List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film

National origin of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film (as of 2016)

  Won the award

  Nominated for the award

  United States (ineligible for competition)

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.^[1]

When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929 to honor films released in 1927–28, there was no separate category for foreign language films. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States.^[2] These awards, however, were not handed out on a regular basis (no award was given in 1953), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since then.

Unlike other Academy Awards, the Best Foreign Language Film Award is not presented to a specific individual. It is accepted by the winning film's director,^[1] but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Over the years, the Best Foreign Language Film Award and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 68 awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, 56 have gone to European films,^[A] six to Asian films,^[B] three to African films and three to films from the Americas. The late Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini directed four Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award-winning motion pictures during his lifetime, more than any other director. If Special Awards are taken into account, then Fellini's record is tied by his fellow countryman Vittorio De Sica. The Soviet epic War and Peace (1966–67), for its part, is the longest motion picture to have won the Best Foreign Language Film Award. Filmed from 1962 to 1966, it ran for more than seven hours.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Countries ordered by number of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film (as of 2016)

  Winners

  Nominees

  Submissions

  Nominated but later disqualified

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Films in bold and in dark blue background have received a Special/Honorary Award; those in bold and in yellow background have won a regular Academy Award of Merit.

Films that are neither highlighted nor in bold are the nominees. When sorted chronologically, the table always lists the winning film first and then the four other nominees.

The Submitting country column indicates the country that officially submitted the film to the Academy, and is not necessarily indicative of the film's main country of production. The original titles of the films are also mentioned, as well as the names of the directors and the languages used in the dialogue track, even though none of these elements is officially included in the nomination.

When several languages are used in a film, the predominant one is always listed first; the names of the other languages are written in smaller typesize and placed between brackets. When a film's original title is in a language that uses a non-Latin script, it is first transliterated into the Latin alphabet and then written in its original script.

Films from the former Yugoslavia are written in both Latin and Cyrillic due to the fact that the previously official Serbo-Croatian language used both alphabets. Chinese film titles are romanized according to the pinyin system, and are written using the characters employed in their submitting country, i.e. traditional Chinese ones for films submitted by Hong Kong and Taiwan, and simplified Chinese ones for films submitted by the People's Republic of China.

