Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film

The Guldbagge for Best Foreign Film is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen").

Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film
Country	Sweden
Presented by	Swedish Film Institute
First award	1987 (for films released during the 1987 film season)
Final award	2021 (for films released during the 2021 film season)
Website	guldbaggen.se

The category was discontinued, after four years of evaluation, as of the 58th gala, in 2023. In the last years it was called Best International Film.

Winners and nominees

Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film and the director associated with the award. Before 1991 the awards did not announce nominees, only winners. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best foreign film, which are listed from 1991 and forward.

  Winners before the nomination system (1964–1990)

  Winners under the nomination system (1991–present)

1980s

Year[1]	Film[1]	Original title(s)[1]	Country[1]	Director(s)[1]	Language(s)[1]	Ref.
1987 (23rd)	Bagdad Cafe‡	Out of Rosenheim	Germany (West)	Percy Adlon	German, English
1988 (24th)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)
1989 (25th)	A World Apart‡		{co-production} United Kingdom Zimbabwe	Chris Menges	English

1990s

Year[1]	Film[1]	Original title(s)[1]	Country[1]	Director(s)[1]	Language(s)[1]	Ref.
1990 (26th)	Time of the Gypsies‡	Dom za vešanje Дом за вешање	Yugoslavia	Emir Kusturica	Romani, Serbo-Croatian & Italian	[2]
1991 (27th)	Monsieur Hire‡		France	Patrice Leconte	French	[3]
	The Double Life of Véronique	La double vie de Véronique	{co-production} France Norway Poland	Krzysztof Kieślowski	French & Polish
	The Fisher King		United States	Terry Gilliam	English
1992 (28th)	Husbands and Wives‡		United States	Woody Allen	English	[4]
	Raise the Red Lantern	Dà Hóng Dēnglong Gāogāo Guà 大紅燈籠高高掛	{co-production} China Hong Kong Taiwan	Zhang Yimou	Mandarin
	Fried Green Tomatoes		United States	Jon Avnet	English
1993 (29th)	The Piano‡		{co-production} New Zealand Australia France	Jane Campion	English, Māori & British Sign Language	[5]
	Three Colors: Blue	Trois couleurs: Bleu	France, Poland & Switzerland	Krzysztof Kieślowski	French & Polish
	Orlando		United Kingdom	Sally Potter	English
1994 (30th)	Short Cuts‡		United States	Robert Altman	English
	Forrest Gump		United States	Robert Zemeckis	English
	Schindler's List		United States	Steven Spielberg	English
1995 (31st)	Before the Rain‡	Pred doždot Пред дождот	{co-production} Macedonia United Kingdom	Milcho Manchevski	Macedonian, English & Albanian
	Lamerica		Italy	Gianni Amelio	Italian & Albanian
	Bullets over Broadway		United States	Woody Allen	English
1996 (32nd)	Breaking the Waves‡		Denmark	Lars von Trier	English
	Fargo		United States	Joel Coen	English
	Trainspotting		United Kingdom	Danny Boyle	English
1997 (33rd)	The Ice Storm‡		United States	Ang Lee	English
	Brassed Off		{co-production} United Kingdom United States	Mark Herman	English
	The Promise	La Promesse	{co-production} Belgium France	Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne	French
1998 (34th)	The Celebration‡	Festen	Denmark	Thomas Vinterberg	Danish
	The Dreamlife of Angels	La Vie rêvée des anges	France	Erick Zonca	French
	Character	Karakter	{co-production} Netherlands Belgium	Mike van Diem	Dutch
1999 (35th)	All About My Mother‡	Todo sobre mi madre	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish
	The Straight Story		{co-production} United States United Kingdom France	David Lynch	English
	Central Station	Central do Brasil	{co-production} Brazil France	Walter Salles	Portuguese

