European Film Award / Best Screenplay
Winner and nominee of the European Film Award in the category Best Screenwriter (European Screenwriter) since it was first awarded in 1988.
French authors received the most frequent script awards (four wins), followed by their Russian and German colleagues (three awards each). In 2009 the Austrian Michael Haneke ( The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story ) was successful.
Statistics (without audience award) | Author | number | year |
---|---|---|---|
Most frequent awards |
Jean-Pierre Bacri Agnès Jaoui |
2 | 2000, 2004 |
István Szabó | 2 | 1992, 1999 | |
Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
Michael Haneke | 4th | 2001, 2005, 2009 *, 2012 |
Pedro Almodovar | 4th | 2002 *, 2004, 2006, 2019 | |
Most frequent nominations without a win | Paul Laverty | 4th | 2002, 2004, 2006, 2016 |
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
Louis Malle - Goodbye, Children ( Au revoir les enfants )
- Terence Davies - Distant Voices - Still Life ( Distant Voices, Still Lives )
- Wolfgang Held - One carries the other's burden ...
- Daniele Luchetti , Franco Bervini and Angelo Pasquini - Of robbers, cavaliers and harmonious people ( Domani accadrà )
- Manoel de Oliveira - The Cannibals ( Os canibais )
1989
Maria Chmelik - Little Vera (Malenkaja Vera)
- Theo Angelopoulos , Tonino Guerra and Thanasis Valtinos - Landscape in the Fog (Topio stin omixli)
- Géza Bereményi - Eldorado (Eldorádó)
- Thráinn Bertelsson - Magnus (Magnús)
- Maciej Dejczer and Cezary Harasimowicz - 300 Miles to Heaven (300 Mil do nieba)
1990s
1990
Vitali Kanewski - hold still - die - wake up ( Замри, умри, воскресни !; Zamri, umri, voskresni!)
- Madeleine Gustafsson , Suzanne Osten and Etienne Glaser - The Guardian Angel (Skyddsängeln)
- Ryszard Bugajski and Janusz Dymek - Interrogation of a Woman (Przesluchanie)
1991
Jaco Van Dormael - Toto the Hero ( Toto le héros )
1992
István Szabó - Sweet Emma, dear Böbe ( Édes Emma, drága Böbe )
1993-1995
Prize not awarded
1996
Arif Aliew , Sergei Bodrow and Boris Giller - Trapped in the Caucasus ( Кавказский пленник ; Kawkasski plennik)
1997
Chris Vander Stappen and Alain Berliner - My Life in Rose Red ( Ma vie en rose )
- Ademir Kenovic and Abdulah Sidran - The Perfect Circle ( Savrseni krug )
- Andrei Kurkow - Priatiel pakoinica ( Приятель покойника )
1998
Peter Howitt - She Loves Him - She Doesn't Love Him (Sliding Doors)
- Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui - Life is a chanson (On connaît la chanson)
- Lars von Trier - Idiots (Idioterne)
- Alex van Warmerdam - Little Tony (Little Teun)
1999
István Szabó and Israel Horovitz - A touch of sunshine ( Sunshine )
- Saša Gedeon - The Return of the Idiot ( Návrat idiota )
- Ayub Khan-Din - East is East ( East Is East )
2000s
2000
Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui - Desire for something different ( Le Goût des autres )
- Rafael Azcona - The time of the butterflies ( La lengua de las mariposas )
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase - The silence after the shot
- Irakli Kwirikadze , Maria Svereva and Nana Jordschadze - 27 Missing Kisses
- Doriana Leondeff and Silvio Soldini - Bread and Tulips ( Pane e Tulipani )
- Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand - Harry means well to you ( Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien )
2001
Danis Tanović - No Man's Land ( Ničija zemlja )
- Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo - Time out ( L'emploi du temps )
- Michael Haneke - The Piano Player ( La Pianiste )
- Achero Mañas - El bola
- Jean-Louis Milesi and Robert Guédiguian - The city eats its children ( La ville est tranquille )
- Ettore Scola , Silvia Scola , Giacomo Scarpelli and Furio Scarpelli - Concorrenza sleale
2002
Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to her ( Habla con ella )
- Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista - lip service ( Sur mes lèvres )
- Paul Greengrass - Bloody Sunday
- Aki Kaurismäki - The Man Without a Past ( Mies vailla menneisyyttä )
- Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz - Heaven
- Paul Laverty - Sweet Sixteen
- François Ozon - 8 women ( 8 Femmes )
2003
Bernd Lichtenberg - Good bye, Lenin!
