Critics' Choice Movie Award / Best Foreign Language Film

The BFCA has been honoring the best foreign language film of the previous film year since 1996 .

Award winners

year	Movie title	country	German distribution title	Director
1996	Il Postino	Italy	The postman	Michael Radford
1997	Ridicule	France	Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances	Patrice Leconte
1998	Shall we dansu?	Japan	Shall we dance?	Masayuki Suo
1999	La vita è bella	Italy	Life is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
2000	Todo sobre mi madre	Spain	Everything about my mother	Pedro Almodovar
2001	Wo hu cang long	United States Taiwan	Tiger and Dragon	Ang Lee
2002	Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	France	The fabulous world of Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2003	Y tu mamá también	Mexico	Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life	Alfonso Cuarón
2004	Les invasions barbaren	Canada	The Barbarian Invasion	Denys Arcand
2005	Mar adentro	Spain	The sea in me	Alejandro Amenábar
2006	Gong fu	People's Republic of China Hong Kong	Kung Fu Hustle	Stephen Chow
2007	Letters from Iwo Jima	United States	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood
2008	Le scaphandre et le papillon	France United States	Butterfly and diving bell	Julian Schnabel
2009	ואלס עם באשיר	Israel	Waltz with Bashir	Ari Folman
2010	Los abrazos rotos	Spain	Broken hugs	Pedro Almodovar
2011	Man som hatar kvinnor	Sweden	Delusion	Niels Arden Oplev
2012	جدایی نادر از سیمین (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)	Iran	Nader and Simin - A separation	Asghar Farhadi
2013	Amour	France Germany Austria	love	Michael Haneke
2014	La vie d'Adèle	France Belgium Spain	blue is a warm colour	Abdellatif Kechiche
2015	Tourist	Sweden	Force majeure	Ruben Östlund
2016 (Jan.)	Saul fia	Hungary	Son of Saul	László Nemes
2016 (Dec.)	Cubit	France Germany	Cubit	Paul Verhoeven
2018	Out of nowhere	Germany France	Out of nowhere	Fatih Akin
2019	Roma	Mexico United States	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
2020	기생충	South Korea	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho