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Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year Film Original title Director(s) Country
1996 Breaking the Waves Lars Von Trier  Denmark /  United Kingdom
Azúcar Amarga Leon Ichaso  United States /  Dominican Republic
La cérémonie Claude Chabrol  France /  Germany
Kolya Kolja Jan Svěrák  Czech Republic
Prisoner of the Mountains Кавказский пленник Sergei Bodrov  Russia /  Kazakhstan
Ridicule Patrice Leconte  France
1997 Shall We Dance? Shall we ダンス? Masayuki Suo  Japan
Ponette Jacques Doillon  France
Live Flesh Carne trémula Pedro Almodóvar  Spain /  France
Ma vie en rose Alain Berliner  France /  Belgium /  United Kingdom
The Promise La promesse Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne  Belgium /  France
1998 Central Station Central do Brasil Walter Salles  Brazil /  France
The Celebration Festen Thomas Vinterberg  Denmark
Life Is Beautiful La vita è bella Roberto Benigni  Italy
Only Clouds Move the Stars Bare skyer beveger stjernene Torun Lian  Norway
La Séparation Christian Vincent  France
1999 All About My Mother Todo sobre mi madre Pedro Almodóvar  Spain /  France
Three Seasons Ba Mùa Tony Bui  United States
The Emperor and the Assassin 荊軻刺秦王 Chen Kaige  China
The King of Masks 變臉 Wu Tianming  China
The Red Violin Le violon rouge François Girard  Canada /  Italy /  United Kingdom
Run Lola Run Lola rennt Tom Tykwer  Germany

2000s

Year Film Original title Director(s) Country
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍 Ang Lee  Taiwan /  China /  Hong Kong /  United States
Goya in Bordeaux Goya en Burdeos Carlos Saura  Spain
His Wife's Diary Дневник его жены Alexei Uchitel  Russia
Malèna Giuseppe Tornatore  Italy /  United States
Malli Santosh Sivan  India
Shower 洗澡 Zhang Yang  China
2001 No Man's Land Ničija zemlja Danis Tanović  Bosnia and Herzegovina /  France /  Slovenia /  Italy /  United Kingdom /  Belgium
Amélie Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain Jean-Pierre Jeunet  France /  Germany
Beijing Bicycle 十七歲的單車 Wang Xiaoshuai  China /  France /  Taiwan
Our Lady of the Assassins La Virgen de los sicarios Barbet Schroeder  Colombia /  Spain /  France
The Princess and the Warrior Der Krieger und die Kaiserin Tom Tykwer  Germany
Baran باران Majid Majidi  Iran
2002 Talk to Her Hable con ella Pedro Almodóvar  Spain
All or Nothing Mike Leigh  United Kingdom
Bloody Sunday Paul Greengrass  United Kingdom /  Ireland
Everyone Loves Alice Alla älskar Alice Richard Hobert  Sweden /  Norway
Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair  India /  France /  Germany /  Italy /  United States
Rain Christine Jeffs  New Zealand
Sex and Lucia Lucía y el sexo Julio Medem  Spain /  France
2003 City of God Cidade de Deus Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund  Brazil
The Barbarian Invasions Les invasions barbares Denys Arcand  Canada /  France
Gloomy Sunday Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod / Szomorú vasárnap Rolf Schübel  Germany /  Hungary
Monsieur Ibrahim Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran François Dupeyron  France
Osama اسامه Siddiq Barmak  Afghanistan /  Netherlands /  Japan /  Ireland /  Iran
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring 봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 Kim Ki-duk  South Korea /  Germany
2004 The Sea Inside Mar adentro Alejandro Amenábar  Spain /  France /  Italy
Don't Move Non ti muovere Sergio Castellitto  Italy
House of Flying Daggers 十面埋伏 Zhang Yimou  China /  Hong Kong
The Motorcycle Diaries Diarios de motocicleta Walter Salles  Argentina /  Brazil /  United States /  Chile /  Peru /  United Kingdom /  Germany /  France
Bad Education La mala educación Pedro Almodóvar  Spain
A Very Long Engagement Un long dimanche de fiançailles Jean-Pierre Jeunet  France
2005 Mother of Mine Äideistä parhain / Den bästa av mödrar Klaus Härö  Finland
2046 Wong Kar-wai  Hong Kong
Innocent Voices Voces inocentes Luis Mandoki  Mexico /  El Salvador
Lila Says Lila dit ça Ziad Doueiri  France
Turtles Can Fly لاک پشت ها هم پرواز می کنند Bahman Ghobadi  Iran /  France /  Iraq
Walk on Water ללכת על המים Eytan Fox  Israel
2006 Volver Pedro Almodóvar  Spain
Apocalypto Mel Gibson  United States
Changing Times Les temps qui changent André Téchiné  France
The Lives of Others Das Leben der Anderen Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  Germany
The Syrian Bride הכלה הסורית Eran Riklis  Israel /  France /  Germany
Water वाटर Deepa Mehta  Canada /  United States /  India
2007 Lust, Caution 色，戒 Ang Lee  United States /  China /  Taiwan
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile Cristian Mungiu  Romania
La Vie en Rose La môme Olivier Dahan  Czech Republic /  France /  United Kingdom
Offside آفساید Jafar Panahi  Iran
The Orphanage El orfanato J. A. Bayona  Spain
Ten Canoes Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr  Australia
2008 Gomorrah Gomorra Matteo Garrone  Italy
Caramel سكر بنات Nadine Labaki  Lebanon
The Class Entre les murs Laurent Cantet  France
Let the Right One In Låt den rätte komma in Tomas Alfredson  Sweden
Padre Nuestro Sangre de mi sangre Christopher Zalla  United States /  Argentina
Reprise Joachim Trier  Norway
2009 Broken Embraces Los abrazos rotos Pedro Almodóvar  Spain
The Maid La nana Sebastián Silva  Chile
I Killed My Mother J'ai tué ma mère Xavier Dolan  Canada
Red Cliff 赤壁 John Woo  China /  Hong Kong /  Japan /  South Korea /  Taiwan /  United States
The White Ribbon Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte Michael Haneke  Austria /  Germany /  France /  Italy
Winter in Wartime Oorlogswinter Martin Koolhoven  Netherlands

