European Film Award for Best Film
Annual award
European Film Award for Best Film | |
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Awarded for | Best European Film of the Year |
Presented by | European Film Academy |
First awarded | A Short Film About Killing (1988) |
Currently held by | Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
Website | europeanfilmacademy |
European Film Award for Best Film is one of the annual European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize the best in European filmmaking. It was first awarded in 1988 with Polish film A Short Film About Killing, directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, being the first recipient of the award.
Directors Gianni Amelio, Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke have received the most wins in this category with three wins each, while Pedro Almodóvar is the most nominated director with seven nominations, winning twice. Maren Ade was the first female director to win the award, receiving it for Toni Erdmann in 2016.
Winners and nominees
1980s
Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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1988 (1st) | ||||
A Short Film About Killing | Krótki film o zabijaniu | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland | |
Goodbye Children | Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | France, West Germany | |
The Animated Forest | El bosque animado | José Luis Cuerda | Spain | |
Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | United Kingdom | ||
Wings of Desire | Der Himmel über Berlin | Wim Wenders | West Germany, France | |
Jacob | Iacob | Mircea Daneliuc | Romania | |
Pelle the Conqueror | Pelle Erobreren / Pelle Erövraren | Bille August | Denmark, Sweden | |
1989 (2nd) | ||||
Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | Theodoros Angelopoulos | Greece, France, Italy | |
The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | Géza Bereményi | Hungary | |
Magnus | Þráinn Bertelsson | Iceland | ||
Recollections of the Yellow House | Recordações da Casa Amarela | João César Monteiro | Portugal | |
High Hopes | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | ||
Little Vera | Malenkaya Vera | Vasili Pichul | Soviet Union |
1990s
Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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1990 (3rd) | ||||
Open Doors | Porte aperte | Gianni Amelio | Italy | |
The Match Factory Girl | Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland | |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France | |
Interrogation | Przesłuchanie | Ryszard Bugajski | Poland | |
¡Ay Carmela! | ¡Ay Carmela! | Carlos Saura | Spain | |
The Guardian Angel | Skyddsängeln | Suzanne Osten | Sweden | |
Mother | Мать | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union | |
1991 (4th) | ||||
Riff-Raff | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | ||
The Voyager | Homo Faber | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany | |
The Little Gangster | Le petit criminel | Jacques Doillon | France | |
Toto the Hero | Toto le héros | Jaco Van Dormael | Belgium | |
Delicatessen | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France | ||
Ultra | Ultrà | Ricky Tognazzi | Italy | |
1992 (5th) | ||||
The Stolen Children | Il ladro di bambini | Gianni Amelio | Italy | |
La Vie de Bohème | Aki Kaurismäki | France | ||
The Lovers on the Bridge | Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | Leos Carax | France | |
North | Nord | Xavier Beauvois | France | |
Three Days | Trys dienos | Šarūnas Bartas | Lithuania | |
The Northerners | De Noorderlingen | Alex van Warmerdam | Netherlands | |
1993 (6th) | ||||
Close to Eden | Урга — территория любви | Nikita Mikhalkov | Russia | |
Benny's Video | Michael Haneke | Austria | ||
A Heart in Winter | Un cœur en hiver | Claude Sautet | France | |
Man Bites Dog | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde | Belgium | |
Orlando | Sally Potter | United Kingdom | ||
Antonio's Girlfriend | La petite amie d'Antonio | Manuel Poirier | France | |
1994 (7th) | ||||
Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | Italy | ||
In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | Ireland, United Kingdom | ||
Three Colours: Blue, Three Colours: White, Three Colors: Red | Trois couleurs: Bleu, Trois couleurs: Blanc, Trois couleurs: Rouge | Krzysztof Kieślowski | France, Poland, Switzerland | |
Kosh ba kosh | Кош ба кош | Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov | Russia | |
Son of the Shark | Le Fils du requin | Agnès Merlet | France | |
Woyzeck | Woyzeck | János Szász | Hungary | |
1995 (8th) | ||||
Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | ||
Rendez-Vous in Paris | Les Rendez-vous de Paris | Éric Rohmer | France | |
Ulysses' Gaze | Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece | |
Butterfly Kiss | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom | ||
Deathmaker | Der Totmacher | Romuald Karmakar | Germany | |
La Haine | La Haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | France | |
1996 (9th) | ||||
Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | Denmark | ||
Kolya | Kolja | Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic | |
Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | ||
Lea | Lea | Ivan Fila | Germany | |
Some Mother's Son | Terry George | Ireland | ||
1997 (10th) | ||||
The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom | ||
Captain Conan | Capitaine Conan | Bertrand Tavernier | France | |
The Fifth Element | Le Cinquième Élément | Luc Besson | France | |
The Perfect Circle | Savršeni krug | Ademir Kenović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | United States, United Kingdom | ||
The Thief | Вор | Pavel Chukhrai | Russia | |
1998 (11th) | ||||
Life Is Beautiful | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | Italy | |
The Butcher Boy | Neil Jordan | Ireland | ||
Live Flesh | Carne trémula | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
The Celebration | Festen | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | |
The Dreamlife of Angels | La Vie rêvée des anges | Erick Zonca | France | |
Run Lola Run | Lola rennt | Tom Tykwer | Germany | |
My Name Is Joe | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | ||
1999 (12th) | ||||
All About My Mother | Todo sobre mi madre | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
Show Me Love | Fucking Åmål | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden | |
Mifune's Last Song | Mifunes sidste sang | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Denmark | |
Moloch | Молох | Alexander Sokurov | Russia | |
Notting Hill | Roger Michell | United Kingdom | ||
Rosetta | Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Belgium | ||
Sunshine | István Szabó | Canada, Hungary, Austria, Germany | ||
The War Zone | Tim Roth | United Kingdom |
2000s
Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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2000 (13th) | ||||
Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | Denmark | ||
Billy Elliot | Stephen Daldry | United Kingdom | ||
Chicken Run | Peter Lord, Nick Park | United Kingdom | ||
Harry, He's Here to Help | Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien | Dominik Moll | France | |
The Taste of Others | Le Goût des autres | Agnès Jaoui | France | |
Bread and Tulips | Pane e tulipani | Silvio Soldini | Italy | |
Faithless | Trolösa | Liv Ullmann | Sweden | |
2001 (14th) | ||||
Amélie | Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France | |
Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire | United Kingdom | ||
The Experiment | Das Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Germany | |
Intimacy | Patrice Chéreau | France, Italy | ||
Italian for Beginners | Italiensk for begyndere | Lone Scherfig | Denmark | |
The Piano Teacher | La Pianiste | Michael Haneke | France, Austria | |
The Son's Room | La stanza del figlio | Nanni Moretti | Italy, France | |
The Others | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain | ||
2002 (15th) | ||||
Talk to Her | Hable con ella | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
Bend It Like Beckham | Gurinder Chadha | United Kingdom | ||
Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | United Kingdom | ||
8 Women | 8 femmes | François Ozon | France | |
Lilya 4-ever | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden | ||
The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany, France | |
The Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan | United Kingdom | ||
The Pianist | Roman Polanski | Poland, France, Germany, United Kingdom | ||
2003 (16th) | ||||
Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Germany | ||
Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom | ||
Dogville | Lars von Trier | Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Germany | ||
In This World | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom | ||
My Life Without Me | Mi vida sin mí | Isabel Coixet | Spain, Canada | |
Swimming Pool | François Ozon | France, United Kingdom | ||
2004 (17th) | ||||
Head-On | Gegen die Wand | Fatih Akın | Germany, Turkey | |
A Hole in My Heart | Ett hål i mitt hjärta | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden, Denmark | |
Bad Education | La mala educación | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
The Chorus | Les choristes | Christophe Barratier | France, Switzerland | |
The Sea Inside | Mar adentro | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain, France, Italy | |
Vera Drake | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom, France | ||
2005 (18th) | ||||
Hidden | Caché | Michael Haneke | France, Austria, Germany, Italy | |
Brothers | Brødre | Susanne Bier | Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway | |
Don't Come Knocking | Wim Wenders | Germany | ||
The Child | L'enfant | Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Belgium, France | |
My Summer of Love | Pawel Pawlikowski | United Kingdom | ||
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage | Marc Rothemund | Germany | |
2006 (19th) | ||||
The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany | |
Breakfast on Pluto | Neil Jordan | Ireland, United Kingdom | ||
