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

  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.

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. 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, 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, six to Asian films, 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.

Winners and nominees

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.

  Special/Honorary Award (1947–1955)

  Academy Award of Merit (1956–present)

Year	Film title used in nomination	Original title	Submitting country	Director(s)	Language(s)
1947 (20th)	Shoe-Shine	Sciuscià	Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Italian (some parts in English)
1948 (21st)	Monsieur Vincent	Monsieur Vincent	France	Maurice Cloche	French
1949 (22nd)	The Bicycle Thief	Ladri di biciclette	Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Italian
1950 (23rd)	The Walls of Malapaga	French Au-delà des grilles Italian Le mura di Malapaga	{co-production} France Italy	René Clément	French (some parts in Italian)
1951 (24th)	Rashomon	Rashômon 羅生門	Japan	Akira Kurosawa	Japanese
1952 (25th)	Forbidden Games	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	Jigokumon 地獄門	Japan	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Japanese
1955 (28th)	Samurai, The Legend of Musashi	Miyamoto Musashi 宮本武蔵	Japan	Hiroshi Inagaki	Japanese
1956 (29th)	La strada	La strada	Italy	Federico Fellini	Italian
	The Captain of Köpenick	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	Germany (West)	Helmut Käutner	German
	Gervaise	Gervaise	France	René Clément	French
	Harp of Burma	Biruma no tategoto ビルマの竪琴	Japan	Kon Ichikawa	Japanese
	Qivitoq	Qivitoq	Denmark	Erik Balling	Danish (some parts in Greenlandic)
1957 (30th)	Nights of Cabiria	Le notti di Cabiria	Italy	Federico Fellini	Italian
	The Devil Strikes at Night	Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam	Germany (West)	Robert Siodmak	German
	Gates of Paris	Porte des Lilas	France	René Clair	French
	Mother India	Mother India Hindi: मदर इण्डिया	India	Mehboob Khan	Hindi
	Nine Lives	Ni liv	Norway	Arne Skouen	Norwegian
1958 (31st)	My Uncle	Mon oncle	France	Jacques Tati	French
	Arms and the Man	Helden	Germany (West)	Franz Peter Wirth	German
	La Venganza	La venganza	Spain	Juan Antonio Bardem	Spanish
	The Road a Year Long	Italian La strada lunga un anno Serbo-Croatian Cesta duga godinu dana Цеста дуга годину дана	Yugoslavia	Giuseppe De Santis	Italian
	The Usual Unidentified Thieves	I soliti ignoti	Italy	Mario Monicelli	Italian
1959 (32nd)	Black Orpheus	Orfeu Negro	France	Marcel Camus	Portuguese
	The Bridge	Die Brücke	Germany (West)	Bernhard Wicki	German (some parts in English)
	The Great War	La grande guerra	Italy	Mario Monicelli	Italian
	Paw	Paw	Denmark	Astrid Henning-Jensen	Danish
	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)
	Kapò	Kapò	Italy	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italian
	La Vérité	La Vérité	France	Henri-Georges Clouzot	French
	Macario	Macario	Mexico	Roberto Gavaldón	Spanish
	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
	Harry and the Butler	Harry og kammertjeneren	Denmark	Bent Christensen	Danish
	Immortal Love	Eien no hito 永遠の人	Japan	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japanese
	The Important Man	Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante)	Mexico	Ismael Rodríguez	Spanish
	Plácido	Plácido	Spain	Luis García Berlanga	Spanish
1962 (35th)	Sundays and Cybele	Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray	France	Serge Bourguignon	French
	Electra	Ilektra Ηλέκτρα	Greece	Michael Cacoyannis	Greek
	The Four Days of Naples	Le quattro giornate di Napoli	Italy	Nanni Loy	Italian
	Keeper of Promises (The Given Word)	O Pagador de Promessas	Brazil	Anselmo Duarte	Portuguese
	Tlayucan	Tlayucan	Mexico	Luis Alcoriza	Spanish
1963 (36th)	8½	8½	Italy	Federico Fellini	Italian (some parts in English, French & German)
	Knife in the Water	Nóż w wodzie	Poland	Roman Polanski	Polish
	Los Tarantos	Los Tarantos	Spain	Francisco Rovira Beleta	Spanish
	The Red Lanterns	Ta Kokkina fanaria Τα κόκκινα φανάρια	Greece	Vasilis Georgiadis	Greek
	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
	Raven's End	Kvarteret Korpen	Sweden	Bo Widerberg	Swedish
	Sallah	Sallah Shabati סאלח שבתי	Israel	Ephraim Kishon	Hebrew
