AACTA International Award for Best Film

The AACTA Award for Best International Film is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote, and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television".^[1] The award is presented at the annual AACTA International Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature films, regardless of where the film was made.^[2]

AACTA Award for Best International Film
Country	Australia
Presented by	Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
First award	2012
Currently held by	Better Man (2024)
Website	https://www.aacta.org

From 1992 to 2004, a similar award was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation. It was known as the AFI Award for Best Foreign Film and was handed out at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards).^{[citation needed]}

Winners and nominees

The winner is highlighted first and highlighted in boldface.

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2011 (1st) [3]
	The Artist	Thomas Langmann
	The Descendants	Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, and Jim Taylor
	Hugo	Johnny Depp, Timothy Headington, Graham King, and Martin Scorsese
	The Ides of March	George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Brian Oliver
	Margin Call	Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson, Joe Jenckes, Corey Moosa, Zachary Quinto, Laura Rister, and Cassian Elwes
	Melancholia	Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth
	Midnight in Paris	Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, and Jaume Roures
	Moneyball	Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt
	The Tree of Life	Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, and Bill Pohlad
	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Jennifer Fox, Luc Roeg, and Bob Salerno
2012 (2nd) [4]
	Silver Linings Playbook	Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti, and Jonathan Gordon
	Argo	Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov
	Les Misérables	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh
	Life of Pi	Ang Lee, Gil Netter, and David Womark
	Lincoln	Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg
Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, and Megan Ellison
2013 (3rd) [5]
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman
	12 Years a Slave	Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, and Anthony Katagas
	American Hustle	Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, and Megan Ellison
	Captain Phillips	Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti, and Scott Rudin
	Rush	Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Oliver, Peter Morgan, Brian Grazer, and Ron Howard
2014 (4th) [6]
	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, and James W. Skotchdopole
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, and John Sloss
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson
	The Imitation Game	Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
	Whiplash	Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, Michel Litvak, and David Lancaster
2015 (5th) [7]
	Mad Max: Fury Road	Doug Mitchell, George Miller, and P. J. Voeten
	The Big Short	Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Arnon Milchan, and Brad Pitt
	Carol	Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, and Christine Vachon
	The Revenant	Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, David Kanter, Mary Parent, James W. Skotchdopole, and Keith Redmon
	Spotlight	Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Michael Sugar
2016 (6th) [8]
	La La Land	Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt
	Arrival	Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, David Linde, and Aaron Ryder
	Hacksaw Ridge	Terry Benedict, Paul Currie, Bruce Davey, William D. Johnson, Bill Mechanic, Brian Oliver, and David Permut
	Lion	Iain Canning, Angie Fielder, and Emile Sherman
	Manchester by the Sea	Kimberly Steward, Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, and Kevin J. Walsh
2017 (7th) [9]
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh
	Call Me by Your Name	Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Émilie Georges, and Marco Morabito
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas
	Lady Bird	Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, and Evelyn O'Neill
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale
2018 (8th) [10]
	Roma	Nicolás Celis, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gabriela Rodríguez
	BlacKkKlansman	Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele, and Shaun Redick
	Bohemian Rhapsody	Jim Beach, and Graham King
	A Star Is Born	Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Jon Peters, Todd Phillips, and Lynette Howell Taylor
	Vice	Megan Ellison, Will Ferrell, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, and Brad Pitt
2019 (9th) [11]
	Parasite	Kwak Sin-ae and Bong Joon-ho
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Irwin Winkler
	Joker	Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff
	The King	Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Liz Watts, David Michôd, and Joel Edgerton
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, and Quentin Tarantino

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 (10th) [12]
	Promising Young Woman	Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara, Tom Ackerley, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, and Emerald Fennell
	The Father	David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne, Christophe Spardone, and Simon Friend
	Minari	Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Christina Oh
	Nomadland	Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, and Chloé Zhao
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Stuart M. Besser, Matt Jackson, Marc Platt, and Tyler Thompson
2021 (11th) [13]
	The Power of the Dog	Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Jane Campion, and Tanya Seghatchian
	Being the Ricardos	Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch
	Belfast	Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas
	Dune	Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, and Joe Caracciolo Jr.
	Licorice Pizza	Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, and Paul Thomas Anderson
	Nitram	Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell, Justin Kurzel, and Shaun Grant
2022 (12th) [14]
	Avatar: The Way of Water	James Cameron and Jon Landau
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, and Peter Tam Lee
	Top Gun: Maverick	Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison, and Jerry Bruckheimer
2023 (13th) [15]
	Barbie	David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Robbie Brenner
	American Fiction	Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, and Jermaine Johnson
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, and Daniel Lupi
	Oppenheimer	Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan
	Poor Things	Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Emma Stone
2024 (14th) [16]
	Better Man	Paul Currie, Michael Gracey, Coco Xiaolu Ma, Craig McMahon, and Jules Daly
	Anora	Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, and Sean Baker
	Dune: Part Two	Mary Parent,Cale Boyter, Patrick McCormick, Tanya Lapointe, and Denis Villeneuve
	Emilia Pérez	Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux, Valérie Schermann, and Anthony Vaccarello
	The Brutalist	Trevor Matthews, Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, and Brady Corbet

See also

• AACTA Awards
• AACTA Award for Best Film
• Australian Film Institute Award for Best Foreign Film