IFTA Award for Best International Film

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In the following table, the years are listed as the year of film. The first three ceremonies were held at the end of the year, but since the 4th Irish Film & Television Awards the ceremonies have generally been held the following year. The award wasn't presented between the 16th and the 18th ceremonies, returning at the 19th ceremony in 2023.

2000s

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Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2004 (2nd)	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ‡	Peter Jackson	[1]
	Fahrenheit 9/11	Michael Moore
	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood
	The Passion of the Christ	Mel Gibson
2005 (3rd)	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ‡	Tim Burton	[2]
	Batman Begins	Christopher Nolan
	Crash	Paul Haggis
	Sin City	Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
2006 (4th)	Little Miss Sunshine ‡	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris	[3]
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Casino Royale	Martin Campbell
	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
	United 93	Paul Greengrass
2007 (5th)	The Lives of Others ‡	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	[4]
	Atonement	Joe Wright
	The Bourne Ultimatum	Paul Greengrass
	La Vie en Rose	Olivier Dahan
2008 (6th)	In Bruges ‡	Martin McDonagh	[5]
	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Mark Herman
	Man on Wire	James Marsh
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
2009 (7th)	The Hurt Locker ‡	Kathryn Bigelow	[6]
	Avatar	James Cameron
	Let the Right One In	Tomas Alfredson
	Up	Pete Docter

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2010s

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Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2010 (8th)	The Social Network ‡	David Fincher	[7]
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	A Prophet	Jacques Audiard
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
2011 (9th)	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ‡	Tomas Alfredson	[8]
	Bridesmaids	Paul Feig
	Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn
	Senna	Asif Kapadia
2012 (10th)	Argo ‡	Ben Affleck	[9]
	Amour	Michael Haneke
	Life of Pi	Ang Lee
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
2013 (11th)	Philomena ‡	Stephen Frears	[10]
	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese
2014 (12th)	Boyhood ‡	Richard Linklater	[11]
	'71	Yann Demange
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
	The Theory of Everything	James Marsh
2015 (13th)	Spotlight ‡	Tom McCarthy	[12]
	Ex Machina	Alex Garland
	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller
	The Revenant	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2016 (14th)	Moonlight ‡	Barry Jenkins	[13]
	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
2017 (15th)	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ‡	Martin McDonagh	[14]
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo Del Toro

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2020s

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Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2022/23 (19th)	All Quiet on the Western Front ‡	Edward Berger	[15]
	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann
	Tár	Todd Field
	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg
	Top Gun: Maverick	Joseph Kosinski
2023 (20th)	Oppenheimer ‡	Christopher Nolan	[16]
	All of Us Strangers	Andrew Haigh
	The Holdovers	Alexander Payne
	Past Lives	Celine Song
	Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos
	Saltburn	Emerald Fennell
2024 (21st)	Conclave ‡	Edward Berger	[17]
	Anora	Sean Baker
	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet
	Dune: Part Two	Denis Villeneuve
	The Outrun	Nora Fingscheidt
	The Substance	Coralie Fargeat
2025 (22nd)	Hamnet ‡	Chloé Zhao	[18]
	Bugonia	Yorgos Lanthimos
	One Battle After Another	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Palestine 36	Annemarie Jacir
	Sentimental Value	Joachim Trier
	Sinners	Ryan Coogler

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