List of submissions to the 38th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 15 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 38th 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 Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Japan and Sweden.

Hungary submitted a film to the competition for the first time.

On April 18, 1966, Czechoslovakia became the first Eastern Bloc country to win the Oscar, which it did for the Slovak-language The Shop on Main Street, a dark comedy-drama about the relationship between an elderly Jewish woman and a local village man during the Nazi pogroms in World War II-era Slovakia.[1]

Submissions

Submitting countryFilm title used in nominationLanguage(s)Original titleDirector(s)Result
 ArgentinaPajarito GómezSpanishPajarito GómezRodolfo Kuhn Not Nominated
 BrazilSao Paulo IncorporatedPortugueseSão Paulo, Sociedade AnônimaLuis Sérgio Person Not Nominated
 CzechoslovakiaThe Shop on Main StreetSlovakObchod na korzeJán Kadár & Elmar Klos Won Academy Award
 DenmarkGertrudDanishGertrudCarl Theodor Dreyer Not Nominated
 EgyptThe ImpossibleArabicالمستحيلHussein Kamal Not Nominated
 FrancePierrot le FouFrenchPierrot le fouJean-Luc Godard Not Nominated
 GreeceBlood on the LandGreekΤο χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινοVasilis Georgiadis Nominated
 HungaryTwenty HoursHungarianHúsz óraZoltán Fábri Not Nominated
 IndiaGuideHindiगाइडVijay Anand Not Nominated
 IsraelThe Glass CageFrench, HebrewLa cage de verrePhilippe Arthuys & Jean-Louis Levi-Alvarès Not Nominated
 ItalyMarriage Italian-StyleItalianMatrimonio all'italianaVittorio De Sica Nominated
 JapanKwaidanJapanese怪談Masaki Kobayashi Nominated
 MexicoAlways Farther AwaySpanishTarahumara (Cada vez más lejos)Luis Alcoriza Not Nominated
 SpainLa Tía TulaSpanishLa Tía TulaMiguel Picazo Not Nominated
 SwedenDear JohnSwedishKäre JohnLars-Magnus Lindgren Nominated

References

  1. ↑ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 6 November 2011.

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