César Award for Best Foreign Film
| César Award for Best Foreign Film | |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada / France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First award | 1976 |
| Currently held by | The Zone of Interest (2025) |
| Website | academie-cinema |
The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, sponsored by France and Canada, presents an annual César Award for Best Foreign Film (French: César du meilleur film étranger). This is the list of winners and nominees of the award since the 1970s.
Winners and nominees
1970s
| Year | Winner and nominees | Original title | Country | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 (1st) |
Scent of a Woman | Profumo di donna | Italy | Dino Risi |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes | West Germany | Werner Herzog | |
| The Magic Flute | Trollflöjten | Sweden | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Nashville | United States | Robert Altman | ||
| 1977 (2nd) |
We All Loved Each Other So Much | C'eravamo tanto amati | Italy | Ettore Scola |
| Barry Lyndon | United Kingdom/ United States |
Stanley Kubrick | ||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | United States | Miloš Forman | ||
| Raise Ravens | Cría cuervos | Spain | Carlos Saura | |
| 1978 (3rd) |
A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | Italy | Ettore Scola |
| The American Friend | Der amerikanische Freund | West Germany | Wim Wenders | |
| Annie Hall | United States | Woody Allen | ||
| Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | Italy | Franco Brusati | |
| 1979 (4th) |
The Tree of Wooden Clogs | L'albero degli zoccoli | Italy | Ermanno Olmi |
| Autumn Sonata | Höstsonaten | Sweden | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Julia | United States | Fred Zinnemann | ||
| A Wedding | United States | Robert Altman | ||
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Awards by nation
| Country | Number of winning films |
Number of nominated films |
|---|---|---|
| United States of America | 16 | 87 |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 23 |
| Italy | 6 | 13 |
| Spain | 3 | 12 |
| Belgium | 2 | 18 |
| Germany[nb 1] | 2 | 12 |
| Canada | 2 | 7 |
| Denmark | 2 | 5 |
| Japan | 2 | 5 |
| Sweden | 1 | 6 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 2 |
| Iran | 1 | 3 |
| Australia | 1 | 1 |
| Israel | 1 | 1 |
| Russia | 1 | 2 |
| South Korea | 1 | 2 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1 |
| Poland | 1 | 6 |
| Brazil | 0 | 3 |
| 0 | 2 | |
| Romania | 0 | 2 |
| Turkey | 0 | 2 |
| Norway | 0 | 2 |
| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[nb 2] | 0 | 2 |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | 2 |
| China | 0 | 1 |
| France[nb 3] | 0 | 2 |
| Hungary | 0 | 1 |
| India | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland | 0 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 1 |
| South Africa | 0 | 1 |
| Taiwan | 0 | 1 |
| Finland | 0 | 2 |
Multiple winners
6 directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
|---|---|
| 3 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2 | Woody Allen |
| Pedro Almodóvar | |
| Ken Loach | |
| David Lynch | |
| Ettore Scola |
Notes
- ^ Includes films of West Germany.
- ^ The Soviet Union received its two nominations for a Russian-language film and a Mongolian-language film before it was formally dissolved on December 26, 1991.
- ^ Films which contains non-French dialogue.
See also
- Lumière Award for Best French-Language Film
- Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
References
- ^ "Berenice Bejo, Lea Seydoux, Roman Polanski Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. 2014-01-31. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
External links
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