Year |
Winner and nominees |
English title |
Original title |
1988 (1st) | Louis Malle | Au Revoir Les Enfants | |
Manoel de Oliveira | The Cannibals | Os Canibais |
Terence Davies | Distant Voices, Still Lives | |
Daniele Luchetti
Franco Bernini
Angelo Pasquini | It's Happening Tomorrow | Domani accadrà |
Wolfgang Held | Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Einer trage des anderen Last |
1989 (2nd) | Mariya Khmelik | Little Vera | Malenkaya Vera |
Géza Bereményi | The Midas Touch (also known as Eldorádó | |
Þráinn Bertelsson | Magnus | |
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Tonino Guerra
Thanassis Valtinos | Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli |
Maciej Dejczer
Cezary Harasimowicz | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba |
1997 (10th) | Chris Vander Stappen
Alain Berliner | Ma Vie en Rose | |
Ademir Kenovic
Abdulah Sidran | The Perfect Circle | Savršeni krug |
Andrei Kurkov | A Friend of the Deceased | Priyatel pokoynika |
1998 (11th) | Peter Howitt | Sliding Doors | |
Lars Von Trier | The Idiots | Idioterne |
Alex van Warmerdam | Little Tony | Kleine Teun |
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Agnès Jaoui | Same Old Song | On connaît la chanson |
1999 (12th) | István Szabó
Israel Horovitz | Sunshine | |
Sasa Gedeon | The Idiot Returns | Návrat idiota |
Ayub Khan-Din | East is East | |
2000 (13th) | Agnès Jaoui
Jean-Pierre Bacri | The Taste of Others | Le goût des autres |
Rafael Azcona | Butterfly's Tongue | La lengua de las mariposas |
Wolfgang Kohlhaase | The Legend of Rita | Die Stille nach dem Schuß |
Nana Djordjadze
Svereva Djordjadze | 27 Missing Kisses | 27 დაკარგული კოცნა |
Doriana Leondeff
Silvio Soldini | Bread and Tulips | Pane e tulipani |
Dominik Moll
Gilles Marchand | Harry, He's Here to Help | Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien |
2001 (14th) | Danis Tanović | No Man's Land | Ničija zemlja |
Laurent Cantet
/ Robin Campillo | Time Out | L'Emploi du temps |
Michael Haneke | The Piano Teacher | |
Achero Mañas | Pellet | El Bola |
Jean-Louis Milesi
Robert Guédiguian | The Town Is Quiet | La ville est tranquille |
Ettore Scola
Silvia Scola
Giacomo Scarpelli
Furio Scarpelli | Unfair Competition | Concorrenza sleale |
2002 (15th) | Pedro Almodóvar | Talk to Her | Hable con ella |
Jacques Audiard
Tonino Benacquista | Read My Lips | |
Paul Greengrass | Bloody Sunday | |
Aki Kaurismäki | The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä |
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Krzysztof Piesiewicz | Heaven | |
Paul Laverty | Sweet Sixteen | |
François Ozon | 8 Women | 8 Femmes |
2003 (16th) | Bernd Lichtenberg | Good Bye, Lenin! | Comme une image |
Lars von Trier | Dogville | |
Sandro Petraglia
Stefano Rulli | The Best of Youth | La meglio gioventù |
Hanif Kureishi | The Mother | |
Dušan Kovačević | The Professional | Професионалац |
Steven Knight | Dirty Pretty Things | |
2004 (17th) | Agnès Jaoui Jean-Pierre Bacri | Look at Me | Comme une image |
Paul Laverty | Just a Kiss | Ae Fond Kiss… |
/ Jean-Luc Godard | Our Music | Notre musique |
Pedro Almodóvar | Bad Education | La mala educación |
Alejandro Amenábar
Mateo Gil | The Sea Inside | Mar adentro |
/ Fatih Akin | Head-On | Gegen die Wand / Duvara Karşı |
2005 (18th) | / Hany Abu-Assad Bero Beyer | Paradise Now | الجنّة الآن |
Anders Thomas Jensen | Adam's Apples | Adams Æbler |
