Oscar / Best International Film

A chronology of the Oscars for the best international film (until 2019 best foreign language film , Best Foreign Language Film of the Year , from the 2020 Academy Awards International Feature Film ).

Historical

From 1948 to 1956, this Oscar was awarded as a special prize or honorary Oscar ; it was not until 1957 that the award winner was chosen by the members of the Academy from a selection of five nominated films analogous to the other categories. The Oscar for the best foreign language film has not honored a specific person since its creation, but goes to the film to be honored. The director does not personally win an Oscar, but receives one on his behalf during the award ceremony.

organization

The selection of the German Oscar film is organized by German Films Service + Marketing GmbH (formerly Export-Union des Deutschen Films), which supports various professional associations (directors, producers, film critics, etc.) and institutions (e.g. the German Film Academy ) calls for representatives to be nominated for a nine-member jury, which ultimately determines the Oscar contribution. In Austria, a jury from the professional association of the film and music industry is used to select an Oscar candidate; in Switzerland, a group of experts takes on this task on behalf of the Federal Office of Culture .

After ignoring the highly acclaimed Romanian drama of 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced a change in its selection guidelines on June 19, 2008. Only six of the nine foreign productions are selected by a volunteer committee made up of AMPAS members, who only have to see a minimum of the submitted contributions. The remaining three applicants will be selected by a twenty-member foreign language film committee, the Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee .

The films are listed according to the year in which they were awarded. So Tiger and Dragon got the Oscar in 2001, but it was released in 2000.

Statistics (from 1957)

Most rewarded country	Italy (14 wins)
Most frequently nominated country	France (39 nominations)
Most nominated country without a win	Israel (10 nominations)

Films by Italian directors Federico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica (four wins each) received the most awards. There were also four nominations for works by José Luis Garci , István Szabó , Mario Monicelli , Ettore Scola and Andrzej Wajda , although the films of the last three directors never won the Oscar for best foreign language film.

Special Prize or Oscar of Honor (1948–1956)

year	Prize winners (original title)	Director
1948	Shoe shiner ( Sciuscià ) Italy	Vittorio De Sica
1949	Monsieur Vincent France	Maurice Cloche
1950	Bicycle thieves ( Ladri di biciclette ) Italy	Vittorio De Sica
1951	The walls of Malapaga ( Le mura di Malapaga ) France / Italy	René Clément
1952	Rashomon - The Pleasure Grove (羅 生 門Rashōmon ) Japan	Akira Kurosawa
1953	Forbidden games ( Jeux interdits ) France	René Clément
1954	not forgiven
1955	The Gate of Hell (地獄 門Jigokumon ) Japan	Teinosuke Kinugasa
1956	Samurai (宮本 武 蔵Miyamoto Musashi ) Japan	Hiroshi Inagaki

Oscar for the best foreign language film (from 1957)

1950s

year	Prize winners (original title)	Director	Nominations
1957	La Strada - The Song of the Street ( La Strada ) Italy	Federico Fellini	Friends to the last (ビ ル マ の 竪琴Biruma no tategoto , Japan) - Director: Kon Ichikawa Gervaise (France) - Director: René Clément Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (Germany) - Director: Helmut Käutner Qivitoq (Denmark) - Director: Erik Balling
1958	The nights of Cabiria ( Le Notti di Cabiria ) Italy	Federico Fellini	Bharat Mata (भारत माता, India) - Director: Mehboob Khan Die Mausefalle ( Porte des Lilas , France) - Director: René Clair Night when the devil came (Germany) - Director: Robert Siodmak As far as the strengths reach ( Ni liv , Norway ) - Director: Arne Skouen
1959	My uncle ( Mon oncle ) France	Jacques Tati	Thieves have it hard ( I soliti ignoti , Italy) - Director: Mario Monicelli Helden (Germany) - Director: Franz Peter Wirth Die Rache ( La venganza , Spain) - Director: Juan Antonio Bardem Street of Passion ( Cesta duga godinu dana , Yugoslavia) - Directed by Giuseppe De Santis
1960	Orfeu Negro France	Marcel Camus	Die Brücke (Germany) - Director: Bernhard Wicki Das Dorf am Fluss ( Dorp aan de rivier , Netherlands) - Director: Fons Rademakers It was called the Great War ( La Grande Guerra , Italy) - Director: Mario Monicelli Pao from the jungle ( Paw , Denmark) - Director: Astrid Henning-Jensen

