| César Award for Best Foreign Film | |
| Presenter: | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| Country: | Canada / France |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Holder: | The Nature of Love (2024) |
The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, sponsored by France and Canada, presents an annual César Award for Best Foreign Film (fr|César du meilleur film étranger). This is the list of winners and nominees of the award since the 1970s.
| Year | Winner and nominees | Original title | Country | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 (1st) | Scent of a Woman | Profumo di donna |  | Dino Risi |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes | Werner Herzog | ||
| The Magic Flute | Trollflöjten |  | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Nashville |  | Robert Altman | ||
| 1977 (2nd) | We All Loved Each Other So Much | C'eravamo tanto amati | | Ettore Scola |
| Barry Lyndon | / | Stanley Kubrick | ||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | | Miloš Forman | ||
| Raise Ravens | Cría cuervos |  | Carlos Saura | |
| 1978 (3rd) | A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | | Ettore Scola |
| The American Friend | Der amerikanische Freund | Wim Wenders | ||
| Annie Hall | | Woody Allen | ||
| Bread and Chocolate | Pane e cioccolata | | Franco Brusati | |
| 1979 (4th) | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | L'albero degli zoccoli | | Ermanno Olmi |
| Autumn Sonata | Höstsonaten | | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Julia | | Fred Zinnemann | ||
| A Wedding | | Robert Altman | ||
| Country | Number of winning films | Number of nominated films | |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States of America | 16 | 86 | |
 United Kingdom | 7 | 21 | |
| Italy | 6 | 13 | |
| Spain | 3 | 12 | |
 Belgium | 2 | 18 | |
 Germany | 2 | 11 | |
 Canada | 2 | 6 | |
 Denmark | 2 | 4 | |
 Japan | 2 | 5 | |
| Sweden | 1 | 6 | |
 Hong Kong | 1 | 2 | |
| Iran | 1 | 2 | |
 Australia | 1 | 1 | |
 Israel | 1 | 1 | |
| Russia | 1 | 2 | |
| South Korea | 1 | 2 | |
 New Zealand | 1 | 1 | |
 Poland | 0 | 5 | |
 Brazil | 0 | 3 | |
 Argentina | 0 | 2 | |
 Romania | 0 | 2 | |
 Turkey | 0 | 2 | |
 Norway | 0 | 2 | |
| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | 0 | 2 | |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | 2 | |
 China | 0 | 1 | |
 France | 0 | 1 | |
 Hungary | 0 | 1 | |
 India | 0 | 1 | |
 Ireland | 0 | 1 | |
 Lebanon | 0 | 1 | |
 South Africa | 0 | 1 | |
| Taiwan | 0 | 1 | |
 Finland | 0 | 2 |
6 directors have won the award multiple times.
| Wins | Director |
|---|---|
| 3 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2 | Woody Allen |
| Pedro Almodóvar | |
| Ken Loach | |
| David Lynch | |
| Ettore Scola | |
Adapted from the article César Award for Best Foreign Film, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
