César Award for Best Foreign Film
César Award for Best Foreign Film | |
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Country | Canada / France |
Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
First awarded | 1976 |
Currently held by | The Nature of Love (2024) |
Website | academie-cinema |
The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, sponsored by France and Canada, presents an annual César Award for Best Foreign Film (French: César du meilleur film étranger). This is the list of winners and nominees of the award since the 1970s.
Winners and nominees
1970s
Year | Winner and nominees | Original title | Country | Director |
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1976 (1st) | Scent of a Woman | Profumo di donna | Italy | Dino Risi |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes | West Germany | Werner Herzog | |
The Magic Flute | Trollflöjten | Sweden | Ingmar Bergman | |
Nashville | United States | Robert Altman | ||
1977 (2nd) | We All Loved Each Other So Much | C'eravamo tanto amati | Italy | Ettore Scola |
Barry Lyndon | United Kingdom/ United States | Stanley Kubrick | ||
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | United States | Miloš Forman | ||
Raise Ravens | Cría cuervos | Spain | Carlos Saura | |
1978 (3rd) | A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | Italy | Ettore Scola |
The American Friend | Der amerikanische Freund | West Germany | Wim Wenders | |
Annie Hall | United States | Woody Allen | ||
Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | Italy | Franco Brusati | |
1979 (4th) | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | L'albero degli zoccoli | Italy | Ermanno Olmi |
Autumn Sonata | Höstsonaten | Sweden | Ingmar Bergman | |
Julia | United States | Fred Zinnemann | ||
A Wedding | United States | Robert Altman |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Awards by nation
Country | Number of winning films | Number of nominated films |
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United States of America | 16 | 86 |
United Kingdom | 7 | 21 |
Italy | 6 | 13 |
Spain | 3 | 12 |
Belgium | 2 | 18 |
Germany[nb 1] | 2 | 11 |
Canada | 2 | 6 |
Denmark | 2 | 4 |
Japan | 2 | 5 |
Sweden | 1 | 6 |
Hong Kong | 1 | 2 |
Iran | 1 | 2 |
Australia | 1 | 1 |
Israel | 1 | 1 |
Russia | 1 | 2 |
South Korea | 1 | 2 |
New Zealand | 1 | 1 |
Poland | 0 | 5 |
Brazil | 0 | 3 |
0 | 2 | |
Romania | 0 | 2 |
Turkey | 0 | 2 |
Norway | 0 | 2 |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[nb 2] | 0 | 2 |
Yugoslavia | 0 | 2 |
China | 0 | 1 |
France[nb 3] | 0 | 1 |
Hungary | 0 | 1 |
India | 0 | 1 |
Ireland | 0 | 1 |
Lebanon | 0 | 1 |
South Africa | 0 | 1 |
Taiwan | 0 | 1 |
Finland | 0 | 2 |
Multiple winners
6 directors have won the award multiple times.
Wins | Director |
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3 | Clint Eastwood |
2 | Woody Allen |
Pedro Almodóvar | |
Ken Loach | |
David Lynch | |
Ettore Scola |
Notes
- ^ Includes films of West Germany.
- ^ The Soviet Union received its two nominations for a Russian-language film and a Mongolian-language film before it was formally dissolved on December 26, 1991.
- ^ Films which contains non-French dialogue.
See also
- Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film
- Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
References
- ^ "Berenice Bejo, Lea Seydoux, Roman Polanski Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. 2014-01-31. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
External links
- Official website
- César Award for Best Foreign Film at AlloCiné
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César Award for Best Foreign Film
- Scent of a Woman (1976)
- We All Loved Each Other So Much (1977)
- A Special Day (1978)
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1979)
- Manhattan (1980)
- Kagemusha (1981)
- The Elephant Man (1982)
- Victor/Victoria (1983)
- Fanny and Alexander (1984)
- Amadeus (1985)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1986)
- The Name of the Rose (1987)
- The Last Emperor (1988)
- Bagdad Cafe (1989)
- Dangerous Liaisons (1990)
- Dead Poets Society (1991)
- Toto the Hero (1992)
- High Heels (1993)
- The Piano (1994)
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1995)
- Land and Freedom (1996)
- Breaking the Waves (1997)
- Brassed Off (1998)
- Life Is Beautiful (1999)
- All About My Mother (2000)
- In the Mood for Love (2001)
- Mulholland Drive (2002)
- Bowling for Columbine (2003)
- Mystic River (2004)
- Lost in Translation (2005)
- Million Dollar Baby (2006)
- Little Miss Sunshine (2007)
- The Lives of Others (2008)
- Waltz with Bashir (2009)
- Gran Torino (2010)
- The Social Network (2011)
- A Separation (2012)
- Argo (2013)
- The Broken Circle Breakdown (2014)
- Mommy (2015)
- Birdman (2016)
- I, Daniel Blake (2017)
- Loveless (2018)
- Shoplifters (2019)
- Parasite (2020)
- Another Round (2021)
- The Father (2022)
- The Beasts (2023)
- The Nature of Love (2024)
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