List of entries for the best foreign language film for the 2005 Academy Awards

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The following 51 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2005 Academy Awards . The titles highlighted were the five films ultimately nominated.

For the first time there was a proposal from Malaysia.

The first film proposed from Colombia was Mary of Grace , but it was rejected because of the large amount of English-language dialogue. The film El Rey was submitted as a replacement .

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Original title	Languages)	Director (s)	Result
Egypt	Baheb el cima	بحب السيما (Baheb el cima)	Arabic	Osama Fawzy	Not nominated
Afghanistan	Earth and ashes	Khakestar-o-khak	Persian , pashto	Atiq Rahimi	Not nominated
Argentina	El abrazo partido	El abrazo partido	Spanish	Daniel Burman	Not nominated
Belgium	Dead - The Alzheimer's Case	De Zaak Alzheimer's	Dutch	Erik Van Looy	Not nominated
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Kod amidze Idriza	Kod amidze Idriza	Serbo-Croatian	Pjer Žalica	Not nominated
Brazil	Olga	Olga	Portuguese	Jayme Monjardim	Not nominated
Bulgaria	Mila from Mars	Мила от Марс (Mila ot Mars)	Bulgarian	Zornitsa Sophia	Not nominated
Chile	Machuca, my friend	Machuca	Spanish	Andrés Wood	Not nominated
People's Republic of China	House of Flying Daggers	十面埋伏 (Shí miàn mái fú)	Mandarin	Zhang Yimou	Not nominated
Denmark	The Five Obstructions	De Fem benspænd	Danish	Jørgen Leth , Lars von Trier	Not nominated
Germany	The downfall	The downfall	German	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Nominated
Ecuador	Crónicas - The monster of Babahoyo	Crónicas	Spanish	Sebastián Cordero	Not nominated
Estonia	Pig revolution	Sigade revolutsioon	Estonian	Jaak Kilmi , René Reinumägi	Not nominated
Finland	The baby project - producing adults	Lapsia ja aikuisia - Kuinka niitä tehdään?	Finnish	Aleksi Salmenperä	Not nominated
France	The children of Monsieur Mathieu	Les Choristes	French	Christophe Barratier	Nominated
Greece	Cinnamon and coriander	Πολίτικη Κουζίνα (Politiki kouzina)	Greek	Tassos Boulmetis	Not nominated
Hong Kong	Running on karma	大 隻 佬 (Daai chek liu)	Cantonese	Wai Ka-Fai , Johnnie To	Disqualified
India	Shwaas - The Breath	श्वास (Shwaas)	Marathi	Sandeep Sawant	Not nominated
Iran	Turtles can fly	لاک‌پشت‌ها هم پرواز می‌کنند (Lakposchtha parvaz mikonand)	Kurdish	Bahman Ghobadi	Not nominated
Iceland	Cold light	Kaldaljós	Icelandic	Hilmar Oddsson	Not nominated
Israel	Campfire	Medurat Hashevet (מדורת השבט)	Hebrew	Joseph Cedar	Not nominated
Italy	The house keys	Le chiavi di casa	Italian	Gianni Amelio	Not nominated
Japan	Nobody Knows	誰 も 知 ら な い (Dare mo Shiranai)	Japanese	Hirokazu Koreeda	Not nominated
Canada	The other side of the moon	La face cachée de la lune	French	Robert Lepage	Not nominated
Colombia	El Rey	El Rey	Spanish	Jose Antonio Dorado	Not nominated
Croatia	Long dark night	Duga mračna noc	Serbo-Croatian	Antun Vrdoljak	Not nominated
Malaysia	Puteri Gunung Ledang	Puteri Gunung Ledang	Malaysian	Saw Teong Hin	Not nominated
North Macedonia	The day when Stalin's pants disappeared	Γолемата Вода (Golemata voda)	Macedonian	Ivo Trajkov	Not nominated
Mexico	Voces inocentes - innocent voices	Voces inocentes	Spanish	Luis Mandoki	Not nominated
Netherlands	Simon	Simon	Dutch	Eddy Terstall	Not nominated
Norway	Hawaii, Oslo	Hawaii, Oslo	Norwegian	Erik Poppe	Not nominated
Austria	Antares	Antares	German	Götz Spielmann	Not nominated
Palestine	The Olive Harvest	The Olive Harvest	Arabic	Hanna Elias	Not nominated
Philippines	Crying ladies	Crying ladies	Tagalog	Mark Meily	Not nominated
Poland	The welts	Pręgi	Polish	Magdalena Piekorz	Not nominated
Portugal	The miracle according to Salome	O Milagre segundo Salomé	Portuguese	Mário Barroso	Not nominated
Romania	Orient express	Orient express	Romanian	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Not nominated
Russia	Guardian of the Night - Nochnoi Dozor	Ночной дозор (Notschnoi dosor)	Russian	Timur Nuruachitowitsch Bekmambetov	Not nominated
Sweden	Like in heaven	Så som i heaven	Swedish	Kay Pollak	Nominated
Switzerland	My name is bach	My name is bach	German	Dominique de Rivaz	Not nominated
Serbia and Montenegro	Jesen stiže, Dunjo moja	Јесен стиже, дуњо моја (Jesen stiže, Dunjo moja)	Serbo-Croatian	Ljubiša Samardžić	Not nominated
Slovenia	Under her window	Pod njenim oknom	Slovenian	Metod Pevec	Not nominated
Spain	The sea in me	Mar adentro	Spanish	Alejandro Amenábar	Won
South Africa	A woman named Yesterday	Yesterday	Zulu	Darrell Roodt	Nominated
South Korea	Brotherhood - When brothers have to shoot each other	태극기 휘날리며 (Taegukgi Hwinallimyo)	Korean	Kang Je-gyu	Not nominated
Taiwan	20 30 40 Love or no love	20 30 40	Mandarin	Sylvia Chang	Not nominated
Thailand	The overture	โหมโรง (Hom rong)	Thai	Ittisoontorn Vichailak	Not nominated
Czech Republic	Head over heels	Horem pádem	Czech	Jan Hřebejk	Not nominated
Ukraine	Voditel dlya Very	Водитель для Веры (Wodytel dlja Wery)	Russian	Pavel Grigoryevich Tschuchrai	Disqualified
Hungary	Control	Control	Hungarian	Nimród Antal	Not nominated
Uruguay	whiskey	whiskey	Spanish	Juan Pablo Rebella , Pablo Stoll	Not nominated
Venezuela	Punto y Raya	Punto y Raya	Spanish	Elia Schneider	Not nominated