London Critics' Circle Film Award / Best Foreign Language Film

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Since 1981 the best foreign language film has been honored at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards .

Pedro Almodóvar was the only director to be twice successful with his films. In terms of countries, France is at the top of the ranking with 10 wins.

Excellent films

Note: The award ceremony always relates to films from the previous year, so the 2007 winners come from the 2006 film year.

year Award winners country Director
1981 Vera's upbringing (Angi Vera) HungaryHungary Hungary Pál Gábor
The marriage of Maria Braun Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1982 The man of iron PolandPoland Poland Andrzej Wajda
1983 Mephisto HungaryHungary Hungary István Szabó
1984 Yol - the way TurkeyTurkey Turkey Serif Brats
1985 A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne) FranceFrance France Bertrand Tavernier
1986 Heimat - a German chronicle Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany Edgar Reitz
1987 Ran JapanJapan Japan Akira Kurosawa
1988 Jean Florette (Jean de Florette) FranceFrance France Claude Berri
1989 Babettes feast (Babettes gæstebud) DenmarkDenmark Denmark Gabriel Axel
1990 Goodbye children (Au revoir, les enfants) FranceFrance France Louis Malle
1991 Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) ItalyItaly Italy / FranceFranceFrance  Giuseppe Tornatore
1992 Cyrano of Bergerac (Cyrano de Bergerac) FranceFrance France Jean-Paul Rappeneau
1993 Red Lantern (Dà hóng dēnglóng gāogāo guà) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China / Hong KongHong KongHong Kong  Zhang Yimou
1994 A heart in winter ( Un coeur en hiver) FranceFrance France Claude Sautet
1995 Farewell my concubine (Ba wang bie ji) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China / Hong KongHong KongHong Kong  Chen Kaige
1996 The Postman (Il Postino) ItalyItaly Italy Michael Radford
1997 Les Misérables FranceFrance France Claude Lelouch
1998 Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances (Ridicule) FranceFrance France Patrice Leconte
1999 Shall we dance? (Shall we dansu?) JapanJapan Japan Masayuki Suo
2000 All about my mother (Todo sobre mi madre) SpainSpain Spain Pedro Almodovar
2001 Tiger and Dragon (Wo hu cang long) United StatesUnited States United States / TaiwanTaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan)  Ang Lee
2002 The fabulous world of Amélie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) FranceFrance France Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2003 Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life MexicoMexico Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
2004 Good bye Lenin! GermanyGermany Germany Wolfgang Becker
2005 Young Che's Journey (Diarios de motocicleta) United StatesUnited States United States / Germany / United Kingdom / Argentina / Chile / Peru / FranceGermanyGermany 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom ArgentinaArgentina 
ChileChile PeruPeru FranceFrance 
Walter Salles
2006 The downfall GermanyGermany Germany Oliver Hirschbiegel
2007 Volver - return SpainSpain Spain Pedro Almodovar
2008 The Lives of Others GermanyGermany Germany Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
2009 Waltz with Bashir IsraelIsrael Israel Ari Folman
2010 So dark the night (Låt the advice comma in) SwedenSweden Sweden Tomas Alfredson
2011 I am love ItalyItaly Italy Luca Guadagnino
2012 Nader and Simin - A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین Jodaeiye Nader az Simin ) IranIran Iran Asghar Farhadi
2013 The taste of rust and bones FranceFrance France Jacques Audiard
2014 Blue is a warm color (La vie d'Adèle) FranceFrance France / Belgium / SpainBelgiumBelgium SpainSpain  Abdellatif Kechiche
2015 Leviathan RussiaRussia Russia Andrei Svyagintsev
2016 The look of silence DenmarkDenmark Denmark Joshua Oppenheimer
2017 Toni Erdmann GermanyGermany Germany Maren goodbye
2018 Cubit FranceFrance France / GermanyGermanyGermany  Paul Verhoeven
2019 Cold War - The latitude of love PolandPoland Poland / France / United KingdomFranceFrance 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Paweł Pawlikowski
2020 Portrait of a Young Woman in Flames (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) FranceFrance France Celine Sciamma