# BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language

The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is a film award given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. The award was first given at the 36th British Academy Film Awards, recognising the films of 1982, and until 1990 was known as the Best Foreign Language Film. Prior to this, films recorded in a language other than English were often recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best Film, known between 1949 and 1969 as Best Film from any Source, also, in the 1980s there were only European films that the language originally recorded spoken in the film is not English, except Ran, between winners and nominees films in this category.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

## Winners and nominees
### 1980s

| Year | Film | Original Title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 1982 (36th) | Christ Stopped at Eboli | Cristo si è fermato a Eboli | Francesco Rosi | Nicola Carraro, Franco Cristaldi | Italy France |
| 1982 (36th) | Das Boot | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | Günter Rohrbach | West Germany |
| 1982 (36th) | Diva | Diva | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Claudie Ossard, Irène Silberman, Serge Silberman | France |
| 1982 (36th) | Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | Werner Herzog, Willi Segler, Lucki Stipetić | West Germany Peru |
| 1983 (37th) | Danton | Danton | Andrzej Wajda | Margaret Ménégoz, Barbara Pec-Slesicka | France Poland |
| 1983 (37th) | Confidentially Yours | Vivement dimanche! | François Truffaut | Armand Barbault, François Truffaut | France |
| 1983 (37th) | Fanny and Alexander | Fanny och Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | Jörn Donner | Sweden |
| 1983 (37th) | La Traviata | La Traviata | Franco Zeffirelli | Tarak Ben Ammar | Italy |
| 1984 (38th) | Carmen | Carmen | Carlos Saura | Emiliano Piedra | Spain |
| 1984 (38th) | The Return of Martin Guerre | Le Retour de Martin Guerre | Daniel Vigne | Daniel Vigne | France |
| 1984 (38th) | Swann in Love | Un amour de Swann | Volker Schlöndorff | Eberhard Junkersdorf, Margaret Ménégoz | France West Germany |
| 1984 (38th) | A Sunday in the Country | Un dimanche à la campagne | Bertrand Tavernier | Bertrand Tavernier, Alain Sarde | France |
| 1985 (39th) | Colonel Redl | Oberst Redl | István Szabó | Manfred Durniok | West Germany Hungary Austria |
| 1985 (39th) | Carmen | Carmen | Francesco Rosi | Patrice Ledoux | France Italy |
| 1985 (39th) | Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart | Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart | Wayne Wang | Tom Sternberg, Wayne Wang, Danny Yung | United States |
| 1985 (39th) | Subway | Subway | Luc Besson | Luc Besson, François Ruggieri | France |
| 1986 (40th) | Ran | 乱 | Akira Kurosawa | Serge Silberman, Masato Hara | Japan |
| 1986 (40th) | Betty Blue | 37° 2 le matin | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France |
| 1986 (40th) | Ginger and Fred | Ginger e Fred | Federico Fellini | Alberto Grimaldi | Italy France West Germany |
| 1986 (40th) | Otello | Otello | Franco Zeffirelli | Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan | Italy |
| 1987 (41st) | The Sacrifice | Offret | Andrei Tarkovsky | Anna-Lena Wibom | Sweden United Kingdom France |
| 1987 (41st) | Jean de Florette | Jean de Florette | Claude Berri | Pierre Grunstein, Alain Poiré | France |
| 1987 (41st) | My Life as a Dog | Mitt liv som hund | Lasse Hallström | Waldemar Bergendahl | Sweden |
| 1987 (41st) | Manon des Sources | Manon des Sources | Claude Berri | Pierre Grunstein, Alain Poiré | France |
| 1988 (42nd) | Babette's Feast | Babettes Gæstebud | Gabriel Axel | Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, Benni Korzen, Pernille Siesbye | Denmark |
| 1988 (42nd) | Au revoir les enfants | Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | Louis Malle | France West Germany |
