# The Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winners of the 1990s

The ten films from 1990 to 1999 that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, two of them Spanish: Belle Époque and All About My Mother.

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- Mar 24, 2026 · albert_setlist
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## Top 10

1. **Journey of Hope** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Xavier Koller, Switzerland, 1990. A Kurdish family tries to reach Switzerland.
2. **Belle Époque** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fernando Trueba, Spain, 1992. A deserter and four sisters in 1931.
3. **Mediterraneo** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Gabriele Salvatores, Italy, 1991. Italian soldiers forgotten on a Greek island.
4. **Indochine** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Régis Wargnier, France, 1992. Catherine Deneuve on a colonial plantation.
5. **Antonia's Line** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Marleen Gorris, Netherlands, 1995. Four generations of women in a village.
6. **Kolya** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jan Svěrák, Czech Republic, 1996. A cellist and a Russian boy in Prague.
7. **All About My Mother** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 1999. A mother looks for her late son's father in Barcelona.
8. **Burnt by the Sun** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia, 1994. A revolutionary hero during Stalin's purges.
9. **Character** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mike van Diem, Netherlands, 1997. A son against his father in Rotterdam.
10. **Life Is Beautiful** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Roberto Benigni, Italy, 1997. A father protects his son in a concentration camp.

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