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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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| BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in world cinema |
| Location | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First award | 1983 |
| Currently held by | Emilia Pérez (2024) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
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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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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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2010s
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| Year | Film | Original Title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
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| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Män som hatar kvinnor | Niels Arden Oplev | Søren Stærmose | Sweden | |
| I Am Love | Io sono l'amore | Luca Guadagnino | Luca Guadagnino, Tilda Swinton, Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Marco Morabito, Alessandro Usai, Massimiliano Violante | Italy | |
| Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira, Ann Ruark, Sandra Hermida | Mexico Spain | ||
| Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux) | Xavier Beauvois | Pascal Caucheteux, Étienne Comar, Grégoire Sorlat | France | |
| The Secret in Their Eyes | El secreto de sus ojos | Juan José Campanella | Juan José Campanella, Mariela Besuievski | Argentina | |
| The Skin I Live In | La piel que habito | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain | |
| Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | Luc Déry, Kim McCraw | Canada | ||
| Pina | Wim Wenders | Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel | Germany | ||
| Potiche | François Ozon | Eric Altmeyer, Nicolas Altmeyer | France | ||
| A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین, Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín | Asghar Farhadi | Asghar Farhadi | Iran | |
| Amour | Michael Haneke | Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz | France Austria | ||
| Headhunters | Hodejegerne | Morten Tyldum | Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn | Norway | |
| The Hunt | Jagten | Thomas Vinterberg | Morten Kaufmann, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | |
| Rust and Bone | De rouille et d'os | Jacques Audiard | Jacques Audiard, Martine Cassinelli, Pascal Caucheteux, Alix Raynaud | France Belgium | |
| The Intouchables | Untouchable | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun | France | |
| The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Fabio Conversi | Italy France | |
| The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer | Signe Byrge Sørensen | Denmark | ||
| Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | Abdellatif Kechiche | Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval | France Belgium | |
| Metro Manila | Sean Ellis | Mathilde Charpentier, Sean Ellis | United Kingdom Philippines | ||
| Wadjda | وجدة | Haifaa Al-Mansour | Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul | Saudi Arabia | |
| Ida | Pawel Pawlikowski | Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska | Poland | ||
| Leviathan | Левиафан, Leviafan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov | Russia | |
| The Lunchbox | Ritesh Batra | Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga, Arun Rangachari | India | ||
| Trash | Stephen Daldry | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Kris Thykier | United Kingdom Brazil | ||
| Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd | Belgium France | |
| Wild Tales | Relatos Salvajes | Damián Szifron | Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García, Matías Mosteirín, Hugo Sigman | Argentina Spain | |
| The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘, Cìkè Niè Yǐnniáng | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Wen-Ying Huang | Taiwan China Hong Kong | |
| Force Majeure | Turist | Ruben Östlund | Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson, Philippe Bober | Sweden France Norway | |
| Theeb | ذيب | Naji Abu Nowar | Bassel Ghandour, Rupert Lloyd | Jordan United Kingdom | |
| Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | Étienne Comar, Sylvie Pialat | Mauritania France | ||
| Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna | Hungary | |
| Dheepan | Jacques Audiard | Pascal Caucheteux | France | ||
| Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain | ||
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | Charles Gillibert | Turkey France | ||
| Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Michel Merkt | Germany Austria | ||
| The Handmaiden | 아가씨, Agassi | Park Chan-wook | Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim | South Korea | |
| Elle | Paul Verhoeven | Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt | France | ||
| First They Killed My Father | មុនដំបូងខ្មែរក្រហមសម្លាប់ប៉ារបស់ខ្ញុំ, Moun dambaung Khmer Krahm samleab ba robsa khnhom | Angelina Jolie | Angelina Jolie, Ted Sarandos, Michael Vieira | Cambodia United States | |
| Loveless | Нелюбовь, Nelyubov | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov, Gleb Fetisov | Russia | |
| The Salesman | فروشنده, Forušande | Asghar Farhadi | Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Asghar Farhadi | Iran | |
| Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez, Nicolás Celis | Mexico | ||
| Capernaum | کفرناحوم, Kafarnāḥūm | Nadine Labaki | Michel Merkt, Khaled Mouzanar | Lebanon | |
| Cold War | Zimna wojna | Paweł Pawlikowski | Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska | Poland France | |
| Dogman | Matteo Garrone | Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Paolo Del Brocco, Jean Labadie | Italy | ||
| Shoplifters | 万引き家族, Manbiki Kazoku | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Matsuzaki Kaoru, Hijiri Taguchi, Akihiko Yose | Japan | |
