Chlotrudis Awards / Best Film

Since 1995 the best film has been honored at the Chlotrudis Awards .

Excellent films

year	Movie	Director	Other nominees
1995	Priscilla - queen of the desert	Stephan Elliott	Bullets Over Broadway by Woody Allen Betty and Her Sisters from Gillian Armstrong Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino Vanja on 42nd Street from Louis Malle
1996	Dead Man Walking - His last walk	Tim Robbins	Amateur by Hal Hartley A Piggy Called Babe by Chris Noonan Jeffrey by Christopher Ashley The Secret of the Baby Seal by John Sayles Sense and Sensuality by Ang Lee
1997	Sling Blade - On a knife edge	Billy Bob Thornton	Beautiful Thing by Hettie MacDonald Big Night by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci Fargo by Ethan and Joel Coen Marvin's Daughters from Jerry Zak's Lies and Secrets by Mike Leigh
1998	LA Confidential	Curtis Hanson	All or not by Peter Cattaneo Hollow Reed - Silent Screams by Angela Pope Shall we dance? by Masayuki Suo The Sweet Beyond by Atom Egoyan The Winter Guest by Alan Rickman
1999	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon	Elizabeth by Shekhar Kapur Happiness by Todd Solondz High Art by Lisa Cholodenko Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni The Opposite of Sex - The Opposite of Sex by Don Roos
2000	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson	After Life - After Life by Hirokazu Koreeda American Beauty by Sam Mendes Being John Malkovich by Spike Jonze Boys Don't Cry by Kimberly Peirce The Giant from Space by Brad Bird Rushmore by Wes Anderson Winslow Boy by David Mamet
2001	Requiem for a Dream	Darren Aronofsky	The Foreign Legionnaire by Claire Denis Tiger and Dragon by Ang Lee Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier The Five Senses by Jeremy Podeswa Judy Berlin by Eric Mendelsohn Traffic - Power of the Cartel by Steven Soderbergh
2002	In the Mood for Love and Mulholland Drive - Straße der Finsternis Audience Award: The Fabulous World of Amélie	Wong Kar-Wai David Lynch Jean-Pierre Jeunet	Amores Perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu The Circle by Jafar Panahi In the Bedroom by Todd Field Memento by Christopher Nolan Yi Yi - A One and a Two by Edward Yang
2003	Far from Heaven Audience Award: Punch-Drunk Love	Todd Haynes Paul Thomas Anderson	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing by Jill Narrator Donnie Darko by Richard Kelly The piano player by Michael Haneke Long Walk Home by Phillip Noyce Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life by Alfonso Cuarón
2004	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	28 Days Later by Danny Boyle American Splendor by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini Lilja 4-ever by Lukas Moodysson Spellbound by Jeffrey Blitz Station Agent by Tom McCarthy The great race of Belleville by Sylvain Chomet
2005	Trilogy: Après la vie - After life and spring, summer, autumn, winter ... and spring	Lucas Belvaux Kim Ki-duk	La mala educación - Poor education by Pedro Almodóvar Goodbye, Dragon Inn by Tsai Ming-liang Last Life in the Universe by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Moolaadé - Ban of Hope by Ousmane Sembène The Return - The return of Andrei Svyaginzew
2006	Capote	Bennett Miller	2046 by Wong Kar-Wai The Best Years of Marco Tullio Giordana Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee Me and You and Everyone We Know (Me and You and Everyone We Know) by Miranda July Mysterious Skin - Under the skin of Gregg Araki
2007	Caché	Michael Haneke	Mexican Kids - Temporada de patos by Fernando Eimbcke Half Nelson by Ryan Fleck Inland Empire by David Lynch Shortbus by John Cameron Mitchell Sorry, Haters by Jeff Stanzler
2008	Once	John Carney	Linda, Linda, Linda by Nobuhiro Yamashita The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel by Donnersmarck No Country for Old Men by Ethan and Joel Coen Protagonist of Jessica Yu There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
2009	On the other hand	Fatih Akın	4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days by Cristian Mungiu Happy-Go-Lucky by Mike Leigh So dark the night by Tomas Alfredson My Winnipeg by Guy Maddin
2010	Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow	35 Rum by Claire Denis Bad Lieutenant - Cop without a conscience by Werner Herzog Aruitemo aruitemo by Hirokazu Koreeda The white ribbon - A German children's story by Michael Haneke
2011	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik	I Killed My Mother by Xavier Dolan Jack Goes Boating by Philip Seymour Hoffman The King's Speech by Tom Hooper Mother by Bong Joon-ho Undertow by Javier Fuentes-León
2012	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius	Another Year by Mike Leigh Pariah by Dee Rees Poetry by Lee Chang-dong Weekend by Andrew Haigh
2013	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin Bullhead by Michaël R. Roskam Monsieur Lazhar by Philippe Falardeau Tyrannosaur by Paddy Considine
2014	Le passé - the past	Asghar Farhadi	The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach Jagten by Thomas Vinterberg Paradies: Glaube by Ulrich Seidl Short Term 12 by Destin Cretton
2015	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	Birdman or (The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness) by Alejandro González Iñárritu Oh Boy by Jan-Ole Gerster Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski Like Father, Like Son (Soshite chichi ni naru) by Hirokazu Koreeda Mommy by Xavier Dolan
2016	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy	The Assassin (Nie yin niang) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien The Duke of Burgundy by Peter Strickland Girlhood by Céline Sciamma Tangerine LA by Sean Baker Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako Underdog by Kornél Mundruczó Wild Tales - Everyone goes crazy ! by Damián Szifron
2017	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	The pickpocket from Park Chan-wook Little Men by Ira Sachs Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan Mountains May Depart (Shan he gu ren) by Jia Zhangke Our little sister by Hirokazu Koreeda
2018	Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino	I, Tonya by Craig Gillespie Little Boxes by Rob Meyer Paterson by Jim Jarmusch After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) by Hirokazu Koreeda
2019	Shoplifters - family ties	Hirokazu Koreeda	Burning by Lee Chang-dong Leave No Trace by Debra Granik Madeline's Madeline by Josephine Decker Suspiria by Luca Guadagnino The Rider by Chloé Zhao