European Film Award for Best Film

{{Infobox award

| name = European Film Award for Best Film

| awarded_for = Best European Film of the Year

| year = A Short Film About Killing (1988)

| holder = Emilia Pérez (2024)

| website = {{URL|europeanfilmacademy.org}}

}}

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=

class="sortable wikitable" width="95%" !width="5%"\| Year !width="20%"\| English title !width="20%"\| Original title !width="20%"\| Director(s) !width="20%"\| Country
rowspan="8" align="center"\| 1988 (1st)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| 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
colspan="2"\|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
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 1989 (2nd)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| Landscape in the Mist	Topio stin omichli	Theodoros Angelopoulos	Greece, France, Italy
The Midas Touch	Eldorádó	Géza Bereményi	Hungary
colspan="2"\|Magnus	Þráinn Bertelsson	Iceland
Recollections of the Yellow House	Recordações da Casa Amarela	João César Monteiro	Portugal
colspan="2"\|High Hopes	Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera	Vasili Pichul	Soviet Union

=1990s=

class="sortable wikitable" width="95%" !width="5%"\| Year !width="20%"\| English title !width="20%"\| Original title !width="20%"\| Director(s) !width="20%"\| Country
rowspan="8" align="center"\| 1990 (3rd)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| 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
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 1991 (4th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| Delicatessen	Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France
Ultra	Ultrà	Ricky Tognazzi	Italy
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 1992 (5th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| The Stolen Children	Il ladro di bambini	Gianni Amelio	Italy
colspan=2\| 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
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 1993 (6th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| Close to Eden	Урга — территория любви	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russia
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| Orlando	Sally Potter	United Kingdom
Antonio's Girlfriend	La petite amie d'Antonio	Manuel Poirier	France
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 1994 (7th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| Lamerica	Gianni Amelio	Italy
colspan="2"\|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
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 1995 (8th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| Butterfly Kiss	Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
Deathmaker	Der Totmacher	Romuald Karmakar	Germany
La Haine	La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz	France
rowspan="6" align="center"\| 1996 (9th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier	Denmark
Kolya	Kolja	Jan Svěrák	Czech Republic
colspan=2\| Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
Lea	Lea	Ivan Fila	Germany
colspan=2\| Some Mother's Son	Terry George	Ireland
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 1997 (10th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	United States, United Kingdom
The Thief	Вор	Pavel Chukhrai	Russia
rowspan="8" align="center"\| 1998 (11th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni	Italy
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| My Name Is Joe	Ken Loach	United Kingdom
rowspan="9" align="center"\| 1999 (12th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| 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
colspan=2\| Notting Hill	Roger Michell	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Rosetta	Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne	Belgium
colspan=2\| Sunshine	István Szabó	Canada, Hungary, Austria, Germany
colspan=2\| The War Zone	Tim Roth	United Kingdom

=2000s=

class="sortable wikitable" width="95%" !width="5%"\| Year !width="20%"\| English title !width="20%"\| Original title !width="20%"\| Director(s) !width="20%"\| Country
rowspan="8" align="center"\| 2000 (13th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier	Denmark
colspan=2\| Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| 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
rowspan="9" align="center"\| 2001 (14th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| Amélie	Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France
colspan=2\| Bridget Jones's Diary	Sharon Maguire	United Kingdom
The Experiment	Das Experiment	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Germany
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| The Others	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain
rowspan="9" align="center"\| 2002 (15th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
colspan=2\| Bend It Like Beckham	Gurinder Chadha	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass	United Kingdom
8 Women	8 femmes	François Ozon	France
colspan=2\| Lilya 4-ever	Lukas Moodysson	Sweden
The Man Without a Past	Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland, Germany, France
colspan=2\| The Magdalene Sisters	Peter Mullan	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| The Pianist	Roman Polanski	Poland, France, Germany, United Kingdom
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2003 (16th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| Good Bye, Lenin!	Wolfgang Becker	Germany
colspan=2\| Dirty Pretty Things	Stephen Frears	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Dogville	Lars von Trier	Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Germany
colspan=2\| In This World	Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
My Life Without Me	Mi vida sin mí	Isabel Coixet	Spain, Canada
colspan=2\| Swimming Pool	François Ozon	France, United Kingdom
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2004 (17th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| 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
colspan=2\| Vera Drake	Mike Leigh	United Kingdom, France
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2005 (18th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| Hidden	Caché	Michael Haneke	France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Brothers	Brødre	Susanne Bier	Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway
colspan="2"\|Don't Come Knocking	Wim Wenders	Germany
The Child	L'enfant	Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne	Belgium, France
colspan="2"\|My Summer of Love	Pawel Pawlikowski	United Kingdom
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days	Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage	Marc Rothemund	Germany
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2006 (19th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Germany
colspan=2\| Breakfast on Pluto	Neil Jordan	Ireland, United Kingdom
Grbavica: Esma's Secret	Grbavica	Jasmila Žbanić	Bosnia and Hercegovina, Austria, Germany, Croatia
colspan=2\| The Road to Guantanamo	Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Volver	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
colspan=2\| The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Ken Loach	Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2007 (20th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| 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
colspan=2\| The Last King of Scotland	Kevin Macdonald	United Kingdom
La Vie En Rose	La Môme	Olivier Dahan	France, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud	France
colspan=2\| The Queen	Stephen Frears	United Kingdom, France, Italy
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2008 (21st)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| Gomorrah	Gomorra	Matteo Garrone	Italy
colspan=2\| Il Divo	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
The Class	Entre les murs	Laurent Cantet	France
colspan=2\| 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
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2009 (22nd)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band	Michael Haneke	Germany, Austria, France, Italy
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| The Reader	Stephen Daldry	United Kingdom, Germany
colspan=2\| Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	United Kingdom

