List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film

National origin of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film (as of 2019)

  Won the award

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  United States (ineligible for competition)

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.

When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor films released in 1927–28, there was no separate category for foreign language films. Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These awards, however, were not handed out on a regular basis (no award was given in 1953), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since then.

Unlike other Academy Awards, the Best International Feature Film Award is not presented to a specific individual. It is accepted by the winning film's director, but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. As of 2014, the Academy changed its rules so that the name of the director is etched onto the Oscar statuette, in addition to the film's country. The director also gets to keep the statuette.

Over the years, the Best International Feature Film and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 74 awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty-seven have gone to European films,^[A] nine to Asian films,^[B] five to films from the Americas and three to African films. The late Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini directed four winning motion pictures during his lifetime, more than any other director. If Special Awards are taken into account, then Fellini's record is tied by his countryman Vittorio De Sica. The Soviet epic War and Peace (1966–67), for its part, is the longest motion picture to have won the Best Foreign Language Film Award. Filmed from 1962 to 1966, it ran for more than seven hours.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Films in bold and dark blue background have received an Academy Award; winning films from 1947 to 1955 won a Special/Honorary Award as denoted in the key, while all other winning films won a regular Academy Award of Merit. Films that are neither highlighted nor in bold are the nominees. When sorted chronologically, the table always lists the winning film first and then the four other nominees.

The Submitting country column indicates the country that officially submitted the film to the Academy, and is not necessarily indicative of the film's main country of production. The original titles of the films are also mentioned, as well as the names of the directors and the languages used in the dialogue track, even though none of these elements is officially included in the nomination.

When several languages are used in a film, the predominant one is always listed first; the names of the other languages are written in smaller typesize and placed between brackets. When a film's original title is in a language that uses a non-Latin script, it is first transliterated into the Latin alphabet and then written in its original script.

Films from the former Yugoslavia are written in both Latin and Cyrillic due to the fact that the previously official Serbo-Croatian language used both alphabets. Chinese film titles are romanized according to the pinyin system, and are written using the characters employed in their submitting country, i.e. traditional Chinese ones for films submitted by Hong Kong and Taiwan, and simplified Chinese ones for films submitted by the People's Republic of China.

Table key

‡	Special/Honorary Award (1947–1955)

1940s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
1947 (20th)	Shoe-Shine ‡ [C]	Sciuscià	Vittorio De Sica	Italy	Italian, English
1948 (21st)	Monsieur Vincent ‡ [D]		Maurice Cloche	France	French
1949 (22nd)	Bicycle Thieves ‡ [E]	Ladri di biciclette	Vittorio De Sica	Italy	Italian

1950s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
1950 (23rd)	The Walls of Malapaga ‡ [F]	French Au-delà des grilles Italian Le mura di Malapaga	René Clément	{co-production} France Italy	French, Italian
1951 (24th)	Rashomon ‡ [G]	羅生門	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	Japanese
1952 (25th)	Forbidden Games‡ [H]	Jeux interdits	René Clément	France	French
1954 (27th)	Gate of Hell ‡ [I]	地獄門	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Japan	Japanese
1955 (28th)	Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ‡ [J]	宮本武蔵	Hiroshi Inagaki
1956 (29th)	La Strada [K]		Federico Fellini	Italy	Italian
	The Captain of Köpenick [K]	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	Helmut Käutner	West Germany	German
	Gervaise [K]		René Clément	France	French
	Harp of Burma [K]	ビルマの竪琴	Kon Ichikawa	Japan	Japanese
	Qivitoq [K]		Erik Balling	Denmark	Danish
1957 (30th)	Nights of Cabiria	Le notti di Cabiria	Federico Fellini	Italy	Italian
	The Devil Strikes at Night	Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam	Robert Siodmak	West Germany	German
	Gates of Paris	Porte des Lilas	René Clair	France	French
	Mother India	मदर इंडिया	Mehboob Khan	India	Hindi
	Nine Lives	Ni liv	Arne Skouen	Norway	Norwegian
1958 (31st)	Mon Oncle		Jacques Tati	France	French
	Arms and the Man	Helden	Franz Peter Wirth	West Germany	German
	La Venganza		Juan Antonio Bardem	Spain	Spanish
	The Road a Year Long	La strada lunga un anno / Cesta duga godinu dana / Цеста дуга годину дана	Giuseppe De Santis	Yugoslavia	Italian
	The Usual Unidentified Thieves	I soliti ignoti	Mario Monicelli	Italy
1959 (32nd)	Black Orpheus	Orfeu Negro	Marcel Camus	France	Brazilian Portuguese
	The Bridge	Die Brücke	Bernhard Wicki	West Germany	German
	The Great War	La grande guerra	Mario Monicelli	Italy	Italian
	Paw		Astrid Henning-Jensen	Denmark	Danish
	The Village on the River	Dorp aan de rivier	Fons Rademakers	Netherlands	Dutch