1960s

year	Prize winners (original title)	Director	Nominations
1961	The Jungfrauenquelle ( Jungfrukällan ) Sweden	Ingmar Bergman	Kapò (Italy) - Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Macario (Mexico) - Director: Roberto Gavaldón The ninth circle ( Deveti krug , Yugoslavia) - Director: France Štiglic The Truth ( La Verité , France) - Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
1962	Like in a mirror ( Såsom i en spegel ) Sweden	Ingmar Bergman	Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante) (Mexico) - Director: Ismael Rodríguez Eien no hito (永遠 の 人, Japan) - Director: Keisuke Kinoshita Harry and his valet ( Harry og kammertjeneren , Denmark) - Director: Bent Christensen Placido ( Plácido , Spain) - Director: Luis García Berlanga
1963	Sundays with Sybill ( Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray ) France	Serge Bourguignon	Elektra (Ηλέκτρα Ilektra , Greece) - Director: Michael Cacoyannis Fifty Steps to Justice ( O pagador de promessas , Brazil) - Director: Anselmo Duarte The four days of Naples ( Le quattro giornate di Napoli , Italy) - Director: Nanni Loy Das Wunder by Tlayucan ( Tlayucan , Mexico) - Director: Luis Alcoriza
1964	Eight and a half ( 8½ ) Italy	Federico Fellini	Koto (琴, Japan) - Director: Noboru Nakamura The knife in the water ( Nóż w wodzie , Poland) - Director: Roman Polański The red lanterns (Τα κόκκινα φανάρια Ta Kokkina fanaria , Greece) - Director: Vasilis Georgiadis Los Tarantos (Spain) - Director: Francisco Rovira Beleta
1965	Yesterday, today and tomorrow ( Ieri, oggi, domani ) Italy	Vittorio De Sica	The woman in the dunes (砂 の 女Suna no onna , Japan) - Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara Das Rabenviertel ( Kvarteret korpen , Sweden) - Director: Bo Widerberg The umbrellas of Cherbourg ( Les parapluies de Cherbourg , France) - Director: Jacques Demy Sallah - or: Swap daughter for apartment (סאלח שבתי Sallah Shabbati, Israel) - Director: Ephraim Kishon
1966	The shop on the main street ( Obchod na korze ) Czechoslovakia	Ján Kadár Elmar Klos	Bleeding Land (Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο To Homa vaftike kokkino , Greece) - Director: Vasilis Georgiadis Hochzeit in Italian ( Matrimonio all'italiana , Italy) - Director: Vittorio De Sica Kwaidan (怪 談Kaidan , Japan) - Director: Masaki Lieber John Kobayaki ( Kare John , Sweden) - Director: Lars-Magnus Lindgren
1967	A man and a woman ( Un homme et une femme ) France	Claude Lelouch	The love of a blonde ( Lásky jedné plavovlásky , Czechoslovakia) - Director: Miloš Forman Pharao ( Faraon , Poland) - Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz Battle of Algiers ( La battaglia di Algeri , Italy) - Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Drei ( Tri , Yugoslavia) - Director: Aleksandar Petrović
1968	Love according to the timetable ( Ostře sledované vlaky ) Czechoslovakia	Jiří Menzel	El amor brujo (Spain) - Director: Francisco Rovira Beleta Chieko-sho (智 恵 子 抄, Japan) - Director: Noboru Nakamura I even met happy gypsies ( Skupljači perja , Yugoslavia) - Director: Aleksandar Petrović Live life ( Vivre pour vivre , France) - Director: Claude Lelouch
1969	War and Peace (Война и мир Woina i mir ) USSR	Sergei Bondarchuk	The Fire Brigade Ball ( Hoří, má panenko , Czechoslovakia) - Director: Miloš Forman Robbery Kisses ( Baisers volés , France) - Director: François Truffaut Jungs aus der Paulstraße ( A Pál-utcai fiúk , Hungary) - Director: Zoltán Fábri You don't catch pistols Men ( La ragazza con la pistola , Italy) - Director: Mario Monicelli
1970	Z Algeria	Costa Gavras	Adalen 31 ( Ådalen '31 , Sweden) - Director: Bo Widerberg The Karamazov Brothers (Братья Карамазовы Bratja Karamasowy , USSR) - Director: Iwan Pyrjew , Kirill Lavrov and Mikhail Ulyanov My Night at Maud ( Ma nuit chez Maud , France) - Director : Éric Rohmer The Battle of the Neretva ( Bitka na Neretvi , Yugoslavia) - Director: Veljko Bulajić

