- Winners and nominees 1998–2002 2003–2018
- References
The British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Independent Film is an annual award given to the best foreign independent film. The award was introduced in the 1998 ceremony. Winners and nomineesFrom 1998 to 2002 there were two separate categories: - Best Foreign Independent Film – English Language
- Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language
1998–2002| Category | Film | Country | Director |
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| 1998 | | Foreign language | L'Appartement | {{FRA}} | Gilles Mimouni | | Airbag | {{ESP}} | Juanma Bajo Ulloa | | Live Flesh | {{ESP}} | Pedro Almodóvar | | Marquise | {{FRA}} | Véra Belmont | | Men with Guns | {{CAN}} | Kari Skogland | | English language | Boogie Nights | {{USA}} | Paul Thomas Anderson | | Broken Vessels | {{USA}} | Scott Ziehl | | Chasing Amy | {{USA}} | Kevin Smith | | Left Luggage | {{NED}} | Jeroen Krabbé | | The Castle | {{AUS}} | Rob Sitch | | 1999 | | Foreign language | All About My Mother | {{ESP}} | Pedro Almodóvar | | The Celebration | {{DEN}} | Thomas Vinterberg | | Life Is Beautiful | {{ITA}} | Roberto Benigni | | Romance | {{FRA}} | Catherine Breillat | | The Dreamlife of Angels | {{FRA}} | Erick Zonca | | English language | Happiness | {{USA}} | Todd Solondz | | Buffalo '66 | {{USA}} | Vincent Gallo | | Praise | {{USA}} | John Curran | | Rushmore | {{USA}} | Wes Anderson | | The Blair Witch Project | {{USA}} | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | | 2000 | | Foreign language | Kadosh | {{ISR}} | Amos Gitai | | Beau travail | {{FRA}} | Claire Denis | | The Emperor and the Assassin | {{CHN}} | Chen Kaige | | Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train | {{FRA}} | Patrice Chéreau | | Une liaison pornographique | {{FRA}} | Frédéric Fonteyne | | English language | The Straight Story | {{USA}} | David Lynch | | Boiler Room | {{USA}} | Ben Younger | | Chuck & Buck | {{USA}} | Miguel Arteta | | Jesus' Son | {{CAN}} | Alison Maclean | | Nurse Betty | {{USA}} | Neil LaBute | | 2001 | | Foreign language | In the Mood for Love | {{HKG}} | Wong Kar-wai | | Amores perros | {{MEX}} | Alejandro González Iñárritu | | The Taste of Others | {{FRA}} | Agnès Jaoui | | Songs from the Second Floor | {{SWE}} | Roy Andersson | | English language | Memento | {{USA}} | Christopher Nolan | | Chopper | {{AUS}} | Andrew Dominik | | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | {{USA}} | John Cameron Mitchell | | Dark Days | {{USA}} | Marc Singer | | 2002 | | Foreign language | Monsoon Wedding | {{IND}} | Mira Nair | | Talk to Her | {{ESP}} | Pedro Almodóvar | | Nine Queens | {{ARG}} | Fabián Bielinsky | | Y Tu Mamá También | {{MEX}} | Alfonso Cuarón | | English language | Lantana | {{AUS}} | Ray Lawrence | | Ghost World | {{USA}} | Terry Zwigoff | | Ivans XTC | {{USA}} | Bernard Rose | | Lost in La Mancha | {{USA}} | Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe |
2003–2018| Film | Country | Director |
