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.
European Film Award for Best Director | |
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![]() The 2021 recipient: Jasmila Žbanić | |
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 |
Winners and nomineesEdit
1980sEdit
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 |
2000sEdit
2010sEdit
2020sEdit
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 |
RecordsEdit
Multiple nomineesEdit
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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