European Film Academy Lux Award

The European Film Academy Lux Award is a prize given to a competing film by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy. It is one of the European Film Awards, which were established to recognize excellence in European cinematic achievements. Previously known as the People's Choice Award for Best European Film, it was first awarded in 1997 with Peter Cattaneo's film The Full Monty being the first recipient of the award. It was named Best European Director from 1998 to 2005. It changed to its current name in 2020, when the European Parliament became partly responsible for the management of the award, replacing the former Lux Prize.

Lux Award
Location	Europe
Presented by	European Film Academy
First awarded	1997
Currently held by	Collective (2021)
Website	europeanfilmawards.eu

The award is aimed at highlighting films which help to raise awareness of socio-political issues in Europe and to publicise and encourage distribution of European films in the European Union and throughout the world. As of the 2021 ceremony, Collective is the most recent winner.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Country of production
1997 (10th)	The Full Monty		Peter Cattaneo	United Kingdom
1998 (11th)	Godzilla		Roland Emmerich	United States
1999 (12th)	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain

2000s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Country of production
2000 (13th) ^[1]	Dancer in the Dark		Lars von Trier	Denmark
2001 (14th) ^[2]	Amélie	Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France
	The Son's Room	La stanza del figlio	Nanni Moretti	Italy
	Bridget Jones's Diary		Sharon Maguire	United Kingdom
	Enemy at the Gates		Jean-Jacques Annaud	France,   Germany,   United Kingdom,   Ireland,   United States
	The Experiment	Das Experiment	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Germany
	The Princess and the Warrior	Der Krieger und die Kaiserin	Tom Tykwer
	Hannibal		Ridley Scott	United States,   United Kingdom,   Italy
	Intimacy	Intimité	Patrice Chéreau	France
	Brotherhood of the Wolf	Le Pacte des loups	Christophe Gans
	The Crimson Rivers	Les Rivières pourpres	Mathieu Kassovitz
	Chocolat		Lasse Hallström	United Kingdom,   United States
	Italian for Beginners	Italiensk for begyndere	Lone Scherfig	Denmark
	The Piano Teacher	La pianiste	Michael Haneke	Austria,   France
	Common Wealth	La comunidad	Álex de la Iglesia	Spain
	Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella	Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella	Santiago Segura
	Malèna		Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy,   United States
2002 (15th) ^[3]	Talk to Her	Hable con ella	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	The Man Without a Past	Mies vailla menneisyyttä	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland,   Germany,   France
	Bloody Sunday		Paul Greengrass	Ireland,   United Kingdom
	Potluck / The Spanish Apartment	L'Auberge Espagnole	Cédric Klapisch	France,   Spain
	Burning in the Wind	Brucio nel vento	Silvio Soldini	Italy,   Switzerland
	The Son	Le fils	Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne	Belgium,   France
	Grill Point	Halbe treppe	Andreas Dresen	Germany
	All or Nothing		Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
	8 Women	8 femmes	François Ozon	France
	My Mother's Smile	L'ora di religione	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
	The Best Day of My Life	Il più bel giorno della mia vita	Cristina Comencini
	Minor Mishaps	Små ulykker	Annette K. Olesen	Denmark,   Sweden
2003 (16th) ^[4]	Good Bye, Lenin!		Wolfgang Becker	Germany
	28 Days Later		Danny Boyle	United Kingdom
	Dogville		Lars von Trier	Denmark,   Netherlands,   Sweden,   United Kingdom,   France,   Germany
	Mondays in the Sun	Los lunes al sol	Fernando León de Aranoa	Spain,   Italy,   France
	Noi the Albino	Nói albinói	Dagur Kári	Iceland
	The Man on the Train	L'homme du train	Patrice Leconte	France,   United Kingdom
	Swimming Pool		François Ozon
	Respiro		Emanuele Crialese	Italy,   France
	Distant	Uzak	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey
	Kitchen Stories	Salmer fra Kjøkkenet	Bent Hamer	Norway,   Sweden
2004 (17th) ^[5]	Head-On	Gegen die Wand	Fatih Akın	Germany,   Turkey
	Code 46		Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
	Bad Education	La mala educación	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Take My Eyes	Icíar Bollaín
