European Film Award for Best Director
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 2020 recipient: Thomas Vinterberg | |
| Awarded for | Best Achievement in Directing |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | Wim Wenders Wings of Desire (1988) |
| Currently held by | Thomas Vinterberg Another Round (2020) |
| Website | europeanfilmacademy |
Winners and nominees
1980s
| 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 | ||
2000s
2010s
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2020s
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (33rd) |
 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 | |
Records
Multiple nominees
| Director | Awards | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
/  Michael Haneke | 3 | 3 |
 Pedro Almodóvar | 2 | 6 |
| Paweł Pawlikowski | 2 | 3 |
| Paolo Sorrentino | 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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