| National Board of Review Award for Top Five International Films |
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| Awarded for | Top Five International Films |
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| Country | United States |
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| Presented by | National Board of Review |
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| First award | 1929 |
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| Final award | 2024 |
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| Currently held by |
- All We Imagine as Light – France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy
- The Girl with the Needle – Denmark, Poland, Sweden
- I'm Still Here – Brazil, France
- Santosh – United Kingdom, India, Germany, France
- Universal Language – Canada
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| Website | nationalboardofreview.org |
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The Top Five International Films (known as Top Five Foreign Language Films prior to 2022) is one of the awards presented annually by the National Board of Review. This category is one of the few awards that is not presented individually but instead as a list of usually five films. The category was first presented in 1929 and its one of two categories for foreign language films alongside the Best Foreign Language Film award.
Initially it was awarded as just as Top Foreign Films therefore including foreign films in English but in 1990 it was modified to only reward films in a foreign language changing the name from Top Foreign Films to Top Foreign Language Films before being changed again to Top International Films in 2022. From 1940 to 1949 the list was not presented at all.
Winners
1920s
1930s
1950s
1960s
1970s
| Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Country
|
| 1970 |
The Confession |
Costa-Gavras |
France, Italy
|
| This Man Must Die |
Claude Chabrol
|
| The Passion of Anna |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden
|
| My Night at Maud's |
Éric Rohmer |
France
|
| The Wild Child |
François Truffaut
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| 1971 |
The Conformist |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
Italy, France, West Germany
|
| The Clowns |
Federico Fellini |
Italy
|
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis |
Vittorio De Sica
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| Bed and Board |
François Truffaut |
France, Italy
|
| Claire's Knee |
Éric Rohmer |
France
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| 1972 |
The Emigrants |
Jan Troell |
Sweden
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| Chloe in the Afternoon |
Éric Rohmer |
France
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| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie |
Luis Buñuel
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| The Sorrow and the Pity |
Marcel Ophuls
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| Uncle Vanya |
Andrey Konchalovskiy |
Soviet Union
|
| 1973 |
Alfredo, Alfredo |
Pietro Germi |
Italy
|
| Cries and Whispers |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden
|
| The New Land |
Jan Troell
|
| Day for Night |
François Truffaut |
France
|
| The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe |
Yves Robert
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| Trafic |
Jacques Tati |
Italy, France
|
| 1974 |
The Pedestrian |
Maximilian Schell |
Germany
|
| Amarcord |
Federico Fellini |
Italy
|
| Lacombe, Lucien |
Louis Malle |
France
|
| The Phantom of Liberty |
Luis Buñuel |
Italy, France
|
| Scenes from a Marriage |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden
|
| 1975 |
Swept Away |
Lina Wertmüller |
Italy
|
| A Brief Vacation |
Vittorio De Sica
|
| The Story of Adele H. |
François Truffaut |
France
|
| Special Section |
Costa-Gavras
|
| Stavisky |
Alain Resnais
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| 1976 |
Face to Face |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden
|
| The Clockmaker |
Bertrand Tavernier |
France
|
| Cousin Cousine |
Jean-Charles Tacchella
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| Small Change |
François Truffaut
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| The Marquise of O |
Éric Rohmer |
West Germany
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| 1977 |
The Man Who Loved Women |
François Truffaut |
France
|
| The American Friend |
Wim Wenders |
West Germany
|
| Cría Cuervos |
Carlos Saura |
Spain
|
| A Special Day |
Ettore Scola |
Italy
|
| That Obscure Object of Desire |
Luis Buñuel |
France, Spain
|
| 1978 |
Autumn Sonata |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden
|
| Dear Detective |
Philippe de Broca |
France
|
| Madame Rosa |
Moshé Mizrahi
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| Bread and Chocolate |
Franco Brusati |
Italy
|
| A Slave of Love |
Nikita Mikhalkov |
Soviet Union
|
| 1979 |
La Cage aux Folles |
Édouard Molinaro |
France, Italy
|
| The Marriage of Maria Braun |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
West Germany
|
| Nosferatu the Vampyre |
Werner Herzog
|
| Peppermint Soda |
Diane Kurys |
France
|
| The Tree of Wooden Clogs |
Ermanno Olmi |
Italy
|
1980s
1990s
2000s
| Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Country
|
| 2000 |
Butterfly |
José Luis Cuerda |
Spain
|
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
Ang Lee |
Taiwan
|
| Girl on the Bridge |
Patrice Leconte |
France
|
| Malèna |
Giuseppe Tornatore |
Italy
|
| A Time for Drunken Horses |
Bahman Ghobadi |
Iran
|
| 2001 |
Amores Perros |
Alejandro González Iñárritu |
Mexico
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| Amélie |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
France
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| Behind the Sun |
Walter Salles |
Brazil
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| Dark Blue World |
Jan Svěrák |
Czech Republic
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| No Man's Land |
Danis Tanović |
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| 2002 |
8 Women |
François Ozon |
France
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| The Crime of Padre Amaro |
Carlos Carrera |
Mexico
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| City of God |
Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund |
Brazil
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| Talk to Her |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Spain
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| Y tu Mamá También |
Alfonso Cuarón |
Mexico
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| 2003 |
Autumn Spring |
Vladimír Michálek |
Czech Republic
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| The Barbarian Invasions |
Denys Arcand |
Canada, France
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| Best of Youth |
Marco Tullio Giordana |
Italy
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| Man on the Train |
Patrice Leconte |
France
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| Monsieur Ibrahim |
François Dupeyron
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| 2004 |
Bad Education |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Spain
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| The Sea Inside |
Alejandro Amenábar
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| Maria Full of Grace |
Joshua Marston |
Colombia
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| The Chorus |
Christophe Barratier |
France
|
| The Motorcycle Diaries |
Walter Salles |
Argentina, Brazil, United States, Chile, Peru, United Kingdom, Germany, France
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| 2005 |
2046 |
Wong Kar-wai |
Hong Kong
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| Downfall |
Oliver Hirschbiegel |
Germany, Austria, Italy
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| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
Dai Sijie |
China, France
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| Walk on Water |
Eytan Fox |
Israel
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| Paradise Now |
Hany Abu-Assad |
Palestine
|
| 2006 |
Curse of the Golden Flower |
Zhang Yimou |
China
|
| Pan's Labyrinth |
Guillermo del Toro |
Spain, Mexico
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| Days of Glory |
Rachid Bouchareb |
France
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| Water |
Deepa Mehta |
India
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| Volver |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Spain
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| 2007 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days |
Cristian Mungiu |
Romania
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| The Band's Visit |
Eran Kolirin |
Israel, France, United States
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| The Counterfeiters |
Stefan Ruzowitzky |
Austria, Germany
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| La Vie en rose |
Olivier Dahan |
France, Czech Republic
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| Lust, Caution |
Ang Lee |
Taiwan
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| 2008 |
The Edge of Heaven |
Fatih Akın |
Germany, Turkey
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| Let the Right One In |
Tomas Alfredson |
Sweden
|
| Roman de Gare |
Claude Lelouch |
France
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| A Secret |
Claude Miller
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| Waltz with Bashir |
Ari Folman |
Israel
|
| 2009 |
The Maid |
Sebastián Silva |
Chile
|
| Revanche |
Götz Spielmann |
Austria
|
| The Song of Sparrows |
Majid Majidi |
Iran
|
| Three Monkeys |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
Turkey
|
| The White Ribbon |
Michael Haneke |
Germany
|
2010s
2020s
| Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Country
|
| 2020[5] |
Apples |
Christos Nikou |
Greece
|
| Collective |
Alexander Nanau |
Romania
|
| Dear Comrades! |
Andrei Konchalovsky |
Russia
|
| The Mole Agent |
Maite Alberdi |
Chile
|
| Night of the Kings |
Philippe Lacôte |
Ivory Coast
|
| 2021[6] |
Benedetta |
Paul Verhoeven |
France
|
| Lamb |
Valdimar Johannsson |
Iceland
|
| Lingui, The Sacred Bonds |
Mahamat Saleh Haroun |
Chad
|
| Titane |
Julia Ducournau |
France
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| The Worst Person in the World |
Joachim Trier |
Norway
|
| 2022[7] |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
Edward Berger |
Germany
|
| Argentina, 1985 |
Santiago Mitre |
Argentina
|
| Decision to Leave |
Park Chan-wook |
South Korea
|
| EO |
Jerzy Skolimowski |
Poland
|
| Saint Omer |
Alice Diop |
France
|
| 2023[8] |
La chimera |
Alice Rohrwacher |
Italy, France, Switzerland
|
| Fallen Leaves |
Aki Kaurismäki |
Finland, Germany
|
| The Teachers' Lounge |
İlker Çatak |
Germany
|
| Tótem |
Lila Avilés |
Mexico, Denmark, France
|
| The Zone of Interest |
Jonathan Glazer |
United Kingdom, Poland, United States
|
| 2024
|
All We Imagine as Light
|
Payal Kapadia
|
France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy
|
| The Girl with the Needle
|
Magnus von Horn
|
Denmark, Poland, Sweden
|
| I'm Still Here
|
Walter Salles
|
Brazil, France
|
| Santosh
|
Sandhya Suri
|
United Kingdom, India, Germany, France
|
| Universal Language
|
Matthew Rankin
|
Canada
|
See also
References
- ^ "National Board of Review Announces 2016 Award Winners". National Board of Review. November 29, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ "National Board of Review Announces 2017 Award Winners". National Board of Review. November 28, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ "National Board of Review Announces 2018 Award Winners". National Board of Review. November 27, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ Sharf, Zack (December 3, 2019). "National Board of Review 2019: 'The Irishman' Wins Best Film, Adam Sandler Named Best Actor". IndieWire. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ Davis, Clayton (January 26, 2021). "National Board of Review Names 'Da 5 Bloods' Best Picture, Spike Lee Becomes Second Black Director Winner". Variety. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ National Board of Review Winners 2021:|IndieWire
- ^ Top Gun: Maverick Named Best Movie of 2022 by National Board of Review - The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ National Board of Review Names 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Best Film of 2023 - The Hollywood Reporter
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