# European Film Academy Lux Award

The European Film Academy Lux Award is a prize given to a competing film by the European Film Academy and the European Parliament. 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 reintroduced as Jameson Award from 2002 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.
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 2024 ceremony, The Teachers' Lounge is the most recent winner.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Nationality of director |
| 1997 (10th) | The Full Monty | The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom |

### 2000s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Nationality of director |
| 2003 (16th) | Good Bye, Lenin! | Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Germany |
| 2003 (16th) | 28 Days Later | 28 Days Later | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom |
| 2003 (16th) | Dogville | Dogville | Lars von Trier | Denmark |
| 2003 (16th) | Mondays in the Sun | Los lunes al sol | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spain |
| 2003 (16th) | Noi the Albino | Nói albinói | Dagur Kári | Iceland |
| 2003 (16th) | The Man on the Train | L'homme du train | Patrice Leconte | France |
| 2003 (16th) | Swimming Pool | Swimming Pool | François Ozon | France |
| 2003 (16th) | Respiro | Respiro | Emanuele Crialese | Italy |
| 2003 (16th) | Distant | Uzak | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
| 2003 (16th) | Kitchen Stories | Salmer fra Kjøkkenet | Bent Hamer | Norway |
| 2004 (17th) | Head-On | Gegen die Wand | Fatih Akin | Germany |
| 2004 (17th) | Code 46 | Code 46 | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| 2004 (17th) | Bad Education | La mala educación | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2004 (17th) | Take My Eyes | Te doy mis ojos | Icíar Bollaín | Spain |
| 2004 (17th) | Cold Light | Kaldaljós | Hilmar Oddsson | Iceland |
| 2004 (17th) | Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow | Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece |
| 2004 (17th) | The Dreamers | The Dreamers | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| 2004 (17th) | Since Otar Left | Depuis qu'Otar est parti... | Julie Bertuccelli | France |
| 2004 (17th) | Love Actually | Love Actually | Richard Curtis | United Kingdom |
| 2004 (17th) | Intimate Strangers | Confidences trop intimes | Patrice Leconte | France |
| 2005 (18th) | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage | Marc Rothemund | Germany |
| 2005 (18th) | Night Watch | Ночной Дозор / Nochnoy Dozor | Timur Bekmambetov | Russia |
| 2005 (18th) | Ferpect Crime | Crimen ferpecto | Álex de la Iglesia | Spain |
| 2005 (18th) | A Very Long Engagement | Un long dimanche de fiançailles | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| 2005 (18th) | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté | Jacques Audiard | France |
| 2005 (18th) | Enduring Love | Enduring Love | Roger Michell | United Kingdom |
| 2005 (18th) | Being Julia | Being Julia | István Szabó | Hungary |
| 2005 (18th) | The Consequences of Love | Le conseguenze dell'amore | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| 2005 (18th) | As It Is in Heaven | As It Is in Heaven | Kay Pollak | Sweden |
| 2005 (18th) | Go for Zucker! | Go for Zucker! | Dani Levy | Switzerland |
| 2006 (19th) | Volver | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2006 (19th) | March of the Penguins | La Marche de l'empereur | Luc Jacquet | France |
| 2006 (19th) | Pride and Prejudice | Pride and Prejudice | Joe Wright | United Kingdom |
| 2006 (19th) | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Nick Park, Steve Box | United Kingdom |
| 2006 (19th) | Something Like Happiness | Štěstí | Bohdan Sláma | Czech Republic |
| 2006 (19th) | Criminal Novel | Romanzo Criminale | Michele Placido | Italy |
| 2006 (19th) | Paradise Now | Paradise Now | Hany Abu-Assad | Netherlands |
| 2006 (19th) | Oliver Twist | Oliver Twist | Roman Polanski | France |
| 2006 (19th) | Merry Christmas | Joyeux Noël | Christian Carion | France |
| 2006 (19th) | The Elementary Particles | Elementarteilchen | Oskar Roehler | Germany |
| 2006 (19th) | Adam's Apples | Adams Æbler | Anders Thomas Jensen | Denmark |
| 2006 (19th) | The Child | L'Enfant | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
| 2007 (20th) | The Unknown Woman | La sconosciuta | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| 2007 (20th) | I Served the King of England | Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále | Jiří Menzel | Czech Republic |
| 2007 (20th) | The Last King of Scotland | The Last King of Scotland | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom |
| 2007 (20th) | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Tom Tykwer | Germany |
| 2007 (20th) | 12:08 East of Bucharest | A fost sau n-a fost? | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania |
| 2007 (20th) | The Queen | The Queen | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom |
| 2007 (20th) | La Vie en Rose | La Môme | Olivier Dahan | France |
| 2007 (20th) | Reprise | Reprise | Joachim Trier | Norway |
| 2007 (20th) | Black Book | Zwartboek | Paul Verhoeven | Netherlands |
| 2007 (20th) | Alatriste | Alatriste | Agustín Díaz Yanes | Spain |
| 2007 (20th) | 2 Days in Paris | 2 Days in Paris | Julie Delpy | France |
| 2008 (21st) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | David Yates | United Kingdom |
| 2008 (21st) | | | Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Spain |
| 2008 (21st) | The Orphanage | El orfanato | Juan Antonio Bayona | Spain |
| 2008 (21st) | Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan | Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan | Sergei Bodrov | Russia |
| 2008 (21st) | Atonement | Atonement | Joe Wright | United Kingdom |
| 2008 (21st) | Welcome to the Sticks | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis | Dany Boon | France |
| 2008 (21st) | Hunting and Gathering | Ensemble, c'est tout | Claude Berri | France |
| 2008 (21st) | The Wave | Die Welle | Dennis Gansel | Germany | Germany |
| 2008 (21st) | Rabbit Without Ears | Keinohrhasen | Til Schweiger |
| 2008 (21st) | Ben X | Ben X | Nic Balthazar | Belgium |
| 2008 (21st) | Arn – The Knight Templar | Arn: Tempelriddaren | Peter Flinth | Denmark |
| 2008 (21st) | Saturn in Opposition | Saturno contro | Ferzan Özpetek | Italy |
| 2009 (22nd) | Slumdog Millionaire | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom |
| 2009 (22nd) | Coco Before Chanel | Coco avant Chanel | Anne Fontaine | France |
| 2009 (22nd) | Transporter 3 | Transporter 3 | Olivier Megaton | France |
| 2009 (22nd) | Mid-August Lunch | Pranzo di ferragosto | Gianni Di Gregorio | Italy |
| 2009 (22nd) | Let the Right One In | Låt den rätte komma in | Tomas Alfredson | Sweden |
| 2009 (22nd) | Fly Me to the Moon | Fly Me to the Moon | Ben Stassen | Belgium |
| 2009 (22nd) | The Duchess | The Duchess | Saul Dibb | United Kingdom |
| 2009 (22nd) | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Män som hatar kvinnor | Niels Arden Oplev | Denmark |
| 2009 (22nd) | Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2009 (22nd) | The Baader Meinhof Complex | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex | Uli Edel | Germany |

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Nationality of director |
| 2021 (33rd) |
| 2021 (33rd) | Collective | Collective | Alexander Nanau | Romania |
| 2021 (33rd) | Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| 2021 (33rd) | Corpus Christi | Corpus Christi | Jan Komasa | Poland |
| 2022 (34th) |
| 2022 (34th) | Quo Vadis, Aida? | Quo Vadis, Aida? | Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2022 (34th) | Flee | Flugt | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark |
| 2022 (34th) | Great Freedom | Große Freiheit | Sebastian Meise | Austria |
| 2023 (35th) |
| 2023 (35th) | Close | Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium |
| 2023 (35th) | Alcarràs | Alcarràs | Carla Simón | Spain |
| 2023 (35th) | Burning Days | Kurak Günler | Emin Alper | Turkey |
| 2023 (35th) | Triangle of Sadness | Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden |
| 2023 (35th) | Will-o'-the-Wisp | Fogo-Fátuo | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal |
| 2024 (36th) |
| 2024 (36th) | The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | İlker Çatak | Germany |
| 2024 (36th) | 20,000 Species of Bees | 20.000 especies de abejas | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain |
| 2024 (36th) | Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| 2024 (36th) | On the Adamant | Sur l'Adamant | Nicolas Philibert | France |
| 2024 (36th) | Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | Savvusanna sõsarad | Anna Hints | Estonia |
| 2025 (37th) |
| 2025 (37th) | Animal | Animal | Sofia Exarchou | Greece |
| 2025 (37th) | Dahomey | Dahomey | Mati Diop | France |
| 2025 (37th) | Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia |
| 2025 (37th) | Intercepted | Intercepted | Oksana Karpovych | Ukraine |
| 2025 (37th) | Julie Keeps Quiet | Julie zwijgt | Leonardo Van Dijl | Belgium |