List of entries for the best foreign language film for the 1971 Academy Awards

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The following 13 films, all from different countries, were nominations for the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1971 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. The Oscar went to the Italian crime drama Investigation against a suspect citizen .

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Languages)	Original title	Director (s)	Result
United Arab Republic	The mummy or the night of the hours counted	Arabic	المومياء (Al-mummia)	Shadi Abdel Salam	Not nominated
Belgium	Paix sur les champs	French	Paix sur les champs	Jacques Boigelot	Nominated
Brazil	mortal sin	Portuguese	Pecado Mortal	Miguel Faria Jr.	Not nominated
Denmark	The girl Lone	Danish	Ang. Lone	Franz Ernst	Not nominated
BR Germany	OK	German	OK	Michael Verhoeven	Not nominated
France	Hoa-binh	French	Hoa-binh	Raoul Coutard	Nominated
Italy	Investigations against a citizen who is above suspicion	Italian	Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto	Elio Petri	Won
Japan	Buraikan	Japanese	無 頼 漢 (Buraikan)	Masahiro Shinoda	Not nominated
Poland	The salt of the black earth	Polish	Sól ziemi czarnej	Kazimierz Kutz	Not nominated
Sweden	A Swedish love story	Swedish	En Kärlekshistoria	Roy Andersson	Not nominated
Switzerland	First love	German	First love	Maximilian Schell	Nominated
Spain	Tristana	Spanish	Tristana	Luis Buñuel	Nominated
Hungary	A love movie	Hungarian	Szerelmesfilm	István Szabó	Not nominated