List of submissions to the 76th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 56 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 76th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film which took place in 2004. The bolded titles were the five nominated films.

Films were submitted by Mongolia, Palestine and Sri Lanka for the first time. Palestine had tried to submit a film the year before, but was prevented from doing so by the Academy which said that Palestine was not a country and had no recognized Film Board. The Academy subsequently changed its mind saying that although Palestine was not a recognized country, they would make "an exception" in the interests of inclusiveness. ^[1]

The Film Federation of India announced that their selection committee had been unable to find a suitable film to send to the Oscars and so declined to send an entry. This left India out of the race for the first time in over a decade. ^[2] Also notable by their first absence in over ten years was Switzerland (though they were disqualified in 1994).

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)	Result
Afghanistan	Osama	أسامة	Dari	Siddiq Barmak	Not Nominated
Argentina	Valentín	Valentín	Spanish	Alejandro Agresti	Not Nominated
Armenia	Vodka Lemon[3]	Vodka Lemon	Kurdish, Russian, Armenian	Hiner Saleem	Not Nominated
Austria	Free Radicals	Böse Zellen	German	Barbara Albert	Not Nominated
Belgium	Sea of Silence	Verder dan de maan	Dutch	Stijn Coninx	Not Nominated
Bolivia	Sexual Dependency	Dependencia Sexual	Spanish, English	Rodrigo Bellott	Not Nominated
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Fuse	Gori vatra	Serbo-Croatian	Pjer Žalica	Not Nominated
Brazil	Carandiru	Carandiru	Portuguese	Héctor Babenco	Not Nominated
Bulgaria	Journey to Jerusalem	Пътуване към Йерусалим	Bulgarian	Ivan Nitchev	Not Nominated
Canada	The Barbarian Invasions	Les Invasions barbares	French	Denys Arcand	Won Academy Award
Chile	Los Debutantes	Los Debutantes	Spanish	Andrés Waissbluth	Not Nominated
China	Warriors of Heaven and Earth	天地英雄	Mandarin	He Ping	Not Nominated
Colombia	The First Night	La Primera Noche	Spanish	Luis Alberto Restrepo	Not Nominated
Croatia	Witnesses	Svjedoci	Serbo-Croatian	Vinko Brešan	Not Nominated
Cuba	Suite Habana	Suite Habana	No dialogue	Fernando Pérez	Not Nominated
Czech Republic	Želary	Želary	Czech	Ondřej Trojan	Nominated
Denmark	Reconstruction	Reconstruction	Danish	Christoffer Boe	Not Nominated
Egypt	Sleepless Nights	سهر الليالى	Arabic	Hany Khalifa	Not Nominated
Finland	Elina: As If I Wasn't There	Elina - Som om jag inte fanns (Swedish) Näkymätön Elina (Finnish)	Swedish, Finnish	Klaus Härö	Not Nominated
France	Bon Voyage	Bon Voyage	French	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	Not Nominated
Germany	Good Bye, Lenin!	Good Bye, Lenin!	German	Wolfgang Becker	Not Nominated
Greece	Think It Over	Θα το Μετανιώσεις	Greek	Katerina Evangelakou	Not Nominated
Hong Kong	Infernal Affairs	無間道	Cantonese	Andrew Lau and Alan Mak	Not Nominated
Hungary	Forest	Rengeteg	Hungarian	Benedek Fliegauf	Not Nominated
Iceland	Noi the Albino	Nói Albínói	Icelandic	Dagur Kári	Not Nominated
Indonesia	The Stringless Violin	Biola tak berdawai	Indonesian	Sekar Ayu Asmara	Not Nominated
Iran	Deep Breath	نفس عمیق	Persian	Kambuzia Partovi	Not Nominated
Israel	Nina's Tragedies	האסונות של נינה	Hebrew	Savi Gabizon	Not Nominated
Italy	I'm Not Scared	Io non ho paura	Italian	Gabriele Salvatores	Not Nominated
Japan	The Twilight Samurai	たそがれ清兵衛	Japanese	Yoji Yamada	Nominated
South Korea	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄	Korean	Kim Ki-duk	Not Nominated
Lebanon	The Kite	Le Cerf-Volant (French) طيّارة من ورق (Arabic)	Arabic	Randa Chahal	Not Nominated
Luxembourg	I Always Wanted To Be a Saint	J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte	French	Geneviève Mersch	Not Nominated
Mexico	Aro Tolbukhin	Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino	Spanish	Isaac Pierre Racine, Lydia Zimmermann and Agustí Villaronga	Not Nominated
Mongolia	The Story of the Weeping Camel	Ингэний нулимс	Mongolian	Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni	Not Nominated
Nepal	Muna Madan	मुनामदन	Nepal	Gyanendra Bahadur Deuja	Not Nominated
Netherlands	Twin Sisters	De Tweeling	Dutch, German	Ben Sombogaart	Nominated
Norway	Kitchen Stories	Salmer fra kjøkkenet	Norwegian, Swedish	Bent Hamer	Not Nominated
Palestine	Divine Intervention	يد إلهية	Arabic, Hebrew	Elia Suleiman	Not Nominated
Peru	Paper Dove	Paloma de Papel	Spanish	Fabrizio Aguilar	Not Nominated
Philippines	Dekada '70	Dekada '70	Filipino	Chito S. Roño	Not Nominated
Poland	Pornography	Pornografia	Polish	Jan Jakub Kolski	Not Nominated
Portugal	A Talking Picture	Um Filme Falado	Portuguese, French, Italian, Greek, English	Manoel De Oliveira	Not Nominated
Russia	The Return	Возвращение	Russian	Andrei Zvyagintsev	Not Nominated
Serbia and Montenegro	The Professional	Професионалац	Serbian	Dušan Kovačević	Not Nominated
Slovakia	King of Thieves	König der Diebe	German, Russian	Ivan Fíla	Not Nominated
Slovenia	Spare Parts	Rezervni deli	Slovene	Damjan Kozole	Not Nominated
Sri Lanka	Mansion by the Lake	Wekande Walauwa	Sinhala	Lester James Peries	Not Nominated
Spain	Soldados de Salamina	Soldados de Salamina	Spanish	David Trueba	Not Nominated
Sweden	Evil	Ondskan	Swedish	Mikael Håfström	Nominated
Taiwan	Goodbye, Dragon Inn	不散	Mandarin, Taiwanese	Tsai Ming-Liang	Not Nominated
Thailand	Last Life in the Universe	เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล	Thai	Pen-ek Ratanaruang	Not Nominated
Turkey	Distant	Uzak	Turkish	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Not Nominated
Ukraine	Mamay	Мамай	Ukrainian	Oles Sanin	Not Nominated
Uruguay	Seawards Journey	El Viaje hacia el mar	Spanish	Guillermo Casanova	Not Nominated
Venezuela	Sangrador	Sangrador	Spanish	Leonardo Henríquez	Not Nominated

Notes

References

• "Record-Breaking 56 Countries in Competition for Oscar" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2003-10-20. Retrieved 2008-08-22.