National Board of Review: Top Five International Films

National Board of Review Award for Top Five International Films
Awarded for	Top Five International Films
Country	United States
Presented by	National Board of Review
First awarded	1929
Last awarded	2023
Currently held by	La chimera – Italy, France, Switzerland Fallen Leaves – Finland, Germany The Teachers' Lounge – Germany Tótem – Mexico, Denmark, France The Zone of Interest – United States, United Kingdom, Poland
Website	nationalboardofreview.org

The Top Five International Films (known as Top Five Foreign Language Films prior to 2022) is one of the awards presented annually by the National Board of Review, this category is one of the few awards that is not presented individually but instead as a list of usually five films. The category was first presented in 1929 and its one of two categories for foreign language films alongside the Best Foreign Language Film award.

Initially it was awarded as just as Top Foreign Films therefore including foreign films in English but in 1990 it was modified to only reward films in a foreign language changing the name from Top Foreign Films to Top Foreign Language Films before being changed again to Top International Films in 2022. From 1940 to 1949 the list was not presented at all.

Winners

1920s

Year	Film	Director	Country
1929	Arsenal	Alexander Dovzhenko	Soviet Union
	October: Ten Days That Shook the World	Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein
	The Passion of Joan of Arc	Carl Theodor Dreyer	France
	Piccadilly	E. A. Dupont	United Kingdom
	Homecoming	Joe May	Germany

1930s

Year	Film	Director	Country
1930	High Treason	Maurice Elvey	United Kingdom
	Two Hearts in Waltz Time	Géza von Bolváry	Germany
	Old and New	Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein	Soviet Union
	Soil	Alexander Dovzhenko
	Storm Over Asia	Vsevolod Pudovkin
1931	The Threepenny Opera	G. W. Pabst	Germany
	The Song of Life	Alexis Granowsky
	Under the Roofs of Paris	René Clair	France
	Westfront 1918	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	Germany
1932	À Nous la Liberté	René Clair	France
	Der Andere	Robert Wiene	Germany
	Der Raub der Mona Lisa	Géza von Bolváry
	Zwei Menschen	Erich Waschneck
	The Battle of Gallipolli	Anthony Asquith and Geoffrey Barkas	United Kingdom
	Reserved for Ladies	Alexander Korda
	Kameradschaft	G. W. Pabst	Germany, France
	Golden Mountains	Sergei Yutkevich	Soviet Union
	Road to Life	Nikolai Ekk
	Mädchen in Uniform	Leontine Sagan	Germany
1933	Ivan	Alexander Dovzhenko	Soviet Union
	Hertha's Erwachen	Gerhard Lamprecht	Germany
	M	Fritz Lang
	Morgenrot	Vernon Sewell and Gustav Ucicky	Germany
	Niemandsland	Victor Trivas
	The Private Life of Henry VIII	Alexander Korda	United Kingdom
	Rome Express	Walter Forde
	Poil de Carotte	Julien Duvivier	France
	Quatorze Juillet	René Clair
	The Blood of a Poet	Jean Cocteau
1934	Man of Aran	Robert J. Flaherty	Ireland
	The Blue Light	Leni Riefenstahl	Germany
	Catherine the Great	Paul Czinner	United Kingdom
	The Constant Nymph	Basil Dean
	Madame Bovary	Jean Renoir	France
1935	Chapaev	Georgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev	Soviet Union
	The New Gulliver	Aleksandr Ptushko
	The Youth of Maxim	Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
	Crime and Punishment	Pierre Chenal	France
	Le Dernier Milliardaire	René Clair
	Maria Chapdelaine	Julien Duvivier
	La Maternelle	Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein
	The Man Who Knew Too Much	Alfred Hitchcock	United Kingdom
	Thunder in the East	Nicolas Farkas
	Peasants	Konstantin Kostich	Czechoslovakia, Romania
1936	The New Earth	Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami	Japan, Germany
	We are from Kronstadt	Efim Dzigan	Soviet Union
	Son of Mongolia	Ilya Trauberg
	The Yellow Cruise	Léon Poirier and André Sauvage	France
	Carnival in Flanders	Jacques Feyder
	Les Misérables	Raymond Bernard
	The Ghost Goes West	René Clair	United Kingdom
	Rembrandt	Alexander Korda
	Nine Days a Queen	Robert Stevenson
	The Secret Agent	Alfred Hitchcock
1937	Baltic Deputy	Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi	Soviet Union
	Elephant Boy	Robert J. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda	United Kingdom
	The Eternal Mask	Werner Hochbaum	Austria, Switzerland
	Golgotha	Julien Duvivier	France
	The Lower Depths	Jean Renoir
	Mayerling	Anatole Litvak
	Jánošík	Martin Frič	Czechoslovakia
	The Spanish Earth	Joris Ivens	United States
	The Wedding of Palo	Friedrich Dalsheim	Denmark
1938	Ballerina	Jean Benoit-Lévy and Marie Epstein	France
	Generals Without Buttons	Yves Robert
	Grand Illusion	Jean Renoir
	Un Carnet de Bal	Julien Duvivier
	Peter the First	Vladimir Petrov	Soviet Union
	Professor Mamlock	Herbert Rappaport and Adolf Minkin
1939	The End of the Day	Julien Duvivier	France
	Harvest	Marcel Pagnol
	Port of Shadows	Marcel Carné
	Alexander Nevsky	Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev	Soviet Union
	Robert Koch	Hans Steinhoff	Germany

