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| César Award for Best Foreign Film | |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada / France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First award | 1976 |
| Currently held by | The Zone of Interest (2025) |
| Website | academie-cinema |
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.
| Year | Winner and nominees | Original title | Country | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 (1st) |
Scent of a Woman | Profumo di donna | Dino Risi | |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes | Werner Herzog | ||
| The Magic Flute | Trollflöjten | Ingmar Bergman | ||
| Nashville | Robert Altman | |||
| 1977 (2nd) |
We All Loved Each Other So Much | C'eravamo tanto amati | Ettore Scola | |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | |||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | |||
| Raise Ravens | Cría cuervos | Carlos Saura | ||
| 1978 (3rd) |
A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | Ettore Scola | |
| The American Friend | Der amerikanische Freund | Wim Wenders | ||
| Annie Hall | Woody Allen | |||
| Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | Franco Brusati | ||
| 1979 (4th) |
The Tree of Wooden Clogs | L'albero degli zoccoli | Ermanno Olmi | |
| Autumn Sonata | Höstsonaten | Ingmar Bergman | ||
| Julia | Fred Zinnemann | |||
| A Wedding | Robert Altman | |||
| Country | Number of winning films |
Number of nominated films |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 87 | |
| 8 | 23 | |
| 6 | 13 | |
| 3 | 12 | |
| 2 | 18 | |
| 2 | 12 | |
| 2 | 7 | |
| 2 | 5 | |
| 2 | 5 | |
| 1 | 6 | |
| 1 | 2 | |
| 1 | 3 | |
| 1 | 1 | |
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| 1 | 2 | |
| 1 | 2 | |
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| 1 | 6 | |
| 0 | 3 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 0 | 1 | |
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| 0 | 1 | |
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6 directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
|---|---|
| 3 | |
| 2 | |
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