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Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is a Golden Globe Award presented by Dick Clark Productions to reward theatrically-released feature film not in the English language.

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It was first introduced at the 7th Golden Globe Awards for the 1949 film year as Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film, and would return to be awarded yearly from the 1957 film year onwards; from 1948 to 1972, it existed alongside the Best English-Language Foreign Film category, which was intended for English-language films made outside the United States. The two categories were fused into Best Foreign Language Film in 1973, now rewarding any non-American films regardless of language; this was reversed in 1986 when it was renamed to Best Foreign Language Film, although this last change also made American films in non-English language eligible, such as winners Letters from Iwo Jima and Minari.

The award was originally an equivalent to the pre-existent Best English-Language Foreign Film, for English-language film made outside the United States.

Since the 1987 change in the criteria for this award, its eligibility criteria have been considerably broader than those for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; films are notably not submitted by their country, and there is not limit of one-eligible film per country as in the Academy Awards. Before 1974, the award was given only infrequently, and with several films being jointly honoured per year.[1]

The most honored country in this category is the United Kingdom, with seven films honored, followed by Spain and France.

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Eligibility criteria

Like the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, this award does not require that an eligible film be released in the United States. The official rules for the award state that submitted films must be at least 70 minutes in length and have at least 51% of their dialogue in a language other than English, and that they be "first released in their country of origin during the 14-months period from November 1 to December 31, prior to the Awards". Films that were not released in their country of origin due to censorship qualify with a one-week release in the U.S. during the specified period.[2]

Dick Clark Productions (through its Golden Globes, LLC subsidiary), which took over the presentation of the Golden Globes from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) in 2024, continues the HFPA's practice of not limiting the number of submitted films from a given country.[2] This differs from the practice of the Academy Awards' presenter, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which limits each country to one submission per year.[3]

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Best Foreign Film – English Language

See also: Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film

Winners and nominations

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Vittorio De Sica won thrice for Bicycle Thieves (1949), Two Women (1961), and Marriage Italian Style (1964).
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Keisuke Kinoshita won for Twenty-Four Eyes (1954).
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Carl Theodor Dreyer won for Ordet (1955).
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King Vidor won for War and Peace (1956).
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Ingmar Bergman has won the most times in this category, a total of six for Wild Strawberries (1959), The Virgin Spring (1960), Scenes from a Marriage (1975), Face to Face (1976), Autumn Sonata (1978), and Fanny and Alexander (1983).
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Federico Fellini won for Juliet of the Spirits (1965).
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Claude Lelouch won thrice for A Man and a Woman (1966), Live for Life (1967), and Les Misérables (1995).
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Costa-Gavras won for Z (1969).
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René Clément won for Rider on the Rain (1970).
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Ephraim Kishon won for The Policeman (1971).
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Maximilian Schell won for The Pedestrian (1973).
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Jan Troell won twice for The Emigrants and The New Land (both 1972).
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Édouard Molinaro won for La Cage aux Folles (1979).
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Roman Polanski won for Tess (1980)
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Richard Attenborough won for Gandhi (1982).
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David Lean won for A Passage to India (1984).
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Lasse Hallström won for My Life as a Dog (1987).
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Giuseppe Tornatore won for Cinema Paradiso (1989).
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Agnieszka Holland won Europa Europa (1990).
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Régis Wargnier won for Indochine (1992).
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Chen Kaige won for Farewell My Concubine (1993).
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Walter Salles won for Central Station (1998).
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Pedro Almodóvar won twice for All About My Mother (1999) and Talk to Her (2002).
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Ang Lee won for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
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Danis Tanović won for No Man's Land (2001).
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Alejandro Amenábar won for The Sea Inside (2004).
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Clint Eastwood won for Letters from Iwo Jima (2006).
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Julian Schnabel won for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).
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Michael Haneke won twice for The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012).
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Susanne Bier won for In a Better World (2010).
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Asghar Farhadi won for A Separation (2011).
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Paolo Sorrentino won for The Great Beauty (2013).
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Andrey Zvyagintsev won for Leviathan (2014).
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László Nemes won for Son of Saul (2015).
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Paul Verhoeven won for Elle (2016).
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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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Lee Isaac Chung won for Minari (2020).
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi won for Drive My Car (2021).
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Justine Triet won for Anatomy of a Fall (2023).
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Jacques Audiard won for Emilia Perez (2024).
  • 1965–1972: Best Foreign Film – Foreign Language
  • 1973–1985: Best Foreign Film
  • 1986–present: Best Foreign Language Film

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Multiple winners

Nine directors have won the award multiple times.

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