# List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) 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.
When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor films released in 1927–28, there was no separate category for foreign language films. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These awards, however, were not handed out on a regular basis (no award was given in 1953), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since then.
Unlike other Academy Awards, the Best International Feature Film Award is not presented to a specific individual. It is accepted by the winning film's director, but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. As of 2014, the Academy changed its rules so that the name of the director is etched onto the Oscar statuette, in addition to the film's country. The director also gets to keep the statuette.
Over the years, the Best International Feature Film and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 74 awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty-seven have gone to European films, nine to Asian films, five to films from the Americas and three to African films. The late Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini directed four winning motion pictures during his lifetime, more than any other director. If Special Awards are taken into account, then Fellini's record is tied by his countryman Vittorio De Sica. The Soviet epic War and Peace (1966–67), for its part, is the longest motion picture to have won the Best Foreign Language Film Award. Filmed from 1962 to 1966, it ran for more than seven hours.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Films in bold and dark blue background have received an Academy Award; winning films from 1947 to 1955 won a Special/Honorary Award as denoted in the key, while all other winning films won a regular Academy Award of Merit. Films that are neither highlighted nor in bold are the nominees. When sorted chronologically, the table always lists the winning film first and then the four other nominees.
The Submitting country column indicates the country that officially submitted the film to the Academy, and is not necessarily indicative of the film's main country of production. The original titles of the films are also mentioned, as well as the names of the directors and the languages used in the dialogue track, even though none of these elements is officially included in the nomination.
When several languages are used in a film, the predominant one is always listed first; the names of the other languages are written in smaller typesize and placed between brackets. When a film's original title is in a language that uses a non-Latin script, it is first transliterated into the Latin alphabet and then written in its original script.
Films from the former Yugoslavia are written in both Latin and Cyrillic due to the fact that the previously official Serbo-Croatian language used both alphabets. Chinese film titles are romanized according to the pinyin system, and are written using the characters employed in their submitting country, i.e. traditional Chinese ones for films submitted by Hong Kong and Taiwan, and simplified Chinese ones for films submitted by the People's Republic of China.
Table key :
| ‡ | Special/Honorary Award (1947–1955) |
| Year | Film Title used in nomination | Original Title | Director(s) | Submitting Countries | Language(s) |
| 1947 (20th) | Shoe-Shine ‡ | Sciuscià | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | Italian, English |
| 1948 (21st) | Monsieur Vincent ‡ | Monsieur Vincent ‡ | Maurice Cloche | France | French |
| 1949 (22nd) | Bicycle Thieves ‡ | Ladri di biciclette | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | Italian |
| 1950 (23rd) | The Walls of Malapaga ‡ | French Au-delà des grilles Italian Le mura di Malapaga | René Clément | {co-production} France Italy | French, Italian |
| 1951 (24th) | Rashomon ‡ | 羅生門 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | Japanese |
| 1952 (25th) | Forbidden Games‡ | Jeux interdits | René Clément | France | French |
| 1954 (27th) | Gate of Hell ‡ | 地獄門 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Japan | Japanese |
| 1955 (28th) | Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ‡ | 宮本武蔵 | Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan | Japanese |
| 1956 (29th) | La Strada | La Strada | Federico Fellini | Italy | Italian |
| 1956 (29th) | The Captain of Köpenick | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | Helmut Käutner | West Germany | German |
| 1956 (29th) | Gervaise | Gervaise | René Clément | France | French |
| 1956 (29th) | Harp of Burma | ビルマの竪琴 | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | Japanese |
| 1956 (29th) | Qivitoq | Qivitoq | Erik Balling | Denmark | Danish |
| 1957 (30th) | Nights of Cabiria | Le notti di Cabiria | Federico Fellini | Italy | Italian |
| 1957 (30th) | The Devil Strikes at Night | Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam | Robert Siodmak | West Germany | German |
| 1957 (30th) | Gates of Paris | Porte des Lilas | René Clair | France | French |
| 1957 (30th) | Mother India | मदर इंडिया | Mehboob Khan | India | Hindi |
| 1957 (30th) | Nine Lives | Ni liv | Arne Skouen | Norway | Norwegian |
| 1958 (31st) | Mon Oncle | Mon Oncle | Jacques Tati | France | French |
| 1958 (31st) | Arms and the Man | Helden | Franz Peter Wirth | West Germany | German |
| 1958 (31st) | La Venganza | La Venganza | Juan Antonio Bardem | Spain | Spanish |
