List of Academy Award–winning foreign-language films
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{{main|List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film}}The following is a list of foreign-language films that have won an Academy Award.Image:Jigokumon poster.jpg's Gate of Hell, a recipient of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design as well as an Academy Honorary Award]]
Criteria
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to foreign language films since 1945. The Academy defines a foreign language film as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. Films that meet these criteria are eligible for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. They can be nominated for awards in categories other than Best International Feature Film provided that they have been commercially released in Los Angeles County and comply with the special rules governing those categories. In addition, foreign-language films produced in the United States are not eligible for Best International Feature Film, but are eligible for awards in other categories.{{cite web|title=Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=http://www.oscars.org/79academyawards/rules/rule14.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231021743/http://www.oscars.org/79academyawards/rules/rule14.html |archive-date=2007-12-31 |access-date=2008-07-13 |url-status=dead }}
History
As of 2023, 27 foreign language films have won Academy Awards outside the Best International Feature Film category. The foreign language films with the most awards are Sweden's Fanny and Alexander, Taiwan's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, South Korea’s Parasite, and Germany’s All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards each, including the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.{{cite web|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/forlangothercat.html|title=Foreign Language Films Other Categories|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=2008-02-24|access-date=2008-07-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926215131/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/forlangothercat.html|archive-date=2011-09-26}} Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma received ten Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, the highest number of nominations ever garnered for a foreign language film.{{cite news|url=http://english.people.com.cn/english/200103/26/eng20010326_65998.html|title='Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' Wins Best Foreign Film Oscar|newspaper=People's Daily|date=2001-03-26|access-date=2008-07-13|archive-date=2012-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011064754/http://english.people.com.cn/english/200103/26/eng20010326_65998.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/oscars/2006-02-27-groundbreaking-films_x.htm|title=When Oscar stood tall|newspaper=USA Today|author=Clark, Mike|date=2006-02-27|access-date=2008-08-20|archive-date=2008-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202154341/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/oscars/2006-02-27-groundbreaking-films_x.htm|url-status=live}}
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956.{{cite web|title=History of the Academy Awards – Page 2 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228191158/http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history02.html |archive-date=2007-12-28 |access-date=2008-07-13 |url-status=dead }} The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Before the competitive award was created in 1956, the Board of Governors of the Academy voted on a film every year that was considered the best foreign language film released in the United States, and there were no submissions. These films were recipients of Academy Honorary Awards.{{cite web|title=History of the Academy Awards – Page 1 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history01.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220020230/http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history01.html |archive-date=2007-12-20 |access-date=2008-07-13 |url-status=dead }}
Other categories
{{main|List of foreign-language films nominated for Academy Awards}}
{{see also|List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for non-English performances}}
Films that are eligible for the Best International Feature Film category are able to compete for other Academy Awards if they had been commercially released in Los Angeles County and fulfill the requirements of the categories they are participating in. Among the foreign language films that have won Academy Awards outside the Best Foreign Language Film category, six have won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film while two, Shoeshinehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038913/awards/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112124823/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038913/awards/ |date=2022-11-12 }} {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}} and Gate of Hell have received an Academy Honorary Award.{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2007/more/news/toho-s-film-catalog-riddled-with-gems-1117970739/|title=Toho's film catalog riddled with gems|magazine=Variety|author=Mermelstein, David|date=2007-08-23|access-date=2008-07-13|archive-date=2008-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201085950/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117970739.html?categoryid=2661&cs=1|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117856491.html?nav=history|title=Best Foreign Film|magazine=Variety|author=Variety Staff|date=2007-03-01|access-date=2008-07-13|archive-date=2012-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021185530/http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117856491.html?nav=history|url-status=live}} Parasite is the only foreign film to win Best Picture so far although The Artist was the first silent film in French production to win Best Picture, but it was not submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film due to it being ineligible. Roma won the award because it was a co-production of United States and Mexico.