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Submitting country	Director(s)	Language(s)
1947 (20th)	Shoe-Shine [C]	Sciuscià	Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Italian (some parts in English)
1948 (21st)	Monsieur Vincent [D]	Monsieur Vincent	France	Maurice Cloche	French
1949 (22nd)	The Bicycle Thief [E]	Ladri di biciclette	Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Italian
1950 (23rd)	The Walls of Malapaga [F]	Au-delà des grilles !French Au-delà des grilles Italian Le mura di Malapaga	{co-production} France Italy	René Clément	French (some parts in Italian)
1951 (24th)	Rashomon [G]	Rashômon 羅生門	Japan	Akira Kurosawa	Japanese
1952 (25th)	Forbidden Games [H]	Jeux interdits	France	René Clément	French
1953 (26th)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)
1954 (27th)	Gate of Hell [I]	Jigokumon 地獄門	Japan	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Japanese
1955 (28th)	Samurai, The Legend of Musashi [J]	Miyamoto Musashi 宮本武蔵	Japan	Hiroshi Inagaki	Japanese
1956 (29th)	La strada [K]	La strada	Italy	Federico Fellini	Italian
1956	The Captain of Köpenick [K]	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	Germany (West)	Helmut Käutner	German
1956	Gervaise [K]	Gervaise	France	René Clément	French
1956	Harp of Burma [K]	Biruma no tategoto ビルマの竪琴	Japan	Kon Ichikawa	Japanese
1956	Qivitoq [K]	Qivitoq	Denmark	Erik Balling	Danish (some parts in Greenlandic)
1957 (30th)	Nights of Cabiria	Le notti di Cabiria	Italy	Federico Fellini	Italian
1957	The Devil Strikes at Night	Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam	Germany (West)	Robert Siodmak	German
1957	Gates of Paris	Porte des Lilas	France	René Clair	French
1957	Mother India	Mother India Hindi: मदर इण्डिया	India	Mehboob Khan	Hindi
1957	Nine Lives	Ni liv	Norway	Arne Skouen	Norwegian
1958 (31st)	My Uncle	Mon oncle	France	Jacques Tati	French
1958	Arms and the Man	Helden	Germany (West)	Franz Peter Wirth	German
1958	La Venganza	La venganza	Spain	Juan Antonio Bardem	Spanish
1958	The Road a Year Long	La strada lunga un anno !Italian La strada lunga un anno Serbo-Croatian Cesta duga godinu dana Цеста дуга годину дана	Yugoslavia	Giuseppe De Santis	Italian
1958	The Usual Unidentified Thieves	I soliti ignoti	Italy	Mario Monicelli	Italian
1959 (32nd)	Black Orpheus	Orfeu Negro	France	Marcel Camus	Portuguese
1959	The Bridge	Die Brücke	Germany (West)	Bernhard Wicki	German (some parts in English)
1959	The Great War	La grande guerra	Italy	Mario Monicelli	Italian
1959	Paw	Paw	Denmark	Astrid Henning-Jensen	Danish
1959	The Village on the River	Dorp aan de rivier	Netherlands	Fons Rademakers	Dutch
1960 (33rd)	The Virgin Spring	Jungfrukällan	Sweden	Ingmar Bergman	Swedish (some parts in German)
1960	Kapò	Kapò	Italy	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italian
1960	La Vérité	La Vérité	France	Henri-Georges Clouzot	French
1960	Macario	Macario	Mexico	Roberto Gavaldón	Spanish
1960	The Ninth Circle	Deveti krug Девети круг	Yugoslavia	France Štiglic	Serbo-Croatian
1961 (34th)	Through a Glass Darkly	Såsom i en spegel	Sweden	Ingmar Bergman	Swedish
1961	Harry and the Butler	Harry og kammertjeneren	Denmark	Bent Christensen	Danish
1961	Immortal Love	Eien no hito 永遠の人	Japan	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japanese
1961	The Important Man	Animas Trujano (El hombre importante) !Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante)	Mexico	Ismael Rodríguez	Spanish
1961	Plácido	Plácido	Spain	Luis García Berlanga	Spanish
1962 (35th)	Sundays and Cybele	Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray	France	Serge Bourguignon	French
1962	Electra	Ilektra Ηλέκτρα	Greece	Michael Cacoyannis	Greek
1962	The Four Days of Naples	Le quattro giornate di Napoli	Italy	Nanni Loy	Italian
1962	Keeper of Promises (The Given Word)	O Pagador de Promessas	Brazil	Anselmo Duarte	Portuguese
1962	Tlayucan	Tlayucan	Mexico	Luis Alcoriza	Spanish
1963 (36th)	8½	08½ !8½	Italy	Federico Fellini	Italian (some parts in English, French & German)
1963	Knife in the Water	Nóż w wodzie	Poland	Roman Polanski	Polish
