As a Special Award

• 1947 Shoeshine (Sciuscià) (Italy) - Societa Co-operativa Alfa Cinematografica - Paolo William Tamburella producer - Vittorio De Sica director
• 1948 Monsieur Vincent (France) - E. D. I. C., Union Général Cinématographique - George de la Grandiere producer - Maurice Cloche director
• 1949 The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette) (Italy) - Mayer - Vittorio De Sica producer and director

As an Honorary Award

• 1950 The Walls of Malapaga (Au delà des grilles) (France/Italy) - Francinex, Italia Produzione - George Agliani and Alfredo Guarini producers - René Clément director
• 1951 Rashomon (羅生門) (Japan) - Daiei Motion Picture Co,, Daiei Studios - Minoru Jingo producer - Akira Kurosawa director
• 1952 Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) (France) - Silver Films - Robert Dorfmann producer - René Clément director
• 1953 none given
• 1954 Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) (地獄門) (Japan) - Daiei Studios - Masaichi Nagata producer - Teinosuke Kinugasa director
• 1955 Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (Miyamoto Musashi) (宮本 武蔵) (Japan) _ Criterion Pictures Corp., Fine Arts Films _ Kazuo Takimura producer - Hiroshi Inagaki director

As a category in its own right

1950s

• 1956 La Strada (Italy) - Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica - Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti producers - Federico Fellini director
  • The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) (Germany) - Real-Film GmbH - Gyula Trebitsch producer - Helmut Käutner director
  • Gervaise (France) - Agnes Delahaie Productions, C. I. C. C. Films, Silver Films - Annie Dorfmann producer - René Clément director
  • Harp of Burma (Biruma no tategoto) (ビルマの竪琴) (Japan) - Nikkatsu Corporation - Masayuki Takaki producer - Kon Ichikawa director
  • Qivitoq (Denmark - Greenland Inuit) _ Nordisk film _ Erik Balling director
• 1957 Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria) (Italy) - Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Les Films Marceau - Dino De Laurentiis producer - Federico Fellini director
  • The Devil Came at Night (Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam) (Germany) - Divina-Film - Robert Siodmak producer and director
  • Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas) (France) - Cinétel, Filmsonor, Rizzoli Film, S.E.C.A. - René Clair producer and director
  • Mother India (Bharat Mata) (India_Hindi) - Mehboob Productions - Mehboob Khan producer and director
  • Nine Lives (Ni liv) (Norway) _ Nordsjøfilm _ Arne Skouen producer and director
• 1958 My Uncle (Mon Oncle) (France) - Alter, Centauro, Gray, Specta - Louis Dolivet, Fred Orain, Alain Terrouane, Jacques Tati producers, Jacques Tati director.
  • Arms and the Man (Helden) (Germany) - Bavaria Filmkunst - Peter Golbaum and Harry R. Sokal producers - Franz Peter Wirth director.
  • Vengeance (La Venganza) (Spain) - Guion, Suevia, Vides - Juan Antonio Bardem director
  • The Road a Year Long (La Strada lunga un anno) (Yugoslavia/Italian) - Croatia Film, Jadran Film - Ivo Vrhovec production manager - Giuseppe De Santis director
  • The Usual Unidentified Thieves (a.k.a. Big Deal on Madonna Street) (I soliti ignoti) (Italy) _ Cinecittr, Lux, Vides _ Franco Cristaldi producer _ Mario Monicelli director
• 1959 Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) (Brazil/France/Portuguese) - Dispat Films, Gemma, Tupan - Sacha Gordine producer - Marcel Camus director
  • The Bridge (Die Brücke) (Germany) - Fono Film - Hermann Schwerin producer - Bernhard Wicki director
  • The Great War (La Grande Guerra) (Italy) - Dino de Laurentis Cinematographica, Lopert Pictures Corp. - Dino de Laurentis producer - Mario Monicelli director
  • Paw (Denmark) - Laterna Film - Mogens Skot-Hansen producer - Astrid Jenning-Hensen director
  • The Village on the River (Dorp aan de rivier) (Netherlands) - Nationale Film Productie Maatschappij - Fons Rademakers director

