Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value has dominated the 2025 European Film Awards with six wins for European Film, European Director, European Actress for Renate Reinsve, European Actor for Stellan Skarsgård, European Screenwriter, and European Composer (Original Score). Elsewhere, Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt scored five wins for Production Design, Sound Designer, Editing, Cinematography, and Casting Direction.
Winners in bold below.
Best European Film
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
Sound of Falling
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best European Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Oliver Laxe, Sirāt
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski, Sound of Falling
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Best European Actor
Sergi López, Sirāt
Mads Mikkelsen, The Last Viking
Toni Servillo, La grazia
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Idan Weiss, Franz
Best European Actress
Leonie Benesch, Late Shift
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Duse
Léa Drucker, Case 137
Vicky Krieps, Love Me Tender
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Best European Screenwriter
Santiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe, Sirāt
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski and Louise Peter, Sound of Falling
Paolo Sorrentino, La grazia
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Best European Animated Feature Film
Arco
Dog of God
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake
Tales from the Magic Garden
Best European Documentary
Afternoons of Solitude
Fiume o morte!
Riefenstahl
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
With Hasan in Gaza
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
Little Trouble Girls by Urška Djukić
My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr.
On Falling by Laura Carreira
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies by Murat Fıratoğlu
Sauna by Mathias Broe
Under the Grey Sky by Mara Tamkovich
Best European Short Film
Being John Smith
City of Poets
L’Avance
Man Number 4
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Lux European Audience Film Award
Christy
Deaf
It Was Just an Accident
Love Me Tender
Sentimental Value
European Young Audience Award
Arco
I Accidentally Wrote a Book
Siblings
European Casting Director
Nadia Acimi, Luís Bértolo, & María Rodrigo – Sirāt
Karimah El-Giamal and Jacqueline Rietz, Sound of Falling
Yngvill Kolset Haga and Avy Kaufman, Sentimental Value
European Cinematographer
Manu Dacosse, The Stranger
Fabian Gamper, Sound of Falling
Mauro Herce, Sirāt
European Composer (Original Score)
Jerskin Fendrix, Bugonia
Michael Fiedler and Eike Hosenfeld, Sound of Falling
Hania Rani, Sentimental Value
European Costume Designer
Michaela Horáčková Hořejší, Franz
Sabrina Krämer, Sound of Falling
Ursula Patzak, Duse
European Editor
Cristóbal Fernández, Sirāt
Toni Froschhammer, Die My Love
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Bugonia
European Make-up & Hair Artist
Gabriela Poláková, Franz
Irina Schwarz and Anne-Marie Walther, Sound of Falling
Torsten Witte, Bugonia
European Production Designer
Laia Ateca, Sirāt
James Price, Bugonia
Jørgen Stangebye Larsen, Sentimental Value
European Sound Designer
Johnnie Burn, Bugonia
Laia Casanovas, Sirāt
Gwennolé Le Borgne, Marion Papinot, Lars Ginzel, Elias Boughedir, & Amal Attia – The Voice of Hind Rajab