	Cold Light	Kaldaljós	Hilmar Oddsson	Iceland,   Norway,   United Kingdom,   Germany
	Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow	Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece,   France,   Italy,   Germany
	The Dreamers		Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy,   France,   United Kingdom
	Since Otar Left	Depuis qu'Otar est parti...	Julie Bertuccelli	France,   Belgium,   Georgia
	Love Actually		Richard Curtis	United Kingdom,   United States
	Intimate Strangers	Confidences trop intimes	Patrice Leconte	France
2005 (18th) ^[6]	Sophie Scholl – The Final Days	Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage	Marc Rothemund	Germany
	Night Watch	Ночной Дозор / Nochnoy Dozor	Timur Bekmambetov	Russia
	Ferpect Crime	Crimen ferpecto	Álex de la Iglesia	Spain,   Italy
	A Very Long Engagement	Un long dimanche de fiançailles	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France
	The Beat That My Heart Skipped	De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté	Jacques Audiard
	Enduring Love		Roger Michell	United Kingdom
	Being Julia		István Szabó	United Kingdom,   Hungary,   Canada,   United States
	The Consequences of Love	Le conseguenze dell'amore	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
	As It Is in Heaven		Kay Pollak	Sweden,   Denmark
	Go for Zucker!		Dani Levy	Germany
2006 (19th) ^[7]	Volver		Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	March of the Penguins	La Marche de l'empereur	Luc Jacquet	France
	Pride and Prejudice		Joe Wright	United Kingdom
	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit		Nick Park, Steve Box
	Something Like Happiness	Štěstí	Bohdan Sláma	Czech Republic,   Germany
	Criminal Novel	Romanzo Criminale	Michele Placido	Italy
	Paradise Now		Hany Abu-Assad	Netherlands,   Israel,   Germany,   France
	Oliver Twist		Roman Polanski	United Kingdom,   Czech Republic,   France
	Merry Christmas	Joyeux Noël	Christian Carion	France,   Germany,   United Kingdom,   Belgium,   Romania,   Norway,   Japan,   United States
	The Elementary Particles	Elementarteilchen	Oskar Roehler	Germany
	Adam's Apples	Adams Æbler	Anders Thomas Jensen	Denmark
	The Child	L'Enfant	Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne	Belgium,   France
2007 (20th) ^[8]	The Unknown Woman	La sconosciuta	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy,   France
	I Served the King of England	Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále	Jiří Menzel	Czech Republic,   Slovakia
	The Last King of Scotland		Kevin Macdonald	United Kingdom
	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer		Tom Tykwer	Germany,   Spain,   France
	12:08 East of Bucharest	A fost sau n-a fost?	Corneliu Porumboiu	Romania
	The Queen		Stephen Frears	United Kingdom
	La Vie en Rose	La Môme	Olivier Dahan	France,   Czech Republic,   United Kingdom
	Reprise		Joachim Trier	Norway,   Sweden
	Black Book	Zwartboek	Paul Verhoeven	Netherlands,   Germany,   United Kingdom,   Belgium
	Alatriste		Agustín Díaz Yanes	Spain
	2 Days in Paris		Julie Delpy	France,   Germany
2008 (21st) ^[9]	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix		David Yates	United Kingdom
	[REC]		Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza	Spain
	The Orphanage	El orfanato	Juan Antonio Bayona
	Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan		Sergei Bodrov	Russia,   Mongolia,   Kazakhstan
	Atonement		Joe Wright	United Kingdom
	Welcome to the Sticks	Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis	Dany Boon	France
	Hunting and Gathering	Ensemble, c'est tout	Claude Berri
	The Wave	Die Welle	Dennis Gansel	Germany
	Rabbit Without Ears	Keinohrhasen	Til Schweiger
	Ben X		Nic Balthazar	Belgium,   Netherlands
	Arn – The Knight Templar	Arn: Tempelriddaren	Peter Flinth	Sweden,   United Kingdom,   Denmark
	Saturn in Opposition	Saturno contro	Ferzan Özpetek	Italy
2009 (22nd) ^[10]	Slumdog Millionaire		Danny Boyle	United Kingdom
	Coco Before Chanel	Coco avant Chanel	Anne Fontaine	France
	Transporter 3		Olivier Megaton
	Mid-August Lunch	Pranzo di ferragosto	Gianni Di Gregorio	Italy
	Let the Right One In	Låt den rätte komma in	Tomas Alfredson	Sweden
	Fly Me to the Moon		Ben Stassen	Belgium,   United States
	The Duchess		Saul Dibb	United Kingdom
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Män som hatar kvinnor	Niels Arden Oplev	Sweden,   Germany,   Denmark
	Broken Embraces	Los abrazos rotos	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	The Baader Meinhof Complex	Der Baader Meinhof Komplex	Uli Edel	Germany

