo-Croatian Emir Kusturica Not nominated

References

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  1. ^ "History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 22 June 2008. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Rule 14 | 81st Academy Awards Rules | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". 9 August 2008. Archived from the original on 9 August 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  3. ^ "The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Nomination Intricacies For Foreign-Film Oscar". New York Times. 21 February 1989. Retrieved 14 September 2023.

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