This is a list of submissions to the 37th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...
was created in 1956 by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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to honour non-
English-speaking
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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
37th Academy Awards
The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup.
The Best Picture winner of 1964, director George Cukor's ''My Fair Lady'', was about the transformative training o ...
, eighteen films were submitted in the category
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...
. Czechoslovakia, Israel and Turkey submitted films to the competition for the first time. The titles highlighted were the five nominated films, which came from France, Israel, Italy, Japan and Sweden. Italy won the award for romantic comedy ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'', starring
Sophia Loren
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and
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor, regarded as one of his country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of Italy's top di ...
.
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Margaret Herrick Library
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