2010s

Year Film Original title Director(s) Country
2010 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Män som hatar kvinnor Niels Arden Oplev  Sweden /  Denmark /  Germany
Biutiful Alejandro González Iñárritu  Mexico /  Spain
I Am Love Io sono l'amore Luca Guadagnino  Italy
Mother 마더 Bong Joon-ho  South Korea
Outside the Law Hors-la-loi
خارجون عن القانون		 Rachid Bouchareb  France /  Algeria /  Tunisia /  Belgium
Soul Kitchen Fatih Akın  Germany
White Material Claire Denis  France
2011 Mysteries of Lisbon Mistérios de Lisboa Raúl Ruiz  Portugal /  France
13 Assassins 十三人の刺客 Takashi Miike  United Kingdom /  Japan
Faust Alexander Sokurov  Russia
Las Acacias Pablo Giorgelli  Argentina
The Kid with a Bike Le Gamin au vélo Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne  Belgium /  France
Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki  Finland /  France /  Germany
Miss Bala Gerardo Naranjo  Mexico
Mozart's Sister Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart René Féret  France
The Turin Horse A torinói ló Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky  Hungary
2012 The Intouchables Intouchables Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano  France
Pietà 피에타 Kim Ki-duk  South Korea
Amour Michael Haneke  France /  Austria /  Germany
Beyond the Hills După dealuri Cristian Mungiu  Romania
Caesar Must Die Cesare deve morire Paolo and Vittorio Taviani  Italy
Kon-Tiki Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg  Norway /  Denmark /  Germany /  Sweden /  United Kingdom
Our Children À perdre la raison Joachim Lafosse  Belgium /  France
A Royal Affair En kongelig affære Nikolaj Arcel  Denmark /  Sweden /  Czech Republic
A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین Asghar Farhadi  Iran
War Witch Rebelle Kim Nguyen  Canada
2013 The Broken Circle Breakdown Felix van Groeningen  Belgium
Bethlehem בית לחם Yuval Adler  Israel
Blue Is the Warmest Colour La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 Abdellatif Kechiche  France /  Belgium /  Spain
Circles Кругови Srdan Golubović  Serbia
Four Corners Ian Gabriel  South Africa
The Great Beauty La grande bellezza Paolo Sorrentino  Italy /  France
The Hunt Jagten Thomas Vinterberg  Denmark
Metro Manila Sean Ellis  United Kingdom
The Past Le Passé Asghar Farhadi  France /  Italy /  Iran
Wadjda وجدة Haifaa al-Mansour  Saudi Arabia
2014 Tangerines Mandariinid / მანდარინები Zaza Urushadze  Estonia /  Georgia
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Gett: Le procès de Viviane Amsalem Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz  Israel /  Germany /  France
Ida Paweł Pawlikowski  Poland /  Denmark /  France /  United Kingdom
Force Majeure Turist Ruben Östlund  Sweden /  France /  Norway
Leviathan Левиафан Andrey Zvyagintsev  Russia
Little England Μικρά Αγγλία Pantelis Voulgaris  Greece
