European Film Award / Best Actress
Winner and nominee of the European Film Award in the category Best Actress (European Actress) since the first award in 1988.
British and French actresses (eight wins each) were awarded the most frequent actor's prize, followed by their colleagues from Spain with three successes. As the only German so far, Julia Jentsch ( Sophie Scholl - The Last Days ) and 2016 Sandra Hüller ( Toni Erdmann ) were successful, while in 1998 the prize was awarded to two actresses and in 2002 to an acting ensemble.
Statistics (without audience award) | actress | number | year |
---|---|---|---|
Most frequent awards | Juliette Binoche | 2 | 1992, 1997 |
Isabelle Huppert | 2 | 2001, 2002 | |
Carmen Maura | 2 | 1988, 1990 | |
Charlotte Rampling | 2 | 2003, 2015 | |
Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
Juliette Binoche | 4th | 1992 *, 1997 *, 2005, 2017 |
Penelope Cruz | 4th | 1999, 2004, 2006 *, 2009 | |
Isabelle Huppert | 4th | 2001 *, 2002 *, 2016, 2017 | |
Most frequent nominations without a win | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | 3 | 2004, 2014, 2016 |
Charlotte Gainsbourg | 3 | 2009, 2011 , 2014 |
The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if identifiable), followed by the original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.
1980s
1988
Carmen Maura - Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios)
- Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir - The shadow of the raven (Í skugga hrafnsins)
- Ornella Muti - Codice privato
- Carol Scanlan - Reefer and the girl (Reefer and the Model)
1989
Ruth Sheen - High Expectations ( High Hopes )
- Sabine Azéma - Life and Nothing Else ( La vie et rien d'autre )
- Snezana Bogdanovic - Kuduz
- Corinna Harfouch - Meeting in Travers
- Natalja Negoda - Little Vera ( Malenkaja Vera )
1990s
1990
Carmen Maura - Ay Carmela! - Song of Freedom (¡Ay, Carmela!)
- Anne Brochet - Cyrano of Bergerac (Cyrano de Bergerac)
- Krystyna Janda - Interrogation of a Woman (Przesluchanie)
1991
Clotilde Courau - The Little Gangster ( Le petit criminel )
- Julie Delpy - Homo Faber
- Sigríður Hagalín - Children of Nature - A Journey ( Börn náttúrunnar )
1992
Juliette Binoche - The Lovers of Pont-Neuf ( Les Amants du Pont-Neuf )
- Johanna ter Steege - Sweet Emma, dear Böbe ( Édes Emma, drága Böbe )
- Barbara Sukowa - Europe
1993
Maia Morgenstern - Le Chêne - Tree of Hope ( Balanta )
- Carla Gravina - Time of Wrath ( Il lungo silenzio )
- Tilda Swinton - Orlando
1994-1995
Prize not awarded
1996
Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves
1997
Juliette Binoche - The English Patient ( The English Patient )
- Katrin Cartlidge - Career Girls ( Career Girls )
- Brigitte Roüan - The morning after ( Post coïtum animal triste )
- Emma Thompson - The Winter Guest
1998
Élodie Bouchez and Natacha Régnier - Love Life (La Vie rêvée des Anges)
- Dinara Drukarova - Pro Ourodov i Lioudiei
- Annet Malherbe - Little Tony (Little Teun)
1999
Cecilia Roth - All about my mother ( Todo sobre mi madre )
- Nathalie Baye - A Pornographic Relationship ( Une liaison pornographique )
- Penélope Cruz - The girl of your dreams ( La niña de tus ojos )
- Émilie Dequenne - Rosetta
- Iben Hjejle - Mifune - Dogma III ( Mifunes sidste sang )
2000s
2000
- Bibiana Beglau - The silence after the shot
- Lena Endre - The Faithless ( Trolösa )
- Sylvie Testud - The Prisoner ( La Captive )
- Julie Walters - Billy Elliot - I Will Dance ( Billy Elliot )
2001
Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Player ( La Pianiste )
- Ariane Ascaride - The city eats its children ( La ville est tranquille )
- Laura Morante - My Son's Room ( La stanza del figlio )
- Charlotte Rampling - Under the Sand ( Sous le sable )
- Stefania Sandrelli - One last kiss ( L'ultimo bacio )
- Audrey Tautou - The fabulous world of Amélie ( Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain )
2002
Catherine Deneuve , Isabelle Huppert , Emmanuelle Béart , Fanny Ardant , Virginie Ledoyen , Danielle Darrieux , Ludivine Sagnier and Firmine Richard - 8 women ( 8 femmes )
- Oxana Akinschina - Lilja 4-ever
- Emmanuelle Devos - lip service ( Sur mes lèvres )
- Martina Gedeck - Bella Martha
- Laura Morante - Un viaggio chiamato amore
- Samantha Morton - Morvern Callar
- Kati Outinen - The Man Without a Past ( Mies vailla menneisyyttä )
2003
Charlotte Rampling - Swimming Pool
- Diana Dumbrava - Maria
- Helen Mirren - Calendar Girls ( Calendar Girls )
- Anne Reid - The Mother ( The Mother )
- Katja Riemann - Rosenstrasse
- Katrin Saß - Good Bye, Lenin!
