British Academy Film Award / Best Non-English Language Film
Winner and nominee in the category Best Non- English Language Film (Film Not In English Language) at the British Academy Film Awards since it was first presented in 1983, at that time still under the title Best Foreign Language Film (Best Foreign Language Film) . Despite this category, foreign language films were sporadically nominated in the Best Film category. After the French historical film Jean Florette won as Best Picture , the category was renamed in 1989. Nonetheless, in the decades that followed, foreign-language films such as Ang Lee's Tiger & Dragon (2001), Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Die fabelbare Welt der Amélie (2002) or Walter Salles ' Die Reise des Junge Che - Motorcycle Diaries (2005) were awarded the best prize Film nominated.
Oscar- winning films have received nine awards, most recently in 2017 with the award to Son of Saul by Hungarian director László Nemes . Filmmakers from the German-speaking countries were successful in 1992 and 2013, when Michael Verhoeven's The Nasty Girl and the rotated in French production Love by Michael Haneke could prevail. Films by Pedro Almodóvar were awarded three times , and works by Jacques Audiard , Walter Salles and Zhang Yimou twice each .
A film qualifies in the year prior to the award ceremony if it has been shown for a fee for at least seven days in a UK public cinema between January 1 and December 31 and contains more than 50 percent non-English language dialogue. According to the current regulations, up to three film producers and the directors can be named. In contrast to the Oscars, there is no upper limit for submissions per country.
The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if identifiable), followed by the original title in the respective national language, the production country (s) and the name of the director in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and original film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.
1980s
1983
Christ only came to Eboli ( Cristo si è fermato a Eboli ), Italy / France - Director: Francesco Rosi
- Das Boot , BRD - Director: Wolfgang Petersen
- Diva , France - Director: Jean-Jacques Brilleix
- Fitzcarraldo , FRG - Director: Werner Herzog
1984
Danton , France / Poland - Margaret Ménégoz , Barbara Pec-Slesicka and Andrzej Wajda
- To love and death ( Vivement dimanche! ), France - Armand Barbault and François Truffaut
- Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) , Sweden - Jörn Donner and Ingmar Bergman
- La Traviata , Italy - Tarak Ben Ammar and Franco Zeffirelli
1985
Carmen , Spain - Emiliano Piedra and Carlos Saura
- A love from Swann (Un amour de Swann) , France - Margaret Ménégoz and Volker Schlöndorff
- A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne) , France - Alain Sarde and Bertrand Tavernier
- The return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre) , France - Daniel Vigne
1986
Colonel Redl , Hungary / FRG / Austria - Manfred Durniok and István Szabó
- Carmen , France / Italy - Patrice Ledoux and Francesco Rosi
- Dim Sum : A Little Bit of Heart , USA - Tom Sternberg , Wayne Wang and Danny Yung
- Subway , France - Luc Besson and François Ruggieri
1987
Ran (乱) , France / Japan - Serge Silberman , Masato Hara and Akira Kurosawa
- Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning (37 ° 2 le matin) , France - Jean-Jacques Brilleix
- Ginger and Fred (Ginger e Fred) , Italy / France / Germany - Alberto Grimaldi and Federico Fellini
- Otello , Italy - Menahem Golan , Yoram Globus and Franco Zeffirelli
1988
Sacrifice (Offret) , Sweden / France - Anna-Lena Wibom and Andrei Tarkowski
- Jean Florette (Jean de Florette) , France - Claude Berri
- Manon's Revenge (Manon des sources) , France - Claude Berri
- My life as a dog (Mitt liv som hund) , Sweden - Waldemar Bergendahl and Lasse Hallström
1989
Babettes Fest (Babettes gæstebud) , Denmark - Just Betzer , Bo Christensen and Gabriel Axel
- Goodbye, children (Au revoir, les enfants) , France / FRG - Louis Malle
- The sky over Berlin , France / Germany - Wim Wenders and Anatole Dauman
- Black eyes (Oci ciornie) , Italy - Silvia D'Amico Bendico , Carlo Cucchi and Nikita Michalkow
1990s
1990
Life and nothing else (La Vie et rien d'autre) , France - René Cleitman and Bertrand Tavernier
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios) , Spain - Director: Pedro Almodóvar
- Pelle, the Conqueror (Pelle conquer) , Denmark - Per Holst and Bille August
- Salaam Bombay! , Great Britain / India / France - Mira Nair
1991