1960s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
1960 (33rd)	The Virgin Spring	Jungfrukällan	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Swedish
	Kapo		Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy	Italian
	La Vérité		Henri-Georges Clouzot	France	French
	Macario		Roberto Gavaldón	Mexico	Spanish
	The Ninth Circle	Deveti krug / Девети круг	France Štiglic	Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croatian
1961 (34th)	Through a Glass Darkly	Såsom i en spegel	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Swedish
	Harry and the Butler	Harry og kammertjeneren	Bent Christensen	Denmark	Danish
	Immortal Love	永遠の人	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japan	Japanese
	The Important Man	Animas Trujano / El hombre importante	Ismael Rodríguez	Mexico	Spanish
	Plácido		Luis García Berlanga	Spain
1962 (35th)	Sundays and Cybele	Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray	Serge Bourguignon	France	French
	Electra	Ηλέκτρα	Michael Cacoyannis	Greece	Greek
	The Four Days of Naples	Le quattro giornate di Napoli	Nanni Loy	Italy	Italian
	Keeper of Promises (The Given Word)	O Pagador de Promessas	Anselmo Duarte	Brazil	Brazilian Portuguese
	Tlayucan		Luis Alcoriza	Mexico	Spanish
1963 (36th)	8½		Federico Fellini	Italy	Italian
	Knife in the Water	Nóż w wodzie	Roman Polanski	Poland	Polish
	Los Tarantos		Francisco Rovira Beleta	Spain	Spanish
	The Red Lanterns	Τα κόκκινα φανάρια	Vasilis Georgiadis	Greece	Greek
	Twin Sisters of Kyoto	古都	Noboru Nakamura	Japan	Japanese
1964 (37th)	Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow	Ieri, oggi, domani	Vittorio De Sica	Italy	Italian
	Raven's End	Kvarteret Korpen	Bo Widerberg	Sweden	Swedish
	Sallah Shabati	סאלח שבתי	Ephraim Kishon	Israel	Hebrew
	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg	Jacques Demy	France	French
	Woman in the Dunes	砂の女	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Japan	Japanese
1965 (38th)	The Shop on Main Street	Obchod na korze	Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos	Czechoslovakia	Slovak
	Blood on the Land	Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο	Vasilis Georgiadis	Greece	Greek
	Dear John	Käre John	Lars-Magnus Lindgren	Sweden	Swedish
	Kwaidan	怪談	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan	Japanese
	Marriage Italian Style	Matrimonio all'italiana	Vittorio De Sica	Italy	Italian
1966 (39th)	A Man and a Woman	Un homme et une femme	Claude Lelouch	France	French
	The Battle of Algiers	La battaglia di Algeri	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy	Arabic, French
	Loves of a Blonde	Lásky jedné plavovlásky	Miloš Forman	Czechoslovakia	Czech
	Pharaoh	Faraon	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Poland	Polish
	Three	Tri / Три	Aleksandar Petrović	Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croatian
1967 (40th)	Closely Watched Trains	Ostře sledované vlaky	Jiří Menzel	Czechoslovakia	Czech, German
	Bewitched Love	El amor brujo	Francisco Rovira Beleta	Spain	Spanish
	I Even Met Happy Gypsies	Skupljači perja / Скупљачи перја	Aleksandar Petrović	Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croatian
	Live for Life	Vivre pour vivre	Claude Lelouch	France	French
	Portrait of Chieko	智恵子抄	Noboru Nakamura	Japan	Japanese
1968 (41st)	War and Peace	Война и мир	Sergei Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	Russian, French, German
	The Boys of Paul Street	A Pál-utcai fiúk	Zoltán Fábri	Hungary	Hungarian
	The Firemen's Ball	Hoří, má panenko	Miloš Forman	Czechoslovakia	Czech
	The Girl with the Pistol	La ragazza con la pistola	Mario Monicelli	Italy	Italian
	Stolen Kisses	Baisers volés	François Truffaut	France	French
1969 (42nd)	Z		Costa-Gavras	Algeria	French, Russian, English
	Ådalen 31		Bo Widerberg	Sweden	Swedish
	Battle of Neretva	Bitka na Neretvi / Битка на Неретви	Veljko Bulajić	Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croatian Italian German English
	The Brothers Karamazov	Братья Карамазовы	Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev, Mikhail Ulyanov	Soviet Union	Russian
	My Night with Maud [L]	Ma nuit chez Maud	Éric Rohmer	France	French

