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 | |
|---|---|
 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
 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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