1950s

Year	Film	Director	Country
1950	Kind Hearts and Coronets	Robert Hamer	United Kingdom
	Tight Little Island	Alexander Mackendrick
	The Third Man	Carol Reed
	Paris 1900	Nicole Védrès	France
	The Titan: Story of Michelangelo	Richard Lyford	Germany
1951	The Browning Version	Anthony Asquith	United Kingdom
	Kon-Tiki	Thor Heyerdahl	Norway, Sweden
	Miracle in Milan	Vittorio De Sica	Italy
	Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
	The River	Jean Renoir	United States
1952	Beauty and the Devil	René Clair	France, Italy
	Breaking the Sound Barrier	David Lean	United Kingdom
	Ivory Hunter	Harry Watt
	The Man in the White Suit	Alexander Mackendrick
	Forbidden Games	René Clément	France
1953	Strange Deception	Curzio Malaparte	Italy
	The Conquest of Everest	George Lowe	United Kingdom
	Moulin Rouge	John Hutson
	A Queen is Crowned	Michael Waldman
	The Little World of Don Camillo	Julien Duvivier	Italy, France
1954	The Detective	Robert Hamer	United Kingdom
	Genevieve	Henry Cornelius
	The Heart of the Matter	George More O'Ferrall
	The Little Kidnappers	Philip Leacock
	Beauties of the Night	René Clair	France, Italy
	Diary of a Country Priest	Robert Bresson	France
	Monsieur Hulot's Holiday	Jacques Tati
	Bread, Love and Dreams	Luigi Comencini	Italy
	Gate of Hell	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Japan
	Romeo and Juliet	Renato Castellani	United Kingdom, Italy
1955	Diabolique	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
	The Divided Heart	Charles Crichton	United Kingdom
	The Prisoner	Peter Glenville
	The Great Adventure	Arne Sucksdorff	Sweden
	The End of the Affair	Edward Dmytryk	United Kingdom, United States
1956	Rififi	Jules Dassin	France
	The Silent World	Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle
	War and Peace	King Vidor	United States, Italy
	Richard III	Laurence Olivier	United Kingdom
	La Strada	Federico Fellini	Italy
1957	Gervaise	René Clément	France
	A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
	The Red Balloon	Albert Lamorisse
	Ordet	Carl Theodor Dreyer	Denmark
	Torero!	Carlos Velo	Mexico
1958	The Horse's Mouth	Ronald Neame	United Kingdom
	A Night to Remember	Roy Ward Baker
	Mon Oncle	Jacques Tati	France
	Rouge et Noir	Claude Autant-Lara
	Pather Panchali	Satyajit Ray	India
1959	Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
	The Roof	Vittorio De Sica	Italy
	Aparajito	Satyajit Ray	India
	Look Back in Anger	Tony Richardson	United Kingdom
	Room at the Top	Jack Clayton