1963	Los Tarantos	Los Tarantos	Spain	Francisco Rovira Beleta	Spanish
1963	The Red Lanterns	Ta Kokkina fanaria Τα κόκκινα φανάρια	Greece	Vasilis Georgiadis	Greek
1963	Twin Sisters of Kyoto	Koto 古都	Japan	Noboru Nakamura	Japanese
1964 (37th)	Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow	Ieri, oggi, domani	Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Italian
1964	Raven's End	Kvarteret Korpen	Sweden	Bo Widerberg	Swedish
1964	Sallah	Sallah Shabati סאלח שבתי	Israel	Ephraim Kishon	Hebrew
1964	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg	France	Jacques Demy	French
1964	The Woman in the Dunes	Suna no onna 砂の女	Japan	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Japanese
1965 (38th)	The Shop on Main Street	Obchod na korze	Czechoslovakia	{co-directed by} Ján Kadár Elmar Klos	Slovak (some parts in Yiddish)
1965	Blood on the Land	To Homa vaftike kokkino Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο	Greece	Vasilis Georgiadis	Greek
1965	Dear John	Käre John	Sweden	Lars-Magnus Lindgren	Swedish
1965	Kwaidan	Kaidan 怪談	Japan	Masaki Kobayashi	Japanese
1965	Marriage Italian Style	Matrimonio all'italiana	Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Italian
1966 (39th)	A Man and a Woman	Un homme et une femme	France	Claude Lelouch	French
1966	The Battle of Algiers	La Bataille d'Alger !French La Bataille d'Alger Italian La battaglia di Algeri	Italy	Gillo Pontecorvo	French & Arabic (some parts in English & Italian)
1966	Loves of a Blonde	Lásky jedné plavovlásky	Czechoslovakia	Miloš Forman	Czech
1966	Pharaoh	Faraon	Poland	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Polish
1966	Three	Tri Три	Yugoslavia	Aleksandar Petrović	Serbo-Croatian
1967 (40th)	Closely Watched Trains	Ostře sledované vlaky	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Menzel	Czech (some parts in German)
1967	El Amor Brujo	El amor brujo	Spain	Francisco Rovira Beleta	Spanish
1967	I Even Met Happy Gypsies	Skupljači perja Скупљачи перја	Yugoslavia	Aleksandar Petrović	Serbo-Croatian
1967	Live for Life	Vivre pour vivre	France	Claude Lelouch	French
1967	Portrait of Chieko	Chieko-sho 智恵子抄	Japan	Noboru Nakamura	Japanese
1968 (41st)	War and Peace	Voyna i mir Война и мир	Soviet Union	Sergei Bondarchuk	Russian
1968	The Boys of Paul Street	A Pál-utcai fiúk	Hungary	Zoltán Fábri	Hungarian
1968	The Firemen's Ball	Hoří, má panenko	Czechoslovakia	Miloš Forman	Czech
1968	The Girl with the Pistol	La ragazza con la pistola	Italy	Mario Monicelli	Italian (some parts in English)
1968	Stolen Kisses	Baisers volés	France	François Truffaut	French
1969 (42nd)	Z	Z	Algeria	Costa-Gavras	French
1969	Adalen '31 !Ådalen '31	Adalen 31 !Ådalen 31	Sweden	Bo Widerberg	Swedish
1969	The Battle of Neretva	Bitka na Neretvi Битка на Неретви	Yugoslavia	Veljko Bulajić	Serbo-Croatian (some parts in English)
1969	The Brothers Karamazov	Bratya Karamazovy Братья Карамазовы	Soviet Union	{co-directed by} Kirill Lavrov Ivan Pyryev Mikhail Ulyanov	Russian
1969	My Night with Maud [L]	Ma nuit chez Maud	France	Eric Rohmer	French
1970 (43rd)	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto	Italy	Elio Petri	Italian
1970	First Love	Erste Liebe	Switzerland	Maximilian Schell	German
1970	Hoa-Binh	Hoa-Binh	France	Raoul Coutard	French
1970	Paix Sur Les Champs	Paix sur les champs	Belgium	Jacques Boigelot	French
1970	Tristana	Tristana	Spain	Luis Buñuel	Spanish
1971 (44th)	The Garden of the Finzi Continis	Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini	Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Italian
1971	Dodes'ka-Den	Dodesukaden どですかでん	Japan	Akira Kurosawa	Japanese
1971	The Emigrants	Utvandrarna	Sweden	Jan Troell	Swedish
1971	The Policeman	Ha-Shoter Azulai השוטר אזולאי	Israel	Ephraim Kishon	Hebrew
1971	Tchaikovsky	Chaykovskiy Чайковский	Soviet Union	Igor Talankin	Russian
1972 (45th)	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie	France	Luis Buñuel	French (some parts in Spanish)
1972	The Dawns Here Are Quiet	A zori zdes tikhie А зори здесь тихие	Soviet Union	Stanislav Rostotsky	Russian