2000s

Year[1]	Film[1]	Original title(s)[1]	Country[1]	Director(s)[1]	Language(s)[1]	Ref.
2000 (36th)	Magnolia‡		United States	Paul Thomas Anderson	English, French & German
	Boys Don't Cry		United States	Kimberly Peirce	English
	American Beauty		United States	Sam Mendes	English
2001 (37th)	Amélie‡	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	{co-production} France Germany	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	French
	The Taste of Others	Le goût des autres	France	Agnès Jaoui	French
	Italian for Beginners	Italiensk for begyndere	{co-production} Denmark Sweden	Lone Scherfig	Danish, Italian & English
2002 (38th)	The Man Without a Past‡	Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Finland	Aki Kaurismäki	Finnish
	Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish
	The Royal Tenenbaums		United States	Wes Anderson	English
2003 (39th)	The Hours‡		{co-production} United Kingdom United States	Stephen Daldry	English
	Good Bye, Lenin!		Germany	Wolfgang Becker	German
	Dogville		Denmark	Lars von Trier	English
2004 (40th)	The Return‡	Vozvrashcheniye Возвращение	Russia	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russian
	Lost in Translation		United States	Sofia Coppola	English & Japanese
	21 Grams		United States	Alejandro González Iñárritu	English
2005 (41st)	The Child‡	L'Enfant	Belgium	Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne	French
	Nobody Knows	Dare mo Shiranai 誰も知らない	Japan	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japanese
	Caché		France	Michael Haneke	French
2006 (42nd)	The Lives of Others‡	Das Leben der Anderen	Germany	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	German
	To Return	Volver	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish
	Babel		{co-production} United States Mexico France	Alejandro González Iñárritu	English, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Japanese Sign Language & Berber
2007 (43rd)	This Is England‡		United Kingdom	Shane Meadows	English
	The Edge of Heaven	German: Auf der anderen Seite Turkish: Yaşamın Kıyısında	{co-production} Germany Turkey	Fatih Akın	German, Turkish & English
	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile	Romania	Cristian Mungiu	Romanian
2008 (44th)	Lust, Caution‡	Se, jie 色，戒	{co-production} United States China Taiwan	Ang Lee	Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese, Szechwanese, Japanese, Hindi & English	[6][7]
	There Will Be Blood		United States	Paul Thomas Anderson	English
	No Country for Old Men		United States	Joel & Ethan Coen	English
2009 (45th)	The White Ribbon‡	Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte	{co-production} Austria Germany	Michael Haneke	German	[8]
	Waltz with Bashir	Hebrew: Vals im Bashir ואלס עם באשיר	{co-production} Israel Germany France	Ari Folman	Hebrew
	Still Walking	Aruitemo aruitemo 歩いても 歩いても	Japan	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japanese

2010s

Year[1]	Film[1]	Original title(s)[1]	Country[1]	Director(s)[1]	Language(s)[1]	Ref.
2010 (46th)	Lourdes‡		{co-production} Austria France Germany	Jessica Hausner	French	[9]
	The Social Network		United States	David Fincher	English
	Fish Tank		United Kingdom	Andrea Arnold	English
2011 (47th)	A Separation‡	Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín جدایی نادر از سیمین	Iran	Asghar Farhadi	Persian
	Dogtooth	Kynodontas Κυνόδοντας	Greece	Yorgos Lanthimos	Greek
	Winter's Bone		United States	Debra Granik	English
2012 (48th)	Amour‡		{co-production} France Germany Austria	Michael Haneke	French	[10][11]
	Laurence Anyways		Canada	Xavier Dolan	French
	Moonrise Kingdom		United States	Wes Anderson	English
2013 (49th)	Blue Is the Warmest Colour‡	La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2	{co-production} France Belgium Spain	Abdellatif Kechiche	French	[12][13]
	12 Years a Slave		{co-production} United States United Kingdom	Steve McQueen	English
	The Turin Horse	A torinói ló	Hungary	Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky	Hungarian
2014 (50th)	Two Days, One Night‡	Deux jours, une nuit	{co-production} Belgium France Italy	Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne	French & Arabic	[14][15]
	Ida		{co-production} Poland Denmark France United Kingdom	Paweł Pawlikowski	Polish, French & Latin
	Boyhood		United States	Richard Linklater	English
2015 (51st)	Leviathan‡	Leviafan Левиафан	Russia	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russian	[16][17]
	Carol		{co-production} United Kingdom United States	Todd Haynes	English
	Timbuktu		{co-production} France Mauritania	Abderrahmane Sissako	Arabic, French, Tamasheq & Bambara
2016 (52nd)	Son of Saul‡	Saul fia	Hungary	László Nemes	Hungarian	[18][19]
	Toni Erdmann		{co-production} Germany Austria	Maren Ade	German, Romanian & English
	Mustang		{co-production} France Turkey Germany	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	Turkish
2017 (53rd)	The Salesman‡	Forušande فروشنده	{co-production} Iran France	Asghar Farhadi	Persian	[20][21]
	BPM (Beats per Minute)	120 battements par minute	France	Robin Campillo	French
	Moonlight		United States	Barry Jenkins	English
2018 (54th)	Shoplifters‡	Manbiki Kazoku 万引き家族	Japan	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japanese	[22]
	Cold War	Zimna wojna	{co-production} Poland France United Kingdom	Paweł Pawlikowski	Polish
	BlacKkKlansman		United States	Spike Lee	English
2019 (55th)	Parasite‡	Gisaengchung 기생충	South Korea	Bong Joon-ho	Korean	[23]
	Capernaum	Kafarnāḥūm کفرناحوم	Lebanon	Nadine Labaki	Lebanese
	Marriage Story		United States	Noah Baumbach	English

2020s

Year[1]	Film[1]	Original title(s)[1]	Country[1]	Director(s)[1]	Language(s)[1]	Ref.
2020 (56th)	For Sama‡	‘min ajl sama‘ من أجل سما	{co-production} Syria United States United Kingdom	Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts	Arabic & English	[24][25]
	Babyteeth		Australia	Shannon Murphy	English
	Mank		United States	David Fincher	English
2021 (57th)	Flee‡	‘Flugt‘	Denmark	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	English & Danish	[26]
	The Father		France UK	Florian Zeller	English
	Nomadland		United States	Chloé Zhao	English