Year | Film |
Director | Country of origin |
1951 | Die Vier im Jeep |
Leopold Lindtberg | Switzerland |
...Sans laisser d'adresse |
Jean-Paul Le Chanois | France |
In Beaver Valley |
James Algar | United States |
Justice est faite |
André Cayatte | France |
Cinderella |
Wilfred Jackson | United States |
1952 | One Summer of Happiness (Hon dansade en sommar) |
Arne Mattsson | Sweden |
1953 | The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | France/ Italy |
1954 | Hobson's Choice |
David Lean | United Kingdom |
1955 | The Rats (Die Ratten) |
Robert Siodmak | FRG |
1956 | Invitation to the Dance |
Gene Kelly | United States |
1957 | 12 Angry Men |
Sidney Lumet | United States |
1958 | Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) |
Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
1959 | The Cousins (Les cousins) |
Claude Chabrol | France |
1960 | El Lazarillo de Tormes |
César Fernández Ardavín | Spain |
1961 | The Night (La notte) |
Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy/ France |
1962 | A Kind of Loving |
John Schlesinger | United Kingdom |
1963 | The Devil (Il diavolo) |
Gian Luigi Polidoro | Italy |
Bushidô zankoku monogatari |
Tadashi Imai | Japan |
1964 | Dry Summer (Susuz yaz) |
Metin Erksan | Turkey |
1965 | Alphaville |
Jean-Luc Godard | France/ Italy |
1966 | Cul-de-Sac |
Roman Polanski | United Kingdom |
1967 | Le départ |
Jerzy Skolimowski | Belgium |
1968 | Who Saw Him Die? (Ole dole doff) |
Jan Troell | Sweden |
1969 | Early Works (Rani radovi) |
Želimir Žilnik | SFR Yugoslavia |
1970 | No winner | (n/a) | (n/a) |
1971 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) |
Vittorio De Sica | Italy/ West Germany |
1972 | The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury) |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
1973 | Distant Thunder (Ashani Sanket) |
Satyajit Ray | India |
1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz |
Ted Kotcheff | Canada |
1975 | Adoption (Örökbefogadás) |
Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
1976 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson |
Robert Altman | United States |
1977 | The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) |
Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
1978 | Las truchas |
José Luis García Sánchez | Spain |
Ascensor |
Tomás Muñoz | Spain |
Las palabras de Max |
Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Spain |
1979 | David |
Peter Lilienthal | West Germany |
1980 | Heartland |
Richard Pearce | United States |
Palermo or Wolfsburg (Palermo oder Wolfsburg) |
Werner Schroeter | West Germany |
1981 | Hurry, Hurry! (Deprisa, deprisa) |
Carlos Saura | Spain (with France) |
1982 | Veronika Voss (Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss) |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
1983 | Ascendancy |
Edward Bennett | United Kingdom |
The Beehive (La colmena) |
Mario Camus | Spain |
1984 | Love Streams |
John Cassavetes | United States |
1985 | Die Frau und der Fremde |
Rainer Simon | East Germany |
Wetherby |
David Hare | United Kingdom |
1986 | Stammheim |
Reinhard Hauff | West Germany |
1987 | The Theme (Tema) |
Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union |
1988 | Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang) |
Zhang Yimou | China |
1989 | Rain Man |
Barry Levinson | United States |
1990 | Music Box |
Costa-Gavras | United States |
Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti) |
Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
1991 | The House of Smiles (La casa del sorriso) |
Marco Ferreri | Italy |
1992 | Grand Canyon |
Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
1993 | Woman Sesame Oil Maker (Xiang hun nu) |
Xie Fei | China |
The Wedding Banquet (Xi yan) |
Ang Lee | Taiwan/ United States |
1994 | In the Name of the Father |
Jim Sheridan | Ireland/ United Kingdom |
1995 | The Bait (L'appât) |
Bertrand Tavernier | France |
1996 | Sense and Sensibility |
Ang Lee | United States/ United Kingdom |
1997 | The People vs. Larry Flynt |
Miloš Forman | United States |
1998 | Central Station (Central do Brasil) |
Walter Salles | Brazil |
1999 | The Thin Red Line |
Terrence Malick | United States |
2000 | Magnolia |
Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
2001 | Intimacy |
Patrice Chéreau | United Kingdom (with France, Germany, Spain) |
2002 | Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) |
Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
Bloody Sunday |
Paul Greengrass | United Kingdom/ Ireland |
2003 | In This World |
Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
2004 | Head-On (Gegen die Wand) |
Fatih Akin | Germany/ Turkey |
2005 | U-Carmen eKhayelitsha |
Mark Dornford-May | South Africa |
2006 | Grbavica |
Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Austria, Germany, Croatia) |
2007 | Tuya's Marriage (Tuya de hun shi) |
Wang Quan'an | China |
2008 | Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) |
José Padilha | Brazil |
2009 | The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada) |
Claudia Llosa | Peru |
2010 | Honey (Bal) |
Semih Kaplanoğlu | Turkey |
2011 | A Separation |
Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
2012 | Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die) |
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Italy |
2013 | Child's Pose (Poziţia Copilului) |
Călin Peter Netzer | Romania |