	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg	France	Jacques Demy	French
	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)
	Blood on the Land	To Homa vaftike kokkino Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο	Greece	Vasilis Georgiadis	Greek
	Dear John	Käre John	Sweden	Lars-Magnus Lindgren	Swedish
	Kwaidan	Kaidan 怪談	Japan	Masaki Kobayashi	Japanese
	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
	The Battle of Algiers	French La Bataille d'Alger Italian La battaglia di Algeri	Italy	Gillo Pontecorvo	French & Arabic (some parts in English & Italian)
	Loves of a Blonde	Lásky jedné plavovlásky	Czechoslovakia	Miloš Forman	Czech
	Pharaoh	Faraon	Poland	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Polish
	Three	Tri Три	Yugoslavia	Aleksandar Petrović	Serbo-Croatian
1967 (40th)	Closely Watched Trains	Ostře sledované vlaky	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Menzel	Czech (some parts in German)
	El Amor Brujo	El amor brujo	Spain	Francisco Rovira Beleta	Spanish
	I Even Met Happy Gypsies	Skupljači perja Скупљачи перја	Yugoslavia	Aleksandar Petrović	Serbo-Croatian
	Live for Life	Vivre pour vivre	France	Claude Lelouch	French
	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
	The Boys of Paul Street	A Pál-utcai fiúk	Hungary	Zoltán Fábri	Hungarian
	The Firemen's Ball	Hoří, má panenko	Czechoslovakia	Miloš Forman	Czech
	The Girl with the Pistol	La ragazza con la pistola	Italy	Mario Monicelli	Italian (some parts in English)
	Stolen Kisses	Baisers volés	France	François Truffaut	French
1969 (42nd)	Z	Z	Algeria	Costa-Gavras	French
	Ådalen '31	Ådalen 31	Sweden	Bo Widerberg	Swedish
	The Battle of Neretva	Bitka na Neretvi Битка на Неретви	Yugoslavia	Veljko Bulajić	Serbo-Croatian (some parts in English)
	The Brothers Karamazov	Bratya Karamazovy Братья Карамазовы	Soviet Union	{co-directed by} Kirill Lavrov Ivan Pyryev Mikhail Ulyanov	Russian
	My Night with Maud	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
	First Love	Erste Liebe	Switzerland	Maximilian Schell	German
	Hoa-Binh	Hoa-Binh	France	Raoul Coutard	French
	Paix Sur Les Champs	Paix sur les champs	Belgium	Jacques Boigelot	French
	Tristana	Tristana	Spain	Luis Buñuel	Spanish
1971 (44th)	The Garden of the Finzi Continis	Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini	Italy	Vittorio De Sica	Italian
	Dodes'ka-Den	Dodesukaden どですかでん	Japan	Akira Kurosawa	Japanese
	The Emigrants	Utvandrarna	Sweden	Jan Troell	Swedish
	The Policeman	Ha-Shoter Azulai השוטר אזולאי	Israel	Ephraim Kishon	Hebrew
	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)
	The Dawns Here Are Quiet	A zori zdes tikhie А зори здесь тихие	Soviet Union	Stanislav Rostotsky	Russian
	I Love You Rosa	Ani Ohev Otach Rosa אני אוהב אותך רוזה	Israel	Moshé Mizrahi	Hebrew
	My Dearest Señorita	Mi querida señorita	Spain	Jaime de Armiñán	Spanish
	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)
	The House on Chelouche Street	Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche הבית ברחוב שלוש	Israel	Moshé Mizrahi	Hebrew
	L'Invitation	L'Invitation	Switzerland	Claude Goretta	French
	The Pedestrian	Der Fußgänger	Germany (West)	Maximilian Schell	German (some parts in English & French)
	Turkish Delight	Turks Fruit	Netherlands	Paul Verhoeven	Dutch
1974 (47th)	Amarcord	Amarcord	Italy	Federico Fellini	Italian (some parts in Romagnolo)
	Cats' Play	Macskajáték	Hungary	Károly Makk	Hungarian
	The Deluge	Potop	Poland	Jerzy Hoffman	Polish
	Lacombe, Lucien	Lacombe Lucien	France	Louis Malle	French (some parts in English & German)
	The Truce	La tregua	Argentina	Sergio Renán	Spanish
1975 (48th)	Dersu Uzala	Dersu Uzala Дерсу Узала	Soviet Union	Akira Kurosawa	Russian
	Letters from Marusia	Actas de Marusia	Mexico	Miguel Littín	Spanish
	The Promised Land	Ziemia obiecana	Poland	Andrzej Wajda	Polish (some parts in German)
	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)
	Scent of a Woman	Profumo di donna	Italy	Dino Risi	Italian
1976 (49th)	Black and White in Color	La Victoire en chantant	Ivory Coast	Jean-Jacques Annaud	French
	Cousin, Cousine	Cousin, cousine	France	Jean-Charles Tacchella	French
	Jacob the Liar	Jakob der Lügner	Germany (East)	Frank Beyer	German
	Nights and Days	Noce i dnie	Poland	Jerzy Antczak	Polish
	Seven Beauties	Pasqualino Settebellezze	Italy	Lina Wertmüller	Italian
1977 (50th)	Madame Rosa	La Vie devant soi	France	Moshé Mizrahi	French