1970s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
1970 (43rd)	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto	Elio Petri	Italy	Italian
	First Love	Erste Liebe	Maximilian Schell	Switzerland	German
	Hoa-Binh		Raoul Coutard	France	French
	Peace in the Fields	Paix sur les champs	Jacques Boigelot	Belgium
	Tristana		Luis Buñuel	Spain	Spanish
1971 (44th)	The Garden of the Finzi Continis	Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini	Vittorio De Sica	Italy	Italian
	Dodes'ka-den	どですかでん	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	Japanese
	The Emigrants	Utvandrarna	Jan Troell	Sweden	Swedish
	The Policeman	השוטר אזולאי	Ephraim Kishon	Israel	Hebrew
	Tchaikovsky	Чайковский	Igor Talankin	Soviet Union	Russian
1972 (45th)	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel	France	French
	The Dawns Here Are Quiet	А зори здесь тихие	Stanislav Rostotsky	Soviet Union	Russian
	I Love You Rosa	אני אוהב אותך רוזה	Moshé Mizrahi	Israel	Hebrew
	My Dearest Señorita	Mi querida señorita	Jaime de Armiñán	Spain	Spanish
	The New Land	Nybyggarna	Jan Troell	Sweden	Swedish
1973 (46th)	Day for Night	La Nuit américaine	François Truffaut	France	French
	The House on Chelouche Street	הבית ברחוב שלוש	Moshé Mizrahi	Israel	Hebrew
	L'Invitation		Claude Goretta	Switzerland	French
	The Pedestrian	Der Fußgänger	Maximilian Schell	West Germany	German
	Turkish Delight	Turks Fruit	Paul Verhoeven	Netherlands	Dutch
1974 (47th)	Amarcord		Federico Fellini	Italy	Italian
	Cats' Play	Macskajáték	Károly Makk	Hungary	Hungarian
	The Deluge	Potop	Jerzy Hoffman	Poland	Polish
	Lacombe, Lucien	Lacombe Lucien	Louis Malle	France	French
	The Truce	La tregua	Sergio Renán	Argentina	Spanish
1975 (48th)	Dersu Uzala	Дерсу Узала	Akira Kurosawa	Soviet Union	Russian
	Letters from Marusia	Actas de Marusia	Miguel Littín	Mexico	Spanish
	The Promised Land	Ziemia obiecana	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Polish
	Sandakan No. 8	サンダカン八番娼館 望郷	Kei Kumai	Japan	Japanese
	Scent of a Woman	Profumo di donna	Dino Risi	Italy	Italian
1976 (49th)	Black and White in Color	La Victoire en chantant [M]	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Ivory Coast	French
	Cousin Cousine		Jean-Charles Tacchella	France	French
	Jacob the Liar	Jakob der Lügner	Frank Beyer	East Germany	German
	Nights and Days	Noce i dnie	Jerzy Antczak	Poland	Polish
	Seven Beauties	Pasqualino Settebellezze	Lina Wertmüller	Italy	Italian
1977 (50th)	Madame Rosa	La Vie devant soi	Moshé Mizrahi	France	French
	Iphigenia	Ιφιγένεια	Michael Cacoyannis	Greece	Greek
	Operation Thunderbolt	מבצע יונתן	Menahem Golan	Israel	Hebrew
	A Special Day	Una giornata particolare	Ettore Scola	Italy	Italian
	That Obscure Object of Desire	Cet obscur objet du désir / Ese oscuro objeto del deseo	Luis Buñuel	Spain	French, Spanish
1978 (51st)	Get Out Your Handkerchiefs	Préparez vos mouchoirs	Bertrand Blier	France	French
	The Glass Cell	Die gläserne Zelle	Hans W. Geißendörfer	West Germany	German
	Hungarians	Magyarok	Zoltán Fábri	Hungary	Hungarian
	Viva Italia!	I nuovi mostri	Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola	Italy	Italian
	White Bim Black Ear	Белый Бим Чёрное ухо	Stanislav Rostotsky	Soviet Union	Russian
1979 (52nd)	The Tin Drum	Die Blechtrommel	Volker Schlöndorff	West Germany	German
	The Maids of Wilko	Panny z Wilka	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Polish
	Mama Turns 100	Mamá cumple cien años	Carlos Saura	Spain	Spanish
	A Simple Story	Une histoire simple	Claude Sautet	France	French
	To Forget Venice	Dimenticare Venezia	Franco Brusati	Italy	Italian

1980s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
1980 (53rd)	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears	Москва слезам не верит	Vladimir Menshov	Soviet Union	Russian
	Confidence	Bizalom	István Szabó	Hungary	Hungarian
	Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)	影武者	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	Japanese
	The Last Metro	Le Dernier Métro	François Truffaut	France	French
	The Nest	El nido	Jaime de Armiñán	Spain	Spanish
1981 (54th)	Mephisto		István Szabó	Hungary	Hungarian
	The Boat Is Full	Das Boot ist voll	Markus Imhoof	Switzerland	German
	Man of Iron	Człowiek z żelaza	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Polish
	Muddy River	泥の河	Kōhei Oguri	Japan	Japanese
	Three Brothers	Tre fratelli	Francesco Rosi	Italy	Italian
1982 (55th)	To Begin Again	Volver a empezar	José Luis Garci	Spain	Spanish
	Alsino and the Condor	Alsino y el cóndor	Miguel Littín	Nicaragua	Spanish
	Coup de Torchon ('Clean Slate')	Coup de torchon	Bertrand Tavernier	France	French
	Flight of the Eagle	Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd	Jan Troell	Sweden	Swedish
	Private Life	Частная жизнь	Yuli Raizman	Soviet Union	Russian
1983 (56th)	Fanny and Alexander	Fanny och Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Swedish
	Carmen		Carlos Saura	Spain	Spanish
	Entre Nous	Coup de foudre	Diane Kurys	France	French
	The Revolt of Job	Jób lázadása	Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay	Hungary	Hungarian
	Le Bal		Ettore Scola	Algeria	No dialogue
1984 (57th)	Dangerous Moves	La Diagonale du fou	Richard Dembo	Switzerland	French
	Beyond the Walls	מאחורי הסורגים	Uri Barbash	Israel	Hebrew
	Camila		María Luisa Bemberg	Argentina	Spanish
	Double Feature	Sesión continua	José Luis Garci	Spain
	Wartime Romance	Военно-полевой роман	Pyotr Todorovsky	Soviet Union	Russian
1985 (58th)	The Official Story	La historia oficial	Luis Puenzo	Argentina	Spanish
	Angry Harvest	Bittere Ernte	Agnieszka Holland	West Germany	German
	Colonel Redl	Oberst Redl	István Szabó	Hungary	Hungarian
	Three Men and a Cradle	Trois Hommes et un couffin	Coline Serreau	France	French
	When Father Was Away on Business	Otac na službenom putu / Отац на службеном путу	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croatian
1986 (59th)	The Assault	De aanslag	Fons Rademakers	Netherlands	Dutch, English, German
	'38 – Vienna Before the Fall	38 – Auch das war Wien	Wolfgang Glück	Austria	German
	Betty Blue	37°2 le matin	Jean-Jacques Beineix	France	French
	The Decline of the American Empire	Le Déclin de l'empire américain	Denys Arcand	Canada
	My Sweet Little Village	Vesničko má středisková	Jiří Menzel	Czechoslovakia	Czech
1987 (60th)	Babette's Feast	Babettes gæstebud	Gabriel Axel	Denmark	Danish, Swedish, French
	Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children)	Au Revoir les Enfants	Louis Malle	France	French
	Course Completed	Asignatura Aprobada	José Luis Garci	Spain	Spanish
	The Family	La famiglia	Ettore Scola	Italy	Italian
	Pathfinder	Ofelaš / Veiviseren	Nils Gaup	Norway	Northern Sami
1988 (61st)	Pelle the Conqueror	Pelle Erobreren	Bille August	Denmark	Scanian, Danish, Swedish
	Hanussen		István Szabó	Hungary	Hungarian
	The Music Teacher	Le Maître de Musique	Gérard Corbiau	Belgium	French
	Salaam Bombay!	सलाम बॉम्बे!	Mira Nair	India	Hindi
	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	Spanish
1989 (62nd)	Cinema Paradiso	Nuovo cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy	Italian
	Camille Claudel		Bruno Nuytten	France	French
	Jesus of Montreal	Jésus de Montréal	Denys Arcand	Canada
	Waltzing Regitze	Dansen med Regitze	Kaspar Rostrup	Denmark	Danish
	What Happened to Santiago	Lo que le pasó a Santiago	Jacobo Morales	Puerto Rico [N]	Spanish