1970s

year	Prize winners (original title)	Director	Nominations
1971	Investigations against a citizen who is above suspicion ( Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto ) Italy	Elio Petri	First Love (Switzerland) - Director: Maximilian Schell Hoa-Binh (France) - Director: Raoul Coutard Paix sur les champs (Belgium) - Director: Jacques Boigelot Tristana (Spain) - Director: Luis Buñuel
1972	The Garden of the Finzi Contini ( Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini ) Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Emigrants ( Utvandrarna , Sweden) - Director: Jan Troell Dodeskaden - People on the sidelines (ど で す か で んDō desu ka den , Japan) - Director: Akira Kurosawa Ha-Shoter Azulai (השוטר אזולאי, Israel) - Director: Ephraim Kishon Tchaikovsky ( вЧ Tschaikowski Tchaikovsky , USSR) - Director: Igor Talankin
1973	The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie ( Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie ) France	Luis Buñuel	Ani Ohev Otach Rosa (אני אוהב אותך רוזה, Israel) - Director: Moshé Mizrahi The Dawns Here Are Quiet (А зори здесь тихие A sori sdes tichije , USSR) - Director: Stanislaw Rostozki My beloved Miss ( Mi querida señorita , Spain) - Direction: Jaime de Armiñán The New Land ( Nybyggarna , Sweden) - Direction: Jan Troell
1974	The American Night ( La Nuit américaine ) France	François Truffaut	The Invitation ( L'Invitation , Switzerland) - Director: Claude Goretta Der Fußgänger (Germany) - Director: Maximilian Schell Das Haus on Third Street (הבית ברחוב שלוש Ha-Bayit Berekov Chelouche , Israel) - Director: Moshé Mizrahi Turkish fruits ( Turks Fruit , Netherlands) - Director: Paul Verhoeven
1975	Amarcord Italy	Federico Fellini	Lacombe, Lucien ( Lacombe Lucien , France) - Director: Louis Malle Macskajáték (Hungary) - Director: Károly Makk Sintflut ( Potop , Poland) - Director: Jerzy Hoffman The Armistice ( La tregua , Argentina) - Director: Sergio Renán
1976	Uzala, the Kyrgyz (Дерсу Узала Dersu Usala ) USSR	Akira Kurosawa	Actas de Marusia (Mexico) - Director: Miguel Littín The fragrance of women ( Profumo di donna , Italy) - Director: Dino Risi The Promised Land ( Ziemia obiecana , Poland) - Director: Andrzej Wajda Sandakan, House No. 8 (サ ン ダ カ ン 八番 娼 館 望 郷Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo , Japan) - Director: Kei Kumai
1977	Longing for Africa ( Noirs et blancs en couleur ) Ivory Coast	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Cousin, Cousine ( Cousin, cousine , France) - Director: Jean-Charles Tacchella Jakob the Liar (GDR) - Director: Frank Beyer Nights and Days ( Noce i dnie , Poland) - Director: Jerzy Antczak Seven Beauties ( Pasqualino Settebellezze , Italy ) - Director: Lina Wertmüller
1978	Madame Rosa ( La Vie devant soi ) France	Moshe Mizrahi	A Special Day ( Una Giornata particolare , Italy) - Director: Ettore Scola This obscure object of desire ( Cet obscur objet du désir , Spain) - Director: Luis Buñuel Iphigenie (Ιφιγένεια Ifigeneia , Greece) - Director: Michael Cacoyannis Operation Thunderbolt (מבצע יונתן Mivtsa Yonatan , Israel) - Director: Menahem Golan
1979	Woman giving away ( Préparez vos mouchoirs ) France	Bertrand Blier	The glass cell (Germany) - Director: Hans W. Geißendörfer The Hungarians ( Magyarok , Hungary) - Director: Zoltán Fábri Viva Italia ( I nuovi mostri , Italy) - Director: Mario Monicelli , Dino Risi and Ettore Scola Weißer Bim Schwarzohr (Белый Бим Чёрное ухо Belyy Bim - Tschjornoje ucho , USSR) - Director: Stanislaw Rostozki
1980	The tin drum Germany	Volker Schlöndorff	A simple story ( Une histoire simple , France) - Director: Claude Sautet Die Mädchen von Wilko ( Panny z Wilka , Poland) - Director: Andrzej Wajda Mama turns 100 ( Mamá cumple cien años , Spain) - Director: Carlos Saura Vergiß Venice ( Dementicare Venezia , Italy) - Director: Franco Brusati

