European Film Award for Best Director
European Film Award for Best Director | |
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Awarded for | Best Achievement in Directing |
Presented by | European Film Academy |
First awarded | Wim Wenders Wings of Desire (1988) |
Currently held by | Jasmila Žbanić Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021) |
Website | europeanfilmacademy |
The European Film Award for Best Director is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize a director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in a film industry. The award is presented by the European Film Academy (EFA) and was first presented in 1988.
Winners and nominees[]
1980s[]
Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
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1988 (1st) |
Wim Wenders | Wings of Desire | Der Himmel über Berlin |
Terence Davies | Distant Voices, Still Lives | ||
Manoel de Oliveira | The Cannibals | Os Canibais | |
Louis Malle | Au revoir, les enfants | ||
Sergei Parajanov | Ashik Kerib | აშიკ-ქერიბი | |
1989 (2nd) |
Géza Bereményi | Eldorádó | |
Theodoros Angelopoulos | Landscape in the Mist | Τοπίο στην ομίχλη | |
Maciej Dejczer | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | |
Vasili Pichul | Little Vera | Ма́ленькая Ве́ра (Malenkaya Vera) | |
Jim Sheridan | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown |
2000s[]
Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
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2000
(13th) |
No award given | ||
2001 (14th) [1] |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Amélie | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain |
José Luis Garci | You're the One | You're the one (una historia de entonces) | |
Péter Gothár | Passport | Paszport | |
Emanno Olmi | The Profession of Arms | Il mestiere delle armi | |
François Ozon | Under the Sand | Sous le sable | |
Éric Rohmer | The Lady and the Duke | L'Anglaise et le duc | |
2002 (15th) [2] |
Pedro Almodóvar | Talk to Her | Hable con ella |
Marco Bellocchio | My Mother's Smile | L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) | |
Andreas Dresen | Grill Point | Halbe Treppe | |
Aki Kaurismäki | The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | |
Mike Leigh | All or Nothing | ||
Ken Loach | Sweet Sixteen | ||
/ Roman Polański | The Pianist | ||
Alexander Sokurov | Russian Ark | Русский ковчег (Russkij Kovcheg) | |
2003 (16th) [3] |
Lars von Trier | Dogville | |
Wolfgang Becker | Good Bye Lenin! | ||
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Distant | Uzak | |
Isabel Coixet | My Life Without Me | ||
Marco Tullio Giordana | The Best of Youth | La meglio gioventù | |
Michael Winterbottom | In This World | ||
2004 (17th) [4] |
Alejandro Amenábar | The Sea Inside | Mar adentro |
/ Fatih Akin | Head-On | Gegen die Wand | |
Pedro Almodóvar | Bad Education | La mala educación | |
Theo Angelopoulos | Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow | Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει | |
/ Nimród Antal | Kontroll | ||
Agnès Jaoui | Look at Me | Comme une image | |
2005 (18th) [5] |
/ Michael Haneke | Caché | |
Susanne Bier | Brothers | Brødre | |
Roberto Faenza | Come Into the Light | Alla luce del sole | |
Álex de la Iglesia | The Perfect Crime | Crimen ferpecto | |
Paweł Pawlikowski | My Summer of Love | ||
Cristi Puiu | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Moartea domnului Lăzărescu | |
Wim Wenders | Don't Come Knocking | ||
2006 (19th) [6] |
Pedro Almodóvar | Volver | |
Susanne Bier | After the Wedding | Efter brylluppet | |
Emanuele Crialese | The Golden Door | Nuovomondo | |
/ Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | |
Ken Loach | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | ||
Michael Winterbottom Mat Whitecross |
The Road to Guantanamo | ||
2007 (20th) [7] |
Cristian Mungiu | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile |
/ Fatih Akin | The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite | |
Roy Andersson | You, the Living | Du levande | |
Stephen Frears | The Queen | ||
Kevin Macdonald | The Last King of Scotland | ||
Giuseppe Tornatore | The Unknown | La sconosciuta | |
2008 (21st) [8] |
Matteo Garrone | Gomorrah | Gomorra |
Laurent Cantet | The Class | Entre les murs | |
Andreas Dresen | Cloud 9 | Wolke neun | |
Ari Folman | Waltz with Bashir | Vals im Bashir | |
Steve McQueen | Hunger | ||
Paolo Sorrentino | Il Divo | ||
2009 (22nd) [9] |
/ Michael Haneke | The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band |