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| 2003 | | City of God | {{BRA}} | Fernando Meirelles | | The Triplets of Belleville | {{FRA}} | Sylvain Chomet | | Secretary | {{USA}} | Steven Shainberg | | Spirited Away | {{JPN}} | Hayao Miyazaki | | Whale Rider | {{NZL}} | Niki Caro | | 2004 | | Oldboy | {{KOR}} | Park Chan-wook | | Fahrenheit 9/11 | {{USA}} | Michael Moore | | Hero | {{CHN}} | Zhang Yimou | | Pieces of April | {{USA}} | Peter Hedges | | The Motorcycle Diaries | {{ARG}} | Walter Salles | | 2005 | | Downfall | {{GER}} | Oliver Hirschbiegel | | Broken Flowers | {{USA}} | Jim Jarmusch | | Crash | {{USA}} | Paul Haggis | | Secuestro Express | {{VEN}} | Jonathan Jakubowicz | | The Woodsman | {{USA}} | Nicole Kassell | | 2006 | | Caché | {{FRA}} | Michael Haneke | | Brick | {{USA}} | Rian Johnson | | Hard Candy | {{USA}} | David Slade | | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | {{FRA}} | Jacques Audiard | | Volver | {{ESP}} | Pedro Almodóvar | | 2007 | | The Lives of Others | {{GER}} | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | | Black Book | {{NED}} | Paul Verhoeven | | La Vie en rose | {{FRA}} | Olivier Dahan | | Once | {{IRL}} | John Carney | | Tell No One | {{FRA}} | Guillaume Canet | | 2008 | | Waltz with Bashir | {{ISR}} | Ari Folman | | Gomorrah | {{ITA}} | Matteo Garrone | | I've Loved You So Long | {{FRA}} | Philippe Claudel | | Persepolis | {{FRA}} | Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud | | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | {{FRA}} | Julian Schnabel | | 2009 | | Let the Right One In | {{SWE}} | Tomas Alfredson | | Il Divo | {{ITA}} | Paolo Sorrentino | | Sin Nombre | {{MEX}} | Cary Fukunaga | | The Hurt Locker | {{USA}} | Kathryn Bigelow | | The Wrestler | {{USA}} | Darren Aronofsky | | 2010 | | A Prophet | {{FRA}} | Jacques Audiard | | Dogtooth | {{GRE}} | Yorgos Lanthimos | | I Am Love | {{ITA}} | Luca Guadagnino | | The Secret in Their Eyes | {{ARG}} | Juan J. Campanella | | Winter's Bone | {{USA}} | Debra Granik | | 2011 | | A separation | {{IRN}} | Asghar Farhadi | | Animal Kingdom | {{AUS}} | David Michôd | | Drive | {{USA}} | Nicolas Winding Refn | | Pina | {{GER}} | Wim Wenders | | The Skin I Live In | {{ESP}} | Pedro Almodóvar | | 2012 | | The Hunt | {{DEN}} | Thomas Vinterberg | | Amour | {{AUT}} | Michael Haneke | | Searching for Sugar Man | {{SWE}} | Malik Bendjelloul | | Rust and Bone | {{FR}} | Jacques Audiard | | Beasts of the Southern Wild | {{USA}} | Benh Zeitlin | | 2013 | | Blue is the Warmest Colour | {{FR}} | Abdellatif Kechiche | | Blue Jasmine | {{USA}} | Woody Allen | | The Great Beauty | {{ITA}} | Paolo Sorrentino | | Frances Ha | {{USA}} | Noah Baumbach | | Wadjda | {{SAU}} | Haifaa al-Mansour | | 2014 | | Boyhood | {{USA}} | Richard Linklater | | Blue Ruin | {{USA}} | Jeremy Saulnier | | Fruitvale Station | {{USA}} | Ryan Coogler | | Ida | {{POL}} | Paweł Pawlikowski | | The Babadook | {{AUS}} | Jennifer Kent | | 2015 | | Room | {{USA}} | Lenny Abrahamson | | Carol | {{USA}} | Todd Haynes | | Force Mejeure | {{SWE}} | Ruben Östlund | | Girlhood | {{FRA}} | Céline Sciamma | | Son of Saul | {{HUN}} | László Nemes | | 2016 | | Moonlight | {{USA}} | Barry Jenkins | | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | {{NZL}} | Taika Waititi | | Manchester by the Sea | {{USA}} | Kenneth Lonergan | | Mustang | {{FRA}}/{{TUR}} | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | | Toni Erdmann | {{AUT}}/{{DEU}} | Maren Ade | | 2017 | | Get Out | {{USA}} | Jordan Peele | | The Florida Project | {{USA}} | Sean Baker | | I Am Not Your Negro | {{USA}} | Raoul Peck | | Loveless | {{RUS}} | Andrey Zvyagintsev | | The Square | {{SWE}} | Ruben Östlund | | 2018 | | Roma | {{MEX}} | Alfonso Cuarón | | Capernaum | {{LBN}} | Nadine Labaki | | Cold War | {{POL}} | Paweł Pawlikowski | | The Rider | {{USA}} | Chloé Zhao | | Shoplifters | {{JPN}} | Hirokazu Kore-eda | |
References{{British Independent Film Awards}} 2 : British Independent Film Awards|Film awards for Best Foreign Language Film |