1990s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
1990 (63rd)	Journey of Hope	Reise der Hoffnung	Xavier Koller	Switzerland	German, Turkish
	Cyrano de Bergerac		Jean-Paul Rappeneau	France	French
	Ju Dou	菊豆	Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang	China	Mandarin
	The Nasty Girl	Das schreckliche Mädchen	Michael Verhoeven	West Germany	German
	Open Doors	Porte aperte	Gianni Amelio	Italy	Italian
1991 (64th)	Mediterraneo		Gabriele Salvatores	Italy	Italian
	Children of Nature	Börn náttúrunnar	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	Iceland	Icelandic, English
	The Elementary School	Obecná škola	Jan Svěrák	Czechoslovakia	Czech
	The Ox	Oxen	Sven Nykvist	Sweden	Swedish
	Raise the Red Lantern	大紅燈籠高高掛	Zhang Yimou	Hong Kong	Mandarin
1992 (65th)	Indochine		Régis Wargnier	France	French, Vietnamese
	Close to Eden	Урга	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russia	Russian
	Daens		Stijn Coninx	Belgium	Dutch, French, Latin
	A Place in the World	Un lugar en el mundo	Adolfo Aristarain	Uruguay[O]	Spanish
	Schtonk!		Helmut Dietl	Germany	German
1993 (66th)	Belle Époque		Fernando Trueba	Spain	Spanish
	Farewell My Concubine	霸王別姬	Chen Kaige	Hong Kong	Mandarin
	Hedd Wyn		Paul Turner	United Kingdom	Welsh
	The Scent of Green Papaya	Mùi đu đủ xanh	Trần Anh Hùng	Vietnam	Vietnamese
	The Wedding Banquet	囍宴	Ang Lee	Taiwan	Mandarin, English
1994 (67th)	Burnt by the Sun	Утомлённые солнцем	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russia	Russian
	Before the Rain	Пред дождот	Milcho Manchevski	Macedonia	Macedonian, English, Albanian
	Eat Drink Man Woman	飲食男女	Ang Lee	Taiwan	Mandarin
	Farinelli: Il Castrato	Farinelli	Gérard Corbiau	Belgium	Italian, French
	Strawberry and Chocolate	Fresa y chocolate	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío	Cuba	Spanish
1995 (68th)	Antonia's Line	Antonia	Marleen Gorris	Netherlands	Dutch
	All Things Fair	Lust och fägring stor	Bo Widerberg	Sweden	Swedish
	Dust of Life	Poussières de vie	Rachid Bouchareb	Algeria	French
	O Quatrilho		Fábio Barreto	Brazil	Brazilian Portuguese, Italian
	The Star Maker	L'uomo delle stelle	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy	Italian
1996 (69th)	Kolya	Kolja	Jan Svěrák	Czech Republic	Czech
	A Chef in Love	შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი	Nana Jorjadze	Georgia	French, Georgian
	The Other Side of Sunday	Søndagsengler	Berit Nesheim	Norway	Norwegian
	Prisoner of the Mountains	Кавказский пленник	Sergei Bodrov	Russia	Russian
	Ridicule		Patrice Leconte	France	French
1997 (70th)	Character	Karakter	Mike van Diem	Netherlands	Dutch
	Beyond Silence	Jenseits der Stille	Caroline Link	Germany	German
	Four Days in September	O Que é Isso, Companheiro?	Bruno Barreto	Brazil	Brazilian Portuguese
	Secrets of the Heart	Secretos del corazón	Montxo Armendáriz	Spain	Spanish
	The Thief	Вор	Pavel Chukhray	Russia	Russian
1998 (71st)	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni	Italy	Italian, German
	Central Station	Central do Brasil	Walter Salles	Brazil	Brazilian Portuguese
	Children of Heaven	بچه های آسمان	Majid Majidi	Iran	Persian
	The Grandfather	El abuelo	José Luis Garci	Spain	Spanish
	Tango	Tango, no me dejes nunca	Carlos Saura	Argentina
1999 (72nd)	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	Spanish
	East-West	Est-Ouest	Régis Wargnier	France	French, Russian
	Himalaya	Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef	Éric Valli	Nepal	Dolpo
	Solomon & Gaenor	Solomon a Gaenor	Paul Morrison	United Kingdom	Welsh, Yiddish
	Under the Sun	Under solen	Colin Nutley	Sweden	Swedish

