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| BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in world cinema |
| Location | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First award | 1983 |
| Currently held by | Emilia Pérez (2024) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is a film award given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. The award was first given at the 36th British Academy Film Awards, recognising the films of 1982, and until 1990 was known as the Best Foreign Language Film. Prior to this, films recorded in a language other than English were often recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best Film, known between 1949 and 1969 as Best Film from any Source, also, in the 1980s there were only European films that the language originally recorded spoken in the film is not English, except Ran, between winners and nominees films in this category.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Winners and nominees
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1980s
[edit]1990s
[edit]2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]2020s
[edit]| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Another Round | Thomas Vinterberg | Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Kasper Dissing | Denmark | |
| Dear Comrades! | Andrei Konchalovsky | Andrei Konchalovsky, Olesya Gidrat, Alisher Usmanov | Russia | |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral | France | |
| Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christina Oh | United States | |
| Quo Vadis, Aida? | Jasmila Žbanić | Damir Ibrahimović, Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Tsuyoshi Gorô, Misaki Kawamura, Osamu Kubota, Sachio Matsushita, Yoshito Nakabe, Keiji Okumura, Jin Suzuki, Akihisa Yamamoto | Japan | |
| The Hand of God | Paolo Sorrentino | Paolo Sorrentino, Lorenzo Mieli | Italy | |
| Parallel Mothers | Pedro Almodóvar | Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García | Spain | |
| Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | Bénédicte Couvreur | France | |
| The Worst Person in the World | Joachim Trier | Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Thomas Robsahm | Norway | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Edward Berger | Edward Berger, Malte Grunert | Germany | |
| Argentina, 1985 | Santiago Mitre | Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Mitre, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín, Victoria Alonso | Argentina | |
| Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | Marie Kreutzer | Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, France | |
| Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok | South Korea | |
| The Quiet Girl | Colm Bairéad | Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí | Ireland | |
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | Ewa Puszczyńska, James Wilson | United Kingdom, Poland | |
| 20 Days in Mariupol | Mstyslav Chernov | Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Derl McCrudden, Michelle Mizner | Ukraine | |
| Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion | France | |
| Past Lives | Celine Song | David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler | United States | |
| Society of the Snow | J.A. Bayona | Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida, J.A. Bayona | Spain, United States | |
| Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux | France | |
| All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff | India | |
| I'm Still Here | Walter Salles | Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre | Brazil, France | |
| Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Jack Tarling, Trevor Birney | Ireland, United Kingdom | |
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | Mohammad Rasoulof | Mohammad Rasoulof, Rozita Hendijanian, Amin Sadraei, Jean-Christophe Simon, Mani Tilgner | Iran, Germany |
Multiple winners
[edit]4 directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
|---|---|
| 3 |  Pedro Almodóvar |
 Jacques Audiard | |
| 2 |  Zhang Yimou |
 Walter Salles |
Awards by nation
[edit]| Country | Number of winning films | Number of nominated films |
|---|---|---|
| France | 7 | 52 |
| Spain | 5 | 16 |
| Italy | 4 | 17 |
| Germany[nb 1] | 4 | 11 |
| Mexico | 3 | 3 |
| Sweden | 2 | 4 |
| Denmark | 2 | 4 |
| Japan | 2 | 4 |
| Argentina | 2 | 3 |
| South Korea | 2 | 3 |
| United Kingdom[nb 2] | 2 | 2 |
| Brazil | 1 | 5 |
| Poland | 1 | 5 |
| China | 1 | 3 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 3 |
| Hungary | 1 | 2 |
| India[nb 3] | 0 | 6 |
| United States[nb 4] | 0 | 7 |
| Russia | 0 | 4 |
| Canada[nb 5] | 0 | 3 |
| Belgium | 0 | 2 |
| Hong Kong[nb 6] | 0 | 2 |
| Iran | 0 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 2 |
| Norway | 0 | 2 |
| Cambodia | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 1 |
| Israel | 0 | 1 |
| Jordan | 0 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 1 |
| Mauritania | 0 | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 |
| South Africa[nb 7] | 0 | 1 |
| Syria | 0 | 1 |
| Turkey | 0 | 1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 1 |
| Austria | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland[nb 8] | 0 | 1 |
| Ukraine | 0 | 1 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Includes films of West Germany.
- ^ Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
- ^ Films which contain primarily Hindi dialogue.
- ^ Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue with the exception of Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985).
- ^ Films which contain primarily French dialogue.
- ^ Films which contain primarily Cantonese dialogue.
- ^ Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
- ^ Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
See also
[edit]References
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