List of entries for the best foreign language film for the 2006 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 2006 Academy Awards . The titles highlighted were the five films ultimately nominated.

For the first time, entries from Costa Rica, Fiji and Iraq were submitted.

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Languages)	Original title	Director (s)	Result
Argentina	El aura	Spanish	El aura	Fabián Bielinsky	Not nominated
Bangladesh	Shyamol Chhaya	Bengali	শ্যামল ছায়া (Shyamol Chhaya)	Humayun Ahmed	Not nominated
Belgium	The child	French	L'Enfant	Jean-Pierre Dardenne , Luc Dardenne	Not nominated
Bolivia	Di buen día a papá	Spanish	Di buen día a papá	Fernando Vargas	Disqualified
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Totally private	Serbo-Croatian	Sasvim licno	Nedžad Begović	Not nominated
Brazil	Two sons of Francisco	Portuguese	Dois Filhos de Francisco	Breno Silveira	Not nominated
Bulgaria	Stolen eyes	Bulgarian , Turkish	Откраднати очи (Otkradnati otschi)	Radoslaw Spassow	Not nominated
Chile	Play	Spanish	Play	Alicia Scherson	Not nominated
People's Republic of China	Wu Ji - The Riders of the Winds	Mandarin	無極 / 无极 (Wújí)	Chen Kaige	Not nominated
Costa Rica	Caribe	Spanish	Caribe	Esteban Ramirez	Not nominated
Denmark	Adam's apples	Danish	Adams æbler	Thomas Jensen is different	Not nominated
Germany	Sophie Scholl - The last days	German	Sophie Scholl - The last days	Marc Rothemund	Nominated
Estonia	Stiilipidu	Estonian	Stiilipidu	Peeter Urbla	Not nominated
Fiji	The country has eyes	Rotuman	Pear ta ma'on maf	Vilsoni Hereniko	Not nominated
Finland	The best mother	Swedish , Finnish	Äideistä parhain	Klaus Härö	Not nominated
France	Merry Christmas	French, German, English	Joyeux Noël	Christian Carion	Nominated
Georgia	Tbilisi-Tbilisi	Georgian	Tbilisi-Tbilisi	Levan Sakareishvili	Not nominated
Greece	Brides	English	Νύφες (Nyfes)	Pantelis Voulgaris	Disqualified
Hong Kong	Perhaps love	Mandarin, Cantonese	如果 · 愛 (Ru guo)	Peter Ho-Sun Chan	Not nominated
India	The beauty and the spirit	Hindi	पहेली (Paheli)	Amol Palekar	Not nominated
Indonesia	Gie	Indonesian	Gie	Riri Riza	Not nominated
Iraq	Marsiyeh barefoot	Kurdish	Marsiyeh barefoot	Jamil Rostami	Not nominated
Iran	So close, so far	Persian	خیلی دور ، خیلی نزدیک (Cheili dour, Cheili nazdik)	Reza Mirkarimi	Not nominated
Iceland	Í takt við tímann	Icelandic	Í takt við tímann	Ágúst Guðmundsson	Not nominated
Israel	Welcome to Israel	Hebrew , Russian , Tagalog , English	איזה מקום נפלא (Eize Makom Nifla)	Eyal Halfon	Not nominated
Italy	The beast in the heart	Italian	La bestia nel cuore	Cristina Comencini	Nominated
Japan	Blood & Bones	Japanese , Korean	血 と 骨 (Chi to hone)	Yoichi Sai	Not nominated
Canada	CRAZY - crazy life	French	CRAZY	Jean-Marc Vallée	Not nominated
Colombia	The stroller's shadow	Spanish	La sombra del caminante	Ciro Guerra	Not nominated
Croatia	A wonderful night in Split	Serbo-Croatian	Ta divna splitska noć	Arsen Anton Ostojić	Not nominated
Cuba	Viva Cuba	Spanish	Viva Cuba	Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti	Not nominated
Luxembourg	The new adventures from Reineke Fuchs	French	Le roman de reinart	Thierry Schiel	Not nominated
Mexico	Al otro lado	Spanish, Arabic	Al otro lado	Gustavo Loza	Not nominated
Mongolia	The Yellow Dog's Den	Mongolian	Шар нохойн там	Byambasuren Davaa	Not nominated
Netherlands	Bluebird	Dutch	Bluebird	Mijke de Jong	Disqualified
Norway	Kiss of winter	Norwegian	Vinterkyss	Sara Johnsen	Not nominated
Austria	Caché	French	Caché	Michael Haneke	Disqualified
Palestine	Paradise Now	Arabic	الجنّة الآن (al-Janna al-ān)	Hany Abu-Assad	Nominated
Peru	Días de Santiago - War only knows victims	Spanish	Días de Santiago	Josué Méndez	Not nominated
Poland	The bailiff	Polish	Komornik	Feliks Falk	Not nominated
Portugal	Dark night	Portuguese, Russian	Noite Escura	João Canijo	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	Cayo	Spanish	Cayo	Vicente Juarbe	Not nominated
Romania	The death of Mr. Lazarescu	Romanian	Moartea domnului Lăzărescu	Cristi Puiu	Not nominated
Russia	The Italian	Russian	Итальянец (Italjanets)	Andrei Kravchuk	Not nominated
Sweden	Zozo	Swedish, Arabic	Zozo	Josef Fares	Not nominated
Switzerland	No fire in winter	French, Albanian	Tout un hiver sans feu	Greg Zglinski	Not nominated
Serbia and Montenegro	San zimske noći	Serbo-Croatian	Сан зимске ноћи (San zimske noći)	Goran Paskaljević	Not nominated
Singapore	Be with Me	English, Hokkien , Mandarin, Cantonese	Be with Me	Eric Khoo	Disqualified
Slovakia	City of the sun	Slovak , Czech	Sluneční stát	Martin Šulík	Not nominated
Slovenia	ruins	Slovenian	Ruševine	Janez Burger	Not nominated
Spain	Obaba	Spanish	Obaba	Montxo Armendáriz	Not nominated
South Africa	Tsotsi	Zulu , Xhosa , Afrikaans , English	Tsotsi	Gavin Hood	Won
South Korea	Welcome to Dongmakgol	Korean	웰컴 투 동막골 (Welkeom tu dongmakgol)	Kwang-hyun Park	Not nominated
Tajikistan	Sex O Phalsapheh	Tajik	Sex O Phalsapheh	Mohsen Makhmalbaf	Disqualified
Taiwan	The flesh of the watermelon	Mandarin	天邊 一 朵雲 / 天边 一 朵云 (tiānbiān yī duǒ yún)	Tsai Ming-liang	Not nominated
Thailand	Maha'lai muang rae	Thai	มหา 'ลัย เหมือง แร่ (Maha'lai muang rae)	Jira Maligool	Not nominated
Czech Republic	The season of happiness	Czech	Štěstí	Bohdan Slama	Not nominated
Turkey	Wounded soul	Turkish	Gönül Yarası	Yavuz Turgul	Not nominated
Hungary	Fateless - novel of a fateless	Hungarian , German	Sorstalanság	Lajos Koltai	Not nominated
Venezuela	The proud Orinoco	Spanish	1888, el extraordinario viaje de la Santa Isabel	Alfredo Anzola	Disqualified
Vietnam	Buffalo boy	Vietnamese	Mùa len trâu	Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh	Not nominated