César Award for Best Foreign Film

César Award for Best Foreign Film
César Award for Best Foreign Film
Country	Canada / France
Presented by	Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma
First awarded	1976
Currently held by	The Nature of Love (2024)
Website	academie-cinema.org

The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, sponsored by France and Canada, presents an annual César Award for Best Foreign Film (French: César du meilleur film étranger). This is the list of winners and nominees of the award since the 1970s.

Winners and nominees

1970s

Year	Winner and nominees	Original title	Country	Director
1976 (1st)	Scent of a Woman	Profumo di donna	Italy	Dino Risi
	Aguirre, the Wrath of God	Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes	West Germany	Werner Herzog
	The Magic Flute	Trollflöjten	Sweden	Ingmar Bergman
	Nashville		United States	Robert Altman
1977 (2nd)	We All Loved Each Other So Much	C'eravamo tanto amati	Italy	Ettore Scola
	Barry Lyndon		United Kingdom/ United States	Stanley Kubrick
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		United States	Miloš Forman
	Raise Ravens	Cría cuervos	Spain	Carlos Saura
1978 (3rd)	A Special Day	Una giornata particolare	Italy	Ettore Scola
	The American Friend	Der amerikanische Freund	West Germany	Wim Wenders
	Annie Hall		United States	Woody Allen
	Bread and Chocolate	Pane e cioccolata	Italy	Franco Brusati
1979 (4th)	The Tree of Wooden Clogs	L'albero degli zoccoli	Italy	Ermanno Olmi
	Autumn Sonata	Höstsonaten	Sweden	Ingmar Bergman
	Julia		United States	Fred Zinnemann
	A Wedding		United States	Robert Altman

1980s

Year	Winner and nominees	Original title	Country	Director
1980 (5th)	Manhattan		United States	Woody Allen
	Apocalypse Now		United States	Francis Ford Coppola
	Hair		United States	Miloš Forman
	The Tin Drum	Die Blechtrommel	West Germany	Volker Schlöndorff
1981 (6th)	Shadow Warrior	影武者 / Kagemusha	Japan	Akira Kurosawa
	Fame		United States	Alan Parker
	Kramer vs. Kramer		United States	Robert Benton
	The Rose		United States	Mark Rydell
1982 (7th)	The Elephant Man		United Kingdom/ United States	David Lynch
	The Circle of Deceit	Die Fälschung	West Germany	Volker Schlöndorff
	Raiders of the Lost Ark		United States	Steven Spielberg
	Man of Iron	Człowiek z żelaza	Poland	Andrzej Wajda
1983 (8th)	Victor/Victoria		United Kingdom/ United States	Blake Edwards
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial		United States	Steven Spielberg
	The French Lieutenant's Woman		United Kingdom	Karel Reisz
	The Way	Yol	Turkey	Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney
1984 (9th)	Fanny and Alexander	Fanny och Alexander	Sweden	Ingmar Bergman
	Carmen		Spain	Carlos Saura
	The Gods Must Be Crazy		South Africa	Jamie Uys
	Tootsie		United States	Sydney Pollack
1985 (10th)	Amadeus		United States	Miloš Forman
	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes		United Kingdom/ United States	Hugh Hudson
	Maria's Lovers		United States	Andrei Konchalovsky
	Paris, Texas		West Germany	Wim Wenders
1986 (11th)	The Purple Rose of Cairo		United States	Woody Allen
	Desperately Seeking Susan		United States	Susan Seidelman
	The Killing Fields		United Kingdom	Roland Joffé
	Ran	乱	Japan	Akira Kurosawa
	Year of the Dragon		United States	Michael Cimino
1987 (12th)	The Name of the Rose	Il nome della rosa	Italy/ West Germany	Jean-Jacques Annaud
	After Hours		United States	Martin Scorsese
	Hannah and Her Sisters		United States	Woody Allen
	The Mission		United Kingdom	Roland Joffé
	Out of Africa		United States	Sydney Pollack
1988 (13th)	The Last Emperor		United Kingdom/ Italy/ China	Bernardo Bertolucci
	Dark Eyes	Oci ciornie	Italy/ Soviet Union	Nikita Mikhalkov
	Intervista		Italy	Federico Fellini
	The Untouchables		United States	Brian De Palma
	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin	West Germany	Wim Wenders
1989 (14th)	Bagdad Cafe	Out of Rosenheim	West Germany	Percy Adlon
	Bird		United States	Clint Eastwood
	Salaam Bombay!	सलाम बॉम्बे	India	Mira Nair
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit		United States	Robert Zemeckis