| Parasite | 기생충, Gisaengchung | Bong Joon-ho | Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae, Moon Yang-kwon, Jang Young-hwan | South Korea | |
| The Farewell | Lulu Wang | Lulu Wang, Daniele Tate Melia, Anita Gou, Jane Zheng | United States | ||
| For Sama | من أجل سما, ‘min ajl sama‘ | Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Waad Al-Kateab | Syria United Kingdom | |
| Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García, Ricardo Marco Budé, Ignacio Salazar-Simpson | Spain | |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma | Bénédicte Couvreur | France | |
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2020s
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| Year | Film | Original Title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
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| Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Kasper Dissing | Denmark | |
| Dear Comrades! | Дорогие товарищи!, Dorogie tovarishchi! | Andrei Konchalovsky | Andrei Konchalovsky, Olesya Gidrat, Alisher Usmanov | Russia | |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral | France | ||
| Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christina Oh | United States | ||
| Quo Vadis, Aida? | Jasmila Žbanić | Damir Ibrahimović, Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー, Doraibu mai kā | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Tsuyoshi Gorô, Misaki Kawamura, Osamu Kubota, Sachio Matsushita, Yoshito Nakabe, Keiji Okumura, Jin Suzuki, Akihisa Yamamoto | Japan | |
| The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Paolo Sorrentino, Lorenzo Mieli | Italy | |
| Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | Pedro Almodóvar | Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain | |
| Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | Bénédicte Couvreur | France | ||
| The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Thomas Robsahm | Norway | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Im Westen nichts Neues | Edward Berger | Edward Berger, Malte Grunert | Germany | |
| Argentina, 1985 | Santiago Mitre | Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Mitre, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín, Victoria Alonso | Argentina | ||
| Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | Marie Kreutzer | Austria Germany Luxembourg France | ||
| Decision to Leave | 헤어질 결심, 헤어질 決心, Heeojil gyeolsim | Park Chan-wook | Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok | South Korea | |
| The Quiet Girl | An Cailín Ciúin | Colm Bairéad | Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí | Ireland | |
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | Ewa Puszczyńska, James Wilson | United Kingdom Poland United States | ||
| 20 Days in Mariupol | 20 днів у Маріуполі, 20 dniv u Mariupoli | Mstyslav Chernov | Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Derl McCrudden, Michelle Mizner | Ukraine | |
| Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion | France | |
| Past Lives | Celine Song | David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler | United States | ||
| Society of the Snow | La sociedad de la nieve | J.A. Bayona | Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida, J.A. Bayona | Spain United States | |
| Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux, Valérie Schermann, Anthony Vaccarello | France | ||
| All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff | India France Netherlands Luxembourg Italy | ||
| I'm Still Here | Ainda Estou Aqui | Walter Salles | Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre | Brazil France | |
| Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Jack Tarling, Trevor Birney | Ireland United Kingdom | ||
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانهی انجیر معابد, Dāne-ye anjīr-e ma'ābed | Mohammad Rasoulof | Mohammad Rasoulof, Rozita Hendijanian, Amin Sadraei, Jean-Christophe Simon, Mani Tilgner | Iran Germany France | |
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Multiple winners
4 directors have won the award multiple times.
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| Wins | Director |
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| 3 |  Pedro Almodóvar |
 Jacques Audiard | |
| 2 |  Zhang Yimou |
 Walter Salles | |
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Awards by nation
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| Country | Number of winning films | Number of nominated films |
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| France | 7 | 52 |
| Spain | 5 | 16 |
| Italy | 4 | 17 |
| Germany[nb 1] | 4 | 11 |
| Mexico | 3 | 3 |
| Sweden | 2 | 4 |
| Denmark | 2 | 4 |
| Japan | 2 | 4 |
| Argentina | 2 | 3 |
| South Korea | 2 | 3 |
| United Kingdom[nb 2] | 2 | 2 |
| Brazil | 1 | 5 |
| Poland | 1 | 5 |
| China | 1 | 3 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 3 |
| Hungary | 1 | 2 |
| India[nb 3] | 0 | 6 |
| United States[nb 4] | 0 | 7 |
| Russia | 0 | 4 |
| Canada[nb 5] | 0 | 3 |
| Belgium | 0 | 2 |
| Hong Kong[nb 6] | 0 | 2 |
| Iran | 0 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 2 |
| Norway | 0 | 2 |
| Cambodia | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 1 |
| Israel | 0 | 1 |
| Jordan | 0 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 1 |
| Mauritania | 0 | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 |
| South Africa[nb 7] | 0 | 1 |
| Syria | 0 | 1 |
| Turkey | 0 | 1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 1 |
| Austria | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland[nb 8] | 0 | 1 |
| Ukraine | 0 | 1 |
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Notes
- Includes films of West Germany.
- Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily Hindi dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue with the exception of Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985).
- Films which contain primarily French dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily Cantonese dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
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