New York Film Critics Circle Award / Best Foreign Language Film
Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle in the category Best Foreign Language Film (Best Foreign film) .
The works of French film directors were most frequently awarded the prize (24 wins), followed by their colleagues from Italy, Sweden and Spain (6 wins each). The most successful in this category was the Italian film director Federico Fellini , whose films received four awards between 1956 and 1965, followed by the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar , the Italians Vittorio De Sica , Roberto Rossellini and the French Alain Resnais with three wins each.
The film critics' association was able to present the Oscar winner 13 times in advance , most recently in 2012, when the award was given to Ida by Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski . In 2007, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others was retrospectively recognized as the Academy Award winner. It was the second award for a German-language film production after 1939, when Géza von Bolváry's harvest was victorious. In 2012 the French-language film Liebe was honored by Michael Haneke , while in 2016 the German-Austrian co-production Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade was victorious.
The annual figures in the table indicate the film years assessed; the awards were given in the following year.
* = Film productions that were awarded the Oscar for best foreign language film of the year .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maslin, Janet : Critics Choose 'Fargo' As the Best Film of 1996 . In: New York Times , December 13, 1996, p. C8.