Academy Awards: Foreign Language Feature Nominees and Winners

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  • 1947

  • Shoe-Shine [Sciusci] (Italy; Vittorio De Sica)
  • 1948

  • Monsieur Vincent (France; Maurice Cloche)
  • 1949

  • The Bicycle Thief [Ladri di biciclette] (Italy; 1948; Vittorio De Sica)
  • 1950

  • The Walls of Malapaga [Au-delà des grilles] [Le mura di Malapaga] (France, Italy; René Clément)
  • 1951

  • Rashomon (Japan; Akira Kurosawa)
  • 1952

  • Forbidden Games [Jeux interdits] (France; René Clément)
  • 1953

  • (no award given)
  • 1954

  • Gate of Hell [Jigokumon] (Japan; Teinosuke Kinugasa)
  • 1955

  • Samurai, The Legend of Musashi [Miyamoto Musashi] (Japan; Hiroshi Inagaki)
  • 1956

  • La Strada (1954; Federico Fellini), Italy
  • The Captain of Köpenick [Der Hauptmann von Köpenick] (Germany (West); Helmut Käutner)
  • Gervaise ( France; René Clément)
  • The Burmese Harp [Biruma no tategoto] (Japan; Kon Ichikawa)
  • Qivitoq (Denmark; Erik Balling)
  • 1957

  • Nights of Cabiria [Le Notti di Cabiria] (1957; Federico Fellini)
  • The Devil Came at Night [Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam] (Germany (West); Robert Siodmak)
  • Gates of Paris [Porte des Lilas] (France; René Clair)
  • Mother India (India; Mehboob Khan)
  • Nine Lives [Ni liv] (Norway; Arne Skouen)
  • 1958

  • Mon oncle (Franc; Jacques Tati)
  • Arms and the Man [Helden] (Germany (West); Franz Peter Wirth
  • La Venganza (Spain; Juan Antonio Bardem)
  • The Road a Year Long [La strada lunga un anno] [Cesta duga godinu dana] (Yugoslavia; _Giuseppe De Santis)
  • The Usual Unidentified Thieves [I soliti ignoti] (Italy; Mario Monicelli)
  • 1959

  • Black Orpheus [Orfeu Negro] (France; Marcel Camus)
  • The Bridge [Die Brücke] (Germany (West); Bernhard Wicki)
  • The Great War [La grande guerra] (Italy; Mario Monicelli)
  • Paw (Denmark; Astrid Henning-Jensen)
  • The Village on the River [Dorp aan de rivier] (Netherlands; Fons Rademakers)
  • 1960

  • The Virgin Spring [Jungfrukällan] (Sweden; Ingmar Bergman)
  • Kapò (Italy; Gillo Pontecorvo)
  • La Vérité (France; Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  • Macario (Mexico; Roberto Gavaldón)
  • The Ninth Circle [Deveti krug] (Yugoslavia; France Štiglic)
  • 1961

  • Through a Glass Darkly [Såsom i en spegel] (Sweden; Ingmar Bergman)
  • Harry and the Butler [Harry og kammertjeneren] (Denmark; Bent Christensen)
  • Immortal Love [Eien no hito] ( Japan; Keisuke Kinoshita)
  • The Important Man [Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante)] (Mexico; Ismael Rodríguez)
  • Plácido (Spain; Luis García Berlanga)
  • 1962

  • Sundays and Cybele [Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray] (France; Serge Bourguignon)
  • Electra [Ilektra] (Greece; Michael Cacoyannis)
  • The Four Days of Naples [Le quattro giornate di Napoli] (Italy; Nanni Loy)
  • Keeper of Promises (The Given Word) [O Pagador de Promessas] (Brazil; Anselmo Duarte)
  • Tlayucan ( Mexico; Luis Alcoriza)
  • 1963

  • 8½ (1963; Federico Fellini)
  • Nóż w wodzie [Knife in the Water] (Roman Polanski)
  • Los Tarantos (Francisco Rovira Beleta)
  • Ta Kokkina fanaria [The Red Lanterns] (Vasilis dis)
  • Koto [Twin Sisters of Kyoto] (Noboru Nakamura)
  • 1964