2010s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Country of production
2010 (23rd) ^[11]	Mr. Nobody		Jaco Van Dormael	Belgium
	The Girl Who Played with Fire	Flickan som lekte med elden	Daniel Alfredson	Sweden,   Denmark,   Germany
	Soul Kitchen		Fatih Akın	Germany
	Loose Cannons		Ferzan Özpetek	Italy
	Baarìa		Giuseppe Tornatore
	Little Nicholas	Le Petit Nicolas	Laurent Tirard	France
	An Education		Lone Scherfig	United Kingdom
	Kick-Ass		Matthew Vaughn
	Agora	Ágora	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain
	The Ghost Writer		Roman Polanski	France,   United Kingdom,   Germany
2011 (24th) ^[12]	The King's Speech		Tom Hooper	United Kingdom
	Animals United	Konferenz der Tiere	Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe	Germany
	Even the Rain	También la lluvia	Icíar Bollaín	Spain
	In a Better World	Hævnen	Susanne Bier	Denmark,   Sweden
	Little White Lies	Les Petits Mouchoirs	Guillaume Canet	France
	Welcome to the South	Benvenuti al Sud	Luca Miniero	Italy
	Potiche		François Ozon	France,   Belgium
	Unknown		Jaume Collet-Serra	United Kingdom,   Germany,   United States
2012 (25th) ^[13]	Come as You Are	Hasta la Vista	Geoffrey Enthoven	Belgium
	The Artist		Michel Hazanavicius	France
	Barbara		Christian Petzold	Germany
	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel		John Madded	United Kingdom,   United States
	Caesar Must Die	Cesare deve morire	Paolo Taviani	Italy
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy		Tomas Alfredson	United Kingdom,   France,   Germany
	Headhunters	Hodejegerne	Morten Tyldum	Norway
	In Darkness	W ciemności	Agnieszka Holland	Poland,   Germany,   Canada
	The Intouchables	Intouchables	Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano	France
	The Iron Lady		Phyllida Lloyd	United Kingdom
	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen		Lasse Hallström
	Shame		Steve McQueen
2013 (26th) ^[14]	The Gilded Cage	La Cage dorée	Ruben Alves	France,   Portugal
	Anna Karenina		Joe Wright	United Kingdom
	The Best Offer	La migliore offerta	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy
	The Broken Circle Breakdown		Felix Van Groeningen	Belgium
	The Deep	Djúpið	Baltasar Kormákur	Iceland
	Love Is All You Need	Den skaldede frisør	Susanne Bier	Denmark
	I'm So Excited	Los amantes pasajeros	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	The Impossible	Lo imposible	J.A. Bayona
	Kon-Tiki		Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg	Norway,   Denmark,   Germany,   Sweden,   United Kingdom
	Oh Boy!		Jan Ole Gerster	Germany
	Searching for Sugar Man		Malik Bendjelloul	Sweden,   United Kingdom
2014 (27th) ^[15]^[16]	Ida		Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland,   Denmark
	Beauty and the Beast	La Belle et la Bête	Christophe Gans	France,   Germany
	Nymphomaniac		Lars von Trier	Denmark,   Belgium,   France,   Germany
	Philomena		Stephen Frears	United Kingdom
	The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann	Felix Herngren	Sweden
	Two Days, One Night	Deux jours, une nuit	Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne	Belgium,   Italy,   France
2015 (28th) ^[17]^[18]
	Marshland	La isla mínima	Alberto Rodríguez	Spain
	A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence	En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron	Roy Andersson	Sweden,   Germany,   France,   Norway
	Leviathan	Левиафан / Leviafan	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia
	Force Majeure	Turist	Ruben Östlund	Sweden,   Norway,   France,   Denmark
	Samba		Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano	France
	Serial (Bad) Weddings	Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?	Philippe de Chauveron
	The Salt of the Earth	Le sel de la terre	Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
	The Imitation Game		Morten Tyldum	United Kingdom,   United States
	Victoria		Sebastian Schipper	Germany
	White God	Fehér isten	Kornél Mundruczó	Hungary,   Sweden,   Germany
2016 (29th) ^[19]
	Body	Ciało	Małgorzata Szumowska	Poland
	A Man Called Ove	En man som heter Ove	Hannes Holm	Sweden,   Norway
	A War	Krigen	Tobias Lindholm	Denmark
	Aferim!		Radu Jude	Romania,   Bulgaria,   Czech Republic
	Fire at Sea	Fuocoammare	Gianfranco Rosi	Italy,   France
	Julieta		Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Mustang		Deniz Gamze Ergüven	France,   Germany,   Turkey
	Spectre		Sam Mendes	United Kingdom
	The Danish Girl		Tom Hooper
	The Brand New Testament	Le Tout Nouveau Testament	Jaco Van Dormael	Belgium,   France,   Luxembourg
	The High Sun	Zvizdan	Dalibor Matanić	Croatia,   Slovenia,   Serbia
	The Lobster		Yorgos Lanthimos	United Kingdom,   Ireland,   Greece,   France,   Netherlands
2017 (30th) ^[20]
	Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe	Vor der Morgenröte	Maria Schrader	Germany,   Austria,   France
	A Monster Calls		J. A. Bayona	Spain
	Bridget Jones's Baby		Sharon Maguire	Ireland,   United Kingdom,   France,   United States
	Frantz		François Ozon	France,   Germany
	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them		David Yates	United Kingdom,   United States
	Graduation	Bacalaureat	Cristian Mungiu	Romania,   France,   Belgium
	Like Crazy	La pazza gioia	Paolo Virzì	Italy,   France
	The Commune	Kollektivet	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark,   Sweden,   Netherlands
	The Other Side of Hope	Toivon tuolla puolen	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland,   Germany
2018 (31st) ^[21]
	Call Me by Your Name		Luca Guadagnino	Italy,   France
	Borg vs McEnroe	Borg	Janus Metz Pedersen	Sweden,   Denmark,   Finland,   Czech Republic
	Dunkirk		Christopher Nolan	United Kingdom,   Netherlands,   France,   United States
	C'est la vie!	Le Sens de la fête	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano	France
	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets		Luc Besson
	Darkest Hour		Joe Wright	United Kingdom
	Victoria & Abdul		Stephen Frears
	In the Fade	Aus dem Nichts	Fatih Akin	Germany
	The Death of Stalin		Armando Iannucci	United Kingdom,   France,   Belgium
2019 (32nd) ^[22]
	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland,   United Kingdom,   France
	Border	Gräns	Ali Abbasi	Sweden,   Denmark
	Dogman		Matteo Garrone	Italy,   France
	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald		David Yates	United Kingdom,   United States
	Girl		Lukas Dhont	Belgium,   Netherlands
	Happy as Lazzaro	Lazzaro felice	Alice Rohrwacher	Italy,   France,   Germany,   Switzerland
	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again		Ol Parker	United Kingdom
	Pain and Glory	Dolor y gloria	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
	Sink or Swim	Le Grand Bain	Gilles Lellouche	France
	The Breadwinner		Nora Twomey	Ireland,   Canada,   Luxembourg
	The Favourite		Yorgos Lanthimos	United Kingdom,   Ireland
	The Purity of Vengeance Journal 64		Christoffer Boe	Denmark

2020s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Country of production
2021 (34th)
	Collective		Alexander Nanau	Romania,   Luxembourg
	Another Round	Druk	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark,   Netherlands,   Sweden
	Corpus Christi		Jan Komasa	Poland,   France
2022 (35th)
	Quo Vadis, Aida?		Jasmila Žbanić	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Flee	Flugt	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Denmark,   France,   Norway,   Sweden
	Great Freedom	Große Freiheit	Sebastian Meise	Austria

See also

• Lux Prize

References

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External links

• "The Peoples Choice Awards winners". European Film Academy. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
• "IMDb European Film Awards Page". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved December 4, 2012.