Grbavica: Esma's Secret | Grbavica | Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Hercegovina, Austria, Germany, Croatia | |
The Road to Guantanamo | Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross | United Kingdom | ||
Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | ||
The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Ken Loach | Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain | ||
2007 (20th) | ||||
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile | Cristian Mungiu | Romania | |
The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite | Fatih Akın | Germany, Turkey | |
The Last King of Scotland | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom | ||
La Vie En Rose | La Môme | Olivier Dahan | France, Czech Republic, United Kingdom | |
Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud | France | ||
The Queen | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom, France, Italy | ||
2008 (21st) | ||||
Gomorrah | Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | Italy | |
Il Divo | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | ||
The Class | Entre les murs | Laurent Cantet | France | |
Happy-Go-Lucky | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | ||
The Orphanage | El orfanato | Juan Antonio Bayona | Spain | |
Waltz with Bashir | ואלס עם באשיר | Ari Folman | Israel, France, Germany | |
2009 (22nd) | ||||
The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band | Michael Haneke | Germany, Austria, France, Italy | |
Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | ||
Let the Right One In | Låt den rätte komma in | Tomas Alfredson | Sweden | |
A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard | France | |
The Reader | Stephen Daldry | United Kingdom, Germany | ||
Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom |
2010s
Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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2010 (23rd) | ||||
The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | France, Germany, United Kingdom | ||
Honey | Bal | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Turkey | |
Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux | Xavier Beauvois | France | |
Lebanon | לבנון | Samuel Maoz | Israel, Germany, France, United Kingdom | |
The Secret in Their Eyes | El secreto de sus ojos | Juan José Campanella | Argentina, Spain | |
Soul Kitchen | Fatih Akın | Germany | ||
2011 (24th) | ||||
Melancholia | Lars von Trier | Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany | ||
The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | France | ||
The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo | Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Belgium, France, Italy | |
In a Better World | Hævnen | Susanne Bier | Denmark | |
The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | United Kingdom | ||
Le Havre | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, France, Germany | ||
2012 (25th) | ||||
Amour | Michael Haneke | France, Austria, Germany | ||
Barbara | Christian Petzold | Germany | ||
The Hunt | Jagten | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | |
The Intouchables | Intouchables | Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache | France | |
Shame | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom | ||
Caesar Must Die | Cesare deve morire | Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Italy | |
2013 (26th) | ||||
The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France | |
Blancanieves | Pablo Berger | Spain | ||
The Broken Circle Breakdown | Felix Van Groeningen | Belgium | ||
The Best Offer | La Migliore Offerta | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy | |
A Coffee in Berlin | Oh Boy! | Jan Ole Gerster | Germany | |
Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | Abdellatif Kechiche | France | |
2014 (27th) | ||||
Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland, Denmark | ||
Force Majeure | Turist | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France | |
Leviathan | Левиафан | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia | |
Nymphomaniac – Director's Cut | Lars von Trier | Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom | ||
Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey | |
2015 (28th) | ||||
Youth | Youth – La giovinezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland | |
The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands | ||
Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France, Turkey, Germany | ||
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | Roy Andersson | Sweden, Norway, France, Germany | |
Rams | Hrútar | Grímur Hákonarson | Iceland, Denmark | |
Victoria | Sebastian Schipper | Germany | ||
2016 (29th) | ||||
Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany, Austria | ||
Elle | Paul Verhoeven | France, Germany | ||
I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France | ||
Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | ||
Room | Lenny Abrahamson | Ireland, Canada | ||
2017 (30th) | ||||