1960s

• 1960 The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) (Sweden) - Svensk Filmindustri - Ingmar Bergman, Allan Ekelund producers _ Ingmar Bergman director
  • Kapo (Kapò) (Italy) - Cineriz, Francinex, Vides, Zebra Films - Moris Ergas producer - Gillo Pontecorvo director
  • The Truth (La Verité) (France) - Raoul Lévy producer - Henri_Georges Clouzot director
  • Macario (Mexico) - Clasa Film Mundiales - Armando Orive Alba producer - Roberto Gavaldón director
  • The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug) (Yugoslavia) - Jadran Film - France Stiglic director
• 1961 Through a Glass Darkly - (Såsom i en spegel) (Sweden) _ Svensk Filmindustri _ Allan Ekelund producer _ Ingmar Bergman director
  • Harry and the Butler (Harry og kammertjeneren)(Denmark) - production company - Bent Christensen, Preben Philipsen producers - Bent Christensen director
  • Immortal Love (Eien no hito) (永遠の人) (Japan) - Shochiku Films - Keisuke Kinoshita, Sennosuke Tsukimori producers - Keisuke Kinoshita director
  • The Important Man (Ánimas Trujano) (Mexico) - ARS, Películas Rodríguez, UNA - Ismael Rodríguez producer and director
  • Plácido (Spain) - Jet Films - Alfredo Matas producer - Luis García Berlanga
• 1962 Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray) (France) - Fidès, Les Films Trocadero, Orsay Films, Terra Film - Romain Pinès producer - Serge Bourguignon director
  • Electra (Elektra) (Greece) - Finos Film, JN Film - Michael Cacoyannis producer and director
  • The Keeper of Promises a.k.a. The Given Word (O pagador de promessas) (Brazil) _ Cinedistri, Produções Francisco de Castro _ Francisco de Castro, Anselmo Duarte, Oswaldo Massaini producers - Anselmo Duarte director
  • The Four Days of Naples (Le quattro giornate di Napoli) (Italy) - Metro, Titanus - Goffredo Lombardo producer - Nanni Loy director
  • The Pearl of Tlayucan (Tlayucan) (Mexico) - production Co. and producer - Luis Alcoriza director
• 1963 8½ (Otto e mezzo) (Italy) - Cineriz, Francinez - Angelo Rizzoli producer - Federico Fellini director
  • Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie) (Poland) - ZRF "Kamera" - Stanislaw Zylewicz - Roman Polański director
  • La Tarantos (Spain) - Films Rovira Beleta, Tecisa, Teresa - José Gutiérrez Mendoza, Francisco Rovira Beleta producers - Francisco Rovira Beleta director
  • The Red Lanterns (Ta kokkina fanaria) (Greece) - Th. Demaskinos & V. Michaelides - Theophanis A. Demaskinos, Victor G. Michaelides producers - Vassilis Georgiadis director
  • Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Koto) (琴) (Japan) - Shochiku Films Ltd. - Tyotaro Kyuwata producer - Noboru Nakamura director
• 1964 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Ieri, oggi, domani) (Italy) _ Compagna Cinematografica Champion, Les Films Concordia _ Carlo Ponti producer _ Vittorio De Sica director
  • Raven's End (Kvarteret korpen) (Sweden) - Europa Film - producer - Bo Widerberg director
  • Sallah Shabbati (סאלח שבתי) (Israel) - Sallah Company, Sallah Ltd. - Menahem Golan producer - Ephraim Kishon director
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) (France) - Beta Film GmbH, Madeleine Films, Parc Film - Mag Bodard, Philippe Dussart producers - Jacques Demy director
  • Woman in the Dunes (砂の女; Suna no onna) (Japan) - Teshigahara Productions, Toho - Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Oono producers - Hiroshi Teshigahara director
• 1965 The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) (Czechoslovakia) - Filmové Studio Barrandov - Jordan Balurov, M. Broz, Karel Feix, Jaromir Lukas producers - Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos directors
  • Blood on the Land (To homa vaftike kokkino)(Greece) - Finos Film, Th. Demaskinos & V. Michaelides - Vassilis Georgiadis director
