European Film Award for Best Composer
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CountryEurope
Presented byEuropean Film Academy
First award1989
Currently held byHania Rani – Sentimental Value (2025)
| European Film Award for Best Composer | |
|---|---|
| Country | Europe |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First award | 1989 |
| Currently held by | Hania Rani – Sentimental Value (2025) |
| Website | europeanfilmawards.eu |
The European Film Award for Best Composer is one of the awards presented by the European Film Academy. It was first presented as a Special Jury Award in 1988 received by Yuri Khanon for the music of Days of Eclipse. A set of nominees was presented from 1989 to 1990 and from 2004 and 2012. Since 2013, only one winner is presented without nominees.
1980s
| Year | Composer(s) | Film | Original title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 (1st) | Special Jury Award for Best Music | [1] | ||
| Yuri Khanon | Days of Eclipse | Дни затмения | ||
| Nomination for Special Aspect Award | ||||
| Terence Davies | Distant Voices, Still Lives | |||
| 1989 (2nd) | Andrew Dickson | High Hopes | ||
| Goran Bregovic | Kuduz | |||
| Ferenc Darvas | The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | ||
| Michał Lorenc | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | ||
| Maggie Parke Gast Waltzing | A Wopbopaloobop A Lopbamboom | |||
1990s
| Year | Composer(s) | Film | Original title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 (3rd) | No awards given | |||
| Jean-Luc Godard | New Wave | Nouvelle Vague | ||
| Jean-Claude Petit | Cyrano de Bergerac | |||
| Jürgen Knieper | December Bride | Dezemberbraut | ||
| 1991 (4th) | Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson | Children of Nature | Börn náttúrunnar | |
| 1992 (5th) | Vincent van Warmerdam | The Northerners | De Noorderlingen | [2] |
2000s
2010s
| Year | Composer(s) | Film | Original title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (23rd) | Alexandre Desplat | The Ghost Writer | [9] [10] | |
| Ales Brezina | Kawasaki's Rose | Kawasakiho růže | ||
| Pasquale Catalano | Loose Cannons | Mine vaganti | ||
| Gary Yershon | Another Year | |||
| 2011 (24th) | Ludovic Bource | The Artist | [11] [12] | |
| Alexandre Desplat | The King's Speech | |||
| Alberto Iglesias | The Skin I Live In | La piel que habito | ||
| Mihály Vig | The Turin Horse | A torinói ló | ||
| 2012 (25th) | Alberto Iglesias | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | [13] | |
| George Fenton | The Angels' Share | |||
| François Couturier | Shun Li and the Poet | Io sono Li | ||
| Cyrille Aufort Gabriel Yared | A Royal Affair | En kongelig affære | ||
| 2013 (26th) | Ennio Morricone | The Best Offer | La migliore offerta | [14] |
| 2014 (27th) | Mica Levi | Under the Skin | [15] | |
| 2015 (28th) | Cat's Eyes | The Duke of Burgundy | [16] | |
| 2016 (29th) | Ilya Demutsky | The Student | Ученик | [17] |
| 2017 (30th) | Evgueni and Sacha Galperine | Loveless | Нелюбовь | [18] |
| 2018 (31st) | Christoph M. Kaiser Julian Maas | 3 Days in Quiberon | 3 Tage in Quiberon | [19] |
| 2019 (32nd) | John Gürtler | System Crasher | Systemsprenger | [20] |
2020s
| Year | Composer(s) | Film | Original title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (33rd) | Dascha Dauenhauer | Berlin Alexanderplatz | [21] | |
| 2021 (34th) | Nils Petter Molvær Peter Brötzmann | Great Freedom | Große Freiheit | [22] |
| 2022 (35th) | Paweł Mykietyn | EO | IO | [23] |
| 2023 (36th) | Markus Binder | Club Zero | ||
| 2024 (37th) |
Frederikke Hoffmeier | The Girl with the Needle | Pigen med nålen | [24] |
| 2025 (38th) |
 Hania Rani |
Sentimental Value | Affeksjonsverdi | |
 Jerskin Fendrix |
Bugonia | |||
 Michael Fiedler Eike Hosenfeld |
Sound of Falling | In die Sonne schauen | ||
