The Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.
Winners and nominees 1990s Year Film Original titleDirector(s)Country 1996 Breaking the Waves Lars Von Trier / Azúcar Amarga Leon Ichaso / La cérémonie Claude Chabrol / Kolya Kolja Jan Svěrák Prisoner of the Mountains Кавказский пленник Sergei Bodrov / Ridicule Patrice Leconte 1997 Shall We Dance? Shall we ダンス? Masayuki Suo Ponette Jacques Doillon Live Flesh Carne trémula Pedro Almodóvar / Ma vie en rose Alain Berliner / / The Promise La promesse Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne / 1998 Central Station Central do BrasilWalter Salles / The Celebration Festen Thomas Vinterberg Life Is Beautiful La vita è bella Roberto Benigni Only Clouds Move the Stars Bare skyer beveger stjernene Torun Lian La Séparation Christian Vincent 1999 All About My MotherTodo sobre mi madrePedro Almodóvar / Three Seasons Ba Mùa Tony Bui The Emperor and the Assassin 荊軻刺秦王 Chen Kaige The King of Masks 變臉 Wu Tianming The Red Violin Le violon rouge François Girard / / Run Lola Run Lola rennt Tom Tykwer
2000s Year Film Original titleDirector(s)Country 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍 Ang Lee / / / Goya in Bordeaux Goya en Burdeos Carlos Saura His Wife's Diary Дневник его жены Alexei Uchitel Malèna Giuseppe Tornatore / Malli Santosh Sivan Shower 洗澡 Zhang Yang 2001 No Man's Land Ničija zemlja Danis Tanović / / / / / Amélie Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Beijing Bicycle 十七歲的單車 Wang Xiaoshuai / / Our Lady of the Assassins La Virgen de los sicarios Barbet Schroeder / / The Princess and the Warrior Der Krieger und die Kaiserin Tom Tykwer Baran باران Majid Majidi 2002 Talk to Her Hable con ellaPedro Almodóvar All or Nothing Mike Leigh Bloody Sunday Paul Greengrass / Everyone Loves Alice Alla älskar Alice Richard Hobert / Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair / / / / Rain Christine Jeffs Sex and Lucia Lucía y el sexo Julio Medem / 2003 City of God Cidade de Deus Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund The Barbarian Invasions Les invasions barbares Denys Arcand / Gloomy Sunday Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod / Szomorú vasárnap Rolf Schübel / Monsieur Ibrahim Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran François Dupeyron Osama اسامه Siddiq Barmak / / / / Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring 봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 Kim Ki-duk / 2004 The Sea Inside Mar adentro Alejandro Amenábar / / Don't Move Non ti muovere Sergio Castellitto House of Flying Daggers 十面埋伏 Zhang Yimou / The Motorcycle Diaries Diarios de motocicleta Walter Salles / / / / / / / Bad Education La mala educación Pedro Almodóvar A Very Long Engagement Un long dimanche de fiançailles Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2005 Mother of Mine Äideistä parhain / Den bästa av mödrar Klaus Härö 2046 Wong Kar-wai Innocent Voices Voces inocentes Luis Mandoki / Lila Says Lila dit ça Ziad Doueiri Turtles Can Fly لاک پشت ها هم پرواز می کنند Bahman Ghobadi / / Walk on Water ללכת על המים Eytan Fox 2006 Volver Pedro Almodóvar Apocalypto Mel Gibson Changing Times Les temps qui changent André Téchiné The Lives of Others Das Leben der Anderen Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck The Syrian Bride הכלה הסורית Eran Riklis / / Water वाटर Deepa Mehta / / 2007 Lust, Caution 色，戒 Ang Lee / / 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile Cristian Mungiu La Vie en Rose La môme Olivier