1980s

year	Prize winners (original title)	Director	Nominations
1981	Moscow does not believe the tears (Москва слезам не верит Moskwa slesam ne werit ) USSR	Vladimir Menshov	Kagemusha - The Shadow of the Warrior (影武者Kagemusha , Japan) - Director: Akira Kurosawa The Last Metro ( Le Dernier métro , France) - Director: François Truffaut An Impossible Love ( El nido , Spain) - Director: Jaime de Armiñán Trust ( Bizalom , Hungary) - Director: István Szabó
1982	Mephisto Hungary	István Szabó	Das Boot ist voll (Switzerland) - Director: Markus Imhoof Three Brothers ( Tre fratelli , Italy) - Director: Francesco Rosi The Man of Iron ( Człowiek z żelaza , Poland) - Director: Andrzej Wajda Dirty River (泥 の 河Doro no kawa , Japan) - Director: Kōhei Oguri
1983	Volver A Empezar Spain	José Luis Garci	Alsino und der Condor ( Alsino y el cóndor , Nicaragua) - Director: Miguel Littín Der Flug des Adler ( Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd , Sweden) - Director: Jan Troell A private life (Частная жизнь Tschastnaja schisn , USSR) - Director: Juli Raisman Der Saustall ( Coup de Torchon , France) - Director: Bertrand Tavernier
1984	Fanny and Alexander ( Fanny och Alexander ) Sweden	Ingmar Bergman	Le Bal - Der Tanzpalast ( Le Bal , Algeria) - Director: Ettore Scola Carmen (Spain) - Director: Carlos Saura Entre Nous - Dreams of tenderness ( Coup de foudre , France) - Director: Diane Kurys Job's Revolte ( Jób lázadása , Hungary ) - Directed by Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay
1985	Dangerous trains ( La Diagonale du fou ) Switzerland	Richard Dembo	Camila - The girl and the priest ( Camila , Argentina) - Director: María Luisa Bemberg Frontromanze (Военно-полевой роман Wojenno-polewoj roman , USSR) - Director: Pjotr ​​Todorowski Beyond the Walls , Israel) (מאחורי Has Meagimhoreים Meagimhoreי ) Director: Uri Barbash Sesión continua (Spain) - Director: José Luis Garci
1986	The official history ( La historia oficial ) Argentina	Luis Puenzo	Bitter Harvest (Germany) - Director: Agnieszka Holland Three men and a baby ( Trois hommes et un couffin , France) - Director: Coline Serreau Oberst Redl ( Redl ezredes , Hungary) - Director: István Szabó Papa is on a business trip ( Otac na službenom putu , Yugoslavia) - Director: Emir Kusturica
1987	The attack ( De Aanslag ) Netherlands	Fons Rademakers	38 - That too was Vienna (Austria) - Director: Wolfgang Glück Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning ( 37º2 le matin , France) - Director: Jean-Jacques Brilleix Heimat, sweet home ( Vesničko má středisková , Czechoslovakia) - Director : Jiří Menzel The Fall of the American Empire ( Le Déclin de l'empire américain , Canada) - Director: Denys Arcand
1988	Babettes Festival ( Babettes gæstebud ) Denmark	Gabriel Axel	Asignatura aprobada (Spain) - Director: José Luis Garci Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder ( Au revoir les enfants , France) - Director: Louis Malle Die Familie ( La famiglia , Italy) - Director: Ettore Scola Pathfinder ( Ofelaš , Norway) - Director: Nils Gaup
1989	Pelle, the Conqueror ( Pelle Conquer ) Denmark	Bille August	Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown ( Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios , Spain) - Director: Pedro Almodóvar Hanussen ( Profeta , Hungary) - Director: István Szabó Maestro ( Le maître de musique , Belgium) - Director: Gérard Corbiau Salaam Bombay! (India) - Director: Mira Nair
1990	Cinema Paradiso ( Nuovo cinema Paradiso ) Italy	Giuseppe Tornatore	Camille Claudel (France) - Director: Bruno Nuytten Don Santiago's late love ( Lo que le pasó a Santiago , Puerto Rico) - Director: Jacobo Morales Jesus of Montreal ( Jésus de Montréal , Canada) - Director: Denys Arcand Dancing with Regitze ( Dansen med Regitze , Denmark) - Director: Kaspar Rostrup

