The San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film is an annual film award given by the San Diego Film Critics Society.
Winners
1990s YearWinnerCountryDirector(s)1996 Ridicule France Patrice Leconte1998 Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) Italy Roberto Benigni1999 Tango (Tango, no me dejes nunca) Argentina / Spain Carlos Saura
2000s YearWinnerCountryDirector(s)2000 The Colour of Paradise (Rang-e khoda) Iran Majid Majidi2001 Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) France / Germany Jean-Pierre Jeunet2002 Talk to Her (Hable con ella) Spain Pedro Almodóvar2003 The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) Canada / France Denys ArcandIrréversibleFrance Gaspar Noé2004 The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) Spain / France / Italy Alejandro Amenábar2005Innocent Voices (Voces inocentes) Mexico / Puerto Rico / USA Luis Mandoki 2006Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Qian li zou dan qi) China / Hong Kong / Japan Zhang Yimou2007The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) France / USA Julian Schnabel2008Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) SwedenTomas Alfredson2009Il Divo ItalyPaolo Sorrentino
2010s YearWinnerCountryDirector(s)2010 I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) Italy Luca Guadagnino2011 Le quattro volte Italy Michelangelo Frammartino2012 The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo) Belgium / France / Italy Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne2013 Drug War (Du zhan) China / Hong Kong Johnnie To2014 Force Majeure (Turist) Sweden Ruben Östlund2015 Taxi Iran Jafar Panahi2016 Mountains May Depart China Jia Zhangke2017 Thelma Norway Joachim Trier2018 Shoplifters Japan Hirokazu Kore-eda2019 Parasite South Korea Bong Joon-ho
2020s YearWinnerCountryDirector(s)2020 The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé) Italy Edoardo Ponti2021 Parallel Mothers Spain Pedro Almodóvar2022All Quiet on the Western FrontGermanyEdward Berger2023Anatomy of a FallFranceJustine Triet2024All We Imagine as LightIndiaPayal Kapadia2025It Was Just an AccidentIranJafar Panahi
References San Diego Film Critics Society - Awards