2000s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
2000 (73rd)	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	臥虎藏龍	Ang Lee	Taiwan	Mandarin
	Amores perros		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico	Spanish
	Divided We Fall	Musíme si pomáhat	Jan Hřebejk	Czech Republic	Czech
	Everybody's Famous!	Iedereen beroemd!	Dominique Deruddere	Belgium	Dutch
	The Taste of Others	Le goût des autres	Agnès Jaoui	France	French
2001 (74th)	No Man's Land	Ničija zemlja	Danis Tanović	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Bosnian, French, English, Serbian
	Amélie	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France	French
	Elling		Petter Næss	Norway	Norwegian
	Lagaan	लगान	Ashutosh Gowariker	India	Hindi, English
	Son of the Bride	El hijo de la novia	Juan José Campanella	Argentina	Spanish
2002 (75th)	Nowhere in Africa	Nirgendwo in Afrika	Caroline Link	Germany	German, English, Swahili
	The Crime of Father Amaro	El crimen del padre Amaro	Carlos Carrera	Mexico	Spanish
	Hero	英雄	Zhang Yimou	China	Mandarin
	The Man Without a Past	Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland	Finnish
	Zus & Zo		Paula van der Oest	Netherlands	Dutch
2003 (76th)	The Barbarian Invasions	Les Invasions barbares	Denys Arcand	Canada	French
	Evil	Ondskan	Mikael Håfström	Sweden	Swedish
	The Twilight Samurai	たそがれ清兵衛	Yoji Yamada	Japan	Japanese
	Twin Sisters	De tweeling	Ben Sombogaart	Netherlands	Dutch
	Želary		Ondřej Trojan	Czech Republic	Czech
2004 (77th)	The Sea Inside	Mar adentro	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain	Spanish
	As It Is in Heaven	Så som i himmelen	Kay Pollak	Sweden	Swedish
	The Chorus	Les choristes	Christophe Barratier	France	French
	Downfall	Der Untergang	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Germany	German
	Yesterday		Darrell Roodt	South Africa	Zulu
2005 (78th)	Tsotsi		Gavin Hood	South Africa	Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Setswana
	The Beast in the Heart	La bestia nel cuore	Cristina Comencini	Italy	Italian
	Joyeux Noël		Christian Carion	France	French, English, German
	Paradise Now	الجنة الآن	Hany Abu-Assad	Palestine[P]	Arabic
	Sophie Scholl – The Final Days	Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage	Marc Rothemund	Germany	German
2006 (79th)	The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Germany	German
	After the Wedding	Efter brylluppet	Susanne Bier	Denmark	Danish Swedish Hindi English
	Days of Glory	Indigènes	Rachid Bouchareb	Algeria	Arabic French
	Pan's Labyrinth	El laberinto del fauno	Guillermo del Toro	Mexico	Spanish
	Water	वाटर	Deepa Mehta	Canada	Hindi
2007 (80th)	The Counterfeiters	Die Fälscher	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Austria	German
	Beaufort	בופור	Joseph Cedar	Israel	Hebrew
	Katyń		Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Polish
	Mongol	Монгол	Sergei Bodrov	Kazakhstan	Mongolian, Mandarin
	12		Nikita Mikhalkov	Russia	Russian, Chechen
2008 (81st)	Departures	おくりびと	Yōjirō Takita	Japan	Japanese
	The Baader Meinhof Complex	Der Baader Meinhof Komplex	Uli Edel	Germany	German
	The Class	Entre les murs	Laurent Cantet	France	French
	Revanche		Götz Spielmann	Austria	German
	Waltz with Bashir	ואלס עם באשיר	Ari Folman	Israel	Hebrew
2009 (82nd)	The Secret in Their Eyes	El secreto de sus ojos	Juan José Campanella	Argentina	Spanish
	Ajami	עג'מי / عجمي	Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani	Israel	Arabic, Hebrew
	The Milk of Sorrow	La teta asustada	Claudia Llosa	Peru	Spanish, Quechua
	A Prophet	Un prophète	Jacques Audiard	France	French, Arabic
	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band	Michael Haneke	Germany	German

