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.

Winners

1970s Year English title Original title Country Director Best Foreign Film 1975 And Now My Love Toute une vie France / Italy Claude Lelouch 1976 Face to Face Ansikte mot ansikte Sweden Ingmar Bergman 1977 That Obscure Object of Desire Cet obscur objet du désir France / Spain Luis Buñuel 1978 Madame Rosa La vie devant soi France Moshé Mizrahi 1979 Soldier of Orange Soldaat van Oranje Netherlands Paul Verhoeven

1980s Year English title Original title Country Director 1981 The Tin Drum Die Blechtrommel West Germany Volker Schlöndorff 1982 Pixote Pixote: A lei do mais fraco Brazil Hector Babenco 1983 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Australia George Miller 1984 Fanny and Alexander Fanny och Alexander Sweden Ingmar Bergman 1984 The Fourth Man De vierde man Netherlands Paul Verhoeven 1985 Ran Japan / France Akira Kurosawa The Official Story La historia oficial Argentina Luis Puenzo 1986 Vagabond Sans toit ni loi France / UK Agnès Varda 1987 Goodbye, Children Au revoir les enfants France / West Germany Louis Malle 1988 Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin France / West Germany Wim Wenders 1989 Distant Voices, Still Lives UK Terence Davies Story of Women Une affaire de femmes France Claude Chabrol

1990s Year English title Original title Country Director 1990 Life and Nothing But La vie et rien d'autre France Bertrand Tavernier 1991 The Beautiful Troublemaker La belle noiseuse France / Switzerland Jacques Rivette 1992 The Crying Game UK / Japan Neil Jordan 1993 Farewell My Concubine Ba wang bie ji China / Hong Kong Chen Kaige 1994 Three Colours: Red Trois couleurs: Rouge France / Poland Krzysztof Kieślowski Best Foreign Language Film 1995 Wild Reeds Les roseaux sauvages France André Téchiné 1996 La Cérémonie La cérémonie France Claude Chabrol 1997 The Promise La promesse Belgium Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 1998 The Celebration Festen Denmark Thomas Vinterberg 1999 All About My Mother Todo sobre mi madre Spain Pedro Almodóvar

2000s Year English title Original title Country Director 2000 Yi Yi Yī Yī Japan / Taiwan Edward Yang 2001 No Man's Land Bosnia-Herzegovina Danis Tanovic 2002 And Your Mother Too Y Tu Mamá También Mexico Alfonso Cuarón 2003 The Man on the Train L'homme du train France Patrice Leconte 2004 House of Flying Daggers Shi mian mai fu China / Hong Kong Zhang Yimou 2005 Hidden Caché Austria / France Michael Haneke 2006 The Lives of Others Das Leben der Anderen Germany Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile Romania Cristian Mungiu 2008 Still Life Sanxia haoren China / Hong Kong Jia Zhangke 2009 Summer Hours L'Heure d'été France Olivier Assayas

2010s Year English title Original title Country Director 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'Adèle France Abdellatif Kechiche 2014 Ida Poland Paweł Pawlikowski 2015 Son of Saul Saul fia Hungary László Nemes 2016 The Handmaiden Agassi South Korea Park Chan-wook 2017 BPM (Beats per Minute) 120 battements par minute France Robin Campillo Loveless Нелюбовь Russia Andrey Zvyagintsev 2018 Burning Beoning South Korea Lee Chang-dongLos Angeles Film Critics Association 2018 Winners|IndieWire Shoplifters 万引き家族 / Manbiki Kazoku Japan Hirokazu Kore-eda 2019 Pain and Glory Dolor y Gloria Spain Pedro AlmodóvarLos Angeles Film Critics Awards 2019 Winners — Full List — Deadline

2020s Year English title Original title Country Director 2020 Beanpole Dylda Russia Kantemir Balagov'Small Axe' Wins LAFCA Best Picture Despite Not Submitted for Oscars - Variety 2021 Petite Maman France Céline SciammaLos Angeles Film Critics 2021 Winners List - Variety 2022 EO Io Poland Jerzy SkolimowskiLos Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) 2022 Winners - Variety 2023 Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute France Justine TrietLos Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) 2023 Winners - Variety 2024 All We Imagine as Light India Payal KapadiaLos Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) 2024 Winners - Variety 2025 The Secret Agent O Agente Secreto Brazil Kleber Mendonça Filho

Multiple winners 5 director has won the award multiple times.

Wins Director 2 Pedro Almodóvar Olivier Assayas Ingmar Bergman Claude Chabrol Paul Verhoeven

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