List of entries for Best Foreign Language Film for the 1976 Academy Awards

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The following 21 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1976 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland and the Soviet Union. The Oscar finally went to the Soviet contribution “ Uzala of the Kyrgyzstan ” by Akira Kurosawa .

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Languages)	Original title	Director (s)	Result
Egypt	Orid hallan	Arabic	أريد حلاً (Orid hallan)	Said Marzouk	Not nominated
Algeria	Chronicle of the Years of Embers	Arabic	وقائع سنين الجمر (waqāʾiʿu sinīna l-jamri)	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Not nominated
Argentina	Nazareno Cruz y el lobo	Spanish	Nazareno Cruz y el lobo	Leonardo Favio	Not nominated
Brazil	The amulet	Portuguese	O Amuleto de Ogum	Nelson Pereira dos Santos	Not nominated
Denmark	Per - On a dangerous path	Danish	By	Hans Kristensen	Not nominated
BR Germany	Each for himself and God against all	German	Each for himself and God against all	Werner Herzog	Not nominated
France	India Song	French	India Song	Marguerite Duras	Not nominated
Greece	The traveling actors	Greek	Ο Θίασος (O Thiassos)	Theodoros Angelopoulos	Not nominated
Israel	My Michael	Hebrew	מיכאל שלי (Michael Sheli)	Dan Wolman	Not nominated
Italy	The fragrance of women	Italian	Profumo di donna	Dino Risi	Nominated
Japan	Sandakan, house number 8	Japanese	サ ン ダ カ ン 八 番 娼 館 望 郷 (Sandakan hachiban shōkan bōkyō)	Kei Kumai	Nominated
Yugoslavia	The day that changed the world	Serbo-Croatian	Sarajevski patent act	Veljko Bulajic	Not nominated
Canada	state of emergency	French	Les Ordres	Michel Brault	Not nominated
Mexico	Actas de Marusia	Spanish	Actas de Marusia	Miguel Littín	Nominated
Netherlands	Visit for Dr. Powder	Dutch	Dokter Pulder zaait papavers	Bert Haanstra	Not nominated
Poland	The promised land	Polish	Ziemia obiecana	Andrzej Wajda	Nominated
Switzerland	Confrontation - The Davos Assassination	German	confrontation	Rolf Lyssy	Not nominated
Soviet Union	Uzala the Kyrgyzstan	Russian	Дерсу Узала (Dersu Usala)	Akira Kurosawa	Won
Spain	Poachers	Spanish	Furtivos	José Luis Borau	Not nominated
Czechoslovakia	Circus in the circus	Czech	Circus v circuse	Oldřich Lipský	Not nominated
Hungary	The adoption	Hungarian	Örökbefogadás	Márta Mészáros	Not nominated