2010s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
2010 (83rd)	In a Better World	Hævnen	Susanne Bier	Denmark	Danish
	Biutiful		Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico	Spanish
	Dogtooth	Κυνόδοντας	Yorgos Lanthimos	Greece	Greek
	Incendies		Denis Villeneuve	Canada	French
	Outside the Law	Hors-la-loi	Rachid Bouchareb	Algeria	French, Arabic
2011 (84th)	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین	Asghar Farhadi	Iran	Persian
	Bullhead	Rundskop	Michaël R. Roskam	Belgium	Dutch
	Footnote	הערת שוליים	Joseph Cedar	Israel	Hebrew
	In Darkness	W ciemności	Agnieszka Holland	Poland	Polish
	Monsieur Lazhar		Philippe Falardeau	Canada	French
2012 (85th)	Amour		Michael Haneke	Austria	French
	Kon-Tiki		Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg	Norway	Norwegian
	No		Pablo Larraín	Chile	Spanish
	A Royal Affair	En kongelig affære	Nikolaj Arcel	Denmark	Danish
	War Witch	Rebelle	Kim Nguyen	Canada	French, Lingala
2013 (86th)	The Great Beauty	La grande bellezza	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy	Italian
	The Broken Circle Breakdown		Felix van Groeningen	Belgium	Dutch
	The Hunt	Jagten	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark	Danish
	The Missing Picture	L'image manquante	Rithy Panh	Cambodia	French
	Omar	عمر	Hany Abu-Assad	Palestine	Arabic
2014 (87th)	Ida		Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland	Polish
	Leviathan	Левиафан	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia	Russian
	Tangerines	Mandariinid	Zaza Urushadze	Estonia, Georgia	Estonian, Russian, Georgian
	Timbuktu		Abderrahmane Sissako	Mauritania	Tamasheq, Bambara, Arabic, French
	Wild Tales	Relatos Salvajes	Damián Szifron	Argentina	Spanish
2015 (88th)	Son of Saul	Saul fia	László Nemes	Hungary	Hungarian
	Embrace of the Serpent	El abrazo de la serpiente	Ciro Guerra	Colombia	Cubeo, Huitoto, Ticuna, Wanano, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Latin, English
	Mustang		Deniz Gamze Ergüven	France	Turkish
	Theeb	ذيب	Naji Abu Nowar	Jordan	Arabic
	A War	Krigen	Tobias Lindholm	Denmark	Danish
2016 (89th)	The Salesman	فروشنده	Asghar Farhadi	Iran	Persian
	Land of Mine	Under sandet	Martin Zandvliet	Denmark	German, Danish
	A Man Called Ove	En man som heter Ove	Hannes Holm	Sweden	Swedish
	Tanna		Martin Butler and Bentley Dean	Australia	Nauvhal
	Toni Erdmann		Maren Ade	Germany	German
2017 (90th)	A Fantastic Woman	Una mujer fantástica	Sebastián Lelio	Chile	Spanish
	The Insult	قضية رقم ٢٣	Ziad Doueiri	Lebanon	Lebanese Arabic
	Loveless	Нелюбовь	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia	Russian
	On Body and Soul	Testről és lélekről	Ildikó Enyedi	Hungary	Hungarian
	The Square		Ruben Östlund	Sweden	Swedish, Danish, English
2018 (91st)	Roma		Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico	Spanish, Mixtec
	Capernaum	کفرناحوم	Nadine Labaki	Lebanon	Lebanese Arabic
	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland	Polish
	Never Look Away	Werk ohne Autor	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Germany	German
	Shoplifters	万引き家族	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan	Japanese
2019 (92nd)	Parasite	기생충	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea	Korean
	Corpus Christi	Boże Ciało	Jan Komasa	Poland	Polish
	Honeyland	Медена земја	Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov	North Macedonia	Macedonian, Turkish, Bosnian
	Les Misérables		Ladj Ly	France	French
	Pain and Glory	Dolor y Gloria	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	Spanish

2020s

Year	Film Title used in nomination	Original Title	Director(s)	Submitting Countries	Language(s)
2020/21 (93rd)	Another Round	Druk	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark	Danish, Swedish
	Better Days	少年的你	Derek Tsang	Hong Kong	Mandarin, English
	Collective	Colectiv	Alexander Nanau	Romania	Romanian, English
	The Man Who Sold His Skin	الرجل الذي باع ظهره	Kaouther Ben Hania	Tunisia	Arabic, English, French, Flemish
	Quo Vadis, Aida?		Jasmila Žbanić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnian, English, Serbian, Dutch
2021 (94th)	Drive My Car	ドライブ・マイ・カー	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan	Japanese, English, Korean, Korean Sign Language, Mandarin, Tagalog, German, Indonesian
	Flee	Flugt	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Denmark	Danish
	The Hand of God	È stata la mano di Dio	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy	Italian
	Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom	ལུང་ནག་ན	Pawo Choyning Dorji	Bhutan	Dzongkha
	The Worst Person in the World	Verdens verste menneske	Joachim Trier	Norway	Norwegian
2022 (95th)	All Quiet on the Western Front	Im Westen nichts Neues	Edward Berger	Germany	German, French
	Argentina, 1985		Santiago Mitre	Argentina	Spanish
	Close		Lukas Dhont	Belgium	French, Dutch
	EO	IO	Jerzy Skolimowski	Poland	Polish
	The Quiet Girl	An Cailín Ciúin	Colm Bairéad	Ireland	Irish
2023 (96th)	The Zone of Interest		Jonathan Glazer	United Kingdom	German, Polish, Yiddish
	Io Capitano		Matteo Garrone	Italy	Wolof, French
	Perfect Days		Wim Wenders	Japan	Japanese
	Society of the Snow	La sociedad de la nieve	J.A. Bayona	Spain	Spanish
	The Teachers' Lounge	Das Lehrerzimmer	İlker Çatak	Germany	German, Turkish, Polish, English

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins

Six directors have won the award more than once.

