The following 12 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 30th Academy Awards

30th Academy Awards

The Oscar for Writing Based on Material From Another Medium was awarded to Pierre Boulle for The Bridge on the River Kwai, despite the fact that he did not know English. The actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson were blacklisted at the time and did not receive screen credit for their work...

 in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from France, India, Italy, Norway and West Germany. Italy won the award for Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, a drama about a heartbroken, young prostitute.

Documentary Torero, which represented Mexico, failed to get an Oscar nomination in the Foreign Language Film category, but was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar.

Denmark's Annelise Hovmand

Annelise Hovmand

Annelise Hovmand is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed 12 films between 1955 and 1991...

 became the first female director to have a film in the running at the submission stage.

Country	Film title used in nomination	Language	Original title	Director	IMDB
	No Time for Tenderness Be Dear to Me -Cast:* Eva Cohn - Lene* Lily Weiding - Mor - Skuespillerinde Maria Lehmann* Hans Kurt - Far - Direktør Mogens Vestergaard* Jørgen Reenberg - Lærer Harting* Yvonne Petersen - Anne* Annelise Jacobsen - Frk. Sørensen* Johannes Marott - Viggo...	Danish Danish language Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...	Ingen tid til kærtegn	Annelise Hovmand Annelise Hovmand Annelise Hovmand is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed 12 films between 1955 and 1991...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050542/
	Gates of Paris	French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...	Porte des Lilas	René Clair René Clair René Clair born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and grew up in the Les Halles quarter. He attended the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver. After the war, he started a career as a journalist...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050850/
	The Devil Came at Night The Devil Came at Night The Devil Came at Night is a 1957 West German film directed by Robert Siodmak. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and is based on the true story of Bruno Lüdke....	German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....	Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam	Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.-Early life:...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050746/
	The Lagoon of Desire The Lake of Thinking The Lake of Thinking is a 1958 Greek drama film directed by Giorgos Zervos. The film was selected as the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 30th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Jenny Karezi as Miranda...	Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...	Η λίμνη των πόθων	Giorgos Zervos	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263656/
	Mother India Mother India Mother India is a 1957 Hindi film epic, written and directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. The film, a melodrama, is a remake of Mehboob Khan's earlier film, Aurat...	Hindi	भारत माता	Mehboob Khan	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050188/
	Nights of Cabiria Nights of Cabiria Nights of Cabiria is a 1957 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, plays Cabiria Ceccarelli, a feisty but naive prostitute in Ostia, then a seedy section of Rome...	Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...	Le Notti di Cabiria	Federico Fellini Federico Fellini Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050783/
	Arakure Aruse is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It was Japan's submission to the 30th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Hideko Takamine* Ken Uehara* Masayuki Mori...	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	あらくれ	Mikio Naruse Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050136/
	Torero Torero (film) Torero is a 1956 Mexican documentary film directed by Carlos Velo about Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature...	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Torero	Carlos Velo Carlos Velo Carlos Velo was a Spanish film director. He directed 45 films between 1934 and 1983. His 1956 film Torero was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051099/
	Nine Lives	Norwegian Norwegian language Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...	Ni Liv	Arne Skouen	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050762/
	High Street Calle mayor Main street is a 1956 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem. It features a French-Spanish cast led by the American actress Betsy Blair, who was dubbed into Spanish, as well as the Spanish actor José Suárez. It is based on a Carlos Arniches' play titled La señorita de Trévelez. The...	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Calle Mayor	Juan Antonio Bardem	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049043/
	The Seventh Seal The Seventh Seal The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death , who has come to take his life. Bergman developed the film from his own play...	Swedish Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...	Det Sjunde inseglet	Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/
	Amina	Mandarin Chinese	阿美娜	Yuan Congmei

Sources

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