- Sarah Adler - Notre musique
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - 5 × 2 - Five times two ( 5 × 2 )
- Penélope Cruz - Don't Move ( Non ti muovere )
- Sibel Kekilli - Against the Wall
- Asi Levy - Throw the first stone ( Avanim )
Julia Jentsch - Sophie Scholl - The last days
- Juliette Binoche - Caché
- Sandra Ceccarelli - The Life I Always Wanted ( La vita che vorrei )
- Connie Nielsen - Brothers - Between brothers ( Brødre )
- Nathalie Press - My Summer of Love
- Audrey Tautou - Mathilde - A Great Love ( Un long dimanche de fiançailles )
Penélope Cruz - Volver - Return ( Volver )
- Nathalie Baye - A Fatal Decision ( Le petit lieutenant )
- Martina Gedeck - The Lives of Others
- Sandra Hüller - Requiem
- Mirjana Karanović - Esma's Secret - Grbavica ( Grbavica )
- Sarah Polley - The Secret Life of Words ( La vida secreta de las palabras )
Helen Mirren - The Queen ( The Queen )
- Marion Cotillard - La vie en rose ( La Môme )
- Marianne Faithfull - Irina Palm
- Carice van Houten - Black Book ( Zwartboek )
- Anamaria Marinca - 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days ( 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile )
- Xenia Rappoport - The Unknown ( La sconosciuta )
Kristin Scott Thomas - I love you for so many years ( Il ya longtemps que je t'aime )
- Hiam Abbass - Lemon Tree
- Arta Dobroshi - Lorna's Silence ( Le Silence de Lorna )
- Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
- Belén Rueda - The Orphanage ( El orfanato )
- Ursula Werner - Cloud Nine
Kate Winslet - The Reader ( The Reader )
- Penélope Cruz - Torn Hugs ( Los abrazos rotos )
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Antichrist
- Katie Jarvis - Fish Tank
- Yolande Moreau - Séraphine
- Noomi Rapace - Delusion ( Man som hatar kvinnor )
2010s
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia
- Cécile de France - The Boy with a Bicycle ( Le Gamin au vélo )
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Melancholia
- Nadezhda Markina - Jelena (Елена)
Emmanuelle Riva - Love ( Amour )
Veerle Baetens - The Broken Circle ( The Broken Circle Breakdown )
- Luminiţa Gheorghiu - Mother & Son ( Poziția Copilului )
- Keira Knightley - Anna Karenina
- Barbara Sukowa - Hannah Arendt
- Naomi Watts - The Impossible ( Lo imposible )
Marion Cotillard - Two days, one night ( Deux jours, une nuit )
- Marian Álvarez - Wounded ( La Herida )
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - Human Capital ( Il capitale umano )
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut - Volume I & II
- Agata Kulesza - Ida
- Agata Trzebuchowska - Ida
- Margherita Buy - Mia Madre ( Mia madre )
- Laia Costa - Victoria
- Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
- Rachel Weisz - Eternal Youth (Youth)
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - The Overjoyed (La Pazza Gioia)
- Trine Dyrholm - The Commune (Kollektivet)
- Isabelle Huppert - Elle
- Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte - Julieta
Alexandra Borbély - Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről)
- Paula Beer - Frantz
- Juliette Binoche - My beautiful inner sun - Isabelle and her lovers (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur)
- Isabelle Huppert - happy ending
- Florence Pugh - Lady Macbeth
Joanna Kulig - Cold War - The latitude of love (Zimna wojna)
- Marie Bäumer - 3 days in Quiberon
- Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir - Against the Current (Woman at War, Kona fer í stríð)
- Bárbara Lennie - Petra
- Eva Melander - Border (Gräns)
- Alba Rohrwacher - Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice)
Olivia Colman - The Favorite - Intrigue and Insanity (The Favorite)
- Trine Dyrholm - Queen (Dronningen)
- Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant - Portrait of a Young Woman in Flames (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
- Viktoria Miroshnichenko - Beanpole (Дылда, Dylda )
- Helena Zengel - system sprinkler