European Film Awards

The European Film Awards are presented by the European Film Academy and have honoured European cinema since 1988. The Best European Film award is the Academy's top prize, and the ceremony moves between European cities. Only the Best Film winners are listed here.

Winners of the European Film Awards (Europe), year by year. Names link to the film or person page when they are on Sinekatalog. Compiled from Wikidata.

Best Film

Best Film

38 years listed (1988–2025); some years may be missing from the source data.

Year	Film	Director / winner
2025	Sentimental Value	Joachim Trier
2024	Emilia Pérez	Jacques Audiard
2023	Anatomy of a Fall	Justine Triet
2022	Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund
2021	Quo Vadis, Aida?	Jasmila Žbanić
2020	Another Round	Thomas Vinterberg
2019	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos
2018	Cold War	Paweł Pawlikowski
2017	The Square	Ruben Östlund
2016	Toni Erdmann	Maren Ade
2015	Youth	Paolo Sorrentino
2014	Ida	Paweł Pawlikowski
2013	The Great Beauty	Paolo Sorrentino
2012	Amour	Michael Haneke
2011	Melancholia	Lars von Trier
2010	The Ghost Writer	Roman Polanski
2009	The White Ribbon	Michael Haneke
2008	Gomorrah	Matteo Garrone
2007	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	Cristian Mungiu
2006	The Lives of Others	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
2005	Caché	Michael Haneke
2004	Head-On	Fatih Akın
2003	Good Bye Lenin!	Wolfgang Becker
2002	Talk to Her	Pedro Almodóvar
2001	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2000	Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier
1999	All About My Mother	Pedro Almodóvar
1998	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
1997	The Full Monty	Peter Cattaneo
1996	Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier
1995	Land and Freedom	Ken Loach
1994	Lamerica	Gianni Amelio
1993	A Stranger Among Us	Nikita Mikhalkov
1992	Stolen Children	Gianni Amelio
1991	Riff-Raff	Ken Loach
1990	Open Doors	Gianni Amelio
1989	Landscape in the Mist	Theodoros Angelopoulos
1988	A Short Film About Killing	Krzysztof Kieślowski