Prix Lumières / Best Foreign Film
Prix Lumières : Best Foreign Film
Winner of the French film award Prix Lumière in the category Best Foreign Film ( Prix Lumière du meilleur film étranger ). The French foreign press awarded this prize between 1996 and 2002 retrospectively for the previous cinema year.
| year | Movie title | German title | Director | Country / Countries |
| 1996 | Podzemlje | Underground | Emir Kusturica | Germany , France , Hungary , Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| 1997 | Il postino | The postman | Michael Radford | Italy |
| 1998 | Brassed Off | Brassed Off - With timpani and trumpets | Mark Herman | Great Britain |
| 1999 | La vita è bella | Life is Beautiful | Roberto Benigni | Italy |
| 2000 | Todo sobre mi madre | Everything about my mother | Pedro Almodovar | Spain |
| 2001 | American Beauty | American Beauty | Sam Mendes | United States |
| 2002 | Billy Elliot | Billy Elliot - I Will Dance | Stephen Daldry | Great Britain |