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.
The Award is mostly remembered on the jubilee anniversary celebrations of when the awarded films were released. It is also invariably mentioned prominently in the obituaries of a producer, a director, or an actor who was associated with the film.
Winners 1948 – Hamlet 1955 – Richard III 1957 – Woman in a Dressing Gown 1958 – A Night to Remember 1960 – The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1964 – Girl with Green Eyes 1965 – Darling 1966 – Alfie 1967 – The Fox 1968 – Romeo and Juliet 1969 – Oh! What a Lovely War
1970s YearEnglish titleOriginal titleCountryDirector 1970 Women in Love United KingdomKen RussellAct of the Heart CanadaPaul AlmondBloomfieldUnited KingdomRichard Harris Uri ZoharThe Virgin and the GypsyUnited KingdomChristopher MilesThe Walking MajorAru heishi no kakeJapanKeith Larsen
Koji Senno
Nobuaki Shirai 1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday United KingdomJohn SchlesingerThe African Elephant United KingdomSimon TrevorFriends United KingdomLewis GilbertThe Go-Between United KingdomJoseph LoseyThe Raging MoonUnited KingdomBryan ForbesThe Red TentLa tenda rossaItalyMikhail Kalatozov 1972 Young Winston United KingdomRichard AttenboroughImagesUnited KingdomRobert AltmanLiving FreeUnited KingdomJack CoufferThe Ruling ClassUnited KingdomPeter MedakZee and Co.United KingdomBrian Hutton
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