Wins	Director	Films
4	Vittorio De Sica	Shoe-Shine, Bicycle Thieves, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and The Garden of the Finzi Continis
	Federico Fellini	Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, 8½ and Amarcord
3	Ingmar Bergman	The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly and Fanny and Alexander
2	René Clément	The Walls of Malapaga and Forbidden Games
	Asghar Farhadi	A Separation and The Salesman
	Akira Kurosawa	Rashomon and Dersu Uzala

Multiple nominations

Nominations	Director	Films
5	Vittorio De Sica	Shoe-Shine, Bicycle Thieves, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style and The Garden of the Finzi Continis
4	Federico Fellini	Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, 8½ and Amarcord
	Akira Kurosawa	Rashomon, Dodes'ka-den, Dersu Uzala and Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
	José Luis Garci	To Begin Again, Double Feature, Course Completed and The Grandfather
	Mario Monicelli	The Usual Unidentified Thieves, The Great War, The Girl with the Pistol and Viva Italia!
	Ettore Scola	A Special Day, Viva Italia!, Le Bal and The Family
	István Szabó	Confidence, Mephisto, Colonel Redl, Hanussen
	Andrzej Wajda	The Promised Land, The Maids of Wilko, Man of Iron and Katyń
3	Pedro Almodóvar	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Pain and Glory
	Denys Arcand	The Decline of the American Empire, Jesus of Montreal and The Barbarian Invasions
	Ingmar Bergman	The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly and Fanny and Alexander
	Rachid Bouchareb	Dust of Life, Days of Glory and Outside the Law
	Luis Buñuel	Tristana, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and That Obscure Object of Desire
	René Clément	The Walls of Malapaga, Forbidden Games and Gervaise
	Ang Lee	The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	Nikita Mikhalkov	Close to Eden, Burnt by the Sun and 12
	Moshé Mizrahi	I Love You Rosa, The House on Chelouche Street and Madame Rosa
	Carlos Saura	Mama Turns 100, Carmen and Tango
	Jan Troell	The Emigrants, The New Land and Flight of the Eagle
	François Truffaut	Stolen Kisses, Day for Night and The Last Metro
	Bo Widerberg	Raven's End, Ådalen 31 and All Things Fair
	Zhang Yimou	Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern and Hero
2	Hany Abu-Assad	Paradise Now and Omar
	Susanne Bier	After the Wedding and In a Better World
	Sergei Bodrov	Prisoner of the Mountains and Mongol
	Michael Cacoyannis	Electra and Iphigenia
	Joseph Cedar	Beaufort and Footnote
	Gérard Corbiau	The Music Teacher and Farinelli: Il Castrato
	Jaime de Armiñán	My Dearest Senorita and The Nest
	Zoltán Fábri	The Boys of Paul Street and Hungarians
	Asghar Farhadi	A Separation and The Salesman
	Miloš Forman	Loves of a Blonde and The Firemen's Ball
	Vasilis Georgiadis	The Red Lanterns and Blood on the Land
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Amores perros and Biutiful
	Michael Haneke	The White Ribbon and Amour
	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	The Lives of Others and Never Look Away
	Agnieszka Holland	Angry Harvest and In Darkness
	Juan José Campanella	Son of the Bride and The Secret in Their Eyes
	Ephraim Kishon	Sallah Shabati and The Policeman
	Claude Lelouch	A Man and a Woman and Live for Life
	Caroline Link	Beyond Silence and Nowhere in Africa
	Miguel Littin	Letters from Marusia and Alsino and the Condor
	Louis Malle	Lacombe, Lucien and Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye Children)
	Jiří Menzel	Closely Watched Trains and My Sweet Little Village
	Noboru Nakamura	Twin Sisters of Kyoto and Portrait of Chieko
	Paweł Pawlikowski	Ida and Cold War
	Aleksandar Petrović	Three and I Even Met Happy Gypsies
	Gillo Pontecorvo	Kapo and The Battle of Algiers
	Fons Rademakers	The Village on the River and The Assault
	Dino Risi	Scent of a Woman and Viva Italia!
	Stanislav Rostotsky	The Dawns Here Are Quiet and White Bim Black Ear
	Francisco Rovira Beleta	Los Tarantos and Bewitched Love
	Maximilian Schell	First Love and The Pedestrian
	Paolo Sorrentino	The Great Beauty and The Hand of God
	Jan Svěrák	The Elementary School and Kolya
	Giuseppe Tornatore	Cinema Paradiso and The Star Maker
	Thomas Vinterberg	The Hunt and Another Round
	Régis Wargnier	Indochine and East-West
	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Leviathan and Loveless

Shortlisted finalists (not nominated)

Since the 79th Academy Awards (2006), a nine-film shortlist has been announced before the nominations, which then has been reduced to the five official nominees. The shortlist was expanded from nine to ten at the 92nd Academy Awards (2019), and from ten to fifteen at the 93rd Academy Awards (2020).

