| Year
|
Winner and nominees
|
English title
|
Original title
|
|---|
1988
(1st) |
 Louis Malle |
Au Revoir Les Enfants |
|
 Manoel de Oliveira |
The Cannibals |
Os Canibais
|
 Terence Davies |
Distant Voices, Still Lives |
|
 Daniele Luchetti
Franco Bernini
Angelo Pasquini |
It's Happening Tomorrow |
Domani accadrà
|
 Wolfgang Held |
Bear Ye One Another's Burden |
Einer trage des anderen Last
|
1989
(2nd) |
 Mariya Khmelik |
Little Vera |
Malenkaya Vera
|
 Géza Bereményi |
The Midas Touch (also known as Eldorádó |
|
 Þráinn Bertelsson |
Magnus |
|
 Theodoros Angelopoulos
Tonino Guerra
Thanassis Valtinos |
Landscape in the Mist |
Topio stin omichli
|
 Maciej Dejczer
Cezary Harasimowicz |
300 Miles to Heaven |
300 mil do nieba
|
1997
(10th) |
 Chris Vander Stappen
Alain Berliner |
Ma Vie en Rose |
|
 Ademir Kenovic
Abdulah Sidran |
The Perfect Circle |
Savršeni krug
|
 Andrei Kurkov |
A Friend of the Deceased |
Priyatel pokoynika
|
1998
(11th) |
Peter Howitt |
Sliding Doors |
|
 Lars Von Trier |
The Idiots |
Idioterne
|
 Alex van Warmerdam |
Little Tony |
Kleine Teun
|
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Agnès Jaoui |
Same Old Song |
On connaît la chanson
|
1999
(12th) |
István Szabó
 Israel Horovitz |
Sunshine |
|
 Sasa Gedeon |
The Idiot Returns |
Návrat idiota
|
| Ayub Khan-Din |
East is East |
|
2000
(13th) |
Agnès Jaoui
Jean-Pierre Bacri |
The Taste of Others |
Le goût des autres
|
 Rafael Azcona |
Butterfly's Tongue |
La lengua de las mariposas
|
 Wolfgang Kohlhaase |
The Legend of Rita |
Die Stille nach dem Schuß
|
 Nana Djordjadze
Svereva Djordjadze |
27 Missing Kisses |
27 დაკარგული კოცნა
|
Doriana Leondeff
Silvio Soldini |
Bread and Tulips |
Pane e tulipani
|
Dominik Moll
Gilles Marchand |
Harry, He's Here to Help |
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
|
2001
(14th) |
Danis Tanović |
No Man's Land |
Ničija zemlja
|
Laurent Cantet
 / Robin Campillo |
Time Out |
L'Emploi du temps
|
 Michael Haneke |
The Piano Teacher |
|
| Achero Mañas |
Pellet |
El Bola
|
Jean-Louis Milesi
Robert Guédiguian |
The Town Is Quiet |
La ville est tranquille
|
Ettore Scola
Silvia Scola
Giacomo Scarpelli
Furio Scarpelli |
Unfair Competition |
Concorrenza sleale
|
2002
(15th) |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Talk to Her |
Hable con ella
|
Jacques Audiard
Tonino Benacquista |
Read My Lips |
|
| Paul Greengrass |
Bloody Sunday |
|
 Aki Kaurismäki |
The Man Without a Past |
Mies vailla menneisyyttä
|
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Krzysztof Piesiewicz |
Heaven |
|
| Paul Laverty |
Sweet Sixteen |
|
| François Ozon |
8 Women |
8 Femmes
|
2003
(16th) |
Bernd Lichtenberg |
Good Bye, Lenin! |
Comme une image
|
| Lars von Trier |
Dogville |
|
Sandro Petraglia
Stefano Rulli |
The Best of Youth |
La meglio gioventù
|
| Hanif Kureishi |
The Mother |
|
 Dušan Kovačević |
The Professional |
Професионалац
|
| Steven Knight |
Dirty Pretty Things |
|
2004
(17th) |
Agnès Jaoui
Jean-Pierre Bacri |
Look at Me |
Comme une image
|
| Paul Laverty |
Just a Kiss |
Ae Fond Kiss…
|
/  Jean-Luc Godard |
Our Music |
Notre musique
|
| Pedro Almodóvar |
Bad Education |
La mala educación
|
Alejandro Amenábar
Mateo Gil |
The Sea Inside |
Mar adentro
|
 / Fatih Akin |
Head-On |
Gegen die Wand / Duvara Karşı
|
2005
(18th) |
 / Hany Abu-Assad
Bero Beyer |
Paradise Now |
الجنّة الآن
|
| Anders Thomas Jensen |
Adam's Apples |
Adams Æbler
|
| Brothers |
Brødre
|
 Cristi Puiu
Razvan Radulescu |
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu |
Moartea domnului Lăzărescu
|
Dani Levy
Holger Franke |
Go for Zucker! |
Alles auf Zucker!