1972	I Love You Rosa	Ani Ohev Otach Rosa אני אוהב אותך רוזה	Israel	Moshé Mizrahi	Hebrew
1972	My Dearest Señorita	Mi querida señorita	Spain	Jaime de Armiñán	Spanish
1972	The New Land	Nybyggarna	Sweden	Jan Troell	Swedish (some parts in English)
1973 (46th)	Day for Night	La Nuit américaine	France	François Truffaut	French (some parts in English)
1973	The House on Chelouche Street	Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche הבית ברחוב שלוש	Israel	Moshé Mizrahi	Hebrew
1973	L'Invitation	L'Invitation	Switzerland	Claude Goretta	French
1973	The Pedestrian	Der Fußgänger	Germany (West)	Maximilian Schell	German (some parts in English & French)
1973	Turkish Delight	Turks Fruit	Netherlands	Paul Verhoeven	Dutch
1974 (47th)	Amarcord	Amarcord	Italy	Federico Fellini	Italian (some parts in Romagnolo)
1974	Cats' Play	Macskajáték	Hungary	Károly Makk	Hungarian
1974	The Deluge	Potop	Poland	Jerzy Hoffman	Polish
1974	Lacombe, Lucien	Lacombe Lucien	France	Louis Malle	French (some parts in English & German)
1974	The Truce	La tregua	Argentina	Sergio Renán	Spanish
1975 (48th)	Dersu Uzala	Dersu Uzala Дерсу Узала	Soviet Union	Akira Kurosawa	Russian
1975	Letters from Marusia	Actas de Marusia	Mexico	Miguel Littín	Spanish
1975	The Promised Land	Ziemia obiecana	Poland	Andrzej Wajda	Polish (some parts in German)
1975	Sandakan No. 8	Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo サンダカン八番娼館 望郷	Japan	Kei Kumai	Japanese (some parts in Malay)
1975	Scent of a Woman	Profumo di donna	Italy	Dino Risi	Italian
1976 (49th)	Black and White in Color	La Victoire en chantant [M]	Ivory Coast	Jean-Jacques Annaud	French
1976	Cousin, Cousine	Cousin, cousine	France	Jean-Charles Tacchella	French
1976	Jacob the Liar	Jakob der Lügner	Germany (East)	Frank Beyer	German
1976	Nights and Days	Noce i dnie	Poland	Jerzy Antczak	Polish
1976	Seven Beauties	Pasqualino Settebellezze	Italy	Lina Wertmüller	Italian
1977 (50th)	Madame Rosa	La Vie devant soi	France	Moshé Mizrahi	French
1977	Iphigenia	Ifigeneia Ιφιγένεια	Greece	Michael Cacoyannis	Greek
1977	Operation Thunderbolt	Mivtsa Yonatan מבצע יונתן	Israel	Menahem Golan	Hebrew (some parts in Arabic, English & German)
1977	A Special Day	Una giornata particolare	Italy	Ettore Scola	Italian
1977	That Obscure Object of Desire	Cet obscur objet du désir !French Cet obscur objet du désir Spanish Ese oscuro objeto del deseo	Spain	Luis Buñuel	French (some parts in Spanish)
1978 (51st)	Get Out Your Handkerchiefs	Préparez vos mouchoirs	France	Bertrand Blier	French
1978	The Glass Cell	Die gläserne Zelle	Germany (West)	Hans W. Geißendörfer	German
1978	Hungarians	Magyarok	Hungary	Zoltán Fábri	Hungarian
1978	Viva Italia!	I nuovi mostri	Italy	{co-directed by} Mario Monicelli Dino Risi Ettore Scola	Italian
1978	White Bim Black Ear	Belyy Bim - Chyornoe ukho Белый Бим Чёрное ухо	Soviet Union	Stanislav Rostotsky	Russian
1979 (52nd)	The Tin Drum	Die Blechtrommel	Germany (West)	Volker Schlöndorff	German (some parts in Hebrew, Italian, Polish & Russian)
1979	The Maids of Wilko	Panny z Wilka	Poland	Andrzej Wajda	Polish
1979	Mama Turns a Hundred	Mamá cumple cien años	Spain	Carlos Saura	Spanish
1979	A Simple Story	Une histoire simple	France	Claude Sautet	French (some parts in English)
1979	To Forget Venice	Dimenticare Venezia	Italy	Franco Brusati	Italian
1980 (53rd)	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears	Moskva slezam ne verit Москва слезам не верит	Soviet Union	Vladimir Menshov	Russian
1980	Confidence	Bizalom	Hungary	István Szabó	Hungarian
1980	Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)	Kagemusha 影武者	Japan	Akira Kurosawa	Japanese
1980	The Last Metro	Le Dernier Métro	France	François Truffaut	French (some parts in German)
1980	The Nest	El nido	Spain	Jaime de Armiñán	Spanish (some parts in English)
1981 (54th)	Mephisto	Mephisto	Hungary	István Szabó	German (some parts in English & Hungarian)
1981	The Boat Is Full	Das Boot ist voll	Switzerland	Markus Imhoof	German
1981	Man of Iron	Człowiek z żelaza	Poland	Andrzej Wajda	Polish
