Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- 1949 The Bicycle Thief - Vittorio De Sica
- 1950 none given
- 1951 Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa
- 1952 Forbidden Games - Rene Clement
- 1953 none given
- 1954 Gate of Hell - Teinosuke Kinugasa
- 1955 Samurai 1-- Musashi Miyamoto - Hiroshi Inagaki
- 1956 La Strada - Federico Fellini
- 1957 Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini
- 1958 Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati
- 1959 Black Orpheus - Marcel Camus
- 1960 The Virgin Spring - Ingmar Bergman
- 1961 Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman
- 1962 Sundays and Cybele - Serge Bourguignon
- 1963 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
- 1964 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - Vittorio De Sica
- 1965 The Shop on Main Street - Jan Kadar
- 1966 A Man and a Woman - Claude Lelouch
- 1967 Closely Watched Trains - Jiri Menzel
- 1968 War and Peace - Sergei Bondarchuk
- 1969 Z - Constantin Costa-Gavras
- 1970 none given
- 1971 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Vittorio De Sica
- 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel
- 1973 Day for Night - François Truffaut
- 1974 Amarcord - Federico Fellini
- 1975 Dersu Uzala - Akira Kurosawa
- 1976 Black and White in Color - Jean-Jacques Annaud
- 1977 Madame Rosa - Moshe Mizrahi
- 1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs - Bertrand Blier
- 1979 The Tin Drum - Jean-Claude Carriere
- 1980 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears - Vladimir Menshov
- 1981 Mephisto - Istvan Szabo
- 1982 none given
- 1983 Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
- 1984 Dangerous Moves - Richard Dembo
- 1985 The Official Story - Luis Puenzo
- 1986 The Assault - Fons Rademakers
- 1987 Babette’s Feast - Gabriel Axel
- 1988 Pelle the Conqueror - Bille August
- 1989 Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Tornatore
- 1990 Journey of Hope - Xavier Koller
- 1991 Mediterraneo - Gabriele Salvatores
- 1992 Indochine - Regis Wargnier
- 1993 Belle Epoque - Fernando Trueba
- 1994 Burnt by the Sun - Nikita Mikhalkov
- 1995 Antonia’s Line - Marleen Gorris
- 1996 Kolya - Jan Sverák
- 1997 Character - Mike van Diem
- 1998 Life is Beautiful - Roberto Benigni
- 1999 All About My Mother - Pedro Almodóvar
- 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee
- See also : Academy Awards