List of entries for best foreign language film for the 1973 Academy Awards

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The following 22 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1973 Academy Awards . The titles highlighted were the five ultimately nominated films, which came from France, Israel, Sweden, Spain and the Soviet Union.

For the first time a contribution from Kuwait was submitted.

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Languages)	Original title	Director (s)	Result
Egypt	Zawgaty whale calf	Arabic	زوجتي و الكلب (Zawgaty whale calf)	Said Marzouk	Not nominated
Belgium	Les tueurs fous	French	Les tueurs fous	Boris Szulzinger	Not nominated
Brazil	How good my little French tastes	Portuguese , French, Tupí	Como Era Gostoso or Meu Francês	Nelson Pereira dos Santos	Not nominated
Bulgaria	The goat horn	Bulgarian	Козият рог (Kosijat rog)	Metodi Andonov	Not nominated
Denmark	Man sku være noget ved musikken	Danish	Man sku være noget ved musikken	Henning Carlsen	Not nominated
BR Germany	Trotta	German	Trotta	Johannes Schaaf	Not nominated
France	The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie	French, Spanish	Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel	Won
India	Uphaar	Hindi	उपहार (Uphaar)	Sudhendu Roy	Not nominated
Israel	Ani Ohev Otach Rosa	Hebrew	אני אוהב אותך רוזה (Ani Ohev Otach Rosa)	Moshe Mizrahi	Nominated
Italy	Fellini's Roma	Italian	Roma	Federico Fellini	Not nominated
Japan	Under the banner of the rising sun	Japanese	軍旗 は た め く 下 に (gunki hatameku motoni)	Kinji Fukasaku	Not nominated
Yugoslavia	The master and Margarita	Serbo-Croatian	Majstor i Margarita	Aleksandar Petrovic	Not nominated
Canada	La Vraie nature de Bernadette	French	La Vraie nature de Bernadette	Gilles Carle	Not nominated
Kuwait	The cruel sea	Arabic	فيلم بس يابحر (Bas ya Bahar)	Khalid Al Siddiq	Not nominated
Peru	Espejismo	Spanish	Espejismo	Armando Robles Godoy	Not nominated
Poland	A pearl in the crown	Polish	Perla w corony	Kazimierz Kutz	Not nominated
Sweden	The new land	Swedish	Nybyggarna	Jan Troell	Nominated
Switzerland	The salamander	French	La Salamandre	Alain Tanner	Not nominated
Soviet Union	At dawn it is still quiet	Russian	А зори здесь тихие (A sori sdes tichije)	Stanislaw Iossifowitsch Rostotski	Nominated
Spain	My beloved lady	Spanish	Mi querida señorita	Jaime de Armiñán	Nominated
Taiwan	Qiu Jue	Mandarin	秋 決 (Qiu Jue)	Li Hsing	Not nominated
Hungary	present	Hungarian	Jelenidő	Péter Bacsó	Not nominated