TheDavid di Donatello for Best International Film (Italian:David di Donatello per il miglior film internazionale), known as theDavid di Donatello for Best Foreign Film (Italian:David di Donatello per il miglior film straniero) prior to 2022, is a category in theDavid di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy's answer to theOscars",^[1] presented annually by theAccademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI,Academy of Italian Cinema) 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.^[2]Starting from the 2019 edition, the award also includes films that previously would have belonged to the category ofBest European Film.

Winners are indicated inbold.

1958The Prince and the Showgirl, directed byLaurence Olivier

1959Gigi, directed byVincente Minnelli

1960No Award

1961Ben Hur, directed byWilliam Wyler

1962Judgment at Nuremberg, directed byStanley Kramer

1963The Longest Day, produced byDarryl F. Zanuck

1964Lawrence of Arabia, directed byDavid Lean

1965My Fair Lady, directed byGeorge Cukor

1966The Agony and the Ecstasy, directed byCarol Reed

1967Doctor Zhivago, directed byDavid Lean

1968Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, directed byStanley Kramer

19692001: A Space Odyssey, directed byStanley Kubrick

1970The Lion in Winter, directed byAnthony Harvey

1971Ryan's Daughter, directed byDavid Lean

1972The French Connection, directed byWilliam Friedkin

1973The Godfather, directed byFrancis Ford Coppola

1974Jesus Christ Superstar, directed byNorman Jewison

1975The Towering Inferno, directed byIrwin Allen

1976Nashville, directed byRobert Altman

1977Marathon Man, directed byJohn Schlesinger

1978Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed bySteven Spielberg

1979The Wishing Tree (ნატვრის ხე /Natvris khe), directed byTengiz Abuladze

1980

• Kramer vs. Kramer, directed byRobert Benton

1981

• No Award

1982

• Mephisto, directed byIstván Szabó
  • Marianne and Juliane (Die bleierne Zeit), directed byMargarethe von Trotta
  • Reds, directed byWarren Beatty

1983

• Gandhi, directed byRichard Attenborough
  • The Way (Yol), directed byYılmaz Güney
  • Victor/Victoria, directed byBlake Edwards
  • Missing, directed byCosta-Gavras

1984

• Fanny and Alexander, directed byIngmar Bergman
  • Terms of Endearment, directed byJames L. Brooks
  • Zelig, directed byWoody Allen

1985

• Amadeus, directed byMiloš Forman
  • The Killing Fields, directed byRoland Joffé
  • Paris, Texas, directed byWim Wenders

1986

• Out of Africa, directed bySydney Pollack
  • Another Time, Another Place, directed byMichael Radford
  • Ran (乱), directed byAkira Kurosawa

1987

• A Room with a View, directed byJames Ivory
  • The Official Story (La historia oficial), directed byLuis Puenzo
  • The Mission, directed byRoland Joffé

1988

• Au revoir les enfants, directed byLouis Malle
  • The Dead, directed byJohn Huston
  • Full Metal Jacket, directed byStanley Kubrick

1989

• Rain Man, directed byBarry Levinson
  • Mississippi Burning, directed byAlan Parker
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios), directed byPedro Almodóvar

1990

• Dead Poets Society, directed byPeter Weir
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors, directed byWoody Allen
  • May Fools (Milou en mai), directed byLouis Malle
  • Reunion, directed byJerry Schatzberg
  • Life and Nothing But (La vie et rien d'autre), directed byBertrand Tavernier

1991

• Cyrano de Bergerac, directed byJean-Paul Rappeneau (ex aequo)
  Hamlet, directed byFranco Zeffirelli (ex aequo)
  • Dances with Wolves, directed byKevin Costner
  • Nikita, directed byLuc Besson
  • Goodfellas, directed byMartin Scorsese

1992

• Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà /大紅燈籠高高掛), directed byZhang Yimou
  • Thelma & Louise, directed byRidley Scott
  • Shadows and Fog, directed byWoody Allen

1993

• A Heart in Winter (Un coeur en hiver), directed byClaude Sautet
  • Howards End, directed byJames Ivory
  • The Crying Game, directed byNeil Jordan