1981	Muddy River	Doro no kawa 泥の河	Japan	Kōhei Oguri	Japanese
1981	Three Brothers	Tre fratelli	Italy	Francesco Rosi	Italian
1982 (55th)	Volver a Empezar ('To Begin Again')	Volver a empezar	Spain	José Luis Garci	Spanish (some parts in English)
1982	Alsino and the Condor	Alsino y el cóndor	Nicaragua	Miguel Littín	Spanish
1982	Coup de Torchon ('Clean Slate')	Coup de torchon	France	Bertrand Tavernier	French (some parts in English)
1982	The Flight of the Eagle	Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd	Sweden	Jan Troell	Swedish (some parts in English & French)
1982	Private Life	Chastnaya zhizn Частная жизнь	Soviet Union	Yuli Raizman	Russian
1983 (56th)	Fanny and Alexander	Fanny och Alexander	Sweden	Ingmar Bergman	Swedish (some parts in English, German & Yiddish)
1983	Carmen	Carmen	Spain	Carlos Saura	Spanish
1983	Entre Nous	Coup de foudre	France	Diane Kurys	French
1983	Job's Revolt	Jób lázadása	Hungary	{co-directed by} Imre Gyöngyössy Barna Kabay	Hungarian
1983	Le Bal	Le Bal	Algeria	Ettore Scola	— (dialogueless)
1984 (57th)	Dangerous Moves	La Diagonale du fou	Switzerland	Richard Dembo	French
1984	Beyond the Walls	Me'Ahorei Hasoragim מאחורי הסורגים	Israel	Uri Barbash	Hebrew (some parts in Arabic)
1984	Camila	Camila	Argentina	María Luisa Bemberg	Spanish
1984	Double Feature	Sesión continua	Spain	José Luis Garci	Spanish
1984	Wartime Romance	Voenno-polevoy roman Военно-полевой роман	Soviet Union	Pyotr Todorovsky	Russian
1985 (58th)	The Official Story	La historia oficial	Argentina	Luis Puenzo	Spanish
1985	Angry Harvest	Bittere Ernte	Germany (West)	Agnieszka Holland	German
1985	Colonel Redl	Oberst Redl	Hungary	István Szabó	German
1985	Three Men and a Cradle	Trois Hommes et un couffin	France	Coline Serreau	French
1985	When Father Was Away on Business	Otac na službenom putu Отац на службеном путу	Yugoslavia	Emir Kusturica	Serbo-Croatian
1986 (59th)	The Assault	De aanslag	Netherlands	Fons Rademakers	Dutch (some parts in English & German)
1986	Betty Blue	37°2 le matin	France	Jean-Jacques Beineix	French
1986	The Decline of the American Empire	Le Déclin de l'empire américain	Canada	Denys Arcand	French
1986	My Sweet Little Village	Vesničko má středisková	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Menzel	Czech
1986	38 !'38'	38 – Auch das war Wien	Austria	Wolfgang Glück	German
1987 (60th)	Babette's Feast	Babettes gæstebud	Denmark	Gabriel Axel	Danish (some parts in French & Swedish)
1987	Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children)	Au revoir les enfants	France	Louis Malle	French (some parts in English & German)
1987	Course Completed	Asignatura aprobada	Spain	José Luis Garci	Spanish
1987	The Family	La famiglia	Italy	Ettore Scola	Italian (some parts in English)
1987	Pathfinder	Ofelaš !Sami Ofelaš Norwegian Veiviseren	Norway	Nils Gaup	Sami
1988 (61st)	Pelle the Conqueror	Pelle Erobreren	Denmark	Bille August	Danish (some parts in Scanian & Swedish)
1988	Hanussen	Hanussen	Hungary	István Szabó	Hungarian (some parts in German)
1988	The Music Teacher	Le maître de musique	Belgium	Gérard Corbiau	French (some parts in English, German & Italian)
1988	Salaam Bombay!	Salaam Bombay! सलाम बॉम्बे	India	Mira Nair	Hindi (some parts in English)
1988	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish
1989 (62nd)	Cinema Paradiso	Nuovo cinema Paradiso	Italy	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italian (some parts in English & Portuguese)
1989	Camille Claudel	Camille Claudel	France	Bruno Nuytten	French
1989	Jesus of Montreal	Jésus de Montréal	Canada	Denys Arcand	French
1989	Waltzing Regitze	Dansen med Regitze	Denmark	Kaspar Rostrup	Danish
1989	What Happened to Santiago	Lo que le pasó a Santiago	Puerto Rico [N]	Jacobo Morales	Spanish
1990 (63rd)	Journey of Hope	Reise der Hoffnung	Switzerland	Xavier Koller	German (some parts in Turkish)
1990	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	France	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	French
1990	Ju Dou	Jú Dòu 菊豆	China	{co-directed by} Zhang Yimou Yang Fengliang	Mandarin
