The Goya Award for Best European Film (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor película europea) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.^[1] The award was first presented at the seventh edition of the Goya Awards with the French film Indochine behind the first winner of the category.

Winners and nominees

The films are listed by the year they received the award or nomination. The winners are in a blue background and in bold. The countries are the ones listed at the official site of the Goya Awards.

1990s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
1992 (7th)	Indochine		Régis Wargnier	France
	Hidden Agenda		Ken Loach	United Kingdom
	Riff-Raff
1993 (8th)	Three Colors: Blue	Trois couleurs: Bleu	Krzysztof Kieślowski	France   Switzerland  Poland
	The Crying Game		Neil Jordan	United Kingdom
	Peter's Friends		Kenneth Branagh
1994 (9th)	The Snapper		Stephen Frears	United Kingdom
	Raining Stones		Ken Loach	United Kingdom
	The Remains of the Day		James Ivory	United Kingdom  United States
1995 (10th)	Lamerica		Gianni Amelio	Italy  France   Switzerland
	Carrington		Christopher Hampton	United Kingdom
	The Madness of King George		Nicholas Hytner
1996 (11th)	Secrets & Lies		Mike Leigh	United Kingdom  France
	Breaking the Waves		Lars von Trier	Denmark
	Ulysses' Gaze	Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα	Theodoros Angelopoulos	Greece  Italy  France
1997 (12th)	The Full Monty		Peter Cattaneo	United Kingdom
	Brassed Off		Mark Herman	United Kingdom
	The English Patient		Anthony Minghella	United Kingdom  United States
1998 (13th)	The Boxer		Jim Sheridan	Ireland
	April	Aprile	Nanni Moretti	Italy
	Marius and Jeannette	Marius et Jeannette	Robert Guédiguian	France
	The Thief	Vor	Pavel Chukhrai	Russia  France
1999 (14th)	Life Is Beautiful	La vita è bella	Roberto Benigni	Italy
	Black Cat, White Cat	Црна мачка, бели мачор / Crna mačka, beli mačor	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia  France  Germany  Austria  Greece
	The Dinner Game	Le Dîner de Cons	Francis Veber	France
	It All Starts Today	Ça commence aujourd'hui	Bertrand Tavernier

2000s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2000 (15th)	Dancer in the Dark		Lars von Trier	Denmark
	Chicken Run		Peter Lord and Nick Park	United Kingdom
	East Is East		Damien O'Donnell
	Faithless	Trolösa	Liv Ullmann	Sweden
2001 (16th)	Amélie	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	France
	Billy Elliot		Stephen Daldry	United Kingdom
	Bridget Jones's Diary		Sharon Maguire
	Chocolat		Lasse Hallström
2002 (17th)	The Pianist		Roman Polanski	United Kingdom
	Italian for Beginners	Italiensk for begyndere	Lone Scherfig	Denmark
	Mostly Martha	Bella Martha	Sandra Nettelbeck	Germany
	Gosford Park		Robert Altman	United Kingdom
2003 (18th)	Good Bye Lenin!		Wolfgang Becker	Germany
	Dogville		Lars von Trier	Denmark  Sweden  United Kingdom
	The Dreamers		Bernardo Bertolucci	France  United Kingdom
	The Flower of Evil	La fleur du mal	Claude Chabrol	France
2004 (19th)	Head-On	Gegen die Wand	Fatih Akın	Germany
	Being Julia		István Szabó	United Kingdom  Hungary
	Girl with a Pearl Earring		Peter Webber	United Kingdom
	Monsieur Ibrahim	Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran	François Dupeyron	France  Turkey
2005 (20th)	Match Point		Woody Allen	United Kingdom
	The Chorus	Les choristes	Christophe Barratier	France
	The Constant Gardener		Fernando Meirelles	United Kingdom
	Downfall	Der Untergang	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Germany
2006 (21st)	The Queen		Stephen Frears	United Kingdom
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley		Ken Loach	Ireland  United Kingdom  Germany  Spain
	Copying Beethoven		Agnieszka Holland	United Kingdom
	Scoop		Woody Allen
2007 (22nd)	Not awarded
2008 (23rd)	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile	Cristian Mungiu	Romania
	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		Mark Herman	United Kingdom
	The Dark Knight		Christopher Nolan
	The Edge of Heaven	Auf der anderen Seite	Fatih Akın	Germany
2009 (24th)	Slumdog Millionaire		Danny Boyle	United Kingdom
	Welcome to the Land of Shtis	Bienvenue chez lez Ch'tis	Dany Boon	France
	The Class	Entre les murs	Laurent Cantet
	Let the Right One In	Låt den rätte komma in	Tomas Alfredson	Sweden