| 1958 (31st) | The Road a Year Long | La strada lunga un anno / Cesta duga godinu dana / Цеста дуга годину дана | Giuseppe De Santis | Yugoslavia | Italian |
| 1958 (31st) | The Usual Unidentified Thieves | I soliti ignoti | Mario Monicelli | Italy | Italian |
| 1959 (32nd) | Black Orpheus | Orfeu Negro | Marcel Camus | France | Brazilian Portuguese |
| 1959 (32nd) | The Bridge | Die Brücke | Bernhard Wicki | West Germany | German |
| 1959 (32nd) | The Great War | La grande guerra | Mario Monicelli | Italy | Italian |
| 1959 (32nd) | Paw | Paw | Astrid Henning-Jensen | Denmark | Danish |
| 1959 (32nd) | The Village on the River | Dorp aan de rivier | Fons Rademakers | Netherlands | Dutch |
| 1960 (33rd) | The Virgin Spring | Jungfrukällan | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1960 (33rd) | Kapo | Kapo | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy | Italian |
| 1960 (33rd) | La Vérité | La Vérité | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France | French |
| 1960 (33rd) | Macario | Macario | Roberto Gavaldón | Mexico | Spanish |
| 1960 (33rd) | The Ninth Circle | Deveti krug / Девети круг | France Štiglic | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian |
| 1961 (34th) | Through a Glass Darkly | Såsom i en spegel | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1961 (34th) | Harry and the Butler | Harry og kammertjeneren | Bent Christensen | Denmark | Danish |
| 1961 (34th) | Immortal Love | 永遠の人 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan | Japanese |
| 1961 (34th) | The Important Man | Animas Trujano / El hombre importante | Ismael Rodríguez | Mexico | Spanish |
| 1961 (34th) | Plácido | Plácido | Luis García Berlanga | Spain | Spanish |
| 1962 (35th) | Sundays and Cybele | Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray | Serge Bourguignon | France | French |
| 1962 (35th) | Electra | Ηλέκτρα | Michael Cacoyannis | Greece | Greek |
| 1962 (35th) | The Four Days of Naples | Le quattro giornate di Napoli | Nanni Loy | Italy | Italian |
| 1962 (35th) | Keeper of Promises (The Given Word) | O Pagador de Promessas | Anselmo Duarte | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese |
| 1962 (35th) | Tlayucan | Tlayucan | Luis Alcoriza | Mexico | Spanish |
| 1963 (36th) | 8½ | 8½ | Federico Fellini | Italy | Italian |
| 1963 (36th) | Knife in the Water | Nóż w wodzie | Roman Polanski | Poland | Polish |
| 1963 (36th) | Los Tarantos | Los Tarantos | Francisco Rovira Beleta | Spain | Spanish |
| 1963 (36th) | The Red Lanterns | Τα κόκκινα φανάρια | Vasilis Georgiadis | Greece | Greek |
| 1963 (36th) | Twin Sisters of Kyoto | 古都 | Noboru Nakamura | Japan | Japanese |
| 1964 (37th) | Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | Ieri, oggi, domani | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | Italian |
| 1964 (37th) | Raven's End | Kvarteret Korpen | Bo Widerberg | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1964 (37th) | Sallah Shabati | סאלח שבתי | Ephraim Kishon | Israel | Hebrew |
| 1964 (37th) | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Les Parapluies de Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | France | French |
| 1964 (37th) | Woman in the Dunes | 砂の女 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Japan | Japanese |
| 1965 (38th) | The Shop on Main Street | Obchod na korze | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | Czechoslovakia | Slovak |
| 1965 (38th) | Blood on the Land | Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο | Vasilis Georgiadis | Greece | Greek |
| 1965 (38th) | Dear John | Käre John | Lars-Magnus Lindgren | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1965 (38th) | Kwaidan | 怪談 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | Japanese |
| 1965 (38th) | Marriage Italian Style | Matrimonio all'italiana | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | Italian |
| 1966 (39th) | A Man and a Woman | Un homme et une femme | Claude Lelouch | France | French |
| 1966 (39th) | The Battle of Algiers | La battaglia di Algeri | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy | Arabic, French |
| 1966 (39th) | Loves of a Blonde | Lásky jedné plavovlásky | Miloš Forman | Czechoslovakia | Czech |
| 1966 (39th) | Pharaoh | Faraon | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland | Polish |
| 1966 (39th) | Three | Tri / Три | Aleksandar Petrović | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian |
| 1967 (40th) | Closely Watched Trains | Ostře sledované vlaky | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia | Czech, German |
| 1967 (40th) | Bewitched Love | El amor brujo | Francisco Rovira Beleta | Spain | Spanish |
| 1967 (40th) | I Even Met Happy Gypsies | Skupljači perja / Скупљачи перја | Aleksandar Petrović | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian |
| 1967 (40th) | Live for Life | Vivre pour vivre | Claude Lelouch | France | French |
| 1967 (40th) | Portrait of Chieko | 智恵子抄 | Noboru Nakamura | Japan | Japanese |
| 1968 (41st) | War and Peace | Война и мир | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union | Russian, French, German |
| 1968 (41st) | The Boys of Paul Street | A Pál-utcai fiúk | Zoltán Fábri | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 1968 (41st) | The Firemen's Ball | Hoří, má panenko | Miloš Forman | Czechoslovakia | Czech |
| 1968 (41st) | The Girl with the Pistol | La ragazza con la pistola | Mario Monicelli | Italy | Italian |
| 1968 (41st) | Stolen Kisses | Baisers volés | François Truffaut | France | French |
| 1969 (42nd) | Z | Z | Costa-Gavras | Algeria | French, Russian, English |
| 1969 (42nd) | Ådalen 31 | Ådalen 31 | Bo Widerberg | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1969 (42nd) | Battle of Neretva | Bitka na Neretvi / Битка на Неретви | Veljko Bulajić | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian Italian German English |
| 1969 (42nd) | The Brothers Karamazov | Братья Карамазовы | Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov | Soviet Union | Russian |
| 1969 (42nd) | My Night with Maud | Ma nuit chez Maud | Éric Rohmer | France | French |
| 1970 (43rd) | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto | Elio Petri | Italy | Italian |
| 1970 (43rd) | First Love | Erste Liebe | Maximilian Schell | Switzerland | German |
| 1970 (43rd) | Hoa-Binh | Hoa-Binh | Raoul Coutard | France | French |
| 1970 (43rd) | Peace in the Fields | Paix sur les champs | Jacques Boigelot | Belgium | French |
| 1970 (43rd) | Tristana | Tristana | Luis Buñuel | Spain | Spanish |
| 1971 (44th) | The Garden of the Finzi Continis | Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | Italian |
| 1971 (44th) | Dodes'ka-den | どですかでん | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | Japanese |
| 1971 (44th) | The Emigrants | Utvandrarna | Jan Troell | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1971 (44th) | The Policeman | השוטר אזולאי | Ephraim Kishon | Israel | Hebrew |
| 1971 (44th) | Tchaikovsky | Чайковский | Igor Talankin | Soviet Union | Russian |
| 1972 (45th) | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie | Luis Buñuel | France | French |
| 1972 (45th) | The Dawns Here Are Quiet | А зори здесь тихие | Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union | Russian |
| 1972 (45th) | I Love You Rosa | אני אוהב אותך רוזה | Moshé Mizrahi | Israel | Hebrew |
| 1972 (45th) | My Dearest Señorita | Mi querida señorita | Jaime de Armiñán | Spain | Spanish |
| 1972 (45th) | The New Land | Nybyggarna | Jan Troell | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1973 (46th) | Day for Night | La Nuit américaine | François Truffaut | France | French |
| 1973 (46th) | The House on Chelouche Street | הבית ברחוב שלוש | Moshé Mizrahi | Israel | Hebrew |
| 1973 (46th) | L'Invitation | L'Invitation | Claude Goretta | Switzerland | French |
| 1973 (46th) | The Pedestrian | Der Fußgänger | Maximilian Schell | West Germany | German |
| 1973 (46th) | Turkish Delight | Turks Fruit | Paul Verhoeven | Netherlands | Dutch |
| 1974 (47th) | Amarcord | Amarcord | Federico Fellini | Italy | Italian |
| 1974 (47th) | Cats' Play | Macskajáték | Károly Makk | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 1974 (47th) | The Deluge | Potop | Jerzy Hoffman | Poland | Polish |
| 1974 (47th) | Lacombe, Lucien | Lacombe Lucien | Louis Malle | France | French |
| 1974 (47th) | The Truce | La tregua | Sergio Renán | Argentina | Spanish |
| 1975 (48th) | Dersu Uzala | Дерсу Узала | Akira Kurosawa | Soviet Union | Russian |
| 1975 (48th) | Letters from Marusia | Actas de Marusia | Miguel Littín | Mexico | Spanish |
| 1975 (48th) | The Promised Land | Ziemia obiecana | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Polish |
| 1975 (48th) | Sandakan No. 8 | サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 | Kei Kumai | Japan | Japanese |
| 1975 (48th) | Scent of a Woman | Profumo di donna | Dino Risi | Italy | Italian |
| 1976 (49th) | Black and White in Color | La Victoire en chantant | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Ivory Coast | French |
| 1976 (49th) | Cousin Cousine | Cousin Cousine | Jean-Charles Tacchella | France | French |
| 1976 (49th) | Jacob the Liar | Jakob der Lügner | Frank Beyer | East Germany | German |
| 1976 (49th) | Nights and Days | Noce i dnie | Jerzy Antczak | Poland | Polish |
| 1976 (49th) | Seven Beauties | Pasqualino Settebellezze | Lina Wertmüller | Italy | Italian |
| 1977 (50th) | Madame Rosa | La Vie devant soi | Moshé Mizrahi | France | French |
| 1977 (50th) | Iphigenia | Ιφιγένεια | Michael Cacoyannis | Greece | Greek |
| 1977 (50th) | Operation Thunderbolt | מבצע יונתן | Menahem Golan | Israel | Hebrew |
| 1977 (50th) | A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | Ettore Scola | Italy | Italian |
| 1977 (50th) | That Obscure Object of Desire | Cet obscur objet du désir / Ese oscuro objeto del deseo | Luis Buñuel | Spain | French, Spanish |
| 1978 (51st) | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | Préparez vos mouchoirs | Bertrand Blier | France | French |
| 1978 (51st) | The Glass Cell | Die gläserne Zelle | Hans W. Geißendörfer | West Germany | German |
| 1978 (51st) | Hungarians | Magyarok | Zoltán Fábri | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 1978 (51st) | Viva Italia! | I nuovi mostri | Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola | Italy | Italian |
| 1978 (51st) | White Bim Black Ear | Белый Бим Чёрное ухо | Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union | Russian |
| 1979 (52nd) | The Tin Drum | Die Blechtrommel | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany | German |
| 1979 (52nd) | The Maids of Wilko | Panny z Wilka | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Polish |
| 1979 (52nd) | Mama Turns 100 | Mamá cumple cien años | Carlos Saura | Spain | Spanish |
| 1979 (52nd) | A Simple Story | Une histoire simple | Claude Sautet | France | French |
| 1979 (52nd) | To Forget Venice | Dimenticare Venezia | Franco Brusati | Italy | Italian |
| 1980 (53rd) | Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears | Москва слезам не верит | Vladimir Menshov | Soviet Union | Russian |
| 1980 (53rd) | Confidence | Bizalom | István Szabó | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 1980 (53rd) | Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) | 影武者 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | Japanese |
| 1980 (53rd) | The Last Metro | Le Dernier Métro | François Truffaut | France | French |
| 1980 (53rd) | The Nest | El nido | Jaime de Armiñán | Spain | Spanish |
| 1981 (54th) | Mephisto | Mephisto | István Szabó | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 1981 (54th) | The Boat Is Full | Das Boot ist voll | Markus Imhoof | Switzerland | German |
| 1981 (54th) | Man of Iron | Człowiek z żelaza | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Polish |
| 1981 (54th) | Muddy River | 泥の河 | Kōhei Oguri | Japan | Japanese |
| 1981 (54th) | Three Brothers | Tre fratelli | Francesco Rosi | Italy | Italian |
| 1982 (55th) | To Begin Again | Volver a empezar | José Luis Garci | Spain | Spanish |
| 1982 (55th) | Alsino and the Condor | Alsino y el cóndor | Miguel Littín | Nicaragua | Spanish |
| 1982 (55th) | Coup de Torchon ('Clean Slate') | Coup de torchon | Bertrand Tavernier | France | French |
| 1982 (55th) | Flight of the Eagle | Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd | Jan Troell | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1982 (55th) | Private Life | Частная жизнь | Yuli Raizman | Soviet Union | Russian |
| 1983 (56th) | Fanny and Alexander | Fanny och Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1983 (56th) | Carmen | Carmen | Carlos Saura | Spain | Spanish |
| 1983 (56th) | Entre Nous | Coup de foudre | Diane Kurys | France | French |
| 1983 (56th) | The Revolt of Job | Jób lázadása | Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 1983 (56th) | Le Bal | Le Bal | Ettore Scola | Algeria | No dialogue |
| 1984 (57th) | Dangerous Moves | La Diagonale du fou | Richard Dembo | Switzerland | French |
| 1984 (57th) | Beyond the Walls | מאחורי הסורגים | Uri Barbash | Israel | Hebrew |
| 1984 (57th) | Camila | Camila | María Luisa Bemberg | Argentina | Spanish |
| 1984 (57th) | Double Feature | Sesión continua | José Luis Garci | Spain | Spanish |
| 1984 (57th) | Wartime Romance | Военно-полевой роман | Pyotr Todorovsky | Soviet Union | Russian |
| 1985 (58th) | The Official Story | La historia oficial | Luis Puenzo | Argentina | Spanish |
| 1985 (58th) | Angry Harvest | Bittere Ernte | Agnieszka Holland | West Germany | German |
| 1985 (58th) | Colonel Redl | Oberst Redl | István Szabó | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 1985 (58th) | Three Men and a Cradle | Trois Hommes et un couffin | Coline Serreau | France | French |
| 1985 (58th) | When Father Was Away on Business | Otac na službenom putu / Отац на службеном путу | Emir Kusturica | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian |
| 1986 (59th) | The Assault | De aanslag | Fons Rademakers | Netherlands | Dutch, English, German |
| 1986 (59th) | '38 – Vienna Before the Fall | 38 – Auch das war Wien | Wolfgang Glück | Austria | German |
| 1986 (59th) | Betty Blue | 37°2 le matin | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France | French |
| 1986 (59th) | The Decline of the American Empire | Le Déclin de l'empire américain | Denys Arcand | Canada | French |
| 1986 (59th) | My Sweet Little Village | Vesničko má středisková | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia | Czech |
| 1987 (60th) | Babette's Feast | Babettes gæstebud | Gabriel Axel | Denmark | Danish, Swedish, French |
| 1987 (60th) | Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) | Au Revoir les Enfants | Louis Malle | France | French |
| 1987 (60th) | Course Completed | Asignatura Aprobada | José Luis Garci | Spain | Spanish |
| 1987 (60th) | The Family | La famiglia | Ettore Scola | Italy | Italian |
| 1987 (60th) | Pathfinder | Ofelaš / Veiviseren | Nils Gaup | Norway | Northern Sami |
| 1988 (61st) | Pelle the Conqueror | Pelle Erobreren | Bille August | Denmark | Scanian, Danish, Swedish |
| 1988 (61st) | Hanussen | Hanussen | István Szabó | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 1988 (61st) | The Music Teacher | Le Maître de Musique | Gérard Corbiau | Belgium | French |
| 1988 (61st) | Salaam Bombay! | सलाम बॉम्बे! | Mira Nair | India | Hindi |
| 1988 (61st) | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | Spanish |
| 1989 (62nd) | Cinema Paradiso | Nuovo cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy | Italian |
| 1989 (62nd) | Camille Claudel | Camille Claudel | Bruno Nuytten | France | French |
| 1989 (62nd) | Jesus of Montreal | Jésus de Montréal | Denys Arcand | Canada | French |
| 1989 (62nd) | Waltzing Regitze | Dansen med Regitze | Kaspar Rostrup | Denmark | Danish |
| 1989 (62nd) | What Happened to Santiago | Lo que le pasó a Santiago | Jacobo Morales | Puerto Rico | Spanish |
| 1990 (63rd) | Journey of Hope | Reise der Hoffnung | Xavier Koller | Switzerland | German, Turkish |
| 1990 (63rd) | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France | French |
| 1990 (63rd) | Ju Dou | 菊豆 | Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang | China | Mandarin |
| 1990 (63rd) | The Nasty Girl | Das schreckliche Mädchen | Michael Verhoeven | West Germany | German |
| 1990 (63rd) | Open Doors | Porte aperte | Gianni Amelio | Italy | Italian |
| 1991 (64th) | Mediterraneo | Mediterraneo | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy | Italian |
| 1991 (64th) | Children of Nature | Börn náttúrunnar | Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Iceland | Icelandic, English |
| 1991 (64th) | The Elementary School | Obecná škola | Jan Svěrák | Czechoslovakia | Czech |
| 1991 (64th) | The Ox | Oxen | Sven Nykvist | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1991 (64th) | Raise the Red Lantern | 大紅燈籠高高掛 | Zhang Yimou | China | Mandarin |
| 1992 (65th) | Indochine | Indochine | Régis Wargnier | France | French, Vietnamese |
| 1992 (65th) | Close to Eden | У́рга — территория любви | Nikita Mikhalkov | Russia | Russian |
| 1992 (65th) | Daens | Daens | Stijn Coninx | Belgium | Dutch, French, Latin |
| 1992 (65th) | A Place in the World | Un lugar en el mundo | Adolfo Aristarain | Uruguay | Spanish |
| 1992 (65th) | Schtonk! | Schtonk! | Helmut Dietl | Germany | German |
| 1993 (66th) | Belle Époque | Belle Époque | Fernando Trueba | Spain | Spanish |
| 1993 (66th) | Farewell My Concubine | 霸王別姬 | Chen Kaige | Hong Kong | Mandarin |
| 1993 (66th) | Hedd Wyn | Hedd Wyn | Paul Turner | United Kingdom | Welsh |
| 1993 (66th) | The Scent of Green Papaya | Mùi đu đủ xanh | Trần Anh Hùng | Vietnam | Vietnamese |
| 1993 (66th) | The Wedding Banquet | 囍宴 | Ang Lee | Taiwan | Mandarin, English |
| 1994 (67th) | Burnt by the Sun | Утомлённые солнцем | Nikita Mikhalkov | Russia | Russian |
| 1994 (67th) | Before the Rain | Пред дождот | Milcho Manchevski | Macedonia | Macedonian, English, Albanian |
| 1994 (67th) | Eat Drink Man Woman | 飲食男女 | Ang Lee | Taiwan | Mandarin |
| 1994 (67th) | Farinelli: Il Castrato | Farinelli | Gérard Corbiau | Belgium | Italian, French |
| 1994 (67th) | Strawberry and Chocolate | Fresa y chocolate | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Cuba | Spanish |
| 1995 (68th) | Antonia's Line | Antonia | Marleen Gorris | Netherlands | Dutch |
| 1995 (68th) | All Things Fair | Lust och fägring stor | Bo Widerberg | Sweden | Swedish |
| 1995 (68th) | Dust of Life | Poussières de vie | Rachid Bouchareb | Algeria | French |
| 1995 (68th) | O Quatrilho | O Quatrilho | Fábio Barreto | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese, Italian |
| 1995 (68th) | The Star Maker | L'uomo delle stelle | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy | Italian |
| 1996 (69th) | Kolya | Kolja | Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic | Czech |
| 1996 (69th) | A Chef in Love | შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი | Nana Jorjadze | Georgia | French, Georgian |
| 1996 (69th) | The Other Side of Sunday | Søndagsengler | Berit Nesheim | Norway | Norwegian |
| 1996 (69th) | Prisoner of the Mountains | Кавказский пленник | Sergei Bodrov | Russia | Russian |
| 1996 (69th) | Ridicule | Ridicule | Patrice Leconte | France | French |
| 1997 (70th) | Character | Karakter | Mike van Diem | Netherlands | Dutch |
| 1997 (70th) | Beyond Silence | Jenseits der Stille | Caroline Link | Germany | German |
| 1997 (70th) | Four Days in September | O Que é Isso, Companheiro? | Bruno Barreto | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese |
| 1997 (70th) | Secrets of the Heart | Secretos del corazón | Montxo Armendáriz | Spain | Spanish |
| 1997 (70th) | The Thief | Вор | Pavel Chukhray | Russia | Russian |
| 1998 (71st) | Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | Italy | Italian, German |
| 1998 (71st) | Central Station | Central do Brasil | Walter Salles | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese |
| 1998 (71st) | Children of Heaven | بچه های آسمان | Majid Majidi | Iran | Persian |
| 1998 (71st) | The Grandfather | El abuelo | José Luis Garci | Spain | Spanish |
| 1998 (71st) | Tango | Tango, no me dejes nunca | Carlos Saura | Argentina | Spanish |
| 1999 (72nd) | All About My Mother | Todo sobre mi madre | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | Spanish |
| 1999 (72nd) | East-West | Est-Ouest | Régis Wargnier | France | French, Russian |
| 1999 (72nd) | Himalaya | Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef | Éric Valli | Nepal | Dolpo |
| 1999 (72nd) | Solomon & Gaenor | Solomon a Gaenor | Paul Morrison | United Kingdom | Welsh, Yiddish |
| 1999 (72nd) | Under the Sun | Under solen | Colin Nutley | Sweden | Swedish |
| 2000 (73rd) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 臥虎藏龍 | Ang Lee | Taiwan | Mandarin |
| 2000 (73rd) | Amores perros | Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico | Spanish |
| 2000 (73rd) | Divided We Fall | Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hřebejk | Czech Republic | Czech |
| 2000 (73rd) | Everybody's Famous! | Iedereen beroemd! | Dominique Deruddere | Belgium | Dutch |
| 2000 (73rd) | The Taste of Others | Le goût des autres | Agnès Jaoui | France | French |
| 2001 (74th) | No Man's Land | Ničija zemlja | Danis Tanović | Bosnia & Herzegovina | Bosnian, French, English, Serbian |
| 2001 (74th) | Amélie | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France | French |
| 2001 (74th) | Elling | Elling | Petter Næss | Norway | Norwegian |
| 2001 (74th) | Lagaan | लगान | Ashutosh Gowariker | India | Hindi, English |
| 2001 (74th) | Son of the Bride | El hijo de la novia | Juan José Campanella | Argentina | Spanish |
| 2002 (75th) | Nowhere in Africa | Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | Germany | German, English, Swahili |
| 2002 (75th) | The Crime of Father Amaro | El crimen del padre Amaro | Carlos Carrera | Mexico | Spanish |
| 2002 (75th) | Hero | 英雄 | Zhang Yimou | China | Mandarin |
| 2002 (75th) | The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland | Finnish |
