# The Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winners, 2001–2010

The ten films that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the ceremonies from 2001 to 2010, two of them in Spanish.

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- Mar 26, 2026 · Alba Cano
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## Top 10

1. **Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon** (24 · ▲24 ▼0) — Ang Lee, Taiwan (2001 Oscar). Wuxia among the bamboo.
2. **No Man's Land** (15 · ▲16 ▼1) — Danis Tanović, Bosnia (2002 Oscar). Two enemy soldiers trapped in a trench.
3. **Nowhere in Africa** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Caroline Link, Germany (2003 Oscar). A Jewish family that fled to Kenya.
4. **The Sea Inside** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Alejandro Amenábar, Spain (2005 Oscar). Javier Bardem as Ramón Sampedro.
5. **The Lives of Others** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany (2007 Oscar). A Stasi captain spies on a writer.
6. **The Secret in Their Eyes** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Juan José Campanella, Argentina (2010 Oscar). A murder unsolved since 1974.
7. **Departures** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Yōjirō Takita, Japan (2009 Oscar). A cellist becomes an encoffiner.
8. **The Counterfeiters** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria (2008 Oscar). Jewish forgers forced to work for the Nazis.
9. **The Barbarian Invasions** (3 · ▲7 ▼4) — Denys Arcand, Canada (2004 Oscar). A dying Quebec professor.
10. **Tsotsi** (2 · ▲5 ▼3) — Gavin Hood, South Africa (2006 Oscar). A Johannesburg gang member and a baby.

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