  • Ieri, oggi, domani [Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow] (Vittorio De Sica)
  • Kvarteret Korpen [Raven's End] (Bo Widerberg)
  • Sallah Shabati [Sallah] (Ephraim Kishon)
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg] (1964; Jacques Demy)
  • Woman in the Dunes [Suna no onna] (1964; Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  • 1965

  • Obchod na korze [The Shop on Main Street] (Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos)
  • To Homa vaftike kokkino [Blood on the Land] (Vasilis Georgiadis)
  • Käre John [Dear John] (Lars-Magnus Lindgren)
  • Kaidan [Kwaidan] (Masaki Kobayashi)
  • Matrimonio all'italiana [Marriage Italian Style] (Vittorio De Sica)
  • 1966

  • Un homme et une femme [A Man and a Woman] (Claude Lelouch)
  • The Battle of Algiers [La battaglia di Algeri] (1965; Gillo Pontecorvo)
  • Lásky jedné plavovlásky [Loves of a Blonde] (Miloš Forman)
  • Faraon [Pharaoh] (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
  • Tri [Three] (Aleksandar Petrović)
  • 1967

  • Closely Watched Trains [Ostre sledované vlaky] (1966; Jirí Menzel)
  • El amor brujo [Carlos Saura Dance Trilogy, Part 3: El Amor Brujo (A Love Bewitched)] (Francisco _Rovira Beleta)
  • Skupljači perja [I Even Met Happy Gypsies] (Aleksandar Petrović)
  • Vivre pour vivre [Live for Life] (Claude Lelouch)
  • Chieko-sho [Portrait of Chieko] (Noboru Nakamura)
  • 1968

  • Voyna i mir [War and Peace] (Sergei Bondarchuk)
  • A Pál-utcai fiúk [The Boys of Paul Street] (Zoltán Fábri)
  • Hoří, má panenko [The Firemen's Ball] (Miloš Forman)
  • La ragazza con la pistola [The Girl with the Pistol] (Mario Monicelli)
  • Baisers volés [Stolen Kisses] (François Truffaut)
  • 1969

  • Z (Costa-Gavras)
  • Ådalen 31 (Bo Widerberg)
  • Bitka na Neretvi [The Battle of Neretva] (Veljko Bulajić)
  • Bratya Karamazovy [The Brothers Karamazov] (Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev, Mikhail Ulyanov)
  • 1969 Ma nuit chez Maud [My Night with Maud] (Eric Rohmer)
  • 1970

  • Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto [Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion] (Elio Petri)
  • Erste Liebe [First Love] (Maximilian Schell)
  • Hoa-Binh [The Bamboo Incident] (Raoul Coutard)
  • Paix sur les champs [ Peace in the Fields] (Jacques Boigelot)
  • Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
  • 1971

  • Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini [The Garden of the Finzi Continis] (Vittorio De Sica)
  • Dodesukaden [Dodes'ka-Den] (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Utvandrarna [The Emigrants] (Jan Troell)
  • Ha-Shoter Azulai [The Policeman] (Ephraim Kishon)
  • Chaykovskiy [Tchaikovsky] (Igor Talankin)
  • 1972

  • Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie [The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie] (Luis Buñuel)
  • A zori zdes tikhie [The Dawns Here Are Quiet] (Stanislav Rostotsky)
  • Ani Ohev Otach Rosa [I Love You Rosa] (Moshé Mizrahi)
  • Mi querida señorita [My Dearest Señorita] (Jaime de Armiñán)
  • Nybyggarna [The New Land] (Jan Troell)
  • 1973

  • La Nuit américaine [Day for Night] (François Truffaut)
  • Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche [The House on Chelouche Street] (Moshé Mizrahi)
  • L'Invitation (Claude Goretta)
  • Der Fußgänger [The Pedestrian] (Maximilian Schell)
  • Turks Fruit [Turkish Delight] (Paul Verhoeven)
  • 1974

  • Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
  • Macskajáték [Cats' Play] (Károly Makk)
  • Potop [The Deluge] (Jerzy Hoffman)
  • Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
  • La tregua [The Truce] (Sergio Renán)
  • Dersu Uzala (1975; Akira Kurosawa)
  • 1975

