List of entries for best foreign language film for the 1986 Academy Awards

The following 30 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1986 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from Argentina, France, Yugoslavia, Hungary and West Germany. The Oscar went to The Official History of Argentina, which is the first time a Latin American country has won the award.

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Languages)	Original title	Director (s)	Result
Argentina	The official story	Spanish	La Historia oficial	Luis Puenzo	Won
Belgium	In the heart of the country	French	Dust	Marion Hansel	Not nominated
Denmark	Twist and Shout - Rock'n'Roll and first love	Danish	Tro, håb and kærlighed	Bille August	Not nominated
BR Germany	Bitter harvest	German	Bitter harvest	Agnieszka Holland	Nominated
France	Three men and a baby	French	Trois hommes et un couffin	Coline Serreau	Nominated
India	Saagar	Hindi	सागर (Saagar)	Ramesh Sippy	Not nominated
Iceland	Deep winter	Icelandic	Skammdegi	Þráinn Bertelsson	Not nominated
Israel	When night falls	Hebrew	עד סוף הלילה (Ad Soff Halaylah)	Eitan Green	Not nominated
Italy	Macaroni	Italian	Macaroni	Ettore Scola	Not nominated
Japan	Hana ichimonme	Japanese	花 い ち も ん め (Hana ichimonme)	Shun'ya Ito	Not nominated
Yugoslavia	Dad is on a business trip	Serbo-Croatian	Otac na sluzbenom putu	Emir Kusturica	Nominated
Canada	Jacques et novembre	French	Jacques et novembre	Jean Beaudry , François Bouvier	Not nominated
Mexico	Frida Kahlo - Long live life	Spanish	Frida, naturaleza viva	Paul Leduc	Not nominated
Netherlands	De Dream	Dutch , West Frisian	De Dream	Pieter Verhoeff	Not nominated
Norway	The wives II	Norwegian	Hustruer - ti år etter	Anja Breien	Not nominated
Austria	Malambo	German	Malambo	Milan Dor	Not nominated
Peru	The city and the dogs	Spanish	La ciudad y los perros	Francisco José Lombardi	Not nominated
Philippines	Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim	Tagalog	Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim	Lino Brocka	Not nominated
Poland	Yesterday	Polish	Yesterday	Radosław Piwowarski	Not nominated
Portugal	Ana	Portuguese	Ana	Margarida Cordeiro , António Reis	Not nominated
Romania	Ciuleandra	Romanian	Ciuleandra	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Not nominated
Sweden	Ronja the robber's daughter	Swedish	Ronja Rövardotter	Days Danielsson	Not nominated
Switzerland	Bonfire	Swiss German	Bonfire	Fredi M. Murer	Not nominated
Spain	La hora bruja	Spanish	La hora bruja	Jaime de Armiñán	Not nominated
Taiwan	Wo zhe yang guo le yi sheng	Chinese	我 這樣 過 了 一生 (Wo zhe yang guo le yi sheng)	Chang Yi	Not nominated
Soviet Union	Come and see	Russian , Belarusian	Иди и смотри (Idi i smotri)	Elem Klimov	Not nominated
South Korea	Eoudong	Korean	어우동 (He woo-dong)	Lee Jang-ho	Not nominated
Czechoslovakia	Scalpel, please	Czech	Scalpel, prosím	Jirí Svoboda	Not nominated
Hungary	Colonel Redl	German	Colonel Redl	István Szabó	Nominated
Venezuela	House of Memories	Spanish	Oriana	Fina Torres	Not nominated