| 1988 (42nd) | Dark Eyes | Oci ciornie / Очи чёрные, Óchi chjórnyje | Nikita Mikhalkov | Carlo Cucchi | Italy Soviet Union |
| 1988 (42nd) | Wings of Desire | Der Himmel über Berlin | Wim Wenders | Anatole Dauman | West Germany |
| 1989 (43rd) | Life and Nothing But | La vie et rien d'autre | Bertrand Tavernier | Frédéric Bourboulon, Albert Prévost, René Cleitman | France |
| 1989 (43rd) | Pelle the Conqueror | Pelle Erobreren | Bille August | Per Holst | Denmark Sweden |
| 1989 (43rd) | Salaam Bombay! | Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | Gabriel Auer, Mira Nair | India |
| 1989 (43rd) | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar | Spain |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Original Title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 1990 (44th) | Cinema Paradiso | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Franco Cristaldi, Giovanna Romagnoli | Italy |
| 1990 (44th) | Jesus of Montreal | Jésus de Montréal | Denys Arcand | Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron, Monique Létourneau | Canada France |
| 1990 (44th) | Milou in May | Milou en mai | Louis Malle | Louis Malle, Vincent Malle | France |
| 1990 (44th) | Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed | Romuald et Juliette | Coline Serreau | Jean-Louis Piel, Philippe Carcassonne | France |
| 1991 (45th) | The Nasty Girl | Das schreckliche Mädchen | Michael Verhoeven | Michael Senftleben | West Germany |
| 1991 (45th) | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | René Cleitman, Michel Seydoux, André Szots | France |
| 1991 (45th) | The Hairdresser's Husband | Le Mari de la coiffeuse | Patrice Leconte | Thierry de Ganay | France |
| 1991 (45th) | Toto the Hero | Toto le héros | Jaco Van Dormael | Pierre Drouot, Dany Geys, Luciano Gloor | Belgium France Germany |
| 1992 (46th) | Raise the Red Lantern | 大紅燈籠高高掛, Dà Hóng Dēnglong Gāogāo Guà | Zhang Yimou | Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chiu Fu-sheng | China Hong Kong Taiwan |
| 1992 (46th) | Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | Leos Carax | Christian Fechner | France |
| 1992 (46th) | Delicatessen | Delicatessen | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro | Claudie Ossard | France |
| 1992 (46th) | Europa Europa | Hitlerjunge Salomon | Agnieszka Holland | Artur Brauner, Margaret Ménégoz | Germany France Poland |
| 1993 (47th) | Farewell My Concubine | 霸王別姬, Bàwáng Bié Jī | Chen Kaige | Hsu Feng | China Hong Kong |
| 1993 (47th) | A Heart in Winter | Un cœur en hiver | Claude Sautet | Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne | France |
| 1993 (47th) | Like Water for Chocolate | Como Agua para Chocolate | Alfonso Arau | Alfonso Arau | Mexico |
| 1993 (47th) | Indochine | Indochine | Régis Wargnier | Eric Heumann, Jean Labadie | France |
| 1994 (48th) | To Live | 活著, Huózhe | Zhang Yimou | Chiu Fu-sheng | China |
| 1994 (48th) | Three Colours: Red | Trois couleurs : Rouge | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Marin Karmitz | France Poland |
| 1994 (48th) | Eat Drink Man Woman | 飲食男女, Yǐn shí nán nǚ | Ang Lee | Hsu Li-kong | Taiwan United States |
| 1994 (48th) | Belle Époque | Belle Époque | Fernando Trueba | Andrés Vicente Gómez | Spain |
| 1995 (49th) | The Postman | Il Postino | Michael Radford | Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele | Italy |
| 1995 (49th) | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Claude Lelouch | Claude Lelouch | France |
| 1995 (49th) | Burnt by the Sun | Утомлённые солнцем, Utomlyonnye solntsem | Nikita Mikhalkov | Leonid Vereshchagin, Armand Barbault, Nikita Mikhalkov, Michel Seydoux | Russia |
| 1995 (49th) | La Reine Margot | La Reine Margot | Patrice Chéreau | Pierre Grunstein, Claude Berri | France Italy Germany |
| 1996 (50th) | Ridicule | Ridicule | Patrice Leconte | Frédéric Brillion, Philippe Carcassonne, Gilles Legrand | France |
| 1996 (50th) | Antonia's Line | Antonia | Marleen Gorris | Gerard Cornelisse, Hans de Weers, Hans de Wolf | Netherlands |
