David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film

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The David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior film straniero) is a category in the David di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy’s answer to the Oscars",[1] presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) since the 1959 edition. The category is specifically for films not competing for European honours. No awards were granted during the 1960 and 1961 editions, from 1965 to 1971, and in 1981.[2] Starting from the 2019 edition, the award also includes films that previously would have belonged to the category of Best Film in the European Union.

Winners and nominees[]

Winners are indicated in bold.

1950s-1960s[]

1958 The Prince and the Showgirl, directed by Laurence Olivier
1959 Gigi, directed by Vincente Minnelli
1960 No Award
1961 Ben Hur, directed by William Wyler
1962 Judgment at Nuremberg, directed by Stanley Kramer
1963 The Longest Day, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
1964 Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean
1965 My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor
1966 The Agony and the Ecstasy, directed by Carol Reed
1967 Doctor Zhivago, directed by David Lean
1968 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, directed by Stanley Kramer
1969 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick

1970s[]

1970 The Lion in Winter, directed by Anthony Harvey
1971 Ryan's Daughter, directed by David Lean
1972 The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin
1973 The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola
1974 Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Norman Jewison
1975 The Towering Inferno, directed by Irwin Allen
1976 Nashville, directed by Robert Altman
1977 Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger
1978 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg
1979 The Wishing Tree (ნატვრის ხე / Natvris khe), directed by Tengiz Abuladze

1980s[]

1980

1981

  • No Award

1982

1983

1984

  • Fanny and Alexander, directed by Ingmar Bergman

1985

1986

1987

1988

  • Au revoir les enfants, directed by Louis Malle
    • The Dead, directed by John Huston
    • Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick

1989

  • Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson
    • Mississippi Burning, directed by Alan Parker
    • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios), directed by Pedro Almodóvar

1990s[]

1990

1991

1992

  • Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà / 大紅燈籠高高掛), directed by Zhang Yimou

1993

1994

1995

  • Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino
    • Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis
    • Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем / Utomlyonnye solntsem), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000s[]

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010s[]

2010

2011

  • Hereafter, directed by Clint Eastwood
    • Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky
    • Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan
    • Incendies, directed by Denis Villeneuve
    • The Social Network, directed by David Fincher

2012

  • A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین / Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín), directed by Asghar Farhadi

2013

  • Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino
    • Argo, directed by Ben Affleck
    • Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell
    • Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg
    • Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee

2014

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson
    • 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen
    • American Hustle, directed by David O. Russell
    • Blue Jasmine, directed by Woody Allen
    • The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese

2015

2016

  • Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg

2017

2018

  • Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan
    • La La Land, directed by Damien Chazelle
    • The Insult (قضية رقم ٢٣, / Qadiyya raqm 23), directed by Ziad Doueiri
    • Loveless (Нелюбовь / Nelyubov), directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
    • Manchester by the Sea, directed by Kenneth Lonergan

2019

2020s[]

2020

  • Parasite (기생충 / Gisaengchung), directed by Bong Joon-ho

2021

  • 1917, directed by Sam Mendes

Awards by nation[]

Country Number of
winning films		 Number of
nominated films
United States United States of America 33 75
United Kingdom United Kingdom 10 16
France France 7 8
Canada Canada 1 3
Spain Spain 1 2
Poland Poland 1 1
South Korea South Korea 1 1
China China 1 0
Hungary Hungary 1 0
Iran Iran 1 0
Republic of Ireland Ireland 1 0
Mexico Mexico 1 0
Soviet Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[nb 1] 1 0
Sweden Sweden 1 0
Russia Russia 0 3
Germany Germany[nb 2] 0 2
Hong Kong Hong Kong 0 2
Argentina Argentina 0 1
Australia Australia 0 1
Brazil Brazil 0 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 1
Japan Japan 0 1
Lebanon Lebanon 0 1
South Africa South Africa 0 1
Turkey Turkey 0 1

Notes[]

  1. ^ The Soviet Union received its nomination for a Georgian-language film and was formally dissolved on December 26, 1991.
  2. ^ Includes films of West Germany.

References[]

  1. ^ Ariston Anderson, "'Spotlight,' 'Inside Out' Among Nominees for Italian Oscars," The Hollywood Reporter, 22 March 2016, URL accessed 24 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Cronologia dei premi David di Donatello" [Chronology of David di Donatello awards]. daviddidonatello.it (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2019.

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