Étoile de Cristal / Best Foreign Film

Étoile de Cristal : Prix International

Winner of the Prix ​​International , which, from 1955 to 1975, selected the best foreign film production released in France during the calendar year. The set of rules protected against a film director receiving awards more than once. The Étoile de Cristal is considered to be the forerunner of the national César film prize , which was established in 1976 and which annually awards foreign film productions in the category Best Foreign Film ( Meilleur film étranger ).

year	Award winners	German distribution title	Director
1955	I Vitelloni	Vitelloni (The Idlers)	Federico Fellini
1956	Salt of the Earth	The salt of the earth	Herbert J. Biberman
1957	Senso	nostalgia	Luchino Visconti
1958	12 Angry Men	The twelve jurors	Sidney Lumet
1959	Det sjunde inseglet	The seventh seal	Ingmar Bergman
1960	Vynález zkázy	The invention of perdition	Karel Zeman
1961	L'avventura	Who play with love	Michelangelo Antonioni
1962	Viridiana	Viridiana	Luis Buñuel
1963	Banditi a Orgosolo	Orgosolo bandits	Vittorio De Seta
1964	Tom Jones	Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows	Tony Richardson
1965	Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb	Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb	Stanley Kubrick
1966	Lásky jedné plavovlásky	A blonde's love	Miloš Forman
1967	Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment	protest	Karel Reisz
1968	Shakespeare Wallah	not known	James Ivory
1969	Secret ceremony	The woman out of nowhere	Joseph Losey
1970	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Two bandits	George Roy Hill
1971	Little Big Man	Little Big Man	Arthur Penn
1972	Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica	The clan that walled its enemies alive	Damiano Damiani
1973	Miklós Jancsó (complete works)
1974	Akira Kurosawa (complete works)
1975	Aguirre, the wrath of God	Aguirre, the wrath of God	Werner Herzog