List of submissions to the 40th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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The following 16 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 40th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from France, Japan, Spain, Yugoslavia and the eventual winner, Czechoslovakia. The winner, Jiří Menzel's Closely Watched Trains, was a wry comedy about a young man working at a village railway station during Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.[1]
Belgium and Peru submitted films to the competition for the first time.
Submissions
Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Language(s) | Original title | Director(s) | Result |
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Le départ | French | Le départ | Jerzy Skolimowski | Not Nominated |
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Case of the Naves Brothers | Portuguese | O Caso dos Irmãos Naves | Luis Sérgio Person | Not Nominated |
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Closely Watched Trains | Czech, German | Ostře sledované vlaky | Jiří Menzel | Won Academy Award |
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Once There Was a War | Danish | Der var engang en krig | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Not Nominated |
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Live for Life | French | Vivre pour Vivre | Claude Lelouch | Nominated |
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Tattoo | German | Tätowierung | Johannes Schaaf | Not Nominated |
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Father | Hungarian | Apa | István Szabó | Not Nominated |
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The Last Letter | Hindi | Aakhri Khat | Chetan Anand | Not Nominated |
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China Is Near | Italian | La Cina è vicina | Marco Bellocchio | Not Nominated |
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Portrait of Chieko | Japanese | 智恵子抄 | Noboru Nakamura | Nominated |
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The Adolescents | Spanish | Los Adolescentes | Abel Salazar | Not Nominated |
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No Stars in the Jungle | Spanish | En la selva no hay estrellas | Armando Robles Godoy | Not Nominated |
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Because of a Flower | Tagalog | Dahil sa isang bulaklak | Luis Nepomuceno | Not Nominated |
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El Amor Brujo | Spanish | El Amor Brujo | Francisco Rovira Beleta | Nominated |
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Here's Your Life | Swedish | Här har du ditt liv | Jan Troell | Not Nominated |
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I Even Met Happy Gypsies | Romany, Serbian | Skupljaci perja | Aleksandar Petrović | Nominated |
References
- ^ "The 40th Academy Awards (1968) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 12 November 2011.