List of entries for Best Foreign Language Film for the 1990 Academy Awards

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The following 37 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1990 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from Denmark, France, Italy, Canada and Puerto Rico. The Oscar went to Cinema Paradiso , which represented Italy. For the first time, a proposal was submitted from Puerto Rico and South Africa.

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Languages)	Original title	Director (s)	Result
Argentina	La Amiga - The girlfriend	Spanish , German	La amiga	Jeanine Meerapfel	Not nominated
Belgium	The sacrament	Dutch	Het Sacrament	Hugo Claus	Not nominated
Brazil	Prospect of better days	Portuguese	Dias Melhores Virão	Carlos Diegues	Not nominated
Bulgaria	Time of violence	Bulgarian	Време на насилие (time of violence)	Ludmil Staikov	Not nominated
Burkina Faso	Yaaba - grandmother	Mòoré	Yaaba	Idrissa Ouedraogo	Not nominated
People's Republic of China	The founding ceremony	Mandarin	开国大典 (Kaiguo dadian)	Qiankuan Li	Not nominated
Denmark	Dancing with Regitze	Danish	Danser med Regitze	Kaspar Rostrup	Nominated
BR Germany	The spider web	German	The spider web	Bernhard Wicki	Not nominated
France	Camille Claudel	French	Camille Claudel	Bruno Nuytten	Nominated
Greece	Landscape in the fog	Greek	Τοπίο στην ομίχλη (Topio stin omichli)	Theo Angelopoulos	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Life behind masks	Cantonese	七 小 福 (Qi xiao fu)	Alex Law	Not nominated
India	Parinda	Hindi	परिंदा (Parinda)	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Not nominated
Indonesia	Tjoet Nja 'Dhien	Indonesian	Tjoet Nja 'Dhien	Eros Djarot	Not nominated
Iceland	On the glacier	Icelandic	Kristnihald undir jökli	Guðný Halldórsdóttir	Not nominated
Israel	Ehad Mishelanu	Hebrew	אחד משלנו (Ehd Mishelanu)	Uri Barbash	Not nominated
Italy	Cinema Paradiso	Italian	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Won
Japan	Rikyu, the tea master	Japanese	利 休 (Rikyu)	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Not nominated
Yugoslavia	The time of the gypsies	Romanes , Serbian	Дом за вешање (Dom za vešanje)	Emir Kusturica	Not nominated
Canada	Jesus of Montreal	French	Jésus de Montréal	Denys Arcand	Nominated
Cuba	Supporting roles	Spanish	Papeles secundarios	Orlando Rojas	Not nominated
Netherlands	Lea's wedding	Dutch	Leedvermaak	Frans Weisz	Not nominated
Norway	A handful of time	Norwegian	En håndfull tid	Martin Asphaug	Not nominated
Austria	The seventh continent	German	The seventh continent	Michael Haneke	Not nominated
Poland	Cornflower blue	Polish	Cornflower blue	Leszek Wosiewicz	Not nominated
Portugal	The cannibals	Portuguese	Os Canibais	Manoel de Oliveira	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	Don Santiago's late love	Spanish	Lo que le pasó a Santiago	Jacobo Morales	Nominated
Romania	Cei care plătesc cu viaţa	Romanian	Cei care plătesc cu viaţa	Șerban Marinescu	Not nominated
Sweden	Women on the roof	Swedish	Kvinnor på taket	Carl-Gustav Nykvist	Not nominated
Switzerland	My favorite topic	French	Mon cher sujet	Anne-Marie Miéville	Not nominated
Soviet Union	Zero City	Russian	Город Зеро (Gorod Zero)	Karen Shakhnazarov	Not nominated
Spain	Montoyas y Tarantos	Spanish	Montoyas y Tarantos	Vicente Escrivá	Not nominated
South Africa	Mapantsula	IsiZulu	Mapantsula	Oliver Schmitz	Not nominated
Taiwan	A city of sadness	Japanese, Cantonese , Mandarin, Shanghai	悲情 城市 (bēiqíng chéngshì)	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Not nominated
Thailand	The elephant's revenge	Thai	คน เลี้ยง ช้าง (Khon liang chang)	Chatrichalerm Yukol	Not nominated
Czechoslovakia	One way, one time	Czech	Kopytem sem, kopytem tam	Věra Chytilová	Not nominated
Turkey	Let the kite fly	Turkish	Uçurtmayi Vurmasinlar	Tunç Başaran	Not nominated
Hungary	My 20th century	Hungarian	Az Én XX. századom	Ildikó Enyedi	Not nominated