=2010s=

class="sortable wikitable" width="95%" !width="5%"\| Year !width="20%"\| English title !width="20%"\| Original title !width="20%"\| Director(s) !width="20%"\| Country
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2010 (23rd)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| colspan=2\|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
colspan=2\| Soul Kitchen	Fatih Akın	Germany
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2011 (24th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| colspan=2\|Melancholia	Lars von Trier	Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
colspan=2\|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
colspan=2\|The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Le Havre	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland, France, Germany
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2012 (25th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| colspan=2\|Amour	Michael Haneke	France, Austria, Germany
colspan=2\|Barbara	Christian Petzold	Germany
The Hunt	Jagten	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark
The Intouchables	Intouchables	Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache	France
colspan=2\| Shame	Steve McQueen	United Kingdom
Caesar Must Die	Cesare deve morire	Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani	Italy
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2013 (26th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \| The Great Beauty	La grande bellezza	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy, France
colspan=2\| Blancanieves	Pablo Berger	Spain
colspan=2\| 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
rowspan="6" align="center"\| 2014 (27th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| Ida	Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland, Denmark
Force Majeure	Turist	Ruben Östlund	Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France
Leviathan	Левиафан	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia
colspan=2\| Nymphomaniac – Director's Cut	Lars von Trier	Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Winter Sleep	Kış Uykusu	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2015 (28th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|Youth	Youth – La giovinezza	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland
colspan=2\|The Lobster	Yorgos Lanthimos	Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\|Victoria	Sebastian Schipper	Germany
rowspan="6" align="center"\| 2016 (29th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\|Toni Erdmann	Maren Ade	Germany, Austria
colspan=2\|Elle	Paul Verhoeven	France, Germany
colspan=2\| I, Daniel Blake	Ken Loach	United Kingdom, France
colspan=2\|Julieta	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
colspan=2\| Room	Lenny Abrahamson	Ireland, Canada
rowspan="6" align="center"\| 2017 (30th)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\|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
rowspan="6" align="center"\| 2018 (31st)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|Cold War	Zimna wojna	Pawel Pawlikowski	Poland, France, United Kingdom
Border	Gräns	Ali Abbasi	Sweden, Denmark
colspan=2\|Dogman	Matteo Garrone	Italy, France
colspan=2\| Girl	Lukas Dhont	Belgium, Netherlands
Happy as Lazzaro	Lazzaro felice	Alice Rohrwacher	Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2019 (32nd)
style="background:#FAEB86" \|colspan=2\| The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos	UK, Ireland
colspan=2\|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=