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scope=col| Year (Ceremony) !scope=col| Film title used in nomination !scope=col| Original title !scope=col| Category !scope=col| Winner(s) !scope=col| Country !scope=col| Language(s) |
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align="center" | 1945 (18th) | colspan="2" scope="row" | Marie-Louise | Writing | {{sortname|Richard|Schweizer}} | {{flagicon|Switzerland}} Switzerland | German |
align="center" | 1954 (27th) | scope="row" | Gate of Hell{{ref label|Note1|A|A}} | 地獄門 | Costume Design | {{sortname|Sanzo|Wada}} | {{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Japan | Japanese |
align="center" | 1956 (29th) | scope="row" | The Red Balloon | Le ballon rouge | Writing | {{sortname|Albert|Lamorisse}} | {{flagicon|France}} France | French |
align="center" | 1959 (32nd) | scope="row" | Serengeti Shall Not Die | Serengeti darf nicht sterben | {{sortname|Bernhard|Grzimek}} | {{flagicon|Germany}} Germany | German |
align="center" | 1960 (33rd) | scope="row" | Never on Sunday | Poté tin Kyriakí(Ποτέ την Κυριακή) | Music | {{sortname|Manos |Hadjidakis}} | {{flagicon|Greece}} Greece | Greece |
align="center" | 1961 (34th) | colspan="2" scope="row" | La Dolce Vita | Costume Design | {{sortname|Piero|Gherardi}} | rowspan="3" | {{flagicon|Italy}} Italy |
align="center" | 1962 (35th) | scope="row" | Divorce Italian Style | Divorzio all'italiana | Writing | {{sortname|Ennio|De Concini}} | Italian |
align="center" | 1963 (36th) | colspan="2" scope="row" | 8½{{ref label|Note1|B|B}} | Costume Design | {{sortname|Piero|Gherardi}} |
align="center" | 1966 (39th) | scope="row" | A Man and a Woman{{ref label|Note1|B|B}} | Un homme et une femme | Writing | {{sortname|Claude|Lelouch}} | {{flagicon|France}} France | French |
align="center" | 1969 (42nd) | colspan="2" scope="row" | Z{{ref label|Note1|B|B}} | {{sortname|Françoise|Bonnot}} | {{flagicon|Algeria}} Algeria | French |
align="center" | 1973 (46th) | scope="row" | Cries and Whispers | Viskningar och rop | {{sortname|Sven|Nykvist}} | rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden | Swedish |
align="center" | 1983 (56th) | scope="row" | Fanny and Alexander{{ref label|Note1|B|B}} | Fanny och Alexander | Art Direction | {{sortname|Anna|Asp}} |
align="center" | 1985 (58th) | scope="row" | Ran | 乱 | {{sortname|Emi|Wada}} | {{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Japan | Japanese |
align="center" | 1990 (63rd) | colspan="2" scope="row" | Cyrano de Bergerac | {{sortname|Franca|Squarciapino}} | {{flagicon|France}} France | French |
align="center" | 1995 (68th) | scope="row" | The Postman | Il postino | Music | {{sortname|Luis Enrique|Bacalov}} | rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Italy}} Italy |
align="center" | 1998 (71st) | scope="row" | Life Is Beautiful{{ref label|Note1|B|B}} | La vita è bella | Actor in a Leading Role | {{sortname|Roberto|Benigni}} |
align="center" | 2000 (73rd) | scope="row" | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon{{ref label|Note1|B|B}}{{Ref label|Note5|E|E}} | 臥虎藏龍 | Art Direction | {{sortname|Tim|Yip|Timmy Yip}} | {{flagicon|Taiwan}} Taiwan | Mandarin |
align="center" | 2002 (75th) | scope="row" | Talk to Her | Hable con ella | Writing | {{sortname|Pedro|Almodóvar}} | {{flagicon|Spain}} Spain | Spanish |
align="center" | 2004 (77th) | scope="row" | The Motorcycle Diaries{{Ref label|Note5|E|E}} | Diarios de motocicleta | Music | {{sortname|Jorge|Drexler}} | {{flagicon|Brazil}} Brazil |
align="center" | 2006 (79th) | colspan="2" scope="row" | Letters from Iwo Jima{{ref label|Note3|C|C}}{{Ref label|Note5|E|E}} | {{sortname|Bub|Asman}} | {{flagicon|United States}} United States |
align="center" | 2006 (79th) | scope="row" | Pan's Labyrinth | El laberinto del fauno | Art Direction | {{sortname|Eugenio|Caballero}} | {{flagicon|Mexico}} Mexico | Spanish |
