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BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language

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The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is a film award given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. The award was first given at the 36th British Academy Film Awards, recognising the films of 1982, and until 1990 was known as the Best Foreign Language Film. Prior to this, films recorded in a language other than English were often recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best Film, known between 1949 and 1969 as Best Film from any Source, also, in the 1980s there were only European films that the language originally recorded spoken in the film is not English, except Ran, between winners and nominees films in this category.

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In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

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Winners and nominees

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Francesco Rosi was the first winner of this category in 1982 winning for Christ Stopped at Eboli.
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Andrzej Wajda won for Danton (1983)
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István Szabó won for Colonel Redl (1985)
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Akira Kurosawa won for Ran (1986)
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Andrei Tarkovsky won for The Sacrifice (1987)
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Gabriel Axel won for Babette's Feast (1988)
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Giuseppe Tornatore won for Cinema Paradiso (1990)
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Zhang Yimou won twice for Raise the Red Lantern (1992) and To Live (1994).
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Walter Salles won twice for Central Station (1998) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004).
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Pedro Almodóvar won thrice for All About My Mother (1999), Talk to Her (2002), and The Skin I Live In (2011).
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Ang Lee won for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
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Alejandro González Iñárritu won for Amores perros (2001).
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Michael Winterbottom won for In This World (2003).
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Jacques Audiard won thrice for The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), A Prophet (2009), and Emilia Perez (2025).
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Guillermo del Toro won for Pan's Labyrinth (2006).
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck won for The Lives of Others (2007).
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Philippe Claudel won for I've Loved You So Long (2008).
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Michael Haneke won for Amour (2012).
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Paolo Sorrentino won for The Great Beauty (2013).
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Pawel Pawlikowski won for Ida (2014).
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Damian Szifron won for Wild Tales (2015).
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László Nemes won for Son of Saul (2016).
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Park Chan-wook won for The Handmaiden (2017).
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Alfonso Cuarón won for Roma (2018).
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Bong Joon-ho won for Parasite (2019).
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi won for Drive My Car (2021).
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Edward Berger won for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022).
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Jonathan Glazer won for The Zone of Interest (2023).

1980s

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2000s

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2010s

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2020s

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Multiple winners

4 directors have won the award multiple times.

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Awards by nation

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Includes films of West Germany.
  2. [N 2]
    Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
  3. [N 3]
    Films which contain primarily Hindi dialogue.
  4. [N 4]
    Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue with the exception of Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985).
  5. [N 5]
    Films which contain primarily French dialogue.
  6. [N 6]
    Films which contain primarily Cantonese dialogue.
  7. [N 7]
    Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
  8. [N 8]
    Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
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