| 1996 (50th) | Kolya | Kolja | Jan Svěrák | Eric Abraham, Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic |
| 1996 (50th) | Nelly and Mr. Arnaud | Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud | Claude Sautet | Antoine Gannagé, Alain Sarde | France |
| 1997 (51st) | The Apartment | L'Appartement | Gilles Mimouni | Georges Benayoun | France |
| 1997 (51st) | Lucie Aubrac | Lucie Aubrac | Claude Berri | Pierre Grunstein | France |
| 1997 (51st) | Ma vie en rose | Ma vie en rose | Alain Berliner | Carole Scotta | France Belgium |
| 1997 (51st) | The Tango Lesson | La Lección de Tango | Sally Potter | Christopher Sheppard, Oscar Kramer | Argentina United Kingdom France |
| 1998 (52nd) | Central Station | Central do Brasil | Walter Salles | Arthur Cohn, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Robert Redford, Walter Salles | Brazil |
| 1998 (52nd) | Live Flesh | Carne trémula | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar | Spain |
| 1998 (52nd) | Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi | Italy |
| 1998 (52nd) | On Guard | Le Bossu | Philippe de Broca | Patrick Godeau | France |
| 1999 (53rd) | All About My Mother | Todo sobre mi madre | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar | Spain |
| 1999 (53rd) | Buena Vista Social Club | Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders | Ulrich Felsberg, Deepak Nayar | Germany Cuba United States |
| 1999 (53rd) | The Celebration | Festen | Thomas Vinterberg | Birgitte Hald, Morten Kaufmann | Denmark |
| 1999 (53rd) | Run Lola Run | Lola rennt | Tom Tykwer | Stefan Arndt | Germany |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Original Title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 2000 (54th) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 臥虎藏龍, Wò hǔ cáng lóng | Ang Lee | Hsu Li-kong, William Kong, Ang Lee | Taiwan China Hong Kong |
| 2000 (54th) | Girl on the Bridge | La fille sur le pont | Patrice Leconte | Christian Fechner | France |
| 2000 (54th) | In the Mood for Love | 花樣年華, Fa yeung nin wa | Wong Kar-wai | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| 2000 (54th) | Harry, He's Here to Help | Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien | Dominik Moll | Michel Saint-Jean | France |
| 2000 (54th) | Malèna | Malèna | Giuseppe Tornatore | Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Carlo Bernasconi | Italy |
| 2001 (55th) | Amores perros | Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico |
| 2001 (55th) | Amélie | Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Jean-Marc Deschamps, Claudie Ossard | France |
| 2001 (55th) | Behind the Sun | Abril Despedaçado | Walter Salles | Arthur Cohn | Brazil |
| 2001 (55th) | Monsoon Wedding | Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | Caroline Baron, Mira Nair | India |
| 2001 (55th) | The Piano Teacher | La Pianiste | Michael Haneke | Veit Heiduschka | France Austria Germany |
| 2002 (56th) | Talk to Her | Hable con ella | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2002 (56th) | City of God | Cidade de Deus | Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Mauricio Andrade Ramos | Brazil |
| 2002 (56th) | Devdas | Devdas | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Bharat Shah | India |
| 2002 (56th) | The Warrior | The Warrior | Asif Kapadia | Bertrand Faivre | United Kingdom India |
| 2002 (56th) | Y tu mamá también | Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Vergara | Mexico |
| 2003 (57th) | In This World | In This World | Michael Winterbottom | Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland | United Kingdom |
| 2003 (57th) | The Barbarian Invasions | Les invasions barbares | Denys Arcand | Daniel Louis, Denise Robert | Canada |
| 2003 (57th) | Good Bye, Lenin! | Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Stefan Arndt | Germany |
| 2003 (57th) | Spirited Away | 千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Hayao Miyazaki | Toshio Suzuki | Japan |
| 2003 (57th) | To Be and to Have | Être et avoir | Nicolas Philibert | Gilles Sandoz | France |
