BBC Four World Cinema Awards

BBC Four World Cinema Award
BBC Four World Cinema Award
Awarded for	Best in foreign language film
Sponsored by	Pioneer
Venue	BFI Southbank, London
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	BBC Scotland
First awarded	2004
Last awarded	2011
Currently held by	Nader and Simin: A Separation
Website	BBC Four World Cinema Awards
Television/radio coverage
Network	BBC Four

The BBC Four World Cinema Award is an annual prize given out to celebrate the best in world cinema. A shortlist of up to six films is made by the UK's leading critics, film-school heads and festival directors from the foreign language films released in that year in the UK. The winner is selected by a panel of judges whose decision making process is screened as part of the award ceremony, screened live on BBC Four, and since the beginning hosted by Jonathan Ross.

History

2008 was its seventh year, with the BBC Four World Cinema Award ceremony hosted by Jonathan Ross from the BFI Southbank in London. The winner of the 2008 award was announced on 30 January 2008, and the event was broadcast on BBC Four on 2 February 2008.^[1]

In 2009, a new Achievement award for an international film-maker of great distinction was added to the ceremony in addition to the existing best film award.,^[2] which was awarded was given to Werner Herzog. The 2009 award ceremony took place on 27 January 2009, again at the BFI Southbank.^[2]

The seventh annual ceremony took place in October 2010.

As the BBC needed to make budgetary cut backs, 2011 was the last BBC Four World Cinema Awards was held.

Award winners

BBC Four World Cinema Award

Year	Winning film	Director	Country
2011	Nader and Simin: A Separation (Jodái-e Náder az Simin)	Asghar Farhadi	Iran
2011	Nominees: The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito), Pedro Almodóvar, Spain; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat), Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand; Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux), Xavier Beauvois, France; Le Quattro Volte (Le Quattro Volte), Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy^[3]
2010	The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)	Michael Haneke	Austria
2010	Nominees: I Am Love (Io sono l'amore), Luca Guadagnino, Italy; Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), Tomas Alfredson, Sweden; A Prophet (Un prophète), Jacques Audiard, France; Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir), Ari Folman, Israel^[4]
2009	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile)	Cristian Mungiu	Romania
2009	Nominees: Gomorrah (Gomorra), Matteo Garrone, Italy; Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, France; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel, France/USA; The Orphanage (El Orfanato), Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain/Mexico^[5]
2008	Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)	Guillermo del Toro	Mexico/Spain/USA
2008	Nominees: The Lives of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany; The Science of Sleep (La Science Des Rêves), Michel Gondry, France/Italy/USA; Climates (Iklimler), Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey/France; Syndromes and a Century (Sang Sattawat), Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France/Austria
2007	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea Domnului Lazarescu)	Cristi Puiu	Romania
2007	Nominees: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté), Jacques Audiard, France; The Child (L'Enfant), Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France; Hidden (Caché), Michael Haneke, France/Germany/Austria/Italy; Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan Geumjassi), Chan-Wook Park, South Korea; Volver, Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
2006	Downfall (Der Untergang)	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Germany/Italy/Austria
2006	Nominees: 2046, Wong Kar-Wai, China/France/Germany/Hong Kong; House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou, China/Hong Kong; Look at Me, Agnès Jaoui, France/Italy; The Sea Inside, Alejandro Amenábar, Spain; Tropical Malady, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand
2005	The Return (Vozvrashcheniye)	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia
2005	Nominees: Bad Education, Pedro Almodóvar, Spain; Hero, Zhang Yimou, China/Hong Kong; The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles, USA/UK/Argentina/Chile/Peru; Uzak, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey; Zatōichi, Takeshi Kitano, Japan
2004	Belleville Rendez-vous (Les Triplettes de Belleville)	Sylvain Chomet	France/Belgium/Canada
2004	Nominees: City of God (Cidade de Deus), Fernando Meirelles and co-director Katia Lund, Brazil/France/USA; Être et Avoir, Nicolas Philibert, France; Good Bye, Lenin!, Wolfgang Becker, Germany; The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä), Aki Kaurismaki, Finland/Germany/France; Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi), Hayao Miyazaki, USA/Japan