1960s

Year	Film	Director	Country
1960	The Angry Silence	Guy Green	United Kingdom
	I'm All Right Jack	John Boulting
	General Della Rovere	Roberto Rossellini	Italy
	Hiroshima Mon Amour	Alain Resnais	France
	The World of Apu	Satyajit Ray	India
1961	The Bridge	Bernhard Wicki	West Germany
	La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	Italy
	Two Women	Vittorio De Sica
	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Karel Reisz	United Kingdom
	A Summer to Remember	Igor Talankin and Georgiy Daneliya	Soviet Union
1962	Barabbas	Richard Fleischer	Italy
	Divorce Italian Style	Pietro Germi
	Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
	The Naked Island	Kaneto Shindo	Japan
	Sundays and Cybele	Serge Bourguignon	France
1963	Winter Light	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
	Any Number Can Win	Henri Verneuil	France
	8½	Federico Fellini	Italy
	The Four Days of Naples	Nanni Loy
	The Leopard	Luchino Visconti
1964	Anatomy of a Marriage	André Cayatte	France
	World Without Sun	Jacques-Yves Cousteau
	The Organizer	Mario Monicelli	Italy
	Seduced and Abandoned	Pietro Germi
	Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow	Vittorio De Sica
1965	La Bohème	Franco Zeffirelli	West Germany
	Gertrud	Carl Theodor Dreyer	Denmark
	Juliet of the Spirits	Federico Fellini	Italy
	La Tía Tula	Miguel Picazo	Spain
	The Overcoat	Aleksey Batalov	Soviet Union
1966	The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy
	A Man and a Woman	Claude Lelouch	France
	The Shameless Old Lady	René Allio
	The Sleeping Car Murders	Costa-Gavras
	Hamlet	Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro	Soviet Union
1967	Africa Addio	Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi	Italy
	Elvira Madigan	Bo Widerberg	Sweden
	Persona	Ingmar Bergman
	The Great British Train Robbery	John Olden and Claus Peter Witt	West Germany
	The Hunt	Carlos Saura	Spain
1968	Hagbard and Signe	Gabriel Axel	Denmark, Sweden, Iceland
	The Bride Wore Black	François Truffaut	France
	The Two of Us	Claude Berri
	Hunger	Henning Carlsen	Denmark, Norway, Sweden
	War and Peace	Sergei Bondarchuk	Soviet Union
1969	Ådalen 31	Bo Widerberg	Sweden
	Shame	Ingmar Bergman
	The Damned	Luchino Visconti	Italy
	La Femme Infidèle	Claude Chabrol	France
	Stolen Kisses	François Truffaut

1970s

Year	Film	Director	Country
1970	The Confession	Costa-Gavras	France, Italy
	This Man Must Die	Claude Chabrol
	The Passion of Anna	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
	My Night at Maud's	Éric Rohmer	France
	The Wild Child	François Truffaut
1971	The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy, France, West Germany
	The Clowns	Federico Fellini	Italy
	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Vittorio De Sica
	Bed and Board	François Truffaut	France, Italy
	Claire's Knee	Éric Rohmer	France
1972	The Emigrants	Jan Troell	Sweden
	Chloe in the Afternoon	Éric Rohmer	France
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel
	The Sorrow and the Pity	Marcel Ophuls
	Uncle Vanya	Andrey Konchalovskiy	Soviet Union
1973	Alfredo, Alfredo	Pietro Germi	Italy
	Cries and Whispers	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
	The New Land	Jan Troell
	Day for Night	François Truffaut	France
	The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe	Yves Robert
	Trafic	Jacques Tati	Italy, France
1974	The Pedestrian	Maximilian Schell	Germany
	Amarcord	Federico Fellini	Italy
	Lacombe, Lucien	Louis Malle	France
	The Phantom of Liberty	Luis Buñuel	Italy, France
	Scenes from a Marriage	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
1975	Swept Away	Lina Wertmüller	Italy
	A Brief Vacation	Vittorio De Sica
	The Story of Adele H.	François Truffaut	France
	Special Section	Costa-Gavras
	Stavisky	Alain Resnais
1976	Face to Face	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
	The Clockmaker	Bertrand Tavernier	France
	Cousin Cousine	Jean-Charles Tacchella
	Small Change	François Truffaut
	The Marquise of O	Éric Rohmer	West Germany
1977	The Man Who Loved Women	François Truffaut	France
	The American Friend	Wim Wenders	West Germany
	Cría Cuervos	Carlos Saura	Spain
	A Special Day	Ettore Scola	Italy
	That Obscure Object of Desire	Luis Buñuel	France, Spain
1978	Autumn Sonata	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
	Dear Detective	Philippe de Broca	France
	Madame Rosa	Moshé Mizrahi
	Bread and Chocolate	Franco Brusati	Italy
	A Slave of Love	Nikita Mikhalkov	Soviet Union
1979	La Cage aux Folles	Édouard Molinaro	France, Italy
	The Marriage of Maria Braun	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	West Germany
	Nosferatu the Vampyre	Werner Herzog
	Peppermint Soda	Diane Kurys	France
	The Tree of Wooden Clogs	Ermanno Olmi	Italy