| 2003 (57th) | Belleville Rendez-vous | Les Triplettes de Belleville | Sylvain Chomet | Adam Adler, Didier Brunner, Viviane Vanfleteren | France Canada |
| 2004 (58th) | The Motorcycle Diaries | Diarios de Motocicleta | Walter Salles | Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenenbaum, Karen Tenkhoff | Argentina Brazil |
| 2004 (58th) | Bad Education | La Mala Educación | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2004 (58th) | The Chorus | Les Choristes | Christophe Barratier | Arthur Cohn, Nicolas Mauvernay, Jacques Perrin | France |
| 2004 (58th) | House of Flying Daggers | 十面埋伏, Shí Miàn Mái Fú | Zhang Yimou | William Kong, Zhang Yimou | China Hong Kong |
| 2004 (58th) | A Very Long Engagement | Un long dimanche de fiançailles | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France United States |
| 2005 (59th) | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté | Jacques Audiard | Pascal Caucheteux | France |
| 2005 (59th) | Joyeux Noël | Merry Christmas | Christian Carion | Benjamin Herrmann, Christophe Rossignon | France United Kingdom Germany Belgium |
| 2005 (59th) | Kung Fu Hustle | 功夫, Gūng Fū | Stephen Chow | Stephen Chow, Po Chu Chui, Jeffrey Lau | Hong Kong China |
| 2005 (59th) | Le Grand Voyage | Le Grand Voyage | Ismaël Ferrouhki | Humbert Balsan | France Morocco |
| 2005 (59th) | Tsotsi | Tsotsi | Gavin Hood | Peter Fudakowski | South Africa |
| 2006 (60th) | Pan's Labyrinth | El laberinto del fauno | Guillermo del Toro | Guillermo del Toro, Bertha Navarro, Alfonso Cuarón, Frida Torresblanco, Álvaro Augustin | Spain Mexico |
| 2006 (60th) | Apocalypto | Apocalypto | Mel Gibson | Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey | United States |
| 2006 (60th) | Black Book | Zwartboek | Paul Verhoeven | Jeroen Beker, San Fu Maltha, Teun Hilte, Jens Meurer, Frans van Gestel | Netherlands Germany Belgium |
| 2006 (60th) | Rang De Basanti | Rang De Basanti | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Ronnie Screwvala | India |
| 2006 (60th) | Volver | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain |
| 2007 (61st) | The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann | Germany |
| 2007 (61st) | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Le Scaphandre et le Papillon | Julian Schnabel | Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik | France |
| 2007 (61st) | The Kite Runner | The Kite Runner | Marc Forster | William Horberg, Walter F. Parkes, Rebecca Yeldham, E. Bennett Walsh | United States |
| 2007 (61st) | La Vie en Rose | La Môme | Olivier Dahan | Alain Goldman | France United Kingdom Czech Republic |
| 2007 (61st) | Lust, Caution | 色，戒, Sè, Jiè | Ang Lee | Ang Lee, William Kong, James Schamus | Taiwan China United States |
| 2008 (62nd) | I've Loved You So Long | Il y a longtemps que je t'aime | Philippe Claudel | Sylvestre Guarino, Yves Marmion | France |
| 2008 (62nd) | The Baader Meinhof Complex | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex | Uli Edel | Bernd Eichinger | Germany |
| 2008 (62nd) | Gomorrah | Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | Domenico Procacci | Italy |
| 2008 (62nd) | Persepolis | Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi Vincent Paronnaud | Xavier Rigault, Marc-Antoine Robert | France United States |
| 2008 (62nd) | Waltz with Bashir | ואלס עם באשיר, Vals Im Bashir | Ari Folman | Ari Folman, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Roman Paul | Israel |
| 2009 (63rd) | A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard | Lauranne Bourrachot, Martine Cassinelli, Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui | France |
| 2009 (63rd) | Broken Embraces | Los Abrazos Rotos | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain |
| 2009 (63rd) | Coco Before Chanel | Coco avant Chanel | Anne Fontaine | Simon Arnal, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Carole Scotta | France Belgium |
| 2009 (63rd) | Let the Right One In | Låt den rätte komma in | Tomas Alfredson | Carl Molinder, John Nordling | Sweden |