Dahan / / Offside آفساید Jafar Panahi The Orphanage El orfanato J. A. Bayona Ten Canoes Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr 2008 Gomorrah Gomorra Matteo Garrone Caramel سكر بنات Nadine Labaki The Class Entre les murs Laurent Cantet Let the Right One In Låt den rätte komma in Tomas Alfredson Padre Nuestro Sangre de mi sangre Christopher Zalla / Reprise Joachim Trier 2009 Broken Embraces Los abrazos rotos Pedro Almodóvar The Maid La nana Sebastián Silva I Killed My Mother J'ai tué ma mère Xavier Dolan Red Cliff 赤壁 John Woo / / / / / The White Ribbon Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte Michael Haneke / / / Winter in Wartime Oorlogswinter Martin Koolhoven
2010s Year Film Original titleDirector(s)Country 2010 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Män som hatar kvinnor Niels Arden Oplev / / Biutiful Alejandro González Iñárritu / I Am Love Io sono l'amore Luca Guadagnino Mother 마더 Bong Joon-ho Outside the Law Hors-la-loi خارجون عن القانون Rachid Bouchareb / / / Soul Kitchen Fatih Akın White Material Claire Denis 2011 Mysteries of Lisbon Mistérios de Lisboa Raúl Ruiz / 13 Assassins 十三人の刺客 Takashi Miike / Faust Alexander Sokurov Las Acacias Pablo Giorgelli The Kid with a Bike Le Gamin au vélo Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne / Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki / / Miss Bala Gerardo Naranjo Mozart's Sister Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart René Féret The Turin Horse A torinói ló Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky 2012 The Intouchables Intouchables Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano Pietà 피에타 Kim Ki-duk Amour Michael Haneke / / Beyond the Hills După dealuri Cristian Mungiu Caesar Must Die Cesare deve morire Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Kon-Tiki Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg / / / / Our Children À perdre la raison Joachim Lafosse / A Royal Affair En kongelig affære Nikolaj Arcel / / A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین Asghar Farhadi War Witch Rebelle Kim Nguyen 2013 The Broken Circle Breakdown Felix van Groeningen Bethlehem בית לחם Yuval Adler Blue Is the Warmest Colour La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 Abdellatif Kechiche / / Circles Кругови Srdan Golubović Four Corners Ian Gabriel The Great Beauty La grande bellezza Paolo Sorrentino / The Hunt Jagten Thomas Vinterberg Metro Manila Sean Ellis The Past Le Passé Asghar Farhadi / / Wadjda وجدة Haifaa al-Mansour 2014 Tangerines Mandariinid / მანდარინები Zaza Urushadze / Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Gett: Le procès de Viviane Amsalem Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz / / Ida Paweł Pawlikowski / / / Force Majeure Turist Ruben Östlund / / Leviathan Левиафан Andrey Zvyagintsev Little England Μικρά Αγγλία Pantelis Voulgaris Mommy Xavier Dolan Timbuktu Abderrahmane Sissako / Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne / / Wild Tales Relatos salvajes Damián Szifron / 2015 Son of Saul Saul Fia László Nemes The Assassin 刺客聶隱娘 Hou Hsiao-hsien / / The Brand New Testament Le Tout Nouveau Testament Jaco Van Dormael / / Goodnight Mommy Ich seh, Ich seh Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala The High Sun Zvizdan Dalibor Matanić / / Labyrinth of Lies Im Labyrinth des Schweigens Giulio Ricciarelli Mustang Deniz Gamze Ergüven / / A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron Roy Andersson / / / / The Second