  • Ziemia obiecana [Land of Promise] (Andrzej Wajda)
  • Actas de Marusia [Letters from Marusia] (Miguel Littín)
  • Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo [Sandakan No. 8] (Kei Kumai)
  • Profumo di donna [Scent of a Woman] (Dino Risi)
  • 1976

  • La Victoire en chantant [Black and White in Color] (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
  • Cousin, cousine (Jean-Charles Tacchella)
  • Jakob, der Lügner [Jacob, the Liar] (Frank Beyer)
  • Noce i dnie [Nights and Days] (Jerzy Antczak)
  • Pasqualino Settebellezze [Seven Beauties] (Lina Wertmüller)
  • 1977

  • La Vie devant soi [Madame Rosa] (Moshé Mizrahi)
  • Ifigeneia [Iphigenia] (Michael Cacoyannis)
  • Mivtsa Yonatan [Operation Thunderbolt] (Menahem Golan)
  • Una giornata particolare [A Special Day] (Ettore Scola)
  • Cet obscur objet du désir [That Obscure Object of Desire] (Luis Buñuel)
  • 1978

  • Préparez vos mouchoirs [Get Out Your Handkerchiefs] (Bertrand Blier)
  • Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] (Hans W. Geißendörfer)
  • Magyarok [Hungarians] (Zoltán Fábri)
  • I nuovi mostri [Viva Italia!] (Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola)
  • Belyy Bim - Chyornoe ukho [White Bim Black Ear] (Stanislav Rostotsky)
  • 1979

  • Die Blechtromme [The Tin Drum] (Volker Schlöndorff)
  • Panny z Wilka [The Maids of Wilko] (Andrzej Wajda)
  • Mamá cumple cien años [Mama Turns a Hundred] (Carlos Saura)
  • Une histoire simple [A Simple Story] (Claude Sautet)
  • Dimenticare Venezia [To Forget Venice] (Franco Brusati)
  • 1980

  • Moskva slezam ne verit [Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears] (Vladimir Menshov)
  • Bizalom [Confidence] (István Szabó)
  • Kagemusha [Kagemusha, The Shadow Warrior] (Akira Kurosawa)
  • The Last Metro [Le dernier métro] (1980; François Truffaut)
  • El nido [The Nest] (Jaime de Armiñán)
  • 1981

  • Mephisto (István Szabó)
  • Das Boot ist vo [The Boat Is Full] (Markus Imhoof)
  • Człowiek z żelaza [Man of Iron] (Andrzej Wajda)
  • Doro no kawa [Muddy River] (Kôhei Oguri)
  • Tre fratelli [Three Brothers] (Francesco Rosi)
  • 1982

  • Volver a empezar [To Begin Again] (José Luis Garci)
  • Alsino y el cóndor [Alsino and the Condor] (Miguel Littín)
  • Coup de torchon [Clean Slate] (Bertrand Tavernier)
  • Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd [The Flight of the Eagle] (Jan Troell)
  • Chastnaya zhizn [Private Life] (Yuli Raizman)
  • 1983

  • Fanny and Alexander [Fanny och Alexander] (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Carmen (Carlos Saura)
  • Coup de foudre [Entre Nous] (Diane Kurys)
  • Jób lázadása [Job's Revolt] (Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay)
  • Le Ba [Le Bal] (Ettore Scola)
  • 1984

  • La Diagonale du fou [Dangerous Moves] (Richard Dembo)
  • Me'Ahorei Hasoragim [Beyond the Walls] (Uri Barbash)
  • Camila (María Luisa Bemberg)
  • Sesión continua [Double Feature] (José Luis Garci)
  • Voenno-polevoy roman [Wartime Romance] (Pyotr Todorovsky)
  • 1985

  • La historia oficial [The Official Story] (Luis Puenzo)
  • Bittere Ernte [Angry Harvest] (Agnieszka Holland)
  • Redl ezredes [Colonel Redl] (István Szabó)
  • Trois Hommes et un couffin [Three Men and a Cradle] (Coline Serreau)
  • Otac na službenom putu [When Father Was Away on Business] (Emir Kusturica)
  • 1986

