European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

The following is a list of the European Film Award winners for Lifetime Achievement:

Winners

Year	Lifetime Achievement Award	Award of Merit Special Achievement Award	Honorary Award of the EFA President and Board
1988	♂ Ingmar Bergman	♂ Richard Attenborough
	♂ Marcello Mastroianni
1989	♂ Federico Fellini
1990	♂ Andrzej Wajda
1991	♂ / Alexandre Trauner
1992	♂ / Billy Wilder
1993	♂ Michelangelo Antonioni
1994	♂ Robert Bresson
1995	♂ Marcel Carné
1996	♂ Alec Guinness
1997	♀ Jeanne Moreau
1998		♂ Jeremy Irons
1999	♂ Ennio Morricone
2000	♂ Richard Harris
2001	♂ Monty Python
2002	♂ Tonino Guerra
2003	♂ Claude Chabrol
2004	♂ Carlos Saura
2005	♂ Sean Connery
2006	♂ / Roman Polanski
2007	♂ Jean-Luc Godard		♂ Manoel de Oliveira
2008	♀ Judi Dench
2009	♂ Ken Loach
2010	♂ Bruno Ganz
2011	♂ Stephen Frears		♂ Michel Piccoli
2012	♂ Bernardo Bertolucci
2013	♀ Catherine Deneuve[1]
2014	♀ / Agnès Varda
2015	♀ Charlotte Rampling[2]		♂ Michael Caine
2016	♂ Jean-Claude Carrière[3]		♂ Andrzej Wajda
2017	♂ Aleksandr Sokurov
2018	♀ Carmen Maura		♂ / Costa-Gavras
2019	♂ Werner Herzog
2021	♀ Márta Mészáros
2022	♀ Margarethe von Trotta
2023	♀ Vanessa Redgrave		♂ Béla Tarr
2024	♂ Wim Wenders