# AACTA International Award for Best Film

The AACTA Award for Best International Film is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote, and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television". The award is presented at the annual AACTA International Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature films, regardless of where the film was made.
From 1992 to 2004, a similar award was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation. It was known as the AFI Award for Best Foreign Film and was handed out at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards).

## Winners and nominees

The winner is highlighted first and highlighted in boldface.

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2011 (1st) |
| 2011 (1st) | The Artist | Thomas Langmann |
| 2011 (1st) | The Descendants | Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, and Jim Taylor |
| 2011 (1st) | Hugo | Johnny Depp, Timothy Headington, Graham King, and Martin Scorsese |
| 2011 (1st) | The Ides of March | George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Brian Oliver |
| 2011 (1st) | Margin Call | Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson, Joe Jenckes, Corey Moosa, Zachary Quinto, Laura Rister, and Cassian Elwes |
| 2011 (1st) | Melancholia | Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth |
| 2011 (1st) | Midnight in Paris | Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, and Jaume Roures |
| 2011 (1st) | Moneyball | Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt |
| 2011 (1st) | The Tree of Life | Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, and Bill Pohlad |
| 2011 (1st) | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Jennifer Fox, Luc Roeg, and Bob Salerno |
| 2012 (2nd) |
| 2012 (2nd) | Silver Linings Playbook | Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti, and Jonathan Gordon |
| 2012 (2nd) | Argo | Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov |
| 2012 (2nd) | Les Misérables | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh |
| 2012 (2nd) | Life of Pi | Ang Lee, Gil Netter, and David Womark |
| 2012 (2nd) | Lincoln | Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg |
| 2012 (2nd) | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, and Megan Ellison |
| 2013 (3rd) |
| 2013 (3rd) | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman |
| 2013 (3rd) | 12 Years a Slave | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, and Anthony Katagas |
| 2013 (3rd) | American Hustle | Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, and Megan Ellison |
| 2013 (3rd) | Captain Phillips | Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti, and Scott Rudin |
| 2013 (3rd) | Rush | Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Oliver, Peter Morgan, Brian Grazer, and Ron Howard |
| 2014 (4th) |
| 2014 (4th) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, and James W. Skotchdopole |
| 2014 (4th) | Boyhood | Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, and John Sloss |
| 2014 (4th) | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson |
| 2014 (4th) | The Imitation Game | Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman |
| 2014 (4th) | Whiplash | Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, Michel Litvak, and David Lancaster |
| 2015 (5th) |
| 2015 (5th) | Mad Max: Fury Road | Doug Mitchell, George Miller, and P. J. Voeten |
| 2015 (5th) | The Big Short | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Arnon Milchan, and Brad Pitt |
| 2015 (5th) | Carol | Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, and Christine Vachon |
| 2015 (5th) | The Revenant | Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, David Kanter, Mary Parent, James W. Skotchdopole, and Keith Redmon |
| 2015 (5th) | Spotlight | Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Michael Sugar |
| 2016 (6th) |
| 2016 (6th) | La La Land | Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt |
| 2016 (6th) | Arrival | Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, David Linde, and Aaron Ryder |
| 2016 (6th) | Hacksaw Ridge | Terry Benedict, Paul Currie, Bruce Davey, William D. Johnson, Bill Mechanic, Brian Oliver, and David Permut |
| 2016 (6th) | Lion | Iain Canning, Angie Fielder, and Emile Sherman |
| 2016 (6th) | Manchester by the Sea | Kimberly Steward, Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, and Kevin J. Walsh |
| 2017 (7th) |
| 2017 (7th) | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh |
| 2017 (7th) | Call Me by Your Name | Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Émilie Georges, and Marco Morabito |
| 2017 (7th) | Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas |
| 2017 (7th) | Lady Bird | Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, and Evelyn O'Neill |
| 2017 (7th) | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale |
| 2018 (8th) |
| 2018 (8th) | Roma | Nicolás Celis, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gabriela Rodríguez |
| 2018 (8th) | BlacKkKlansman | Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele, and Shaun Redick |
| 2018 (8th) | Bohemian Rhapsody | Jim Beach, and Graham King |
| 2018 (8th) | A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Jon Peters, Todd Phillips, and Lynette Howell Taylor |
| 2018 (8th) | Vice | Megan Ellison, Will Ferrell, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, and Brad Pitt |
| 2019 (9th) |
| 2019 (9th) | Parasite | Kwak Sin-ae and Bong Joon-ho |
| 2019 (9th) | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Irwin Winkler |
| 2019 (9th) | Joker | Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff |
| 2019 (9th) | The King | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Liz Watts, David Michôd, and Joel Edgerton |
| 2019 (9th) | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, and Quentin Tarantino |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2020 (10th) |
| 2020 (10th) | Promising Young Woman | Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara, Tom Ackerley, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, and Emerald Fennell |
| 2020 (10th) | The Father | David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne, Christophe Spardone, and Simon Friend |
| 2020 (10th) | Minari | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Christina Oh |
| 2020 (10th) | Nomadland | Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, and Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 (10th) | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Stuart M. Besser, Matt Jackson, Marc Platt, and Tyler Thompson |
| 2021 (11th) |
| 2021 (11th) | The Power of the Dog | Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Jane Campion, and Tanya Seghatchian |
| 2021 (11th) | Being the Ricardos | Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch |
| 2021 (11th) | Belfast | Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas |
| 2021 (11th) | Dune | Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, and Joe Caracciolo Jr. |
| 2021 (11th) | Licorice Pizza | Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, and Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2021 (11th) | Nitram | Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell, Justin Kurzel, and Shaun Grant |
| 2022 (12th) |
| 2022 (12th) | Avatar: The Way of Water | James Cameron and Jon Landau |
| 2022 (12th) | The Banshees of Inisherin | Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh |
| 2022 (12th) | Elvis | Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss |
| 2022 (12th) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, and Peter Tam Lee |
| 2022 (12th) | Top Gun: Maverick | Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison, and Jerry Bruckheimer |
| 2023 (13th) |
| 2023 (13th) | Barbie | David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Robbie Brenner |
| 2023 (13th) | American Fiction | Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, and Jermaine Johnson |
| 2023 (13th) | Killers of the Flower Moon | Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, and Daniel Lupi |
| 2023 (13th) | Oppenheimer | Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan |
| 2023 (13th) | Poor Things | Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Emma Stone |
| 2024 (14th) |
| 2024 (14th) | Better Man | Paul Currie, Michael Gracey, Coco Xiaolu Ma, Craig McMahon, and Jules Daly |
| 2024 (14th) | Anora | Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, and Sean Baker |
| 2024 (14th) | Dune: Part Two | Mary Parent,Cale Boyter, Patrick McCormick, Tanya Lapointe, and Denis Villeneuve |
| 2024 (14th) | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux, Valérie Schermann, and Anthony Vaccarello |
| 2024 (14th) | The Brutalist | Trevor Matthews, Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, and Brady Corbet |