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) , Italy - Franco Cristaldi and Giuseppe Tornatore
- Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) , Canada / France - Roger Frappier , Pierre Gendron and Denys Arcand
- A comedy in May (Milou en mai) , France / Italy - Louis Malle
- Milk and Chocolate (Romuald et Juliette) , France - Jean-Louis Piel , Philippe Carcassonne and Coline Serreau
1992
The terrible girl , Germany - Michael Verhoeven
- Cyrano von Bergerac (Cyrano de Bergerac) , France - René Cleitman , Michel Seydoux and Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- The man of the hairdresser (Le Mari de la coiffeuse) , France - Thierry de Ganay and Patrice Leconte
- Toto the Hero (Toto le Héros) , Belgium / Germany / France - Pierre Drouot , Dany Geys and Jaco Van Dormael
1993
Red lantern大紅 燈籠 高 高掛 (Dà hóngdēng lóng gāo gāo guà), China / Hong Kong - Chiu Fu-Sheng and Zhang Yimou
- Delicatessen , France - Claudie Ossard , Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
- Hitler Youth Salomon , Germany / France / Poland - Artur Brauner , Margaret Ménégoz and Agnieszka Holland
- The lovers of Pont-Neuf (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf) , France - Christian Fechner and Leos Carax
1994
Farewell, my concubine (霸王別姬 Bàwáng Bié Jī) , China / Hong Kong - Hsu Feng and Chen Kaige
- Bittersweet chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) , Mexico - Alfonso Arau
- A heart in winter (Un coeur en hiver) , France - Jean-Louis Livi , Philippe Carcassonne and Claude Sautet
- Indochine , France - Eric Heumann and Régis Wargnier
1995
Life! (活着, Huózhe) , China / Hong Kong - Chiu Fu-Sheng and Zhang Yimou
- Belle Epoque , Spain / Portugal / France - Fernando Trueba
- Three colors: red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) , Poland / Switzerland - Marin Karmitz and Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Eat Drink Man Woman (飲食 男女, Yǐn shí nán nǚ) , Taiwan - Li-Kong Hsu and Ang Lee
1996
The Postman (Il Postino) , Italy - Mario Cecchi Gori , Vittorio Cecchi Gori , Gaetano Daniele and Michael Radford
- Bartholomew's Night (La Reine Margot) , France - Pierre Grunstein and Patrice Chéreau
- Les Misérables , France - Claude Lelouch
- The sun that deceives us (Утомлённые солнцем, Utomljonnyje solnzem ), France / Russia - Nikita Michalkow and Michel Seydoux
1997
Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances (Ridicule) , France - Frédéric Brillion , Philippe Carcassonne , Gilles Legrand and Patrice Leconte
- Antonia's World (Antonia) , Netherlands / Belgium / Great Britain - Hans De Weers and Marleen Gorris
- Kolya (Kolja) , Czech Republic - Eric Abraham and Jan Svěrák
- Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud , France - Alain Sarde and Claude Sautet
1998
Love and Lies (L'Appartement) , France / Spain / Italy - Georges Benayoun and Gilles Mimouni
- Lucie Aubrac , France - Claude Berri
- My life in Rosarot (Ma vie en rose) , France / Belgium / Great Britain - Carole Scotta and Alain Berliner
- Tango Fever (The Tango Lessons) , Great Britain / France / Argentina / Germany / Netherlands - Christopher Sheppard and Sally Potter
1999
Central Station (Central do Brasil) , Brazil - Arthur Cohn , Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre and Walter Salles
- Life is beautiful (La vita è bella) , Italy - Elda Ferri , Gianluigi Braschi and Roberto Benigni
- Duel of the rapiers (Le Bossu) , France - Patrick Godeau and Philippe de Broca
- Live Flesh - With skin and hair (Carne trémula) , France / Spain - Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar
2000s
2000
Everything about my mother (Todo sobre mi madre) , Spain / France - Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar
- Buena Vista Social Club , Germany / USA / Great Britain / France / Cuba - Ulrich Felsberg , Deepak Nayar and Wim Wenders
- Das Fest (Festen) , Denmark - Birgitte Hald and Thomas Vinterberg
- Lola rennt , Germany - Stefan Arndt and Tom Tykwer
2001
Tiger & Dragon (臥虎藏龍, Wòhǔ Cánglóng) , Taiwan - William Kong , Hsu Li-Kong and Ang Lee
- The woman on the bridge (La fille sur le pont) , France - Christian Fechner and Patrice Leconte
- Harry means well with you (Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien) , France - Michel Saint-Jean and Dominik Moll
- In the Mood for Love (花樣 年華, Fa yeung nin wa), Hong Kong / France - Wong Kar-Wai
- The Magic of Malèna (Malèna) , Italy - Harvey Weinstein , Carlo Bernasconi and Giuseppe Tornatore
2002
Amores Perros , Mexico - Alejandro González Iñárritu