  • De Aanslag [The Assault] (Fons Rademakers)
  • 37°2 le matin [Betty Blue] (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
  • Le Déclin de l'empire américain [The Decline of the American Empire] (Denys Arcand)
  • Vesničko má středisková [My Sweet Little Village] (Jiří Menzel)
  • 38 – Auch das war Wien ['38'] (Wolfgang Glück)
  • 1987

  • Babette's Feast [Babettes gæstebud] (Gabriel Axel)
  • Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
  • Course Completed [Asignatura aprobada] (José Luis Garci)
  • The Family [La famiglia] (Ettore Scola)
  • Pathfinder [Sami] (Ofelaš)
  • 1988

  • Pelle Erobreren [Pelle the Conqueror] (Bille August)
  • Hanussen (István Szabó)
  • Le maître de musique [The Music Teacher] (Gérard Corbiau)
  • Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair)
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios] (1988; Pedro Almodóvar)
  • 1989

  • Nuovo cinema Paradiso [Cinema Paradiso] (Giuseppe Tornatore)
  • Camille Claudel [Camille Claudel] (Bruno Nuytten)
  • Jésus de Montréal [Jesus of Montreal] (Denys Arcand)
  • Dansen med Regitze [Waltzing Regitze] (Kaspar Rostrup)
  • Lo que le pasó a Santiago [What Happened to Santiago] (Jacobo Morales)
  • Reise der Hoffnung [Journey of Hope] (Xavier Koller)
  • 1990

  • Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
  • Ju Dou (1990; Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang)
  • Das schreckliche Mädchen [The Nasty Girl] (Michael Verhoeven)
  • Porte aperte [Open Doors] (Gianni Amelio)
  • 1991

  • Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvatores)
  • Börn náttúrunnar [Children of Nature] (Friðrik Þór Friðriksson)
  • Obecná škola [The Elementary School] (Jan Svěrák)
  • Oxen [The Ox] (Sven Nykvist)
  • Raise the Red Lantern [Da hong deng long gao gao gua] (1991; Yimou Zhang)
  • 1992

  • Indochine (Régis Wargnier)
  • Urga [Close to Eden] (Nikita Mikhalkov)
  • Daens (Stijn Coninx)
  • Un lugar en el mundo [A Place in the World] (Adolfo Aristarain)
  • Schtonk! (Helmut Dietl)
  • 1993

  • Belle Époque (Fernando Trueba)
  • Bàwáng Bié Jī [Farewell My Concubine] (Chen Kaige)
  • Hedd Wyn (Paul Turner)
  • Mùi đu đủ xanh [The Scent of Green Papaya] (Trần Anh Hùng)
  • Xǐyàn [The Wedding Banquet] (Ang Lee)
  • 1994

  • Utomlyonnye solntsem [Burnt by the Sun] (Nikita Mikhalkov)
  • Pred dozhdot [Before the Rain] (Milčo Mančevski)
  • yǐn shí nán nǚ [Eat Drink Man Woman] (Ang Lee)
  • Farinelli [Farinelli: Il Castrato] (Gérard Corbiau)
  • Fresa y chocolate [Strawberry and Chocolate] (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío)
  • 1995

  • Antonia [Antonia's Line] (Marleen Gorris)
  • Lust och fägring stor [All Things Fair] (Bo Widerberg)
  • Poussières de vie [Dust of Life] (Rachid Bouchareb)
  • O Quatrilho (Fábio Barreto)
  • L'uomo delle stelle [The Star Maker] (Giuseppe Tornatore)
  • 1996

  • Kolja [Kolya] (Jan Svěrák)
  • Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti [A Chef in Love] (Nana Dzhordzhadze)
  • Søndagsengler [The Other Side of Sunday] (Berit Nesheim)
  • Kavkazskiy plennik [Prisoner of the Mountains] (Sergei Bodrov)
  • Ridicule (Patrice Leconte)
  • 1997

  • Karakter [Character] (Mike van Diem)
  • Jenseits der Stille [Beyond Silence] (Caroline Link)
  • O que É Isso, Companheiro? [Four Days in September] (Bruno Barreto)
  • Secretos del corazón [Secrets of the Heart] (Montxo Armendáriz)
  • Vor [The Thief] (Pavel Chukhraj)
  • 1998