Brothers | Brødre |
Cristi Puiu
Razvan Radulescu | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Moartea domnului Lăzărescu |
Dani Levy
Holger Franke | Go for Zucker! | Alles auf Zucker! |
Michael Haneke | Hidden | Caché |
Mark O'Halloran | Adam & Paul | |
2006 (19th) | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen |
Pedro Almodóvar | Volver | |
Paul Laverty | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | |
Corneliu Porumboiu | 12:08 East of Bucharest | A fost sau n-a fost? |
2007 (20th) | / Fatih Akin | The Edge of Heaven | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile |
Eran Kolirin | The Band's Visit | ביקור התזמורת |
Peter Morgan | The Queen | |
Cristian Mungiu | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile |
2008 (21st) | Matteo Garrone Roberto Saviano Maurizio Braucci Ugo Chiti Gianni Di Gregorio Massimo Gaudioso | Gomorrah | Gomorra |
Ari Folman | Waltz with Bashir | ואלס עם באשיר |
Suha Arraf Eran Riklis | Lemon Tree | شجرة ليمون / עץ לימון |
Paolo Sorrentino | The Divine | Il Divo |
2009 (22nd) | Michael Haneke | The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band |
Jacques Audiard
Thomas Bidegain | A Prophet | Un prophète |
Simon Beaufoy | Slumdog Millionaire | |
Gianni Di Gregorio | Mid-August Lunch | Pranzo di ferragosto |
2010 (23rd) | Robert Harris
/ Roman Polanski | The Ghost Writer | |
Jorge Guerricaechevarría
Daniel Monzón | Cell 211 | Celda 211 |
Samuel Maoz | Lebanon | |
/ Radu Mihăileanu | The Concert | Le concert |
2011 (24th) | Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne | The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo |
Anders Thomas Jensen | In a Better World | Hævnen |
Aki Kaurismäki | Le Havre | |
Lars von Trier | Melancholia | |
2012 (25th) | Tobias Lindholm Thomas Vinterberg | The Hunt | Jagten |
Cristian Mungiu | Beyond the Hills | După dealuri |
Michael Haneke | Amour | |
/ Roman Polanski
Yasmina Reza | Carnage | |
Olivier Nakache Éric Toledano | Untouchable | Intouchables |
2013 (26th) | François Ozon | In the House | Dans la maison |
Paolo Sorrentino Umberto Contarello | The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza |
Tom Stoppard | Anna Karenina | |
Giuseppe Tornatore | The Best Offer | La migliore offerta |
Felix Van Groeningen Carl Joos | The Broken Circle Breakdown | |
2014 (27th) | / Paweł Pawlikowski Rebecca Lenkiewicz | Ida | |
Ebru Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu |
Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne | Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit |
Steven Knight | Locke | |
Oleg Negin Andrey Zvyagintsev | Leviathan | Левиафан |
2015 (28th) | Yorgos Lanthimos Efthimis Filippou | The Lobster | |
Radu Jude Florin Lazarescu | Aferim! | |
Alex Garland | Ex Machina | |
Andrew Haigh | 45 Years | |
Roy Andersson | A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron |
Paolo Sorrentino | Youth | Youth - La giovinezza |
2016 (28th) | Maren Ade
| Toni Erdmann | |
Paul Laverty | I, Daniel Blake | |
Emma Donoghue | Room | |
Cristian Mungiu | Graduation | Bacalaureat |
Tomasz Wasilewski | United States of Love | Zjednoczone stany milosci |
2017 (30th) | Ruben Östlund | The Square | |
Ildikó Enyedi | On Body and Soul | Testről és lélekről |
Yorgos Lanthimos Efthimis Filippou | The Killing of a Sacred Deer | |
Oleg Negin Andrey Zvyagintsev | Loveless | Nelyubov |
François Ozon | Frantz | |