Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film explained

Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film
Presenter:	Swedish Film Institute
Country:	Sweden
Year:	1987 (for films released during the 1987 film season)
Year2:	2021 (for films released during the 2021 film season)
Website:	guldbaggen.se

The Guldbagge for Best Foreign Film is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen").

The category was discontinued, after four years of evaluation, as of the 58th gala, in 2023. In the last years it was called Best International Film.

Winners and nominees

Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Best Foreign Film and the director associated with the award. Before 1991 the awards did not announce nominees, only winners. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best foreign film, which are listed from 1991 and forward.

1980s

Year^[1]	Film	Original title(s)	Country	Director(s)	Language(s)
1987 (23rd)	Bagdad Cafe	Out of Rosenheim	Germany (West)	Percy Adlon	German, English
1988 (24th)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)	— (no award given)
1989 (25th)	A World Apart		United Kingdom Zimbabwe	Chris Menges	English

1990s

Year	Film	Original title(s)	Country	Director(s)	Language(s)
1990 (26th)	Time of the Gypsies	Dom za vešanje Дом за вешање	Yugoslavia	Emir Kusturica	Romani, Serbo-Croatian & Italian	^[2]
1991 (27th)	Monsieur Hire		France	Patrice Leconte	French	^[3]
The Double Life of Véronique	La double vie de Véronique	France Norway Poland	Krzysztof Kieślowski	French & Polish
The Fisher King		United States	Terry Gilliam	English
1992 (28th)	Husbands and Wives		United States	Woody Allen	English	^[4]
Raise the Red Lantern	Dà Hóng Dēnglong Gāogāo Guà 大紅燈籠高高掛	China Hong Kong Taiwan	Zhang Yimou	Mandarin
Fried Green Tomatoes		United States	Jon Avnet	English
1993 (29th)	The Piano		New Zealand Australia France	Jane Campion	English, Māori & British Sign Language	^[5]
	Trois couleurs: Bleu	France, Poland & Switzerland	Krzysztof Kieślowski	French & Polish
Orlando		United Kingdom	Sally Potter	English
1994 (30th)	Short Cuts		United States	Robert Altman	English
Forrest Gump		United States	Robert Zemeckis	English
Schindler's List		United States	Steven Spielberg	English
1995 (31st)	Before the Rain	Pred doždot Пред дождот	Macedonia United Kingdom	Milcho Manchevski	Macedonian, English & Albanian
Lamerica		Italy	Gianni Amelio	Italian & Albanian
Bullets over Broadway		United States	Woody Allen	English
1996 (32nd)	Breaking the Waves		Denmark	Lars von Trier	English
Fargo		United States	Joel Coen	English
Trainspotting		United Kingdom	Danny Boyle	English
1997 (33rd)	The Ice Storm		United States	Ang Lee	English
Brassed Off		United Kingdom United States	Mark Herman	English
The Promise	La Promesse	Belgium France	Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne	French
1998 (34th)	The Celebration	Festen	Denmark	Thomas Vinterberg	Danish
The Dreamlife of Angels	La Vie rêvée des anges	France	Erick Zonca	French
Character	Karakter	Netherlands Belgium	Mike van Diem	Dutch
1999 (35th)	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish
The Straight Story		United States United Kingdom France	David Lynch	English
Central Station	Central do Brasil	Brazil France	Walter Salles	Portuguese

