This is a list of submissions to the 62nd 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 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motio ...

to honour non-

English-speaking Speakers of English are also known as Anglophones, and the countries where English is natively spoken by the majority of the population are termed the '' Anglosphere''. Over two billion people speak English , making English the largest langua ...

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

. 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

Notes

* The South African submission, ''Mapantsula'', was on the 1989 official AMPAS press release, but not on the 2007 updated list. In 1997, the AMPAS press release announced that ''Paljas'' had been selected as South Africa's first-ever submission.

References

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