National Board of Review Award / Best Foreign Language Film
Winner of the National Board of Review in the category Best Foreign Language Film ( Best Foreign Language Film ), which until 1961 Best Foreign Film ( Best Foreign film ) said.
The works of French film directors were most frequently awarded the prize (23 wins), followed by their colleagues from Italy, Sweden and Spain (6 wins each). The most successful in this category was the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman , whose works brought it to five awards between 1959 and 1983, followed by the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar (4 wins) as well as the Italian Federico Fellini and the Iranian Asghar Farhadi (3 wins each). Directors from the German cinema were successful the first time in 1937 when the eternal mask of Werner Hochbaum was awarded. He was followed in 1950 by Curt Oertel (The Titan: Story of Michelangelo ), in 1961 Bernhard Wicki ( Die Brücke ) and in 1980 the later Oscar winner Volker Schlöndorff ( The Tin Drum ), while the Austrian Michael Haneke received an award in 2012 for the French-language production Liebe .
The National Board of Review succeeded in presenting the Oscar winner 17 times in advance , most recently in 2016 when the award was presented to The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi. The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950), The Silent World (1956) and World Without the Sun (1964) later won Oscar-winning documentaries three times .
The annual figures in the table indicate the film years assessed; the awards were given in the following year.
¹ = film productions that later won the Oscar for best documentary of the year .
² = film productions that later won the Oscar for best foreign language film of the year .