2000s

Year	Film	Original title(s)	Country	Director(s)	Language(s)
2000 (36th)	Magnolia		United States	Paul Thomas Anderson	English, French & German
Boys Don't Cry		United States	Kimberly Peirce	English
American Beauty		United States	Sam Mendes	English
2001 (37th)	Amélie	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	France Germany	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	French
The Taste of Others	Le goût des autres	France	Agnès Jaoui	French
Italian for Beginners	Italiensk for begyndere	Denmark Sweden	Lone Scherfig	Danish, Italian & English
2002 (38th)	The Man Without a Past	Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Finland	Aki Kaurismäki	Finnish
Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish
The Royal Tenenbaums		United States	Wes Anderson	English
2003 (39th)	The Hours		United Kingdom United States	Stephen Daldry	English
Good Bye, Lenin!		Germany	Wolfgang Becker	German
Dogville		Denmark	Lars von Trier	Danish
2004 (40th)	The Return	Vozvrashcheniye Возвращение	Russia	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russian
Lost in Translation		United States	Sofia Coppola	English & Japanese
21 Grams		United States	Alejandro González Iñárritu	English
2005 (41st)	The Child	L'Enfant	Belgium	Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne	French
Nobody Knows	Dare mo Shiranai 誰も知らない	Japan	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japanese
Caché		France	Michael Haneke	French
2006 (42nd)	The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen	Germany	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	German
To Return	Volver	Spain	Pedro Almodóvar	Spanish
Babel		United States Mexico France	Alejandro González Iñárritu	English, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Japanese Sign Language & Berber
2007 (43rd)	This Is England		United Kingdom	Shane Meadows	English
The Edge of Heaven	German Auf der anderen Seite Turkish: Yaşamın Kıyısında	Germany Turkey	Fatih Akın	German, Turkish & English
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile	Romania	Cristian Mungiu	Romanian
2008 (44th)	Lust, Caution	Se, jie 色，戒	United States China Taiwan	Ang Lee	Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese, Szechwanese, Japanese, Hindi & English	^[6] ^[7]
There Will Be Blood		United States	Paul Thomas Anderson	English
No Country for Old Men		United States	Joel & Ethan Coen	English
2009 (45th)	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte	Austria Germany	Michael Haneke	German	^[8]
Waltz with Bashir	Vals im Bashir ואלס עם באשיר	Austria Germany France	Ari Folman	Hebrew
Still Walking	Aruitemo aruitemo 歩いても 歩いても	Japan	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japanese

2010s

Year	Film	Original title(s)	Country	Director(s)	Language(s)
2010 (46th)	Lourdes		Austria France Germany	Jessica Hausner	French	^[9]
The Social Network		United States	David Fincher	English
Fish Tank		United Kingdom	Andrea Arnold	English
2011 (47th)	A Separation	Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín جدایی نادر از سیمین	Iran	Asghar Farhadi	Persian
Dogtooth	Kynodontas Κυνόδοντας	Greece	Yorgos Lanthimos	Greek
Winter's Bone		United States	Debra Granik	English
2012 (48th)	Amour		France Germany Austria	Michael Haneke	French	^[10] ^[11]
Laurence Anyways		Canada	Xavier Dolan	French
Moonrise Kingdom		United States	Wes Anderson	English
2013 (49th)	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2	France Belgium Spain	Abdellatif Kechiche	French	^[12] ^[13]
12 Years a Slave		United States United Kingdom	Steve McQueen	English
The Turin Horse	A torinói ló	Hungary	Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky	Hungarian
2014 (50th)	Two Days, One Night	Deux jours, une nuit	Belgium France Italy	Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne	French & Arabic	^[14] ^[15]
Ida		Poland Denmark France United Kingdom	Paweł Pawlikowski	Polish, French & Latin
Boyhood		United States	Richard Linklater	English
2015 (51st)	Leviathan	Leviafan Левиафан	Russia	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russian	^[16] ^[17]
Carol		United Kingdom United States	Todd Haynes	English
Timbuktu		France Mauritania	Abderrahmane Sissako	Arabic, French, Tamasheq & Bambara
2016 (52nd)	Son of Saul	Saul fia	Hungary	László Nemes	Hungarian	^[18] ^[19]
Toni Erdmann		Germany Austria	Maren Ade	German, Romanian & English
Mustang		France Turkey Germany	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	Turkish
2017 (53rd)	The Salesman	Forušande فروشنده	Iran France	Asghar Farhadi	Persian	^[20] ^[21]
BPM (Beats per Minute)	120 battements par minute	France	Robin Campillo	French
Moonlight		United States	Barry Jenkins	English
2018 (54th)	Shoplifters	Manbiki Kazoku 万引き家族	Japan	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japanese	^[22]
Cold War	Zimna wojna	Poland France United Kingdom	Paweł Pawlikowski	Polish
BlacKkKlansman		United States	Spike Lee	English
2019 (55th)	Parasite	Gisaengchung 기생충	South Korea	Bong Joon-ho	Korean	^[23]
Capernaum	Kafarnāḥūm کفرناحوم	Lebanon	Nadine Labaki	Lebanese
Marriage Story		United States	Noah Baumbach	English