Year	Finalists	Ref.
2006	Avenue Montaigne - France Black Book - Netherlands Vitus - Switzerland Volver - Spain (nominated for Best Actress)
2007	Days of Darkness - Canada La sconosciuta - Italy The Trap - Serbia The Year My Parents Went On Vacation - Brazil
2008	Everlasting Moments - Sweden The Necessities of Life - Canada Tear This Heart Out - Mexico Three Monkeys - Turkey
2009	Kelin - Kazakhstan Samson & Delilah - Australia Winter in Wartime - Netherlands The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner - Bulgaria
2010	Confessions - Japan Even the Rain - Spain Life, Above All - South Africa Simple Simon - Sweden
2011	Omar Killed Me - Morocco Pina - Germany (nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film) Seediq Bale - Taiwan SuperClásico - Denmark
2012	Beyond the Hills - Romania The Deep - Iceland The Intouchables - France Sister - Switzerland
2013	An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker - Bosnia and Herzegovina The Grandmaster - Hong Kong (nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design) The Notebook - Hungary Two Lives - Germany
2014	Accused - Netherlands Corn Island - Georgia Force Majeure - Sweden The Liberator - Venezuela
2015	Labyrinth of Lies - Germany The Brand New Testament - Belgium The Fencer - Finland Viva - Ireland
2016	It's Only the End of the World - Canada The King's Choice - Norway My Life as a Zucchini - Switzerland (nominated for Best Animated Feature) Paradise - Russia
2017	Félicité - Senegal Foxtrot - Israel In the Fade - Germany The Wound - South Africa
2018	Ayka - Kazakhstan Birds of Passage - Colombia Burning - South Korea The Guilty - Denmark
2019	Atlantics - Senegal Beanpole - Russia The Painted Bird - Czech Republic Those Who Remained - Hungary Truth and Justice - Estonia
2020/21	Charlatan - Czech Republic Dear Comrades! - Russia Hope - Norway I'm No Longer Here - Mexico La Llorona - Guatemala The Mole Agent - Chile (nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film) Night of the Kings - Ivory Coast A Sun - Taiwan Sun Children - Iran Two of Us - France
2021	Compartment No. 6 - Finland The Good Boss - Spain Great Freedom - Austria Hive - Kosovo A Hero - Iran I'm Your Man - Germany Lamb - Iceland Playground - Belgium Plaza Catedral - Panama Prayers for the Stolen - Mexico
2022	Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths - Mexico (nominated for Best Cinematography) The Blue Caftan - Morocco Cairo Conspiracy - Sweden Corsage - Austria Decision to Leave - South Korea Holy Spider - Denmark Joyland - Pakistan Last Film Show - India Return to Seoul - Cambodia Saint Omer - France
2023	20 Days in Mariupol - Ukraine (Won Best Documentary Feature Film) Amerikatsi - Armenia Fallen Leaves - Finland Four Daughters - Tunisia (nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film) Godland - Iceland The Monk and the Gun - Bhutan The Mother of All Lies - Morocco The Promised Land - Denmark The Taste of Things - France Totem - Mexico

See also

• Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
• List of countries by number of Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
• List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for non-English performances
• List of Academy Award–winning foreign-language films (in categories other than the International Feature Film category itself)
• Saturn Award for Best International Film

Notes

A^ : Europe's tally includes three awards won by the Soviet Union and an award won by Russia. It also includes five Special/Honorary Awards: two won by Italy, two won by France and one shared between them for The Walls of Malapaga (1949).

B^ : Japan's four-award tally includes three Honorary Awards.

C^ : Shoe-Shine (1946) won a Special Award because "the high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity".

D^ : Monsieur Vincent (1947) won a Special Foreign Language Film Award. It was voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948.

E^ : Bicycle Thieves (1948) won a Special Foreign Language Film Award. It was voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949.

F^ : The Walls of Malapaga (1949) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950.

G^ : Rashomon (1950) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951.

H^ : Forbidden Games (1952) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was named Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952.

I^ : Gate of Hell (1953) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was named Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1954.

J^ : Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (1954) won an Honorary Foreign Language Film Award. It was named Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955.

K^{1 2 3 4 5} : For the 29th Academy Awards, the names of the producers were included in the nominations for the Foreign Language Film category. Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti won the award for La Strada (1954). Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel were nominated for The Captain of Köpenick (1956), Annie Dorfmann for Gervaise (1956), Masayuki Takagi for Harp of Burma (1956), and O. Dalsgaard-Olsen for Qivitoq (1956).

L^ : The film received its 1969 nomination under the title My Night with Maud. It had no U.S. distributor at the time. When it was released in Los Angeles on April 15, 1970, it became eligible for consideration for Academy Awards in other categories, and received a 1970 nomination for Writing under the title My Night at Maud's. Today, the latter title is the most commonly used when referring to the film in the English-speaking world.

M^ : Originally released under the title La Victoire en chantant, the film was reissued in France under the title Noirs et Blancs en couleur (a literal French translation of its English title Black and White in Color) following its 1976 Academy Award win.

N^ : Although films produced inside the United States are not eligible for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, those produced in U.S. overseas possessions were eligible at the time. Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, was thus able to receive a nomination for What Happened to Santiago (1989). However, this rule was changed in 2011 barring Puerto Rican submissions.

O^ : This is not an official nomination. After the nominations were announced, information came to light that showed this film was wholly produced in Argentina, and had insufficient Uruguayan artistic control. The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.

P^ : Paradise Now (2005) was initially nominated as a submission from Palestine and presented as such on the "official Academy website". Archived from the original on April 9, 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) However, following protests from pro-Israeli groups in the United States, the Academy decided to designate it as a submission from the Palestinian Authority, a move that was decried by the film's director Hany Abu-Assad. During the awards ceremony, the film was eventually announced by presenter Will Smith as a submission from the Palestinian Territories.

References

General

• Variety Staff (March 1, 2007). "Best Foreign Film". Variety. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved July 23, 2008.

Specific

External links

• "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
• "The Motion Picture Credits Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
• "IMDb Academy Awards Page". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2007.