1980s

Year	Film	Director	Country
1980	Eboli	Francesco Rosi	Italy
	From the Life of the Marionettes	Ingmar Bergman	West Germany, Sweden
	Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
	Knife in the Head	Reinhard Hauff	West Germany
	The Tin Drum	Volker Schlöndorff
1981	The Boat Is Full	Markus Imhoof	Switzerland
	Contract	Krzysztof Zanussi	Poland
	The Last Metro	François Truffaut	France
	Oblomov	Nikita Mikhalkov	Soviet Union
	Pixote	Héctor Babenco	Brazil
1982	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen	West Germany
	Mephisto	István Szabó	Hungary
	Siberiade	Andrei Konchalovsky	Soviet Union
	Three Brothers	Francesco Rosi	Italy
	Yol	Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney	Turkey
1983	The Boat People	Ann Hui	Hong Kong
	That Night in Varennes	Ettore Scola	Italy, France
	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
	The Return of Martin Guerre	Daniel Vigne	France
	La Traviata	Franco Zeffirelli	Italy
1984	A Love in Germany	Andrzej Wajda	West Germany
	The Basileus Quartet	Gabriele Ferzetti	Italy
	A Sunday in the Country	Bertrand Tavernier	France
	The Fourth Man	Paul Verhoeven	Netherlands
	Carmen	Francesco Rosi	France, Italy
1985	The Home and the World	Satyajit Ray	India
	La Chèvre	Francis Veber	France
	The Official Story	Luis Puenzo	Argentina
	Ran	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
	When Father Was Away on Business	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia
1986	Ginger and Fred	Federico Fellini	Italy
	Men...	Doris Dörrie	West Germany
	Ménage	Bertrand Blier	France
	Miss Mary	María Luisa Bemberg	Argentina
	Otello	Franco Zeffirelli	Italy, Netherlands
1987	Au Revoir les Enfants	Louis Malle	France
	Dark Eyes	Nikita Mikhalkov	Soviet Union
	Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs	Claude Berri	France
	My Life as a Dog	Lasse Hallström	Sweden
	Tampopo	Juzo Itami	Japan
1988	Le Grand Chemin	Jean-Loup Hubert	France
	Pelle the Conqueror	Bille August	Denmark, Sweden
	Salaam Bombay!	Mira Nair	India
	A Taxing Woman	Juzo Itami	Japan
	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
1989	Camille Claudel	Bruno Nuytten	France
	Chocolat	Claire Denis
	La Lectrice	Michel Deville
	The Little Thief	Claude Miller
	The Story of Women	Claude Chabrol

1990s

Year	Film	Director	Country
1990	Cyrano de Bergerac	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	France
	Monsieur Hire	Patrice Leconte
	Jesus of Montreal	Denys Arcand	Canada
	The Nasty Girl	Michael Verhoeven	Germany
	Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
1991	Europa Europa	Agnieszka Holland	Germany
	The Vanishing	George Sluizer	Netherlands
	La Femme Nikita	Luc Besson	France
	My Father's Glory	Yves Robert
	Toto the Hero	Jaco Van Dormael	Belgium
1992	Indochine	Régis Wargnier	France
	Tous les Matins du Monde	Alain Corneau
	Raise the Red Lantern	Zhang Yimou	China
	Mediterraneo	Gabriele Salvatores	Italy
	Like Water for Chocolate	Alfonso Arau	Mexico
1993	The Accompanist	Claude Miller	France
	Un Cœur en Hiver	Claude Sautet
	Farewell My Concubine	Chen Kaige	China
	The Story of Qiu Ju	Zhang Yimou
	El Mariachi	Robert Rodriguez	United States
1994	Eat Drink Man Woman	Ang Lee	Taiwan
	Queen Margot	Patrice Chéreau	France
	Strawberry and Chocolate	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío	Cuba
	Three Colours: Red	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Switzerland, France
	To Live	Zhang Yimou	China
1995	Farinelli	Gérard Corbiau	Belgium
	Lamerica	Gianni Amelio	Italy
	Il Postino: The Postman	Michael Radford
	Les Misérables	Claude Lelouch	France
	Shanghai Triad	Zhang Yimou	China
1996	Bitter Sugar	Leon Ichaso	Dominican Republic, United States
	La Cérémonie	Claude Chabrol	France
	Ridicule	Patrice Leconte
	Les Voleurs	André Téchiné
	Kolya	Jan Svěrák	Czech Republic
1997	Beaumarchais	Édouard Molinaro	France
	Ponette	Jacques Doillon
	Ma Vie en Rose	Alain Berliner	Belgium
	La Promesse	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
	Shall We Dance?	Masayuki Suo	Japan
1998	Beyond Silence	Caroline Link	Germany
	Central Station	Walter Salles	Brazil
	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni	Italy
	Men with Guns	John Sayles	United States
	The Thief	Pavel Chukhray	Russia
1999	All About My Mother	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Cabaret Balkan	Goran Paskaljević	Yugoslavia
	The Emperor and the Assassin	Chen Kaige	China
	East/West	Régis Wargnier	France
	Run Lola Run	Tom Tykwer	Germany

