Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Film

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Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Film
Awarded forBest Performance by a Foreign Film
Country Flag of Japan.svg Japan
Presented byThe Association of Tokyo Film Journalists
First awarded1951

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Film is a prize recognizing excellence in Foreign film. It is awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards. [1] [2]

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List of winners

No.YearFilmDirector(s)
11950N/AN/A
21951 Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder
31952 Monsieur Verdoux Charles Chaplin
41953 Forbidden Games René Clément
51954 The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot
61955 East of Eden Elia Kazan
71956 Gervaise René Clément
81957 La Strada Federico Fellini
91958 The Old Man and the Sea John Sturges
Henry King
Fred Zinnemann
101959 12 Angry Men Sidney Lumet
111960 On the Beach Stanley Kramer
121961 Two Women Vittorio De Sica
131962 The Grapes of Wrath John Ford
141963 Sundays and Cybele Serge Bourguignon
151964 Lilies of the Field Ralph Nelson
161965 Mary Poppins Robert Stevenson
171966 A Man and a Woman Claude Lelouch
181975 Lenny Bob Fosse
191976 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese
201977 Rocky John G. Avildsen
211978 Conversation Piece Luchino Visconti
221979 The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino
231980 Kramer vs. Kramer Robert Benton
241981 The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff
251982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg
261983 Flashdance Adrian Lyne
271984 The Right Stuff Philip Kaufman
281985 Witness Peter Weir
291986 The Color Purple Steven Spielberg
301987 The Untouchables Brian De Palma
311988 Wings of Desire Wim Wenders
321989 Die Hard John McTiernan
331990 Field of Dreams Phil Alden Robinson
341991 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme
351992 JFK Oliver Stone
361993 Jurassic Park Steven Spielberg
371994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino
381995 The Bridges of Madison County Clint Eastwood
391996 Seven David Fincher
401997 Titanic James Cameron
411998 L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson
421999 Life Is Beautiful Roberto Benigni
432000 Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier
442001 Joint Security Area Park Chan-wook
452002 Shaolin Soccer Stephen Chow
462003 Infernal Affairs Andrew Lau
Alan Mak
472004 Mystic River Clint Eastwood
482005 Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood
492006 Flags of Our Fathers Clint Eastwood
502007 Dreamgirls Bill Condon
512008 The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan
522009 Gran Torino Clint Eastwood
532010 District 9 Neill Blomkamp
542011 Black Swan Darren Aronofsky
552012 Les Misérables Tom Hooper
562013 Gravity Alfonso Cuarón
572014 Jersey Boys Clint Eastwood
582015 Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller
592016 Rogue One Gareth Edwards
602017 Hidden Figures Theodore Melfi
612018 Bohemian Rhapsody Bryan Singer
622019 Joker Todd Phillips
632020 Parasite Bong Joon-ho
642021 No Time to Die Cary Joji Fukunaga
652022 Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
662023 The Super Mario Bros. Movie Aaron Horvath
Michael Jelenic

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