align="center" | 2007 (80th) | scope="row" | La Vie en Rose{{Ref label|Note5|E|E}} | La Môme | Actress in a Leading Role | {{sortname|Marion|Cotillard}} | {{flagicon|France}} France | French |
align="center" | 2011 (84th) | colspan="2" scope="row" | The Artist{{Ref label|Note4|D|D}} |Picture |Thomas Langmann (producer) |{{flagicon|France}} France |
align="center" | 2018 (91st) | colspan="2" scope="row" | Roma{{ref label|Note1|B|B}}{{Ref label|Note5|E|E}} | {{sortname|Alfonso|Cuarón}} | {{flagicon|Mexico}} Mexico |
align="center" | 2019 (92nd) | scope="row" | Parasite{{ref label|Note1|B|B}} | 기생충 | Picture | Kwak Sin-ae | {{flagicon|South Korea}} South Korea | Korean |
align="center" rowspan="2" | 2022 (95th) | scope="row" | All Quiet on the Western Front{{ref label|Note1|B|B}} | Im Westen nichts Neues | Cinematography | James Friend | {{flagicon|Germany}} Germany |
colspan="2" scope="row" | RRR
| Music | {{sortname| M. M.| Keeravani}} (music) | {{flagicon|India}} India | Telugu, English |
align="center" rowspan="5" | 2023 (96th) | scope="row" | Godzilla Minus One | ゴジラ-1.0 | {{sortname| Takashi| Yamazaki}} | {{flagicon|Japan}} Japan | Japanese |
colspan="2" scope="row" | The Zone of Interest{{ref label|Note1|B|B}}
| Sound | {{sortname| Tarn| Willers}} | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | German |
The Boy and the Heron
|Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka 君たちはどう生きるか |Hayao Miyazaki |{{flagicon|Japan}} Japan |
20 Days in Mariupol
|20 днів у Маріуполі |Mstyslav Chernov |{{flagicon|Ukraine}} Ukraine |
Anatomy of a Fall
|Anatomie d'une chute |{{flagicon|France}} France |French, English |
Notes
- {{note label|Note1|A|A}} Received an Academy Honorary Award as the best foreign language film in 1954 at the 27th Academy Awards
- {{note label|Note1|B|B}} Received an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in addition to awards in other categories
- {{note label|Note3|C|C}} Not eligible for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film because it was a U.S. production.
- {{Note label|Note4|D|D}} Received an Academy Award for Best Picture, but it was not eligible or submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
- {{Note label|Note5|E|E}} Received an Academy Award, but it was a U.S. co-production.
Academy Award-winning foreign language films using English dubbing
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scope=col| Year (Ceremony) !scope=col| Film title used in nomination !scope=col| Original title !scope=col| Category !scope=col| Winner(s) !scope=col| Country !scope=col| Language(s) |
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align="center" | 2002 (75th) | scope="row" | Spirited Away | 千と千尋の神隠し | {{sortname|Hayao|Miyazaki}} | {{flagicon|Japan}} Japan | Japanese |
align="center" | 2005 (78th) | scope="row" | March of the Penguins | La Marche de l'empereur | {{sortname|Luc|Jacquet}} | {{flagicon|France}} France | French |
2023 (96th) |君たちはどう生きるか |{{sortname|Hayao|Miyazaki}} |{{flagicon|Japan}} Japan |
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080707023727/http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/ The Official Academy Awards Database]
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/impc_site2/index.html |title=The Motion Picture Credits Database |access-date=July 13, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217040626/http://www.oscars.org/impc_site2/index.html |archive-date=December 17, 2007 |url-status=bot: unknown |df=mdy-all }}
- [https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/ IMDb Academy Awards Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409102636/https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/ |date=2010-04-09 }}
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