Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film facts for kids

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is a special prize given out each year at the Golden Globe Awards. It celebrates the best movies that are mostly made in a language other than English. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gives out these awards.

Before 1987, this award was called the "Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film." This meant any non-American movie could win. But in 1987, they changed it to "Best Foreign Language Film." This new rule meant that movies from other countries that were in English would compete in the "Best Motion Picture" categories instead. It also allowed American movies that were mostly in another language, like Letters from Iwo Jima or Minari, to be considered for this award.

This award has different rules than the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. For example, American films can sometimes be nominated for the Golden Globe, but never for the Academy Award in this category. The United Kingdom has won the most awards in this category, with seven films. After 1987, Spain and France have won the most.

How Films Qualify for the Award

To be considered for this award, a film must follow certain rules. It doesn't need to be shown in movie theaters in the United States first.

Here are the main rules:

• The movie must be at least 70 minutes long.
• More than half (at least 51%) of the talking in the movie must be in a language other than English.
• The movie must have been first released in its home country between November 1 and December 31 of the year before the awards.
• If a movie couldn't be released in its home country because of censorship, it can still qualify if it was shown for one week in the U.S. during that time.

Unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (who give out the Oscars), the Hollywood Foreign Press Association doesn't limit how many movies each country can submit. This means a country can send in more than one film for consideration.

Past Winners of the Best Foreign Language Film Award

This award has changed its name a few times over the years. From 1965 to 1972, it was called "Best Foreign Film – Foreign Language." From 1973 to 1985, it was simply "Best Foreign Film." Since 1986, it has been known as "Best Foreign Language Film."

Here are some of the films that have won this award:

1960s Winners

1970s Winners

1980s Winners

1990s Winners

2000s Winners

2010s Winners

2020s Winners

Directors with Multiple Wins

Nine directors have won this award more than once.

Wins	Director
6	Ingmar Bergman
3	Vittorio De Sica
	Claude Lelouch
2	Pedro Almodóvar
	Michael Cacoyannis
	Michael Haneke
	Kurt Hoffmann
	Keisuke Kinoshita
	Jan Troell

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Globo de Oro a la mejor película en lengua no inglesa para niños

• BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best International Feature Film)
• Saturn Award for Best International Film