Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Awarded for	Best Foreign Language Film
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First award	1996
Currently held by	Waves (2024)

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Country
1996	Breaking the Waves		Lars Von Trier	Denmark /  United Kingdom
	Azúcar Amarga		Leon Ichaso	United States / Dominican Republic
	La cérémonie		Claude Chabrol	France / Germany
	Kolya	Kolja	Jan Svěrák	Czech Republic
	Prisoner of the Mountains	Кавказский пленник	Sergei Bodrov	Russia / Kazakhstan
	Ridicule		Patrice Leconte	France
1997	Shall We Dance?	Shall we ダンス?	Masayuki Suo	Japan
	Ponette		Jacques Doillon	France
	Live Flesh	Carne trémula	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain / France
	Ma vie en rose		Alain Berliner	France / Belgium /  United Kingdom
	The Promise	La promesse	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne	Belgium / France
1998	Central Station	Central do Brasil	Walter Salles	Brazil / France
	The Celebration	Festen	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark
	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni	Italy
	Only Clouds Move the Stars	Bare skyer beveger stjernene	Torun Lian	Norway
	La Séparation		Christian Vincent	France
1999	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain / France
	Three Seasons	Ba Mùa	Tony Bui	United States
	The Emperor and the Assassin	荊軻刺秦王	Chen Kaige	China
	The King of Masks	變臉	Wu Tianming	China
	The Red Violin	Le violon rouge	François Girard	Canada / Italy /  United Kingdom
	Run Lola Run	Lola rennt	Tom Tykwer	Germany

2000s

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	臥虎藏龍	Ang Lee	Taiwan / China / Hong Kong /  United States
	Goya in Bordeaux	Goya en Burdeos	Carlos Saura	Spain
	His Wife's Diary	Дневник его жены	Alexei Uchitel	Russia
	Malèna		Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy /  United States
	Malli		Santosh Sivan	India
	Shower	洗澡	Zhang Yang	China
2001	No Man's Land	Ničija zemlja	Danis Tanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina / France / Slovenia / Italy /  United Kingdom / Belgium
	Amélie	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France / Germany
	Beijing Bicycle	十七歲的單車	Wang Xiaoshuai	China / France / Taiwan
	Our Lady of the Assassins	La Virgen de los sicarios	Barbet Schroeder	Colombia / Spain / France
	The Princess and the Warrior	Der Krieger und die Kaiserin	Tom Tykwer	Germany
	Baran	باران	Majid Majidi	Iran
2002	Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	All or Nothing		Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
	Bloody Sunday		Paul Greengrass	United Kingdom / Ireland
	Everyone Loves Alice	Alla älskar Alice	Richard Hobert	Sweden / Norway
	Monsoon Wedding		Mira Nair	India / France / Germany / Italy /  United States
	Rain		Christine Jeffs	New Zealand
	Sex and Lucia	Lucía y el sexo	Julio Medem	Spain / France
2003	City of God	Cidade de Deus	Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund	Brazil
	The Barbarian Invasions	Les invasions barbares	Denys Arcand	Canada / France
	Gloomy Sunday	Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod / Szomorú vasárnap	Rolf Schübel	Germany / Hungary
	Monsieur Ibrahim	Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran	François Dupeyron	France
	Osama	اسامه	Siddiq Barmak	Afghanistan / Netherlands / Japan / Ireland / Iran
	Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring	봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea / Germany
2004	The Sea Inside	Mar adentro	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain / France / Italy
	Don't Move	Non ti muovere	Sergio Castellitto	Italy
	House of Flying Daggers	十面埋伏	Zhang Yimou	China / Hong Kong
	The Motorcycle Diaries	Diarios de motocicleta	Walter Salles	Argentina / Brazil /  United States / Chile / Peru /  United Kingdom / Germany / France
	Bad Education	La mala educación	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	A Very Long Engagement	Un long dimanche de fiançailles	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France
2005	Mother of Mine	Äideistä parhain / Den bästa av mödrar	Klaus Härö	Finland
	2046		Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong
	Innocent Voices	Voces inocentes	Luis Mandoki	Mexico / El Salvador
	Lila Says	Lila dit ça	Ziad Doueiri	France
	Turtles Can Fly	لاک پشت ها هم پرواز می کنند	Bahman Ghobadi	Iran / France / Iraq
	Walk on Water	ללכת על המים	Eytan Fox	Israel
2006	Volver		Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Apocalypto		Mel Gibson	United States
	Changing Times	Les temps qui changent	André Téchiné	France
	The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Germany
	The Syrian Bride	הכלה הסורית	Eran Riklis	Israel / France / Germany
	Water	वाटर	Deepa Mehta	Canada /  United States / India
2007	Lust, Caution	色，戒	Ang Lee	United States / China / Taiwan
	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	Czech Republic / France /  United Kingdom
	Offside	آفساید	Jafar Panahi	Iran
	The Orphanage	El orfanato	J. A. Bayona	Spain
	Ten Canoes		Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr	Australia
2008	Gomorrah	Gomorra	Matteo Garrone	Italy
	Caramel	سكر بنات	Nadine Labaki	Lebanon
	The Class	Entre les murs	Laurent Cantet	France
	Let the Right One In	Låt den rätte komma in	Tomas Alfredson	Sweden
	Padre Nuestro	Sangre de mi sangre	Christopher Zalla	United States / Argentina
	Reprise		Joachim Trier	Norway
2009	Broken Embraces	Los abrazos rotos	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	The Maid	La nana	Sebastián Silva	Chile
	I Killed My Mother	J'ai tué ma mère	Xavier Dolan	Canada
	Red Cliff	赤壁	John Woo	China / Hong Kong / Japan / South Korea / Taiwan /  United States
	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte	Michael Haneke	Austria / Germany / France / Italy
	Winter in Wartime	Oorlogswinter	Martin Koolhoven	Netherlands