- The fabulous world of Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) , France / Germany - Claudie Ossard and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado) , Brazil / France / Switzerland - Arthur Cohn and Walter Salles
- The piano player (La Pianiste) , Austria / France / Germany - Veit Heiduschka and Michael Haneke
- Monsoon Wedding , India - Caroline Baron and Mira Nair
2003
Talk to her (Hable con ella) , Spain - Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar
- City of God (Cidade de Deus) , Brazil - Andrea Barata Ribeiro , Mauricio Andrade Ramos and Fernando Meirelles
- Devdas - Flame of Our Love (देवदास, Devadās) , India - Directed by Bharat Shah and Sanjay Leela Bhansali
- The Warrior , Great Britain / France / Germany / India - Bertrand Faivre and Asif Kapadia
- Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life (Y tu mamá también) , Mexico - Jorge Vergara and Alfonso Cuarón
2004
In This World - Departure into the unknown (In This World) , United Kingdom - Andrew Eaton , Anita Overland and Michael Winterbottom
- Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) , Japan - Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki
- Good bye Lenin! , Germany - Stefan Arndt and Wolfgang Becker
- The big race of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville) , France / Belgium / Canada / Great Britain - Didier Brunner and Sylvain Chomet
- The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbarians) , Canada - Denise Robert , Daniel Louis and Denys Arcand
- To be and to have (Être et avoir) , France - Gilles Sandoz and Nicolas Philibert
2005
The journey of the young Che - Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) , Argentina / USA / Chile / Peru / Brazil / Great Britain / Germany / France - Michael Nozik , Edgard Tenenbaum , Karen Tenkhoff and Walter Salles
- House of Flying Daggers (十面埋伏, Shí Miàn Mái Fú) , Hong Kong - William Kong and Zhang Yimou
- The children of Monsieur Mathieu (Les Choristes) , France - Arthur Cohn , Nicolas Mauvernay , Jacques Perrin and Christophe Barratier
- La mala educación - Bad education (La mala educación) , Spain - Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar
- Mathilde - A great love (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) , France - Francis Boespflug and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The wild beat of my heart ( De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté ), France - Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard
- The great journey ( Le grand voyage ), France / Morocco / Bulgaria / Turkey - Humbert Balsan and Ismaël Ferroukhi
- Kung Fu Hustle (功夫, Gong fu) , China - Directors: Stephen Chow , Po Chu Chui and Jeffrey Lau
- Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël) , France - Christophe Rossignon and Christian Carion
- Tsotsi , South Africa - Peter Fudakowski and Gavin Hood
Pan's Labyrinth ( El laberinto del Fauno ), Mexico - Alfonso Cuarón , Alvaro Augustin and Guillermo del Toro
- Apocalypto , USA - Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey
- Black Book ( Zwartboek ), Netherlands - Teun Hilte , San Fu Maltha , Jens Meurer and Paul Verhoeven
- Rang De Basanti - The Color Saffron ( Rang de Basanti ), India - Director: Ronnie Screwvala and Rakreysh Omprakash Mehra
- Volver - Returning ( Volver ), Spain - Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar
The Lives of Others , Germany - Quirin Berg , Max Wiedemann and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- The Kite Runner ( The Kite Runner ), USA - William Horberg , Walter Parkes , Rebecca Yeldham , and Marc Forster
- Danger and Desire (色 ， 戒, Sè, jiè) , Hong Kong / Taiwan - William Kong , James Schamus and Ang Lee
- Butterfly and diving bell ( The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ), France / USA - Kathleen Kennedy , Jon Kilik and Julian Schnabel
- La vie en rose , France - Alain Goldman and Olivier Dahan
For so many years I love you ( Il ya longtemps que je t'aime ), France - Yves Marmion and Philippe Claudel
- The Baader Meinhof Complex , Germany - Bernd Eichinger and Uli Edel
- Gomorrah - Journey to the Kingdom of Camorra (Gomorrah) , Italy - Domenico Procacci and Matteo Garrone
- Persepolis , France - Marc-Antoine Robert , Xavier Rigault , Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
- Waltz with Bashir ( ואלס עם באשיר , Vals Im Bashir) , Israel - Serge Lalou , Gerhard Meixner , Yael Nahlieli and Ari Folman
2010s
A Prophet ( Un prophète ), France - Pascal Caucheteux , Marco Cherqui , Alix Raynaud and Jacques Audiard
- Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion (Coco avant Chanel) , France - Carole Scotta , Caroline Benjo , Philippe Carcassonne and Anne Fontaine