1990s

Year	Winner and nominees	Original title	Country	Director
1990 (15th)	Dangerous Liaisons		United States	Stephen Frears
	Cinema Paradiso	Nuovo cinema Paradiso	Italy	Giuseppe Tornatore
	Rain Man		United States	Barry Levinson
	Sex, Lies, and Videotape		United States	Steven Soderbergh
	Time of the Gypsies	Дом за вешање / Dom za vešanje	SFR Yugoslavia	Emir Kusturica
1991 (16th)	Dead Poets Society		United States	Peter Weir
	Goodfellas		United States	Martin Scorsese
	Pretty Woman		United States	Garry Marshall
	Taxi Blues	Такси-блюз / Taksi-Blyuz	Soviet Union	Pavel Lungin
	Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	¡Átame!	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar
1992 (17th)	Toto the Hero	Toto le héros	Belgium/ France/ Germany	Jaco van Dormael
	Alice		United States	Woody Allen
	Close to Eden	У́рга — территория любви	Soviet Union	Nikita Mikhalkov
	Dances with Wolves		United States	Kevin Costner
	The Silence of the Lambs		United States	Jonathan Demme
	Thelma & Louise		United States	Ridley Scott
1993 (18th)	High Heels	Tacones lejanos	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar
	Howards End		United Kingdom	James Ivory
	Husbands and Wives		United States	Woody Allen
	The Lover	L'amant	France/ United Kingdom	Jean-Jacques Annaud
	The Player		United States	Robert Altman
1994 (19th)	The Piano		New Zealand/ Australia	Jane Campion
	Farewell My Concubine	霸王別姬 / Ba wang bie ji	China/ Hong Kong	Chen Kaige
	Manhattan Murder Mystery		United States	Woody Allen
	Raining Stones		United Kingdom	Ken Loach
	The Snapper		Ireland/ United Kingdom	Stephen Frears
1995 (20th)	Four Weddings and a Funeral		United Kingdom	Mike Newell
	Dear Diary	Caro diario	Italy	Nanni Moretti
	Pulp Fiction		United States	Quentin Tarantino
	Schindler's List		United States	Steven Spielberg
	Short Cuts		United States	Robert Altman
1996 (21st)	Land and Freedom		United Kingdom	Ken Loach
	The Bridges of Madison County		United States	Clint Eastwood
	Smoke		United States	Paul Auster and Wayne Wang
	Underground	Подземље / Podzemlje	FR Yugoslavia	Emir Kusturica
	The Usual Suspects		United States	Bryan Singer
1997 (22nd)	Breaking the Waves		Denmark/ United Kingdom	Lars von Trier
	Fargo		United States	Joel Coen
	The Promise	La promesse	Belgium	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	Secrets & Lies		United Kingdom	Mike Leigh
	The Postman	Il postino	Italy	Michael Radford
1998 (23rd)	Brassed Off		United Kingdom	Mark Herman
	The English Patient		United States/ United Kingdom	Anthony Minghella
	Everyone Says I Love You		United States	Woody Allen
	Hana-bi	はなび	Japan	Takeshi Kitano
	The Full Monty		United Kingdom	Peter Cattaneo
1999 (24th)	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Italy	Roberto Benigni
	The Celebration	Festen	Denmark	Thomas Vinterberg
	Central Station	Central do Brasil	Brazil	Walter Salles
	Saving Private Ryan		United States	Steven Spielberg
	Titanic		United States	James Cameron

2000s

Year	Winner and nominees	Original title	Country	Director
2000 (25th)	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar
	Being John Malkovich		United States	Spike Jonze
	Eyes Wide Shut		United States/ United Kingdom	Stanley Kubrick
	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai		United States	Jim Jarmusch
	The Thin Red Line		United States	Terrence Malick
2001 (26th)	In the Mood for Love	花樣年華 / Fa yeung nin wa	Hong Kong	Kar Wai Wong
	American Beauty		United States	Sam Mendes
	Billy Elliot		United Kingdom	Stephen Daldry
	Dancer in the Dark		Denmark	Lars von Trier
	Yi Yi	Yī Yī	Taiwan	Edward Yang
2002 (27th)	Mulholland Drive		United States	David Lynch
	The Man Who Wasn't There		United States	Joel Coen
	Moulin Rouge!		Australia	Baz Luhrmann
	The Son's Room	La stanza del figlio	Italy	Nanni Moretti
	Traffic		United States	Steven Soderbergh
2003 (28th)	Bowling for Columbine		United States	Michael Moore
	Minority Report		United States	Steven Spielberg
	Ocean's Eleven		United States	Steven Soderbergh
	Painted Fire	취화선 / Chi-hwa-seon	South Korea	Kwon-taek Im
	Spirited Away	千と千尋の神隠し / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi	Japan	Hayao Miyazaki
2004 (29th)	Mystic River		United States	Clint Eastwood
	Elephant		United States	Gus Van Sant
	Gangs of New York		United States	Martin Scorsese
	The Hours		United States/ United Kingdom	Stephen Daldry
	The Return	Возвращение / Vozvrashcheniye	Russia	Andrei Zvyagintsev
2005 (30th)	Lost in Translation		United States	Sofia Coppola
	21 Grams		United States	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind		United States	Michel Gondry
	Fahrenheit 9/11		United States	Michael Moore
	The Motorcycle Diaries	Diarios de motocicleta	Argentina/ Brazil	Walter Salles
2006 (31st)	Million Dollar Baby		United States	Clint Eastwood
	A History of Violence		United States	David Cronenberg
	Match Point		United Kingdom/ United States	Woody Allen
	The Sea Inside	Mar adentro	Spain	Alejandro Amenábar
	Walk on Water	ללכת על המים / Lalekhet Al HaMayim	Israel	Eytan Fox
2007 (32nd)	Little Miss Sunshine		United States	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
	Babel		United States/ Mexico	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Brokeback Mountain		United States	Ang Lee
	The Queen		United Kingdom	Stephen Frears
	Volver		Spain	Pedro Almodóvar
2008 (33rd)	The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen	Germany	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile	Romania	Cristian Mungiu
	Eastern Promises		United Kingdom/ Canada	David Cronenberg
	The Edge of Heaven	Auf der anderen Seite	Germany/ Turkey	Fatih Akin
	We Own the Night		United States	James Gray
2009 (34th)	Waltz with Bashir	ואלס עם באשיר / Vals Im Bashir	Israel	Ari Folman
	Eldorado		Belgium/ France	Bouli Lanners
	Gomorrah	Gomorra	Italy	Matteo Garrone
	Into the Wild		United States	Sean Penn
	Lorna's Silence	Le silence de Lorna	Belgium	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	There Will Be Blood		United States	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Two Lovers		United States	James Gray

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Original title	Country	Director
2010 (35th)	Gran Torino		United States	Clint Eastwood
	Avatar		United States	James Cameron
	Milk		United States	Gus Van Sant
	I Killed My Mother	J'ai tué ma mère	Canada	Xavier Dolan
	A Town Called Panic	Panique au village	Belgium/ France	Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar
	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte	Germany/ Austria	Michael Haneke
	Slumdog Millionaire		United Kingdom	Danny Boyle
2011 (36th)	The Social Network		United States	David Fincher
	Bright Star		United Kingdom/ Australia	Jane Campion
	Heartbeats	Les amours imaginaires	Canada	Xavier Dolan
	Illegal	Illégal	Belgium/ France	Olivier Masset-Depasse
	Inception		United States/ United Kingdom	Christopher Nolan
	Invictus		United States South Africa	Clint Eastwood
	The Secret in Their Eyes	El secreto de sus ojos	Argentina	Juan José Campanella
2012 (37th)	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین / Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín	Iran	Asghar Farhadi
	Black Swan		United States	Darren Aronofsky
	Drive		United States	Nicolas Winding Refn
	Incendies		Canada	Denis Villeneuve
	Melancholia		Denmark	Lars von Trier
	The Kid with a Bike	Le gamin au vélo	Belgium	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	The King's Speech		United Kingdom/ Australia	Tom Hooper
2013 (38th)	Argo		United States	Ben Affleck
	Bullhead	Rundskop	Belgium	Michaël R. Roskam
	Laurence Anyways		Canada	Xavier Dolan
	Oslo, August 31st	Oslo, 31. august	Norway	Joachim Trier
	The Angels' Share		United Kingdom	Ken Loach
	A Royal Affair	En kongelig affære	Denmark	Nikolaj Arcel
	Our Children	À perdre la raison	Belgium/ France	Joachim Lafosse
2014 (39th)^[1]	The Broken Circle Breakdown		Belgium	Felix Van Groeningen
	Blue Jasmine		United States	Woody Allen
	Blancanieves		Spain	Pablo Berger
	Dead Man Talking		Belgium/ France	Patrick Ridremont
	Django Unchained		United States	Quentin Tarantino
	Gravity		United States/ United Kingdom	Alfonso Cuarón
	The Great Beauty	La grande bellezza	Italy	Paolo Sorrentino
2015 (40th)	Mommy		Canada	Xavier Dolan
	Boyhood		United States	Richard Linklater
	12 Years A Slave		United States/ United Kingdom	Steve McQueen
	Two Days, One Night	Deux jours, une nuit	Belgium/ France	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	Winter Sleep	Kış Uykusu	Turkey	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
	Ida		Poland	Pawel Pawlikowski
	The Grand Budapest Hotel		United States	Wes Anderson
2016 (41st)
	Birdman		United States	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Son of Saul	Saul fia	Hungary	László Nemes
	I'm Dead but I Have Friends	Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis	Belgium/ France	Guillaume Malandrin and Stéphane Malandrin
	Mia Madre		Italy	Nanni Moretti
	Taxi	تاکسی / Taxi	Iran	Jafar Panahi
	The Brand New Testament	Le Tout Nouveau Testament	Belgium/ France	Jaco Van Dormael
	Youth	Youth - La giovinezza	Italy/ United Kingdom	Paolo Sorrentino
2017 (42nd)
	I, Daniel Blake		United Kingdom	Ken Loach
	Aquarius		Brazil	Kleber Mendonça Filho
	Graduation	Bacalaureat	Romania	Cristian Mungiu
	The Unknown Girl	La Fille inconnue	Belgium/ France	Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
	It's Only the End of the World	Juste la fin du monde	Canada/ France	Xavier Dolan
	Manchester by the Sea		United States	Kenneth Lonergan
	Toni Erdmann		Germany/ Austria	Maren Ade
2018 (43rd)
	Loveless	Нелюбовь / Nelyubov	Russia	Andrey Zvyagintsev
	The Nile Hilton Incident	حادث النيل هيلتون / Hadith Alnayl Ilitun	Sweden/ Egypt	Tarik Saleh
	Dunkirk		United Kingdom/ United States	Christopher Nolan
	La La Land		United States	Damien Chazelle
	The Square		Sweden	Ruben Östlund
	A Wedding	Noces	Belgium France Pakistan	Stephan Streker
2019 (44th)
	Shoplifters	万引き家族 / Manbiki Kazoku	Japan	Hirokazu Kore-eda
	Girl		Belgium	Lukas Dhont
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri		United States/ United Kingdom	Martin McDonagh
	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Poland/ France	Paweł Pawlikowski
	Our Struggles	Nos batailles	Belgium/ France	Guillaume Senez
	Capernaum	کفرناحوم / Kafarnāḥūm	Lebanon	Nadine Labaki
	Hannah		Italy/ France	Andrea Pallaoro

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Original title	Country	Director
2020 (45th)	Parasite	기생충 / Gisaengchung	South Korea	Bong Joon-ho
	Pain and Glory	Dolor y gloria	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar
	Young Ahmed	Le Jeune Ahmed	Belgium	Luc Dardenne Jean-Pierre Dardenne
	Joker		United States	Todd Phillips
	Lola		Belgium France	Laurent Micheli
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood		United States	Quentin Tarantino
	The Traitor	Il traditore	Italy	Marco Bellocchio
2021 (46th)
	Another Round	Druk	Denmark	Thomas Vinterberg
	1917		United Kingdom/ United States	Sam Mendes
	Corpus Christi	Boże Ciało	Poland/ France	Jan Komasa
	Dark Waters		United States	Todd Haynes
	The August Virgin	La virgen de agosto	Spain	Jonás Trueba
2022 (47th)	The Father		United Kingdom	Florian Zeller
	Compartment No. 6	Hytti nro 6	Finland/ Russia	Juho Kuosmanen
	Drive My Car	ドライブ・マイ・カー / Doraibu mai kā	Japan	Ryusuke Hamaguchi
	First Cow		United States	Kelly Reichardt
	Just 6.5	متری شیش و نیم / Metri Shesh-o Nim	Iran	Saeed Roustayi
	Parallel Mothers	Madres paralelas	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar
	The Worst Person in the World	Verdens verste menneske	Norway	Joachim Trier
2023 (48th)	The Beasts	As bestas	Spain / France	Rodrigo Sorogoyen
	Boy from Heaven		Sweden	Tarik Saleh
	Close		Belgium	Lukas Dhont
	EO		Poland	Jerzy Skolimowski
	Triangle of Sadness		Sweden	Ruben Östlund
2024 (49th)	The Nature of Love	Simple comme Sylvain	Canada / France	Monia Chokri
	Fallen Leaves	Kuolleet lehdet	Finland / Germany	Aki Kaurismäki
	Kidnapped	Rapito	Italy	Marco Bellocchio
	Oppenheimer		United States / United Kingdom	Christopher Nolan
	Perfect Days	パーフェクト・デイズ	Japan / Germany	Wim Wenders

Awards by nation

Country	Number of winning films	Number of nominated films
United States of America	16	86
United Kingdom	7	21
Italy	6	13
Spain	3	12
Belgium	2	18
Germany^{[nb 1]}	2	11
Canada	2	6
Denmark	2	4
Japan	2	5
Sweden	1	6
Hong Kong	1	2
Iran	1	2
Australia	1	1
Israel	1	1
Russia	1	2
South Korea	1	2
New Zealand	1	1
Poland	0	5

Brazil	0	3
Argentina	0	2
Romania	0	2
Turkey	0	2
Norway	0	2
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics^{[nb 2]}	0	2
Yugoslavia	0	2
China	0	1
France^{[nb 3]}	0	1
Hungary	0	1
India	0	1
Ireland	0	1
Lebanon	0	1
South Africa	0	1
Taiwan	0	1
Finland	0	2

Multiple winners

6 directors have won the award multiple times.

Wins	Director
3	Clint Eastwood
2	Woody Allen
	Pedro Almodóvar
	Ken Loach
	David Lynch
	Ettore Scola

Notes

^ Includes films of West Germany.
^ The Soviet Union received its two nominations for a Russian-language film and a Mongolian-language film before it was formally dissolved on December 26, 1991.
^ Films which contains non-French dialogue.

References

^ "Berenice Bejo, Lea Seydoux, Roman Polanski Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. 2014-01-31. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2014-07-29.

External links

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[2] Includes films of West Germany.

[3] The Soviet Union received its two nominations for a Russian-language film and a Mongolian-language film before it was formally dissolved on December 26, 1991.

[4] Films which contains non-French dialogue.

[1] "Berenice Bejo, Lea Seydoux, Roman Polanski Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. 2014-01-31. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2014-07-29.

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