National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual awards given by the National Society of Film Critics.

Winners

1990s

Year	English title	Original title	Country	Director
1990	Ariel	Ariel	Finland	Aki Kaurismäki
1991	The Double Life of Veronique	La double vie de Véronique	France/Poland	Krzysztof Kieślowski
1992	Raise the Red Lantern	Da hong deng long gao gao gua	China	Zhang Yimou
1993	The Story of Qiu Ju	Qiu Ju da guan si	China	Zhang Yimou
1994	Three Colors: Red	Trois couleurs: Rouge	France	Krzysztof Kieślowski
1995	Wild Reeds	Les roseaux sauvages	France	André Téchiné
1996	La Cérémonie	La Cérémonie	France	Claude Chabrol
1997	The Promise	La Promesse	Belgium	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
1998	Taste of Cherry	Ta'm e guilass	Iran	Abbas Kiarostami
1999	Autumn Tale	Conte d'automne	France	Eric Rohmer

2000s

Year	English title	Original title	Country	Director
2000	Not awarded because the year's best film is a foreign language film (Yi Yi: A One and a Two)
2001	In the Mood for Love	Fa yeung nin wa	France/Hong Kong	Kar Wai Wong
2002	Y Tu Mamá También		Mexico	Alfonso Cuarón
2003	The Man Without a Past	'Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Finland	Aki Kaurismäki
2004	Moolaadé		Burkina Faso/Cameroon/France	Ousmane Sembène
2005	Head-On	Gegen die Wand	Germany/Turkey	Fatih Akin
2006	Not awarded because the year's best film is a foreign language film (Pan's Labyrinth)
2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile	Romania	Cristian Mungiu
2008	Not awarded because the year's best film is a foreign language film (Waltz with Bashir)
2009	Summer Hours	L'heure d'été	France	Olivier Assayas

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Country	Director
2010	Carlos		France/Germany	Olivier Assayas
2011	A Separation	Jodái-e Náder az Simin	Iran	Asghar Farhadi
2012	Not awarded because the year's best film is a foreign language film (Amour)
2013	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2	France	Abdellatif Kechiche
2014	Not awarded because the year's best film is a foreign language film (Good Bye to Language)
2015	Timbuktu	Timbuktu	Mauritania	Abderrahmane Sissako