List of submissions to the 46th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Submitting country Film title used in nomination Language ( s ) Original title Director ( s ) Result
Brazil John , the Knife and the River Portuguese A Faca E o Rio George Sluizer Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia Days of Betrayal Czech Dny zrady Otakar Vávra Not Nominated
Egypt Empire M Arabic إمبراطورية ميم Hussein Kamal Not Nominated
Finland The Earth Is a Sinful Song Finnish Maa on syntinen laulu Rauni Mollberg Not Nominated
France Day for Night French La Nuit américaine François Truffaut Won Academy Award
East Germany The Third German Der Dritte Egon Günther Not Nominated
West Germany The Pedestrian German Der Fußgänger Maximilian Schell Nominated
Hungary Photography Hungarian Fotográfia Pál Zolnay Not Nominated
India Saudagar Hindi सौदागर Sudhendu Roy Not Nominated
Israel The House on Chelouche Street Hebrew בית ברחוב שלוש Moshé Mizrahi Nominated
Japan Coup d'État Japanese 戒厳令 Yoshishige Yoshida Not Nominated
South Korea Mute Samyong Korean 비련의 벙어리 삼용 Byun Jang-ho Not Nominated
Mexico Reed : Insurgent Mexico Spanish Reed , México insurgente Paul Leduc Not Nominated
Netherlands Turkish Delight Dutch Turks fruit Paul Verhoeven Nominated
Poland Copernicus Polish Kopernik Ewa Petelska and Czesław Petelski Not Nominated
Romania Veronica Romanian Veronica Elisabeta Bostan Not Nominated
Spain Habla , mudita Spanish Habla , mudita Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Not Nominated
Switzerland L'Invitation French L'Invitation Claude Goretta Nominated
Soviet Union Liberation Russian Освобождение Yuri Ozerov Not Nominated
Yugoslavia The Battle of Sutjeska Serbo-Croatian Sutjeska Stipe Delić Not Nominated
Submissions
The following 20 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 46th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film which took place in 1974. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, West Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and Switzerland. France won the Oscar for the second year in a row for Day for Night. East Germany and Finland made their debuts in the competition.