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The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, sponsored by France and Canada, presents an annual César Award for Best Foreign Film (French: César du meilleur film étranger). This is the list of winners and nominees of the award since the 1970s.
| César Award for Best Foreign Film | |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada / France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First awarded | 1976 |
| Currently held by | The Nature of Love (2024) |
| Website | academie-cinema |
1970s
| Year | Winner and nominees | Original title | Country | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 (1st) | Scent of a Woman | Profumo di donna |  Italy | Dino Risi |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes |  West Germany | Werner Herzog | |
| The Magic Flute | Trollflöjten |  Sweden | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Nashville |  United States | Robert Altman | ||
| 1977 (2nd) | We All Loved Each Other So Much | C'eravamo tanto amati | Italy | Ettore Scola |
| Barry Lyndon |  United Kingdom/ United States | Stanley Kubrick | ||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | United States | Miloš Forman | ||
| Raise Ravens | Cría cuervos |  Spain | Carlos Saura | |
| 1978 (3rd) | A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | Italy | Ettore Scola |
| The American Friend | Der amerikanische Freund | West Germany | Wim Wenders | |
| Annie Hall | United States | Woody Allen | ||
| Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | Italy | Franco Brusati | |
| 1979 (4th) | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | L'albero degli zoccoli | Italy | Ermanno Olmi |
| Autumn Sonata | Höstsonaten | Sweden | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Julia | United States | Fred Zinnemann | ||
| A Wedding | United States | Robert Altman | ||
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Country | Number of winning films | Number of nominated films |
|---|---|---|
| United States of America |
16 | 86 |
| United Kingdom |
7 | 21 |
| Italy |
6 | 13 |
 Spain |
3 | 12 |
 Belgium |
2 | 18 |
| Germany[nb 1] |
2 | 11 |
 Canada |
2 | 6 |
 Denmark |
2 | 4 |
 Japan |
2 | 5 |
| Sweden |
1 | 6 |
 Hong Kong |
1 | 2 |
 Iran |
1 | 2 |
 Australia |
1 | 1 |
 Israel |
1 | 1 |
 Russia |
1 | 2 |
 South Korea |
1 | 2 |
 New Zealand |
1 | 1 |
 Poland |
0 | 5 |
 Brazil |
0 | 3 |
| 0 | 2 | |
 Romania |
0 | 2 |
 Turkey |
0 | 2 |
 Norway |
0 | 2 |
 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[nb 2] |
0 | 2 |
 Yugoslavia |
0 | 2 |
 China |
0 | 1 |
 France[nb 3] |
0 | 1 |
 Hungary |
0 | 1 |
 India |
0 | 1 |
 Ireland |
0 | 1 |
 Lebanon |
0 | 1 |
 South Africa |
0 | 1 |
 Taiwan |
0 | 1 |
 Finland |
0 | 2 |
6 directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
|---|---|
| 3 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2 | Woody Allen |
| Pedro Almodóvar | |
| Ken Loach | |
| David Lynch | |
| Ettore Scola | |
- Includes films of West Germany.
- The Soviet Union received its two nominations for a Russian-language film and a Mongolian-language film before it was formally dissolved on December 26, 1991.
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