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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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
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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 |
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|
2 | 18 |
| Germany[nb 1]
|
2 | 12 |
.svg.png){kind=small} Canada
|
2 | 7 |
 Denmark
|
2 | 5 |
 Japan
|
2 | 5 |
| Sweden
|
1 | 6 |
 Hong Kong
|
1 | 2 |
 Iran
|
1 | 3 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 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 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 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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