The following 19 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 39th Academy Awards

39th Academy Awards

The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California...

 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 Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Poland and Yugoslavia. The eventual winner was romantic drama A Man and a Woman, which represented France. The film also won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

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

Country	Film title used in nomination	Language	Original title	Director	IMDB
	Loves of a Blonde Loves of a Blonde Loves of a Blonde is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film directed by Miloš Forman. It is also known under the alternate title of A Blonde in Love.-Plot:...	Czech Czech language Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...	Lásky jedné plavovlásky	Miloš Forman Miloš Forman Jan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/
	Hunger Hunger (1966 film) Hunger , is a 1966 black-and-white drama film directed by Denmark's Henning Carlsen, starring Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, and based upon the novel Hunger by Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun...	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...	Sult	Henning Carlsen Henning Carlsen Henning Carlsen is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of Cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger was nominated for the Palme D'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061042/
	Cairo 30 Cairo 30 Cairo 30 is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Salah Abu Seif. The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Soad Hosny* Ahmed Mazhar...	Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...	القاهرة 30	Salah Abu Seif Salah Abu Seif Salah Abu Seif was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors. He is considered to be the godfather of the realistic cinema in Egypt...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264344/
	A Man and a Woman A Man and a Woman A Man and a Woman is a 1966 French film, written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, and directed by Lelouch. It is notable for its lush photography , which features frequent segues between full color, black-and-white, and sepia-toned shots, and for its memorable musical score by Francis Lai...	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...	Un homme et une femme	Claude Lelouch	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061138/
	Young Törless Young Törless Young Törless is a 1966 German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, adapted from the autobiographical novel The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil. It deals with the sadistic and homoerotic tendencies of a group of boys at an Austrian military academy at the beginning of the 20th...	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....	Der junge Törless	Volker Schlöndorff Volker Schlöndorff Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060574/
	Queen of Clubs Queen of Clubs (film) Queen of Clubs is a 1966 Greek drama film directed by George Skalenakis. The film was selected as the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Elena Nathanail as Elena...	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;...	Ντάμα σπαθί	George Skalenakis George Skalenakis -Selected filmography:* Queen of Clubs * Oh! That Wife of Mine * Imperiale -External links:...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144854/
	Come Drink with Me Come Drink with Me Come Drink with Me is a 1966 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by King Hu. Set during the Ming Dynasty, it stars Cheng Pei-pei and Yueh Hua as warriors with Chan Hung-lit as the villain, and features action choreography by Han Ying-chieh. It is widely considered one of the best Hong Kong films ever made...	Mandarin	大醉俠	King Hu King Hu King Hu was a Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. His films Come Drink with Me , Dragon Gate Inn and A Touch of Zen inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059079/
	The Round-Up The Round-Up (1965 film) The Round-Up is a 1965 Hungarian film directed by Miklós Jancsó. It was well-received in its home country, and was its director's first film to receive international acclaim.-Plot:...	Hungarian Hungarian language Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....	Szegénylegények	Miklós Jancsó Miklós Jancsó Miklós Jancsó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up , The Red and the White and Red Psalm .Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization,...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059776/
	Amrapali Amrapali (film) Amrapali is a 1966 historical Hindi film, directed by Lekh Tandon, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt as leads.It was based on the life of Amrapali , the nagarvadhu of Vaishali, the capital of the Licchavi republic in ancient India around 500 BC and Ajatashatru, the king of the Magadha empire,...	Hindi	Amrapali	Lekh Tandon Lekh Tandon Lekh Tandon has directed numerous Bollywood movies and Indian TV Serials. Recently he has acted in few movies such as Swades. He is brother of Urdu playwright Yograj Tandon.-Biography:...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060104/
	The Flying Matchmaker	Hebrew Hebrew language Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...	שני קוני למל	Israel Becker	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138101/
	The Battle of Algiers	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... , Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...	La Battaglia di Algeri	Gillo Pontecorvo Gillo Pontecorvo Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri was released...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061483/
	Koto Lake of Tears (film) is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. It was Japan's submission to the 39th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Yoshiko Sakuma as Saku* Katsuo Nakamura as Ukichi Matsumiya...	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...	湖の琴	Tomotaka Tasaka Tomotaka Tasaka was a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 1930s such as Robō no ishi and Mud and Soldiers, both of...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324357/
	Rice Rice (film) Rice is a 1963 South Korean drama film directed by Shin Sang-ok. The film was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:...	Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...	쌀	Shin Sang-ok	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389341/
	Black Wind Black Wind (film) Black Wind is a 1965 Mexican drama film directed by Servando González. It was screened at the San Francisco Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival...	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...	Viento negro	Servando González	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236843/
	Pharaoh Pharaoh (film) Pharaoh is a 1966 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and adapted from the eponymous novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. In 1967 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...	Polish Polish language Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...	Faraon	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060401/
	The Uprising Rascoala Răscoala is a 1965 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Mureşan. Mureşan won the prize for Best First Work at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.. It was the first Romanian film to be submitted to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. However, it failed to be nominated...	Romanian Romanian language Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...	Răscoala	Mircea Mureşan Mircea Muresan Mircea Mureșan is a Romanian film director. He has directed 22 films since 1961. Mureșan won the prize for Best First Work at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival for the film Răscoala.-External links:...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059634/
	Persona Persona (film) Persona is a film by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, released in 1966, and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. Bergman held this film to be one of his most important; in his book Images, he writes: "Today I feel that in Persona—and later in Cries and Whispers—I had gone as far as I could go...	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...	Persona	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/tt0060827/
	The Silent Wife The Silent Wife The Silent Wife is a 1965 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hsing Lee. The film was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Chi-yu Chang* Ping-Yu Chang...	Mandarin	哑女情深	Hsing Lee Li Hsing Li Hsing is a Taiwanese film director. He directed over 30 films between 1959 and 1986.-External links:...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185686/
	Three Three (1965 film) Three is a 1965 Yugoslav film directed by Aleksandar Petrović. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Bata Živojinović as Miloš Bojanić* Nikola-Kole Angelovski* Stole Aranđelović...	Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...	Tri	Aleksandar Petrović	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059829/

Sources

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