| FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Chris Pepper | Evan Kost | James Narvey | Kenneth Polishchuk | Júlia Albuquerque | Monika Nikolić | Richard Anthony | Robert Schirmer | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | Germany - Toni Erdmann | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 48 |
| 2 | Denmark - Land of Mine | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 41 |
| 3 | Iran - The Salesman | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 31 |
| 4 | Sweden - A Man Called Ove | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | |
| 5 | Russia - Paradise | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| 5 | Switzerland – My Life as a Zucchini | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | |||||||
| 7 | Australia - Tanna | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
| 8 | Canada - It's Only the End of the World | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Norway - The King's Choice |
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