1990	The Nasty Girl	Das schreckliche Mädchen	Germany	Michael Verhoeven	German
1990	Open Doors	Porte aperte	Italy	Gianni Amelio	Italian
1991 (64th)	Mediterraneo	Mediterraneo	Italy	Gabriele Salvatores	Italian (some parts in English, Greek & Turkish)
1991	Children of Nature	Börn náttúrunnar	Iceland	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	Icelandic (some parts in English)
1991	The Elementary School	Obecná škola	Czechoslovakia	Jan Svěrák	Czech
1991	The Ox	Oxen	Sweden	Sven Nykvist	Swedish
1991	Raise the Red Lantern	Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà 大紅燈籠高高掛	Hong Kong	Zhang Yimou	Mandarin
1992 (65th)	Indochine	Indochine	France	Régis Wargnier	French (some parts in Vietnamese)
1992	Close to Eden	Urga Урга	Russia	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russian (some parts in Mandarin & Mongolian)
1992	Daens	Daens	Belgium	Stijn Coninx	Dutch (some parts in French, Latin & Spanish)
1992	A Place in the World	Un lugar en el mundo	Uruguay[O]	Adolfo Aristarain	Spanish
1992	Schtonk!	Schtonk!	Germany	Helmut Dietl	German
1993 (66th)	Belle Époque	Belle Époque	Spain	Fernando Trueba	Spanish
1993	Farewell My Concubine	Bàwáng Bié Jī 霸王別姬	Hong Kong	Chen Kaige	Mandarin
1993	Hedd Wyn	Hedd Wyn	United Kingdom	Paul Turner	Welsh (some parts in English)
1993	The Scent of Green Papaya	Mùi đu đủ xanh	Vietnam	Trần Anh Hùng	Vietnamese
1993	The Wedding Banquet	Xǐyàn 喜宴	Taiwan	Ang Lee	Mandarin (some parts in English)
1994 (67th)	Burnt by the Sun	Utomlyonnye solntsem Утомлённые солнцем	Russia	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russian (some parts in French)
1994	Before the Rain	Pred dozhdot Пред дождот	Macedonia	Milčo Mančevski	Macedonian (some parts in Albanian & English)
1994	Eat Drink Man Woman	yǐn shí nán nǚ 飲食男女	Taiwan	Ang Lee	Mandarin
1994	Farinelli: Il Castrato	Farinelli	Belgium	Gérard Corbiau	French (some parts in Italian)
1994	Strawberry and Chocolate	Fresa y chocolate	Cuba	{co-directed by} Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Juan Carlos Tabío	Spanish
1995 (68th)	Antonia's Line	Antonia	Netherlands	Marleen Gorris	Dutch
1995	All Things Fair	Lust och fägring stor	Sweden	Bo Widerberg	Swedish (some parts in English, Portuguese & Spanish)
1995	Dust of Life	Poussières de vie	Algeria	Rachid Bouchareb	French
1995	O Quatrilho	O Quatrilho	Brazil	Fábio Barreto	Portuguese (some parts in Italian)
1995	The Star Maker	L'uomo delle stelle	Italy	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italian
1996 (69th)	Kolya	Kolja	Czech Republic	Jan Svěrák	Czech (some parts in Russian & Slovak)
1996	A Chef in Love	Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი	Georgia	Nana Dzhordzhadze	Georgian (some parts in French & Russian)
1996	The Other Side of Sunday	Søndagsengler	Norway	Berit Nesheim	Norwegian
1996	Prisoner of the Mountains	Kavkazskiy plennik Кавказский пленник	Russia	Sergei Bodrov	Russian (some parts in Chechen & Turkish)
1996	Ridicule	Ridicule	France	Patrice Leconte	French
1997 (70th)	Character	Karakter	Netherlands	Mike van Diem	Dutch (some parts in English, French & German)
1997	Beyond Silence	Jenseits der Stille	Germany	Caroline Link	German (some parts in English, German Sign Language & Spanish)
1997	Four Days in September	O Que é Isso, Companheiro?	Brazil	Bruno Barreto	Portuguese (some parts in English)
1997	Secrets of the Heart	Secretos del corazón	Spain	Montxo Armendáriz	Spanish
1997	The Thief	Vor Вор	Russia	Pavel Chukhray	Russian
1998 (71st)	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Italy	Roberto Benigni	Italian (some parts in English & German)
1998	Central Station	Central do Brasil	Brazil	Walter Salles	Portuguese
1998	Children of Heaven	Bacheha-Ye aseman بچه های آسمان	Iran	Majid Majidi	Persian
1998	The Grandfather	El abuelo	Spain	José Luis Garci	Spanish
1998	Tango	Tango, no me dejes nunca	Argentina	Carlos Saura	Spanish
1999 (72nd)	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish (some parts in Catalan & English)
1999	Himalaya	Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef	Nepal	Eric Valli	Nepalese (some parts in German)