2010s

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2010	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Män som hatar kvinnor	Niels Arden Oplev	Sweden / Denmark / Germany
	Biutiful		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico / Spain
	I Am Love	Io sono l'amore	Luca Guadagnino	Italy
	Mother	마더	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea
	Outside the Law	Hors-la-loi خارجون عن القانون	Rachid Bouchareb	France / Algeria / Tunisia / Belgium
	Soul Kitchen		Fatih Akın	Germany
	White Material		Claire Denis	France
2011	Mysteries of Lisbon	Mistérios de Lisboa	Raúl Ruiz	Portugal / France
	13 Assassins	十三人の刺客	Takashi Miike	United Kingdom / Japan
	Faust		Alexander Sokurov	Russia
	Las Acacias		Pablo Giorgelli	Argentina
	The Kid with a Bike	Le Gamin au vélo	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne	Belgium / France
	Le Havre		Aki Kaurismäki	Finland / France / Germany
	Miss Bala		Gerardo Naranjo	Mexico
	Mozart's Sister	Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart	René Féret	France
	The Turin Horse	A torinói ló	Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky	Hungary
2012	The Intouchables	Intouchables	Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano	France
	Pietà	피에타	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea
	Amour		Michael Haneke	France / Austria / Germany
	Beyond the Hills	După dealuri	Cristian Mungiu	Romania
	Caesar Must Die	Cesare deve morire	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani	Italy
	Kon-Tiki		Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg	Norway / Denmark / Germany / Sweden /  United Kingdom
	Our Children	À perdre la raison	Joachim Lafosse	Belgium / France
	A Royal Affair	En kongelig affære	Nikolaj Arcel	Denmark / Sweden / Czech Republic
	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین	Asghar Farhadi	Iran
	War Witch	Rebelle	Kim Nguyen	Canada
2013	The Broken Circle Breakdown		Felix van Groeningen	Belgium
	Bethlehem	בית לחם	Yuval Adler	Israel
	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2	Abdellatif Kechiche	France / Belgium / Spain
	Circles	Кругови	Srdan Golubović	Serbia
	Four Corners		Ian Gabriel	South Africa
	The Great Beauty	La grande bellezza	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy / France
	The Hunt	Jagten	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark
	Metro Manila		Sean Ellis	United Kingdom
	The Past	Le Passé	Asghar Farhadi	France / Italy / Iran
	Wadjda	وجدة	Haifaa al-Mansour	Saudi Arabia
2014	Tangerines	Mandariinid / მანდარინები	Zaza Urushadze	Estonia / Georgia
	Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem	Gett: Le procès de Viviane Amsalem	Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz	Israel / Germany / France
	Ida		Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland / Denmark / France /  United Kingdom
	Force Majeure	Turist	Ruben Östlund	Sweden / France / Norway
	Leviathan	Левиафан	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia
	Little England	Μικρά Αγγλία	Pantelis Voulgaris	Greece
	Mommy		Xavier Dolan	Canada
	Timbuktu		Abderrahmane Sissako	Mauritania / France
	Two Days, One Night	Deux jours, une nuit	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne	Belgium / France / Italy
	Wild Tales	Relatos salvajes	Damián Szifron	Argentina / Spain
2015 [1]	Son of Saul	Saul Fia	László Nemes	Hungary
	The Assassin	刺客聶隱娘	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan / China / Hong Kong
	The Brand New Testament	Le Tout Nouveau Testament	Jaco Van Dormael	Belgium / France / Luxembourg
	Goodnight Mommy	Ich seh, Ich seh	Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala	Austria
	The High Sun	Zvizdan	Dalibor Matanić	Croatia / Serbia / Slovenia
	Labyrinth of Lies	Im Labyrinth des Schweigens	Giulio Ricciarelli	Germany
	Mustang		Deniz Gamze Ergüven	France / Germany / Turkey
	A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence	En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron	Roy Andersson	Sweden / Norway / France / Germany / Denmark
	The Second Mother	Que Horas Ela Volta?	Anna Muylaert	Brazil
	The Throne	사도	Lee Joon-ik	South Korea
2016 [2]	The Salesman	فروشنده‎	Asghar Farhadi	Iran / France
	The Ardennes	D'Ardennen	Robin Pront	Belgium
	Elle		Paul Verhoeven	France / Germany
	The Handmaiden	아가씨	Park Chan-wook	South Korea
	The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki	Hymyilevä mies	Juho Kuosmanen	Finland / Germany / Sweden
	Julieta		Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	A Man Called Ove	En man som heter Ove	Hannes Holm	Sweden
	Ma' Rosa		Brillante Mendoza	Philippines
	Paradise	Рай	Andrei Konchalovsky	Russia
	Toni Erdmann		Maren Ade	Germany / Austria
2017	In the Fade		Fatih Akin	Germany / France
	BPM (Beats per Minute)		Robin Campillo	France
	The Divine Order		Petra Volpe	Switzerland
	First They Killed My Father		Angelina Jolie	Cambodia /  United States
	Foxtrot		Samuel Maoz	Israel / Germany / France /  Switzerland
	Loveless		Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia / France / Belgium / Germany
	The Square		Ruben Östlund	Sweden / France / Germany / Denmark
	White Sun		Deepak Rauniyar	Nepal / Netherlands / Qatar /  United States
2018 [3]	Roma		Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico /  United States
	The Cakemaker	האופה מברלין	Ofir Raul Grazier	Israel / Germany
	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland / France /  United Kingdom
	The Guilty	Den skyldige	Gustav Möller	Denmark
	I Am Not a Witch		Rungano Nyoni	United Kingdom / France / Germany / Zambia
	Shoplifters	万引き家族	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan
2019 [4]	Truth and Justice	Tõde ja õigus	Tanel Toom	Estonia
	Atlantics	Atlantique	Mati Diop	France / Senegal / Belgium
	Beanpole	Дылда	Kantemir Balagov	Russia
	Les Misérables		Ladj Ly	France
	Portrait of a Lady on Fire	Portrait de la jeune fille en feu	Céline Sciamma
	Pain and Glory	Dolor y gloria	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	The Painted Bird	Nabarvené ptáče	Václav Marhoul	Czech Republic / Slovakia / Ukraine
	Parasite	기생충	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea

2020s

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2020 [5][6]	La Llorona		Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala
	Another Round	Druk	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark
	Atlantis	Атлантида	Valentyn Vasyanovych	Ukraine
	I'm No Longer Here	Ya no estoy aquí	Fernando Frías de la Parra	Mexico /  United States
	Jallikattu		Lijo Jose Pellissery	India
	My Little Sister	Schwesterlein	Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond	Switzerland
	A Sun	陽光普照	Chung Mong-hong	Taiwan
	Tove		Zaida Bergroth	Finland / Sweden
	Two of Us	Deux	Filippo Meneghetti	France
2021 [7]	Drive My Car	ドライブ・マイ・カー	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan
	Compartment No. 6	Hytti Nro 6	Juho Kuosmanen	Finland
	Flee	Flugt	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Denmark
	The Good Boss	El buen patrón	Fernando León de Aranoa	Spain
	The Hand of God	È stata la mano di Dio	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
	A Hero	قهرمان	Asghar Farhadi	Iran
	Prayers for the Stolen	Noche de Fuego	Tatiana Huezo	Mexico
	Titane		Julia Ducournau	France
	The Worst Person in the World	Verdens verste menneske	Joachim Trier	Norway
2022 [8]	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
	Corsage		Marie Kreutzer	Austria
	Decision to Leave	헤어질 결심	Park Chan-wook	South Korea
	Holy Spider	عنکبوت مقدس	Ali Abbasi	Denmark
	The Quiet Girl	An Cailín Ciúin	Colm Bairéad	Ireland
	War Sailor	Krigsseileren	Gunnar Vikene	Norway
2023 [9][10]	The Zone of Interest		Jonathan Glazer	United Kingdom
	Anatomy of a Fall	Anatomie d'une chute	Justine Triet	France
	Blaga's Lessons	Уроците на Блага	Stephan Komandarev	Bulgaria
	Fallen Leaves	Kuolleet lehdet	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland
	Io capitano		Matteo Garrone	Italy
	Society of the Snow	La sociedad de la nieve	J. A. Bayona	Spain
	The Teachers' Lounge	Das Lehrerzimmer	İlker Çatak	Germany

Multiple winners

Only 2 directors have won the award multiple times.

Wins	Director
4	Pedro Almodóvar
2	Ang Lee