David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film
The David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film is a category in the David di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy’s answer to the Oscars", presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano since the 1959 edition.
The category is specifically for films not competing for European honours. No awards were granted during the 1960 and 1961 editions, from 1965 to 1971, and in 1981.
Starting from the 2019 edition, the award also includes films that previously would have belonged to the category of Best Film in the European Union.
Winners and nominees
Winners are indicated in bold.1950s-1960s
1970s
1980s
1980- Kramer vs. Kramer, directed by Robert Benton
- No Award
- Mephisto, directed by István Szabó
- * Marianne and Juliane, directed by Margarethe von Trotta
- * Reds, directed by Warren Beatty
- Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough
- * The Way , directed by Yılmaz Güney
- * Victor/Victoria, directed by Blake Edwards
- * Missing, directed by Costa-Gavras
- Fanny and Alexander, directed by Ingmar Bergman
- * Terms of Endearment, directed by James L. Brooks
- * Zelig, directed by Woody Allen
- Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman
- * The Killing Fields, directed by Roland Joffé
- * Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders
- Out of Africa, directed by Sydney Pollack
- * Another Time, Another Place, directed by Michael Radford
- * Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa
- A Room with a View, directed by James Ivory
- * The Official Story, directed by Luis Puenzo
- * The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé
- Au revoir les enfants, directed by Louis Malle
- * The Dead, directed by John Huston
- * Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Rain Man
1990s
1990- Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir
- * Crimes and Misdemeanors, directed by Woody Allen
- * May Fools, directed by Louis Malle
- * Reunion, directed by Jerry Schatzberg
- * Life and Nothing But, directed by Bertrand Tavernier
- Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- * Dances with Wolves, directed by Kevin Costner
- * Nikita, directed by Luc Besson
- * Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese
- Raise the Red Lantern, directed by Zhang Yimou
- * Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott
- * Shadows and Fog, directed by Woody Allen
- A Heart in Winter, directed by Claude Sautet
- * Howards End, directed by James Ivory
- * The Crying Game, directed by Neil Jordan
- In the Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan
- * The Remains of the Day, directed by James Ivory
- * Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg
- Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino
- * Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis
- * Burnt by the Sun, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
- Nelly and Mr. Arnaud, directed by Claude Sautet
- * Mighty Aphrodite, directed by Woody Allen
- * Smoke, directed by Wayne Wang
- Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte
- The Full Monty, directed by Peter Cattaneo
- * Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg
- * The Thief, directed by Pavel Chukhray
- Train of Life, directed by Radu Mihaileanu
- * Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden
- * Central Station, directed by Walter Salles
2000s
- All About My Mother, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
- * American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes
- * East Is East, directed by Damien O'Donnell
- The Taste of Others, directed by Agnès Jaoui
- * Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry
- * Chocolat, directed by Lasse Hallström
- * In the Mood for Love, directed by Wong Kar-wai
- The Man Who Wasn't There, directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- * Amélie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- * No Man's Land, directed by Danis Tanovic
- The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski
- * Chicago, directed by Rob Marshall
- * Talk to Her, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
- * The Hours, directed by Stephen Daldry
- * The Man on the Train, directed by Patrice Leconte
- The Barbarian Invasions, directed by Denys Arcand
- * Big Fish, directed by Tim Burton
- * Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola
- * ', directed by Peter Weir
- * Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood
- Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood
- * 2046, directed by Wong Kar-wai
- * 3-Iron, directed by Kim Ki-duk
- * Hotel Rwanda, directed by Terry George
- * Ray, directed by Taylor Hackford
- Crash, directed by Paul Haggis
- * A History of Violence, directed by David Cronenberg
- * Good Night, and Good Luck., directed by George Clooney
- * Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee
- * Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood
- Babel, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- * Letters from Iwo Jima, directed by Clint Eastwood
- * Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
- * The Pursuit of Happyness, directed by Gabriele Muccino
- * The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese
- No Country for Old Men, directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- * Across the Universe, directed by Julie Taymor
- * Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn
- * In the Valley of Elah, directed by Paul Haggis
- * There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Gran Torino, directed by Clint Eastwood
- *
2010s
2010- Inglourious Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino
- * A Serious Man, directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- * Avatar, directed by James Cameron
- * Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood
- * Up in the Air, directed by Jason Reitman
- Hereafter, directed by Clint Eastwood
- * Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky
- * Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan
- * Incendies, directed by Denis Villeneuve
- * The Social Network, directed by David Fincher
- A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi
- * Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
- * Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese
- * The Ides of March, directed by George Clooney
- * The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick
- Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino
- * Argo, directed by Ben Affleck
- * Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell
- * Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg
- * Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee
- The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson
- * 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen
- * American Hustle, directed by David O. Russell
- * Blue Jasmine, directed by Woody Allen
- * The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese
- Birdman, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- * American Sniper, directed by Clint Eastwood
- * Boyhood, directed by Richard Linklater
- * The Salt of the Earth, directed by Wim Wenders
- * Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan
- Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg
- * Carol, directed by Todd Haynes
- * Inside Out, directed by Pete Docter
- * Remember, directed by Atom Egoyan
- * Spotlight, directed by Thomas McCarthy
- Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford
- * Captain Fantastic, directed by Matt Ross
- * Lion, directed by Garth Davis
- * Paterson, directed by Jim Jarmusch
- * Sully, directed by Clint Eastwood
- Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan
- * La La Land, directed by Damien Chazelle
- * The Insult, directed by Ziad Doueiri
- * Loveless, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
- * Manchester by the Sea, directed by Kenneth Lonergan
- Roma, directed by Alfonso Cuarón
- * Bohemian Rhapsody, directed by Bryan Singer
- * Cold War, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski
- * Phantom Thread, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
- * Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, directed by Martin McDonagh
2020s
- Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho
- * Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino
- * Green Book, directed by Peter Farrelly
- * Joker, directed by Todd Phillips
- * An Officer and a Spy, directed by Roman Polanski
Awards by nation