	Iphigenia	Ifigeneia Ιφιγένεια	Greece	Michael Cacoyannis	Greek
	Operation Thunderbolt	Mivtsa Yonatan מבצע יונתן	Israel	Menahem Golan	Hebrew (some parts in Arabic, English & German)
	A Special Day	Una giornata particolare	Italy	Ettore Scola	Italian
	That Obscure Object of Desire	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
	The Glass Cell	Die gläserne Zelle	Germany (West)	Hans W. Geißendörfer	German
	Hungarians	Magyarok	Hungary	Zoltán Fábri	Hungarian
	Viva Italia!	I nuovi mostri	Italy	{co-directed by} Mario Monicelli Dino Risi Ettore Scola	Italian
	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)
	The Maids of Wilko	Panny z Wilka	Poland	Andrzej Wajda	Polish
	Mama Turns a Hundred	Mamá cumple cien años	Spain	Carlos Saura	Spanish
	A Simple Story	Une histoire simple	France	Claude Sautet	French (some parts in English)
	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
	Confidence	Bizalom	Hungary	István Szabó	Hungarian
	Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)	Kagemusha 影武者	Japan	Akira Kurosawa	Japanese
	The Last Metro	Le Dernier Métro	France	François Truffaut	French (some parts in German)
	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)
	The Boat Is Full	Das Boot ist voll	Switzerland	Markus Imhoof	German
	Man of Iron	Człowiek z żelaza	Poland	Andrzej Wajda	Polish
	Muddy River	Doro no kawa 泥の河	Japan	Kōhei Oguri	Japanese
	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)
	Alsino and the Condor	Alsino y el cóndor	Nicaragua	Miguel Littín	Spanish
	Coup de Torchon ('Clean Slate')	Coup de torchon	France	Bertrand Tavernier	French (some parts in English)
	The Flight of the Eagle	Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd	Sweden	Jan Troell	Swedish (some parts in English & French)
	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)
	Carmen	Carmen	Spain	Carlos Saura	Spanish
	Entre Nous	Coup de foudre	France	Diane Kurys	French
	Job's Revolt	Jób lázadása	Hungary	{co-directed by} Imre Gyöngyössy Barna Kabay	Hungarian
	Le Bal	Le Bal	Algeria	Ettore Scola	— (dialogueless)
1984 (57th)	Dangerous Moves	La Diagonale du fou	Switzerland	Richard Dembo	French
	Beyond the Walls	Me'Ahorei Hasoragim מאחורי הסורגים	Israel	Uri Barbash	Hebrew (some parts in Arabic)
	Camila	Camila	Argentina	María Luisa Bemberg	Spanish
	Double Feature	Sesión continua	Spain	José Luis Garci	Spanish
	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
	Angry Harvest	Bittere Ernte	Germany (West)	Agnieszka Holland	German
	Colonel Redl	Oberst Redl	Hungary	István Szabó	German
	Three Men and a Cradle	Trois Hommes et un couffin	France	Coline Serreau	French
	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)
	Betty Blue	37°2 le matin	France	Jean-Jacques Beineix	French
	The Decline of the American Empire	Le Déclin de l'empire américain	Canada	Denys Arcand	French
	My Sweet Little Village	Vesničko má středisková	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Menzel	Czech
	'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)
	Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children)	Au revoir les enfants	France	Louis Malle	French (some parts in English & German)
	Course Completed	Asignatura aprobada	Spain	José Luis Garci	Spanish
	The Family	La famiglia	Italy	Ettore Scola	Italian (some parts in English)
	Pathfinder	Sami Ofelaš Norwegian Veiviseren	Norway	Nils Gaup	Sami
1988 (61st)	Pelle the Conqueror	Pelle Erobreren	Denmark	Bille August	Danish (some parts in Scanian & Swedish)
	Hanussen	Hanussen	Hungary	István Szabó	Hungarian (some parts in German)
	The Music Teacher	Le maître de musique	Belgium	Gérard Corbiau	French (some parts in English, German & Italian)
	Salaam Bombay!	Salaam Bombay! सलाम बॉम्बे	India	Mira Nair	Hindi (some parts in English)
	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)
	Camille Claudel	Camille Claudel	France	Bruno Nuytten	French
	Jesus of Montreal	Jésus de Montréal	Canada	Denys Arcand	French
	Waltzing Regitze	Dansen med Regitze	Denmark	Kaspar Rostrup	Danish
	What Happened to Santiago	Lo que le pasó a Santiago	Puerto Rico	Jacobo Morales	Spanish
1990 (63rd)	Journey of Hope	Reise der Hoffnung	Switzerland	Xavier Koller	German (some parts in Turkish)
	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	France	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	French
	Ju Dou	Jú Dòu 菊豆	China	{co-directed by} Zhang Yimou Yang Fengliang	Mandarin
