# London Film Critics' Circle Award for Foreign Language Film of the Year

The London Film Critics' Circle Award for Foreign Language of the Year is an annual award given by the London Film Critics' Circle.

## List of winners and nominees

| Year | Film | Director | Director's nationality |
| 1980 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| 1980 | Angi Vera | Pál Gábor | Hungary |
| 1981 | Man of Iron | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| 1982 | Mephisto | István Szabó | Hungary |
| 1983 | Yol | Yılmaz Güney | Turkey |
| 1984 | A Sunday in the Country | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| 1985 | Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany | Edgar Reitz | West Germany |
| 1986 | Ran | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| 1987 | Jean de Florette | Claude Berri | France |
| 1988 | Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | Denmark |
| 1989 | Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | France |
| 1990 | Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| 1991 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France |
| 1992 | Raise the Red Lantern | Zhang Yimou | China |
| 1993 | A Heart in Winter | Claude Sautet | France |
| 1994 | Farewell My Concubine | Chen Kaige | China |
| 1995 | Il Postino: The Postman | Michael Radford | Italy |
| 1996 | Les Misérables | Claude Lelouch | France |
| 1997 | Ridicule | Patrice Leconte | France |
| 1998 | Shall We Dance? | Masayuki Suo | Japan |
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee | China |
| 2001 | Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| 2002 | Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico |
| 2003 | Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Germany |
| 2004 | The Motorcycle Diaries | Walter Salles | Brazil |
| 2005 | Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Germany |
| 2006 | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar (2) | Spain |
| 2007 | The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
| 2008 | Waltz with Bashir | Ari Folman | Israel |
| 2009 | Let the Right One In | Tomas Alfredson | Sweden |
| 2010 | Of Gods and Men | Xavier Beauvois | France |
| 2011 | A Separation | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| 2012 | Rust and Bone | Jacques Audiard | France |
| 2013 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Abdellatif Kechiche | France |
| 2014 | Leviathan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| 2015 | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark |
| 2016 | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany |
| 2017 | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | Netherlands |
| 2018 | Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland |
| 2019 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | France |
| 2020 | Another Round | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| 2021 | Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| 2022 | Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| 2022 | The Quiet Girl | Colm Bairéad | Ireland |
| 2023 | Past Lives | Celine Song | South Korea Canada |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | France |
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| 2023 | Fallen Leaves | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| 2023 | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom |
| 2024 | All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | India |
| 2024 | La Chimera | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France |
| 2024 | I’m Still Here | Walter Salles | Brazil |
| 2024 | Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | United Kingdom Ireland |