Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film

Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film
Laurence Olivier, director and producer of 1948's Hamlet, the inaugural recipient.
Awarded forBest film in English from outside of the United States
LocationUnited States
Presented byHollywood Foreign Press Association
Websitegoldenglobes.com

The Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film was a Golden Globe Award created in 1948 and discontinued after 1973.

The award was split from Best Foreign Film, which was dedicated to films not in the English language; as the organisation behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association when the award was first created) is based in the United States, the Best English-Language Foreign Film category was dedicated to films in English from any other country, whether they had English as an official language or not. As with other "Best Film" Golden Globe Awards, the film itself is considered the winner, with neither directors nor producers being the recipients.

Originally awarded once to 1948's Hamlet at the 6th Golden Globe Awards, the award was re-established in 1955 and awarded infrequently until the 30th Golden Globe Awards where it was won by 1972's Young Winston, after which it was discontinued. All of the winners have been British films, with the exception of 1967's The Fox, which was a Canadian production; the 1968 winner, Romeo and Juliet, was a co-production between the United Kingdom and Italy.

Winners

1970s

Year English title Original title Country Director
1970 Women in Love United Kingdom Ken Russell
Act of the Heart Canada Paul Almond
Bloomfield United Kingdom Richard Harris

Uri Zohar

The Virgin and the Gypsy United Kingdom Christopher Miles
The Walking Major Aru heishi no kake Japan Keith Larsen

Koji Senno

Nobuaki Shirai

1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday United Kingdom John Schlesinger
The African Elephant United Kingdom Simon Trevor
Friends United Kingdom Lewis Gilbert
The Go-Between United Kingdom Joseph Losey
The Raging Moon United Kingdom Bryan Forbes
The Red Tent La tenda rossa Italy Mikhail Kalatozov
1972 Young Winston United Kingdom Richard Attenborough
Images United Kingdom Robert Altman
Living Free United Kingdom Jack Couffer
The Ruling Class United Kingdom Peter Medak
Zee and Co. United Kingdom Brian Hutton