IFTA Award for Best International Film

IFTA Award for Best International Film
Awarded for	Best International Film
Country	Ireland
Presented by	Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA)
First award	2004
Most recent winner	Conclave (2024)
Website	ifta.ie

The IFTA Award for Best International Film is an award presented annually by the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA). It was first awarded at the 2nd Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony in 2004, recognising an outstanding film produced outside of Ireland. Conclave (2024) is the most recent winner of the award.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as the year of film. The first three ceremonies were held at the end of the year, but since the 4th Irish Film & Television Awards the ceremonies have generally been held the following year. The award wasn't presented between the 16th and the 18th ceremonies, returning at the 19th ceremony in 2023.

Table key

‡	Indicates the winner

2000s

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2004 (2nd)	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ‡	Peter Jackson	[1]
	Fahrenheit 9/11	Michael Moore
	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood
	The Passion of the Christ	Mel Gibson
2005 (3rd)	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ‡	Tim Burton	[2]
	Batman Begins	Christopher Nolan
	Crash	Paul Haggis
	Sin City	Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
2006 (4th)	Little Miss Sunshine ‡	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris	[3]
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Casino Royale	Martin Campbell
	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
	United 93	Paul Greengrass
2007 (5th)	The Lives of Others ‡	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	[4]
	Atonement	Joe Wright
	The Bourne Ultimatum	Paul Greengrass
	La Vie en Rose	Olivier Dahan
2008 (6th)	In Bruges ‡	Martin McDonagh	[5]
	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Mark Herman
	Man on Wire	James Marsh
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
2009 (7th)	The Hurt Locker ‡	Kathryn Bigelow	[6]
	Avatar	James Cameron
	Let the Right One In	Tomas Alfredson
	Up	Pete Docter

2010s

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2010 (8th)	The Social Network ‡	David Fincher	[7]
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	A Prophet	Jacques Audiard
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
2011 (9th)	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ‡	Tomas Alfredson	[8]
	Bridesmaids	Paul Feig
	Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn
	Senna	Asif Kapadia
2012 (10th)	Argo ‡	Ben Affleck	[9]
	Amour	Michael Haneke
	Life of Pi	Ang Lee
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
2013 (11th)	Philomena ‡	Stephen Frears	[10]
	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese
2014 (12th)	Boyhood ‡	Richard Linklater	[11]
	'71	Yann Demange
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
	The Theory of Everything	James Marsh
2015 (13th)	Spotlight ‡	Tom McCarthy	[12]
	Ex Machina	Alex Garland
	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller
	The Revenant	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2016 (14th)	Moonlight ‡	Barry Jenkins	[13]
	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
2017 (15th)	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ‡	Martin McDonagh	[14]
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo Del Toro

2020s

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2022/23 (19th)	All Quiet on the Western Front ‡	Edward Berger	[15]
	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann
	Tár	Todd Field
	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg
	Top Gun: Maverick	Joseph Kosinski
2023 (20th)	Oppenheimer ‡	Christopher Nolan	[16]
	All of Us Strangers	Andrew Haigh
	The Holdovers	Alexander Payne
	Past Lives	Celine Song
	Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos
	Saltburn	Emerald Fennell
2024 (21st)	Conclave ‡	Edward Berger	[17]
	Anora	Sean Baker
	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet
	Dune: Part Two	Denis Villeneuve
	The Outrun	Nora Fingscheidt
	The Substance	Coralie Fargeat

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External links

• IFTA.ie (official IFTA website)