In 1980, the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar was Russian, Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears, from the USSR.
The five nominees were:
Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears, USSR (winner)
Confidence, Hungary
The Last Metro, France
The Nest, Spain
Kagemusha, Japan
Two artistic highlights were disregarded by the Academy voters:
Bye Bye Brazil, from Carlos Diegues, Brazil
Every Man for Himself, by Godard, submitted as a Swiss roduction