1990s

year	Prize winners (original title)	Director	Nominations
1991	Journey of Hope Switzerland	Xavier Koller	Cyrano von Bergerac ( Cyrano de Bergerac , France) - Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau Judou (菊 豆Ju Dou , Hong Kong) - Director: Zhang Yimou Open Doors ( Porte aperte , Italy) - Director: Gianni Amelio The terrible girl (Germany) - Director: Michael Verhoeven
1992	Mediterraneo Italy	Gabriele Salvatores	Children of Nature - A Journey ( Börn náttúrunnar , Iceland) - Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson The Ox ( Oxen , Sweden) - Director: Sven Nykvist Red Lantern ( Da hong deng long gao gao gua , Hong Kong) - Director: Zhang Yimou The elementary school ( Obecná škola , Czechoslovakia) - Director: Jan Svěrák
1993	Indochine France	Regis Wargnier	Priest of the Disenfranchised (Belgium) - Director: Stijn Coninx Schtonk! (Germany) - Director: Helmut Dietl Urga (USSR) - Director: Nikita Michalkow
1994	Belle Epoque ( Belle epoque ) Spain	Fernando Trueba	The scent of green papaya ( Mùi đu đủ xanh , Vietnam) - Director: Trần Anh Hùng Hedd Wyn (Great Britain) - Director: Paul Turner The wedding banquet (喜宴Xǐyàn , Taiwan) - Director: Ang Lee Lebewohl, my concubine (霸王別姬Bàwáng Bié Jī , Hong Kong) - Director: Chen Kaige
1995	The sun that deceives us (Утомлённые солнцем Utomlyonnye solntsem ) Russia	Nikita Mikhalkov	Eat Drink Man Woman (飲食 男女yǐn shí nán nǚ , Taiwan) - Director: Ang Lee Erdbeer und Schokolade ( Fresa y chocolate , Cuba) - Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Farinelli, der Kastrat (Italy / Belgium / France) - Director: Gérard Corbiau Before the Rain ( Pred dozhdot , Macedonia) - Director: Milčo Mančevski
1996	Antonia's World ( Antonia ) Netherlands	Marleen Gorris	The children of Saigon ( Poussières de vie , Algeria) - Director: Rachid Bouchareb The man who makes the stars ( L'uomo delle stelle , Italy) - Director: Giuseppe Tornatore O Quatrilho (Brazil) - Director: Fábio Barreto She is beautiful Youth ( Lust och fägring stor , Sweden) - Director: Bo Widerberg
1997	Kolya (Kolja) Czech Republic	Jan Svěrák	1001 recipes of love chef (შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი Shekvarebuli Kulinaris ataserti retsepti , Georgia) - Director: Nana Jorjadze Prisoner of the Mountains (Кавказский пленник Kawkasski plennik , Russia) - Director: Sergei Bodrov Ridicule - From the ridiculousness of appearances ( Ridicule , France) - Director: Patrice Leconte Sonntagsengel ( Søndagsengler , Norway) - Director: Berit Nesheim
1998	Character Netherlands	Mike van Diem	The Thief (Вор Vor , Russia) - Director: Pawel Tschuchrai Secrets of the Heart ( Secretos del corazón , Spain) - Director: Montxo Armendáriz Jenseits der Stille (Germany) - Director: Caroline Link Four days in September ( O Que É Isso, Companheiro ? , Brazil) - Director: Bruno Barreto
1999	Life is beautiful ( La vita è bella ) Italy	Roberto Benigni	El abuelo (Spain) - Director: José Luis Garci Central Station ( Central do Brasil , Brazil) - Director: Walter Salles Children of Heaven (بچه‌های آسمان Batscheha-ye aseman , Iran) - Director: Majid Majidi Tango (Argentina) - Director: Carlos Saura
2000	Everything about my mother ( Todo sobre mi madre ) Spain	Pedro Almodovar	Est-Ouest - A love in Russia ( Est-Ouest , France) - Director: Régis Wargnier Happiness comes tomorrow ( Under solen , Sweden) - Director: Colin Nutley Himalaya - The childhood of a caravan leader ( Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef , Nepal) - directed by Éric Valli Salomon and Gaenor ( Solomon and Gaenor , Great Britain) - directed by Paul Morrison