  • Life Is Beautiful [La Vita è bella] (1997, Roberto Benigni)
  • Central do Brasi [Central Station] (Walter Salles)
  • Bacheha-Ye aseman [Children of Heaven] (Majid Majidi)
  • El abuelo [The Grandfather] (José Luis Garci)
  • Tango, no me dejes nunca [Tango] (Carlos Saura)
  • 1999

  • Todo sobre mi madre [All About My Mother] (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef [Caravan] (Eric Valli)
  • Est-Ouest [East-West] (Régis Wargnier)
  • Solomon a Gaenor [Solomon and Gaenor] (Paul Morrison)
  • Under solen [Under the Sun] (Colin Nutley)
  • 2000

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Wo hu cang long] (Ang Lee)
  • Amores perros (2000; Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • Musíme si pomáhat [Divided We Fall] (Jan Hřebejk)
  • Iedereen beroemd! [Everybody Famous!] (Dominique Deruddere)
  • Le goût des autres [The Taste of Others] (Agnès Jaoui)
  • 2001

  • Ničija zemlja [No Man's Land] (Danis Tanović)
  • Amélie [Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain] (2001; Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
  • Elling (Petter Næss)
  • Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker)
  • El hijo de la novia [Son of the Bride] (Juan J. Campanella)
  • 2002

  • Nirgendwo in Afrika [Nowhere in Africa] (Caroline Link)
  • El crimen del padre Amaro [The Crime of Father Amaro] (Carlos Carrera)
  • Yīng xióng [Hero] (Zhang Yimou)
  • Mies vailla menneisyyttä [The Man Without a Past] (Aki Kaurismäki)
  • Zus & zo (Paula van der Oest)
  • 2003

  • Les Invasions barbares [The Barbarian Invasions] (Denys Arcand)
  • Ondskan [Evil] (Mikael Håfström)
  • Tasogare Seibei [The Twilight Samurai] (Yoji Yamada)
  • De tweeling [Twin Sisters] (Ben Sombogaart)
  • Želary (Ondřej Trojan)
  • 2004

  • Mar adentro [The Sea Inside] (Alejandro Amenábar)
  • Så som i himmelen [As It Is in Heaven] (Kay Pollak)
  • Les choristes [The Chorus] (Christophe Barratier)
  • Der Untergang [Downfall] (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  • Yesterday [Yesterday] (Darrell Roodt)
  • 2005

  • Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)
  • La bestia nel cuore [Don't Tell] (Cristina Comencini)
  • Joyeux Noël [Joyeux Noël] (Christian Carion)
  • Al-Jannah al'ān [Paradise Now] (Hany Abu-Assad)
  • Sophie Scholl: The Final Days [Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage] (2005; Marc Rothemund)
  • 2006

  • Das Leben der Anderen [The Lives of Others] (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • Efter brylluppet [After the Wedding] (Susanne Bier)
  • Indigènes [Days of Glory] (Rachid Bouchareb)
  • Pan's Labyrinth [El laberinto del fauno] (Guillermo del Toro)
  • Water (Deepa Mehta)
  • 2007

  • Die Fälscher [The Counterfeiters] (Stefan Ruzowitzky)
  • 12 (Nikita Mikhalkov)
  • Beaufort (Joseph Cedar)
  • Katyń (Andrzej Wajda)
  • Mongol (Sergei Bodrov)
  • 2008

  • Okuribito [Departures] (Yojiro Takita)
  • Der Baader Meinhof Komplex [The Baader Meinhof Complex] (Uli Edel)
  • Entre les murs [The Class] (Laurent Cantet)
  • Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
  • Vals Im Bashir [Waltz with Bashir] (Ari Folman)
  • 2009

  • El secreto de sus ojos [The Secret In Their Eyes] (Juan José Campanella)
  • Ajami (Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani)
  • La teta asustada [The Milk of Sorrow] (Claudia Llosa)
  • Un prophète [A Prophet] (Jacques Audiard)
  • The White Ribbon [Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte] (2009; Michael Haneke)
  • 2010

  • In a Better World (Susanne Bier)
  • Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  • Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)
  • Outside the Law [Hors-la-loi] (Rachid Bouchareb)
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Updated 2010

For each year, the entry at the head of the list won the Academy Award for that year.
From Wikipeia: The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.