| 2009 (63rd) | The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte | Michael Haneke | Stefan Arndt, Michael Katz, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Ménégoz, Andrea Occhipinti | Germany Austria |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Original Title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 2010 (64th) | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Män som hatar kvinnor | Niels Arden Oplev | Søren Stærmose | Sweden |
| 2010 (64th) | I Am Love | Io sono l'amore | Luca Guadagnino | Luca Guadagnino, Tilda Swinton, Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Marco Morabito, Alessandro Usai, Massimiliano Violante | Italy |
| 2010 (64th) | Biutiful | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira, Ann Ruark, Sandra Hermida | Mexico Spain |
| 2010 (64th) | Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux) | Xavier Beauvois | Pascal Caucheteux, Étienne Comar, Grégoire Sorlat | France |
| 2010 (64th) | The Secret in Their Eyes | El secreto de sus ojos | Juan José Campanella | Juan José Campanella, Mariela Besuievski | Argentina |
| 2011 (65th) | The Skin I Live In | La piel que habito | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain |
| 2011 (65th) | Incendies | Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | Luc Déry, Kim McCraw | Canada |
| 2011 (65th) | Pina | Pina | Wim Wenders | Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel | Germany |
| 2011 (65th) | Potiche | Potiche | François Ozon | Eric Altmeyer, Nicolas Altmeyer | France |
| 2011 (65th) | A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین, Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín | Asghar Farhadi | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| 2012 (66th) | Amour | Amour | Michael Haneke | Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz | France Austria |
| 2012 (66th) | Headhunters | Hodejegerne | Morten Tyldum | Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn | Norway |
| 2012 (66th) | The Hunt | Jagten | Thomas Vinterberg | Morten Kaufmann, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| 2012 (66th) | Rust and Bone | De rouille et d'os | Jacques Audiard | Jacques Audiard, Martine Cassinelli, Pascal Caucheteux, Alix Raynaud | France Belgium |
| 2012 (66th) | The Intouchables | Untouchable | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun | France |
| 2013 (67th) | The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Fabio Conversi | Italy France |
| 2013 (67th) | The Act of Killing | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer | Signe Byrge Sørensen | Denmark |
| 2013 (67th) | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | Abdellatif Kechiche | Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval | France Belgium |
| 2013 (67th) | Metro Manila | Metro Manila | Sean Ellis | Mathilde Charpentier, Sean Ellis | United Kingdom Philippines |
| 2013 (67th) | Wadjda | وجدة | Haifaa Al-Mansour | Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul | Saudi Arabia |
| 2014 (68th) | Ida | Ida | Pawel Pawlikowski | Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska | Poland |
| 2014 (68th) | Leviathan | Левиафан, Leviafan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov | Russia |
| 2014 (68th) | The Lunchbox | The Lunchbox | Ritesh Batra | Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga, Arun Rangachari | India |
| 2014 (68th) | Trash | Trash | Stephen Daldry | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Kris Thykier | United Kingdom Brazil |
| 2014 (68th) | Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd | Belgium France |
| 2015 (69th) | Wild Tales | Relatos Salvajes | Damián Szifron | Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García, Matías Mosteirín, Hugo Sigman | Argentina Spain |
| 2015 (69th) | The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘, Cìkè Niè Yǐnniáng | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Wen-Ying Huang | Taiwan China Hong Kong |