  • Dear John (Käre John) (Sweden) - Filmhus Ateljeerna, Sandrews - Göran Lindgren producer - Lars-Magnus Lindgren director
  • Kwaidan (a.k.a. Ghost Story, Hoichi the Earless, Weird Tales) (怪談; Kaidan) (Japan) - Bungei, Ninjin Club - Shigeru Wakatsuki producer - Masaki Kobayashi director
  • Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all'Italiana) (Italy) - Compagna Cinematografica Champion, Les Films Concordia - Carlo Ponti producer - Vittorio De Sica director
• 1966 A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) (France) - Les Films 13 - Claude Lelouch producer and director
  • The Battle of Algiers - (La Battaglia di Algeri) (Maarakat madinat al Jazaer) (Algeria/Italy) _ Casbah, Igor Film _ Antonio Musu, Yacef Saadi producers - Gillo Pontecorvo director
  • Pharaoh (Faraon) (Poland) - Film Polski Film Agency, WFF Lodz, ZRF "Kadr" - producer - Jerzy Kawalerowicz director
  • The Loves of a Blond (Lásky jedné plavovlásky) (Czechoslovakia) - CBK, Filmové Studio Barrandov, Sebor - Rudolf Hájek producer - Milos Forman director
  • Three (Tri) (Yugoslavia) - Avala Film - producer - Aleksandar Petrovic director
• 1967 Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky) (Czechoslovakia) _ Filmové Studio Barrandov _ Zdenek Oves producer - Jiri Menzel director
  • El Amor Brujo (Spain) - Exclusivas Floralva Producción, Films Rovira Beleta - Producer - Francisco Rovira Beleta director
  • Portrait of Chieko (智恵子抄; Chieko-sho) (Japan) - Shochiku Films - producer - Noboru Nakamura director
  • I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Skupljaci perja) (Yugoslavia) - Avala Film - producer - Aleksandar Petrovic director
  • Live for life (Vivre pour vivre) (France) - Les Films Ariane, Le Productions Artistes Associés, Vides - Robert Amon, Georges Danciger, Alexandre Mnouchkine producers - Claude Lelouch director
• 1968 War and Peace (USSR) - Mosfilm - producer - Sergei Bondarchuk director
  • Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés) (France) - Les Films du Carosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés - Marcel Berbert producer - François Truffaut director
  • The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko) (Czechoslovakia) (in Czech) - Carlo Ponti Cinematografica, Filmové Studio Barrandov - Rudolf Hájek, Carlo Ponti producers - Milos Forman director
  • The Boys of Paul Street (A Pál utcai fiúk) (Hungary) - Groskopf, Mafilm - Endre Bohem producer - Zoltá Fábri director
  • Girl with a Pistol - (La ragazza con la pistola) (Italy) - Documento Films - Gianni Hecht Lucari producer - Mario Monicelli director
• 1969 Z (Algeria) (in French) - Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique, Reggane Films, Valoria Films - Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi producers - Costa-Gavras director
  • The Battle of Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi) (Yugoslavia) - Bosna Film, Commonwealth United Entertainment, Echberg, Film Production Organisation, IFC International, Igor Film, Jadran Film, United Yugoslavia Producers, Vereinigte, Yugoslavia Film - Steve Previn producer - Veljko Bulajic director
  • The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазов&#1099) (USSR) _ Mosfilm _ producer _ Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev, Mikhail Ulyanov directors
  • My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) (France) - FFD, Films de Pléïade, Les Films des deux mondes, Les Films du Carrosse, Les Films du Losange, Productions de La Guéville, Renn Productions, Simar Films, Société Française de Production (SFP), Two World Entertainment - Pierre Cottrell, Barbet Schroeder producers - Eric Rohmer director
  • Adalen Riots (Ådalen '31) (Sweden) - Svensk Filmindustri (SF) AB - producer - Bo Widerberg director

