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List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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Field	Value
name	1989 Best Foreign Language Film submissions
award1_type	Oscar winner
award1_winner	Italy Cinema Paradiso
award2_type	Submissions
award2_winner	37
award3_type	Debuts
award3_winner	2
previous	1988
main	List
next	1990

This is a list of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.

For the 62nd Academy Awards, thirty-seven films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from Canada, Denmark, France, Puerto Rico and Italy. Burkina Faso and South Africa submitted films for the first time. Puerto Rico was nominated for the first, and as of 2025, only time.

Italy won for the eleventh time for Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language(s)	Director(s)
	La Amiga	Spanish, German	Jeanine Meerapfel
	The Seventh Continent	Der siebente Kontinent	German	Michael Haneke
	The Sacrament	Het Sacrament	Dutch	Hugo Claus
Brazil	Better Days Ahead	Dias Melhores Virão	Brazilian Portuguese	Carlos Diegues
BUL	Time of Violence	Време разделно	Bulgarian	Ludmil Staikov
	Yaaba	Mooré	Idrissa Ouedraogo
	Jesus of Montreal	Jésus de Montréal	French, English	Denys Arcand
	The Birth of New China	开国大典	Mandarin	Qiankuan Li
	Supporting Roles	Papeles secundarios	Spanish	Orlando Rojas
	A Hoof Here, a Hoof There	Kopytem sem, kopytem tam	Czech	Věra Chytilová
	Memories of a Marriage	Danser med Regitze	Danish	Kaspar Rostrup
	Camille Claudel	French	Bruno Nuytten
	Spider's Web	Das Spinnenetz	German	Bernhard Wicki
	Landscape in the Mist	Τοπίο στην ομίχλη	Greek	Theo Angelopoulos
Hong Kong	Painted Faces	七小福	Cantonese	Alex Law
	My 20th Century	Az Én XX. századom	Hungarian	Ildikó Enyedi
	Under the Glacier	Kristnihald undir jökli	Icelandic	Guðný Halldórsdóttir
	Parinda	परिंदा	Hindi	Vidhu Vinod Chopra
	Tjoet Nja' Dhien	Indonesian, Acehnese, Dutch	Eros Djarot
	One of Us	אחד משלנו	Hebrew	Uri Barbash
	Cinema Paradiso	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso	Italian, English, Portuguese, Sicilian	Giuseppe Tornatore
JPN	Rikyu	利休	Japanese	Hiroshi Teshigahara
	Polonaise	Leedvermaak	Dutch	Frans Weisz
	A Handful of Time	En håndfull tid	Norwegian	Martin Asphaug
	Kornblumenblau	Polish	Leszek Wosiewicz
	The Cannibals	Os Canibais	Portuguese	Manoel de Oliveira
PUR	Santiago, the Story of his New Life	Lo que le pasó a Santiago	Spanish	Jacobo Morales
ROU	Those Who Pay With Their Lives	Cei care plătesc cu viaţa	Romanian	Șerban Marinescu
South Africa	Mapantsula	Zulu, Afrikaans, Sesotho, English	Oliver Schmitz
	Zerograd	Город Зеро	Russian	Karen Shakhnazarov
	Love, Hate and Death	Montoyas y Tarantos	Spanish	Vicente Escrivá
	The Women on the Roof	Kvinnor på taket	Swedish	Carl-Gustav Nykvist
	My Dear Subject	Mon cher sujet	French	Anne-Marie Miéville
	A City of Sadness	悲情城市	Taiwanese Hokkien, Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, Shanghainese	Hou Hsiao-hsien
	The Elephant Keeper	คนเลี้ยงช้าง	Thai	Chatrichalerm Yukol
	Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite	Uçurtmayi Vurmasinlar	Turkish	Tunç Başaran
	Time of the Gypsies	Дом за вешање	Romani, Serbo-Crroatian, Italian, English, German, Macedonian, Slovene	Emir Kusturica

Notes

South Africa The South African submission, Mapantsula, was on the 1989 official AMPAS press release, but not on the 2007 updated list. In 1997, the AMPAS press release announced that Paljas had been selected as South Africa's first-ever submission.

References

(2008-06-22). "History of the Academy Awards 2 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences".
(2008-08-09). "Rule 14 {{!}} 81st Academy Awards Rules {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences".
(5 October 2014). "The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org.

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