List of entries for the best foreign language film for the 1992 Academy Awards

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The following 34 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1992 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy, Sweden and Czechoslovakia. The Oscar finally went to the Italian contribution Mediterraneo .

This is the first time that a UK entry has been submitted for this category.

Contributions

country German distribution title Original title Languages) Director (s) Result
AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria Cheb - Escape from Africa Cheb French , Arabic Rachid Bouchareb Not nominated
ArgentinaArgentina Argentina Las tumbas Las tumbas Spanish Javier Torre Not nominated
BelgiumBelgium Belgium Toto the hero Toto le héros French Jaco Van Dormael Not nominated
BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria Kladenetzat Кладенецът (Kladenezat) Bulgarian Dotscho Bodschakow Not nominated
ChileChile Chile La Frontera - At the end of the world La Frontera Spanish Ricardo Larraín Not nominated
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China Guonian 过年 (Guo nian) Mandarin Huang Jianzhong Not nominated
DenmarkDenmark Denmark The beautiful bathing day The store badedag Danish Stellan Olsson Not nominated
FranceFrance France Van Gogh Van Gogh French Maurice Pialat Not nominated
Hong Kong 1959Hong Kong Hong Kong Red lantern 大紅 燈籠 高 高掛 (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) Mandarin Zhang Yimou Nominated
IndiaIndia India Henna हिना (henna) Hindi , Urdu Randhir Kapoor Not nominated
IcelandIceland Iceland Children of nature Börn náttúrunnar Icelandic Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Nominated
IsraelIsrael Israel Me'ever Layam מעבר לים (Me'ever Layam) Hebrew Jacob Goldwasser Not nominated
ItalyItaly Italy Mediterraneo Mediterraneo Italian , Greek Gabriele Salvatores Won
JapanJapan Japan Rhapsody in August 八月 の 狂 詩 曲 (Hachigatsu no Rapusodī) Japanese Akira Kurosawa Not nominated
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia Original of a fake Original falsification Serbian Dragan Kresoja Not nominated
CanadaCanada Canada Une ball dans la tête Une ball dans la tête Constructed language Attila Bertalan Not nominated
ColombiaColombia Colombia Confession to Laura Confesión a Laura Spanish Jaime Osorio Gomez Not nominated
CubaCuba Cuba Hello Hemingway Hello Hemingway Spanish Fernando Pérez Not nominated
MexicoMexico Mexico The homework La Tarea Spanish Jaime Humberto Hermosillo Not nominated
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands Eline Vere Eline Vere Dutch Harry Kümel Not nominated
NorwayNorway Norway Frida - with the heart in hand Frida - with his hands Norwegian Berit Nesheim Not nominated
AustriaAustria Austria I love Vienna I love Vienna German , Persian Houchang Allahyari Not nominated
PeruPeru Peru Also known as La Gringa Aka 'La Gringa' Spanish Alberto Durant Not nominated
PolandPoland Poland The two lives of Veronica Podwójne życie Weroniki / La double vie de Véronique Polish , French Krzysztof Kieślowski Not nominated
PortugalPortugal Portugal The blood O Sangue Portuguese Pedro Costa Not nominated
SwedenSweden Sweden The Ox Oxen Swedish Sven Nykvist Nominated
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland The mountain The mountain German Markus Imhoof Not nominated
Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union Izydi! Изыди! (Izydi!) Russian Dmitri Astrakhan Not nominated
SpainSpain Spain high heels Tacones lejanos Spanish Pedro Almodovar Not nominated
TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Taiwan A summer to fall in love with 牯 嶺 街 少年 殺人 事件 () Mandarin Edward Yang Not nominated
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia The elementary school Obecná skola Czech Jan Svěrák Nominated
HungaryHungary Hungary Félálom Félálom Hungarian János Rózsa Not nominated
Venezuela 1954Venezuela Venezuela Jericó Jericó Spanish Luis Alberto Lamata Not nominated
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Gulag 3 Затерянный в Сибири (Zateryannyy v Sibiri) Russian Alexander Naumowitsch Mitta Not nominated