2000s

year	Prize winners (original title)	Director	Nominations
2001	Tiger and Dragon (臥虎藏龍Wo hu cang long ) Republic of China	Ang Lee	Amores Perros ( Amores perros, Mexico) - Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Everyone is a star! ( Iedereen beroemd, Belgium) - Director: Dominique Deruddere Lust auf Other ( Le Goût des autres, France) - Director: Agnès Jaoui We must stick together ( Musíme si pomáhat, Czech Republic) - Director: Jan Hřebejk
2002	No Man's Land (Ničija zemlja) Bosnia and Herzegovina	Danis Tanović	Elling (Norway) - Director: Petter Næss The fabulous world of Amélie ( Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, France) - Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Lagaan - Once upon a time in India ( Lagaan, India) - Director: Ashutosh Gowariker Der Son of the Bride ( El Hijo de la novia, Argentina) - Director: Juan José Campanella
2003	Nowhere in Africa Germany	Caroline Link	Three Furies & a Warm Brother ( Zus & zo, Netherlands) - Director: Paula van der Oest Hero (英雄Ying xiong, China) - Director: Zhang Yimou The man without a past ( Mies vailla menneisyyttä, Finland) - Director: Aki Kaurismäki Die Temptation of Padre Amaro ( El crimen del padre Amaro, Mexico) - Director: Carlos Carrera
2004	The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbarians) Canada	Denys Arcand	Evil ( Ondskan, Sweden) - Director: Mikael Håfström Samurai of the Dawn (た そ が れ 清 兵衛Tasogare Seibei, Japan) - Director: Yōji Yamada Zelary (Czech Republic) - Director: Ondřej Trojan The Twins ( De Tweeling, Netherlands) - Director: Ben Sombogaart
2005	The sea in me (Mar adentro) Spain	Alejandro Amenábar	The children of Monsieur Mathieu ( Les choristes, France) - Director: Christophe Barratier Der Untergang (Germany) - Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel Wie im Himmel ( Så som i Himmelen, Sweden) - Director: Kay Pollak A woman called Yesterday (Yesterday) ( South Africa) - Director: Darrell Roodt
2006	Tsotsi South Africa	Gavin Hood	La bestia nel cuore (Italy) - Director: Cristina Comencini Merry Christmas ( Joyeux Noël, France) - Director: Christian Carion Paradise Now (الجنة الآن al-Dschanna al-ān , Palestine) - Director: Hany Abu-Assad Sophie Scholl - The last days (Germany) - Director: Marc Rothemund
2007	The life of the other Germany	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	After the wedding ( Efter brylluppet, Denmark) - Director: Susanne Bier Pan's Labyrinth ( El Laberinto del Fauno, Mexico) - Director: Guillermo del Toro Days of Fame ( Indigènes, Algeria) - Director: Rachid Bouchareb Water (वाटर, Canada) - Director: Deepa Mehta
2008	The counterfeiters Austria	Stefan Ruzowitzky	12 (Russia) - Director: Nikita Michalkow Beaufort (בופור, Israel) - Director: Joseph Cedar The Katyn Massacre ( Katyń, Poland) - Director: Andrzej Wajda Der Mongole ( Mongol, Kazakhstan) - Director: Sergei Bodrow
2009	Nokan - The Art of Ending ( お く り び と Okuribito ) Japan	Yōjirō Takita	Der Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany) - Director: Uli Edel Die Klasse ( Entre les murs, France) - Director: Laurent Cantet Revanche (Austria) - Director: Götz Spielmann Waltz with Bashir (ואלס עם באשיר Vals Im Bashir, Israel) - Director : Ari Folman
2010	In their eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) Argentina	Juan José Campanella	Ajami (Israel) - Director: Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani Das white Ribbon - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (Germany) - Director: Michael Haneke Ein Prophet ( Un prophète, France) - Director: Jacques Audiard Eine Perle Ewigkeit ( La teta asustada, Peru) - Director: Claudia Llosa

