Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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The Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual film awards given by the Southeastern Film Critics Association
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Southeastern Film Critics Association
The Southeastern Film Critics Association is an organization of film reviewers from publications based in the Southeastern United States....
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1990s
| Year | Winner | Country | Director(s) |
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| 1997 | Shall We Dance? (Shall we dansu?) | Japan | Masayuki Suo Masayuki Suo is a Japanese film director. He is perhaps best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?.According to Suo:- Life and career :... |
| 1998 | Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and... |
Italy | Roberto Benigni Roberto Benigni Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :... |
| 1999 | Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) Run Lola Run Run Lola Run is a 1998 German crime thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Franka Potente as Lola and Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni. The story follows a woman who needs to obtain 100,000 German marks in 20 minutes to save her boyfriend's life... |
Germany | Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International .... |
2000s
| Year | Winner | Country | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen... |
Taiwan | Ang Lee Ang Lee Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy... |
| 2001 | Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) Amélie Amélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre... |
France | Jean-Pierre Jeunet Jean-Pierre Jeunet -Life and career:Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and... |
| 2002 | And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) | Mexico | Alfonso Cuarón Alfonso Cuarón Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y tu mamá también, and A Little Princess.- Early life :... |
| 2003 | City of God (Cidade de Deus) | Brazil | Fernando Meirelles Fernando Meirelles Fernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films... |
| 2004 | Maria Full of Grace (Maria, llena eres de gracia) Maria Full of Grace Maria Full of Grace is a 2004 joint Colombian-American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston, who won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Although the movie depicts rural life in Colombia, it was actually filmed in Ecuador... |
Colombia | Joshua Marston Joshua Marston Joshua Jacob Marston is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace.Born in California, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Marston worked in Paris as an intern for Life, then for ABC News during the Gulf War... |
| 2005 | Hidden (Caché) Caché (film) Caché is a 2005 Austrian-French film written and directed by Michael Haneke. It stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges and Juliette Binoche as his wife Anne.-Plot:... |
France | Michael Haneke Michael Haneke Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work... |
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) Pan's Labyrinth Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish Spanish-language dark fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced and distributed by the Mexican film company Esperanto Films... |
Spain | Guillermo Del Toro Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones... |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The... |
France | Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates.... |
| 2008 | Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) | Sweden | Tomas Alfredson Tomas Alfredson Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director, best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In... |
| 2009 | Summer Hours (L'Heure d'été) | France | Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:... |
2010s
| Year | Winner | Country | Director(s) |
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| 2010 | Mother (Madeo) Mother (2009 film) Mother is a 2009 South Korean drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho, starring Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin.-Plot:Kim Hye-ja, a veteran Korean actress, plays an unnamed widow living alone with her only son, selling medicinal herbs in a small town in southern South Korea while doing unlicensed acupuncture... |
South Korea | Bong Joon-ho Bong Joon-ho Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.-Biography:He was born in Daegu in 1969 and decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school, perhaps influenced by an artistic family He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club... |