class="sortable wikitable" width="95%" !width="5%"\| Year !width="20%"\| English title !width="20%"\| Original title !width="20%"\| Director(s) !width="20%"\| Country
rowspan="7" align="center"\| 2020 (33rd) {{cite web\|url=https://deadline.com/2020/11/european-film-award-nominations-another-round-corpus-christi-martin-eden-1234612069/\|title=European Film Award Nominations: 'Another Round', 'Corpus Christi', 'Martin Eden' Lead The Way\|website=Deadline\|first=Tom\|last=Grater\|date=November 10, 2020\|accessdate=August 7, 2021}}{{cite web\|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/another-round-wins-2020-european-film-awards-4104374/\|title='Another Round' Wins 2020 European Film Awards\|website=The Hollywood Reporter\|first=Scott\|last=Roxborough\|date=December 12, 2020\|accessdate=August 7, 2021}}
style="background:#FAEB86" \| Another Round	Druk	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark
colspan="2"\|Berlin Alexanderplatz	Burhan Qurbani	Germany, Netherlands
Corpus Christi	Boże Ciało	Jan Komasa	Poland, France
colspan="2"\|Martin Eden	Pietro Marcello	Italy, France
The Painted Bird	Nabarvené ptáče	Václav Marhoul	Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine
colspan="2"\|Undine	Christian Petzold	Germany, France
rowspan="6" align="center"\| 2021 (34th) {{Cite web\|date=2021-11-09\|title=European Film Awards Nominations 2021\|url=https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/nominations-announced-2021/\|access-date=2021-11-09\|website=European Film Academy\|language=en-US}}{{Cite web\|title=34th EFA Awards\|url=https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/press-page/34th-efas/\|access-date=2021-08-19\|website=European Film Academy\|language=en-US\|archive-date=2021-08-19\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819225421/https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/press-page/34th-efas/\|url-status=dead}}
style="background:#FAEB86" \| colspan="2"\| 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
colspan="2"\| The Father	Florian Zeller	UK, France
The Hand of God	È stata la mano di Dio	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
colspan="2"\| Titane	Julia Ducournau	France, Belgium
rowspan="6" align="center"\| 2022 (35th) {{Cite web \|last=Goodfellow \|first=Melanie \|date=2022-11-08 \|title='Close', 'Holy Spider' & 'Triangle Of Sadness' Lead European Film Awards Nominations \|url=https://deadline.com/2022/11/close-holy-spider-triangle-of-sadness-eurropean-film-awards-nominations-1235166435/ \|access-date=2022-11-08 \|website=Deadline \|language=en-US}}
style="background:#FAEB86" \| colspan="2"\|Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund	Sweden, Germany, France, UK
colspan="2"\|Alcarràs	Carla Simón	Spain, Italy
colspan="2"\|Close	Lukas Dhont	Belgium, France, Netherlands
colspan="2"\|Corsage	Marie Kreutzer	Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, France
colspan="2"\|Holy Spider	Ali Abbasi	Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France
rowspan="5" align="center" \| 2023 (36th) {{Cite web \|last=Goodfellow \|first=Melanie \|date=2023-12-09 \|title=Justine Triet’s ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ Sweeps European Film Awards Winning Best Film, Director, Screenplay & Actress For Sandra Hüller – Full Winners List \|url=https://deadline.com/2023/12/european-film-awards-2023-full-winners-list-1235659997/ \|access-date=2024-11-26 \|website=Deadline Hollywood \|language=en-US}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| Anatomy of a Fall \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| Anatomie d'une chute \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| Justine Triet \| style="background:#FAEB86" \| France
Fallen Leaves \| Kuolleet lehdet \| Aki Kaurismäki \| Finland, Germany
Green Border \| Zielona granica \| Agnieszka Holland \| Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland
colspan="2" \| Io Capitano \| Matteo Garrone \| Belgium, Italy
colspan="2" \| The Zone of Interest \| Jonathan Glazer \| Poland, United Kingdom, United States
rowspan="15" \|2024 (37th){{Cite web \|title=Winners \|url=https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/european-film-awards-2024-2/winners/ \|access-date=2024-12-08 \|website=European Film Academy \|language=en-US}} \| style="background:#FAEB86" colspan="2" \|*Emilia Pérez* \|style="background:#FAEB86" \| Jacques Audiard \|style="background:#FAEB86" \| France
Bye Bye Tiberias \|Bye Bye Tiberiade \|Lina Soualem \|France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar
colspan="2" \|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
colspan="2" \|No Other Land \|Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal \|Palestine, Norway
Savages \|Sauvages \|Claude Barras \|Switzerland, France, Belgium
colspan="2" \|Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat \|Johan Grimonprez \|France, Belgium, Netherlands
Sultana's Dream \|El Sueño de La Sultana \|Isabel Herguera \|Spain, Germany, India
colspan="2" \|The Room Next Door \|Pedro Almodóvar \|Spain
The Seed of the Sacred Fig \|Danaye Anjir-e Moabad \|Mohammad Rasoulof \|Germany, France
colspan="2" \|The Substance \|Coralie Fargeat \|United Kingdom, United States, France
colspan="2" \|They Shot the Piano Player \|Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal \|Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru
colspan="2" \|Vermiglio \|Maura Delpero \|Italy, France, Belgium

Record holders

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! Achievement

!width="140"|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

External links

[http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/archive/ Nominees and winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429064712/http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/archive/ |date=2011-04-29 }} at the European Film Academy website

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