Mother Que Horas Ela Volta? Anna Muylaert The Throne 사도 Lee Joon-ik 2016 The Salesman فروشنده Asghar Farhadi / The Ardennes D'Ardennen Robin Pront Elle Paul Verhoeven / The Handmaiden 아가씨 Park Chan-wook The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki Hymyilevä mies Juho Kuosmanen / / Julieta Pedro Almodóvar A Man Called Ove En man som heter Ove Hannes Holm Ma' Rosa Brillante Mendoza Paradise Рай Andrei Konchalovsky Toni Erdmann Maren Ade / 2017 In the Fade Fatih Akin / BPM (Beats per Minute) Robin Campillo The Divine Order Petra Volpe First They Killed My Father Angelina Jolie / Foxtrot Samuel Maoz / / / Loveless Andrey Zvyagintsev / / / The Square Ruben Östlund / / / White Sun Deepak Rauniyar / / / 2018 RomaAlfonso Cuarón / The Cakemaker האופה מברלין Ofir Raul Grazier / Cold War Zimna wojna Paweł Pawlikowski / / The Guilty Den skyldige Gustav Möller I Am Not a Witch Rungano Nyoni / / / Shoplifters 万引き家族 Hirokazu Kore-eda 2019 Truth and Justice Tõde ja õigus Tanel Toom Atlantics Atlantique Mati Diop / / Beanpole Дылда Kantemir Balagov Les Misérables Ladj Ly Portrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Céline Sciamma Pain and GloryDolor y gloria Pedro Almodóvar The Painted BirdNabarvené ptáče Václav Marhoul / / Parasite기생충 Bong Joon-ho
2020s Year Film Original titleDirector(s)Country 2020 La Llorona Jayro Bustamante Another RoundDruk Thomas Vinterberg AtlantisАтлантида Valentyn Vasyanovych I'm No Longer HereYa no estoy aquí Fernando Frías de la Parra / Jallikattu Lijo Jose Pellissery My Little SisterSchwesterlein Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique ReymondA Sun 陽光普照 Chung Mong-hong Tove Zaida Bergroth / Two of UsDeux Filippo Meneghetti 2021Drive My Carドライブ・マイ・カー Ryusuke Hamaguchi Compartment No. 6Hytti Nro 6 Juho KuosmanenFleeFlugt Jonas Poher RasmussenThe Good BossEl buen patrón Fernando León de AranoaThe Hand of GodÈ stata la mano di Dio Paolo SorrentinoA Heroقهرمان Asghar FarhadiPrayers for the StolenNoche de Fuego Tatiana Huezo Titane Julia DucournauThe Worst Person in the WorldVerdens verste menneske Joachim Trier 2022 Argentina, 1985 Santiago Mitre Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades Alejandro González Iñárritu Close Lukas Dhont Corsage Marie Kreutzer Decision to Leave 헤어질 결심 Park Chan-wook Holy Spider عنکبوت مقدس Ali Abbasi The Quiet Girl An Cailín Ciúin Colm Bairéad War Sailor Krigsseileren Gunnar Vikene 2023 The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute Justine Triet Blaga's Lessons Уроците на Блага Stephan Komandarev Fallen Leaves Kuolleet lehdet Aki Kaurismäki Io capitano Matteo Garrone Society of the Snow La sociedad de la nieve J. A. Bayona The Teachers' Lounge Das Lehrerzimmer İlker Çatak 2024 Waves Vlny Jiří Mádl The Girl with the Needle Pigen med nålen Magnus von Horn I'm Still Here Ainda Estou Aqui Walter Salles Queens Reinas Klaudia Reynicke The Seed of the Sacred Fig دانهی انجیر معابد Mohammad Rasoulof The Wait La espera F. Javier Gutiérrez 2025 The Secret Agent O Agente Secreto Kleber Mendonça Filho It Was Just an Accident یک تصادف ساده Jafar Panahi Late Shift Heldin Petra Volpe Little Trouble Girls Kaj ti je deklica Urška Djukić No Other Choice 어쩔수가없다 Park Chan-wook Sentimental Value Affeksjonsverdi Joachim Trier Sirāt Óliver Laxe The Voice of Hind Rajab صوت هند رجب Kaouther Ben Hania
Multiple winners Only 2 directors have won the award multiple times.
Wins Director 4 Pedro Almodóvar 2 Ang Lee
References
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