Mommy Xavier Dolan  Canada
Timbuktu Abderrahmane Sissako  Mauritania /  France
Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne  Belgium /  France /  Italy
Wild Tales Relatos salvajes Damián Szifron  Argentina /  Spain
2015
[1]		 Son of Saul Saul Fia László Nemes  Hungary
The Assassin 刺客聶隱娘 Hou Hsiao-hsien  Taiwan /  China /  Hong Kong
The Brand New Testament Le Tout Nouveau Testament Jaco Van Dormael  Belgium /  France /  Luxembourg
Goodnight Mommy Ich seh, Ich seh Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala  Austria
The High Sun Zvizdan Dalibor Matanić  Croatia /  Serbia /  Slovenia
Labyrinth of Lies Im Labyrinth des Schweigens Giulio Ricciarelli  Germany
Mustang Deniz Gamze Ergüven  France /  Germany /  Turkey
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron Roy Andersson  Sweden /  Norway /  France /  Germany /  Denmark
The Second Mother Que Horas Ela Volta? Anna Muylaert  Brazil
The Throne 사도 Lee Joon-ik  South Korea
2016
[2]		 The Salesman فروشنده‎ Asghar Farhadi  Iran /  France
The Ardennes D'Ardennen Robin Pront  Belgium
Elle Paul Verhoeven  France /  Germany
The Handmaiden 아가씨 Park Chan-wook  South Korea
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki Hymyilevä mies Juho Kuosmanen  Finland /  Germany /  Sweden
Julieta Pedro Almodóvar  Spain
A Man Called Ove En man som heter Ove Hannes Holm  Sweden
Ma' Rosa Brillante Mendoza  Philippines
Paradise Рай Andrei Konchalovsky  Russia
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade  Germany /  Austria
2017 In the Fade Fatih Akin  Germany /  France
BPM (Beats per Minute) Robin Campillo  France
The Divine Order Petra Volpe   Switzerland
First They Killed My Father Angelina Jolie  Cambodia /  United States
Foxtrot Samuel Maoz  Israel /  Germany /  France /   Switzerland
Loveless Andrey Zvyagintsev  Russia /  France /  Belgium /  Germany
The Square Ruben Östlund  Sweden /  France /  Germany /  Denmark
White Sun Deepak Rauniyar    Nepal /  Netherlands /  Qatar /  United States
2018
[3]		 Roma Alfonso Cuarón  Mexico /  United States
The Cakemaker האופה מברלין Ofir Raul Grazier  Israel /  Germany
Cold War Zimna wojna Paweł Pawlikowski  Poland /  France /  United Kingdom
The Guilty Den skyldige Gustav Möller  Denmark
I Am Not a Witch Rungano Nyoni  United Kingdom /  France /  Germany /  Zambia
Shoplifters 万引き家族 Hirokazu Kore-eda  Japan
2019
[4]		 Truth and Justice Tõde ja õigus Tanel Toom  Estonia
Atlantics Atlantique Mati Diop  France /  Senegal /  Belgium
Beanpole Дылда Kantemir Balagov  Russia
Les Misérables Ladj Ly  France
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Céline Sciamma
Pain and Glory Dolor y gloria Pedro Almodóvar  Spain
The Painted Bird Nabarvené ptáče Václav Marhoul  Czech Republic /  Slovakia /  Ukraine
Parasite 기생충 Bong Joon-ho  South Korea

