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Every Oscars Best International Feature Film winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 26 different winners.

Best International Feature Film was previously known as Best Foreign Language Film.

The Academy retired the word Foreign at the 2020 ceremony, so the same award ran under both names inside this window.

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by distributor; scroll sideways for the full run.
All About My Mother'00
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'01
No Man's Land'02
Nowhere in Africa'03
The Barbarian Invasions'04
The Sea Inside'05
Tsotsi'06
The Lives of Others'07
The Counterfeiters'08
Departures'09
The Secret in Their Eyes'10
In a Better World'11
A Separation'12
Amour'13
The Great Beauty'14
Ida'15
Son of Saul'16
The Salesman'17
A Fantastic Woman'18
Roma'19
Parasite'20
Another Round'21
Drive My Car'22
All Quiet on the Western Front'23
The Zone of Interest'24
I'm Still Here'25
Wins by distributor
  1. Sony312%
  2. Filmiran28%
  3. Netflix28%
  4. Nordisk Film28%
  5. Warner Bros.28%
  6. A2414%
  7. Other1454%

The full list

YearWinnerDistributor
2025I'm Still Here
beat 4 others
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Flow
  • The Girl with the Needle
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Sony Pictures Releasing International
2024The Zone of Interest
beat 4 others
  • Io Capitano
  • Perfect Days
  • Society of the Snow
  • The Teachers' Lounge
A24
2023All Quiet on the Western Front
beat 4 others
  • Argentina, 1985
  • Close
  • EO
  • The Quiet Girl
Netflix
2022Drive My Car
beat 4 others
  • Flee
  • The Hand of God
  • Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
  • The Worst Person in the World
Bitters End
2021Another Round
beat 4 others
  • Better Days
  • Collective
  • The Man Who Sold His Skin
  • Quo Vadis, Aida?
Nordisk Film
2020Parasite
beat 4 others
  • Corpus Christi
  • Honeyland
  • Les Misérables
  • Pain and Glory
Neon
2019Roma
beat 4 others
  • Capernaum
  • Cold War
  • Never Look Away
  • Shoplifters
Netflix
2018A Fantastic Woman
beat 4 others
  • The Insult
  • Loveless
  • On Body and Soul
  • The Square
Sony Pictures Classics
2017The Salesman
beat 4 others
  • Land of Mine
  • A Man Called Ove
  • Tanna
  • Toni Erdmann
Filmiran
2016Son of Saul
beat 4 others
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • Mustang
  • Theeb
  • A War
Mozinet
2015Ida
beat 4 others
  • Leviathan
  • Tangerines
  • Timbuktu
  • Wild Tales
Solopan
2014The Great Beauty
beat 4 others
  • The Broken Circle Breakdown
  • The Hunt
  • The Missing Picture
  • Omar
Medusa Film
2013Amour
beat 4 others
  • Kon-Tiki
  • No
  • A Royal Affair
  • War Witch
Les Films du Losange
2012A Separation
beat 4 others
  • Bullhead
  • Footnote
  • In Darkness
  • Monsieur Lazhar
Filmiran
2011In a Better World
beat 4 others
  • Biutiful
  • Dogtooth
  • Incendies
  • Outside the Law
Nordisk Film
2010The Secret in Their Eyes
beat 4 others
  • Ajami
  • The Milk of Sorrow
  • A Prophet
  • The White Ribbon
Distribution Company
2009Departures
beat 4 others
  • The Baader Meinhof Complex
  • The Class
  • Revanche
  • Waltz with Bashir
Shochiku
2008The Counterfeiters
beat 4 others
  • Beaufort
  • Katyń
  • Mongol
  • 12
Filmladen
2007The Lives of Others
beat 4 others
  • After the Wedding
  • Days of Glory
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Water
Buena Vista International
2006Tsotsi
beat 4 others
  • Don't Tell
  • Joyeux Noël
  • Paradise Now
  • Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Ster-Kinekor Pictures
2005The Sea Inside
beat 4 others
  • As It Is in Heaven
  • The Chorus
  • Downfall
  • Yesterday
Warner Sogefilms
2004The Barbarian Invasions
beat 4 others
  • Evil
  • The Twilight Samurai
  • Twin Sisters
  • Želary
Pyramide Distribution
2003Nowhere in Africa
beat 4 others
  • The Crime of Father Amaro
  • Hero
  • The Man Without a Past
  • Zus & Zo
Constantin Film
2002No Man's Land
beat 4 others
  • Amélie
  • Elling
  • Lagaan
  • Son of the Bride
Océan Films
2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
beat 4 others
  • Amores perros
  • Divided We Fall
  • Everybody's Famous!
  • The Taste of Others
Sony Pictures Classics
2000All About My Mother
beat 4 others
  • East-West
  • Caravan
  • Solomon & Gaenor
  • Under the Sun
Warner Sogefilms

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