# New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle.

## Winners
### 1930s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 1937 | Mayerling | Mayerling | France | Anatole Litvak |
| 1938 | Grand Illusion | La Grande Illusion | France | Jean Renoir |
| 1939 | Harvest | Regain | France | Marcel Pagnol |

### 1940s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 1940 | The Baker's Wife | La femme du boulanger | France | Marcel Pagnol |
| 1946 | Rome, Open City | Roma città aperta | Italy | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1947 | To Live in Peace | Vivere in pace | Italy | Luigi Zampa |
| 1948 | Paisan | Paisà | Italy | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1949 | Bicycle Thieves | Ladri di biciclette | Italy | Vittorio De Sica |

### 1950s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 1950 | L'Amore | L'Amore | Italy | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1951 | Miracle in Milan | Miracolo a Milano | Italy | Vittorio De Sica |
| 1952 | Forbidden Games | Jeux interdits | France | René Clément |
| 1953 | Justice Is Done | Justice est faite | France | André Cayatte |
| 1954 | Gate of Hell | Jigokumon | Japan | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
| 1955 | Umberto D. | Umberto D. | Italy | Vittorio De Sica |
| 1956 | The Road | La Strada | Italy | Federico Fellini |
| 1957 | Gervaise | Gervaise | France | René Clément |
| 1958 | My Uncle | Mon Oncle | France | Jacques Tati |
| 1959 | The 400 Blows | Les Quatre Cents Coups | France | François Truffaut |

### 1960s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 1960 | Hiroshima My Love | Hiroshima mon amour | France | Alain Resnais |
| 1961 | The Sweet Life | La Dolce Vita | Italy | Federico Fellini |
| 1963 | 8½ | Otto e mezzo | Italy | Federico Fellini |
| 1964 | That Man from Rio | L'homme de Rio | France | Philippe de Broca |
| 1965 | Juliet of the Spirits | Giulietta degli spiriti | Italy | Federico Fellini |
| 1966 | The Shop on Main Street | Obchod na korze | Czechoslovakia | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos |
| 1967 | The War Is Over | La guerre est finie | France | Alain Resnais |
| 1968 | War and Peace | Voyna i mir | Soviet Union | Sergei Bondarchuk |

### 1970s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 1978 | Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | Italy | Franco Brusati |
| 1979 | The Tree with the Wooden Clogs | L'albero degli zoccoli | France/Italy | Ermanno Olmi |

### 1980s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 1980 | My American Uncle | Mon oncle d'Amérique | France | Alain Resnais |
| 1981 | Pixote | Pixote: A lei do mais fraco | Brazil | Hector Babenco |
| 1982 | Time Stands Still | Megáll az idö | Hungary | Péter Gothár |
| 1983 | Fanny and Alexander | Fanny och Alexander | Sweden | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1984 | A Sunday in the Country | Un dimanche à la campagne | France | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 1985 | Ran | Ran | Japan/France | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1986 | The Decline of the American Empire | Le déclin de l'empire américain | Canada | Denys Arcand |
| 1987 | My Life as a Dog | Mitt liv som hund | Sweden | Lasse Hallström |
| 1988 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | Spain | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 1989 | Story of Women | Une affaire de femmes | France | Claude Chabrol |

### 1990s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 1990 | The Nasty Girl | Das Schreckliche Mädchen | Germany | Michael Verhoeven |
| 1991 | Europa Europa | Hitlerjunge Salomon | Germany | Agnieszka Holland |
| 1992 | Raise the Red Lantern | Da hong deng long gao gao gua | China/Hong Kong/Taiwan | Zhang Yimou |
| 1993 | Farewell My Concubine | Ba wang bie ji | China/Hong Kong | Chen Kaige |
| 1994 | Three Colours: Red | Trois couleurs: Rouge | France/Poland/Switzerland | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| 1995 | Wild Reeds | Les Roseaux sauvages | France | André Téchiné |
| 1996 | The White Balloon | Badkonake sefid | Iran | Jafar Panahi |
| 1997 | Ponette | Ponette | France | Jacques Doillon |
| 1998 | The Celebration | Festen | Denmark | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Todo sobre mi madre | Spain | Pedro Almodóvar |

### 2000s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 2000 | Yi Yi | Yī Yī | Japan/Taiwan | Edward Yang |
| 2001 | In the Mood for Love | Faa yeung nin wa | France/Hong Kong | Wong Kar-wai |
| 2002 | And Your Mother Too | Y Tu Mamá También | Mexico | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2003 | City of God | Cidade de Deus | Brazil | Fernando Meirelles |
| 2004 | Bad Education | La mala educación | Spain | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2005 | 2046 | 2046 | China/Hong Kong | Wong Kar-wai |
| 2006 | Army of Shadows | L'armée des ombres | France/Italy | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 2007 | The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | Germany | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| 2008 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile | Romania | Cristian Mungiu |
| 2009 | Summer Hours | L'Heure d'été | France | Olivier Assayas |

### 2010s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 2010 | Carlos | Carlos | France/Germany | Olivier Assayas |
| 2011 | A Separation | Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín | Iran | Asghar Farhadi |
| 2012 | Amour | Amour | Austria/France/Germany | Michael Haneke |
| 2013 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | France | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 2014 | Ida | Ida | Poland | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| 2015 | Timbuktu | Timbuktu | Mauritania | Abderrahmane Sissako |
| 2016 | Toni Erdmann | Toni Erdmann | Germany | Maren Ade |
| 2017 | BPM (Beats per Minute) | BPM (Beats per Minute) | France | Robin Campillo |
| 2018 | Cold War | Zimna Wojna | Poland | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| 2019 | Parasite | Gisaengchung | South Korea | Bong Joon-ho |

### 2020s

| Year | English title | Original title | Country | Director(s) |
| 2020 | Bacurau | Bacurau | Brazil | Kleber Mendonça Filho Juliano Dornelles |
| 2021 | The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Norway | Joachim Trier |
| 2022 | EO | Io | Poland | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | France | Justine Triet |
| 2024 | All We Imagine as Light | പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം | India | Payal Kapadia |

## Multiple winners

10 directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
| 4 | Federico Fellini |
| 3 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 3 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 3 | Alain Resnais |
| 3 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 2 | Olivier Assayas |
| 2 | René Clément |
| 2 | Wong Kar-wai |
| 2 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 2 | Paweł Pawlikowski |