2000s

Year	Film	Director	Country
2000	Butterfly	José Luis Cuerda	Spain
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee	Taiwan
	Girl on the Bridge	Patrice Leconte	France
	Malèna	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy
	A Time for Drunken Horses	Bahman Ghobadi	Iran
2001	Amores Perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico
	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France
	Behind the Sun	Walter Salles	Brazil
	Dark Blue World	Jan Svěrák	Czech Republic
	No Man's Land	Danis Tanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2002	8 Women	François Ozon	France
	The Crime of Padre Amaro	Carlos Carrera	Mexico
	City of God	Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund	Brazil
	Talk to Her	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Y tu Mamá También	Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico
2003	Autumn Spring	Vladimír Michálek	Czech Republic
	The Barbarian Invasions	Denys Arcand	Canada, France
	Best of Youth	Marco Tullio Giordana	Italy
	Man on the Train	Patrice Leconte	France
	Monsieur Ibrahim	François Dupeyron
2004	Bad Education	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	The Sea Inside	Alejandro Amenábar
	Maria Full of Grace	Joshua Marston	Colombia
	The Chorus	Christophe Barratier	France
	The Motorcycle Diaries	Walter Salles	Argentina, Brazil, United States, Chile, Peru, United Kingdom, Germany, France
2005	2046	Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong
	Downfall	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Germany, Austria, Italy
	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress	Dai Sijie	China, France
	Walk on Water	Eytan Fox	Israel
	Paradise Now	Hany Abu-Assad	Palestine
2006	Curse of the Golden Flower	Zhang Yimou	China
	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	Spain, Mexico
	Days of Glory	Rachid Bouchareb	France
	Water	Deepa Mehta	India
	Volver	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	Cristian Mungiu	Romania
	The Band's Visit	Eran Kolirin	Israel, France, United States
	The Counterfeiters	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Austria, Germany
	La Vie en rose	Olivier Dahan	France, Czech Republic
	Lust, Caution	Ang Lee	Taiwan
2008	The Edge of Heaven	Fatih Akın	Germany, Turkey
	Let the Right One In	Tomas Alfredson	Sweden
	Roman de Gare	Claude Lelouch	France
	A Secret	Claude Miller
	Waltz with Bashir	Ari Folman	Israel
2009	The Maid	Sebastián Silva	Chile
	Revanche	Götz Spielmann	Austria
	The Song of Sparrows	Majid Majidi	Iran
	Three Monkeys	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey
	The White Ribbon	Michael Haneke	Germany

