# Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Film

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Film is a prize recognizing excellence in Foreign film. It is awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards.

## List of winners

| No. | Year | Film | Director(s) |
| 1 | 1950 | N/A | N/A |
| 2 | 1951 | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder |
| 3 | 1952 | Monsieur Verdoux | Charles Chaplin |
| 4 | 1953 | Forbidden Games | René Clément |
| 5 | 1954 | The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 6 | 1955 | East of Eden | Elia Kazan |
| 7 | 1956 | Gervaise | René Clément |
| 8 | 1957 | La Strada | Federico Fellini |
| 9 | 1958 | The Old Man and the Sea | John Sturges Henry King Fred Zinnemann |
| 10 | 1959 | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet |
| 11 | 1960 | On the Beach | Stanley Kramer |
| 12 | 1961 | Two Women | Vittorio De Sica |
| 13 | 1962 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford |
| 14 | 1963 | Sundays and Cybele | Serge Bourguignon |
| 15 | 1964 | Lilies of the Field | Ralph Nelson |
| 16 | 1965 | Mary Poppins | Robert Stevenson |
| 17 | 1966 | A Man and a Woman | Claude Lelouch |
| 18 | 1975 | Lenny | Bob Fosse |
| 19 | 1976 | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese |
| 20 | 1977 | Rocky | John G. Avildsen |
| 21 | 1978 | Conversation Piece | Luchino Visconti |
| 22 | 1979 | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino |
| 23 | 1980 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton |
| 24 | 1981 | The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff |
| 25 | 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg |
| 26 | 1983 | Flashdance | Adrian Lyne |
| 27 | 1984 | The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman |
| 28 | 1985 | Witness | Peter Weir |
| 29 | 1986 | The Color Purple | Steven Spielberg |
| 30 | 1987 | The Untouchables | Brian De Palma |
| 31 | 1988 | Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders |
| 32 | 1989 | Die Hard | John McTiernan |
| 33 | 1990 | Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson |
| 34 | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme |
| 35 | 1992 | JFK | Oliver Stone |
| 36 | 1993 | Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg |
| 37 | 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino |
| 38 | 1995 | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood |
| 39 | 1996 | Seven | David Fincher |
| 40 | 1997 | Titanic | James Cameron |
| 41 | 1998 | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson |
| 42 | 1999 | Life Is Beautiful | Roberto Benigni |
| 43 | 2000 | Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier |
| 44 | 2001 | Joint Security Area | Park Chan-wook |
| 45 | 2002 | Shaolin Soccer | Stephen Chow |
| 46 | 2003 | Infernal Affairs | Andrew Lau Alan Mak |
| 47 | 2004 | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood |
| 48 | 2005 | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood |
| 49 | 2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood |
| 50 | 2007 | Dreamgirls | Bill Condon |
| 51 | 2008 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan |
| 52 | 2009 | Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood |
| 53 | 2010 | District 9 | Neill Blomkamp |
| 54 | 2011 | Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky |
| 55 | 2012 | Les Misérables | Tom Hooper |
| 56 | 2013 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 57 | 2014 | Jersey Boys | Clint Eastwood |
| 58 | 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller |
| 59 | 2016 | Rogue One | Gareth Edwards |
| 60 | 2017 | Hidden Figures | Theodore Melfi |
| 61 | 2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Bryan Singer |
| 62 | 2019 | Joker | Todd Phillips |
| 63 | 2020 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho |
| 64 | 2021 | No Time to Die | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| 65 | 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Joseph Kosinski |
| 66 | 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Aaron Horvath Michael Jelenic |
| 67 | 2024 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |