# Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

## List of winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 1995 1st |
| 1995 1st | Il Postino: The Postman | Il postino | Michael Radford | Italy |
| 1996 2nd |
| 1996 2nd | Ridicule | Ridicule | Patrice Leconte | France |
| 1997 3rd |
| 1997 3rd | Shall We Dance? | ダンス / Sharu wi Dansu? | Masayuki Suo | Japan |
| 1998 4th |
| 1998 4th | Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | Italy |
| 1999 5th |
| 1999 5th | All About My Mother | Todo sobre mi madre | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |

### 2000s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 2000 6th |
| 2000 6th | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 卧虎藏龍 / Wo hu cang long | Ang Lee | Taiwan |
| 2001 7th |
| 2001 7th | Amélie | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| 2001 7th | In the Mood for Love | 花樣年華 / Faa yeung nin wa | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| 2001 7th | No Man's Land | Ničija zemlja | Danis Tanović | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2002 8th |
| 2002 8th | And Your Mother Too | Y Tu Mamá También | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico |
| 2002 8th | Monsoon Wedding | Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | India |
| 2002 8th | Talk to Her | Hable con ella | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2003 9th |
| 2003 9th | The Barbarian Invasions | Les Invasions barbares | Denys Arcand | Canada |
| 2003 9th | City of God | Cidade de Deus | Fernando Meirelles | Brazil |
| 2003 9th | Swimming Pool | Swimming Pool | François Ozon | France |
| 2004 10th |
| 2004 10th | The Sea Inside | Mar adentro | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain |
| 2004 10th | House of Flying Daggers | 十面埋伏 / Shi mian mai fu | Zhang Yimou | China |
| 2004 10th | Maria Full of Grace | María llena eres de gracia | Joshua Marston | Colombia |
| 2004 10th | The Motorcycle Diaries | Diarios de motocicleta | Walter Salles | Argentina |
| 2004 10th | A Very Long Engagement | Un long dimanche de fiançailles | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| 2005 11th |
| 2005 11th | Kung Fu Hustle | 功夫 / Kung fu | Stephen Chow | Hong Kong |
| 2005 11th | 2046 | 2046 | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| 2005 11th | Hidden | Caché | Michael Haneke | France |
| 2005 11th | Oldboy | 올드보이 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| 2005 11th | Paradise Now | الجنّة الآن | Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine / France / Germany / Israel / Netherlands |
| 2006 12th |
| 2006 12th | Letters from Iwo Jima | 硫黄島からの手紙 / Iwo Jima kara no tegami | Clint Eastwood | USA |
| 2006 12th | Apocalypto | Apocalypto | Mel Gibson | USA |
| 2006 12th | Days of Glory | بلديون / Indigènes | Rachid Bouchareb | France |
| 2006 12th | Pan's Labyrinth | El laberinto del fauno | Guillermo del Toro | Spain |
| 2006 12th | Volver | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2006 12th | Water | वाटर | Deepa Mehta | Canada |
| 2007 13th |
| 2007 13th | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Le Scaphandre et le Papillon | Julian Schnabel | France |
| 2007 13th | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile | Cristian Mungiu | Romania |
| 2007 13th | La Vie en Rose | La Môme | Olivier Dahan | France |
| 2007 13th | Lust, Caution | 色，戒 / Se, jie | Ang Lee | Hong Kong |
| 2007 13th | The Orphanage | El orfanato | Juan Antonio Bayona | Spain |
| 2008 14th |
| 2008 14th | Waltz with Bashir | ואלס עם באשיר / Vals im Bashir | Ari Folman | Israel |
| 2008 14th | A Christmas Tale | Un conte de Noël | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| 2008 14th | Gomorrah | Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| 2008 14th | I've Loved You So Long | Il y a longtemps que je t'aime | Philippe Claudel | France |
| 2008 14th | Let the Right One In | Låt den rätte komma in | Tomas Alfredson | Sweden |
| 2008 14th | Mongol | Монгол | Sergei Bodrov | Kazakhstan |
| 2009 15th |
| 2009 15th | Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2009 15th | Coco Before Chanel | Coco avant Chanel | Anne Fontaine | France |
| 2009 15th | Red Cliff | 赤壁 / Chi bi | John Woo | China |
| 2009 15th | Sin Nombre | Sin Nombre | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Mexico / USA |
| 2009 15th | The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte | Michael Haneke | Germany |

### 2010s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 2010 16th |
| 2010 16th | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Män som hatar kvinnor | Niels Arden Oplev | Sweden |
| 2010 16th | I Am Love | Io sono l'amore | Luca Guadagnino | Italy |
| 2010 16th | Biutiful | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico / Spain |
| 2011 17th |
| 2011 17th | A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین / Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| 2011 17th | In Darkness | W ciemności | Agnieszka Holland | Poland |
| 2011 17th | Le Havre | Le Havre | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| 2011 17th | The Skin I Live In | La piel que habito | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2011 17th | Where Do We Go Now? | Et maintenant, on va où; وهلّأ لوين؟ / w halla' la wayn | Nadine Labaki | Lebanon |
| 2012 18th |
| 2012 18th | Amour | Amour | Michael Haneke | Austria / France / Germany |
| 2012 18th | The Intouchables | Intouchables | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | France |
| 2012 18th | A Royal Affair | En kongelig affære | Nikolaj Arcel | Denmark |
| 2012 18th | Rust and Bone | De rouille et d'os | Jacques Audiard | France |
| 2013 19th |
| 2013 19th | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | Abdellatif Kechiche | France |
| 2013 19th | The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| 2013 19th | The Hunt | Jagten | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| 2013 19th | The Past | Le passé | Asghar Farhadi | France / Italy / Iran |
| 2013 19th | Wadjda | Wadjda | Haifaa al-Mansour | Germany / Saudi Arabia |
| 2014 20th |
| 2014 20th | Force Majeure | Turist | Ruben Östlund | Sweden |
| 2014 20th | Ida | Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Denmark / France / Poland / UK |
| 2014 20th | Leviathan | Левиафан | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| 2014 20th | Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Belgium / France / Italy |
| 2014 20th | Wild Tales | Relatos salvajes | Damián Szifron | Argentina / Spain |
| 2015 21st |
| 2015 21st | Son of Saul | Saul fia | László Nemes | Hungary |
| 2015 21st | The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘 / Cìkè Niè Yinniáng | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| 2015 21st | Goodnight Mommy | Ich seh, Ich seh | Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala | Austria |
| 2015 21st | Mustang | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France |
| 2015 21st | The Second Mother | Que Horas Ela Volta? | Anna Muylaert | Brazil |
| 2016 22nd |
| 2016 22nd | Elle | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | France |
| 2016 22nd | The Handmaiden | 아가씨 / Ah-ga-ssi | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| 2016 22nd | Julieta | Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2016 22nd | Neruda | Neruda | Pablo Larraín | Chile |
| 2016 22nd | The Salesman | Forušande | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| 2016 22nd | Toni Erdmann | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany |
| 2017 23rd |
| 2017 23rd | In the Fade | Aus dem Nichts | Fatih Akin | Germany |
| 2017 23rd | BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo | France |
| 2017 23rd | A Fantastic Woman | Una mujer fantástica | Sebastián Lelio | Chile |
| 2017 23rd | First They Killed My Father | Moun dambaung | Angelina Jolie | Cambodia |
| 2017 23rd | The Square | The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden |
| 2017 23rd | Thelma | Thelma | Joachim Trier | Norway |
| 2018 24th |
| 2018 24th | Roma | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico |
| 2018 24th | Burning | 버닝 / Beoning | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| 2018 24th | Capernaum | کفرناحوم‎ / Capharnaüm | Nadine Labaki | Lebanon |
| 2018 24th | Cold War | Zimna wojna | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland |
| 2018 24th | Shoplifters | 万引き家族 / Manbiki Kazoku | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| 2019 25th |
| 2019 25th | Parasite | 기생충 | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| 2019 25th | Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop | Belgium / France / Senegal |
| 2019 25th | Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2019 25th | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
| 2019 25th | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma | France |

### 2020s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 2020 26th |
| 2020 26th | Minari | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | USA |
| 2020 26th | Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| 2020 26th | Collective | Colectiv | Alexander Nanau | Romania |
| 2020 26th | La Llorona | La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala |
| 2020 26th | The Life Ahead | La vita davanti a sé | Edoardo Ponti | Italy |
| 2020 26th | Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti | France |
| 2021 27th |
| 2021 27th | Drive My Car | Doraibu mai kā | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| 2021 27th | Flee | Flugt | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark |
| 2021 27th | The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| 2021 27th | A Hero | Ghahreman | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| 2021 27th | The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway |
| 2022 28th |
| 2022 28th | RRR | RRR | S. S. Rajamouli | India |
| 2022 28th | All Quiet on the Western Front | Im Westen nichts Neues | Edward Berger | Germany |
| 2022 28th | Argentina, 1985 | Argentina, 1985 | Santiago Mitre | Argentina |
| 2022 28th | Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico |
| 2022 28th | Close | Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium |
| 2022 28th | Decision to Leave | 헤어질 결심 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| 2023 29th |
| 2023 29th | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | France |
| 2023 29th | Godzilla Minus One | ゴジラ-1.0 | Takashi Yamazaki | Japan |
| 2023 29th | Perfect Days | Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | Japan |
| 2023 29th | Society of the Snow | La sociedad de la nieve | J. A. Bayona | Spain |
| 2023 29th | The Taste of Things | La Passion de Dodin Bouffant | Trần Anh Hùng | France |
| 2023 29th | The Zone of Interest | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom |
| 2024 30th |
| 2024 30th | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France |
| 2024 30th | All We Imagine as Light | All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | India |
| 2024 30th | Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia |
| 2024 30th | I'm Still Here | Ainda Estou Aqui | Walter Salles | Brazil |
| 2024 30th | Kneecap | Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland |
| 2024 30th | The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانه‌ی انجیر معابد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany |

## Multiple winners

Only 2 directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
| 2 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2 | Alfonso Cuarón |

## Countries with multiple wins (3 or more)

| Wins | Country | Films |
| 8 | France | Ridicule, Amélie, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Amour, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Elle, Anatomy of a Fall and Emilia Pérez |
| 3 | Spain | All About My Mother, The Sea Inside and Broken Embraces |