The Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film is a Golden Globe Award presented by Dick Clark Productions to reward theatrically-released feature film not in the English language.
| Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language Film |
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| Awarded for | Best Motion Picture in a Foreign Language |
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| Location | United States |
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| Presented by | Dick Clark Productions |
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| Currently held by | The Secret Agent (2025) |
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| Website | goldenglobes.com |
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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 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. In 2022, the category was renamed Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language.
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 no 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.
The most honored country in this category is the United Kingdom, with seven films honored, followed by Spain and France.
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.
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. 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.
Best Foreign Film – English Language
Winners and nominations
- 1965–1972: Best Foreign Film – Foreign Language
- 1973–1985: Best Foreign Film
- 1986–present: Best Foreign Language Film
1940s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film |
| 1949 | Bicycle Thieves | Ladri di biciclette | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| The Fallen Idol | Carol Reed | United Kingdom |
1950s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film |
| 1954 | Twenty-Four Eyes | Nijushi no hitomi | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| No Way Back | Weg Ohne Umkehr | Victor Vicas | West Germany |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Raymond Bernard | Argentina |
| Genevieve | Henry Cornelius | United Kingdom |
| 1955 | The Word | Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark |
| Stella | Στέλλα | Michael Cacoyannis | Greece |
| Children, Mother, and the General | Kinder, Mutter und Ein General | László Benedek | West Germany |
| Eyes of Children | Kodomo no me | Yoshiro Kawazu | Japan |
| Dangerous Curves | Curvas peligrosas | Tito Davison | Mexico |
| 1956 | Before Sundown | Vor Sonnenuntergang | Gottfried Reinhardt | West Germany |
| A Girl in Black | To Koritsi me ta mavra | Michael Cacoyannis | Greece |
| Roses on the Arm | Taiyo to bara | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| War and Peace | King Vidor | Italy |
| The White Reindeer | Valkoinen Peura | Erik Blomberg | Finland |
| 1957 | Confessions of Felix Krull | Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull | Detlev Buck | West Germany |
| Tizoc | Ismael Rodríguez | Mexico |
| Yellow Crow | Kiiroi karasu | Heinosuke Gosho | Japan |
| 1958 | Girl and the River | L'Eau vive | François Villiers | France |
| The Road a Year Long | Cesta duga godinu dana | Giuseppe De Santis | Yugoslavia |
| Rosemary | Das Mädchen Rosemarie | Rolf Thiele | West Germany |
| 1959 | The Bridge | Die Brücke | Bernhard Wicki | West Germany |
| Black Orpheus | Orfeu Negro | Marcel Camus | France |
| Odd Obsession | Kagi | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| Wild Strawberries | Smultronstället | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Aren't We Wonderful? | Wir Wunderkinder | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany |
1960s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film |
| 1960 | The Virgin Spring | Jungfrukällan | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| The Truth | La Vérité | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France |
| 1961 | Two Women | La ciociara | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| 1962 | Divorce Italian Style | Divorzio all'italiana | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| 1963 | Any Number Can Win | Mélodie en sous-sol | Henri Verneuil | France |
| 1964 | Marriage Italian Style | Matrimonio all'italiana | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| Sallah Shabati | סאלח שבתי | Ephraim Kishon | Israel |
| Best Foreign Film – Foreign Language |
| 1965 | Juliet of the Spirits | Giulietta degli spiriti | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Always Further On | Tarahumara, cada vez más lejos | Luis Alcoriza | Mexico |
| Circle of Love | La ronde | Roger Vadim | France |
| Red Beard | 赤ひげ | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Les parapluies de Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | France |
| 1966 | A Man and a Woman | Un homme et une femme | Claude Lelouch | France |
| The Birds, the Bees and the Italians | Signore & signori | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| Hamlet | Гамлет | Grigori Kozintsev | Soviet Union |
| Impossible on Saturday | Pas question le samedi | Alex Joffé | France |
| Loves of a Blonde | Lásky jedné plavovlásky | Miloš Forman | Czechoslovakia |
