National Board of Review: Top Five International Films
| National Board of Review Award for Top Five International Films | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Top Five International Films |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | National Board of Review |
| First awarded | 1929 |
| Last awarded | 2023 |
| Currently held by |
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| Website | nationalboardofreview |
The Top Five International Films (known as Top Five Foreign Language Films prior to 2022) is one of the awards presented annually by the National Board of Review, this category is one of the few awards that is not presented individually but instead as a list of usually five films. The category was first presented in 1929 and its one of two categories for foreign language films alongside the Best Foreign Language Film award.
Initially it was awarded as just as Top Foreign Films therefore including foreign films in English but in 1990 it was modified to only reward films in a foreign language changing the name from Top Foreign Films to Top Foreign Language Films before being changed again to Top International Films in 2022. From 1940 to 1949 the list was not presented at all.
Winners
[edit]1920s
[edit]| Year | Film | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Arsenal | Alexander Dovzhenko | Soviet Union |
| October: Ten Days That Shook the World | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein | ||
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | France | |
| Piccadilly | E. A. Dupont | United Kingdom | |
| Homecoming | Joe May | Germany |
1930s
[edit]1950s
[edit]1960s
[edit]1970s
[edit]1980s
[edit]1990s
[edit]2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]2020s
[edit]| Year | Film | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020,[5] | Apples | Christos Nikou | Greece |
| Collective | Alexander Nanau | Romania | |
| Dear Comrades! | Andrei Konchalovsky | Russia | |
| The Mole Agent | Maite Alberdi | Chile | |
| Night of the Kings | Philippe Lacôte | Ivory Coast | |
| 2021,[6] | Benedetta | Paul Verhoeven | France |
| Lamb | Valdimar Johannsson | Iceland | |
| Lingui, The Sacred Bonds | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Chad | |
| Titane | Julia Ducournau | France | |
| The Worst Person in the World | Joachim Trier | Norway | |
| 2022,[7] | All Quiet on the Western Front | Edward Berger | Germany |
| Argentina, 1985 | Santiago Mitre | Argentina | |
| Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | South Korea | |
| EO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland | |
| Saint Omer | Alice Diop | France | |
| 2023,[8] | La chimera | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, France, Switzerland |
| Fallen Leaves | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany | |
| The Teachers' Lounge | İlker Çatak | Germany | |
| Tótem | Lila Avilés | Mexico, Denmark, France | |
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom, Poland, United States |
See also
[edit]- National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
[edit]- ^ "National Board of Review Announces 2016 Award Winners". National Board of Review. November 29, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ "National Board of Review Announces 2017 Award Winners". National Board of Review. November 28, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ "National Board of Review Announces 2018 Award Winners". National Board of Review. November 27, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ Sharf, Zack (December 3, 2019). "National Board of Review 2019: 'The Irishman' Wins Best Film, Adam Sandler Named Best Actor". IndieWire. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ Davis, Clayton (January 26, 2021). "National Board of Review Names 'Da 5 Bloods' Best Picture, Spike Lee Becomes Second Black Director Winner". Variety. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ National Board of Review Winners 2021:|IndieWire
- ^ Top Gun: Maverick Named Best Movie of 2022 by National Board of Review - The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ National Board of Review Names 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Best Film of 2023 - The Hollywood Reporter