| 2003 Best Foreign Language Film submissions | |
| Award1 Type: | Oscar winner |
| Award1 Winner: |  The Barbarian Invasions |
| Award2 Type: | Total submissions |
| Award2 Winner: | 56 |
| Award3 Type: | First-time submissions |
| Award3 Winner: | 3 |
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This is a list of submissions to the 76th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is handed out annually by the academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films.
For the 76th Academy Awards, fifty-six films were submitted to the academy. Mongolia, Palestine and Sri Lanka submitted a film for the first time. Palestine was excluded from submitting a film the year before, but The academy made an exception in the interests of inclusiveness.[1] The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was Canada's The Barbarian Invasions, which was directed by Denys Arcand.[2]
| Submitting country | Film title used in nomination | Original title | Language(s) | Director(s) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Osama | أسامة | |||
| Valentín | |||||
| Vodka Lemon | Վոդկա լիմոն | Armenian, Kurdish, Russian, French | |||
| Free Radicals | Böse Zellen | ||||
| Sea of Silence | Verder dan de maan | ||||
| Sexual Dependency | Dependencia sexual | Rodrigo Bellott | |||
| Fuse | Gori vatra | Bosnian, Serbian, English | |||
| Carandiru | Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Journey to Jerusalem | Пътуване към Йерусалим | ||||
| The Barbarian Invasions | Les Invasions barbares | French, English | |||
| Los Debutantes | Spanish | Andrés Waissbluth | |||
| Warriors of Heaven and Earth | 天地英雄 | ||||
| The First Night | La primera noche | Spanish | Luis Alberto Restrepo | ||
| Witnesses | Svjedoci | ||||
| Suite Habana | No dialogue | ||||
| Želary | Czech, Russian, German, English | [3] | |||
| Reconstruction | |||||
| Sleepless Nights | سهر الليالى | Hany Khalifa | |||
| Elina - Som om jag inte fanns, Näkymätön Elina | |||||
| Bon Voyage | French | ||||
| Good Bye, Lenin! | |||||
| Think It Over | Θα το Μετανιώσεις | Katerina Evangelakou | |||
| Infernal Affairs | 無間道 | ||||
| Forest | Rengeteg | ||||
| Noi the Albino | Nói Albínói | Icelandic, French | |||
| The Stringless Violin | Biola tak berdawai | ||||
| Deep Breath | نفس عمیق | ||||
| Nina's Tragedies | האסונות של נינה | ||||
| I'm Not Scared | Io non ho paura | ||||
| The Twilight Samurai | たそがれ清兵衛 | ||||
 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄 | |||
| The Kite | طيّارة من ورق | Arabic | |||
| I Always Wanted to Be a Saint | J'ai toujours voulu être une sainte | French | Geneviève Mersch | ||
| Aro Tolbukhin | Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino | Spanish | |||
| The Story of the Weeping Camel | Ингэний нулимс | Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni | |||
| Muna Madan | मुनामदन | ||||
| Twin Sisters | De Tweeling | Dutch, German | |||
| Kitchen Stories | Salmer fra kjøkkenet | Norwegian, Swedish | |||
| Divine Intervention | يد إلهية | Arabic, Hebrew, English | |||
| Paper Dove | Paloma de Papel | Spanish | Fabrizio Aguilar | ||
| Dekada '70 | Dekada '70 | ||||
| Pornography | Pornografia | ||||
| A Talking Picture | Um Filme Falado | Portuguese, French, Italian, Greek, English | |||
| The Return | Возвращение | Russian | |||
| The Professional | Професионалац | Serbian | |||
| King of Thieves | König der Diebe | German, Russian | |||
| Spare Parts | Rezervni deli | ||||
| Mansion by the Lake | වෑකන්ද වලව්ව | ||||
| Soldados de Salamina | Spanish, Catalan, French | ||||
| Evil | Ondskan | Swedish | |||
| Goodbye, Dragon Inn | 不散 | Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien | |||
| Last Life in the Universe | เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล | Thai, Japanese, English | |||
| Distant | Uzak | ||||
| Mamay | Мамай | Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar | |||
| Seawards Journey | El viaje hacia el mar | Spanish | Guillermo Casanova | ||
| Sangrador | Leonardo Henríquez | ||||