2010s

year	Prize winners (original title)	Director	Nominations
2011	In a better world (Hævnen) Denmark	Susanne beer	Biutiful (Mexico) - Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Dogtooth (Κυνόδοντας Kynodontas , Greece) - Director: Giorgos Lanthimos The woman who sings - Incendies ( Incendies, Canada) - Director: Denis Villeneuve Hors-la-loi (Algeria) - Director: Rachid Bouchareb
2012	Nader and Simin - A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین Jodai-ye Nader az Simin ) Iran	Asghar Farhadi	Bullhead ( Rundskop , Belgium) - Director: Michaël R. Roskam Hearat Shulayim (הערת שוליים, Israel) - Director: Joseph Cedar In Darkness ( W ciemności , Poland) - Director: Agnieszka Holland Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) - Director: Philippe Falardeau
2013	Dear ( Amour ) Austria	Michael Haneke	Kon-Tiki (Norway) - directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg No! (Chile) - Director: Pablo Larraín The Queen and the Physician ( En kongelig affære , Denmark) - Director: Nikolaj Arcel Rebelle (Canada) - Director: Kim Nguyen
2014	La Grande Bellezza - The great beauty ( La grande bellezza ) Italy	Paolo Sorrentino	The Broken Circle ( The Broken Circle Breakdown , Belgium) - Director: Felix Van Groeningen The Missing Image ( L'image manquante , Cambodscha) - Director: Rithy Panh Die Jagd ( Jagten , Denmark) - Director: Thomas Vinterberg Omar (Palestine) - Director: Hany Abu-Assad
2015	Ida Poland	Paweł Pawlikowski	Leviathan ( Leviafan , Russia) - Director: Andrei Swjaginzew Tangerines ( Mandariinid , Estonia) - Director: Sasa Uruschadse Timbuktu (Mauritania) - Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Wild Tales - Everyone goes crazy ! ( Relatos salvajes , Argentina) - Director: Damián Szifron
2016	Son of Saul ( Saul fia ) Hungary	László Nemes Jeles	The Shaman and the Snake ( El abrazo de la serpiente , Colombia) - Director: Ciro Guerra Mustang (France) - Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven Theeb (Jordan) - Director: Naji Abu Nowar A War ( Krigen , Denmark) - Director: Tobias Lindholm
2017	The Salesman (فروشنده Foruschande ) Iran	Asghar Farhadi	A man named Ove ( En man som heter Ove , Sweden) - Director: Hannes Holm Tanna - Eine Verbotene Liebe ( Tanna , Australia) - Director: Bentley Dean & Martin Butler Toni Erdmann (Germany) - Director: Maren Ade Unter dem Sand - The Promise of Freedom ( Under sandet , Denmark) - Director: Martin Zandvliet
2018	A fantastic woman ( Una mujer fantástica ) Chile	Sebastian Lelio	The Affront ( قضية رقم ٢٣ / The Insult , Lebanon) - Director: Ziad Doueiri Loveless ( Нелюбовь , Russia) - Director: Andrei Swjaginzew Body and Soul ( Testről és lélekről , Hungary) - Director: Ildikó Enyedi The Square (Sweden) - Director : Ruben Östlund
2019	Roma Mexico	Alfonso Cuarón	Capernaum - City of Hope (کفرناحوم / Capharnaüm , Lebanon) - Director: Nadine Labaki Cold War - The latitude of love ( Zimna wojna , Poland) - Director: Paweł Pawlikowski Shoplifters - Familienbande ( 万 引 き 家族 / Manbiki kazoku , Japan) - Director: Hirokazu Koreeda work without author (Germany) - director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
2020	Parasite ( 기생충 / Gisaengchung ) South Korea	Bong Joon-ho	Corpus Christi ( Boże Ciało , Poland) - Director: Jan Komasa Land of Honey ( Медена земја / Medena zemja , North Macedonia) - Director: Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov The Angry - Les Misérables ( Les Misérables , France) - Director: Ladj Ly Leid and glory ( Dolor y gloria , Spain) - directed by Pedro Almodóvar

See also

• List of the most successful nations of the Oscars for the best foreign language film

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Academy Announces New Rules for 92 Oscars - "International Feature Film" to Replace "Foreign Language" Category . Article dated April 23, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019.
2. ↑ "Foreign" no longer appropriate: Oscar for best foreign language film is renamed . Article dated April 24, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019.
3. ↑ cf. 81st Academy Awards - Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at oscars.org (accessed March 5, 2009)
4. ↑ cf. Regulations for naming the German Oscar award. ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 31, 2013; PDF; 25 kB)
5. ^ Association of the Film and Music Industry : Registration for the 86th Annual Academy Awards ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ cf. ddp : Rules for foreign films changed at fr-online.de, June 21, 2008 (accessed June 21, 2008)
7. ↑ cf. Rules Approved for 81st Academy Awards at oscars.org, June 19, 2008 (accessed June 21, 2008)