List of submissions to the 48th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 21 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 48th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film which took place in 1976. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland and the USSR. The Soviet Union won the award for a second time, for Japanese co-production Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa.