The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Critics Choice Association.
List of winners and nominees
1990s Year English title Original title Director Country19951st Il Postino: The Postman Il postino Michael Radford Italy19962nd Ridicule Patrice Leconte France19973rd Shall We Dance? ダンス Masayuki Suo Japan19984th Life Is Beautiful La vita è bella Roberto Benigni Italy19995th All About My Mother Todo sobre mi madre Pedro Almodóvar Spain
2000s Year English title Original title Director Country20006th Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 卧虎藏龍 Ang Lee Taiwan20017th Amélie'Amelie' concludes foreign film festival|California Lutheran Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain Jean-Pierre Jeunet France In the Mood for Love 花樣年華 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong No Man's Land Ničija zemlja Danis Tanović Bosnia and Herzegovina20028th And Your Mother Too Y Tu Mamá También Alfonso Cuarón Mexico Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair India Talk to Her Hable con ella Pedro Almodóvar Spain20039th The Barbarian Invasions Les Invasions barbares Denys Arcand Canada City of God Cidade de Deus Fernando Meirelles Brazil Swimming Pool François Ozon France200410th The Sea Inside Mar adentro Alejandro Amenábar Spain House of Flying Daggers 十面埋伏 Zhang Yimou China Maria Full of Grace María llena eres de gracia Joshua Marston Colombia The Motorcycle Diaries Diarios de motocicleta Walter Salles Argentina A Very Long Engagement Un long dimanche de fiançailles Jean-Pierre Jeunet France200511th Kung Fu Hustle 功夫 Stephen Chow Hong Kong 2046 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong Hidden Caché Michael Haneke France Oldboy 올드보이 Park Chan-wook South Korea Paradise Now الجنّة الآن Hany Abu-Assad Palestine / France / Germany / Israel / Netherlands200612th Letters from Iwo Jima 硫黄島からの手紙 Clint Eastwood USA Apocalypto Mel Gibson USA Days of Glory بلديون Rachid Bouchareb France Pan's Labyrinth El laberinto del fauno Guillermo del Toro Spain Volver Pedro Almodóvar Spain Water वाटर Deepa Mehta Canada200713th The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Le Scaphandre et le Papillon Julian Schnabel France 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile Cristian Mungiu Romania La Vie en Rose La Môme Olivier Dahan France Lust, Caution 色，戒 Ang Lee Hong Kong The Orphanage El orfanato Juan Antonio Bayona Spain200814th Waltz with Bashir ואלס עם באשיר Ari Folman Israel A Christmas Tale Un conte de Noël Arnaud Desplechin France Gomorrah Gomorra Matteo Garrone Italy I've Loved You So Long Il y a longtemps que je t'aime Philippe Claudel France Let the Right One In Låt den rätte komma in Tomas Alfredson Sweden Mongol Монгол Sergei Bodrov Kazakhstan200915th Broken Embraces Los abrazos rotos Pedro Almodóvar Spain Coco Before Chanel Coco avant Chanel Anne Fontaine France Red Cliff 赤壁 John Woo China Sin Nombre Cary Joji Fukunaga Mexico / USA The White Ribbon Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte Michael Haneke Germany
2010s Year English title Original title Director Country201016th The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Män som hatar kvinnor Niels Arden Oplev Sweden I Am Love Io sono l'amore Luca Guadagnino Italy Biutiful Alejandro González Iñárritu Mexico / Spain201117th A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین Asghar Farhadi Iran In Darkness W ciemności Agnieszka Holland Poland Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki Finland The Skin I Live In La piel que habito Pedro Almodóvar Spain Where Do We Go Now? وهلأ لوين Nadine Labaki Lebanon201218th Amour Michael Haneke Austria / France / Germany The Intouchables Intouchables Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache France A Royal Affair En kongelig affære Nikolaj Arcel Denmark Rust and Bone De rouille et d'os Jacques Audiard France201319th Blue Is the Warmest Colour La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 Abdellatif Kechiche France The Great Beauty La grande bellezza Paolo Sorrentino Italy The Hunt Jagten Thomas Vinterberg Denmark The Past Le passé / گذشته Asghar Farhadi France / Italy / Iran Wadjdaوجدة Haifaa al-Mansour Germany / Saudi Arabia201420th Force Majeure Turist Ruben Östlund Sweden Ida Paweł Pawlikowski Denmark / France / Poland / UK Leviathan Левиафан Andrey Zvyagintsev Russia Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne Belgium / France / Italy Wild Tales Relatos salvajes Damián Szifron Argentina / Spain201521st Son of SaulREVIEW: Son of Saul - The Strand Saul fia László Nemes Hungary The Assassin 刺客聶隱娘 Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan Goodnight Mommy Ich seh, Ich seh Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala Austria Mustang Deniz Gamze Ergüven France The Second Mother Que Horas Ela Volta? Anna Muylaert Brazil201622nd Elle3 Must-See French Thrillers|Euro Channel|English-Eurochannel Paul Verhoeven France The Handmaiden 아가씨 Park Chan-wook South Korea Julieta Pedro Almodóvar Spain Neruda Pablo Larraín Chile The Salesman فروشنده Asghar Farhadi Iran Toni Erdmann Maren Ade Germany201723rd In the FadeCritics Choice Awards winners 2018: Full list|EW.com Aus dem Nichts Fatih Akin Germany BPM (Beats per Minute) 120 battements par minute Robin Campillo France A Fantastic Woman Una mujer fantástica Sebastián Lelio Chile First They Killed My Father មុនដំបូងខ្មែរក្រហមសម្លាប់ប៉ារបស់ខ្ Angelina Jolie Cambodia The Square Ruben Östlund Sweden Thelma Joachim Trier Norway201824th RomaAlfonso Cuarón Interview: There Will Be More Films Like ROMA - AM/FM MagazineCritics' Choice Awards winners list by category - CNNAlfonso CuarónMexicoBurning버닝Lee Chang-dongSouth KoreaCapernaumکفرناحومNadine LabakiLebanonCold WarZimna wojnaPaweł PawlikowskiPolandShoplifters万引き家族Hirokazu Kore-edaJapan201925th Parasite 기생충 Bong Joon-ho South Korea Atlantics Atlantique Mati Diop Belgium / France / Senegal Pain and Glory Dolor y gloria Pedro Almodóvar Spain Les Misérables Ladj Ly France Portrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Céline Sciamma France
2020s Year English title Original title Director Country202026th Minari Lee Isaac Chung USA Another Round Druk Thomas Vinterberg Denmark Collective Colectiv Alexander Nanau Romania La Llorona Jayro Bustamante Guatemala The Life Ahead La vita davanti a sé Edoardo Ponti Italy Two of Us Deux Filippo Meneghetti France202127thWest Side Story Leads the 2021 Chicago Critics Nominees|Festivals & Awards|Roger Ebert.comJane Campion's The Power of the Dog Leads Chicago Critics Awards with SevenDrive My Carドライブ・マイ・カーRyusuke HamaguchiJapanFleeFlugtJonas Poher RasmussenDenmarkThe Hand of GodÈ stata la mano di DioPaolo SorrentinoItalyA HeroقهرمانAsghar FarhadiIranThe Worst Person in the WorldVerdens verste menneskeJoachim TrierNorway202228th RRR S. S. Rajamouli India All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues Edward Berger Germany Argentina, 1985 Santiago Mitre Argentina Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades Alejandro González Iñárritu Mexico Close Lukas Dhont Belgium Decision to Leave 헤어질 결심 Park Chan-wook South Korea202329th Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute Justine Triet France Godzilla Minus One ゴジラ-1.0 Takashi Yamazaki Japan Perfect Days Wim Wenders Japan Society of the Snow La sociedad de la nieve J. A. Bayona Spain The Taste of Things La Passion de Dodin Bouffant Trần Anh Hùng France The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer United Kingdom202430th Emilia Pérez Jacques Audiard France All We Imagine as Lightപ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം Payal Kapadia India Flow Straume Gints Zilbalodis Latvia I'm Still Here Ainda Estou Aqui Walter Salles Brazil Kneecap Rich Peppiatt Ireland The Seed of the Sacred Fig دانهی انجیر معابد Mohammad Rasoulof Germany202531st The Secret Agent O Agente Secreto Kleber Mendonça Filho Brazil Belén Dolores Fonzi Argentina It Was Just an Accident یک تصادف ساده Jafar Panahi Iran / France Left-Handed Girl 左撇子女孩 Shih-Ching Tsou Taiwan No Other Choice 어쩔수가없다 Park Chan-wook South Korea Sirāt Oliver Laxe Spain
Multiple winners Only 2 directors have won the award multiple times.
Wins Director 2 Pedro Almodóvar Alfonso Cuarón
Countries with multiple wins (3 or more) Wins Country Films 8 FranceRidicule, Amélie, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Amour, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Elle, Anatomy of a Fall and Emilia Pérez 3 SpainAll About My Mother, The Sea Inside and Broken Embraces
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