1999	East-West	Est-Ouest	France	Régis Wargnier	French (some parts in Russian)
1999	Solomon and Gaenor	Solomon a Gaenor	United Kingdom	Paul Morrison	Welsh (some parts in Yiddish)
1999	Under the Sun	Under solen	Sweden	Colin Nutley	Swedish
2000 (73rd)	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wòhǔ Cánglóng 臥虎藏龍	Taiwan	Ang Lee	Mandarin
2000	Amores Perros	Amores perros	Mexico	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Spanish
2000	Divided We Fall	Musíme si pomáhat	Czech Republic	Jan Hřebejk	Czech (some parts in German)
2000	Everybody's Famous!	Iedereen beroemd!	Belgium	Dominique Deruddere	Dutch (some parts in English & Spanish)
2000	The Taste of Others	Le goût des autres	France	Agnès Jaoui	French
2001 (74th)	No Man's Land	Ničija zemlja	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Danis Tanović	Bosnian (some parts in Serbian, English, French & German)
2001	Amélie	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	France	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	French
2001	Elling	Elling	Norway	Petter Næss	Norwegian
2001	Lagaan	Lagaan लगान	India	Ashutosh Gowariker	Hindi (some parts in Awadhi & English)
2001	Son of the Bride	El hijo de la novia	Argentina	Juan J. Campanella	Spanish
2002 (75th)	Nowhere in Africa	Nirgendwo in Afrika	Germany	Caroline Link	German (some parts in English & Swahili)
2002	The Crime of Father Amaro	El crimen del padre Amaro	Mexico	Carlos Carrera	Spanish
2002	Hero	Yīng xióng 英雄	China	Zhang Yimou	Mandarin
2002	The Man Without a Past	Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Finland	Aki Kaurismäki	Finnish
2002	Zus & Zo	Zus & zo	Netherlands	Paula van der Oest	Dutch (some parts in English, French & Portuguese)
2003 (76th)	The Barbarian Invasions	Les Invasions barbares	Canada	Denys Arcand	French (some parts in English)
2003	Evil	Ondskan	Sweden	Mikael Håfström	Swedish (some parts in Finnish)
2003	The Twilight Samurai	Tasogare Seibei たそがれ清兵衛	Japan	Yoji Yamada	Japanese
2003	Twin Sisters	De tweeling	Netherlands	Ben Sombogaart	Dutch (some parts in English, French & German)
2003	Zelary !Želary	Zelary !Želary	Czech Republic	Ondřej Trojan	Czech (some parts in German & Russian)
2004 (77th)	The Sea Inside	Mar adentro	Spain	Alejandro Amenábar	Spanish (some parts in Catalan & Galician)
2004	As It Is in Heaven	Så som i himmelen	Sweden	Kay Pollak	Swedish (some parts in English & Italian)
2004	The Chorus	Les choristes	France	Christophe Barratier	French
2004	Downfall	Der Untergang	Germany	Oliver Hirschbiegel	German (some parts in Russian)
2004	Yesterday	Yesterday	South Africa	Darrell Roodt	Zulu
2005 (78th)	Tsotsi	Tsotsi	South Africa	Gavin Hood	Tsotsitaal (some parts in Afrikaans & English)
2005	Don't Tell	La bestia nel cuore	Italy	Cristina Comencini	Italian (some parts in English)
2005	Joyeux Noël	Joyeux Noël	France	Christian Carion	French (some parts in English, German & Latin)
2005	Paradise Now	Al-Jannah al'ān الجنة الآن	Palestine[P]	Hany Abu-Assad	Arabic
2005	Sophie Scholl – The Final Days	Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage	Germany	Marc Rothemund	German
2006 (79th)	The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen	Germany	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	German
2006	After the Wedding	Efter brylluppet	Denmark	Susanne Bier	Danish (some parts in English, Hindi & Swedish)
2006	Days of Glory	Indigènes	Algeria	Rachid Bouchareb	French (some parts in Arabic)
2006	Pan's Labyrinth	El laberinto del fauno	Mexico	Guillermo del Toro	Spanish
2006	Water	Water वाटर	Canada	Deepa Mehta	Hindi
2007 (80th)	The Counterfeiters	Die Fälscher	Austria	Stefan Ruzowitzky	German
2007	12	12	Russia	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russian
2007	Beaufort	Beaufort בופור	Israel	Joseph Cedar	Hebrew
2007	Katyń	Katyń	Poland	Andrzej Wajda	Polish (some parts in Russian)
2007	Mongol	Mongol Монгол	Kazakhstan	Sergei Bodrov	Mongolian
2008 (81st)	Departures	Okuribito おくりびと	Japan	Yojiro Takita	Japanese
