List of submissions to the 64th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

34 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 64th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The five nominated films (highlighted in bold) came from Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy and Sweden. Hong Kong and Iceland received their first-ever nominations, while Czechoslovakia received its final nomination as a unified state.

Germany caused a huge controversy when it took the unusual step not to submit any film to the competition. Europa, Europa by Agnieszka Holland was one of the pre-selection favorites to win the award. Although the film was made in German and about Germany, the country's National Film Board said that because they considered the film to be a majority-French production, and because the director was Polish, they did not consider it qualified to represent Germany. This is the only time since 1977 that Germany failed to be represented. Other countries notable by their absence included Brazil, Egypt, Finland, Greece and Romania.

In spite of a rule requiring films to be in the language of the submitting country, AMPAS decided to accept a submission from the United Kingdom that was mostly in Russian, marking the UK's first-ever participation in the competition.

AMPAS acknowledged that they had received four submissions from new Eastern European republics- Armenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia- which had each declared independence in mid-to-late 1991. Since none of the countries had yet been recognized internationally, the films were disqualified and not screened, although representatives from their parent states- the USSR and Yugoslavia- were allowed to compete. AMPAS did not announce the titles, but based on the small size of these republic's film industries at the time it appears certain that Macedonia chose Stole Popov's "Tetoviranje", the most celebrated Yugoslavian film of 1991, and that Croatia, Slovenia and Armenia likely chose family drama "Fragments", black comedy "The Cartier Operation" and surreal religious drama "The Voice in the Wilderness" respectively.

Country	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Language	Director	IMDB
Algeria	Cheb	Cheb	French, Arabic	Rachid Bouchareb	[1]
Argentina	Las Tumbas	Las Tumbas	Spanish	Javier Torre	[2]
Austria	I Love Vienna	I Love Vienna	German, Persian	Houshang Allahyari	[3]
Belgium	Toto the Hero	Toto le héros	French	Jaco van Dormael	[4]
Bulgaria	The Well	Кладенецът	Bulgarian	Docho Bodzhakov	[5]
Canada	A Bullet in the Head	A Bullet in the Head	No dialogue	Attila Bertalan	[6]
Chile	La Frontera	La Frontera	Spanish	Ricardo Larraín	[7]
China	New Year's Day	过年	Mandarin Chinese	Huang Jianzhong	[8]
Colombia	Confessing to Laura	Confesión a Laura	Spanish	Jaime Osorio Gómez	[9]
Cuba	Hello, Hemingway	Hello, Hemingway	Spanish	Fernando Perez	[10]
Czechoslovakia	The Elementary School	Obecná skola	Czech	Jan Sverák	[11]
Denmark	The Great Day on the Beach	Den Store badedag	Danish	Stellan Olsson	[12]
France	Van Gogh	Van Gogh	French	Maurice Pialat	[13]
Hong Kong	Raise the Red Lantern	大紅燈籠高高掛	Mandarin Chinese	Zhang Yimou	[14]
Hungary	Brats	Félálom	Hungarian	János Rózsa	[15]
Iceland	Children of Nature	Börn náttúrunnar	Icelandic	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	[16]
India	Henna	हिना	Hindi, Urdu	Randhir Kapoor	[17]
Israel	Over the Ocean	מעבר לים	Hebrew	Jacob Goldwasser	[18]
Italy	Mediterraneo	Mediterraneo	Italian Greek	Gabriele Salvatores	[19]
Japan	Rhapsody in August	八月の狂詩曲	Japanese	Akira Kurosawa	[20]
Mexico	Homework	La Tarea	Spanish	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo	[21]
Netherlands	Eline Vere	Eline Vere	Dutch	Harry Kumel	[22]
Norway	Frida - Straight from the Heart	Frida - med hjertet i hånden	Norwegian	Berit Nesheim	[23]
Peru	Alias La Gringa	Alias 'La Gringa'	Spanish	Alberto Durant	[24]
Poland	The Double Life of Veronique	Podwójne życie Weroniki (Polish), La double vie de Véronique (French)	Polish, French	Krzysztof Kieslowski	[25]
Portugal	O Sangue	O Sangue	Portuguese	Pedro Costa	[26]
Spain	High Heels	Tacones lejanos	Spanish	Pedro Almodóvar	[27]
Sweden	The Ox	Oxen	Swedish	Sven Nykvist	[28]
Switzerland	Der Berg	Der Berg	German	Markus Imhoof	[29]
Taiwan	A Brighter Summer Day	牯嶺街少年殺人事件	Mandarin Chinese	Edward Yang	[30]
Soviet Union	Get Thee Hence	Изыди!	Russian	Dmitry Astrakhan	[31]
United Kingdom	Lost in Siberia	Затерянный в Сибири (Russian), Lost In Siberia (English)	Russian	Alexander Mitta	[32]
Venezuela	Jericó	Jericó	Spanish	Luis Alberto Lamata	[33]
Yugoslavia	The Original of the Forgery	Original falsifikata	Serbian	Dragan Kresoja	[34]