List of entries for best foreign language film for the 2004 Academy Awards

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The following 56 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2004 Academy Awards . The titles highlighted were the five films ultimately nominated.

For the first time there were proposals from Mongolia, Palestine and Sri Lanka. A film from Palestine had already been submitted the year before, but the Academy rejected the entry because Palestine is not a country and there is no recognized film funding agency there. This time the Academy approved the proposal from Palestine.

The Oscar ultimately went to The Barbarian Invasion , Denys Arcand's entry from Canada .

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Original title	Languages)	Director (s)	Result
Egypt	Sahar el layali	سهر الليالى (Sahar el layali)	Arabic	Hany Khalifa	Not nominated
Afghanistan	Osama	أسامة (Osama)	Dari	Siddiq Barmak	Not nominated
Argentina	Valentin - mother wanted	Valentín	Spanish	Alejandro Agresti	Not nominated
Armenia	vodka Lemon	Vodka lemon	Kurdish , Russian , Armenian	Hiner Saleem	Not nominated
Belgium	Further than the moon	Verder dan de maan	Dutch	Stijn Coninx	Not nominated
Bolivia	Dependencia Sexual	Dependencia Sexual	Spanish, English	Rodrigo Bellott	Not nominated
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Gori vatra	Gori vatra	Serbo-Croatian	Pjer Žalica	Not nominated
Brazil	Carandiru	Carandiru	Portuguese	Hector Babenco	Not nominated
Bulgaria	Trip to Jerusalem	Пътуване към Йерусалим (Patuvane came Yerusalim)	Bulgarian	Ivan Nitchev	Not nominated
Chile	Los Debutantes - The beginners	Los Debutantes	Spanish	Andrés Waissbluth	Not nominated
People's Republic of China	Guardian of heaven and earth	天地 英雄 (Tian di ying xiong)	Mandarin	Hey ping	Not nominated
Denmark	Reconstruction	Reconstruction	Danish	Christoffer Boe	Not nominated
Germany	Good bye Lenin!	Good bye Lenin!	German	Wolfgang Becker	Not nominated
Finland	Elina	Elina - Som om jag inte fanns / Näkymätön Elina	Swedish , Finnish	Klaus Härö	Not nominated
France	Bon Voyage	Bon Voyage	French	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	Not nominated
Greece	Tha to metanioseis	Θα το Μετανιώσεις (Tha to metanioseis)	Greek	Katerina Evangelakou	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Infernal Affairs	無間道 (Wújiàndào)	Cantonese	Andrew Lau , Alan Mak	Not nominated
Indonesia	Biola Tak Berdawai	Biola tak berdawai	Indonesian	Sekar Ayu Asmara	Not nominated
Iran	Deep Breath	نفس عمیق (Nafas-e amigh)	Persian	Kambuzia Partovi	Not nominated
Iceland	Nói Albínói	Nói Albínói	Icelandic	Dagur Kári	Not nominated
Israel	Ha-Asonot Shel Nina	האסונות של נינה (Ha-Asonot Shel Nina)	Hebrew	Savi Gabizon	Not nominated
Italy	I'm not afraid	Io non ho paura	Italian	Gabriele Salvatores	Not nominated
Japan	Samurai of the twilight	た そ が れ 清 兵衛 (Tasogare Seibei)	Japanese	Yoji Yamada	Nominated
Canada	The Barbarian Invasion	Les invasions barbaric	French	Denys Arcand	Won
Colombia	La Primera Noche	La Primera Noche	Spanish	Luis Alberto Restrepo	Not nominated
Croatia	The witnesses	Svjedoci	Serbo-Croatian	Vinko Brešan	Not nominated
Cuba	Havana suite	Habana suite	No	Fernando Pérez	Not nominated
Lebanon	Tayyara men wara	طيّارة من ورق (Tayyara men wara)	Arabic	Randa Chahal	Not nominated
Luxembourg	I always wanted to be a saint	J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte	French	Geneviève Mersch	Not nominated
Mexico	In the Mind of a Killer	Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino	Spanish	Isaac Pierre Racine , Lydia Zimmermann , Agustí Villaronga	Not nominated
Mongolia	The story of the weeping camel	Ингэний нулимс (Ingen nulims)	Mongolian	Byambasuren Davaa , Luigi Falorni	Not nominated
Nepal	Muna Madan	मुनामदन (Muna Madan)	Nepali	Gyanendra Bahadur Deuja	Not nominated
Netherlands	The Twins	De Tweeling	Dutch, German	Ben Sombogaart	Nominated
Norway	Kitchen Stories	Salmer from kjøkkenet	Norwegian , Swedish	Bent Hamer	Not nominated
Austria	Bad cells	Bad cells	German	Barbara Albert	Not nominated
Palestine	Divine Intervention - A Chronicle of Love and Pain	يد إلهية (Yadon ilaheyya)	Arabic, Hebrew	Elijah Suleiman	Not nominated
Peru	Paloma de Papel	Paloma de Papel	Spanish	Fabrizio Aguilar	Not nominated
Philippines	Dekada '70	Dekada '70	Filipino	Chito S. Roño	Not nominated
Poland	Pornography	Pornography	Polish	Jan Jakub Kolski	Not nominated
Portugal	To films Falado - trip to Bombay	To films Falado	Portuguese, French, Italian, Greek, English	Manoel de Oliveira	Not nominated
Sweden	Evil	Ondskan	Swedish	Mikael Håfström	Nominated
Russia	The Return	Возвращение (Vozvrashchenye)	Russian	Andrei Zvyagintsev	Not nominated
Serbia and Montenegro	Profesionalac	Професионалац (Profesionalac)	Serbian	Dušan Kovačević	Not nominated
Slovakia	King of Thieves	King of Thieves	German Russian	Ivan Fíla	Not nominated
Slovenia	spare Parts	Rezervni deli	Slovenian	Damjan Kozole	Not nominated
Spain	Soldados de Salamina	Soldados de Salamina	Spanish	David Trueba	Not nominated
Sri Lanka	Wekande Walauwa	Wekande Walauwa	Sinhala	Lester James Peries	Not nominated
South Korea	Spring, summer, autumn, winter ... and spring	봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄 (Bom, Yeorum, Gaeul, Gyeowool… Geurigo Bom)	Korean	Kim Ki-duk	Not nominated
Taiwan	Goodbye, Dragon Inn	不散 (Bu san)	Mandarin, Taiwanese	Tsai Ming-Liang	Not nominated
Thailand	Last Life in the Universe	เรื่อง รัก น้อย นิด มหาศาล (Ruang rak noi nid mahasan)	Thai , Japanese	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang	Not nominated
Czech Republic	Zelary	Želary	Czech	Ondřej Trojan	Nominated
Turkey	Uzak - Far	Uzak	Turkish	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Not nominated
Ukraine	Mamay	Мамай (Mamay)	Ukrainian	Oles Sanin	Not nominated
Hungary	Rengeteg	Rengeteg	Hungarian	Benedek Fliegauf	Not nominated
Uruguay	El Viaje hacia el mar	El Viaje hacia el mar	Spanish	Guillermo Casanova	Not nominated
Venezuela	Sangrador	Sangrador	Spanish	Leonardo Henríquez	Not nominated