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.
| European Film Award for Best Film | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best European Film of the Year |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | A Short Film About Killing (1988) |
| Currently held by | Emilia Pérez (2024) |
| Website | europeanfilmacademy |
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
edit1980s
edit| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
edit2000s
edit2010s
edit| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
edit| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Io Capitano | Matteo Garrone | Belgium, Italy | ||
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | Poland, United Kingdom, United States | ||
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France | |
| Bye Bye Tiberias | Bye Bye Tiberiade | Lina Soualem | France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar | |
| Dahomey | Mati Diop | France, Senegal | ||
| Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia, France, Belgium | |
| In Limbo | W Zawieszeniu | Alina Maksimenko | Poland | |
| Living Large | Život K Sežrání | Kristina Dufková | Czech Republic, France, Slovakia | |
| No Other Land | Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal | Palestine, Norway | ||
| Savages | Sauvages | Claude Barras | Switzerland, France, Belgium | |
| Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat | Johan Grimonprez | France, Belgium, Netherlands | ||
| Sultana's Dream | El Sueño de La Sultana | Isabel Herguera | Spain, Germany, India | |
| The Room Next Door | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | ||
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | Danaye Anjir-e Moabad | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany, France | |
| The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom, United States, France | ||
| They Shot the Piano Player | Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal | Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru | ||
| Vermiglio | Maura Delpero | Italy, France, Belgium | ||
Record holders
edit| Achievement | Holder | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 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 (8) |
1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2016, 2019, 2024 |
References
edit- ^ 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 (2023-12-09). "Justine Triet's 'Anatomy Of A Fall' Sweeps European Film Awards Winning Best Film, Director, Screenplay & Actress For Sandra Hüller – Full Winners List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
- ^ "Winners". European Film Academy. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
External links
edit- Nominees and winners Archived 2011-04-29 at the Wayback Machine at the European Film Academy website