	The Nasty Girl	Das schreckliche Mädchen	Germany	Michael Verhoeven	German
	Open Doors	Porte aperte	Italy	Gianni Amelio	Italian
1991 (64th)	Mediterraneo	Mediterraneo	Italy	Gabriele Salvatores	Italian (some parts in English, Greek & Turkish)
	Children of Nature	Börn náttúrunnar	Iceland	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	Icelandic (some parts in English)
	The Elementary School	Obecná škola	Czechoslovakia	Jan Svěrák	Czech
	The Ox	Oxen	Sweden	Sven Nykvist	Swedish
	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)
	Close to Eden	Urga Урга	Russia	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russian (some parts in Mandarin & Mongolian)
	Daens	Daens	Belgium	Stijn Coninx	Dutch (some parts in French, Latin & Spanish)
	A Place in the World	Un lugar en el mundo	Uruguay	Adolfo Aristarain	Spanish
	Schtonk!	Schtonk!	Germany	Helmut Dietl	German
1993 (66th)	Belle Époque	Belle Époque	Spain	Fernando Trueba	Spanish
	Farewell My Concubine	Bàwáng Bié Jī 霸王別姬	Hong Kong	Chen Kaige	Mandarin
	Hedd Wyn	Hedd Wyn	United Kingdom	Paul Turner	Welsh (some parts in English)
	The Scent of Green Papaya	Mùi đu đủ xanh	Vietnam	Trần Anh Hùng	Vietnamese
	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)
	Before the Rain	Pred dozhdot Пред дождот	REDIRECT Template:Country data North Macedonia Macedonia	Milčo Mančevski	Macedonian (some parts in Albanian & English)
	Eat Drink Man Woman	yǐn shí nán nǚ 飲食男女	Taiwan	Ang Lee	Mandarin
	Farinelli: Il Castrato	Farinelli	Belgium	Gérard Corbiau	French (some parts in Italian)
	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
	All Things Fair	Lust och fägring stor	Sweden	Bo Widerberg	Swedish (some parts in English, Portuguese & Spanish)
	Dust of Life	Poussières de vie	Algeria	Rachid Bouchareb	French
	O Quatrilho	O Quatrilho	Brazil	Fábio Barreto	Portuguese (some parts in Italian)
	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)
	A Chef in Love	Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი	Georgia	Nana Dzhordzhadze	Georgian (some parts in French & Russian)
	The Other Side of Sunday	Søndagsengler	Norway	Berit Nesheim	Norwegian
	Prisoner of the Mountains	Kavkazskiy plennik Кавказский пленник	Russia	Sergei Bodrov	Russian (some parts in Chechen & Turkish)
	Ridicule	Ridicule	France	Patrice Leconte	French
1997 (70th)	Character	Karakter	Netherlands	Mike van Diem	Dutch (some parts in English, French & German)
	Beyond Silence	Jenseits der Stille	Germany	Caroline Link	German (some parts in English, German Sign Language & Spanish)
	Four Days in September	O Que é Isso, Companheiro?	Brazil	Bruno Barreto	Portuguese (some parts in English)
	Secrets of the Heart	Secretos del corazón	Spain	Montxo Armendáriz	Spanish
	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)
	Central Station	Central do Brasil	Brazil	Walter Salles	Portuguese
	Children of Heaven	Bacheha-Ye aseman بچه های آسمان	Iran	Majid Majidi	Persian
	The Grandfather	El abuelo	Spain	José Luis Garci	Spanish
	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)
	Himalaya	Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef	Nepal	Eric Valli	Nepalese (some parts in German)
	East-West	Est-Ouest	France	Régis Wargnier	French (some parts in Russian)
	Solomon and Gaenor	Solomon a Gaenor	United Kingdom	Paul Morrison	Welsh (some parts in Yiddish)
	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
	Amores Perros	Amores perros	Mexico	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Spanish
	Divided We Fall	Musíme si pomáhat	Czech Republic	Jan Hřebejk	Czech (some parts in German)
	Everybody's Famous!	Iedereen beroemd!	Belgium	Dominique Deruddere	Dutch (some parts in English & Spanish)
	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)
	Amélie	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	France	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	French
	Elling	Elling	Norway	Petter Næss	Norwegian
	Lagaan	Lagaan लगान	India	Ashutosh Gowariker	Hindi (some parts in Awadhi & English)
	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)
	The Crime of Father Amaro	El crimen del padre Amaro	Mexico	Carlos Carrera	Spanish
	Hero	Yīng xióng 英雄	China	Zhang Yimou	Mandarin
	The Man Without a Past	Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Finland	Aki Kaurismäki	Finnish
	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)
	Evil	Ondskan	Sweden	Mikael Håfström	Swedish (some parts in Finnish)
	The Twilight Samurai	Tasogare Seibei たそがれ清兵衛	Japan	Yoji Yamada	Japanese
	Twin Sisters	De tweeling	Netherlands	Ben Sombogaart	Dutch (some parts in English, French & German)
	Želary	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)
	As It Is in Heaven	Så som i himmelen	Sweden	Kay Pollak	Swedish (some parts in English & Italian)
	The Chorus	Les choristes	France	Christophe Barratier	French
	Downfall	Der Untergang	Germany	Oliver Hirschbiegel	German (some parts in Russian)
	Yesterday	Yesterday	South Africa	Darrell Roodt	Zulu
2005 (78th)	Tsotsi	Tsotsi	South Africa	Gavin Hood	Tsotsitaal (some parts in Afrikaans & English)
	Don't Tell	La bestia nel cuore	Italy	Cristina Comencini	Italian (some parts in English)
	Joyeux Noël	Joyeux Noël	France	Christian Carion	French (some parts in English, German & Latin)
	Paradise Now	Al-Jannah al'ān الجنة الآن	Palestine	Hany Abu-Assad	Arabic
	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
	After the Wedding	Efter brylluppet	Denmark	Susanne Bier	Danish (some parts in English, Hindi & Swedish)
	Days of Glory	Indigènes	Algeria	Rachid Bouchareb	French (some parts in Arabic)
	Pan's Labyrinth	El laberinto del fauno	Mexico	Guillermo del Toro	Spanish
	Water	Water वाटर	Canada	Deepa Mehta	Hindi
2007 (80th)	The Counterfeiters	Die Fälscher	Austria	Stefan Ruzowitzky	German
	12	12	Russia	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russian
	Beaufort	Beaufort בופור	Israel	Joseph Cedar	Hebrew
	Katyń	Katyń	Poland	Andrzej Wajda	Polish (some parts in Russian)
	Mongol	Mongol Монгол	Kazakhstan	Sergei Bodrov	Mongolian
2008 (81st)	Departures	Okuribito おくりびと	Japan	Yojiro Takita	Japanese
	The Baader Meinhof Complex	Der Baader Meinhof Komplex	Germany	Uli Edel	German (some parts in English, French & Swedish)
	The Class	Entre les murs	France	Laurent Cantet	French
	Revanche	Revanche	Austria	Götz Spielmann	German (some parts in Russian)
	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
	Ajami	Ajami عجمي עג'מי	Israel	{co-directed by} Scandar Copti Yaron Shani	Arabic (some parts in Hebrew)
	The Milk of Sorrow	La teta asustada	Peru	Claudia Llosa	Spanish (some parts in Quechua)
	A Prophet	Un prophète	France	Jacques Audiard	French (some parts in Corsican & Arabic)
	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)
	Biutiful	Biutiful	Mexico	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Spanish (some parts in Mandarin and Wolof)
	Dogtooth	Kynodontas Κυνόδοντας	Greece	Yorgos Lanthimos	Greek
	Incendies	Incendies	Canada	Denis Villeneuve	French (some parts in Arabic)
	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
	Bullhead	Rundskop	Belgium	Michael R. Roskam	Dutch (some parts in French and Limburgish)
	Footnote	He'arat Shulayim הערת שוליים	Israel	Joseph Cedar	Hebrew
	In Darkness	W ciemności	Poland	Agnieszka Holland	Polish (some parts in German, Yiddish and Ukrainian)
	Monsieur Lazhar	Monsieur Lazhar	Canada	Philippe Falardeau	French
2012 (85th)	Amour	Amour	Austria	Michael Haneke	French (one moment in English)
	Kon-Tiki	Kon-Tiki	Norway	{co-directed by} Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg	Norwegian (some parts in English)
	No	No	Chile	Pablo Larraín	Spanish
	A Royal Affair	En kongelig affære	Denmark	Nikolaj Arcel	Danish
	War Witch	Rebelle	Canada	Kim Nguyen	French
2013 (86th)	The Great Beauty	La grande bellezza	Italy	Paolo Sorrentino	Italian
	The Broken Circle Breakdown	The Broken Circle Breakdown	Belgium	Felix Van Groeningen	Dutch
	The Hunt	Jagten	Denmark	Thomas Vinterberg	Danish
	The Missing Picture	L'image manquante	Cambodia	Rithy Panh	French
	Omar	Omar عمر	Palestine	Hany Abu-Assad	Arabic
2014 (87th)	Ida	Ida	Poland	Paweł Pawlikowski	Polish
	Leviathan	Левиафан	Russia	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russian
	Tangerines	Mandariinid	Estonia	Zaza Urushadze	Russian (some parts in Georgian & Estonian)
	Wild Tales	Relatos Salvajes	Argentina	Damián Szifrón	Spanish
	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)
	Embrace of the Serpent	El abrazo de la serpiente	Colombia	Ciro Guerra	Spanish (some parts in Portuguese, German, Catalan, Latin & Amazonian)
	Mustang	Mustang	France	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	Turkish
	Theeb	Theeb ذيب	Jordan	Naji Abu Nowar	Arabic
	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

A^ : Europe's tally includes three awards won by the Soviet Union and an award won by Russia. It also includes five Special/Honorary Awards: two won by Italy, two won by France and one shared between them for The Walls of Malapaga (1949).

B^ : Japan's four-award tally includes three Honorary Awards.

C^ : Shoe-Shine (1946) won a Special Award because "the high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity".

D^ : Monsieur Vincent (1947) won a Special Foreign Language Film Award. It was voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948.

E^ : The Bicycle Thief (1948) won a Special Foreign Language Film Award. It was voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949.

F^ : The Walls of Malapaga (1949) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950.

G^ : Rashomon (1950) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951.

H^ : Forbidden Games (1952) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was named Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952.

I^ : Gate of Hell (1953) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was named Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1954.

J^ : Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (1954) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was named Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955.

K^{1 2 3 4 5} : For the 29th Academy Awards, the names of the producers were included in the nominations for the Foreign Language Film category. Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti won the award for La Strada (1954). Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel were nominated for The Captain of Köpenick (1956), Annie Dorfmann for Gervaise (1956), Masayuki Takagi for Harp of Burma (1956), and O. Dalsgaard-Olsen for Qivitoq (1956).

L^ : The film received its 1969 nomination under the title My Night with Maud. It had no US distributor at the time. When it was released in Los Angeles on April 15, 1970, it became eligible for consideration for Academy Awards in other categories, and received a 1970 nomination for Writing under the title My Night at Maud's. Today, the latter title is the most commonly used when referring to the film in the English-speaking world.

M^ : Originally released under the title La Victoire en chantant, the film was reissued in France under the title Noirs et Blancs en couleur (a literal French translation of its English title Black and White in Color) following its 1976 Academy Award win.

N^ : Although films produced inside the United States are not eligible for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, those produced in U.S. overseas possessions are. Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, was thus able to receive a nomination for What Happened to Santiago (1989). However, this rule was changed in 2011 barring Puerto Rican submissions.

O^ : This is not an official nomination. After nominations were announced, information came to light that showed that A Place in the World (1992) was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.

P^ : Paradise Now (2005) was initially nominated as a submission from Palestine and presented as such on the official Academy website at the Wayback Machine (archived April 9, 2006). However, following protests from pro-Israeli groups in the United States, the Academy decided to designate it as a submission from the Palestinian Authority, a move that was decried by the film's director Hany Abu-Assad. During the awards ceremony, the film was eventually announced by presenter Will Smith as a submission from the Palestinian Territories.

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