| 2015 (69th) | Force Majeure | Turist | Ruben Östlund | Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson, Philippe Bober | Sweden France Norway |
| 2015 (69th) | Theeb | ذيب | Naji Abu Nowar | Bassel Ghandour, Rupert Lloyd | Jordan United Kingdom |
| 2015 (69th) | Timbuktu | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | Étienne Comar, Sylvie Pialat | Mauritania France |
| 2016 (70th) | Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna | Hungary |
| 2016 (70th) | Dheepan | Dheepan | Jacques Audiard | Pascal Caucheteux | France |
| 2016 (70th) | Julieta | Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain |
| 2016 (70th) | Mustang | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | Charles Gillibert | Turkey France |
| 2016 (70th) | Toni Erdmann | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Michel Merkt | Germany Austria |
| 2017 (71st) | The Handmaiden | 아가씨, Agassi | Park Chan-wook | Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim | South Korea |
| 2017 (71st) | Elle | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt | France |
| 2017 (71st) | First They Killed My Father | មុនដំបូងខ្មែរក្រហមសម្លាប់ប៉ារបស់ខ្ញុំ, Moun dambaung Khmer Krahm samleab ba robsa khnhom | Angelina Jolie | Angelina Jolie, Ted Sarandos, Michael Vieira | Cambodia United States |
| 2017 (71st) | Loveless | Нелюбовь, Nelyubov | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov, Gleb Fetisov | Russia |
| 2017 (71st) | The Salesman | فروشنده, Forušande | Asghar Farhadi | Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| 2018 (72nd) | Roma | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez, Nicolás Celis | Mexico |
| 2018 (72nd) | Capernaum | کفرناحوم, Kafarnāḥūm | Nadine Labaki | Michel Merkt, Khaled Mouzanar | Lebanon |
| 2018 (72nd) | Cold War | Zimna wojna | Paweł Pawlikowski | Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska | Poland France |
| 2018 (72nd) | Dogman | Dogman | Matteo Garrone | Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Paolo Del Brocco, Jean Labadie | Italy |
| 2018 (72nd) | Shoplifters | 万引き家族, Manbiki Kazoku | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Matsuzaki Kaoru, Hijiri Taguchi, Akihiko Yose | Japan |
| 2019 (73rd) | Parasite | 기생충, Gisaengchung | Bong Joon-ho | Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae, Moon Yang-kwon, Jang Young-hwan | South Korea |
| 2019 (73rd) | The Farewell | The Farewell | Lulu Wang | Lulu Wang, Daniele Tate Melia, Anita Gou, Jane Zheng | United States |
| 2019 (73rd) | For Sama | من أجل سما, ‘min ajl sama‘ | Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Waad Al-Kateab | Syria United Kingdom |
| 2019 (73rd) | Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García, Ricardo Marco Budé, Ignacio Salazar-Simpson | Spain |
| 2019 (73rd) | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma | Bénédicte Couvreur | France |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Original Title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 2020 (74th) | Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Kasper Dissing | Denmark |
| 2020 (74th) | Dear Comrades! | Дорогие товарищи!, Dorogie tovarishchi! | Andrei Konchalovsky | Andrei Konchalovsky, Olesya Gidrat, Alisher Usmanov | Russia |
| 2020 (74th) | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral | France |
| 2020 (74th) | Minari | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christina Oh | United States |
| 2020 (74th) | Quo Vadis, Aida? | Quo Vadis, Aida? | Jasmila Žbanić | Damir Ibrahimović, Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2021 (75th) | Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー, Doraibu mai kā | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Tsuyoshi Gorô, Misaki Kawamura, Osamu Kubota, Sachio Matsushita, Yoshito Nakabe, Keiji Okumura, Jin Suzuki, Akihisa Yamamoto | Japan |
| 2021 (75th) | The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Paolo Sorrentino, Lorenzo Mieli | Italy |
