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Oscars for Best Foreign-language Movies

Year = Academy Awards ceremony, not release of the movie. No award given in 1954. Special/Honorary Awards (1948-1953, 1955-1956) are included as well.
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Year
Country
Director
Answer
1948
Italy
Vittorio de Sica
Shoe-Shine
1949
France
Maurice Cloche
Monsieur Vincent
1950
Italy
Vittorio de Sica
Bicycle Thieves
1951
France, Italy
René Clement
The Walls of Malapaga
1952
Japan
Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon
1953
France
René Clement
Forbidden Games
1955
Japan
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Gate of Hell
1956
Japan
Hiroshi Inagaki
Samurai, The Legend of Musashi
1957
Italy
Federico Fellini
La Strada
1958
Italy
Federico Fellini
Nights of Cabiria
1959
France
Jacques Tati
My Uncle
1960
France
Marcel Camus
Black Orpheus
1961
Sweden
Ingmar Bergman
The Virgin Spring
1962
Sweden
Ingmar Bergman
Through a Glass Darkly
1963
France
Serge Bourguignon
Sundays and Cybele
1964
Italy
Federico Fellini
8 1/2
1965
Italy
Vittorio de Sica
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1966
Czechoslovakia
Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
The Shop on Main Street
1967
France
Claude Lelouch
A Man and a Woman
1968
Czechoslovakia
Jiří Menzel
Closely Watched Trains
1969
Soviet Union
Sergei Bondarchuk
War and Peace
1970
Algeria
Costa-Gavras
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1971
Italy
Elio Petri
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1972
Italy
Vittorio de Sica
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1973
France
Luis Buñuel
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1974
France
François Truffaut
Day for Night
1975
Italy
Federico Fellini
Amarcord
1976
Soviet Union
Akira Kurosawa
Dersu Uzala
1977
Ivory Coast
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Black and White in Color
1978
France
Moshé Mizrahi
Madame Rosa
1979
France
Bertrand Blier
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1980
Germany (West)
Volker Schlöndorff
The Tin Drum
1981
Soviet Union
Vladimir Menshov
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1982
Hungary
István Szabó
Mephisto
1983
Spain
José Luis Garci
Volver a Empezar
1984
Sweden
Ingmar Bergman
Fanny and Alexander
1985
Switzerlan
Richard Dembo
Dangerous Moves
1986
Argentina
Luis Puenzo
The Official Story
1987
Netherlands
Fons Rademakers
The Assault
1988
Denmark
Gabriel Axel
Babette's Feast
1989
Denmark
Bille August
Pelle the Conqueror
1990
Italy
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cinema Paradiso
1991
Switzerland
Xavier Koller
Journey of Hope
1992
Italy
Gabriele Salvatores
Mediterraneo
1993
France
Régis Wargnier
Indochine
1994
Spain
Fernando Trueba
Belle Époque
1995
Russia
Nikita Mikhalkov
Burnt by the Sun
1996
Netherlands
Marleen Gorris
Antonia's Line
1997
Czech Republic
Jan Svěrák
Kolya
1998
Netherlands
Mike van Diem
Character
1999
Italy
Roberto Benigni
Life is Beautiful
2000
Spain
Pedro Almodóvar
All About My Mother
2001
Taiwan
Ang Lee
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2002
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Danis Tanović
No Man's Land
2003
Germany
Caroline Link
Nowhere in Africa
2004
Canada
Denys Arcand
The Barbarian Invasions
2005
Spain
Alejandro Amenábar
The Sea Inside
2006
South Africa
Gavin Hood
Tsotsi
2007
Germany
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Lives of Others
2008
Austria
Stefan Ruzowitzky
The Counterfeiters
2009
Japan
Yojiro Takita
Departures
2010
Argentina
Juan José Campanella
The Secret in Their Eyes
2011
Denmark
Susanne Bier
In a Better World
2012
Iran
Ashgar Farhadi
A Separation
2013
Austria
Michael Haneke
Amour
2014
Italy
Paolo Sorrentino
The Great Beauty
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Level 69
Feb 13, 2014
Discreet Charm, not Charme... and Amarcord's missing an r. I would've known those!
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Level 78
Feb 13, 2014
I'm sorry! The Mistakes are corrected now. And I guess your points will be accepted if you bother to spend another 7 minutes on that quiz ;)
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Level 54
Jul 27, 2015
can get all of the countries' movies but france and italy. :/