1970s

• 1970 Investigation of a Citizen Above Susoicion (Indagin su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) (Italy) - Vera Films - Daniele Senatore producer - Elio Petri director
  • First Love (Erste Liebe) (German) - Alfa Film, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Glarus, Mafilm - Barry Levinson, Maximilian Schell producers - Maximilian Schell director
  • Hoa-Binh (France) - C.A.P.A.C., La Guéville, Madeleine Films, Parc Film - Gilbert de Goldschmidt producer - Raoul Coutard director
  • Peace in the Fields - (Paix sur les champs) (Belgium) (in French) - E. G. C. - Jacques de Pauw producer - Jacques Boigelot director
  • Tristans (Spain) - Les Films Corona, Selenia Cinematografica, Talía Films, Época Films S.A. - Luis Buñuel, Robert Dorfmann producers - Luis Buñuel director
• 1971 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini) (Italy) - CCC Filmkunst GmbH, Documento Films - Artur Brauner, Arthur Cohn, Gianni Hecht Lucari producers - Vittorio De Sica director
  • Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky) (USSR) - Mosfilm - producer - Igor Talankin director
  • Clickety-Clack (Dodesukaden) (Japan) - Toho, Yonki no Kai - Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, Yoishi Matsue producers - Akira Kurosawa director
  • The Policeman (השוטר אזולאי) (Israel) _ EFI Ltd., EPNI Films, Israel Motion Picture Studios _ Ephraim Kishon, Itzik Kol producers - Ephraim Kishon director
  • The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) (Sweden) - Svensk Filmindustri (SF) AB, Warner Bros. - Bengt Forslund producer - Jan Troell director
• 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie) (France) - Dean Film, Greenwich Film Productions, Jet Films S. A, - Serge Silberman producer - Luis Buñuel director
  • The Dawns Here Are Quiet (А зори здесь тихие) (USSR) - Gorky Film Studios - producer - Stanislav Rostotsky director
  • I Love You Rosa - (אני אוהב אותך רוזה) (Israel) - Leisure Media, Noah Films - Menahem Golan producer - Moshé Mizrahi director
  • My Dearest Senorita - (Mi querida señorita) (Spain) - El Imàn Cine y Televisión S. A., In-Cine Compañía Industrial Cinematográfica S. A. - Luis Megino producer - Jaime de Armiñán director
  • The New Land (Nybyggarna) (Sweden) - Svensk Filmindustri (SF) AB - Bengt Forslund producer - Jan Troell director
• 1973 Day for Night (La Nuit américaine) (France) - Les Films du Carrosse, PECF, PIC - Marcel Berbert producer - François Truffaut
  • The House on Chelouche Street (הבית ברחוב שלוש) (Israel) - Noah Films - Menahem Golan producer - Moshé Mizrahi director
  • The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger) (Germany) - Alfa Glaurus, Braun, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, MFG-Film - Zev Braun, Maximilian Schell producers - Maximilian Schell director
  • The Invitation (L'Invitation) (Switzerland) (in French) - Citel Films, Group 5, Planfilm, Romande - producer - Claude Goretta director
  • Turkish Delight (Turks fruit) (Netherlands) - Verenigde Nederlandsche Filmcompagnie (VNF) - Rob Houwer producer - Paul Verhoeven director
• 1974 Amarcord (Italy) - F. C. Productions, PECF. - Franco Cristaldi producer - Federico Fellini director
  • Lacombe Lucien (France) - Hallelujah Films, Nouvelles Éditions de Films, UPF (Universal Pictures France), Vides-Film - Louis Malle, Claude Nedjar producers - Louis Malle director
  • Cat's Play (Macskajáték) (Hungary) - Hunnia Játékfilmstúdió - producer - Károly Makk director
  • The Deluge (Potop) (Poland) _ Film Polski _ producer _ Jerzy Hoffman director
  • The Truce (La Tregua) (Argentina) - production Co. - Rene Aure, Tita Tamames, Rosa Zemborain producers - Sergio Renán director
• 1975 Dersu Uzala (USSR) - Atelier 41, Daiei Studios, Mosfilm, Satra - Yoishi Matsue, Nikolai Sizov producers - Akira Kurosawa director
  • Letters from Marusia (Actas de Marusia) (Mexico) - Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE) - Arturo Feliu producer - Miguel Littin director
