List of submissions to the 36th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 14 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 36th 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 Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland and Spain.

Italy won the award for Federico Fellini's film 8½.

Poland and the USSR submitted films to the competition for the first time. Pakistan didn't submit a film again until 2013 with Zinda Bhaag being submitted.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
France	Le Feu Follet	French	Le Feu Follet	Louis Malle	Not Nominated
Greece	The Red Lanterns	Greek	Τα κόκκινα φανάρια	Vasilis Georgiadis	Nominated
Hong Kong	The Love Eterne	Mandarin	梁山伯与祝英台	Li Han-hsiang	Not Nominated
India	Metropolis	Bengali	মহানগর	Satyajit Ray	Not Nominated
Italy	8½	Italian	81/2	Federico Fellini	Won Academy Award
Japan	Twin Sisters of Kyoto	Japanese	古都	Noboru Nakamura	Nominated
Mexico	The Paper Man	Spanish	El hombre de papel	Ismael Rodríguez	Not Nominated
Netherlands	Like Two Drops of Water	Dutch	Als twee druppels water	Fons Rademakers	Not Nominated
Pakistan	The Veil	Urdu	Ghunghat	Khurshid Anwar	Not Nominated
Poland	Knife in the Water	Polish	Nóz w wodzie	Roman Polanski	Nominated
Spain	Los Tarantos	Spanish	Los Tarantos	Francisco Rovira Beleta	Nominated
Sweden	The Silence	Swedish	Tystnaden	Ingmar Bergman	Not Nominated
Soviet Union	My Name Is Ivan	Russian	Иваново детство	Andrei Tarkovsky	Not Nominated
Yugoslavia	Kozara	Serbo-Croatian	Козара	Veljko Bulajić	Not Nominated

Sources

• Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences