The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, sponsored by France and Canada, presents an annual César Award for Best Foreign Film (). This is the list of winners and nominees of the award since the 1970s.
Winners and nominees
1970s
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1976<br>(1st)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Scent of a Woman|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Profumo di donna|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Dino Risi
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|Aguirre, the Wrath of God||Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes||||Werner Herzog
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|The Magic Flute||Trollflöjten||||Ingmar Bergman
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|colspan="2"|Nashville||||Robert Altman
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1977<br>(2nd)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |We All Loved Each Other So Much|| style="background:#eedd82;" |C'eravamo tanto amati|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Ettore Scola
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|colspan="2"|Barry Lyndon||/<br>||Stanley Kubrick
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|colspan="2"|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest||||Miloš Forman
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|Raise Ravens||Cría cuervos||||Carlos Saura
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1978<br>(3rd)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |A Special Day|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Una giornata particolare|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Ettore Scola
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|The American Friend||Der amerikanische Freund||||Wim Wenders
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|colspan="2"|Annie Hall||||Woody Allen
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|Bread and Chocolate||Pane e cioccolata||||Franco Brusati
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1979<br>(4th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |The Tree of Wooden Clogs|| style="background:#eedd82;" |L'albero degli zoccoli|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Ermanno Olmi
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|Autumn Sonata||Höstsonaten||||Ingmar Bergman
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|colspan="2"|Julia||||Fred Zinnemann
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|colspan="2"|A Wedding||||Robert Altman
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1980s
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1980<br>(5th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Manhattan|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Woody Allen
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|colspan="2"|Apocalypse Now||||Francis Ford Coppola
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|colspan="2"|Hair||||Miloš Forman
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|The Tin Drum||Die Blechtrommel||||Volker Schlöndorff
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1981<br>(6th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Shadow Warrior|| style="background:#eedd82;" |影武者 / Kagemusha|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Akira Kurosawa
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|colspan="2"|Fame||||Alan Parker
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|colspan="2"|Kramer vs. Kramer||||Robert Benton
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|colspan="2"|The Rose||||Mark Rydell
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1982<br>(7th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |The Elephant Man|| style="background:#eedd82;" |/<br>|| style="background:#eedd82;" |David Lynch
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|The Circle of Deceit||Die Fälschung||||Volker Schlöndorff
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|colspan="2"|Raiders of the Lost Ark||||Steven Spielberg
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|Man of Iron||Człowiek z żelaza||||Andrzej Wajda
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1983<br>(8th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Victor/Victoria|| style="background:#eedd82;" |/<br>|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Blake Edwards
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|colspan="2"|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial||||Steven Spielberg
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|colspan="2"|The French Lieutenant's Woman||||Karel Reisz
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|The Way||Yol||||Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1984<br>(9th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Fanny and Alexander|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Fanny och Alexander|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Ingmar Bergman
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|colspan="2"|Carmen||||Carlos Saura
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|colspan="2"|The Gods Must Be Crazy||||Jamie Uys
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|colspan="2"|Tootsie||||Sydney Pollack
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1985<br>(10th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Amadeus|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Miloš Forman
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|colspan="2"|Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes||/<br>||Hugh Hudson
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|colspan="2"|Maria's Lovers||||Andrei Konchalovsky
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|colspan="2"|Paris, Texas||||Wim Wenders
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1986<br>(11th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |The Purple Rose of Cairo|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Woody Allen
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|colspan="2"|Desperately Seeking Susan||||Susan Seidelman
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|colspan="2"|The Killing Fields||||Roland Joffé
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|Ran||乱||||Akira Kurosawa
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|colspan="2"|Year of the Dragon||||Michael Cimino
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1987<br>(12th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |The Name of the Rose|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Il nome della rosa|| style="background:#eedd82;" |/<br>|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Jean-Jacques Annaud
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|colspan="2"|After Hours||||Martin Scorsese
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|colspan="2"|Hannah and Her Sisters||||Woody Allen
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|colspan="2"|The Mission||||Roland Joffé
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|colspan="2"|Out of Africa||||Sydney Pollack
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1988<br>(13th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |The Last Emperor|| style="background:#eedd82;" |/<br>/<br>|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Bernardo Bertolucci
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|Dark Eyes||Oci ciornie||/<br>||Nikita Mikhalkov
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|colspan="2"|Intervista||||Federico Fellini
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|colspan="2"|The Untouchables||||Brian De Palma
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|Wings of Desire||Der Himmel über Berlin||||Wim Wenders
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |1989<br>(14th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Bagdad Cafe|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Out of Rosenheim|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Percy Adlon
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|colspan="2"|Bird||||Clint Eastwood
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|Salaam Bombay!||सलाम बॉम्बे||||Mira Nair
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|colspan="2"|Who Framed Roger Rabbit||||Robert Zemeckis
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1990s
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1990<br>(15th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Dangerous Liaisons|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Stephen Frears
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|Cinema Paradiso||Nuovo cinema Paradiso||||Giuseppe Tornatore
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|colspan="2"|Rain Man||||Barry Levinson
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|colspan="2"|Sex, Lies, and Videotape||||Steven Soderbergh
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|Time of the Gypsies||Дом за вешање / Dom za vešanje||||Emir Kusturica
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1991<br>(16th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Dead Poets Society|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Peter Weir
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|colspan="2"|Goodfellas||||Martin Scorsese
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|colspan="2"|Pretty Woman||||Garry Marshall
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|Taxi Blues||Такси-блюз / Taksi-Blyuz||||Pavel Lungin
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|Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!||¡Átame!||||Pedro Almodóvar
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! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" |1992<br>(17th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Toto the Hero|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Toto le héros|| style="background:#eedd82;" |/<br>/<br>|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Jaco van Dormael
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|colspan="2"|Alice||||Woody Allen
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|Close to Eden||У́рга — территория любви||||Nikita Mikhalkov
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|colspan="2"|Dances with Wolves||||Kevin Costner
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|colspan="2"|The Silence of the Lambs||||Jonathan Demme
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|colspan="2"|Thelma & Louise||||Ridley Scott
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1993<br>(18th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |High Heels|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Tacones lejanos|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Pedro Almodóvar
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|colspan="2"|Howards End||||James Ivory
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|colspan="2"|Husbands and Wives||||Woody Allen
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|The Lover||L'amant||/<br> ||Jean-Jacques Annaud
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|colspan="2"|The Player||||Robert Altman
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1994<br />(19th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |The Piano|| style="background:#eedd82;" |/<br>|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Jane Campion
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|Farewell My Concubine||霸王別姬 / Ba wang bie ji||/<br>||Chen Kaige
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|colspan="2"|Manhattan Murder Mystery||||Woody Allen
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|colspan="2"|Raining Stones||||Ken Loach
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|colspan="2"|The Snapper||/<br>||Stephen Frears
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1995<br>(20th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Four Weddings and a Funeral|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Mike Newell
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|Dear Diary||Caro diario||||Nanni Moretti
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|colspan="2"|Pulp Fiction||||Quentin Tarantino
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|colspan="2"|Schindler's List||||Steven Spielberg
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|colspan="2"|Short Cuts||||Robert Altman
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1996<br />(21st)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Land and Freedom|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Ken Loach
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|colspan="2"|The Bridges of Madison County||||Clint Eastwood
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|colspan="2"|Smoke||||Paul Auster and Wayne Wang
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|Underground||Подземље / Podzemlje||||Emir Kusturica
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|colspan="2"|The Usual Suspects||||Bryan Singer
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1997<br>(22nd)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Breaking the Waves|| style="background:#eedd82;" |/<br>|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Lars von Trier
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|colspan="2"|Fargo||||Joel Coen
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|The Promise||La promesse||||Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
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|colspan="2"|Secrets & Lies||||Mike Leigh
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|The Postman||Il postino||||Michael Radford
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1998<br>(23rd)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Brassed Off|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Mark Herman
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|colspan="2"|The English Patient||/<br>||Anthony Minghella
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|colspan="2"|Everyone Says I Love You||||Woody Allen
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|Hana-bi||はなび||||Takeshi Kitano
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|colspan="2"|The Full Monty||||Peter Cattaneo
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1999<br>(24th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Life Is Beautiful|| style="background:#eedd82;" |La vita è bella|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Roberto Benigni
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|The Celebration||Festen||||Thomas Vinterberg
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|Central Station||Central do Brasil||||Walter Salles
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|colspan="2"|Saving Private Ryan||||Steven Spielberg
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|colspan="2"|Titanic||||James Cameron
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2000s
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2000<br>(25th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |All About My Mother|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Todo sobre mi madre|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Pedro Almodóvar
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|colspan="2"|Being John Malkovich||||Spike Jonze
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|colspan="2"|Eyes Wide Shut||/<br>||Stanley Kubrick
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|colspan="2"|Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai||||Jim Jarmusch
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|colspan="2"|The Thin Red Line||||Terrence Malick
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2001<br>(26th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |In the Mood for Love|| style="background:#eedd82;" |花樣年華|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Kar Wai Wong
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|colspan="2"|American Beauty||||Sam Mendes
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|colspan="2"|Billy Elliot||||Stephen Daldry
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|colspan="2"|Dancer in the Dark||||Lars von Trier
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|Yi Yi||Yī Yī||||Edward Yang
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2002<br>(27th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Mulholland Drive|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |David Lynch
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|colspan="2"|The Man Who Wasn't There||||Joel Coen
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|colspan="2"|Moulin Rouge!||||Baz Luhrmann
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|The Son's Room||La stanza del figlio||||Nanni Moretti
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|colspan="2"|Traffic||||Steven Soderbergh
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2003<br>(28th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Bowling for Columbine|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Michael Moore
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|colspan="2"|Minority Report||||Steven Spielberg
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|colspan="2"|Ocean's Eleven||||Steven Soderbergh
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|Painted Fire||취화선 / Chi-hwa-seon||||Kwon-taek Im
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|Spirited Away||千と千尋の神隠し / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi||||Hayao Miyazaki
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2004<br>(29th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Mystic River|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Clint Eastwood
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|colspan="2"|Elephant||||Gus Van Sant
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|colspan="2"|Gangs of New York||||Martin Scorsese
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|colspan="2"|The Hours||/<br>||Stephen Daldry
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|The Return||Возвращение / Vozvrashcheniye||||Andrei Zvyagintsev
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2005<br>(30th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82" |Lost in Translation|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Sofia Coppola
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|colspan="2"|21 Grams||||Alejandro González Iñárritu
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|colspan="2"|Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind||||Michel Gondry
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|colspan="2"|Fahrenheit 9/11||||Michael Moore
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|The Motorcycle Diaries||Diarios de motocicleta||/<br>||Walter Salles
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2006<br>(31st)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Million Dollar Baby|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Clint Eastwood
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|colspan="2"|A History of Violence||||David Cronenberg
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|colspan="2"|Match Point||/<br>||Woody Allen
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|The Sea Inside||Mar adentro||||Alejandro Amenábar
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|Walk on Water||ללכת על המים / Lalekhet Al HaMayim||||Eytan Fox
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2007<br>(32nd)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |Little Miss Sunshine|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
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|colspan="2"|Babel||/<br>||Alejandro González Iñárritu
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|colspan="2"|Brokeback Mountain||||Ang Lee
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|colspan="2"|The Queen||||Stephen Frears
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|colspan="2"|Volver||||Pedro Almodóvar
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2008<br>(33rd)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |The Lives of Others|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Das Leben der Anderen|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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|4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days||4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile||||Cristian Mungiu
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|colspan="2"|Eastern Promises||/<br>||David Cronenberg
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|The Edge of Heaven||Auf der anderen Seite||/<br>||Fatih Akin
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|colspan="2"|We Own the Night||||James Gray
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! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2009<br>(34th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Waltz with Bashir|| style="background:#eedd82;" |ואלס עם באשיר|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Ari Folman
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|colspan="2"|Eldorado||/<br>||Bouli Lanners
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|Gomorrah||Gomorra||||Matteo Garrone
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|colspan="2"|Into the Wild||||Sean Penn
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|Lorna's Silence||Le silence de Lorna||||Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
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|colspan="2"|There Will Be Blood||||Paul Thomas Anderson
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|colspan="2"|Two Lovers||||James Gray
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2010s
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! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2010<br>(35th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82" |Gran Torino|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Clint Eastwood
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|colspan="2"|Avatar||||James Cameron
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|colspan="2"|Milk||||Gus Van Sant
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|I Killed My Mother ||J'ai tué ma mère||||Xavier Dolan
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|A Town Called Panic||Panique au village||/<br>||Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar
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|The White Ribbon||Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte||/<br>||Michael Haneke
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|colspan="2"|Slumdog Millionaire||||Danny Boyle
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! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2011<br>(36th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82" |The Social Network|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |David Fincher
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|colspan="2"|Bright Star||/<br>||Jane Campion
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|Heartbeats||Les amours imaginaires||||Xavier Dolan
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|Illegal||Illégal||/<br>||Olivier Masset-Depasse
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|colspan="2"|Inception||/<br>||Christopher Nolan
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|colspan="2"|Invictus||<br>||Clint Eastwood
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|The Secret in Their Eyes||El secreto de sus ojos||||Juan José Campanella
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! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2012<br>(37th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |A Separation|| style="background:#eedd82;" |جدایی نادر از سیمین|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Asghar Farhadi
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|colspan="2"|Black Swan|| ||Darren Aronofsky
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|colspan="2"|Drive||||Nicolas Winding Refn
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|colspan="2"|Incendies||||Denis Villeneuve
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|colspan="2"|Melancholia||||Lars von Trier
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|The Kid with a Bike||Le gamin au vélo|| ||Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
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|colspan="2"|The King's Speech||/<br>||Tom Hooper
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! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2013<br>(38th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82" |Argo||style="background:#eedd82;"|||style="background:#eedd82;"|Ben Affleck
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|Bullhead||Rundskop|| ||Michaël R. Roskam
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|colspan="2"|Laurence Anyways||||Xavier Dolan
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|Oslo, August 31st||Oslo, 31. august||||Joachim Trier
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|colspan="2"|The Angels' Share||||Ken Loach
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|A Royal Affair||En kongelig affære|| ||Nikolaj Arcel
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|Our Children||À perdre la raison||/<br>||Joachim Lafosse
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! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2014<br>(39th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82" |The Broken Circle Breakdown|| style="background:#eedd82" ||| style="background:#eedd82" |Felix Van Groeningen
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|colspan="2"|Blue Jasmine|| ||Woody Allen
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|colspan="2"|Blancanieves||||Pablo Berger
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|colspan="2"|Dead Man Talking||/<br>||Patrick Ridremont
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|colspan="2"|Django Unchained||||Quentin Tarantino
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|colspan="2"|Gravity||/<br>||Alfonso Cuarón
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|The Great Beauty||La grande bellezza||||Paolo Sorrentino
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! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2015<br>(40th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82" |Mommy|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Xavier Dolan
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|colspan="2"|Boyhood|| ||Richard Linklater
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|colspan="2"|12 Years A Slave||/<br>||Steve McQueen
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|Two Days, One Night||Deux jours, une nuit||/<br>||Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
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|Winter Sleep||Kış Uykusu||||Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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|colspan="2"|Ida||||Pawel Pawlikowski
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|colspan="2"|The Grand Budapest Hotel|| ||Wes Anderson
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! rowspan="7" |2016<br>(41st)
| colspan="2" |Birdman || ||Alejandro González Iñárritu
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|Son of Saul|| Saul fia ||||László Nemes
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| I'm Dead but I Have Friends ||Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis||/<br>||Guillaume Malandrin and Stéphane Malandrin
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|colspan="2"|Mia Madre||||Nanni Moretti
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|Taxi || تاکسی||||Jafar Panahi
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|The Brand New Testament || Le Tout Nouveau Testament ||/<br>||Jaco Van Dormael
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|Youth || Youth - La giovinezza ||/<br>||Paolo Sorrentino
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! rowspan="7" |2017<br>(42nd)
| colspan="2" |I, Daniel Blake || || Ken Loach
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|colspan="2"| Aquarius || || Kleber Mendonça Filho
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|Graduation || Bacalaureat || || Cristian Mungiu
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|The Unknown Girl || La Fille inconnue || /<br> || Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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|It's Only the End of the World || Juste la fin du monde || /<br> || Xavier Dolan
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|colspan="2"|Manchester by the Sea || || Kenneth Lonergan
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|colspan="2"|Toni Erdmann || /<br> || Maren Ade
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! rowspan="6" |2018<br>(43rd)
|Loveless || Нелюбовь || || Andrey Zvyagintsev
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|The Nile Hilton Incident|| حادث النيل هيلتون || /<br>|| Tarik Saleh
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|colspan="2"|Dunkirk|| /<br>|| Christopher Nolan
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|colspan="2"|La La Land|| || Damien Chazelle
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|colspan="2"|The Square || || Ruben Östlund
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|A Wedding || Noces||<br><br> || Stephan Streker
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! rowspan="7" |2019<br>(44th)
|Shoplifters || 万引き家族 || || Hirokazu Kore-eda
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|colspan="2"|Girl || || Lukas Dhont
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|colspan="2"|Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri|| /<br>|| Martin McDonagh
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|Cold War||Zimna wojna|| /<br>|| Paweł Pawlikowski
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|Our Struggles || Nos batailles || /<br>|| Guillaume Senez
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|Capernaum||کفرناحوم|| || Nadine Labaki
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|colspan="2"|Hannah || /<br>|| Andrea Pallaoro
|}
2020s
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|-
! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2020<br>(45th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Parasite|| style="background:#eedd82;" |기생충|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Bong Joon-ho
|-
|Pain and Glory||Dolor y gloria||||Pedro Almodóvar
|-
|Young Ahmed||Le Jeune Ahmed||||Luc Dardenne<br>Jean-Pierre Dardenne
|-
|colspan="2"|Joker||||Todd Phillips
|-
|colspan="2"|Lola||<br>||Laurent Micheli
|-
|colspan="2"|Once Upon a Time in Hollywood||||Quentin Tarantino
|-
|The Traitor||Il traditore||||Marco Bellocchio
|- style="background:#eedd82"
! rowspan="5" |2021<br>(46th)
|Another Round || Druk || || Thomas Vinterberg
|-
|colspan="2"|1917 || /<br>|| Sam Mendes
|-
|Corpus Christi || Boże Ciało || /<br> || Jan Komasa
|-
|colspan="2"|Dark Waters || || Todd Haynes
|-
|The August Virgin || La virgen de agosto || || Jonás Trueba
|-
! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2022<br>(47th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |The Father|| style="background:#eedd82;" ||| style="background:#eedd82;" |Florian Zeller
|-
|Compartment No. 6 || Hytti nro 6 || /<br>|| Juho Kuosmanen
|-
|Drive My Car || ドライブ・マイ・カー || || Ryusuke Hamaguchi
|-
|colspan="2"|First Cow|| || Kelly Reichardt
|-
|Just 6.5 || متری شیش و نیم || || Saeed Roustayi
|-
|Parallel Mothers || Madres paralelas || || Pedro Almodóvar
|-
|The Worst Person in the World || Verdens verste menneske || || Joachim Trier
|-
! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2023<br>(48th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |The Beasts|| style="background:#eedd82;" |As bestas|| style="background:#eedd82;" | / || style="background:#eedd82;" |Rodrigo Sorogoyen
|-
|colspan="2"|Boy from Heaven || || Tarik Saleh
|-
|colspan="2"|Close|| || Lukas Dhont
|-
|colspan="2"|EO || || Jerzy Skolimowski
|-
|colspan="2"|Triangle of Sadness||||Ruben Östlund
|-
! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |2024<br>(49th)
| style="background:#eedd82;" |The Nature of Love|| style="background:#eedd82;" |Simple comme Sylvain|| style="background:#eedd82;" | / || style="background:#eedd82;" |Monia Chokri
|-
|Fallen Leaves || Kuolleet lehdet || /<br> || Aki Kaurismäki
|-
|Kidnapped || Rapito || || Marco Bellocchio
|-
| colspan="2"|Oppenheimer || /<br> || Christopher Nolan
|-
| Perfect Days || パーフェクト・デイズ || /<br> || Wim Wenders
|-
! rowspan="5" |2025<br>(50th)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" |The Zone of Interest
| style="background:#eedd82;" | /
| style="background:#eedd82;" |Jonathan Glazer
|-
| colspan="2" |Anora
|
|Sean Baker
|-
| colspan="2" |The Apprentice
| /
|Ali Abbasi
|-
|The Seed of the Sacred Fig
|دانهی انجیر معابد
| /
|Mohammad Rasoulof
|-
| colspan="2" |The Substance
| /
|Coralie Fargeat
|-
! rowspan="5" |2026<br>(51st)
| colspan="2" style="background:#eedd82;" | One Battle After Another
| style="background:#eedd82;" |
| style="background:#eedd82;" | Paul Thomas Anderson
|-
| Black Dog
| 狗阵
|
| Guan Hu
|-
| The Secret Agent
| O Agente Secreto
|
| Kleber Mendonça Filho
|-
| Sentimental Value
| Affeksjonsverdi
|
| Joachim Trier
|-
| colspan="2" | Sirāt
|
| Oliver Laxe
|}
Awards by nation
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
! Country !! Number of<br>winning films !! Number of<br>nominated films
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | United States
| 17
| 88
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | United Kingdom
| 8
| 23
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Italy
| 6
| 13
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Spain
| 3
| 13
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Belgium
| 2
| 18
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Germany
| 2
| 12
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Canada
| 2
| 7
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Denmark
| 2
| 5
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Japan
| 2
| 5
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Sweden
| 1
| 6
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Hong Kong
| 1
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Iran
| 1
| 3
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Australia
| 1
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Israel
| 1
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Russia
| 1
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | South Korea
| 1
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | New Zealand
| 1
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Poland
| 1
| 6
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Brazil
| 0
| 4
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Norway
| 0
| 3
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Argentina
|0
|2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | China
| 0
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Romania
| 0
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Turkey
| 0
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
| 0
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Yugoslavia
| 0
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | France
| 0
| 2
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Hungary
| 0
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | India
| 0
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Ireland
| 0
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Lebanon
| 0
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | South Africa
| 0
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Taiwan
| 0
| 1
|- valign="top"
| align="left" | Finland
| 0
| 2
|}
Multiple winners
6 directors have won the award multiple times.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Wins
! Director
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center" | 3
| Clint Eastwood
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2
| Woody Allen
|-
| Pedro Almodóvar
|-
| Ken Loach
|-
| David Lynch
|-
| Ettore Scola
|}
Notes
See also
- Lumière Award for Best French-Language Film
- Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
References
External links
- César Award for Best Foreign Film at AlloCiné
Adapted from the article César Award for Best Foreign Film, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.