César Award for Best Film from the European Union
This is a list of the winners of and nominees for the César Award for Best Film from the European Union (Meilleur film de l'Union Européenne). The prize was awarded three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and was subsequently discontinued. In 2005, two films were honoured.
A film qualified for the prize if it was shown at least seven days in a public cinema in the region of Paris between 1 January and 31 December of the previous year.
Winners and nominees
[edit]2000s
[edit]2003 Talk to Her (Hable con ella), Spain, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
- 11'9"01 September 11, inter alia UK/France/USA/Iran, directed by inter alia Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, and Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Gosford Park, UK, directed by Robert Altman
- The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä), Finland, directed by Aki Kaurismäki
- Sweet Sixteen, UK, directed by Ken Loach
2004 Good Bye, Lenin!, Germany, directed by Wolfgang Becker
- Dogville, Denmark, directed by Lars von Trier
- The Magdalene Sisters, UK/Ireland, directed by Peter Mullan
- The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù), Italy, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
- Respiro, Italy/France, directed by Emanuele Crialese
2005
Ae Fond Kiss..., UK/Belgium/Germany/Italy/Spain, directed by Ken Loach
Life Is a Miracle (Život je čudo), Serbia/France, directed by Emir Kusturica
- Bad Education (La mala educación), Spain, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
- Mondovino, Argentina/France/Italy/USA, directed by Jonathan Nossiter
- Saraband, Sweden, directed by Ingmar Bergman