European Film Award for Best Director
| European Film Award for Best Director | |
|---|---|
 The 2025 recipient: Joachim Trier | |
| Awarded for | Best Achievement in Directing |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First award | Wim Wenders Wings of Desire (1988) |
| Currently held by | Joachim Trier Sentimental Value (2025) |
| Website | europeanfilmacademy |
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 to German director Wim Wenders for Wings of Desire.
Michael Haneke is the director with most wins in the category with three, followed by Pedro Almodóvar, Paolo Sorrentino, Paweł Pawlikowski and Ruben Östlund, with two wins each. Almodóvar is the most nominated director with seven nominations for the award. Danish director Susanne Bier was the first female director to receive the award, winning for In a Better World in 2011.
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 | |
| Jim Sheridan | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | ||
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins
| Wins | Director |
|---|---|
| 3 | Michael Haneke |
| 2 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Ruben Östlund | |
| Paweł Pawlikowski | |
| Paolo Sorrentino |
Most nominations
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