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2010 (25th)	The King's Speech		Tom Hooper	United Kingdom  Australia
	The Ghost Writer		Roman Polanski	France
	A Prophet	Un prophète	Jacques Audiard
	The White Ribbon	Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte	Michael Haneke	Germany
2011 (26th)	The Artist		Michel Hazanavicius	France
	Jane Eyre		Cary Joji Fukunaga	United Kingdom
	Melancholia		Lars Von Trier	Denmark
	Carnage		Roman Polanski	Germany  France  Spain  Poland
2012 (27th)	The Intouchables	Intouchables	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano	France
	Shame		Steve McQueen	United Kingdom
	Rust and Bone	De rouille et d'os	Jacques Audiard	France  Belgium
	In the House	Dans la maison	François Ozon	France
2013 (28th)	Amour		Michael Haneke	Austria
	The Hunt	Jagten	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark  Sweden
	The Great Beauty	La grande bellezza	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy  France
	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	La Vie d'Adèle	Abdellatif Kechiche	France  Belgium  Spain
2014 (29th)	Ida		Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland
	The Salt of the Earth		Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado	France
	Serial (Bad) Weddings	Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu ?	Philippe de Chauveron
	The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann	Felix Herngren	Sweden
2015 (30th)	Mustang		Deniz Gamze Ergüven	France
	Sur le chemin de l'école		Pascal Plisson	France
	Leviathan	Левиафан	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia
	Macbeth		Justin Kurzel	United Kingdom
2016 (31st)	Elle		Paul Verhoeven	France
	Genius		Michael Grandage	United Kingdom
	Son of Saul	Saul fia	László Nemes	Hungary
	I, Daniel Blake		Ken Loach	United Kingdom
2017 (32nd) [2]	The Square		Ruben Östlund	Sweden
	C'est la vie!	Le Sens de la fête	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache	France
	Lady Macbeth		William Oldroyd	United Kingdom
	Toni Erdmann		Maren Ade	Germany
2018 (33rd) [3]	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland
	Phantom Thread		Paul Thomas Anderson	United Kingdom
	Girl		Lukas Dhont	Belgium
	The Party		Sally Potter	United Kingdom
2019 (34th) [4]	Les Misérables		Ladj Ly	France
	Border	Gräns	Ali Abbasi	Sweden
	Portrait of a Lady on Fire	Portrait de la jeune fille en feu	Céline Sciamma	France
	Yesterday		Danny Boyle	United Kingdom

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2020 (35th) [5]	The Father		Florian Zeller	United Kingdom
	Corpus Christi	Boże Ciało	Jan Komasa	Poland
	An Officer and a Spy	J'accuse	Roman Polanski	France
	Falling		Viggo Mortensen	United Kingdom
2021 (36th) [6]	Another Round	Druk	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark
	Bye Bye Morons	Adieu les cons	Albert Dupontel	France
	Promising Young Woman		Emerald Fennell	United Kingdom
	I'm Your Man	Ich bin dein Mensch	Maria Schrader	Germany
2022 (37th) [7]	The Worst Person in the World	Verdens verste menneske	Joachim Trier	Norway
	Belfast		Kenneth Branagh	United Kingdom
	The Hand of God	È stata la mano di Dio	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
	Lost Illusions	Illusions perdues	Xavier Giannoli	France
	Playground	Un monde	Laura Wandel	Belgium
2023 (38th) [8]	Aftersun		Charlotte Wells	United Kingdom
	Anatomy of a Fall	Anatomie d'une chute	Justine Triet	France
	The Eight Mountains	Le otto montagne	Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch [it]	Italy
	Safe Place	Sigurno mjesto	Juraj Lerotić	Croatia
	The Teachers' Lounge	Das Lehrerzimmer	İlker Çatak [de]	Germany

Awards by nation

The following list excludes non-European countries that have received nominations for co-productions with European country. The list also excludes Spain.

Country	Awards	Nominations
France	10	37
United Kingdom	9	46
Poland	3	5
Germany	2	11
Denmark	2	6
Italy	2	6
Switzerland	2	2
Sweden	1	7
Austria	1	2
Ireland	1	2
Romania	1	1
Norway	1	1
Belgium	0	4
Greece	0	2
Russia	0	2
Hungary	0	2
Yugoslavia	0	1
Turkey	0	1