2020s

Year Film Original title Director(s) Country
2020
[5][6]		 La Llorona Jayro Bustamante  Guatemala
Another Round Druk Thomas Vinterberg  Denmark
Atlantis Атлантида Valentyn Vasyanovych  Ukraine
I'm No Longer Here Ya no estoy aquí Fernando Frías de la Parra  Mexico /  United States
Jallikattu Lijo Jose Pellissery  India
My Little Sister Schwesterlein Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond   Switzerland
A Sun 陽光普照 Chung Mong-hong  Taiwan
Tove Zaida Bergroth  Finland /  Sweden
Two of Us Deux Filippo Meneghetti  France
2021
[7]		 Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー Ryusuke Hamaguchi  Japan
Compartment No. 6 Hytti Nro 6 Juho Kuosmanen  Finland
Flee Flugt Jonas Poher Rasmussen  Denmark
The Good Boss El buen patrón Fernando León de Aranoa  Spain
The Hand of God È stata la mano di Dio Paolo Sorrentino  Italy
A Hero قهرمان Asghar Farhadi  Iran
Prayers for the Stolen Noche de Fuego Tatiana Huezo  Mexico
Titane Julia Ducournau  France
The Worst Person in the World Verdens verste menneske Joachim Trier  Norway
2022
[8]		 Argentina, 1985 Santiago Mitre  Argentina
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades Alejandro González Iñárritu  Mexico
Close Lukas Dhont  Belgium
Corsage Marie Kreutzer  Austria
Decision to Leave 헤어질 결심 Park Chan-wook  South Korea
Holy Spider عنکبوت مقدس Ali Abbasi  Denmark
The Quiet Girl An Cailín Ciúin Colm Bairéad  Ireland
War Sailor Krigsseileren Gunnar Vikene  Norway
2023
[9][10]		 The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer  United Kingdom
Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute Justine Triet  France
Blaga's Lessons Уроците на Блага Stephan Komandarev  Bulgaria
Fallen Leaves Kuolleet lehdet Aki Kaurismäki  Finland
Io capitano Matteo Garrone  Italy
Society of the Snow La sociedad de la nieve J. A. Bayona  Spain
The Teachers' Lounge Das Lehrerzimmer İlker Çatak  Germany

Multiple winners

Only 2 directors have won the award multiple times.

Wins Director
4 Spain Pedro Almodóvar
2 Taiwan Ang Lee

References

  1. ^ "Satellite Awards (2015)". International Press Academy. IPA. December 2, 2015. pressacademy.com. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
  2. ^ "Satellite Awards (2016)" (PDF). International Press Academy. IPA. November 28, 2016. pressacademy.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  3. ^ "Satellite Awards 2018". International Press Academy. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  4. ^ "Satellite Awards 2019". International Press Academy. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  5. ^ "'One Night in Miami' and 'Nomadland' Lead Nominations for 25th Satellite Awards". Vimooz. February 1, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  6. ^ Anderson, Erik (February 15, 2021). "Satellite Awards winners: 'Nomadland,' 'Forty-Year Old Version' top film prizes; 'Schitt's Creek,' 'Better Call Saul' take TV". Awards Watch. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
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  8. ^ "The International Press Academy Announces Winners for the 27th Annual Satellite™ Awards". International Press Academy. March 3, 2023. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
  9. ^ "IPA Reveals Nominations for the 28th Satellite Awards". International Press Academy. December 18, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  10. ^ "The International Press Academy Announces Winners for the 28th Annual SATELLITE Awards". International Press Academy. March 3, 2024. Retrieved March 26, 2024.