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List added by AFIoscar on 7 October 2008 02:38
ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM |
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 26  8.5  8 Special/Honorary Award (1947) ~ Italian film
Director (Vittorio De Sica) The high quality of this Italian-made motion picture (1947), brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity. 
2 0 7.3 Special/Honorary Award (1948) ~ French film
Director (Maurice Cloche) Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948. 
239 8.3 8.4 Special/Honorary Award (1949) ~ Italian film
Director (Vittorio De Sica) Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most oustanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949. 
4 7 7 Special/Honorary Award (1950) ~ French-Italian film
Director (René Clément) Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most oustanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1950. 
299 8.4 8.4 Special/Honorary Award (1951) ~ Japanese film
Director (Akira Kurosawa) Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most oustanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951. 
25 8.6 7.8 Special/Honorary Award (1952) ~ French film
Director (René Clément) Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952. 
10 6 7.2 Special/Honorary Award (1954) ~ Japanese film
Director (Teinosuke Kinugasa) Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1954. 
23 7.6 7.7 Special/Honorary Award (1955)~ Japanese film
Director (Hiroshi Inagaki) Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955. 
166 8.2 8.2 Academy Award of Merit (1956) ~ Italian film
Director (Federico Fellini) Other nominees: The Captain of Kopenick (West Germany) Gervaise (France) Harp of Burma (Japan) Qivitoq (Denmark) 
99 8.2 8.4 Academy Award of Merit (1957) ~ Italian film
Director (Federico Fellini) Other nominees: The Devil Came at Night (Germany) Gates of Paris (France) Mother India (India) Nine Lives (Norway) 
77 8.2 7.8 Academy Award of Merit (1958) ~ French film
Director (Jacques Tati) Other nominees: Arms and the Man (Germany) La Venganza (Spain) The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia) The Usual Unidentified Thieves 
39 7.3 7.5 Academy Award of Merit (1959) ~ French film
Director (Marcel Camus) Other nominees: The Bridge (France) The Great War (Italy) Paw (Denmark) The Village on the River (The Netherlands) 
81 8.2 8 Academy Award of Merit (1960) ~ Swedish film
Director (Ingmar Bergman) Other nominees: Kapo (Italy) La Verite (France) Macario (Mexico) The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia) 
85 8.2 7.9 Academy Award of Merit (1961) ~ Swedish film
Director (Ingmar Bergman) Other nominees: Harry and the Butler (Denmark) Immortal Love (Japan) The Important Man (Mexico) Placido (Spain) 
3 5 8.4 Academy Award of Merit (1962) ~ French film
Director (Serge Bourguignon) Other nominees: Electra (Greece) The Four Days of Naples (Italy) Keeper of Promises (The Given Word) Tlayucan (Mexico) 
307 8.4 8.2 Academy Award of Merit (1963) ~ Italian film
Director (Federico Fellini) Other nominees: Knife in the Water (Poland) Los Tarantos (Spain) The Red Lanterns (Greece) Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japan) 
28 7.5 7.4 Academy Award of Merit (1964) ~ Italian film
Director (Vittorio De Sica) Other nominees: Raven's End (Sweden) Sallah (Israel) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France) Woman in the Dunes (Japan) 
32 8.5 8 Academy Award of Merit (1965) ~ Czech film
Director (Ján Kadár and Ján Kadár) Other nominees: Blood on the Land (Greece) Dear John (Sweden) Kwaidan (Japan) Marriage Italian Style (Italy) 
26 6.4 7.7 Academy Award of Merit (1966) ~ French film
Director (Claude Lelouch) Other nominees: The Battle of Algiers (Italy) Loves of a Blonde (Czechoslovakia) Pharaoh (Poland) Three (Yugoslavia) 
50 8.1 7.9 Academy Award of Merit (1967) ~ Czech film