| 2002 (75th) | Zus & Zo | Zus & Zo | Paula van der Oest | Netherlands | Dutch |
| 2003 (76th) | The Barbarian Invasions | Les Invasions barbares | Denys Arcand | Canada | French |
| 2003 (76th) | Evil | Ondskan | Mikael Håfström | Sweden | Swedish |
| 2003 (76th) | The Twilight Samurai | たそがれ清兵衛 | Yoji Yamada | Japan | Japanese |
| 2003 (76th) | Twin Sisters | De tweeling | Ben Sombogaart | Netherlands | Dutch |
| 2003 (76th) | Želary | Želary | Ondřej Trojan | Czech Republic | Czech |
| 2004 (77th) | The Sea Inside | Mar adentro | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain | Spanish |
| 2004 (77th) | As It Is in Heaven | Så som i himmelen | Kay Pollak | Sweden | Swedish |
| 2004 (77th) | The Chorus | Les choristes | Christophe Barratier | France | French |
| 2004 (77th) | Downfall | Der Untergang | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Germany | German |
| 2004 (77th) | Yesterday | Yesterday | Darrell Roodt | South Africa | Zulu |
| 2005 (78th) | Tsotsi | Tsotsi | Gavin Hood | South Africa | Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Setswana |
| 2005 (78th) | The Beast in the Heart | La bestia nel cuore | Cristina Comencini | Italy | Italian |
| 2005 (78th) | Joyeux Noël | Joyeux Noël | Christian Carion | France | French, English, German |
| 2005 (78th) | Paradise Now | الجنة الآن | Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine | Arabic |
| 2005 (78th) | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage | Marc Rothemund | Germany | German |
| 2006 (79th) | The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany | German |
| 2006 (79th) | After the Wedding | Efter brylluppet | Susanne Bier | Denmark | Danish Swedish Hindi English |
| 2006 (79th) | Days of Glory | Indigènes | Rachid Bouchareb | Algeria | Arabic French |
| 2006 (79th) | Pan's Labyrinth | El laberinto del fauno | Guillermo del Toro | Mexico | Spanish |
| 2006 (79th) | Water | वाटर | Deepa Mehta | Canada | Hindi |
| 2007 (80th) | The Counterfeiters | Die Fälscher | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Austria | German |
| 2007 (80th) | Beaufort | בופור | Joseph Cedar | Israel | Hebrew |
| 2007 (80th) | Katyń | Katyń | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Polish |
| 2007 (80th) | Mongol | Монгол | Sergei Bodrov | Kazakhstan | Mongolian, Mandarin |
| 2007 (80th) | 12 | 12 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Russia | Russian, Chechen |
| 2008 (81st) | Departures | おくりびと | Yōjirō Takita | Japan | Japanese |
| 2008 (81st) | The Baader Meinhof Complex | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex | Uli Edel | Germany | German |
| 2008 (81st) | The Class | Entre les murs | Laurent Cantet | France | French |
| 2008 (81st) | Revanche | Revanche | Götz Spielmann | Austria | German |
| 2008 (81st) | Waltz with Bashir | ואלס עם באשיר | Ari Folman | Israel | Hebrew |
| 2009 (82nd) | The Secret in Their Eyes | El secreto de sus ojos | Juan José Campanella | Argentina | Spanish |
| 2009 (82nd) | Ajami | עג'מי / عجمي | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Israel | Arabic, Hebrew |
| 2009 (82nd) | The Milk of Sorrow | La teta asustada | Claudia Llosa | Peru | Spanish, Quechua |
| 2009 (82nd) | A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard | France | French, Arabic |
| 2009 (82nd) | The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band | Michael Haneke | Germany | German |
| 2010 (83rd) | In a Better World | Hævnen | Susanne Bier | Denmark | Danish |
| 2010 (83rd) | Biutiful | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico | Spanish |
| 2010 (83rd) | Dogtooth | Κυνόδοντας | Yorgos Lanthimos | Greece | Greek |
| 2010 (83rd) | Incendies | Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | Canada | French |
| 2010 (83rd) | Outside the Law | Hors-la-loi /خارجون عن القانون | Rachid Bouchareb | Algeria | French, Arabic |
| 2011 (84th) | A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین | Asghar Farhadi | Iran | Persian |
| 2011 (84th) | Bullhead | Rundskop | Michaël R. Roskam | Belgium | Dutch |
| 2011 (84th) | Footnote | הערת שוליים | Joseph Cedar | Israel | Hebrew |
| 2011 (84th) | In Darkness | W ciemności | Agnieszka Holland | Poland | Polish |
| 2011 (84th) | Monsieur Lazhar | Monsieur Lazhar | Philippe Falardeau | Canada | French |
| 2012 (85th) | Amour | Amour | Michael Haneke | Austria | French |
| 2012 (85th) | Kon-Tiki | Kon-Tiki | Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg | Norway | Norwegian |
| 2012 (85th) | No | No | Pablo Larraín | Chile | Spanish |
| 2012 (85th) | A Royal Affair | En kongelig affære | Nikolaj Arcel | Denmark | Danish |
| 2012 (85th) | War Witch | Rebelle | Kim Nguyen | Canada | French, Lingala |
| 2013 (86th) | The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | Italian |
| 2013 (86th) | The Broken Circle Breakdown | The Broken Circle Breakdown | Felix van Groeningen | Belgium | Dutch |
| 2013 (86th) | The Hunt | Jagten | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | Danish |
| 2013 (86th) | The Missing Picture | L'image manquante | Rithy Panh | Cambodia | French |
| 2013 (86th) | Omar | عمر | Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine | Arabic |
| 2014 (87th) | Ida | Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland | Polish |
| 2014 (87th) | Leviathan | Левиафан | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia | Russian |
| 2014 (87th) | Tangerines | მანდარინები / Mandariinid | Zaza Urushadze | Estonia | Estonian, Russian, Georgian |
| 2014 (87th) | Timbuktu | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mauritania | Tamasheq, Bambara, Arabic, French |
