Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Country United States
Presented by Los Angeles Film Critics Association
First awarded Claude Lelouch
And Now My Love (1975)
Currently held by Jerzy Skolimowski
EO (2022)
Website lafca.net

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film is an award given annually by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was first introduced in 1975 to reward an outstanding film not in the English language.

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Winners

1970s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
Best Foreign Film
1975 And Now My Love Toute une vieFrance / Italy Claude Lelouch
1976 Face to Face Ansikte mot ansikteSweden Ingmar Bergman
1977 That Obscure Object of Desire Cet obscur objet du désirFrance / Spain Luis Buñuel
1978 Madame Rosa La vie devant soiFrance Moshé Mizrahi
1979 Soldier of Orange Soldaat van OranjeNetherlands Paul Verhoeven

1980s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
1981 The Tin Drum Die BlechtrommelWest Germany Volker Schlöndorff
1982 Pixote Pixote: A lei do mais fracoBrazil Hector Babenco
1983 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Australia George Miller
1984 Fanny and Alexander Fanny och AlexanderSweden Ingmar Bergman
1984 The Fourth Man De vierde manNetherlands Paul Verhoeven
1985 Ran Japan / France Akira Kurosawa
The Official Story La historia oficialArgentina Luis Puenzo
1986 Vagabond Sans toit ni loiFrance / UK Agnès Varda
1987 Goodbye, Children Au revoir, les enfantsFrance / West Germany Louis Malle
1988 Wings of Desire Der Himmel über BerlinFrance / West Germany Wim Wenders
1989 Distant Voices, Still Lives UK Terence Davies
Story of Women Une affaire de femmesFrance Claude Chabrol

1990s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
1990 Life and Nothing But La vie et rien d'autreFrance Bertrand Tavernier
1991 The Beautiful Troublemaker La belle noiseuseFrance / Switzerland Jacques Rivette
1992 The Crying Game UK / Japan Neil Jordan
1993 Farewell My Concubine Ba wang bie jiChina / Hong Kong Chen Kaige
1994 Three Colours: Red Trois couleurs: RougeFrance / Poland Krzysztof Kieślowski
Best Foreign Language Film
1995 Wild Reeds Les roseaux sauvagesFrance André Téchiné
1996 La Cérémonie La cérémonieFrance Claude Chabrol
1997 The Promise La promesseBelgium Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
1998 The Celebration FestenDenmark Thomas Vinterberg
1999 All About My Mother Todo sobre mi madreSpain Pedro Almodóvar

2000s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
2000 Yi Yi Yī YīJapan / Taiwan Edward Yang
2001 No Man's Land Bosnia-Herzegovina Danis Tanovic
2002 And Your Mother Too Y Tu Mamá TambiénMexico Alfonso Cuarón
2003 The Man on the Train L'homme du trainFrance Patrice Leconte
2004 House of Flying Daggers Shi mian mai fuChina / Hong Kong Zhang Yimou
2005 Hidden CachéAustria / France Michael Haneke
2006 The Lives of Others Das Leben der AnderenGermany Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zileRomania Cristian Mungiu
2008 Still Life Sanxia haorenChina / Hong Kong Jia Zhangke
2009 Summer Hours L'Heure d'étéFrance Olivier Assayas

2010s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
2010 Carlos France / Germany Olivier Assayas
2011 City of Life and Death Nanjing! Nanjing!China Lu Chuan
2012 Holy Motors France Leos Carax
2013 Blue Is the Warmest Colour La vie d'AdèleFrance Abdellatif Kechiche
2014 Ida Poland Paweł Pawlikowski
2015 Son of Saul Saul fiaHungary László Nemes
2016 The Handmaiden AgassiSouth Korea Park Chan-wook
2017 BPM (Beats per Minute) 120 battements par minuteFrance Robin Campillo
Loveless НелюбовьRussia Andrey Zvyagintsev
2018 Burning BeoningSouth Korea Lee Chang-dong [1]
Shoplifters 万引き家族 / Manbiki KazokuJapan Hirokazu Kore-eda
2019 Pain and Glory Dolor y GloriaSpain Pedro Almodóvar [2]

2020s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
2020 Beanpole DyldaRussia Kantemir Balagov [3]
2021 Petite Maman France Céline Sciamma [4]
2022 EO IoPoland Jerzy Skolimowski [5]

Multiple winners

5 director has won the award multiple times.

WinsDirector
2 Flag of Spain.svg Pedro Almodóvar
Flag of France.svg Olivier Assayas
Flag of Sweden.svg Ingmar Bergman
Flag of France.svg Claude Chabrol
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Paul Verhoeven

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