| 2021 (75th) | Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | Pedro Almodóvar | Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain |
| 2021 (75th) | Petite Maman | Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | Bénédicte Couvreur | France |
| 2021 (75th) | The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Thomas Robsahm | Norway |
| 2022 (76th) |
| 2022 (76th) | All Quiet on the Western Front | Im Westen nichts Neues | Edward Berger | Edward Berger, Malte Grunert | Germany |
| 2022 (76th) | Argentina, 1985 | Argentina, 1985 | Santiago Mitre | Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Mitre, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín, Victoria Alonso | Argentina |
| 2022 (76th) | Corsage | Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | Marie Kreutzer | Austria Germany Luxembourg France |
| 2022 (76th) | Decision to Leave | 헤어질 결심, 헤어질 決心, Heeojil gyeolsim | Park Chan-wook | Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok | South Korea |
| 2022 (76th) | The Quiet Girl | An Cailín Ciúin | Colm Bairéad | Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí | Ireland |
| 2023 (77th) |
| 2023 (77th) | The Zone of Interest | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | Ewa Puszczyńska, James Wilson | United Kingdom Poland United States |
| 2023 (77th) | 20 Days in Mariupol | 20 днів у Маріуполі, 20 dniv u Mariupoli | Mstyslav Chernov | Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Derl McCrudden, Michelle Mizner | Ukraine |
| 2023 (77th) | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion | France |
| 2023 (77th) | Past Lives | Past Lives | Celine Song | David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler | United States |
| 2023 (77th) | Society of the Snow | La sociedad de la nieve | J.A. Bayona | Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida, J.A. Bayona | Spain United States |
| 2024 (78th) |
| 2024 (78th) | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux, Valérie Schermann, Anthony Vaccarello | France |
| 2024 (78th) | All We Imagine as Light | All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff | India France Netherlands Luxembourg Italy |
| 2024 (78th) | I'm Still Here | Ainda Estou Aqui | Walter Salles | Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre | Brazil France |
| 2024 (78th) | Kneecap | Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Jack Tarling, Trevor Birney | Ireland United Kingdom |
| 2024 (78th) | The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانه‌ی انجیر معابد, Dāne-ye anjīr-e ma'ābed | Mohammad Rasoulof | Mohammad Rasoulof, Rozita Hendijanian, Amin Sadraei, Jean-Christophe Simon, Mani Tilgner | Iran Germany France |

## Multiple winners

4 directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
| 3 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 3 | Jacques Audiard |
| 2 | Zhang Yimou |
| 2 | Walter Salles |

## Awards by nation

| Country | Number of winning films | Number of nominated films |
| France | 7 | 52 |
| Spain | 5 | 16 |
| Italy | 4 | 17 |
| Germany | 4 | 11 |
| Mexico | 3 | 3 |
| Sweden | 2 | 4 |
| Denmark | 2 | 4 |
| Japan | 2 | 4 |
| Argentina | 2 | 3 |
| South Korea | 2 | 3 |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2 |
| Brazil | 1 | 5 |
| Poland | 1 | 5 |
| China | 1 | 3 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 3 |
| Hungary | 1 | 2 |
| India | 0 | 6 |
| United States | 0 | 7 |
| Russia | 0 | 4 |
| Canada | 0 | 3 |
| Belgium | 0 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 2 |
| Iran | 0 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 2 |
| Norway | 0 | 2 |
| Cambodia | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 1 |
| Israel | 0 | 1 |
| Jordan | 0 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 1 |
| Mauritania | 0 | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 |
| South Africa | 0 | 1 |
| Syria | 0 | 1 |
| Turkey | 0 | 1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 1 |
| Austria | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland | 0 | 1 |
| Ukraine | 0 | 1 |