The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark | ||
BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo | France | |
Loveless | Nelyubov | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia, Belgium, Germany, France | |
On Body and Soul | Testről és lélekről | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary | |
The Other Side of Hope | Toivon tuolla puolen | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany | |
2018 (31st) | ||||
Cold War | Zimna wojna | Pawel Pawlikowski | Poland, France, United Kingdom | |
Border | Gräns | Ali Abbasi | Sweden, Denmark | |
Dogman | Matteo Garrone | Italy, France | ||
Girl | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, Netherlands | ||
Happy as Lazzaro | Lazzaro felice | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland | |
2019 (32nd) | ||||
The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | UK, Ireland | ||
Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France | ||
An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | Roman Polanski | France, Italy | |
Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
System Crasher | Systemsprenger | Nora Fingscheidt | Germany | |
The Traitor | Il traditore | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, Germany, France, Brazil |
2020s
Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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2020 (33rd) [1][2] | ||||
Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | |
Berlin Alexanderplatz | Burhan Qurbani | Germany, Netherlands | ||
Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | Jan Komasa | Poland, France | |
Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello | Italy, France | ||
The Painted Bird | Nabarvené ptáče | Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine | |
Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany, France | ||
2021 (34th) [3][4] | ||||
Quo Vadis, Aida? | Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Netherlands, France, Poland, Norway, Germany, Romania, Turkey | ||
Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Estonia, Germany | |
The Father | Florian Zeller | UK, France | ||
The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | |
Titane | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium | ||
2022 (35th) [5] | ||||
Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, Germany, France, UK | ||
Alcarràs | Carla Simón | Spain, Italy | ||
Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, France, Netherlands | ||
Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, France | ||
Holy Spider | Ali Abbasi | Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France | ||
2023 (36th) [6] | ||||
Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | France | |
Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany | |
Green Border | Zielona granica | Agnieszka Holland | Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland | |
Me Captain | Io capitano | Matteo Garrone | Belgium, Italy | |
The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | Poland, United Kingdom, United States |
Record holders
Achievement | Holder | Years |
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Most wins (by country) | Italy (7) | 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2008, 2013, 2015 |
Most wins (by country) including co-productions | Germany (11) | 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2021 |
Most nominations (by country) | France (38) | 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 |
Most nominations (by country) including co-productions | France (63) | 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
Most wins for Best Film (by director) | Gianni Amelio (3) Lars von Trier (3) Michael Haneke (3) | 1990, 1992, 1994 1996, 2000, 2011 2005, 2009, 2012 |
Most nominations for Best Film (by director) | Pedro Almodóvar (7) | 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2016, 2019 |
References
- ^ Grater, Tom (November 10, 2020). "European Film Award Nominations: 'Another Round', 'Corpus Christi', 'Martin Eden' Lead The Way". Deadline. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ Roxborough, Scott (December 12, 2020). "'Another Round' Wins 2020 European Film Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ "European Film Awards Nominations 2021". European Film Academy. 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ^ "34th EFA Awards". European Film Academy. Archived from the original on 2021-08-19. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
- ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (2022-11-08). "'Close', 'Holy Spider' & 'Triangle Of Sadness' Lead European Film Awards Nominations". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
- ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (2023-11-07). "'Fallen Leaves' & 'The Zone Of Interest' Top European Film Award Nominations In Main Categories". Deadline. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
External links
- Nominees and winners Archived 2011-04-29 at the Wayback Machine at the European Film Academy website
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