2020s

Year	Film	Original title(s)	Country	Director(s)	Language(s)
2020 (56th)	For Sama	‘min ajl sama‘ من أجل سما	Syria United States United Kingdom	Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts	Arabic & English	^[24] ^[25]
Babyteeth		Australia	Shannon Murphy	English
Mank		United States	David Fincher	English
2021 (57th)	Flee	‘Flugt‘	Denmark	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	English & Danish	^[26]
The Father		France UK	Florian Zeller	English
Nomadland		United States	Chloé Zhao	English

See also

• Academy Award for Best Picture
• BAFTA Award for Best Film
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
• Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Guldbagge Awards. Swedish Film Database. January 7, 2016.
2. Web site: Guldbagge Awards 1991 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute. FilmAffinity. January 13, 2016.
3. Web site: Guldbagge Awards 1992 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute. FilmAffinity. January 13, 2016.
4. Web site: Guldbagge Awards 1993 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute. FilmAffinity. January 13, 2016.
5. Web site: Guldbagge Awards 1994 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute. FilmAffinity. January 13, 2016.
6. News: Guldbaggenomineringar 2008. Dagens Nyheter. sv. January 10, 2010. February 8, 2017.
7. Web site: Här är galans alla vinnare . Linda. Widman. Aftonbladet. January 12, 2009. February 6, 2018. sv.
8. Web site: De kan vinna baggar. Jens. Peterson. Emilia. Holmqvist. Sandra. Wejbro. Aftonbladet. sv. January 8, 2010. February 8, 2017.
9. Web site: De krigar om Guldbaggarna. Aftonbladet. January 24, 2011. sv. February 9, 2017.
10. Web site: Nomineringarna till Guldbaggen. Sydsvenskan.se. sv. January 3, 2013.
11. Web site: Guldbaggen 2013 : Vinnare. Erik. Fellman. sv. Filmkritikerna. January 21, 2013. January 12, 2016.
12. Web site: Nominerade . Svenska Filminstitutet . January 3, 2014 . 12 January 2016 . guldbaggen.se . sv.
13. Web site: Guldbaggen 2014: Vinnarna. . sv. January 21, 2014. January 12, 2016.
14. Web site: Nominerade . Svenska Filminstitutet . January 8, 2015 . 8 January 2015 . guldbaggen.se . sv.
15. Web site: Alla vinnare Guldbaggen 2015. sv. SVT. January 26, 2015. January 12, 2016.
16. Nominations for the 2015 Guldbagge Awards. Swedish Film Institute. January 4, 2016. January 5, 2016. March 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304141543/http://www.filminstitutet.se/en/about-us/press-service/press-archive/2016/nominations-for-the-2015-guldbagge-awards/. dead.
17. News: Glädjevrålet på Guldbaggegalan. Isabel. Norman. Joni. Nykänen. Aftonbladet. sv. January 18, 2016. January 19, 2016.
18. Web site: Nominerade. Carl Adam. Anderberg. January 4, 2017. sv. MovieZine.
19. Web site: De blev årets vinnare. Sebastian. Folcker. SVT. January 23, 2017. January 23, 2017. sv.
20. News: Flest nomineringar till Borg – Östlund: "Det känns okej". Rebecca. Haimi. January 4, 2018. SVT. sv. January 5, 2018.
21. Web site: Glädjetårar efter Sameblods succé. Leo. Pettersson. Aftonbladet. January 22, 2018. January 22, 2018. sv.
22. Web site: De är nominerade till Guldbaggen 2019. January 3, 2019. sv. January 10, 2019. Aftonbladet.
23. Web site: Alla vinnare på Guldbaggegalan 2020. 20 January 2020 .
24. Web site: 2020 års Guldbaggenomineringar!. Guldbaggen.se. 25 January 2021. 17 December 2020.
25. Web site: Charter och Spring Uje spring tog hem de tunga priserna. Amina. Adelai. Lydia. Farran-Lee. 25 January 2021. SVT. 25 January 2021. sv.
26. Web site: Det är dags att summera det svenska filmåret. Jakob. Runevad Kjellmer. 25 January 2021. SVT. 10 July 2024. sv.