The following 13 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 32nd Academy Awards

32nd Academy Awards

The 32nd Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1959 on 4 April 1960.MGM's and director William Wyler's three and a half-hour long epic drama Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars in 1959, breaking the previous year's all-time record of nine...

 in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films, which came from Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany. The Oscar went to Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval...

, a Portuguese-language drama, filmed in Brazil by a French director. The film represented France.

The Netherlands, Pakistan and two Chinese-speaking British colonies- Hong Kong and Singapore- submitted films for the first time.

Country	Film title used in nomination	Language	Original name	Director	-
	Paw Paw (film) Paw is a 1959 Danish film directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen.-Plot:A boy from the Caribbean, affected by the deaths of his parents and maiden aunt, escapes to the Danish forest.-Cast:* Edvin Adolphson - Anders...	Danish Danish language Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...	Paw	Astrid Henning-Jensen	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053158/
	The Nightingale's Prayer	Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...	دعاء الكروان‎	Henry Barakat	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231477/
	Black Orpheus Black Orpheus Black Orpheus is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval...	Portuguese Portuguese language Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...	Orfeu Negro	Marcel Camus	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/
	The Bridge Die Brücke (film) Die Brücke is a West-German anti-war novel written by Gregor Dorfmeister, under the pseudonym of Manfred Gregor, and published in 1958 by Heyne Bücher....	German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....	Die Brücke	Bernhard Wicki	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052654/
	For Better, for Worse For Better, for Worse (1959 film) For Better, for Worse is a 1959 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Yueh Feng. The film was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:...	Mandarin	雨過天青	Yueh Feng Yueh Feng Griffin Yueh Feng born Da Zichun in Shanghai was a Chinese film director and screenwriter who worked in the Cinema of Hong Kong. He worked at the Shaw Brothers Studio's for many years and directed nearly 90 films....	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194573/
	The World of Apu	Bengali Bengali language Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...	অপুর সংসার	Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052572/
	The Great War The Great War (1959 film) The Great War is a 1959 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare...	Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...	La Grande guerra	Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052861/
	Fires on the Plain Fires on the Plain (film) is a 1959 Japanese war film directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Eiji Funakoshi. The screenplay, written by, Natto Wada, is based on the novel Nobi by Shohei Ooka, translated as Fires on the Plain. It initially received mixed reviews from both Japanese and international critics concerning its...	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	野火	Kon Ichikawa Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director.-Early life and career:Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture. In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O. Studio, in their animation department...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065649/
	Nazarín Nazarín Nazarín is a 1959 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written between Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, adapted from the eponymous novel of Benito Pérez Galdós...	Spanish Spanish language Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...	Nazarín	Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051983/
	The Village on the River The Village on the River The Village on the River is a 1958 Dutch film directed by Fons Rademakers. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards.-Cast:*Max Croiset ... Dr. Van Taeke*Mary Dresselhuys ... Mrs. Van Taeke...	Dutch Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...	Dorp aan de rivier	Fons Rademakers	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051552/
	The Day Shall Dawn The Day Shall Dawn The Day Shall Dawn is a 1959 Pakistani drama film directed by A. J. Kardar. The film was selected as the Pakistani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee...	Urdu Urdu Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...	Jago Hua Savera	A. J. Kardar A. J. Kardar A. J. Kardar was a Pakistani film director, producer and screenwriter.-External links:...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375865/
	The Kingdom and the Beauty The Kingdom and the Beauty The Kingdom and the Beauty is a 1959 Hong Kong musical-drama film directed by Li Han-hsiang. The film was set in Imperial China, directed by a Hong Kong based-Mainland Chinese director and produced by the famed Hong Kong Shaw Brothers film studio, there was minimal Singaporean input in the...	Mandarin	江山美人	Li Han-hsiang	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194984/
	Train Without a Timetable Train Without a Timetable Train Without a Timetable is a 1959 Yugoslav film directed by Veljko Bulajić. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Stole...	Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...	Vlak bez voznog reda Влак без возног реда	Veljko Bulajić Veljko Bulajic Veljko Bulajić , today is a Croatian film director and actor of Montenegrin descent, most of his life working in Croatia...	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170774/

Sources

• Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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