Best Foreign Language Film winners that were also popular at the box-office, breaking out of the art house ghetto to find wider appeal:
1993: Belle Epoche, Spain, $5.4 million (Sony Classics)
1994: Burnt by the Sun, Russia, $2.3 million (Sony Classics)
1995: Antonia’s Line, The Netherlands, $4.2 million (First Look)
1996: Kolya, Czechoslovakia, $5.8 million (Miramax)
1997: Character, The Netherlands, $0.6 million (Sony Classics)
1998: Life Is Beautiful, Italian, $7.2 million (Miramax)
1999:All About My Mother, Spain, $8.3 (Miramax)
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger, $128.1 (Sony Classics)
2001: No Man’s Land, $1.1 million (MGM/UA)
2002: Nowhere in Africa, Germany, $6.2 million (Zeitgeist)
