Saturn Award for Best International Film

The Saturn Award for Best International Film is one of the annual awards given by the American professional organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward science fiction, fantasy, and horror achievements (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, awarded by the World Science Fiction Society who reward science fiction and fantasy in various media, is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the Best International Film category (then named Best Foreign Film) for the first time for the 1980 film year. It was deactivated after 1982, and was revived for the 2006 film year.[1] It is given to a feature-length motion picture from outside the United States of America and/or films in foreign languages, including non-English American films.

Saturn Award for
Best International Film
Awarded forBest motion picture of the year in non-English language, or set or produced in a non-American country
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
First awarded1979
Currently held bySisu (2022/2023)
Websitewww.saturnawards.org

Winners and nominees edit

1970s (Best Foreign Film) edit

Year Motion picture Country Language
1979
(7th)
Dinner for Adele   Czechoslovakia Czech
Circle of Iron   United States English
Nosferatu the Vampyre   West Germany
  France
English, German, Romanian
Patrick   Australia English
Starcrash   United States
  Italy
English
Message from Space   Japan Japanese

1980s edit

Year Motion picture Country Language
1980
(8th)
Scanners   Canada English
The Castle of Cagliostro   Japan Japanese
The Changeling   Canada
  United States
English
Harlequin   Australia English
Terror Train   Canada
  United States
English
1981
(9th)
Quest for Fire   France
  Canada
  United States
Invented language
Full Circle   Canada
  United Kingdom
English
Roadgames   Australia English
Time Bandits   United Kingdom English
The Watcher in the Woods   United States
  United Kingdom
English
1982
(10th)
Mad Max 2   Australia English
The Chain Reaction   Australia English
Class of 1984   Canada English
The House Where Evil Dwells   United States
  Japan
English
The Last Horror Film   United States English

2000s edit

Year Motion picture Country Language
2006
(33rd)
Pan's Labyrinth   Mexico Spanish
Apocalypto   United States Mayan
Curse of the Golden Flower   China Chinese
Fearless
The Host   South Korea Korean
Letters from Iwo Jima   United States Japanese
2007
(34th)
Eastern Promises[2]   Canada
  United Kingdom
English
Black Book   Netherlands Dutch, German
Day Watch   Russia Russian
Goya's Ghosts   Spain
  United States
English
The Orphanage   Spain
  Mexico
Spanish
Sleuth   United Kingdom English
2008
(35th)
Let the Right One In   Sweden Swedish
The Bank Job   United Kingdom English
The Forbidden Kingdom   United States
  China
English
Chinese
In Bruges   United Kingdom English
Slumdog Millionaire   United Kingdom
  India
Hindi
English
Transsiberian   United States English
2009
(36th)
District 9[3]   South Africa English
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus   United Kingdom
  Canada
  France
English
Lorna's Silence   Belgium French
Red Cliff   China Mandarin
Taken   France English
Thirst   South Korea Korean

2010s edit

Year Motion picture Country Language
2010
(37th)
Monsters   United Kingdom English
Centurion   United Kingdom English
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo   Sweden Swedish
The Complete Metropolis   Germany German
Mother   South Korea Korean
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale   Finland Finnish
English
2011
(38th)
The Skin I Live In   Spain Spanish
Attack the Block   United Kingdom English
Largo Winch   France
  Belgium
French
Melancholia   Denmark
  France
English
Point Blank   France French
The Troll Hunter   Norway Norwegian
2012
(39th)
Headhunters[4]   Norway Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Russian, English
Anna Karenina   United Kingdom English
Chicken with Plums   France
  Germany
  Belgium
French
The Fairy   Belgium
  France
French
My Way   South Korea Korean, Japanese, Russian, German, Chinese, English
Pusher   United Kingdom English
2013
(40th)
Big Bad Wolves   Israel Hebrew
Blancanieves   Spain No dialogue (Intertitles in Spanish)
A Hijacking   Denmark Danish
How I Live Now   United Kingdom English
Stoker   United States
  United Kingdom
English
The World's End   United Kingdom English
2014
(41st)
The Theory of Everything   United Kingdom English
Bird People   France French, English
Calvary   Ireland
  United Kingdom
English
Force Majeure   Sweden
  France
  Norway
Swedish, English, French, Norwegian
Mood Indigo   France
  Belgium
French
The Railway Man   United Kingdom
  Australia
English
2015
(42nd)
Turbo Kid   Canada
  New Zealand
English
Goodnight Mommy   Austria German
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared   Sweden Swedish
Labyrinth of Lies   Germany German
Legend   United Kingdom English
The Wave   Norway Norwegian
2016
(43rd)
The Handmaiden   South Korea Korean
Elle   France
  Germany
French
In Order of Disappearance   Norway Norwegian
The Mermaid   China
  Hong Kong
Chinese
Shin Godzilla   Japan Japanese
Under the Shadow   Qatar
  Jordan
  United Kingdom
Persian
2017
(44th)
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion   India Telugu
Brimstone   Netherlands
  France
  Germany
  Sweden
  United Kingdom
English
The Lodgers   Ireland English
The Man Who Invented Christmas   Ireland
  Canada
English
The Square   Sweden
  Germany
  France
  Denmark
Swedish, English, Danish
Wolf Warrior 2   China Chinese, English
2018/2019
(45th)
Burning[5]   South Korea Korean
Aniara   Sweden
  Denmark
Swedish, Danish
Border   Sweden Swedish
Ghost Stories   United Kingdom English
The Guilty   Denmark Danish
Shadow   China Chinese
Parasite   South Korea Korean
Jojo Rabbit   United States
  New Zealand
  Czech Republic
English
The Nightingale   Australia English, Irish, Palawa kani
Official Secrets   United States
  United Kingdom
English
Sputnik   Russia Russian
The Whistlers   Romania
  France
  Germany
Romanian, English, El Silbo, Spanish

2020s edit

Year Motion picture Country Language
RRR   India Telugu
Downton Abbey: A New Era   United Kingdom English
Eiffel   France French
I'm Your Man   Germany German
Riders of Justice   Denmark Danish
Silent Night   United Kingdom English
Sisu   Finland Finnish, English
Madeleine Collins   France French
Missing   Philippines Ilocano, Tagalog
The Origin of Evil   France
  Canada
French
Ransomed   South Korea Korean
Speak No Evil   Denmark Danish, Dutch, English

Countries with most wins edit

Countries with most nominations (6 or more) edit

External links edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Past Saturn Awards". Archived from the original on 2010-02-09. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
  2. ^ 2008 Saturn Awards Winners — /Film
  3. ^ Avatar, Lost Rack Up Saturn Awards - E! Online
  4. ^ Saturn Award winners: "The Avengers", "Breaking Bad" Jennifer Lawerence - Variety
  5. ^ Marvel sweeps the 45th annual Saturn Awards with AVENGERS: ENDGAME taking six awards - The Beat