| 1967 | Live for Life | Vivre pour vivre | Claude Lelouch | France |
| The Climax | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| Closely Watched Trains | Ostře sledované vlaky | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| Elvira Madigan | Bo Widerberg | Sweden |
| The Stranger | Lo straniero | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
| 1968 | War and Peace | Война и мир | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union |
| The Bride Wore Black | La mariée était en noir | François Truffaut | France |
| I Even Met Happy Gypsies | Skupljači perja | Aleksandar Petrović | Yugoslavia |
| Shame | Skammen | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Stolen Kisses | Baisers volés | François Truffaut | France |
| 1969 | Z | Costa-Gavras | Algeria |
| Ådalen 31 | Ådalen '31 | Bo Widerberg | Sweden |
| Blaumilch Canal | Te'alat Blaumilch | Ephraim Kishon | Israel |
| Girls in the Sun | Κορίτσια στον Ήλιο | Vasilis Georgiadis | Greece |
| Fellini Satyricon | Federico Fellini | Italy |
1970s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 1970 | Rider on the Rain | Le Passager de la Pluie | René Clément | France |
| Borsalino | Jacques Deray | Italy |
| The Confession | L'aveu | Costa-Gavras | France |
| The Customer of the Off Season | אורח בעונה מתה | Moshé Mizrahi | France, Israel |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto | Elio Petri | Italy |
| 1971 | The Policeman | השוטר אזולאי | Ephraim Kishon | Israel |
| Claire's Knee | Le genou de Claire | Éric Rohmer | France |
| The Conformist | Il conformista | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| Tchaikovsky | Чайковский | Igor Talankin | Soviet Union |
| To Die of Love | Mourir d'aimer | André Cayatte | France |
| 1972 | The Emigrants | Utvandrarna | Jan Troell | Sweden |
| The New Land | Nybyggarna |
| Cries and Whispers | Viskningar och rop | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie | Luis Buñuel | France |
| Mirage | Espejismo | Armando Robles Godoy | Peru |
| Roma | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Best Foreign Film |
| 1973 | The Pedestrian | Der Fußgänger | Maximilian Schell | West Germany |
| Alfredo, Alfredo | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| Day for Night | La nuit américaine | François Truffaut | France |
| Kazablan | Menahem Golan | Israel |
| State of Siege | État de siège | Costa-Gavras | France |
| 1974 | Scenes from a Marriage | Scener ur ett äktenskap | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob | Gérard Oury | France |
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada |
| Amarcord | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | France |
| 1975 | Lies My Father Told Me | Ján Kadár | Canada |
| And Now My Love | Toute une vie | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Hedda | Trevor Nunn | United Kingdom |
| The Magic Flute | Trollflöjten | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Special Section | Section spéciale | Costa-Gavras | France |
| 1976 | Face to Face | Ansikte mot ansikte | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Cousin Cousine | Jean-Charles Tacchella | France |
| Pocket Money | L'argent de poche | François Truffaut |
| Seven Beauties | Pasqualino Settebellezze | Lina Wertmüller | Italy |
| The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| 1977 | A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | Ettore Scola | Italy |
| An Elephant Can Be Extremely Deceptive | Un éléphant ça trompe énormément | Yves Robert | France |
| Madame Rosa | La vie devant soi | Moshé Mizrahi |
| That Obscure Object of Desire | Cet obscur objet du désir | Luis Buñuel |
| Raise Ravens | Cría cuervos | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| 1978 | Autumn Sonata | Höstsonaten | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Death on the Nile | John Guillermin | England |
| Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands | Dona Flor e seus dois maridos | Bruno Barreto | Brazil |
| A Dream of Passion | Κραυγή Γυναικών | Jules Dassin | Greece |
| Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | Préparez vos mouchoirs | Bertrand Blier | France |
| Going All the Way | Eskimo Limon | Boaz Davidson | Israel |
| 1979 | La cage aux folles | Édouard Molinaro | France, Italy |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Die Ehe der Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| The Europeans | James Ivory | United Kingdom |
| Till Marriage Do Us Part | Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso! | Luigi Comencini | Italy |
| Soldier of Orange | Soldaat van Oranje | Paul Verhoeven | Netherlands |
1980s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 1980 | Tess | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | Australia |
| The Last Metro | Le dernier métro | François Truffaut | France |
| My Brilliant Career | Gillian Armstrong | Australia |
| Shadow Warrior | 影武者 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Special Treatment | Poseban tretman | Goran Paskaljević | Yugoslavia |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson | United Kingdom |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | Canada |