| 2014 (87th) | Wild Tales | Relatos Salvajes | Damián Szifron | Argentina | Spanish |
| 2015 (88th) | Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 2015 (88th) | Embrace of the Serpent | El abrazo de la serpiente | Ciro Guerra | Colombia | Cubeo, Huitoto, Ticuna, Wanano, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Latin, English |
| 2015 (88th) | Mustang | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France | Turkish |
| 2015 (88th) | Theeb | ذيب | Naji Abu Nowar | Jordan | Arabic |
| 2015 (88th) | A War | Krigen | Tobias Lindholm | Denmark | Danish |
| 2016 (89th) | The Salesman | فروشنده | Asghar Farhadi | Iran | Persian |
| 2016 (89th) | Land of Mine | Under sandet | Martin Zandvliet | Denmark | German, Danish |
| 2016 (89th) | A Man Called Ove | En man som heter Ove | Hannes Holm | Sweden | Swedish |
| 2016 (89th) | Tanna | Tanna | Martin Butler and Bentley Dean | Australia | Nauvhal |
| 2016 (89th) | Toni Erdmann | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany | German |
| 2017 (90th) | A Fantastic Woman | Una mujer fantástica | Sebastián Lelio | Chile | Spanish |
| 2017 (90th) | The Insult | قضية رقم ٢٣ | Ziad Doueiri | Lebanon | Lebanese Arabic |
| 2017 (90th) | Loveless | Нелюбовь | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia | Russian |
| 2017 (90th) | On Body and Soul | Testről és lélekről | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary | Hungarian |
| 2017 (90th) | The Square | The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden | Swedish, Danish, English |
| 2018 (91st) | Roma | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico | Spanish, Mixtec |
| 2018 (91st) | Capernaum | کفرناحوم | Nadine Labaki | Lebanon | Lebanese Arabic |
| 2018 (91st) | Cold War | Zimna wojna | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland | Polish |
| 2018 (91st) | Never Look Away | Werk ohne Autor | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany | German |
| 2018 (91st) | Shoplifters | 万引き家族 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan | Japanese |
| 2019 (92nd) | Parasite | 기생충 | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea | Korean |
| 2019 (92nd) | Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | Jan Komasa | Poland | Polish |
| 2019 (92nd) | Honeyland | Медена земја | Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov | North Macedonia | Macedonian, Turkish, Bosnian |
| 2019 (92nd) | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France | French |
| 2019 (92nd) | Pain and Glory | Dolor y Gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | Spanish |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | Danish, Swedish |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | Better Days | 少年的你 | Derek Tsang | Hong Kong | Mandarin, English |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | Collective | Colectiv | Alexander Nanau | Romania | Romanian, English |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | The Man Who Sold His Skin | الرجل الذي باع ظهره | Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia | Arabic, English, French, Flemish |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | Quo Vadis, Aida? | Quo Vadis, Aida? | Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnian, English, Serbian, Dutch |
| 2021 (94th) | Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan | Japanese, English, Korean, Korean Sign Language, Mandarin, Tagalog, German, Indonesian |
| 2021 (94th) | Flee | Flugt | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark | Danish |
| 2021 (94th) | The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | Italian |
| 2021 (94th) | Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom | ལུང་ནག་ན | Pawo Choyning Dorji | Bhutan | Dzongkha |
| 2021 (94th) | The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway | Norwegian |
| 2022 (95th) | All Quiet on the Western Front | Im Westen nichts Neues | Edward Berger | Germany | German, French |
| 2022 (95th) | Argentina, 1985 | Argentina, 1985 | Santiago Mitre | Argentina | Spanish |
| 2022 (95th) | Close | Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium | French, Dutch |
| 2022 (95th) | EO | IO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland | Polish |
| 2022 (95th) | The Quiet Girl | An Cailín Ciúin | Colm Bairéad | Ireland | Irish |
| 2023 (96th) | The Zone of Interest | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom | German, Polish, Yiddish |
| 2023 (96th) | Io Capitano | Io Capitano | Matteo Garrone | Italy | Wolof, French |
| 2023 (96th) | Perfect Days | Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | Japan | Japanese |
| 2023 (96th) | Society of the Snow | La sociedad de la nieve | J.A. Bayona | Spain | Spanish |
| 2023 (96th) | The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | İlker Çatak | Germany | German, Turkish, Polish, English |
| 2024 (97th) | I'm Still Here | Ainda Estou Aqui | Walter Salles | Brazil | Portuguese |
| 2024 (97th) | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France | Spanish, English |
| 2024 (97th) | Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia | No dialogue |
| 2024 (97th) | The Girl with the Needle | Pigen med nålen | Magnus von Horn | Denmark | Danish |
| 2024 (97th) | The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانه‌ی انجیر معابد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany | Persian |

## Multiple wins and nominations
### Multiple wins

Six directors have won the award more than once.
| Wins | Director | Films |
| 4 | Vittorio De Sica | Shoe-Shine, Bicycle Thieves, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and The Garden of the Finzi Continis |
| 4 | Federico Fellini | Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, 8½ and Amarcord |
| 3 | Ingmar Bergman | The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly and Fanny and Alexander |
| 2 | René Clément | The Walls of Malapaga and Forbidden Games |
| 2 | Asghar Farhadi | A Separation and The Salesman |
| 2 | Akira Kurosawa | Rashomon and Dersu Uzala |

### Multiple nominations

| Nominations | Director | Films |
| 5 | Vittorio De Sica | Shoe-Shine, Bicycle Thieves, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style and The Garden of the Finzi Continis |
| 4 | Federico Fellini | Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, 8½ and Amarcord |
| 4 | Akira Kurosawa | Rashomon, Dodes'ka-den, Dersu Uzala and Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) |
| 4 | José Luis Garci | To Begin Again, Double Feature, Course Completed and The Grandfather |
| 4 | Mario Monicelli | The Usual Unidentified Thieves, The Great War, The Girl with the Pistol and Viva Italia! |
| 4 | Ettore Scola | A Special Day, Viva Italia!, Le Bal and The Family |
| 4 | István Szabó | Confidence, Mephisto, Colonel Redl, Hanussen |
| 4 | Andrzej Wajda | The Promised Land, The Maids of Wilko, Man of Iron and Katyń |
| 3 | Pedro Almodóvar | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Pain and Glory |
| 3 | Denys Arcand | The Decline of the American Empire, Jesus of Montreal and The Barbarian Invasions |
| 3 | Ingmar Bergman | The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly and Fanny and Alexander |
| 3 | Rachid Bouchareb | Dust of Life, Days of Glory and Outside the Law |
| 3 | Luis Buñuel | Tristana, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and That Obscure Object of Desire |
| 3 | René Clément | The Walls of Malapaga, Forbidden Games and Gervaise |
| 3 | Ang Lee | The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| 3 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Close to Eden, Burnt by the Sun and 12 |
| 3 | Moshé Mizrahi | I Love You Rosa, The House on Chelouche Street and Madame Rosa |
| 3 | Carlos Saura | Mama Turns 100, Carmen and Tango |
| 3 | Jan Troell | The Emigrants, The New Land and Flight of the Eagle |
| 3 | François Truffaut | Stolen Kisses, Day for Night and The Last Metro |
| 3 | Bo Widerberg | Raven's End, Ådalen 31 and All Things Fair |
| 3 | Zhang Yimou | Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern and Hero |
| 2 | Hany Abu-Assad | Paradise Now and Omar |
| 2 | Jacques Audiard | A Prophet and Emilia Pérez |
| 2 | Susanne Bier | After the Wedding and In a Better World |
| 2 | Sergei Bodrov | Prisoner of the Mountains and Mongol |
| 2 | Michael Cacoyannis | Electra and Iphigenia |
| 2 | Joseph Cedar | Beaufort and Footnote |
| 2 | Gérard Corbiau | The Music Teacher and Farinelli: Il Castrato |
| 2 | Jaime de Armiñán | My Dearest Senorita and The Nest |
| 2 | Zoltán Fábri | The Boys of Paul Street and Hungarians |
| 2 | Asghar Farhadi | A Separation and The Salesman |
| 2 | Miloš Forman | Loves of a Blonde and The Firemen's Ball |
| 2 | Vasilis Georgiadis | The Red Lanterns and Blood on the Land |
| 2 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Amores perros and Biutiful |
| 2 | Michael Haneke | The White Ribbon and Amour |
| 2 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | The Lives of Others and Never Look Away |
| 2 | Agnieszka Holland | Angry Harvest and In Darkness |
| 2 | Juan José Campanella | Son of the Bride and The Secret in Their Eyes |
| 2 | Ephraim Kishon | Sallah Shabati and The Policeman |
| 2 | Claude Lelouch | A Man and a Woman and Live for Life |
| 2 | Caroline Link | Beyond Silence and Nowhere in Africa |
| 2 | Miguel Littin | Letters from Marusia and Alsino and the Condor |
| 2 | Louis Malle | Lacombe, Lucien and Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye Children) |
| 2 | Jiří Menzel | Closely Watched Trains and My Sweet Little Village |
| 2 | Noboru Nakamura | Twin Sisters of Kyoto and Portrait of Chieko |
| 2 | Paweł Pawlikowski | Ida and Cold War |
| 2 | Aleksandar Petrović | Three and I Even Met Happy Gypsies |
| 2 | Gillo Pontecorvo | Kapo and The Battle of Algiers |
| 2 | Fons Rademakers | The Village on the River and The Assault |
| 2 | Dino Risi | Scent of a Woman and Viva Italia! |
| 2 | Stanislav Rostotsky | The Dawns Here Are Quiet and White Bim Black Ear |
| 2 | Francisco Rovira Beleta | Los Tarantos and Bewitched Love |
| 2 | Walter Salles | Central Station and I'm Still Here |
| 2 | Maximilian Schell | First Love and The Pedestrian |
| 2 | Paolo Sorrentino | The Great Beauty and The Hand of God |
| 2 | Jan Svěrák | The Elementary School and Kolya |
| 2 | Giuseppe Tornatore | Cinema Paradiso and The Star Maker |
| 2 | Thomas Vinterberg | The Hunt and Another Round |
| 2 | Régis Wargnier | Indochine and East-West |
| 2 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Leviathan and Loveless |