List of submissions to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 20 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 44th Academy Awards in the category "Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film". The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Israel, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the USSR. The Oscar went to The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a drama about an aristocratic Jewish family in Italy. France, which received 27 nominations between 1957 and 1991, failed to receive an Oscar nomination for only the fourth time since the inauguration of the Foreign Language Film award.

Among the stranger films in the competition were the two Spanish-language entries: surreal Mexican comedy El Topo and Spanish torture drama "Marta".