| The Boat | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany |
| Gallipoli | Peter Weir | Australia |
| Pixote: The Law of the Weakest | Pixote: A lei do mais fraco | Héctor Babenco | Brazil |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough | India |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | West Germany |
| The Man from Snowy River | George T. Miller | Australia |
| Quest for Fire | La guerre du feu | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Canada |
| La traviata | Franco Zeffirelli | Italy |
| The Way | Yol | Yılmaz Güney & Şerif Gören | Switzerland |
| 1983 | Fanny and Alexander | Fanny och Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Carmen | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| The Dresser | Peter Yates | United Kingdom |
| Educating Rita | Lewis Gilbert |
| The Grey Fox | Phillip Borsos | Canada |
| 1984 | A Passage to India | David Lean | United Kingdom |
| Carmen | Francesco Rosi | France |
| Dangerous Moves | La diagonale du fou | Richard Dembo | Switzerland |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | France, Germany |
| A Sunday in the Country | Un dimanche à la campagne | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| 1985 | The Official Story | La historia oficial | Luis Puenzo | Argentina |
| Colonel Redl | Oberst Redl | István Szabó | Hungary |
| Ran | 乱 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| When Father Was Away on Business | Otac na sluzbenom putu | Emir Kusturica | Yugoslavia |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Rok spokojnego słońca | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| Best Foreign Language Film |
| 1986 | The Assault | De aanslag | Fons Rademakers | Netherlands |
| Betty Blue | 37°2 le matin | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France |
| Ginger and Fred | Ginger e Fred | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Otello |
| Three Men and a Cradle | 3 hommes et un couffin | Coline Serreau | France |
| 1987 | My Life as a Dog | Mitt liv som hund | Lasse Hallström | Sweden |
| Dark Eyes | Oci ciornie | Nikita Mikhalkov | Italy |
| Goodbye, Children | Au revoir, les enfants | Louis Malle | France |
| Jean de Florette | Claude Berri |
| Repentance | მონანიება | Tengiz Abuladze | Soviet Union |
| 1988 | Pelle the Conqueror | Pelle erobreren | Bille August | Denmark |
| Babette's Feast | Babettes gæstebud | Gabriel Axel | Denmark |
| Hanussen | István Szabó | Hungary |
| Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | India |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 1989 | Cinema Paradiso | Nuovo cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| Camille Claudel | Bruno Nuytten | France |
| Jesus of Montreal | Jésus de Montréal | Denys Arcand | Canada |
| My Uncle's Legacy | Život sa stricem | Krsto Papić | Yugoslavia |
| Story of Women | Une affaire de femmes | Claude Chabrol | France |
1990s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France |
| Dreams | 夢 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| The Nasty Girl | Das schreckliche Mädchen | Michael Verhoeven | West Germany |
| Requiem for Dominic | Requiem für Dominik | Robert Dornhelm | Austria |
| Taxi Blues | Такси-блюз | Pavel Lungin | Soviet Union |
| 1991 | Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | Germany |
| The Double Life of Véronique | La double vie de Véronique | Krzysztof Kieślowski | France |
| High Heels | Tacones lejanos | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Madame Bovary | Claude Chabrol | France |
| La Femme Nikita | Nikita | Luc Besson |
| Lost in Siberia | Zateryannyy v Sibiri | Alexander Mitta | Soviet Union |
| 1992 | Indochine | Régis Wargnier | France |
| All the Mornings of the World | Tous les matins du monde | Alain Corneau | France |
| Close to Eden | Urga | Nikita Mikhalkov | Russia |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Como agua para chocolate | Alfonso Arau | Mexico |
| Schtonk! | Helmut Dietl | Germany |
| 1993 | Farewell My Concubine | 霸王別姬 | Chen Kaige | Hong Kong |
| Flight of the Innocent | La corsa dell'innocente | Carlo Carlei | Italy |
| Justice | Justiz | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Germany |
| Three Colors: Blue | Trois couleurs: Bleu | Krzysztof Kieślowski | France |
| The Wedding Banquet | 喜宴 | Ang Lee | Taiwan |
| 1994 | Farinelli | Gérard Corbiau | Belgium |
| Eat Drink Man Woman | 飲食男女 | Ang Lee | Taiwan |
| To Live | 活著 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| Queen Margot | La reine Margot | Patrice Chéreau | France |
| Three Colors: Red | Trois couleurs: Rouge | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Switzerland |
| 1995 | Les Misérables | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Brother of Sleep | Schlafes Bruder | Joseph Vilsmaier | Germany |
| French Twist | Gazon maudit | Josiane Balasko | France |
| Like Two Crocodiles | Come due coccodrilli | Giacomo Campiotti | Italy |
| Shanghai Triad | 搖啊搖，搖到外婆橋 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| 1996 | Kolya | Kolja | Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic |
| The Eighth Day | Le huitième jour | Jaco Van Dormael | Belgium |
| Luna e l'altra | Maurizio Nichetti | Italy |
| Prisoner of the Mountains | Кавказский пленник / Kavkazskiy plennik | Sergei Bodrov | Russia |
| Ridicule | Patrice Leconte | France |
| 1997 | My Life in Pink | Ma vie en rose | Alain Berliner | Belgium |
| Artemisia | Agnès Merlet | France |
| The Best Man | Il testimone dello sposo | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| Lea | Ivan Fíla | Germany |
| The Thief | Вор | Pavel Chukhray | Russia |
| 1998 | Central Station | Central do Brasil | Walter Salles | Brazil |
| The Celebration | Festen | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| Men with Guns | John Sayles | United States |
| The Polish Bride | De Poolse bruid | Karim Traïdia | Netherlands |
| Tango | Tango, no me dejes nunca | Carlos Saura | Argentina |
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Todo sobre mi madre | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Aimée & Jaguar | Max Färberböck | Germany |
| East/West | Est-Ouest | Régis Wargnier | France |
| Girl on the Bridge | La fille sur le pont | Patrice Leconte |
| The Red Violin | Le violon rouge | François Girard | Canada |
2000s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 臥虎藏龍 | Ang Lee | Taiwan |
| Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico |
| Malèna | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| One Hundred Steps | I cento passi | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| The Widow of Saint-Pierre | La veuve de Saint-Pierre | Patrice Leconte | France |
| 2001 | No Man's Land | Danis Tanović | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Amélie | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| Behind the Sun | Abril despedaçado | Walter Salles | Brazil |
| Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | India |
| Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico |
| 2002 | Talk to Her | Hable con ella | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise | Dai Sijie | France |
| City of God | Cidade de Deus | Fernando Meirelles | Brazil |
| The Crime of Father Amaro | El crimen del padre Amaro | Carlos Carrera | Mexico |
| Hero | 英雄 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| Nowhere in Africa | Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | Germany |
| 2003 | Osama | أسامة | Siddiq Barmak | Afghanistan |
| The Barbarian Invasions | Les invasions barbares | Denys Arcand | Canada |
| Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Germany |
| Monsieur Ibrahim | Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran | François Dupeyron | France |
| The Return | Возвращение | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| 2004 | The Sea Inside | Mar adentro | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain |
| The Chorus | Les choristes | Christophe Barratier | France |
| House of Flying Daggers | 十面埋伏 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Diários de Motocicleta | Walter Salles | Argentina, Brazil |
| A Very Long Engagement | Un long dimanche de fiançailles | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| 2005 | Paradise Now | الجنّة الآن | Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine |
| Kung Fu Hustle | 功夫 | Stephen Chow | China |
| Merry Christmas | Joyeux Noël | Christian Carion | France |
| The Promise | 無極 | Chen Kaige | China |
| Tsotsi | Gavin Hood | South Africa |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Apocalypto | Mel Gibson | United States |
| The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
| Pan's Labyrinth | El laberinto del fauno | Guillermo del Toro | Mexico |
| Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Le scaphandre et le papillon | Julian Schnabel | France, United States |
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile | Cristian Mungiu | Romania |
| The Kite Runner | Marc Forster | United States |
| Lust, Caution | 色, 戒 | Ang Lee | Taiwan |
| Persepolis | Vincent Paronnaud and
Marjane Satrapi | France |
| 2008 | Waltz with Bashir | ואלס עם באשיר | Ari Folman | Israel |
| The Baader Meinhof Complex | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex | Uli Edel | Germany |
| Everlasting Moments | Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick | Jan Troell | Sweden, Denmark |
| Gomorrah | Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| I've Loved You So Long | Il y a longtemps que je t'aime | Philippe Claudel | France |
| 2009 | The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band | Michael Haneke | Germany |
| Baarìa | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| The Maid | La Nana | Sebastián Silva | Chile |
| A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard | France |
2010s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 2010 | In a Better World | Hævnen | Susanne Bier | Denmark |
| Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Spain, Mexico |
| The Concert | Le Concert | Radu Mihăileanu | France |
| The Edge | Край | Alexei Uchitel | Russia |
| I Am Love | Io Sono L'amore | Luca Guadagnino | Italy |
| 2011 | A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| In the Land of Blood and Honey | Angelina Jolie | United States |