- So dark the night (Låt den rara comma in) , Sweden - Carl Molinder , John Nordling and Tomas Alfredson
- The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story , Germany / Austria - Stefan Arndt , Veit Heiduschka , Margaret Ménégoz and Michael Haneke
- Broken Hugs (Los abrazos rotos) , Spain - Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar
Verblendung ( Män som hatar kvinnor ), Sweden - Søren Stærmose and Niels Arden Oplev
- Biutiful , Mexico - Alejandro González Iñárritu , Jon Kilik and Fernando Bovaira
- I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) , Italy - Luca Guadagnino , Francesco Melzi d'Eril , Marco Morabito and Massimiliano Violante
- In her eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) , Argentina - Mariela Besuievsky and Juan José Campanella
- Of people and gods (Des hommes et des dieux) , France - Xavier Beauvois , Pascal Caucheteux and Etienne Comar
The skin I live in (La piel que habito) , Spain - Pedro Almodóvar
- The Woman Who Sings - Incendies (Incendies) , Canada - Denis Villeneuve , Luc Déry and Kim McGraw
- Nader and Simin - A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین Jodaeiye Nader az Simin ), Iran - Asghar Farhadi
- Pina , Germany - Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
- The jewel (Potiche) , France - François Ozon , Eric Altmayer and Nicolas Altmayer
Love (Amour) , France / Germany / Austria - Michael Haneke and Margaret Ménégoz
- The taste of rust and bones (De rouille et d'os) , France - Jacques Audiard and Pascal Caucheteux
- Headhunters (Hodejegerne) , Norway - Morten Tyldum , Marianne Gray and Asle Vatn
- The Hunt ( Jagten ), Denmark - Thomas Vinterberg , Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Morten Kaufmann
- Pretty Best Friends (Intouchables) , France - Éric Toledano , Olivier Nakache , Nicolas Duval Adassovsky , Yann Zenou and Laurent Zeitoun
La Grande Bellezza - The great beauty (La grande bellezza) , Italy / France - Paolo Sorrentino , Nicola Giuliano and Francesca Cima
- Blue is a warm color (La vie d'Adèle - chapitres 1 & 2) , France / Belgium / Spain - Abdellatif Kechiche , Brahim Chioua and Vincent Maraval
- The Act of Killing , Denmark / Norway / Great Britain - Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
- The girl Wadjda (Wadjda) , Saudi Arabia / Germany - Haifaa al-Mansour , Gerhard Meixner and Roman Paul
- Metro Manila , Philippines / Great Britain - Sean Ellis and Mathilde Charpentier
Ida , Poland - Eric Abraham , Piotr Dzięcioł , Paweł Pawlikowski , Ewa Puszczyńska
- Leviathan (Левиафан) , Russia - Serkey Melkumov , Alexander Rodnyansky , Andrei Petrovich Svjaginzew
- Lunchbox (Dabba) , India / Germany / France - Ritesh Batra , Anurag Kashyap , Guneet Monga , Arun Rangachari
- Trash , Brazil - Tim Bevan , Stephen Daldry , Eric Fellner , Kris Thykier
- Two days, one night (Deux jours, une nuit) , Belgium / France / Italy - Jean-Pierre Dardenne , Luc Dardenne , Denis Freyd
Wild Tales - Everyone goes crazy! (Relatos salvajes) , Argentina - Director: Damián Szifron
- Force Majeure (Turist) , Sweden - Director: Ruben Östlund
- Nie Yinniang (聶隱娘), Taiwan - Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Theeb , Jordan - Director: Naji Abu Nowar
- Timbuktu , Mauritania - Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Son of Saul (Saul fia) , Hungary - directed by László Nemes , Gábor Sipos
- Demons and Miracles (Dheepan) , France - Director: Jacques Audiard
- Julieta , Spain - Director: Pedro Almodóvar
- Mustang , Turkey / France / Germany - Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Toni Erdmann , Germany / Austria - Director: Maren Ade
The Pickpocket (아가씨, Agassi ), South Korea - Director: Park Chan-wook
- Elle , France / Germany - Director: Paul Verhoeven
- Loveless (Нелюбовь), Russia - Director: Andrei Svjaginzew
- The Salesman (فروشنده, Forūšande) , Iran - Director: Asghar Farhadi
- The long journey of hope (First They Killed My Father) , USA / Cambodia - Director: Angelina Jolie
Roma , Mexico - Alfonso Cuarón and Gabriela Rodriguez
- Capernaum - City of Hope (Capharnaüm) , Lebanon - Nadine Labaki and Khaled Mouzanar
- Cold War - The Latitude of Love (Zimna wojna) , Poland - Paweł Pawlikowski , Tanya Seghatchian and Ewa Puszczynska
- Dogman , Italy - Matteo Garrone
- Shoplifters - Family Ties (Manbiki kazoku) , Japan - Hirokazu Koreeda and Matsuzaki Kaoru
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rules and Guidelines 2011–2012 at bafta.org (PDF file; 235 KiB; accessed on June 16, 2011)