Director (Jiří Menzel) Other nominees: El Amor Brujo (Spain) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Yugoslavia) Live for Life (France) Portrait of Chieko (Japan) 
11 9 7.6 Academy Award of Merit (1968) ~ Russian film
Director (Sergei Bondarchuk) Other nominees: The Boys of Paul Street (Hungary) The Firemen's Ball (Czechoslovakia) The Girl with the Pistol (Italy) Stolen Kisses (France) 
39 8.2 8.1 Academy Award of Merit (1969) ~ French film
Director (Costa-Gavras) Other nominees: Adalen '31 (Sweden) The Battle of Neretva (Yugoslavia) The Brothers Karamazov (Russia) My Night with Maud (France) 
14 9.2 8 Academy Award of Merit (1970) ~ Italian film
Director (Elio Petri) Other nominees: First Love (Switzerland) Hoa-Binh (France) Paix Sur Les Champs (Belgium) Tristana (Spain) 
14 7 7.7 Academy Award of Merit (1971) ~ French film
Director (Luis Buñuel) Other nominees: Dodes'Ka-Den (Japan) The Emigrants (Sweden) The Policeman (Israel) Tchaikovsky (Russia) 
136 8.2 8 Academy Award of Merit (1972) ~ French film
Director (Luis Buñuel) Other nominees: The Dawns are Quiet (Russia) I Love You Rosa (Israel) My Dearest Senorita (Spain) The New Land (Sweden) 
78 7.8 8 Academy Award of Merit (1973) ~ French film
Director (François Truffaut) Other nominees: The House on Chelouche Street (Israel) L'Invitation (Switzerland) The Pedestrian (Federal Republic of West Germany) Turkish Delight (The Netherlands) 
173 7.7 7.8 Academy Award of Merit (1974) ~ Italian film
Director (Federico Fellini) Other nominees: Catsplay (Hungary) The Deluge (Poland) Lacombe, Lucien (France) The Truce (Argentina) 
69 8.2 7.9 Academy Award of Merit (1975) ~ Russian film
Director (Akira Kurosawa) Other nominees: Land of Promise (Poland) Letters from Marsusia (Mexico) Sandakan No. 8 (Japan) Scent of a Woman (Italy) 
4 4 7.2 Academy Award of Merit (1976) ~ French film
Director (Jean-Jacques Annaud) Other nominees: Cousin, Cousine (France) Jacob, The Liar (German Democratic Republic) Nights and Days (Poland) Seven Beauties (Italy) 
4 0 7.6 Academy Award of Merit (1977) ~ French film
Director (Jean-Jacques Annaud) Other nominees: Iphigenia (Greece) Operation Thunderbolt (Israel) A Special Day (Italy) That Obscure Object of Desire (Spain) 
4 6 7.4 Academy Award of Merit (1978) ~ French film
Director (Bertrand Blier) Other nominees: The Glass Cell (German Federal Republic) Hungarians (Hungary) Viva Italia!(Italy) White Bim Black Ear (Russia) 
72 7.7 7.6 Academy Award of Merit (1979) ~ German film
Director (Volker Schlöndorff) Other nominees: The Maids of Wilko (Poland) Mama Turns a Hundred (Spain) A Simple Story (France) To Forget Venice (Italy) 
14 7.5 8 Academy Award of Merit (1980) ~ Russian film
Director (Vladimir Menshov) Other nominees: Confidence (Hungary) Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrier) (Japan) The Last Metro (France) The Nest (Spain) 
23 7.3 7.8 Academy Award of Merit (1981) ~ Hungarian film
Director (István Szabó) Other nominees: The Boat is Full (Switzerland) Man of Iron (Poland) Muddy River (Japan) Three Brothers (Italy) 
3 2 7.1 Academy Award of Merit (1982) ~ Spanish film
Director (José Luis Garci) Other nominees: Alsino and the Condor (Nicaragua) Coup de Torchon ("Clean Slate")(France) The Flight of the Eagle (Sweden) Private Life (Russia) 
144 8.2 8.1 Academy Award of Merit (1983) ~ Swedish film
Director (Ingmar Bergman) Other nominees: Carmen (Spain) Entre Nous (France) Job's Revolt (Hungary) Le Bal (Algeria) 
5 6 6.6 Academy Award of Merit (1984) ~ French film
Director (Richard Dembo) Other nominees: Beyond the Walls (Israel) Camila (Argentina) Double Feature (Spain) Wartime Romance (Russia) 
18 6.9 7.8 Academy Award of Merit (1985) ~ Spanish film
Director (Luis Puenzo) Other nominees: Angry Harvest (Federal Republic of Germany) Colonel Redl (Hungary) Three Men and a Cradle (France) When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia) AFIoscar's rating:
 
7 8 7.4 Academy Award of Merit (1986) ~ Dutch film