| The Flowers of War | 金陵十三钗 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
| The Skin I Live In | La piel que habito | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2012 | Amour | Michael Haneke | Austria |
| A Royal Affair | En kongelig affære | Nikolaj Arcel | Denmark |
| The Intouchables | Intouchables | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | France |
| Rust and Bone | De rouille et d'os | Jacques Audiard |
| Kon-Tiki | Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg | Norway, United Kingdom, Denmark |
| 2013 | The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | Abdellatif Kechiche | France |
| The Hunt | Jagten | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| The Past | Le Passé | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| The Wind Rises | 風立ちぬ | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| 2014 | Leviathan | Левиафан | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland |
| Tangerines | მანდარინები | Zaza Urushadze | Estonia |
| Force Majeure | Turist | Ruben Östlund | Sweden |
| Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem | גט - המשפט של ויויאן אמסלם | Ronit Elkabetz | Israel |
| 2015 | Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | Hungary |
| The Brand New Testament | Le Tout Nouveau Testament | Jaco Van Dormael | Belgium, France, Luxembourg |
| The Club | El Club | Pablo Larraín | Chile |
| The Fencer | Miekkailija / Vehkleja | Klaus Härö | Finland, Estonia |
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France |
| 2016 | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | France |
| Divines | Houda Benyamina | France |
| Neruda | Pablo Larraín | Chile |
| The Salesman | فروشنده | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany |
| 2017 | In the Fade | Aus dem Nichts | Fatih Akin | Germany |
| A Fantastic Woman | Una Mujer Fantástica | Sebastián Lelio | Chile |
| First They Killed My Father | Angelina Jolie | Cambodia |
| Loveless | Нелюбовь | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico |
| Capernaum | کفرناحوم | Nadine Labaki | Lebanon |
| Girl | Lukas Dhont | Belgium |
| Never Look Away | Werk ohne Autor | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
| Shoplifters | 万引き家族 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| 2019 | Parasite | 기생충 | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| The Farewell | Lulu Wang | United States |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
| Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 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 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | United States |
| Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala |
| The Life Ahead | La vita davanti a sé | Edoardo Ponti | Italy |
| Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti | France |
| 2021 | Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | Germany, Finland, Russia |
| The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| A Hero | قهرمان | Asghar Farhadi | France, Iran |
| Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2022 | Argentina, 1985 | Santiago Mitre | Argentina |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Im Westen nichts Neues | Edward Berger | Germany |
| Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium |
| Decision to Leave | 헤어질 결심 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| RRR | S. S. Rajamouli | India |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | France |
| Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| Io capitano | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| Past Lives | Celine Song | United States |
| Society of the Snow | La sociedad de la nieve | J. A. Bayona | Spain |
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom, Poland |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France |
| All We Imagine as Light | പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം | Payal Kapadia | India |
| The Girl with the Needle | Pigen med nålen | Magnus von Horn | Denmark |
| I'm Still Here | Ainda Estou Aqui | Walter Salles | Brazil |
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانهی انجیر معابد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany |
| Vermiglio | Maura Delpero | Italy |
| 2025 | The Secret Agent | O Agente Secreto | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil |
| It Was Just an Accident | یک تصادف ساده | Jafar Panahi | Iran, France |
| No Other Choice | 어쩔수가없다 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| Sentimental Value | Affeksjonsverdi | Joachim Trier | Norway, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom |
| Sirāt | Oliver Laxe | Spain, France |
| The Voice of Hind Rajab | صوت هند رجب | Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France |
Multiple winners
Nine directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
| 6 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 3 | Vittorio De Sica |
| Claude Lelouch |
| 2 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Michael Cacoyannis |
| Michael Haneke |
| Kurt Hoffmann |
| Keisuke Kinoshita |
| Jan Troell |
| Ephraim Kishon |
See also