Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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 Broadcast Film Critics Association.

List of winners and nominees

1990s

Year	English title	Original title	Director	Country
1995 1st
	Il Postino: The Postman	Il postino	Michael Radford	Italy
1996 2nd
	Ridicule		Patrice Leconte	France
1997 3rd
	Shall We Dance?	ダンス / Sharu wi Dansu?	Masayuki Suo	Japan
1998 4th
	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni	Italy
1999 5th
	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain

2000s

Year	English title	Original title	Director	Country
2000 6th
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	卧虎藏龍 / Wo hu cang long	Ang Lee	Taiwan
2001 7th
	Amélie[1]	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France
	In the Mood for Love	花樣年華 / Faa yeung nin wa	Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong
	No Man's Land	Ničija zemlja	Danis Tanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2002 8th
	And Your Mother Too	Y Tu Mamá También	Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico
	Monsoon Wedding		Mira Nair	India
	Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
2003 9th
	The Barbarian Invasions	Les Invasions barbares	Denys Arcand	Canada
	City of God	Cidade de Deus	Fernando Meirelles	Brazil
	Swimming Pool		François Ozon	France
2004 10th
	The Sea Inside	Mar adentro	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain
	House of Flying Daggers	十面埋伏 / Shi mian mai fu	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	France
2005 11th
	Kung Fu Hustle	功夫 / Kung fu	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 / Netherlands
2006 12th
	Letters from Iwo Jima	硫黄島からの手紙 / Iwo Jima kara no tegami	Clint Eastwood	USA
	Apocalypto		Mel Gibson	USA
	Days of Glory	بلديون / Indigènes	Rachid Bouchareb	France
	Pan's Labyrinth	El laberinto del fauno	Guillermo del Toro	Spain
	Volver		Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Water	वाटर	Deepa Mehta	Canada
2007 13th
	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 / Se, jie	Ang Lee	Hong Kong
	The Orphanage	El orfanato	Juan Antonio Bayona	Spain
2008 14th
	Waltz with Bashir	ואלס עם באשיר / Vals im Bashir	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	Kazakhstan
2009 15th
	Broken Embraces	Los abrazos rotos	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Coco Before Chanel	Coco avant Chanel	Anne Fontaine	France
	Red Cliff	赤壁 / Chi bi	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	Country
2010 16th
	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 / Spain
2011 17th
	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین / Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín	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?	Et maintenant, on va où; وهلّأ لوين؟ / w halla' la wayn	Nadine Labaki	Lebanon
2012 18th
	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	France
2013 19th
	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	Asghar Farhadi	France / Italy / Iran
	Wadjda		Haifaa al-Mansour	Germany / Saudi Arabia
2014 20th
	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 / Spain
2015 21st
	Son of Saul[2]	Saul fia	László Nemes	Hungary
	The Assassin	刺客聶隱娘 / Cìkè Niè Yinniáng	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	Brazil
2016 22nd
	Elle[3]		Paul Verhoeven	France
	The Handmaiden	아가씨 / Ah-ga-ssi	Park Chan-wook	South Korea
	Julieta		Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Neruda		Pablo Larraín	Chile
	The Salesman	Forušande	Asghar Farhadi	Iran
	Toni Erdmann		Maren Ade	Germany
2017 23rd
	In the Fade[4]	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	Moun dambaung	Angelina Jolie	Cambodia
	The Square		Ruben Östlund	Sweden
	Thelma		Joachim Trier	Norway
2018 24th
	Roma[5][6]		Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico
	Burning	버닝 / Beoning	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea
	Capernaum	کفرناحوم‎ / Capharnaüm	Nadine Labaki	Lebanon
	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland
	Shoplifters	万引き家族 / Manbiki Kazoku	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan
2019 25th
	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	Country
2020 26th [7][8]
	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	France
2021 27th[9][10]
	Drive My Car	Doraibu mai kā	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan
	Flee	Flugt	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Denmark
	The Hand of God	È stata la mano di Dio	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
	A Hero	Ghahreman	Asghar Farhadi	Iran
	The Worst Person in the World	Verdens verste menneske	Joachim Trier	Norway
2022 28th[11][12]
	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 Korea
2023 29th[13][14]
	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 Kingdom
2024 30th
	Emilia Pérez		Jacques Audiard	France
	All We Imagine as Light		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	Germany

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	France	Ridicule, Amélie, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Amour, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Elle, Anatomy of a Fall and Emilia Pérez
3	Spain	All About My Mother, The Sea Inside and Broken Embraces