List of entries for Best Foreign Language Film for the 1972 Academy Awards
The following 20 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1972 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from Israel, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the Soviet Union. The Oscar went to the Italian film Der Garten der Finzi Contini , a drama about an aristocratic Jewish family.
Bulgaria and Canada made proposals for this category for the first time.