Foreign Language Film in Best Picture Oscar Nomination
In the Oscars throughout the year, it can be said that there is still little presence of foreign-language films that are nominated for Best Picture every year. If you are nominated for Best Picture, it is almost certain to win the Best International Film, but it is still difficult to win the Best Picture. One film in Oscar history, Parasite (2019), became the first foreign language film to win Best Picture.
The following is a list of films that won the Oscar category: Best International Feature Film, and in the same year alongside other great films in the Best Picture Nomination. If you look at it based on the films that were nominated that year in which there is one foreign language film.
Which foreign language film do you think deserves the most to win the Best Picture?
Please discuss here.
The following is a list of films that won the Oscar category: Best International Feature Film, and in the same year alongside other great films in the Best Picture Nomination. If you look at it based on the films that were nominated that year in which there is one foreign language film.
Which foreign language film do you think deserves the most to win the Best Picture?
Please discuss here.
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- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsChristian FriedelSandra HüllerJohann KarthausAuschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.Oscar [Winner] (2024)
Best International Feature Film
United Kingdom
Best Motion Picture of the Year.
Joint Nomination: Oppenheimer, American Fiction, Anatomie d'une chute, Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things, The Holdovers. - DirectorEdward BergerStarsFelix KammererAlbrecht SchuchAaron HilmerA young German soldier's eagerness to serve his country quickly fades when he witnesses the horrors of combat on the Western Front during World War I.Oscar [Winner] (2023)
Best International Feature Film
Germany
Best Motion Picture of the Year.
Joint Nomination: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Avatar: The Way of Water, Elvis, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans, Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness, Tár, Women Talking. - DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsHidetoshi NishijimaTôko MiuraReika KirishimaA renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.Oscar [Winner] (2022)
Best International Feature Film
Japan
Best Motion Picture of the Year.
Joint Nomination: CODA, Belfast, Don't Look Up, Dune: Part One, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story. - DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoLee Sun-kyunCho Yeo-jeongGreed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.Oscar [Winner] (2020)
Best International Feature Film
South Korea
Best Motion Picture of the Year.
Joint Nomination: 1917, Ford v Ferrari, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Little Women, Marriage Story, Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, The Irishman. - DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a upper-middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.Oscar [Winner] (2019)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Mexico
Best Motion Picture of the Year.
Joint Nomination: Green Book, A Star Is Born,
BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Vice. - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle HuppertGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.Oscar [Winner] (2013)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Austria
Best Motion Picture of the Year.
Joint Nomination: Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty. - DirectorAng LeeStarsChow Yun-FatMichelle YeohZiyi ZhangA young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.Oscar [Winner] (2001)
Best Foreign Language Film
Taiwan.
Best Picture.
Joint Nomination: Gladiator, Chocolat, Erin Brockovich, Traffic. - DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.Oscar [Winner] (1999)
Best Foreign Language Film
Italy.
Best Picture.
Joint Nomination: Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, La vita è bella, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line. - DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandIrene PapasJean-Louis TrintignantThe public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.Oscar [Winner] (1970)
Best Foreign Language Film
Algeria
Best Picture.
Joint Nomination: Midnight Cowboy, Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello, Dolly!.