|
| Michael Haneke |
Hidden |
Caché
|
 Mark O'Halloran |
Adam & Paul |
|
2006
(19th) |
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
The Lives of Others |
Das Leben der Anderen
|
| Pedro Almodóvar |
Volver |
|
| Paul Laverty |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley |
|
| Corneliu Porumboiu |
12:08 East of Bucharest |
A fost sau n-a fost?
|
2007
(20th) |
/ Fatih Akin |
The Edge of Heaven |
4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile
|
 Eran Kolirin |
The Band's Visit |
ביקור התזמורת
|
| Peter Morgan |
The Queen |
|
| Cristian Mungiu |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days |
4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile
|
2008
(21st) |
Matteo Garrone
Roberto Saviano
Maurizio Braucci
Ugo Chiti
Gianni Di Gregorio
Massimo Gaudioso |
Gomorrah |
Gomorra
|
| Ari Folman |
Waltz with Bashir |
ואלס עם באשיר
|
Suha Arraf
Eran Riklis |
Lemon Tree |
شجرة ليمون / עץ לימון
|
| Paolo Sorrentino |
The Divine |
Il Divo
|
2009
(22nd) |
Michael Haneke |
The White Ribbon |
Das weiße Band
|
Jacques Audiard
Thomas Bidegain |
A Prophet |
Un prophète
|
| Simon Beaufoy |
Slumdog Millionaire |
|
| Gianni Di Gregorio |
Mid-August Lunch |
Pranzo di ferragosto
|
2010
(23rd) |
Robert Harris
/ Roman Polanski |
The Ghost Writer |
|
Jorge Guerricaechevarría
Daniel Monzón |
Cell 211 |
Celda 211
|
| Samuel Maoz |
Lebanon |
|
| / Radu Mihăileanu |
The Concert |
Le concert
|
2011
(24th) |
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne |
The Kid with a Bike |
Le Gamin au vélo
|
| Anders Thomas Jensen |
In a Better World |
Hævnen
|
| Aki Kaurismäki |
Le Havre |
|
| Lars von Trier |
Melancholia |
|
2012
(25th) |
Tobias Lindholm
Thomas Vinterberg |
The Hunt |
Jagten
|
| Cristian Mungiu |
Beyond the Hills |
După dealuri
|
| Michael Haneke |
Amour |
|
/ Roman Polanski
Yasmina Reza |
Carnage |
|
Olivier Nakache
Éric Toledano |
Untouchable |
Intouchables
|
2013
(26th) |
François Ozon |
In the House |
Dans la maison
|
Paolo Sorrentino
Umberto Contarello |
The Great Beauty |
La grande bellezza
|
| Tom Stoppard |
Anna Karenina |
|
| Giuseppe Tornatore |
The Best Offer |
La migliore offerta
|
Felix Van Groeningen
Carl Joos |
The Broken Circle Breakdown |
|
2014
(27th) |
/ Paweł Pawlikowski
Rebecca Lenkiewicz |
Ida |
|
Ebru Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
Winter Sleep |
Kış Uykusu
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne |
Two Days, One Night |
Deux jours, une nuit
|
| Steven Knight |
Locke |
|
 Oleg Negin
Andrey Zvyagintsev |
Leviathan |
Левиафан
|
2015
(28th) |
Yorgos Lanthimos
Efthimis Filippou |
The Lobster |
|
Radu Jude
Florin Lazarescu |
Aferim! |
|
| Alex Garland |
Ex Machina |
|
| Andrew Haigh |
45 Years |
|
 Roy Andersson |
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence |
En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron
|
| Paolo Sorrentino |
Youth |
Youth - La giovinezza
|
2016
(28th) |
Maren Ade
|
Toni Erdmann |
|
| Paul Laverty |
I, Daniel Blake |
|
 Emma Donoghue |
Room |
|
| Cristian Mungiu |
Graduation |
Bacalaureat
|
| Tomasz Wasilewski |
United States of Love |
Zjednoczone stany milosci
|
2017
(30th) |
Ruben Östlund |
The Square |
|
| Ildikó Enyedi |
On Body and Soul |
Testről és lélekről
|
Yorgos Lanthimos
Efthimis Filippou |
The Killing of a Sacred Deer |
|
Oleg Negin
Andrey Zvyagintsev |
Loveless |
Nelyubov
|
| François Ozon |
Frantz |
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