Year | Movie title | Director | Country |
2005 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Peter Webber | United Kingdom / Luxembourg |
The Return | Andrey Zvyaginstev | Russia |
Bad Education | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
2006 | My Summer of Love | Paweł Pawlikowski | United Kingdom |
Buttoners | Petr Zelenka | Czech Republic |
Control | Nimród Antal | Hungary |
2007 | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
Copying Beethoven | Agnieszka Holland | Germany / United States |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Ken Loach | Germany / Italy / Spain / France / Republic of Ireland / United Kingdom |
2008 | The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
The Queen | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom / France / Italy |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | Romania |
2009 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | France / United States |
Mamma mia! | Phyllida Lloyd | United Kingdom / Germany / United States |
Empties | Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic / United Kingdom |
2010 | The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke | Germany / Austria / France / Italy |
Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Woody Allen | Spain / United States |
2011 | The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | France / Germany / United Kingdom |
A Prophet | Jacques Audiard | France / Italy |
Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti | Italy / France |
2012 | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | United Kingdom |
Melancholia | Lars von Trier | Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Tomas Alfredson | France / United Kingdom / Germany |
2013 | Amour | Michael Haneke | Austria / France / Germany |
The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | France / United States |
Intouchables | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | France |
2014 | Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul | Sweden / United Kingdom |
Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Abdellatif Kechiche | France / Belgium / Spain |
The Best Offer | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
2015 | Leviathan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
The Great Beauty | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy / France |
Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | Denmark / Belgium / France / Germany |
2016 | Youth | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy / France / Switzerland / United Kingdom |
Mr.Turner | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom / Germany / France |
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | Roy Andersson | Sweden / Norway / France / Germany / Denmark |
2017 | Son of Saul | László Nemes | Hungary |
Florence Foster Jenkins | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom / France |
I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach | United Kingdom / France |
2018 | 'The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden / Germany / France / Denmark |
Perfect Strangers | Paolo Genovese | Italy |
Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany / Austria |
2019 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh | United States / United Kingdom |
Dogman | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
Loveless | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia / France / Belgium / Germany |
2020 | The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | United Kingdom / Ireland / United States |
Pain and Glory | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
An Officer and a Spy | Roman Polański | France / Italy |
Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska Ljubomir Stefanov | North Macedonia |
Beanpole | Kantemir Balagov | Russia |
2021 | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
The County | Grímur Hákonarson | Iceland |
Judy | Rupert Goold | United Kingdom / United States / France |
Emma | Autumn de Wilde | United Kingdom / United States |
The Traitor | Marco Bellocchio | Italy / Brazil / France / Germany |
2022 | Another Round | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark / Netherlands / Sweden |
Annette | Leos Carax | France / Germany / Belgium / United States / Japan / Mexico / Switzerland |
The Father | Florian Zeller | France / United Kingdom |
Berlin Alexanderplatz | Burhan Qurbani | Germany / Netherlands / Canada |
Titane | Julia Ducournau | France / Belgium |
2023 | Ennio | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy / Belgium / Japan / Netherlands |
Parallel Mothers | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
Paris, 13th District | Jacques Audiard | France |
The Worst Person in the World | Joachim Trier | Norway / France / Denmark / Sweden |
Vortex | Gaspar Noé | France / Belgium / Monaco |