- Steven Knight - Little Dirty Tricks ( Dirty Pretty Things )
- Dušan Kovačević - Profesionalat
- Hanif Kureishi - Die Mutter - The Mother ( The Mother )
- Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli - The best years ( La meglio gioventù )
- Lars von Trier - Dogville
Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui - Look at me! ( Comme une image )
- Fatih Akin - Against the Wall
- Pedro Almodóvar - La mala educación - Bad education ( La mala educación )
- Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil - The Sea Within Me ( Mar adentro )
- Jean-Luc Godard - Notre musique
- Paul Laverty - Just a Kiss ( Ae Fond Kiss )
Hany Abu-Assad and Bero Beyer - Paradise Now ( الجنة الآن; al-Janna al-'ān )
- Mark O'Halloran - Adam & Paul
- Michael Haneke - Caché
- Anders Thomas Jensen - Adam's Apples ( Adams Æbler ) and Brothers - Between Brødre ( Brødre )
- Dani Levy and Holger Franke - everything on sugar!
- Cristi Puiu and Răzvan Rădulescu - The Death of Lord Lazarescu ( Moartea domnului Lăzărescu )
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - The Lives of Others
Fatih Akin - On the other hand
- Eran Kolirin - The Band Next Door ( Bikur Ha-Tizmoret )
- Peter Morgan - The Queen ( The Queen )
- Cristian Mungiu - 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days ( 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile )
Maurizio Braucci , Ugo Chiti , Gianni di Gregorio , Matteo Garrone , Massimo Gaudioso and Roberto Saviano - Gomorrah - Journey into the realm of Camorra ( Gomorrah )
- Suha Arraf and Eran Riklis - Lemon Tree
- Ari Folman - Waltz with Bashir ( ואלס עם באשיר )
- Paolo Sorrentino - Il Divo
Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story
- Jacques Audiard , Thomas Bidegain , Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit - Ein Prophet ( Un prophète )
- Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire ( Slumdog Millionaire )
- Gianni Di Gregorio - The feast in August ( Pranzo di ferragosto )
2010s
Robert Harris and Roman Polanski - The Ghost Writer ( The Ghost Writer )
- Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Daniel Monzón - Cell 211 ( Celda 211 )
- Samuel Maoz - Lebanon ( לבנון )
- Radu Mihăileanu - The Concert ( Le Concert )
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - The Boy with a Bicycle ( Le Gamin au vélo )
Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg - The Hunt ( hunts )
- Michael Haneke - Love ( Amour )
- Cristian Mungiu - Beyond the Hills ( După dealuri )
- Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano - Pretty Best Friends ( Intouchables )
- Roman Polański and Yasmina Reza - The God of Slaughter ( Carnage )
François Ozon - In her house ( Dans la maison )
- Paolo Sorrentino and Umberto Contarelli - La Grande Bellezza - The great beauty ( La grande bellezza )
- Tom Stoppard - Anna Karenina
- Giuseppe Tornatore - The Best Offer - The highest bid ( La migliore offerta )
- Felix Van Groeningen and Carl Joos - The Broken Circle ( The Broken Circle Breakdown )
Paweł Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz - Ida
- Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Hibernation ( Kış Uykusu )
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne - Two days, one night ( Deux jours, une nuit )
- Steven Knight - No Turning Back (Locke)
- Oleg Negin and Andrei Svyagintsev - Leviathan (Левиафан)
Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou - The Lobster
- Roy Andersson - A pigeon sits on a branch and thinks about life (En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron)
- Alex Garland - Ex Machina
- Andrew Haigh - 45 Years
- Radu Jude and Florin Lazarescu - Aferim!
- Paolo Sorrentino - Eternal Youth (Youth)
- Emma Donoghue - Room (Room)
- Paul Laverty - Me, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake)
- Cristian Mungiu - Bacalaureate
- Tomasz Wasilewski - Zjednoczone Stany Miłości
- Ildikó Enyedi - body and soul (Testről és lélekről)
- Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- François Ozon - Frantz
- Andrei Svyagintsev - Loveless (Нелюбовь)
Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War - The latitude of love (Zimna wojna)
- Ali Abbasi , Isabella Eklöf and John Ajvide Lindqvist - Border (Gräns)
- Matteo Garrone - Dogman
- Gustav Möller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen - The Guilty
- Alice Rohrwacher - Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice)
Celine Sciamma - Portrait of a Young Woman on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
- Pedro Almodóvar - Sorrow and Glory (Dolor y Gloria)
- Ladj Ly , Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti - The Angry - Les Misérables (Les Misérables)
- Francesco Piccolo , Marco Bellocchio , Ludovica Rampoldi and Valia Santella - The Traitor (Il traditore)
- Roman Polański and Robert Harris - Intrigue (J'accuse)