Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Best Film Not in the English Language) is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best foreign language film of the year.

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Winners

1990s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
1997 Shall We Dance? Shall We Dansu?Japan Masayuki Suo
1998 Life Is Beautiful La vita è bellaItaly Roberto Benigni
1999 Run Lola Run Lola renntGermany Tom Tykwer

2000s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Wo hu cang longChina Ang Lee
2001 Amélie Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie PoulainFrance/Germany Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2002 And Your Mother Too Y Tu Mamá TambiénMexico Alfonso Cuarón
2003 City of God Cidade de DeusBrazil Fernando Meirelles
2004 Hero Ying xiongChina/Hong Kong Zhang Yimou
2005 Downfall Der UntergangGermany Oliver Hirschbiegel
2006 Pan's Labyrinth El laberinto del faunoMexico Guillermo del Toro
2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Le scaphandre et le papillonFrance/USA Julian Schnabel
2008 Let the Right One In Låt den rätte komma inSweden Tomas Alfredson
2009 The White Ribbon Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche KindergeschichteGermany Michael Haneke

2010s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
2010 Mother MadeoSouth Korea Bong Joon-ho
2011 A Separation Jodái-e Náder az SiminIran Asghar Farhadi
2012 Holy Motors France/Germany Leos Carax
2013 Blue Is the Warmest Colour La vie d'AdèleFrance Abdellatif Kechiche
2014 Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuitBelgium Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
2015 The Assassin Nie yin niangTaiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien
2016 The Handmaiden AgassiSouth Korea Park Chan-wook
2017 BPM (Beats per Minute) 120 battements par minuteFrance Robin Campillo
2018 Roma Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
2019 Parasite GisaengchungSouth Korea Bong Joon-ho

2020s

YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector
2020 Minari -United States Lee Isaac Chung
2021 Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー (Doraibu Mai Kā)Japan Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2022 Decision to Leave 헤어질 결심 (Heeojil gyeolsim)South Korea Park Chan-wook
2023 Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute France Justine Triet

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