The Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winners, 2001–2010
The top 3 according to 116 votes from people: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · No Man's Land · Nowhere in Africa. (Updated Mar 26, 2026.)
The ten films that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the ceremonies from 2001 to 2010, two of them in Spanish.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 10
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1
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee, Taiwan (2001 Oscar). Wuxia among the bamboo.
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2
No Man's Land
Danis Tanović, Bosnia (2002 Oscar). Two enemy soldiers trapped in a trench.
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3
Nowhere in Africa
Caroline Link, Germany (2003 Oscar). A Jewish family that fled to Kenya.
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4
The Sea Inside
Alejandro Amenábar, Spain (2005 Oscar). Javier Bardem as Ramón Sampedro.
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5
The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany (2007 Oscar). A Stasi captain spies on a writer.
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6
The Secret in Their Eyes
Juan José Campanella, Argentina (2010 Oscar). A murder unsolved since 1974.
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7
Departures
Yōjirō Takita, Japan (2009 Oscar). A cellist becomes an encoffiner.
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8
The Counterfeiters
Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria (2008 Oscar). Jewish forgers forced to work for the Nazis.
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9
The Barbarian Invasions
Denys Arcand, Canada (2004 Oscar). A dying Quebec professor.
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10
Tsotsi
Gavin Hood, South Africa (2006 Oscar). A Johannesburg gang member and a baby.
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Comments (4)
Tigre y dragón ya tiene 20 años y sigue siendo preciosa.
La vida de los otros es de las mejores películas que he visto nunca.
Mar adentro me hizo llorar como un niño.
El secreto de sus ojos, la escena del estadio es increíble.