European Film Award for Best Director

European Film Award for Best Director
	The 2018 recipient: Paweł Pawlikowski
Awarded for	Best Achievement in Directing
Presented by	European Film Academy
First awarded	Wim Wenders ; Wings of Desire (1988)
Currently held by	Paweł Pawlikowski ; Cold War (2017)
Website	europeanfilmacademy.org

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 nomineesEdit

2000sEdit

2001
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Amélie
- José Luis Garci – You're the One
- Péter Gothár – Paszport
- Ermanno Olmi – The Profession of Arms
- François Ozon – Sous le sable
- Éric Rohmer – The Lady and the Duke
2002
- Pedro Almodóvar – Talk to Her
- Marco Bellocchio – L'ora di religione
- Andreas Dresen – Halbe Treppe
- Aki Kaurismäki – The Man Without a Past
- Mike Leigh – All or Nothing
- Ken Loach – Sweet Sixteen
- Roman Polanski – The Pianist
- Alexander Sokurov – Russian Ark
2003
- Lars von Trier – Dogville
- Wolfgang Becker – Good Bye, Lenin!
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Uzak
- Isabel Coixet – My Life Without Me
- Marco Tullio Giordana – The Best of Youth
- Michael Winterbottom – In This World
2004
- Alejandro Amenábar – The Sea Inside
- Fatih Akın – Gegen die Wand
- Pedro Almodóvar – Bad Education
- Theo Angelopoulos – Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
- Nimród Antal – Kontroll
- Agnès Jaoui – Look at Me
2005
- Michael Haneke^[C] – Caché
- Susanne Bier – Brødre
- Roberto Faenza – Alla luce del sole
- Álex de la Iglesia – Crimen Ferpecto
- Paweł Pawlikowski – My Summer of Love
- Cristi Puiu – Moartea Domnului Lazarescu
- Wim Wenders – Don't Come Knocking

Year	Winner and nominees	English title	Original title
2006 (19th)	Pedro Almodóvar	To Return	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 and Mat Whitecross	The Road to Guantanamo
2007 (20th)	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)	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)	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

2010sEdit

Year	Winner and nominees	English title	Original title
2010 (23rd)	Roman Polanski^[B]	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)	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)	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)	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)	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
2015 (28th)
	Paolo Sorrentino	Youth	Youth - La giovinezza
	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^[B]	Body	Body / Ciało
2016 (29th)
	Maren Ade	Toni Erdmann
	Pedro Almodóvar	Julieta
	Ken Loach	I, Daniel Blake
	Cristian Mungiu^[C]	Graduation	Bacalaureat
	Paul Verhoeven	Elle
2017 (30th)
	Ruben Östlund	The Square
	Ildikó Enyedi	On Body and Soul	Testről és lélekről
	Aki Kaurismäki^[B]	The Other Side of Hope	Toivon tuolla puolen
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Killing of a Sacred Deer
	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Loveless	Nelyubov
2018 (31st)
	Paweł Pawlikowski^[C]	Cold War	Zimna wojna
	Ali Abbasi	Border	Gräns
	Matteo Garrone	Dogman
	Samuel Maoz	Foxtrot	פוֹקְסטְרוֹט
	Alice Rohrwacher	Happy as Lazzaro	Lazzaro felice

^{^[B]}Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award for Silver Bear for Best Director

^{^[C]}Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director

^{^[V]}Venice Film Festival Silver Lion for Best Director

RecordsEdit

Most wins by directorEdit

Director	Awards	Nominations
Michael Haneke	3	3
Pedro Almodóvar	2	5
Paolo Sorrentino	2	3
Paweł Pawlikowski	2	3
Susanne Bier	1	3
Lars Von Trier	1	3
Matteo Garrone	1	2
Cristian Mungiu	1	2
Ruben Östlund	1	2
Roman Polanski	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
Yorgos Lanthimos	0	2
François Ozon	0	2
Paolo Virzì	0	2
Michael Winterbottom	0	2
Andrey Zvyagintsev	0	2

External linksEdit

European Film Academy archive

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