2010s

Year	Film	Director	Country
2010	I Am Love	Luca Guadagnino	Italy
	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve	Canada
	Life, Above All	Oliver Schmitz	South Africa
	Soul Kitchen	Fatih Akın	Germany
	White Material	Claire Denis	France
2011	13 Assassins	Takashi Miike	Japan
	Elite Squad: The Enemy Within	José Padilha	Brazil
	Footnote	Joseph Cedar	Israel
	Le Havre	Aki Kaurismäki	France
	Point Blank	Fred Cavayé
2012	Barbara	Christian Petzold	Germany
	The Intouchables	Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano	France
	The Kid with a Bike	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne	Belgium
	No	Pablo Larraín	Chile
	War Witch	Kim Nguyen	Canada
2013	Beyond the Hills	Cristian Mungiu	Romania
	Gloria	Sebastián Lelio	Chile
	The Grandmaster	Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong, China
	A Hijacking	Tobias Lindholm	Denmark
	The Hunt	Thomas Vinterberg
2014	Force Majeure	Ruben Östlund	Sweden
	We Are the Best!	Lukas Moodysson
	Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem	Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz	Israel
	Leviathan	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia
	Two Days, One Night	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne	Belgium
2015	Goodnight Mommy	Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala	Austria
	Mediterranea	Jonas Carpignano	Italy
	Phoenix	Christian Petzold	Germany
	The Second Mother	Anna Muylaert	Brazil
	The Tribe	Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy	Ukraine
2016 [1]	Elle	Paul Verhoeven	France
	The Handmaiden	Park Chan-wook	South Korea
	Neruda	Pablo Larraín	Chile
	Julieta	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Land of Mine	Martin Zandvliet	Denmark
2017 [2]	A Fantastic Woman	Sebastián Lelio	Chile
	Frantz	François Ozon	France
	Loveless	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia
	The Square	Ruben Östlund	Sweden
	Summer 1993	Carla Simón	Spain
2018 [3]	Burning	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea
	Custody	Xavier Legrand	France
	The Guilty	Gustav Möller	Denmark
	Happy as Lazzaro	Alice Rohrwacher	Italy
	Shoplifters	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan
2019 [4]	Atlantics	Mati Diop	France, Senegal
	The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão	Karim Aïnouz	Brazil
	Pain and Glory	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Portrait of a Lady on Fire	Céline Sciamma	France
	Transit	Christian Petzold	Germany

2020s

Year	Film	Director	Country
2020 [5]	Apples	Christos Nikou	Greece
	Collective	Alexander Nanau	Romania
	Dear Comrades!	Andrei Konchalovsky	Russia
	The Mole Agent	Maite Alberdi	Chile
	Night of the Kings	Philippe Lacôte	Ivory Coast
2021 [6]	Benedetta	Paul Verhoeven	France
	Lamb	Valdimar Johannsson	Iceland
	Lingui, The Sacred Bonds	Mahamat Saleh Haroun	Chad
	Titane	Julia Ducournau	France
	The Worst Person in the World	Joachim Trier	Norway
2022 [7]	All Quiet on the Western Front	Edward Berger	Germany
	Argentina, 1985	Santiago Mitre	Argentina
	Decision to Leave	Park Chan-wook	South Korea
	EO	Jerzy Skolimowski	Poland
	Saint Omer	Alice Diop	France
2023 [8]	La chimera	Alice Rohrwacher	Italy, France, Switzerland
	Fallen Leaves	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland, Germany
	The Teachers' Lounge	İlker Çatak	Germany
	Tótem	Lila Avilés	Mexico, Denmark, France
	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	United Kingdom, Poland, United States
2024	All We Imagine as Light	Payal Kapadia	France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy
	The Girl with the Needle	Magnus von Horn	Denmark, Poland, Sweden
	I'm Still Here	Walter Salles	Brazil, France
	Santosh	Sandhya Suri	United Kingdom, India, Germany, France
	Universal Language	Matthew Rankin	Canada

See also

• National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

1. "National Board of Review Announces 2016 Award Winners". National Board of Review . November 29, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
2. "National Board of Review Announces 2017 Award Winners". National Board of Review . November 28, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
3. "National Board of Review Announces 2018 Award Winners". National Board of Review . November 27, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
4. Sharf, Zack (December 3, 2019). "National Board of Review 2019: 'The Irishman' Wins Best Film, Adam Sandler Named Best Actor". IndieWire . Retrieved March 20, 2021.
5. Davis, Clayton (January 26, 2021). "National Board of Review Names 'Da 5 Bloods' Best Picture, Spike Lee Becomes Second Black Director Winner". Variety . Retrieved March 20, 2021.
6. National Board of Review Winners 2021:|IndieWire
7. Top Gun: Maverick Named Best Movie of 2022 by National Board of Review - The Hollywood Reporter
8. National Board of Review Names 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Best Film of 2023 - The Hollywood Reporter

External links

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures: Top Foreign Films
• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures: Top 5 Foreign Language Films