2008	The Baader Meinhof Complex	Der Baader Meinhof Komplex	Germany	Uli Edel	German (some parts in English, French & Swedish)
2008	The Class	Entre les murs	France	Laurent Cantet	French
2008	Revanche	Revanche	Austria	Götz Spielmann	German (some parts in Russian)
2008	Waltz with Bashir	Vals Im Bashir ואלס עם באשיר	Israel	Ari Folman	Hebrew (some parts in German & English)
2009 (82nd)	The Secret in Their Eyes	El secreto de sus ojos	Argentina	Juan José Campanella	Spanish
2009	Ajami	Ajami عجمي עג'מי	Israel	{co-directed by} Scandar Copti Yaron Shani	Arabic (some parts in Hebrew)
2009	The Milk of Sorrow	La teta asustada	Peru	Claudia Llosa	Spanish (some parts in Quechua)
2009	A Prophet	Un prophète	France	Jacques Audiard	French (some parts in Corsican & Arabic)
2009	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band	Germany	Michael Haneke	German
2010 (83rd)	In a Better World	Hævnen	Denmark	Susanne Bier	Danish (some parts in Swedish and English)
2010	Biutiful	Biutiful	Mexico	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Spanish (some parts in Mandarin and Wolof)
2010	Dogtooth	Kynodontas Κυνόδοντας	Greece	Yorgos Lanthimos	Greek
2010	Incendies	Incendies	Canada	Denis Villeneuve	French (some parts in Arabic)
2010	Outside the Law	Hors-la-loi	Algeria	Rachid Bouchareb	French (some parts in Arabic)
2011 (84th)	A Separation	Jodái-e Náder az Simin جدایی نادر از سیمین	Iran	Asghar Farhadi	Persian
2011	Bullhead	Rundskop	Belgium	Michael R. Roskam	Dutch (some parts in French and Limburgish)
2011	Footnote	He'arat Shulayim הערת שוליים	Israel	Joseph Cedar	Hebrew
2011	In Darkness	W ciemności	Poland	Agnieszka Holland	Polish (some parts in German, Yiddish and Ukrainian)
2011	Monsieur Lazhar	Monsieur Lazhar	Canada	Philippe Falardeau	French
2012 (85th)	Amour	Amour	Austria	Michael Haneke	French (one moment in English)
2012	Kon-Tiki	Kon-Tiki	Norway	{co-directed by} Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg	Norwegian (some parts in English)
2012	No	No	Chile	Pablo Larraín	Spanish
2012	A Royal Affair	En kongelig affære	Denmark	Nikolaj Arcel	Danish
2012	War Witch	Rebelle	Canada	Kim Nguyen	French
2013 (86th)	The Great Beauty	La grande bellezza	Italy	Paolo Sorrentino	Italian
2013	The Broken Circle Breakdown	The Broken Circle Breakdown	Belgium	Felix Van Groeningen	Dutch
2013	The Hunt	Jagten	Denmark	Thomas Vinterberg	Danish
2013	The Missing Picture	L'image manquante	Cambodia	Rithy Panh	French
2013	Omar	Omar عمر	Palestine	Hany Abu-Assad	Arabic
2014 (87th)	Ida	Ida	Poland	Paweł Pawlikowski	Polish
2014	Leviathan	Левиафан	Russia	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russian
2014	Tangerines	Mandariinid	Estonia	Zaza Urushadze	Russian (some parts in Georgian & Estonian)
2014	Wild Tales	Relatos Salvajes	Argentina	Damián Szifrón	Spanish
2014	Timbuktu	Timbuktu	Mauritania	Abderrahmane Sissako	French (some parts in Arabic, Tamasheq, Bambara & English)
2015 (88th)	Son of Saul	Saul fia	Hungary	László Nemes	Hungarian (some parts in Yiddish, German & Polish)
2015	Embrace of the Serpent	El abrazo de la serpiente	Colombia	Ciro Guerra	Spanish (some parts in Portuguese, German, Catalan, Latin & Amazonian)
2015	Mustang	Mustang	France	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	Turkish
2015	Theeb	Theeb ذيب	Jordan	Naji Abu Nowar	Arabic
2015	A War	Krigen	Denmark	Tobias Lindholm	Danish

See also

• Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of countries by number of Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for foreign language performances
• List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films (in categories other than the Foreign Language Film category itself)

Notes

References

General

• Variety Staff (2007-03-01). "Best Foreign Film". Variety. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 

Specific

External links

• "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2016-02-09. 
• "The Motion Picture Credits Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2009-01-22. 
• "IMDb Academy Awards Page". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-11-14.