BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
British film industry award
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The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is a film award given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. The award was first given at the 36th British Academy Film Awards, recognising the films of 1982, and until 1990 was known as the Best Foreign Language Film. Prior to this, films recorded in a language other than English were often recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best Film, known between 1949 and 1969 as Best Film from any Source.
Awarded forExcellence in world cinema
LocationLondon
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts
| BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in world cinema |
| Location | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First award | 1983 |
| Currently held by | Sentimental Value (2025) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Winners and nominees
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1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple awards and nominations
9 individuals have won the award multiple times.
| Awards | Nominations | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 11 |  Pedro Almodóvar & Agustín Almodóvar |
| 6 |  Pascal Caucheteux | |
| 5 | Jacques Audiard | |
| 2 | 5 |  Margaret Ménégoz |
| 4 |  Walter Salles | |
| 3 |  Alfonso Cuarón | |
| 3 |  Zhang Yimou | |
| 2 |  Chiu Fu-sheng | |
| 1 | 3 | Philippe Carcassonne |
| 3 |  Arthur Cohn | |
| 3 |  Michael Haneke | |
| 3 |  Bill Kong | |
| 3 | Patrice Leconte | |
| 3 | Ang Lee | |
| 3 |  Thomas Vinterberg | |
| 2 |   Eric Abraham | |
| 2 | Hsu Li-kong | |
| 2 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | |
| 2 | Sisse Graum Jørgensen | |
| 2 |  Park Chan-wook | |
| 2 |  Paweł Pawlikowski & Ewa Puszczyńska | |
| 2 |  Francesco Rosi | |
| 2 | Paolo Sorrentino | |
| 2 | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 2 | Giuseppe Tornator | |
| 2 |  Joachim Trier | |
| 0 | 3 | Stefan Arndt |
| 3 | Claude Berri | |
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
| 3 | Wim Wenders | |
| 2 |  Denys Arcand | |
| 2 | Veit Heiduschka | |
| 2 |  Asghar Farhadi | |
| 2 | Matteo Garrone | |
| 2 | Louis Malle | |
| 2 |  Nikita Mikhalkov | |
| 2 |  Mira Nair | |
| 2 | Andrey Zvyagintsev &  Alexander Rodnyansky, | |
| 2 | Claudie Ossard | |
| 2 | Alain Sarde | |
| 2 | Claude Sautet | |
| 2 | Céline Sciamma & Bénédicte Couvreur | |
| 2 | Michel Seydoux | |
| 2 |  Paul Verhoeven | |
| 2 | Franco Zeffirelli |
Awards by nation
| Country | Number of winning films | Number of nominated films |
|---|---|---|
| France | 7 | 53 |
| Spain | 5 | 17 |
| Italy | 4 | 17 |
| Germany[nb 1] | 4 | 11 |
| Mexico | 3 | 3 |
| Sweden | 2 | 4 |
| Denmark | 2 | 4 |
| Japan | 2 | 4 |
| Argentina | 2 | 3 |
| South Korea | 2 | 3 |
| United Kingdom[nb 2] | 2 | 2 |
| Brazil | 1 | 5 |
| Poland | 1 | 5 |
| China | 1 | 3 |
| Norway | 1 | 3 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 3 |
| Hungary | 1 | 2 |
| India[nb 3] | 0 | 6 |
| United States[nb 4] | 0 | 7 |
| Russia | 0 | 4 |
| Canada[nb 5] | 0 | 3 |
| Belgium | 0 | 2 |
| Hong Kong[nb 6] | 0 | 2 |
| Iran | 0 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 2 |
| Cambodia | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 1 |
| Israel | 0 | 1 |
| Jordan | 0 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 1 |
| Mauritania | 0 | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 |
| South Africa[nb 7] | 0 | 1 |
| Syria | 0 | 1 |
| Tunisia | 0 | 1 |
| Turkey | 0 | 1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 1 |
| Austria | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland[nb 8] | 0 | 1 |
| Ukraine | 0 | 1 |
Notes
- Includes films of West Germany.
- Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily Hindi dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue with the exception of Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985).
- Films which contain primarily French dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily Cantonese dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.
- Films which contain primarily non-English dialogue.