The 2nd Annual European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy, recognized excellence in European cinema. The ceremony took place on 25 November 1989 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, France and was hosted by Franco-Swiss actress Agnès Soral and Spanish actor Fernando Rey.^[1]

Hungarian film The Midas Touch and Soviet film Little Vera led the nominations with five each^[2] while British film High Hopes received the most awards with three wins.^[3] Theo Angelopoulos's Landscape in the Mist received the award for Best European Film.

Italian director Federico Fellini received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Winners and nominees

The winners are in a yellow background and in bold.

Best European Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
Landscape in the Mist	Topio stin omichli	Theo Angelopoulos	Theo Angelopoulos, Eric Heumann, Amedeo Pagani & Stéphane Sorlat
The Midas Touch	Eldorádó	Géza Bereményi	-
Magnús		Þráinn Bertelsson	Þráinn Bertelsson
Recollections of the Yellow House	Recordações da casa amarela	João César Monteiro	Joâo Pedro Benard & Joaquim Pinto
High Hopes		Mike Leigh	Victor Glynn & Simon Channing-Williams
Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра	Vasili Pichul	Gorky Film Studio

Best European Director

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Géza Bereményi	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó
Theo Angelopoulos	Landscape in the Mist	Topio stin omichli
Maciej Dejczer	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba
Vasili Pichul	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра
Jim Sheridan	My Left Foot

Best European Actress

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Ruth Sheen	High Hopes		Shirley
Sabine Azéma	Life and Nothing But	La vie et rien d'autre	Irène de Courtil
Snezana Bogdanovic	Kuduz		Badema Kuduz
Corinna Harfouch	Treffen in Travers		Therese Forster
Natalya Negoda	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра	Vera

Best European Actor

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Philippe Noiret	Cinema Paradiso	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso	Alfredo
	Life and Nothing But	La vie et rien d'autre	Commandant Delaplane
Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot		Christy Brown
Davor Dujmovic	Time of the Gypsies	Dom za vesanje	Perhan
Károly Eperjes	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó	Sándor Monori
Jozef Króner	Thou, Which Art in Heaven	Ti, koyto si na nebeto	Geprg Henih

Best Supporting Performance

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Edna Doré	High Hopes		Mrs Bender
Sabine Berg	A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom		Anke Keipes
Roger Jendly	The Woman from Rose Hill	La femme de Rose Hill	Marcel
Alessandro Di Sanzo	Forever Mery	Mery per sempre	Mario "Mery" Libassi
Lyudmila Zaytseva	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра	Rita

Best Young Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba	Maciej Dejczer	TOR Film Production
My Left Foot		Jim Sheridan	Noel Pearson
Cinema Paradiso	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Franco Cristaldi
Kuduz		Ademir Kenović	Bakir Tanović
Scandal		Michael Caton-Jones	Stephen Woolley
Waller's Last Trip	Wallers letzter Gang	Christian Wagner	Christian Wagner
Mist	Sis	Zülfü Livaneli	Ülker Livanelli

Best European Screenwriter

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Mariya Khmelik	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра
Thanassis Valtinos	Landscape in the Mist	Topio stin omichli
Géza Bereményi	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó
Þráinn Bertelsson	Magnús
Maciej Dejczer	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba

Best European Cinematographer

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Ulf Brantas and Jörgen Persson	The Women on the Roof	Kvinnorna på taket
Giorgos Arvanitis	Landscape in the Mist	Topio stin omichli
Sándor Kardos	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó
Krzysztof Ptak	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba
Yefim Reznik	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра

Best European Composer

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
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 Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom

Best Documentary

Result	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
European Documentary Winner	Recsk 1950-1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary	Recsk 1950–1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története	Géza Böszörményi & Lívia Gyarmathy
Documentary Film Jury Special Award	A Tale of the Wind	Een verhaal van de wind	Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Federico Fellini

Special Jury Award

• Bertrand Tavernier for Life and Nothing But
• Giuseppe Tornatore for Cinema Paradiso

Special Mention Film / Person

•  Yugoslavia – Special Mention for the creative spirit of the new films from Sarajevo.
• Pictures of the Old World (Obrazy starého sveta) – Dušan Hanák
• The Road to God Knows Where – Alan Gilsenan

European Cinema Society Special Award

• Anatole Dauman