  • Scent of a Woman (Profumo di donna) (Italy) - Dean Film - Pio Angeletti, Adriano De Micheli producers - Dino Risi director
  • Sandakan 8 (a.k.a. Brothel No. 8) (Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo) (Japan) - O & R Production, Toho - producer - Kei Kumai director
  • Land of Promise (Ziemia obiecana) (Poland) - Film Polski, Zespol Filmovy "X" - producer - Andrzej Wajda director
• 1976 Black and White in Color (Noir et blancs en couleur) (Côte d'Ivoire) - France 3 Cinéma, Reggane Films, Smart Film Produktion, Société Française de Production (SFP), Société Ivoirienne de Cinema - Arthur Cohn, Jacques Perrin, Giorgio Silagni producers - Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • Cousin, Cousine (France) _ Films Pomeru, Gaumont International - producer - Jean Charles Tacchella director
  • Jacob the Liar (Jakob, der Lügner) (German Democratic Republic) - DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF), Filmové Studio Barrandov, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) - Herbert Ehler producer - Frank Beyer director
  • Night and Days (Noce i dnie) (Poland) - Zespol Filmowy "Kadr" - producer - Jerzy Antczak director
  • Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) (Italy) - Medusa Produzione - Arrigo Colombo, Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Wertmüller producers - Lina Wertmüller director
• 1977 Madame Rosa - (La Vie devant soi) (France) - Lira Films - Jean Bolvary producer - Moshé Mizrahi director
  • That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) (Spain) - Greenwich Film Productions, In-Cine Compañía International Cinematográfica S. A., Les Films Galaxie - Serge Silberman producer - Luis Buñuel director
  • The Great Day (a.k.a. A Special Day) (Una Giornata particolare) (Italy) - Canafox, Compagnia Cinematografica Champion - Carlo Ponti producer - Ettore Scola director
  • Iphigenia (Greece) - Greek Film Center - producer - Israel) - GS Productions - Yoram Globus, Menaham Golan producers - Menahem Golan director
• 1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs - (Preparez vos mouchoirs) (France) _ Belga Films, C.A.P.A.C., Les Films Ariane, SODEP _ Paul Claudon, Georges Danciger, Alexandre Mnouchkine producers - Bertrand Blier director
  • White Bim Black Ear (Belyi bim - Chyornoye ukho) (USSR) - Gorky Film Studios - producer - Stanislav Rostotsky director
  • The Glass Cell (Die Gläsene Zelle) (Federal Republic of Germany) - Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP), Roxy Film GmbH, Royal, Solaris Film - Luggi Waldleitner producer - Hans W. Geissendörfer director
  • Hungarians (Magyarok) (Hungary) - Capital, Clircio, Dialóg Filmstúdió, Hungarofilm, Mafilm - producer - Zoltán Fábri director
  • The New Monsters (I Nuovi mostri) (Italy) - Dean Film - Pio Angeletti, Adriano De Micheli producers - Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola directors
• 1979 The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) (Federal Republic of Germany) - Argos Films, Artémis Productions, Bioskop Film, Film Polski Film Agency, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, GGB-14, Hallelujah Films, Jadran Film - Anatole Dauman, Franz Seitz producers - Volker Schlöndorff - director
  • To Forget Venice (Dementicare Venezia) (Italy) - Action, Rizzoli Film S. p.a. - Franco Brusati, Claudio Grassetti producers - Franco Brusati director
  • Mama Turns a Hundred (Mamá cumple cien años) (Spain) - Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L., Films Moliere e Pierson Production, Les Films Molière, Pierson Productions - Elías Querejeta producer - Carlos Saura director
  • The Maids of Wilko (Panny z Wilko) (Poland) - Pierson Productions, Zespol Filmowy "X" - producer - Andrzej Wajda director
  • A Simple Story (Une Histoire simple) (France) - France 3 Cinéma, Renn Productions, Rialto Film, Sara Films, Société Française de Production (SFP) - Horst Wendlandt producer - Claude Sautet director

1980s

• 1980 Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (Москва Слезам Не Верит) (USSR) - Mosfilm, Satra, Sovexportfilm - producer-