1994

• In the Name of the Father, directed byJim Sheridan
  • The Remains of the Day, directed byJames Ivory
  • Schindler's List, directed bySteven Spielberg

1995

• Pulp Fiction, directed byQuentin Tarantino
  • Forrest Gump, directed byRobert Zemeckis
  • Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем /Utomlyonnye solntsem), directed byNikita Mikhalkov

1996

• Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud), directed byClaude Sautet
  • Mighty Aphrodite, directed byWoody Allen
  • Smoke, directed byWayne Wang

1997

• Ridicule, directed byPatrice Leconte

1998

• The Full Monty, directed byPeter Cattaneo
  • Amistad, directed bySteven Spielberg
  • The Thief (Vor), directed byPavel Chukhray

1999

• Train of Life (Train de vie), directed byRadu Mihaileanu
  • Shakespeare in Love, directed byJohn Madden
  • Central Station (Central do Brasil), directed byWalter Salles

2000

• All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre), directed byPedro Almodóvar
  • American Beauty, directed bySam Mendes
  • East Is East, directed byDamien O'Donnell

2001

• The Taste of Others (Le goût des autres), directed byAgnès Jaoui
  • Billy Elliot, directed byStephen Daldry
  • Chocolat, directed byLasse Hallström
  • In the Mood for Love (花樣年華 /Fa yeung nin wa), directed byWong Kar-wai

2002

• The Man Who Wasn't There, directed byJoel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain), directed byJean-Pierre Jeunet
  • No Man's Land (Ničija zemlja), directed byDanis Tanović

2003

• The Pianist, directed byRoman Polanski
  • Chicago, directed byRob Marshall
  • Talk to Her (Hable con ella), directed byPedro Almodóvar
  • The Hours, directed byStephen Daldry
  • The Man on the Train (L'homme du train), directed byPatrice Leconte

2004

• The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares), directed byDenys Arcand
  • Big Fish, directed byTim Burton
  • Lost in Translation, directed bySofia Coppola
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, directed byPeter Weir
  • Mystic River, directed byClint Eastwood

2005

• Million Dollar Baby, directed byClint Eastwood
  • 2046, directed byWong Kar-wai
  • 3-Iron (빈집 /Bin-jip), directed byKim Ki-duk
  • Hotel Rwanda, directed byTerry George
  • Ray, directed byTaylor Hackford

2006

• Crash, directed byPaul Haggis
  • A History of Violence, directed byDavid Cronenberg
  • Good Night, and Good Luck., directed byGeorge Clooney
  • Brokeback Mountain, directed byAng Lee
  • Tsotsi, directed byGavin Hood

2007

• Babel, directed byAlejandro González Iñárritu
  • Letters from Iwo Jima, directed byClint Eastwood
  • Little Miss Sunshine, directed byJonathan Dayton andValerie Faris
  • The Pursuit of Happyness, directed byGabriele Muccino
  • The Departed, directed byMartin Scorsese

2008

• No Country for Old Men, directed byJoel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • Across the Universe, directed byJulie Taymor
  • Into the Wild, directed bySean Penn
  • In the Valley of Elah, directed byPaul Haggis
  • There Will Be Blood, directed byPaul Thomas Anderson

2009

• Gran Torino, directed byClint Eastwood
  • Milk, directed byGus Van Sant
  • The Visitor, directed byTom McCarthy
  • The Wrestler, directed byDarren Aronofsky
  • WALL-E, directed byAndrew Stanton

Country	Number of winning films	Number of nominated films
United States of America	35	81
United Kingdom	11	18
France	8	8
Canada	1	3
Spain	1	2
Poland	1	1
South Korea	1	1
Sweden	1	1
China	1	0
Hungary	1	0
Iran	1	0
Ireland	1	0
Mexico	1	0
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[nb 1]	1	0
Russia	0	3
Germany[nb 2]	0	2
Hong Kong	0	2
Japan	0	3
Argentina	0	1
Australia	0	1
Brazil	0	1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1
Lebanon	0	1
South Africa	0	1
Turkey	0	1
New Zealand	0	1

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