Pedro Almodóvar | Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | |
Andrea Arnold | Fish Tank | ||
Jacques Audiard | A Prophet | Un prophète | |
Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire | ||
Lars von Trier | Antichrist |
2010s[]
Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
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2010 (23rd) [10] |
/ Roman Polanski | The Ghost Writer | |
Olivier Assayas | Carlos | ||
Semih Kaplanoğlu | Honey | Bal | |
Samuel Maoz | Lebanon | ||
Paolo Virzì | The First Beautiful Thing | La prima cosa bella | |
2011 (24th) [11] |
Susanne Bier | In a Better World | Hævnen |
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne | The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo | |
Aki Kaurismäki | Le Havre | ||
Béla Tarr | The Turin Horse | A torinói ló | |
Lars von Trier | Melancholia | ||
2012 (25th) [12] |
/ Michael Haneke | Amour | |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da | |
Steve McQueen | Shame | ||
Thomas Vinterberg | The Hunt | Jagten | |
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Caesar Must Die | Cesare deve morire | |
2013 (26th) [13] |
Paolo Sorrentino | The Great Beauty | La grande belleza |
Pablo Berger | Blancanieves | ||
Felix Van Groeningen | The Broken Circle Breakdown | ||
/ Abdellatif Kechiche | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | |
François Ozon | In the House | Dans la maison | |
Giuseppe Tornatore | The Best Offer | La migliore offerta | |
2014 (27th) [14][15] |
Paweł Pawlikowski | Ida | |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu | |
Steven Knight | Locke | ||
Ruben Östlund | Force Majeure | Turist | |
Paolo Virzì | Human Capital | Il capitale umano | |
Andrey Zvyagintsev | Leviathan | Левиафан (Leviafan) | |
2015 (28th) [16][17] |
Paolo Sorrentino | Youth | |
Roy Andersson | A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | |
Yorgos Lanthimos | The Lobster | ||
Nanni Moretti | Mia madre | ||
Sebastian Schipper | Victoria | ||
Małgorzata Szumowska | Body | Body / Ciało | |
2016 (29th) [18] |
Maren Ade | Toni Erdmann | |
Pedro Almodóvar | Julieta | ||
Ken Loach | I, Daniel Blake | ||
Cristian Mungiu | Graduation | Bacalaureat | |
Paul Verhoeven | Elle | ||
2017 (30th) [19] |
Ruben Östlund | The Square | |
Ildikó Enyedi | On Body and Soul | Testről és lélekről | |
Aki Kaurismäki | The Other Side of Hope | Toivon tuolla puolen | |
Yorgos Lanthimos | The Killing of a Sacred Deer | ||
Andrey Zvyagintsev | Loveless | Нелюбовь (Nelyubov) | |
2018 (31st) [20] |
Paweł Pawlikowski | Cold War | Zimna wojna |
/ Ali Abbasi | Border | Gräns | |
Matteo Garrone | Dogman | ||
Samuel Maoz | Foxtrot | פוֹקְסטְרוֹט | |
Alice Rohrwacher | Happy as Lazzaro | Lazzaro felice | |
2019 (32nd) [21] |
Yorgos Lanthimos | The Favourite | |
Pedro Almodóvar | Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | |
Marco Bellocchio | The Traitor | Il traditore | |
/ Roman Polanski | An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | |
Céline Sciamma | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu |
2020s[]
Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
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2020 (33rd) [22][23] |
Thomas Vinterberg | Another Round | Druk |
Agnieszka Holland | Charlatan | Šarlatán | |
Jan Komasa | Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | |
Pietro Marcello | Martin Eden | ||
François Ozon | Summer of 85 | Été 85 | |
Maria Sødahl | Hope | Håp | |
2021 (34th) |
Jasmila Žbanić | Quo Vadis, Aida? | |
Radu Jude | Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | |
Florian Zeller | The Father | ||
Paolo Sorrentino | The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | |
Julia Ducournau | Titane |
Records[]
Multiple nominees[]
Director | Awards | Nominations |
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Michael Haneke | 3 | 3 |
Pedro Almodóvar | 2 | 6 |
Paolo Sorrentino | 2 | 4 |
Paweł Pawlikowski | 2 | 3 |
Susanne Bier | 1 | 3 |
Yorgos Lanthimos | 1 | 3 |
/ Roman Polanski | 1 | 3 |
Lars Von Trier | 1 | 3 |
Matteo Garrone | 1 | 2 |
Cristian Mungiu | 1 | 2 |
Ruben Östlund | 1 | 2 |
Wim Wenders | 1 | 2 |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 0 | 3 |
Aki Kaurismäki | 0 | 3 |
Ken Loach | 0 | 3 |
/ Fatih Akın | 0 | 2 |
Roy Andersson | 0 | 2 |
Theo Angelopoulos | 0 | 2 |
Marco Bellocchio | 0 | 2 |
Andreas Dresen | 0 | 2 |
Samuel Maoz | 0 | 2 |
François Ozon | 0 | 2 |
Paolo Virzì | 0 | 2 |
Michael Winterbottom | 0 | 2 |
Andrey Zvyagintsev | 0 | 2 |
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