Director (Fons Rademakers) Other nominees: Betty Blue (France) The Decline of the American Empire (Canadian) My Sweet Little Village (Czechoslovakia) "38" (Austria) 
65 7.7 7.8 Academy Award of Merit (1987) ~ Danish film
Director (Gabriel Axel) Other nominees: Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) (France) Course Completed (Spain) The Family (Italy) Pathfinder (Norway) 
34 7.2 7.8 Academy Award of Merit (1988) ~ Danish film
Director (Bille August) Other nominees: Hanussen (Hungary) The Music Teacher (Belgium) Salaam Bombay! (India) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Spain) 
364 8 8.4 Academy Award of Merit (1989) ~ Italian film
Director (Giuseppe Tornatore) Other nominees: Camille Claudel (France) Jesus of Montreal (Canada) Waltzing Regitze (Denmark) What Happened to Santiago (Puerto Rico) 
3 0 7.8 Academy Award of Merit (1990) ~ German film
Director (Xavier Koller) Other nominees: Cyrano de Bergerac (France) Ju Dou (People's Republic of China) The Nasty Girl (Germany) Open Doors (Italy) 
41 7.4 7.1 Academy Award of Merit (1991) ~ Italian film
Director (Gabriele Salvatores) Other nominees: Children of Iceland (Iceland) The Elementary School (Czechoslovakia) The Ox (Sweden) Kaise the Red Lantern (Hong Kong) 
33 7.4 6.6 Academy Award of Merit (1992) ~ French film
Director (Régis Wargnier) Other nominees: Close to Eden (Russia) Daens (Belgium) Schtonk (Germany) 
17 6.3 7.2 Academy Award of Merit (1993) ~ Spanish film
Director (Fernando Trueba) Other nominees: Farewell My Concubine (Hong Kong) Hedd Wyn (United Kingdom/Wales) The Secret of Green Papaya (Vietnam) The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan) 
33 7.3 7.9 Academy Award of Merit (1994) ~ Russian film
Director (Nikita Mikhalkov) Other nominees: Before the Rain (Macedeonia) Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan) Farinelli:IL Castrato (Belgium) Strawberry and Chocolate (Cuba) 
25 6.6 7.4 Academy Award of Merit (1995) ~ Dutch film
Director (Marleen Gorris) Other nominees: All Things Fair (Sweden) Dust of Life (Algeria) O Quatrilho (Brazil) The Star Maker (Italy) 
83 7.6 7.7 Academy Award of Merit (1996) ~ Czech film
Director (Jan Svěrák) Other nominees: A Chief in Love (Georgia) The Other Side of Sunday (Norway) Prisoner of the Mountains (Russia) Ridicule (France) 
14 8 7.9 Academy Award of Merit (1997) ~ Dutch film
Director (Mike van Diem) Other nominees: Beyond Silence (Germany) Four Days in September (Brazil) Secrets of the Heart (Spain) The Thief (Russia)
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The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929 to honor films released in 1927/28, there was no separate category for foreign language films. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These Awards, however, were not handed out on a regular basis (no Award was given in 1953), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year. For the 1956 (29th) Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since then. Unlike other Academy Awards, the Best Foreign Language Film Award is not presented to a specific individual. It is accepted by the winning film's director, but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Over the years, the Best Foreign Language Film Award and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 59 Awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty have gone to European films, four to Asian films, three to African films and only two to films from the Americas. The late Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini directed four Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award-winning motion pictures during his lifetime, a record that remains unmatched as of 2007 (if Special Awards are taken into account, then Fellini's record is tied by his fellow countryman Vittorio De Sica). Special/Honorary Award (1947–1955) Academy Award of Merit (1956–present) Source: Wikipedia
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